Lithuanian Championship 2014

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The semifinals of the Lithuanian Championship 2014 are taking place from 17th to 23rd February in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Participants

No.		Name	RtgI	Typ	Club/City
1	IM	Pileckis Emilis	2457		Vilnius
2	IM	Laurusas Tomas	2405	U20	Kaunas
3	IM	Sakalauskas Vaidas	2399		Vilnius
4	IM	Labeckas Kestutis	2348		Vilnius
5		Stremavicius Titas	2269	U20	Kaunas
6	FM	Kalvaitis Sigitas	2242		Plungė
7		Bastys Robertas	2236		Vilnius
8	IM	Kaunas Kestutis	2210		Kaunas
9		Setkauskas Vaidas	2193		Vilnius
10	FM	Martinkus Rolandas	2176		Marijampolė
11		Rimeikis Andrius	2170		Plungė
12		Juknis Paulius	2141		Kaunas
13		Miknevicius Laurynas	2071	U20	Kaunas
14		Brazdzionis Andrius	2049	U20	Panevėžys
15		Vicas Marijus	2039	U20	Šiauliai
16		Vaitonis Vytautas	2014		Klaipėda
17		Grybas Gintaras	2004		Kaunas
18		Velioniskis Robertas	1996	U20	Vilnius
19		Ceponis Tadas	1969	U20	Kaunas
20		Valantiejus Vaidotas	1958		Vilnius

Full list

Women

No.		Name	RtgI	Typ	Club/City
1	WIM	Zaksaite Salomeja	2196		Vilnius
2	WFM	Batyte Daiva	2154		Plungė
3	WFM	Domarkaite Laima	2139		Vilnius
4		Batkovskyte Dominyka	2110		Vilnius
5		Paulauskaite Gintare	2048		Vilnius
6		Vanagaite Giedre	2014	U20	Panevėžys
7		Malisauskiene Marina	1999		Vilnius
8		Ramanauskaite Giedre	1981		Vilnius
9		Jakaityte Ruta	1980		Panevėžys
10		Apanaviciute Kristina	1962		Kaunas
11		Zykiene Rita	1960		Vilnius

Full list

Schedule - Men

Round	Date	Time
1	2014/02/17	16.00
2	2014/02/18	10.00
3	2014/02/18	16.00
4	2014/02/19	16.00
5	2014/02/20	16.00
6	2014/02/21	16.00
7	2014/02/22	10.00
8	2014/02/23	10.00

Schedule is in local Lithuanian time (GMT + 2 hours).

Schedule - Women

Round	Date	Time
1	2014/02/17	16.00
2	2014/02/18	16.00
3	2014/02/19	16.00
4	2014/02/20	16.00
5	2014/02/21	16.00
6	2014/02/22	10.00
7	2014/02/23	10.00

Schedule is in local Lithuanian time (GMT + 2 hours).

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International Open Chess Tournament Casino Graz 2014

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International Open Chess Tournament Casino Graz 2014

The International Open Chess Tournament Casino Graz 2014 will be held from 14th to 21st February 2014 in Casino Graz and the Joanneum Quarter, Graz, Austria. The players are divided into two groups: Tournament A (open) and Tournament B (with ELO<2000).

Format: 9 Rounds Swiss-system.
Time control: 90 min for 40 moves, additional 30 min. + 30 sec for each move.

Participants

No.			Name	FED	RtgI	RtgN
1		GM	Li Chao b	CHN	2697	0
2		GM	Istratescu Andrei	FRA	2671	0
3		GM	Ragger Markus	AUT	2646	2642
4		GM	Negi Parimarjan	IND	2633	0
5		GM	Melkumyan Hrant	ARM	2589	0
6		GM	Kozul Zdenko	CRO	2588	2584
7		GM	Bachmann Axel	PAR	2577	0
8		GM	Felgaer Ruben	ARG	2569	0
9		GM	Sedlak Nikola	SRB	2561	2565
10		GM	Popovic Dusan	SRB	2553	2542
11		GM	Can Emre	TUR	2520	0
12		GM	Mikhalchishin Adrian Mgr	SLO	2520	0
13		IM	Schreiner Peter	AUT	2487	2439
14		IM	Barbosa Evandro Amorim	BRA	2459	0
15		IM	Diermair Andreas	AUT	2459	2438
16		IM	Rajpara Ankit	IND	2455	0
17		IM	Santiago Yago De Moura	BRA	2451	0
18		IM	Froewis Georg	AUT	2437	0
19		GM	Haznedaroglu Kivanc	TUR	2437	0
20		IM	Pötz Florian	AUT	2425	2405

Full list

Schedule

Round	Date	Time
1	2014/02/14	17.00 h
2	2014/02/15	15.00 h
3	2014/02/16	10.00 h
4	2014/02/16	17.00 h
5	2014/02/17	17.00 h
6	2014/02/18	17.00 h
7	2014/02/19	17.00 h
8	2014/02/20	17.00 h
9	2014/02/21	10.00 h

All times are CET (GMT + 1 hour).

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GM Ivan Šarić - Winner of the Croatian Men Chess Championship

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Final results

Rk.		Name	FED	RtgI	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	K	rtg+/-
1	GM	Šarić Ivan	CRO	2661	7	4.5	35.75	0	4	10	0
2	GM	Zelčić Robert	CRO	2540	6.5	4	34.25	0	4	10	14.8
3	GM	Bosiočić Marin	CRO	2548	6	4.5	33	0	1	10	8.5
4	GM	Stević Hrvoje	CRO	2620	6	4.5	32.75	0	2	10	-3.3
5	GM	Janković Alojzije	CRO	2563	6	4	32.75	0	3	10	5.9
6	GM	Palac Mladen	CRO	2554	6	4	31.5	0	2	10	7.5
7	GM	Kožul Zdenko	CRO	2588	5.5	4	29.25	0	4	10	-3.2
8	GM	Kuljašević Davorin	CRO	2578	5.5	3.5	29.5	0	1	10	-1.5
9	GM	Brkić Ante	CRO	2562	5.5	3	28	0	3	10	1.3
10	GM	Martinović Saša	CRO	2537	4.5	3	22.75	0	2	10	-4.7
11	GM	Cvitan Ognjen	CRO	2535	4	3	22.75	0	0	10	-9.3
12	GM	Šarić Ante	CRO	2545	3.5	3	19.25	0	0	10	-16

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Nordic Youth Chess Championship 2014

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The Nordic Youth Chess Championship will be held from Thursday 13th February to Sunday 16th February in Billund, Denmark.

The tournament will be played in 6 rounds using the Swiss System. Each player gets 90 minutes with a 30 seconds increment for every move starting from move No. 1.

Participants

Represented countries: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Faroe Islands.

Participants are divided into 5 age groups:

• Group A (born 1994-96)
• Group B (born 1997-98)
• Group C (born 1999-00)
• Group D (born 2001-02)
• Group E (born 2003-04)

List of participants (pdf)

Schedule

Round 1	Fri, 14.02.2014	09:00 CET
Round 2	Fri, 14.02.2014	15:00 CET
Round 3	Sat, 15.02.2014	08:30 CET
Round 4	Sat, 15.02.2014	18:00 CET
Round 5	Sun, 16.02.2014	10:00 CET
Round 6	Sun, 16.02.2014	16:00 CET

All times are CET (GMT + 1 hour).

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David Bronstein Memorial 2014

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David Bronstein Memorial 2014 (11-19 February 2014) is dedicated to the 90th anniversary from the birth of David Bronstein.

David Bronstein

David Ionovich Bronstein (February 19, 1924 - December 5, 2006) was a Ukraine-born Soviet chess grandmaster, one of the world's strongest players from the 1940s until the 1970s. Bronstein was described as a creative genius and master of tactics. He was also a renowned chess writer.

Bronstein won many prizes at tournaments, among which the Soviet Chess Championships of 1948 (jointly with Alexander Kotov) and 1949 (jointly with Smyslov); second place at the Soviet Championships of 1957 and 1964-65; he was a six-time winner of the Moscow Championships, and represented the USSR at the Olympiads of 1952, 1954, 1956 and 1958; he won four Olympiad team gold medals. He also won prizes at Hastings 1953-54, Belgrade 1954, Gotha 1957, Moscow 1959, Szombathely 1966, East Berlin 1968, Dnepropetrovsk 1970, Sarajevo 1971, Sandomierz 1976, Iwonicz Zdrój 1976, Budapest 1977, and Jūrmala 1978.

He narrowly missed becoming World Chess Champion in 1951, and is considered among the greatest post-war players not to have won the World Championship (like Paul Keres, Viktor Korchnoi and Akiba Rubinstein). He drew the 1951 challenge match for the title of World Champion by a score of 12-12 with Mikhail Botvinnik, the reigning champion. Each player won five games, while the remaining 14 games were drawn, and under FIDE rules, the title remained with the holder. There have been rumours that Bronstein allowed Botvinnik to win either due to pressure from the Soviet authorities or for personal reasons, but these allegations have never been openly confirmed.

David Bronstein wrote many chess books and articles on his pioneering theoretical and practical work, as well as on chess history, most notably the book "Zurich International Chess Tournament 1953" (English translation 1979) dedicated to the legendary Candidates Tournament in Zurich (won by Vasily Smyslov, followed by David Bronstein, Paul Keres and Samuel Reshevsky) which was the last qualification step for the 1954 world championship match against Mikhail Botvinnik.

David Bronstein died on December 5, 2006, aged 82, in Minsk, Belarus.

Sources:
Wikipedia
David Bronstein chess profile
David Bronstein (by Leonard Barden)

David Bronstein Memorial 2014

David Bronstein Memorial is organised by the Belarusian Chess Federation and is commemorating the 90th anniversary from the birth of the famous Grandmaster.

It will be held 11-19 February 2014 as a 9-round Swiss tournament. Time control: 90 mins + 30 sec increment for each move (starting with the first move).

Participants

No.		Name	FED	Rtg
1	GM	Jobava Baadur	GEO	2706
2	GM	Akopian Vladimir	ARM	2682
3	GM	Sargissian Gabriel	ARM	2671
4	GM	Grachev Boris	RUS	2669
5	GM	Zhigalko Sergei	BLR	2661
6	GM	Mamedov Rauf	AZE	2659
7	GM	Shimanov Aleksandr	RUS	2658
8	GM	Popov Ivan	RUS	2653
9	GM	Romanov Evgeny	RUS	2653
10	GM	Khairullin Ildar	RUS	2651
11	GM	Safarli Eltaj	AZE	2649
12	GM	Smirin Ilia	ISR	2644
13	GM	Kuzubov Yuriy	UKR	2643
14	GM	Kovalenko Igor	LAT	2642
15	GM	Fedorchuk Sergey A	UKR	2641
16	GM	Tiviakov Sergei	NED	2639
17	GM	Tkachiev Vladislav	FRA	2637
18	GM	Korneev Oleg	ESP	2631
19	GM	Oleksienko Mikhailo	UKR	2630
20	GM	Tregubov Pavel V	RUS	2629

Full list

Schedule

Round	Date	Time
1	2014/02/11	15.30
2	2014/02/12	15.30
3	2014/02/13	15.30
4	2014/02/14	15.30
5	2014/02/15	15.30
6	2014/02/16	15.30
7	2014/02/17	15.30
8	2014/02/18	15.30
9	2014/02/19	11.00

All time is local Belarusian time (GMT + 3 hours).

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