The less publicy World Chess Open Leon just finished. The tournament is a rapid 35 minute + increment event. Many strong GMs take part, after 9 rounds Poland's GM Mikhail Krasenkow (so many spelling version here) wins it. Report from official site as translated by Google :
The Russian-born Polish Michal Krasenkov won the second edition of the World Chess Open de Leon, ahead in the tiebreaker to turco Mikhail Gurevich, con 8 puntos de 9 partidas. Turkish Mikhail Gurevich, with 8 points from 9 games. Gurevich is one of the last champions of the Soviet Union, and trainer of Vishy Anand, while defending champion belonged to a select group of 2700.
Bronze medal fell to Bulgarian Kiril Georgiev of simutáneas world record, fourth place for Boris Gulko, U.S. champion and the USSR and that Garry Kasparov has defeated several times, and one of the most original grandmasters of the world The Ukrainian Oleg Romanishin.
Outstanding performance of Gabriel del Rio, and Leon Pablo Santos, the first tranche calisificado ELO 2350, taking no less than € 1000 prize. "This Open is right for us fans of Leon" The best player Pablo Santos Leon was again Pablo Santos, with 6.5 points. Paul praised the good organization and concept of the tournament which projects the Sports Club president Leon Chess Grandmaster Alfonso Romero Holmes, invitades figures and possibility for Leon to fight against players from all over Spain and, of course, supersized Masters " Consolidated is a tournament and the type of tournament we want Leon fans, no doubt it is one of the best in the world, " he said.
Or see here. Top standing :
1 GM Michal Krasenkow 2656 8,0
2 GM Mikail Gurevich 2597 8,0
3 GM Kiril Georgiev 2672 7,5
4 GM Boris Gulko 2535 7,0
5 GM Oleg Romanishin 2510 7,0
6 GM Salvador Del Rio De Angelis 2524 7,0
7 GM Bojan Kurajica 2519 7,0
8 GM Roberto Parada Cifuentes 2525 7,0
9 IM David Larino Nieto 2471 6,5
10 IM Javier Moreno Ruiz 2459 6,5
11 GM Aleksa Strikovic 2531 6,5
12 GM Ivan Salgado Lopez 2584 6,5
13 GM Elizbar Ubilava 2526 6,5
14 GM Alejandro Hoffman 2426 6,5
15 IM Marcos Llaneza 2514 6,5
16 IM Mikel Huerga Leache 2463 6,5
17 GM Pablog San Segunda 2534 6,5
18 FM Pablo Santos 2326 6,5
19 GM Predrag Nikolic 2597 6,5
20 IM Kim Pilgaard 2435 6,5
21 GM Bogdan Lalic 2494 6,5
22 FM Aurelio Vila Dupla 2177 6,5
As usual miniature is the one we like to see, here a nice classic attacking to Black kingside in 1.d4 game.
[Event "II Open Mundial de León"]
[Site "León"]
[Date "2010.01.02"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Krasenkow, Michal"]
[WhiteElo "2656"]
[Black "Lariño, David"]
[BlackElo "2471"]
[Result "1-0"]
1. Nf3 d5 2. d4 e6 3. c4 c5 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. dxc5 d4 7. Na4 Bxc5 8.Nxc5 Qa5+ 9. Bd2 Qxc5 10. e3 Bg4 11. Rc1 Qd6 12. exd4 Nge7 13. Be2 O-O 14. O-ORad8 15. Re1 Nd5 16. h3 Bxf3 17. Bxf3 Nxd4 18. Be4 Qb6 19. Bg5 f6 20. Qh5 g621. Bxg6 hxg6 22. Qxg6+ Kh8 23. Qh5+ Kg8 24. Bh6 1-0
Meanwhile in Australia, they just started the 2010 edition of Championship. Three GMs are around, Zhao Zongyuan, Darryl K. Johansen and Gawain Jones, but no David Smerdon. Up to round 3 the standing is like this :
1. Zhao, Zong-Yuan, 3
2. Johansen, Darryl K, 3
3. Xie, George, 3
4. Yuan, Yi, 2.5
5. Jones, Gawain, 2
6. Ikeda, Junta, 2
7. Brown, Andrew, 2
8. Lane, Gary W, 2
9. Smirnov, Vladimir, 2
10. Nakauchi, Gene, 2
Official website, live games with Ian Roger annotations here. A quick browse into the game and here a Sicilian game wins by Black, that I always interested to see:
[Event "Australian Championship"]
[Site "NSLCC, Cammeray, NSW"]
[Date "2010.01.03"]
[Round "2.1"]
[White "Lane, Gary"]
[Black "Zhao, Zong Yuan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B47"]
[WhiteElo "2377"]
[BlackElo "2572"]
[Annotator "Rogers,Ian"]
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