54 players from 16 countries at First Saturday, Budapest May event Print
Friday, 07 May 2010 08:05
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In May the 1st our tournament 54 participants from the following countries: AUT, BLR, DEN, ENG, GER, HUN, LUX, MAS, NED, PER, RSA, SRB, SYR, SVK,USA,VIE.

GM-group:

Fourth time this year the grandmaster group started with 10 players. The average rating is 2403. At present Mr. Kovalev Andrei is the first in the ranking and has 4.5 points out of 5 games.

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IGM Kovalev, Andrei /BLR, 2518/

IM-groups:

The IM-A and IM-B groups have together 18 players with average ratings of 2276 and 2264. In the A group 8 points are needed for an IM-norm while in the B section 7.5 points are enough.

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Csonka, Balazs /HUN/

13 years old Csonka, Balazs /HUN/ is first now in the "B" group and plays with 2350 performance.

FM-groups:

This month 3 different rated FM-groups were created. In the A group Darazs, Zoltan /HUN/ has the highest rating /2214/.

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Kantor, Reka /SVK/

Our next First Saturday, Budapest tournament starts on the 5th of June and there are still vacant places for the interested GM-IM-norm seeker players.

Written by: Tamas, Nagy
http://www.firstsaturday.hu/
 
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