2008 European Union Championship
The European Union Championship is taking place from September 9 to 18, 2008 in Liverpool, England. The total prize fund is 30,000 pounds. First prize is 6,000 pounds.
The 3 leaders drew in round 8 to maintain their lead with 2 rounds to go. Here are the results of the top boards in round 8:
1 WERLE, Jan………….. 2591 (6) ½ – ½ ADAMS, Michael………. 2735 (6) 13 1
2 L’AMI, Erwin………… 2610 (5½) ½ – ½ LAZNICKA, Viktor…….. 2601 (6) 7 9
3 BACROT, Etienne……… 2691 (5) ½ – ½ JONES, Gawain C B……. 2549 (5) 2 22
4 HOWELL, David W L……. 2561 (5) ½ – ½ VACHIER-LAGRAVE, Maxime. 2681 (5) 20 3
5 SHORT, Nigel D………. 2655 (5) 1 – 0 CONQUEST, Stuart C…… 2536 (5) 4 24
6 MEIER, Georg………… 2556 (5) ½ – ½ TIVIAKOV, Sergei…….. 2645 (5) 21 5
7 FRIDMAN, Daniel……… 2637 (5) ½ – ½ GODENA, Michele……… 2519 (5) 6 28
8 WELLS, Peter K………. 2526 (5) ½ – ½ SMEETS, Jan…………. 2593 (5) 26 11
9 BERG, Emanuel……….. 2592 (5) ½ – ½ HASLINGER, Stewart G…. 2511 (5) 12 30
10 LUTHER, Thomas………. 2570 (5) ½ – ½ ABERGEL, Thal……….. 2499 (5) 15 35
11 DAVID, Alberto………. 2568 (5) 1 – 0 TRENT, Lawrence……… 2470 (5) 17 41
Leaders after 8 rounds:
1-3 Adams, Laznicka, Werle 6.5 points
4-6 David, L’Ami, Short 6.0
Here is the full crosstable: http://www.liverpoolchessinternational.co.uk/crosstable.htm
Does Short respect Adams as a male? Just tell me the final result, ok, don’t bother me with who is leading today, tomorrow, yesterday, etc.
“After Korchnoi defected in 1976 Russian
GM Alexander Kotou grumbled that he had to
go through his recent book on Karpou and
tahe out all references to Korchnoi so that it
could be passed for publiccttion.”
Xie Jun is a real GM. She was ranked
118 in the world at 2561 with GM Laios
Portisch on a recent PCA rating list (witcn
combines both men and women, unlihe
the FIDE list). At the 1994 Donner Memort
al in Amsterdam she tied uith Lautier at
4% (an euen score) ahead of Lobron (3/z),
Benjamin and uan der Sterren (3) but
close behind Adams, Piket, Jusupou (5%),
Sokolou, Timman (5).
In 1958 touring Souiet grandmasters told
Chinese officials it would take at least 20
years for China to catch up in chess. When
China split with the USSR, chess was
promptly denounced as a bourgeois pastime.
The Red Guards went on a cultural
rampagea nd burnedc hessboardsa s hated
symbols of foreign influence.
China has been mouing up sihce entering a team at the 1982 Olympiad and was I6th in a field of 102 nations at the Manila Olympiad in 1992. China now realizes that cftess is a cheap mass sport with international prestige, and it’s only a matter of time before they become a major force in world chess.