The Magistral Ciutat de Barcelona-Casino tournament took place from October 19 to October 27, 2006 in Barcelona, Spain. The tournament is a strong category 14 event. It was organized by the Catalan Chess Federation. New fide time control, approved in Turin (90′ + 30” + 30′ + 30”).
GM Lenier Dominguez of Cuba ran away with the event by scoring 8/9 for a 2900+ performance.
Final Standings:
1. Dominguez, Lenier g CUB 2655 8.0
2. Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2741 6.5
3. Korneev, Oleg g RUS 2657 5.5
4. Bologan, Viktor g MDA 2659 5.0
5-7. Peralta, Fernando g ARG 2574, Narciso Dublan, Marc g ESP 2511, Granda Zuniga, Julio g PER 2646 4.0
8. Lopez Martinez, Josep m ESP 2508 3.5
9. Timman, Jan g NED 2565 2.5
10. Lacasa Diaz, Jose m ESP 2410 2.0
Here is the official site.
How many times did Lenier visit the bathroom?
How often did his opponent whine and snivel about it?
Nice result for the Cuban player. Congratulations.
May be Cuba will have a successor of big R. Capablanca
PKF
Dominguez completly destroy Ivantchuk :
[White “GM Dominguez, Lenier(CUB)”]
[Black “GM Ivanchuk, Vassily(UKR)”]
[WhiteElo “2655”]
[BlackElo “2741”]
1. e4 g6 2. d4 d6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. Be3 a6 5. f4 b5 6. Bd3 Bb7 7. Nf3 Nd7 8. e5 Nh6
9. Qe2 Nb6 10. O-O-O Qd7 11. Rhg1 O-O 12. g4 Nxg4 13. Ng5 Nxe3 14. Qxe3 e6 15.
Qh3 h6 16. Nxf7 Qxf7 17. Rxg6 Qxf4+ 18. Kb1 Rf7 19. Rdg1 Kh8
No more move from Chessbase, but Ce2 win.
The final score is 1-0
although i was born in the states, my parents are cuban, and i am proud of the history and tradition of chess in cuba.. bruzon, dominguez, quesada, becerra, are fine examples of those who carry the torch passed on by capablanca.. while there is a huge difference in the level of play between them and jr, it is nice to see cubans near the top of the game once again