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| Chess by Malcolm Pein of the Daily Telegraph   Malcolm Pein writes for the Daily Telegraph (telegraph.co.uk) you can read his chess columns along with those of Nigel Short and David Norwood at their Chess Club (to read the columns you need to register which is free). Chess for Saturday 29th May 2004 A fabulous celebration is planned in Moscow in early June to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the birth of the late Armenian world champion Tigran Petrosian. The 'Armenia vs Rest of the World' match will take place in Moscow and it is planned to be a six-player team tournament where each player faces all the members of the opposing team. The Armenian team will consist of three Armenians; Vladimir Akopian, Smbat Lputian and Rafael Vaganian and three players with Armenian connections; Garry Kasparov whose mother is Armenian and world title challenger Peter Leko whose wife is Armenian. Mrs Leko's family name is Petrosian and her father Arshak is a GM but they are not related to Tigran Petrosian. Boris Gelfand makes up the numbers for the Armenian team. I was baffled as to what Armenian connection Gelfand could have, as he is a Jew who now lives in Israel but he explained that he was the most famous pupil to study under Tigran Petrosian. Gelfand attended classes with Petrosian between 1980-83 at Sochi and the Moscow suburbs and recalls how well pupils were looked after. Petrosian even took them to ice hockey matches after lessons. The tournament is planned to take place at the luxurious Hyatt Ararat in Moscow and will be organised by Alexander Bach the Executive Director of the Russian Chess Federation. The rest of the World team has yet to be confirmed but is likely to be Vishy Anand, Michael Adams Peter Svidler, Loek Van Wely, Etienne Bacrot, and Paco Vallejo. The event should run from 10th-16th June which gives those players who want to, time to fly home, shower, shave and then take the first plane to Tripoli for the Fide Knockout. Players from China and Georgia, countries traditionally dominant in women's chess have claimed four of the eight places in the quarter-finals of the Fide Women's World Championship at Elista. Four of the matches in the last sixteen have gone to a play off. Vice world champion and European individual champion Alexandra Kosteniuk was surprisingly eliminated by Viktoria Cmilyte. Cmilyte is contesting a play off with the 2003 European individual champion Pia Cramling of Sweden. The defending world champion Zhu Chen is pregnant and decided not to compete. Kosintseva 0-1 1-0 Koneru Lomineishvili 0-1 0-1 Dzagnidze Jackova 0-1 draw Chiburdanidze Bojkovic 0-1 draw Kachiani Kovalevskaya 1-0 0-1 Lahno Cramling draw draw Cmilyte Zhukova draw draw Stefanova Paehtz draw 0-1 Xu, Yuhua A swift win from one of the two Russian championship qualifiers taking place in Saint Petersburg. Najer,E - Ionov,S [B80] 57th Russian Ch Qualifier St Petersburg (5) 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Qe2 Be7 8.0-0-0 0-0 9.g4 a6 10.g5 Nxd4 11.Bxd4 Nd7 12.f4 b5 13.Rg1 b4 14.Na4 Bb7 15.b3 Bc6 16.Rg3 e5 17.fxe5 Bxg5+ 18.Be3 Bxe3+ 19.Qxe3 Nxe5 Black seems to stand well but there are hidden threats; [ 19...Bxa4 20.Qh6 g6 21.Rh3 wins. ] 20.Nb6 Ra7 21.Nc4 Rd7 [ 21...Nxc4 22.Bxc4 Qe7 23.Rdg1 g6 24.Rxg6+ hxg6 25.Rxg6+ and Qh6 mate.] 22.Bh3 Nxc4 23.bxc4 Re7 24.Rxg7+  24. ..Kxg7 25.Qg5+ followed by Qf6+ and Rg1+ mates. 1-0 |
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