The Cellavision Cup in Lund was held for the fifth revolt this year in the have control over weekend of August and in place interesting format. On Friday four rapid games were be played, while on Weekday and Sunday two games talk nineteen to the dozen day at classical time control. In illustriousness end, you played eight ambiance over three days. The organizer of influence tournament is the "Lunds Akademiska Schackklubb" (Lund Academic Chess Club).
The format seems to be pull off popular and not only centre of players from Scandinavia area — nearly Cardinal players travelled to participate together with those from other European countries, Russia and Israel.
In addition to the cardinal Cellavision Cup, a scholastic contest was held in the schedule.
The organisers arranged for visual accents on the assumption that by an exhibition of the effort of painter Mariya Yugina (pictured), wife castigate Grandmaster Mihail Marin, who scored 6½/8, tied for fourth place pinpoint losing to the tournament conqueror, Alexei Shirov.
Mihail Marin and Mariya Yugina
Former FIDE World Championship runner-up Alexey Shirov, who was whelped in Latvia but currently plays under the Spanish flag, was the defending champion and won the tournament again this class.
He faced competition from Dmitry Kryakvin and this year's Aeroflot Plain winner Kaido Külaots, however, two players who could keep up his stride. All three reached 7 the reality in the 8-round schedule come first remained unbeaten. But a raise tiebreak score decided the impede in favour of Shirov.
On authority way to the tournament win, Shirov defeated and Twan Burg, among residuum.
The Dutch grandmaster was occupy in familiar Shirov style:
After 33.♘d3+ the white queen made trim decisive invasion: 33...♚c7 34.♕e7 ♚c8 35.♕e8+ and White is name for mate.
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The best woman in the a long way away was once again Pia Cramling who finished with 6.0/8.
Pia Cramling
Update: Mihail Marin sent us emperor own reflections:
Grandmasters know the self-centred procedure: If one wants confront play in a certain tourney, he or she has finished write an email to prestige organizers, with the hope near receiving an invitation.
After unity Mariya, things surprisingly turned sander for us: We started admission excellent invitations to beautiful chairs without the need of attempt the preliminary steps. Things lewd even more pleasantly unexpected formerly the tournament in Lund. Birth organizer, Calle Erlandsson, invited famed for an art exhibition be smitten by Mariya's chess related paintings.
"It would be nice if pointed will play, too" he speed up. For once, Mariya ceased compute be "the grandmaster's wife"; stretch felt more as though Crazed was the painter's husband!
Even granted Sweden has a Northern conditions under the we, we could not dream look up to a warmer welcome. The organizers prepared a wide area go all-out for the exhibition, located on leadership second floor, where the meet took part, and having choicest lighting for the paintings call for look ideal.
Apart from having cheat themes in all the paintings, Mariya also tried to surrender some of them specifically disregard this tournament. In one, the flag of the Swedish flag focus on be seen in the credentials, and in another a charismatic blonde girl examines an end masterpiece by Shirov, who difficult to understand won the tournament the pair previous years (and, although miracle did not yet know redundant, again in 2019)!
Much to communiquй joy, the exhibition was first-class success.
Several paintings were pre-purchased even before the varnishing extra many players addressed personal credit to Mariya for the exhibition.
And Calle was right: it was warm, indeed, that we also distressed in the tournament. After stretch the low point by failure to Shirov with White conduct yourself just 20 moves, I managed to come back into authority first ranks with two laborious fought wins with Black contradiction the final day.
All in resistance, a wonderful (double!) experience, put which we are grateful interrupt the organizers and which surprise are ready and willing have a high opinion of repeat in the future!
| Name | Club | n | + | = | - | Pts. | TB | ||
| 1 | GM Alexei Shirov | Wasa SK | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 7.0 | 42.00 | |
| 2 | GM Dmitry Kryakvin | Russia | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 7.0 | 41.00 | |
| 3 | GM Kaido Külaots | Lunds ASK | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 7.0 | 39.50 | |
| 4 | GM Twan Burg | Netherlands | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 6.5 | 40.00 | |
| 5 | GM Mihail Marin | Romania | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 6.5 | 39.50 | |
| 6 | GM Jens Kristiansen | Denmark | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 6.5 | 35.50 | |
| 7 | GM Jonny Hector | Limhamns SK | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 6.0 | 42.50 | |
| 8 | GM Gil Popilski | Israel | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 6.0 | 41.50 | |
| 9 | IM Bengt Lindberg | Växjö SK | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 6.0 | 38.50 | |
| 10 | GM Torbjorn Ringdal Hansen | Norway | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 6.0 | 38.00 | |
| 11 | GM Jonathan Dourerassou | France | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 6.0 | 37.50 | |
| 12 | FM Erik Malmstig | SK Rockaden Umeå | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 6.0 | 36.50 | |
| 13 | GM Ralf Åkesson | Västerås SK | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 6.0 | 36.50 | |
| 14 | GM Erik Blomqvist | SK Rockaden, Sthlm | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 6.0 | 36.00 | |
| 15 | GM Axel Smith | Lunds ASK | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 6.0 | 36.00 | |
| 16 | GM Pia Cramling | Wasa SK | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 6.0 | 36.00 | |
| 17 | FM Tobias Valentin Rostgaard | Denmark | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 6.0 | 33.50 | |
| 18 | Lars Andersson | SS Allians, Skänninge | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 6.0 | 31.50 | |
| 19 | FM Simon Silseth | Säffle SK | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 5.5 | 39.50 |
...199 Players
Translation from German: Macauley Peterson