Reports by John Henderson

4NCL Final Results



Michael Adams wins the Redbus Tournament

TWIC coverage of Redbus 2000:

TWIC was the official site for the Redbus elite knockout tournament runningFriday April 21st-24th running alongside the Southend Easter Congress.The time control was be 100 minutes plus 30 seconds per move for the whole game with one round per day and two games per round. Matches tied at 1-1 were decided by two ten minute games followed by sudden death blitz if necessary. The prize fund was £7,400 with the eight first round losers receiving 200 pounds, second round losers receive 400 pounds, semi-finalists take home 600 pounds. The two finalists split 3000 pounds with 1600 going to Adams and 14000 to Lalic as the event was settled by speed chess.

Players: Michael Adams 2715 Jon Speelman 2604 Tony Miles 2579 Bogdan Lalic 2548 John Emms 2546 Murray Chandler 2527 Glenn Flear 2519 Jim Plaskett 2515 Daniel King 2514 Chris Ward 2509 Jonathan Rowson 2499 Nigel Davies 2497 Peter Wells 2494 Mark Hebden 2493 Matthew Turner 2489 Luke McShane 2438.

See the Redbus 2000 part of the site. John Henderson was on the spot for the games, pictures and reports. John Henderson reports, results and games available for the entire event.

John Henderson's Round 1 report.
John Henderson's Quarter-Final report.
John Henderson's Semi-Final report.
John Henderson's Final report.

In the final both normal timerate games between Bogdan Lalic and Michael Adams were drawn. Two ten minute games were also drawn but then Michael Adams won the first sudden death game.

John Henderson's reports on the final three rounds below.

John Henderson on rounds 9 and 10
John Henderson on round 11
Eight games from the 4NCL weekend in PGN

Round 9 Slough1 6-2 Wood Green2; Barbican1 4.5-3.5 Wood Green1; Bigwood1 6.5-1.5 Richmond; Bristol1 3.5-4.5 Index IT1; Silvine White Rose 7-1 North West Eagles; Guildford ADC 7-1 The AD's.

Round 10 Barbican 4NCL 3.0-5.0 Slough1; Wood Green1 5.5-2.5 Guildford ADC; Bristol1 2.5-5.5 Bigwood1; Index IT1 4-4 Silvine White Rose; Richmond1 2.5-5.5 North West Eagles; The AD's 3.5-4.5 Wood Green2.

Round 11 (Final)

Slough1 Wood Green1 4-4
1 Almasi,Z 0-1 Morozevich,A
2 Gurevich,M draw Short,N
3 Miles,A draw Speelman,J
4 Ftacnik,L draw Emms,J
5 Wells,P 1-0 Baburin,A
6 McNab,C draw Ward,C
7 Turner,M 1-0 Littlewood,P
8 Lalic,S 0-1 Arakhamia-Grant, K

Matthew Turner needed to win in order to save the match and score a GM Norm.

Guildford ADC 5.5-2.5 Barbican 4NCL1; Index IT1 5-3 Bigwood1; NW Eagles 2-6 The AD's; Silvine White Rose 5-3 Bristol1; Wood Green2 3.5-4.5 Richmond

Division 1 Final Standings: 1 Slough1 21/22 (63.5); 2 Wood Green 1 18 (56); 3 Bigwood 1 17 (55); 4 Barbican 4 NCL1 13 (47.5); 5 Index IT1 13 (44); 6 Guildford ADC 11 (49) ; 7 Silvine White Rose 9 (41.5); 8 Richmond 9 (38); 9 The AD's 6 (35.5); 10 Bristol 1 6 (35); 11 North West Eagles 5 (31.5); 12 Wood Green 2 4 (31.5) - Figures in brackets indicate game points.

Relegated from division 1: Wood Green 2, NW Eagles & Bristol 1 (by half a board point due to a big result from the ADs in the last round).

Promoted from division 2: South Wales Dragons, Barbican 4NCL2 & Poisoned Pawns.

Oakham GM

The Oakham GM tournament took place 11th-19th April 2000, Oakham School, Rutland, Leicestershire. The event was Category VII with an ELO average of 2406). John Henderson reported daily.

Games in PGN

John Henderson Round 1 report and players pictures.
John Henderson Round 2 report and players pictures.
John Henderson Round 3 report and players pictures
John Henderson Round 4 report and players pictures
John Henderson Round 5 report and players pictures
John Henderson Round 6 report and players pictures
John Henderson Round 7 report and players pictures
John Henderson Round 8 report and players pictures
John Henderson Round 9 report and players pictures

Round 9: Irina Krush scored her second IM norm (the first being in the Koltanowski International in San Francisco in 1999) with a final round win against Patrick Hummel. Nicholas Pert needed a win for a GM norm but only drew against Neil McDonald but he did take first place with 6.5/9. Daniel Gormally was much bettr but eventually blundered to a loss against Colin McNab..

Round 9 (April 19, 2000)

Pert, Nicholas - McDonald, Neil R 1/2 36
Krush, Irina - Hummel, Patrick 1-0 58
Aagaard, Jacob - Ward, Christopher 1/2 14
McNab, Colin A - Gormally, Daniel 1-0 31
Norris, Alan J - Afek, Yochanan 0-1 37

Final Standings:

1. Pert, Nicholas m ENG 2396 6.5; 2. Gormally, Daniel m ENG 2504 6.0; 3. Krush, Irina wm USA 2399 5.5; 4. Ward, Christopher g ENG 2509 5.5; 5. McDonald, Neil R g ENG 2438 4.5; 6. Aagaard, Jacob m DEN 2396 4.0; 7. Afek, Yochanan m ISR 2349 4.0; 8. Hummel, Patrick USA 2347 3.5; 9. McNab, Colin A g SCO 2424 3.5; 10. Norris, Alan J f SCO 2301 2.0;

LINARES 2000

The Linares 2000 supertournament runs February 28th - March 10th.. Kasparov, Anand, Shirov, Kramnik, Khalifman and Leko play in this double round robin event. TWIC has daily coverage from the event with John Henderson there for on the spot reports, interviews and pictures. Play started on Monday 28th February and finished Friday 10th March.

Round 10: The final round saw all three games drawn before move 30. The rules of the event meant that the winner was to be established by a toss of a coin but the players at first decided to play some blitz games instead. Then they decided that they were too tired. After some discussion both players were declared the winners of the event.

Final Standings: 1-2 Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2758 and Kasparov, Gary g RUS 2851 6.0; 3-6 Khalifman, Alexander g RUS 2656, Leko, Peter g HUN 2725 4.0, Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2751and Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2769 4.5;

John Henderson's pre-event report "Death in the Afternoon". Pairings in full.
John Henderson's TWIC interview with Anand
The John Henderson Report: Round 1: "The Matador doesn't always win."
The John Henderson Report: Round 2: All Rook and Pawn Endings are drawn ... aren't they?
The John Henderson Report: Round 3: Planet Shirov calling Linares.
The John Henderson Report: Round 4: Blood and Anand
The John Henderson Report: Round 5: The Boy of the new Century
The John Henderson Report: Round 6: All Drawn Out
The John Henderson Report: Round 7: If voting changed anything they'd have abolished it!
The John Henderson Report: Round 8: Homage to Catalonia
The John Henderson Report: Round 9: Heads I win, Tails you lose!
The John Henderson Report: Round 10: No-one ever expects the Spanish intuition

Games in PGN
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Round 10 final (March 10, 2000)

Kasparov, Gary 1/2 Anand, Viswanathan
Khalifman, Alexander 1/2 Shirov, Alexei
Kramnik, Vladimir 1/2 Leko, Peter

The new Spanish on-line chess club Canal21 has the rights to live coverage from the event. Address: http://www.ajedrez21.com

Corus Tournament Wijk aan Zee

The Corus Chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee took place 14th-30th January 2000 in the De Moriaan Community Centre. There were 14 players in the main GM tournament. John Henderson reported daily including pictures and a summary of the days play. The final round was on Sunday 30th January 2000.

John Henderson's reports from the Press Conferences and opening ceremony, pictures included. Also details of the draw in full.

John Henderson's Round 1 Report.
John Henderson's Round 2 Report.
John Henderson's Round 3 Report.
John Henderson's Round 4 Report.
John Henderson's Round 5 Report.
John Henderson's Round 6 Report.
John Henderson's Round 7 Report.
John Henderson's Round 8 Report.
John Henderson's Round 9 Report.
John Henderson's Round 10 Report.
John Henderson's Round 11 Report + Malcolm Pein Annotated game.
John Henderson's Round 12 Report.
John Henderson's Round 13 Report.

All games in PGN

Live internet coverage at the official site: http://chess.lostcity.nl/corus/
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Final Standings:

1. Kasparov, Gary g RUS 2851 9.5
2. Kramnik, Vladimir g RUS 2758 8.0
3. Leko, Peter g HUN 2725 8.0
4. Anand, Viswanathan g IND 2769 8.0
5. Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 2748 7.5
6. Adams, Michael g ENG 2715 7.0
7. Piket, Jeroen g NED 2633 6.5
8. Timman, Jan H g NED 2655 6.5
9. Nikolic, Predrag g BIH 2659 6.0
10. Short, Nigel D g ENG 2683 5.5
11. Polgar, Judit g HUN 2658 5.0
12. Korchnoi, Viktor g SUI 2659 5.0
13. Lputian, Smbat G g ARM 2605 4.5
14. Van Wely, Loek g NED 2646 4.0