The 19th International Open Tournament “Villa de Navalmoral” was held on 5-8th December at the hotel Moya in Navalmoral de la Mata (Cáceres), Spain.
After seven rounds of play GM Namig Guliyev (Azerbaijan) and IM Vitali Koziak (Ukraine) shared the first place with 6,0 points each. Guliyev took the winner’s trophy on better tie-break.
The total prize fund was 12,300 EUR, with 3000 EUR reserved for the first place.
The notorious Borislav Ivanov played in the first five rounds, winning against two Grandmasters in the process, before being removed from the competition.
Final standings:
1. GM Guliyev Namig AZE 2551 – 6
2. IM Koziak Vitali UKR 2486 – 6
3. GM Peralta Fernando ARG 2600 – 5.5
4. GM Grigoryan Karen H. ARM 2604 – 5.5
5. GM Epishin Vladimir RUS 2548 – 5
6. GM Ibarra Jerez Jose Carlos ESP 2510 – 5
7. FM Gonzalez Perez Arian FID 2467 – 5
8. IM Dias Paulo POR 2397 – 5
9. IM Enchev Ivajlo BUL 2447 – 5
10. IM Barria Zuñiga Daniel CHI 2434 – 5
11. GM Perez Candelario Manuel ESP 2568 – 4.5
12. FM Ivanov Borislav BUL 2318 – 4.5
13. GM Nikolov Momchil BUL 2529 – 4.5
14. GM Fedorchuk Sergey A. UKR 2660 – 4.5
15. IM Antoli Royo Joaquin Miguel ESP 2405 – 4.5
16. IM Brito Garcia Alfredo ESP 2307 – 4.5
17. FM Garcia-Ortega Mendez Jose M. ESP 2308 – 4.5
18. FM Ryan Joseph IRL 2280 – 4.5
19. GM Komljenovic Davorin CRO 2407 – 4.5
20. Gonzalez Trigal Jose Luis ESP 2222 – 4.5
21. IM Forcen Esteban Daniel ESP 2511 – 4.5
22. Gertosio Franck FRA 2210 – 4.5
23. Vasques Antonio Pedro Freixia POR 2187 – 4.5
24. Melero Fidalgo Juan De Dios ESP 2250 – 4.5
25. FM Cabezas Ayala Ivan ESP 2316 – 4
26. GM Campora Daniel H. ARG 2474 – 4
27. Rodriguez Garcia Manuel Fco. ESP 2149 – 4
28. Garcia Romero Benjamin Abel ESP 2199 – 4
29. FM Gavilan Diaz Mario ESP 2255 – 4
30. Gallardo Fernandez Cesar ESP 2249 – 4
That is very impressive.
this is a complete nonsense.
why are always charging this guy?
you say that is very easy to use
a modern Android or Apple smartphone that fits into a shoe, and you can use your toes to send signals to the motion detector in the phone.
Do you ever think what are you putting down here?
It’s ridiculous. I’m in computers and I know that you are talking nonsense,to be polite.
Firstly the telephone is forbidden.
So what’s the point here?
Noone has ever proved anything against this guy.
This Valeri Lilov is constantly putting ads in Chessbase.com site
and is trying to insinuate that there is some cheat.
You’re all so biased.
There many games of GMs or IMs with just a few errors seen by Houdini or Stockfish.
Just have a test.
It doesn’t prove anything.
Now you want to check players shoes,
what after?
You would ask to check up his ass,wouldn’t you.
I’m really shocked with your bias.
I sort of agree with comment above, to the extent that it seems unfair to boot a player when you don’t know how he is cheating.
But Lilov’s exposes of Ivanov are totally right. If you spent any time going through the games. It is not reasonable that Ivanov should crush GMs in less than 40 moves, but lose to 2100 making clearly weak ‘patzer’ moves. That is impossible. This is just a problem to discover ‘how’, not ‘if’.
All this nonsense would not happen if he just would agree to take his shoes off. We take our shoes off regularly in airports for screening, so I don’t see the point that he’s trying to make.
I’m just wondering if he were to hide smartphone or a similar device, could the arbiters just use a metal detector? There is no info on that in this article.