Halkias, Hess lead in Reykjavik Chess Festival 2011 after four rounds
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Hi everybody,
The news from the Reykjavik Chess Festival is that two players are leading with a perfect score after four rounds. These are Greek Grandmaster Stelios Halkias and American Grandmaster Robert l. Hess. Fourteen players - including top seed British Grandmaster Luke McShane - are just a shade behind at 3.5 points. Among the women players, WGM Anna Sharevich is doing pretty well with a score of 3.5 which includes a nice win over last year's Reykjavik Open winner, Icelandic GM Hannes Stefansson (2557). Here are the standings after four rounds:
Rk. | Name | FED | RtgI | RtgN | Pts. | |
1 | GM | Halkias Stelios | GRE | 2579 | 0 | 4.0 |
2 | GM | Hess Robert L | USA | 2565 | 0 | 4.0 |
3 | GM | McShane Luke J | ENG | 2683 | 0 | 3.5 |
IM | Ziska Helgi Dam | FAI | 2432 | 0 | 3.5 | |
5 | IM | Berbatov Kiprian | BUL | 2454 | 0 | 3.5 |
6 | WGM | Sharevich Anna | BLR | 2323 | 0 | 3.5 |
7 | GM | Miton Kamil | POL | 2600 | 0 | 3.5 |
8 | GM | Hansen Sune Berg | DEN | 2603 | 0 | 3.5 |
9 | GM | Kuzubov Yuriy | UKR | 2627 | 0 | 3.5 |
10 | GM | Hillarp Persson Tiger | SWE | 2524 | 0 | 3.5 |
11 | GM | Jones Gawain C B | ENG | 2578 | 0 | 3.5 |
12 | GM | Gupta Abhijeet | IND | 2580 | 0 | 3.5 |
13 | GM | Nyzhnyk Illya | UKR | 2563 | 0 | 3.5 |
14 | GM | Baklan Vladimir | UKR | 2602 | 0 | 3.5 |
15 | GM | Adly Ahmed | EGY | 2640 | 0 | 3.5 |
16 | GM | Friedel Joshua E | USA | 2529 | 2597 | 3.0 |
17 | GM | Chatalbashev Boris | BUL | 2602 | 0 | 3.0 |
18 | GM | Sokolov Ivan | NED | 2643 | 0 | 3.0 |
19 | GM | Miroshnichenko Evgenij | UKR | 2670 | 0 | 3.0 |
20 | FM | Zelbel Patrick | GER | 2410 | 0 | 3.0 |
21 | GM | Hammer Jon Ludvig | NOR | 2606 | 0 | 3.0 |
22 | GM | Thorhallsson Throstur | ISL | 2387 | 2390 | 3.0 |
23 | IM | Thorfinnsson Bjorn | ISL | 2419 | 2442 | 3.0 |
24 | GM | Williams Simon K | ENG | 2507 | 0 | 3.0 |
25 | GM | Danielsen Henrik | ISL | 2533 | 2525 | 3.0 |
26 | FM | Sveshnikov Vladimir | LAT | 2379 | 0 | 3.0 |
27 | IM | Dearing Eddie | SCO | 2412 | 0 | 3.0 |
28 | GM | Gustafsson Jan | GER | 2647 | 0 | 3.0 |
29 | IM | Sareen Vishal | IND | 2358 | 0 | 3.0 |
30 | IM | Milliet Sophie | FRA | 2369 | 0 | 3.0 |
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3 Comments:
At March 12, 2011 at 1:43 PM , glenn said...
The pgn player won't move the pieces. The score doesn't look quite right underneath it.
At March 12, 2011 at 4:57 PM , Anonymous said...
the PGN source is broken, try this link instead:
http://tinyurl.com/pgn4web-9F6CD095
the correct PGN data should be like this:
[Event "MP Reykjavik Open"]
[Site "Reykjavik ISL"]
[Date "10.03.2011"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Sharevich,Anna"]
[Black "Stefansson,Hannes"]
[Result "1-0"]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 c5 4.d5 exd5 5.cxd5 d6 6.Nc3 g6 7.Nf3 Bg7
8.Bg2 0-0 9.0-0 Re8 10.Bf4 Na6 11.Re1 Bg4 12.Nd2 Nh5 13.Be3 Qd7
14.a4 Bh3 15.Bf3 Bg4 16.Bg2 Nb4 17.Nc4 Bf5 18.Rc1 Qe7? 19.Qd2 Rad8
20.Bg5 f6 21.e4 Bc8 22.Be3 22.Qf8 23.Nb5 Na6 24.Nxa7 f5 25.Bg5 Nf6
26.Nxc8 Rxc8 27.e5 dxe5 28.d6 Rcd8 29.Bxb7 Nb4 30.Rxe5 Rxe5
31.Nxe5 Rxd6 32.Qe2 Qe7 33.Qc4+ Kf8 34.Qxc5 Nbd5 35.Bxd5
1-0
At March 13, 2011 at 10:41 AM , Chess Blog Admin said...
Thanks Glenn, Thanks Anonymous. We've fixed it. We love all our alert readers. Happy Chess.
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