Spanish Fiesta at First Saturday Budapest June 02-12
Franco Alonso Alejandro a 29 year old man of San Sebastian won the First Saturday GM tournament this month performing his first GM norm. He built firm positions and patiently overplayed his opponents in the middle-games.
He was accompanied with three Spanish friends and spending a pleasant time in Budapest they had every reason to have a fiesta after the last round.
Rajlich Iweta (POL) could not repeat her outstanding performance of the previous month.
Ranking after round 10 of First Saturday GM June 2012
| No. | PNo. | Name | Score | WP | SB | PS | rat. | TPR | W-We | ||||||
| 1 | 5 | Franco Alonso, Alejandro | 7.5 | 45.0 | 32.00 | 37.0 | 2463 | 2623 | +2.08 | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | Varga, Zoltan | 6.5 | 47.0 | 24.25 | 33.0 | 2451 | 2542 | +1.28 | ||||||
| 3 | 6 | Boros, Denes | 6.0 | 48.0 | 22.75 | 36.0 | 2475 | 2500 | +0.36 | ||||||
| 4 | 1 | Lalic, Bogdan | 5.5 | 49.0 | 21.25 | 31.5 | 2507 | 2457 | -0.62 | ||||||
| 5 | 3 | Rajlich, Iweta | 4.0 | 52.0 | 16.75 | 25.0 | 2441 | 2362 | -1.08 | ||||||
| 6 | 4 | Wittmann, Walter | 0.5 | 59.0 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 2276 | 1997 | -2.02 |
The IM sections brought success for young Chinese girls as two of them, Wang Doudou and Xu Huahua, performed WIM norms causing hard times in all games to their male opponents.
They play far much better than their present ratings. IM Galyas Miklos (HUN) as favorite played at high level and his victory was convincing and unquestionable. He should play again in the GM section instead.
Final ranking of First Saturday IM-A June 2012
| No. | PNo. | Name | Score | WP | SB | PS | rat. | TPR | W-We | ||||||
| 1 | 3 | Galyas, Miklos | 8.0 | 44.0 | 34.00 | 42.0 | 2403 | 2456 | +0.72 | ||||||
| 2 | 6 | Wang, Doudou | 5.5 | 49.0 | 22.25 | 31.0 | 2130 | 2304 | +2.24 | ||||||
| 3 | 4 | Szeberenyi, Adam | 5.0 | 50.0 | 24.00 | 25.0 | 2335 | 2227 | -1.34 | ||||||
| 1 | To, Nhat Minh | 5.0 | 50.0 | 23.75 | 32.0 | 2298 | 2235 | -0.80 | |||||||
| 5 | 2 | Kojima, Shinya | 4.0 | 52.0 | 17.75 | 17.0 | 2264 | 2169 | -1.24 | ||||||
| 6 | 5 | Wang, Xinyue | 2.5 | 55.0 | 11.75 | 18.0 | 2041 | 2091 | +0.42 |
Final ranking of First Saturday IM-B June 2012
| No. | PNo. | Name | Score | WP | SB | PS | rat. | TPR | W-We | ||||||
| 1 | 8 | Lengyel, Bela | 6.0 | 42.5 | 25.00 | 28.5 | 2260 | 2324 | +0.65 | ||||||
| 7 | Krumpacnik, Domen | 6.0 | 39.0 | 22.75 | 28.0 | 2382 | 2341 | -0.46 | |||||||
| 3 | 10 | Szalanczy, Emil | 5.5 | 39.5 | 25.75 | 28.0 | 2262 | 2309 | +0.58 | ||||||
| 6 | Lyell, Mark | 5.5 | 39.5 | 22.00 | 22.5 | 2184 | 2318 | +1.66 | |||||||
| 4 | Xu, Huahua | 5.5 | 39.5 | 21.50 | 21.0 | 2168 | 2320 | +1.87 | |||||||
| 1 | Volodin, Viktor | 5.5 | 42.5 | 21.25 | 26.0 | 2197 | 2280 | +0.93 | |||||||
| 7 | 5 | Dolgener, Tobias | 4.0 | 41.0 | 16.50 | 23.0 | 2215 | 2191 | -0.27 | ||||||
| 8 | 3 | Farago, Sandor | 3.5 | 41.5 | 12.75 | 23.5 | 2270 | 2148 | -1.52 | ||||||
| 9 | 2 | Serra Olives, Tomas | 2.0 | 43.0 | 8.75 | 13.5 | 2153 | 2021 | -1.43 | ||||||
| 10 | 9 | Ernst, Michael | 1.5 | 37.0 | 8.25 | 11.0 | 2233 | 2003 | -2.01 |
The Rating sections as usual, were a clash of generations.
Ranking after round 9 of First Saturday FM-A June 2012
| No. | PNo. | Name | Score | WP | SB | PS | rat. | TPR | W-We | ||||||
| 1 | 10 | Farkas, Richard | 6.5 | 38.5 | 26.00 | 33.0 | 2112 | 2200 | +1.12 | ||||||
| 1 | Ciuro Munoz, Ricardo | 6.5 | 40.5 | 25.25 | 26.5 | 2087 | 2177 | +1.01 | |||||||
| 3 | 2 | Juracsik, Jozsef | 5.5 | 40.5 | 21.25 | 24.0 | 2134 | 2074 | -0.54 | ||||||
| 4 | 5 | Gyomber, Tamas | 5.0 | 40.0 | 21.00 | 27.5 | 2059 | 2083 | +0.30 | ||||||
| 9 | Darazs, Zoltan | 5.0 | 40.0 | 21.00 | 29.0 | 2136 | 2074 | -0.68 | |||||||
| 6 | 6 | Schenkerik, Csaba | 4.5 | 40.5 | 18.00 | 18.5 | 2156 | 2029 | -1.44 | ||||||
| 7 | 7 | Mayer, Istvan | 3.5 | 38.5 | 19.25 | 16.0 | 2038 | 2022 | -0.13 | ||||||
| 8 | 4 | Krstulovic, Alex | 3.0 | 42.0 | 12.50 | 16.0 | 1801 | 1943 | +1.35 | ||||||
| 3 | Montolio Benedicto, Cesar | 3.0 | 42.0 | 12.00 | 20.5 | 1963 | 1925 | -0.45 | |||||||
| 10 | 8 | Farkas, Laszlo | 2.5 | 42.5 | 10.75 | 14.0 | 1930 | 1888 | -0.54 |
The excellently renewed air-conditioned Conference Hall of the Hotel MEDOSZ gives an ideal home for the First Saturday series and also for a children’s chess school on Saturday mornings.
Our next GM-IM-FM (ELO) events are scheduled at 7-17th July.
More info with a lot of photos, all the games and archive is available at: www.firstsaturday.hu
Contact: IO Nagy Laszlo firstsat@hu.inter.net
Written by IM Orso Miklos International Arbiter
Nice way to get the norm.