Great Turkmen success at First Saturday Budapest 04-14th February events Print
Friday, 17 February 2012 11:56
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There were 53 participants competing in five groups of different level. As usual each group took Round-Robin form providing opportunities for gaining titles and ratings.


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IGM Orazly Annageldyev, Turkmanistan national youth coach, the leader of the 12 participants’ Turkmen chess group (all photos are made by Mr SZABO, Miklos)

GM Harutjunyan (ARM) won the GM group with convincing play.


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Harutjunyan Gevorg (ARM)

Battey Alexander (USA) achieved his third IM norm two of which was born in First Saturday events while Horvath David (HUN) performed all his three norms here.


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Battey, Alexander (USA)

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Horvath David (HUN)


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KISLIK, Erik (USA), reached the IM title with the over 2400 LIVE rating


First Saturday GM Feb 2012

Final Ranking

Rank

SNo.

 

Name

Rtg

FED

Pts

SB.

W

We

W-We

Rtg+/-

Rp

1

1

GM

Harutjunyan Gevorg

2482

ARM

8

40.50

8.0

6.57

1.43

14

2586

2

11

GM

Zakhartsov Viacheslav V

2578

RUS

34.00

6.5

8.01

-1.51

-15

2468

3

2

IM

Lizak Peter

2418

HUN

6

33.75

6.0

5.52

0.48

5

2453

4

7

FM

Battey Alexander

2353

USA

6

33.00

6.0

4.47

1.53

23

2459

5

8

Horvath David

2383

HUN

6

30.25

6.0

4.94

1.06

16

2456

6

10

IM

Manca Federico

2425

ITA

30.25

5.5

5.64

-0.14

-1

2416

7

6

FM

Kislik Erik Andrew

2380

USA

28.25

5.5

4.91

0.59

9

2421

8

12

GM

Annageldyev Orazly

2396

TKM

5

27.00

5.0

5.16

-0.16

-2

2383

9

3

GM

Varga Zoltan

2452

HUN

5

26.75

5.0

6.09

-1.09

-11

2378

10

9

FM

Atabayev Yusup

2413

TKM

22.00

4.5

5.43

-0.93

-9

2353

11

4

IM

Semiev Suhrab

2386

TKM

4

21.75

4.0

5.01

-1.01

-10

2318

12

5

Feher Adam

2340

HUN

4

21.50

4.0

4.25

-0.25

-4

2322



The IM section brought double Turkmen victory. Both Esenov Anaberdi and Atabayev Maksat hit the IM norm proving the progress of quality chess in their country.


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Esenov, Anaberdi (TKM)


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Atabayev, Maksat /TKM/


First Saturday IM Feb 2012

Final Ranking

Rank

SNo.

 

Name

Rtg

FED

Pts

SB.

W

We

W-We

Rtg+/-

1

11

FM

Atabayev Maksat

2336

TKM

8

33.25

7.0

5.01

1.99

30

2

2

FM

Esenov Annaberdi

2287

TKM

34.50

6.5

4.34

2.16

32

3

1

IM

Galyas Miklos

2467

HUN

31.00

6.5

6.67

-0.17

-2

4

6

Zakhartsov Vladimir

2216

RUS

25.75

5.5

3.39

2.11

32

5

10

IM

Petran Pal

2374

HUN

21.25

4.5

5.50

-1.00

-10

6

5

IM

Farago Sandor

2286

HUN

5

19.25

4.0

4.33

-0.33

-3

7

9

IM

Szeberenyi Adam

2316

HUN

19.50

3.5

4.73

-1.23

-12

8

3

FM

Lyell Mark

2195

ENG

4

13.50

3.0

3.13

-0.13

-2

9

4

IM

Lengyel Bela

2250

HUN

14.50

3.0

3.85

-0.85

-9

10

8

IM

Szalanczy Emil

2264

HUN

6.75

1.5

4.05

-2.55

-26

11

7

Musson Adam J

0

ENG

½

1.75

0.5



Our forthcoming chess events in Budapest:

1. 3-13th March, First Saturday (5 groups planned)
2. 26th March – 3rd April, 28th Spring Festival Open

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