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The First Daily Chess Newspaper on the Net Editors: GM Baburin, GM Scherbakov, IM Barsky, GM Golubev, IM Notkin CT-141(925) 21st May 2003 th
Quiz Today Kozul-Radjabov Sarajevo 2003
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As much as we would like to conclude our coverage of the 37th Capablanca Memorial in Havana, we cannot do it at this moment – the tournament Web site seems to be dead and results of the last round are not known... The traditional Bosna tournament is in progress in Sarajevo. Round 3 saw the following results: Kozul-Radjabov 0-1 I. Sokolov - Damljanovic 1-0 Kurajica-Shirov ½-½ Bareev-Dizdarevic 1-0 Movsesian-Kasimdzhanov ½-½
Our short review of the round:
Chess News Chess Today received the following information about the forth-coming St. Petersburg vs. Paris match from Ilya Manakov, administrator and webmaster of www.ruschess.com: Chess match St. Petersburg vs. Paris will take place on 28 May 2003, on the day of celebration of the 300 years anniversary of St. Petersburg. Its team will consist of: 1. Alexander Khalifman 2. Peter Svidler 3. Victor Korchnoi 4. Konstantin Sakaev
Radjabov played the King's Indian Defence - maybe he will bring this opening back into fashion, after another 'boy from Baku' has abandoned it? Damljanovic (by the way, that was another KID!) blundered a checkmate in one move, though his position was already bad. After two losses, Elofavourite of the tournament Bareev nicely outplayed Dizdarevic in the Semi-Slav. His 19.b4 was classy! Standings after 3 rounds:
Commentators in St. Petersburg will be Anatoly Karpov and Boris Spassky. The "NAO chess club" team will be represented by: 1. Vladimir Kramnik 2. Teimour Radjabov 3. Laurent Fressinet 4. Sergey Karjakin GM Joel Lautier will be commentator in Paris. Chief arbiter: Geurt Gijssen. Games and video coverage of the match will be available at www.ruschess.com.
1-2. Radjabov (2644) and I. Sokolov (2677) – 2½ points; 3-5. Shirov (2735), Movsesian (2659) and Kasimdzhanov (2680) – 2 points; 6. Kurajica (2551) – 1½ points; 7-8. Bareev (2734) and Kozul (2601) – 1 point; 9. Dizdarevic (2491) - ½ point; 10. Damljanovic (2587) – 0 point. See games from round 3 in our database. Round 7 of the Hungarian Championship saw all games drawn (but only 2 were quick draws): Cao – A. Horváth ½-½ Berkes-Varga ½-½
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