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News from Abroad
xiiiiiiiiy XII. Ni Hua – Xu Jun Yongchuan Zonal, 2003
Austria.
Open in Vienna, 17th – 25th August. A whole bunch of English campaigners in a massive gathering of 400!
1st = J Hawkins 7.5 / 9; 8th = KC Arkell 7; H Lamb 4.5; J Fraser-Mitchell and T Thurstan both 4; C Majer and RG Truman both 3; I Gooding 2.5.
Bulgaria. Sunny Beach, 31st August – 8th September, saw 36-player-Swiss turn into quite a little English triumph. 1st A Rombaldoni( ITA) 7.5 / 9; 2nd = V Petkov( BUL) and V Bernadskiy( UKR) both 7; also JR Adair, YFG Zhou and L Trent 5.5; C Kilpatrick( all ENG) 5.
IM Norms for James and Callum.
China. The latest FIDE Grand Prix was held at Beijing, 3rd – 17th August, all twelve competitors being over 2700!‘ The New Century Grand Hotel’ hosted this Category 21 qualifier.
Germany. Klaus Bischoff, 52, won the German Championship, 6th – 14th September at Saarbruecken, with 6.5 / 9. 42 played including 4 GMs.
Italy. Five sections were played in the Porto San Giorgio Festival, 21st – 29th August, a port on the Adriatic. Only a loss in the last round deprived David Eggleston of a top prize in the top section.
1st = M Mchedlishvili( GEO), D Dvirnyy( ITA) and OM Romanishin( UKR) all 7 / 9; also: DJ Eggleston 6, MJ Armstrong( both ENG) 5.5.
Norway. 127 players assembled for the FIDE World Cup in Tromso, 10th August – 3rd September, for this knock-out event where speed and seeding and preparation can often tell more than ability or experience. As reported last month, Jones and Adams, the English representatives, did not fare too well.
The Quarter-Finals resulted as follows:
EY Tomashevsky( RUS) 1.5 – 0.5 G Kamsky( USA) M Vachier-Lagrave( FRA) 2.5 – 1.5 FL Caruana( ITA) DV Andreikin( RUS) 2.5 – 1.5 PV Svidler VB Kramnik( RUS) 1.5 – 0.5 A Korobov( UKR)