Estonian Youth Open Championship 2004

In Youth Open there were 56 boys and 20 girls, also some players from Latvia and Finland. Aleksander Volodin from Estonia won boys group and Aija Uipite from Latvia won girls tournament. Both second places went to our neighbourhood countries: boys - Rauno Järvinen (Finland) and girls - Madara Orlovska (Latvia).

Tables :    boys     girls

Boys : 1. Aleksander Volodin (SK Diagonaal) 8.5p, 2. Rauno Järvinen (FIN) 7p, 3. Sten Kasela (MSK Kasmar) 6.5p, 4. Matiss Mustaps (LAT) 6.5p, 5. Tauno Metsalu (trainer Rainer Selge) 6.5p, 6. Uku Valner (Reval-Sport) 6.5p

Girls : 1. Aija Upite (LAT) 8p, 2. Madara Orlovska (LAT) 7p, 3. Kristelle Kull (Vabaettur) 6p, 4. Kermen Makarova (Vabaettur) 6p

Rapid Tournament "Paul Keres Memorial"

The 14th International Tournament "Paul Keres Memorial" men tournament won by Spain GM Alexei Shirov (5.5p), followed GM Teimour Radjabov (AZE) 4.5p and GM Alexei Dreev (RUS), GM Yevgeni Sveshnikov (LAT) both 4p. Women tournament won by GM Maia Chiburdanidze (GEO) 6p, followed Viktoria Bashkite (EST) 5p and WIM Tatjana Fomina (EST), WIM Monika Tsoganova (EST) both 4p. Our young female Viktoria Bashkite did ecxellent perfomance, that was pleasent surprise for all of us.

  Tables and results ...

Estonian best chess players 2003

Estonian Chess Federations' board voted best chess players 2003. Here are the winners

Best man : Kaido KULAOTS
Best woman : Tatjana FOMINA
Best juniors : Aleksander VOLODIN and Tuuli VAHTRA
Best coach : Leonid PELEŠEV
Best chess journalist : Margus SOOT (Spordileht)

Estonian Women Rapid Championship 2003, Tallinn 27.12.

There were 16 participants and were played 7 rounds.      Cross Table

1. Tatjana Fomina (6p), 2.-3. Monika Tsoganova, Sofia Kuznetsova (5.5p), 4. Viktoria Baškite (5p)

Estonian Men Rapid Championship 2003, Tallinn 06.-07.12.

Estonian rapid chess champion 2003 is IM Meelis Kanep who lost only one game and won all others, 10 points from 11 and 1.5 points ahead of other concurents. He is best junior 2003 and got second place on Estonian Men Championship 2003. There was 81 participants on rapid event, but without GM-s Kaido Kulaots, Jaan Ehlvest and Mikhail Rytshagov. Best senior was IM Hillar Karner. Last year winner was GM Kaido Kulaots.

  Whole Table

1. Meelis Kanep (10p), 2. Roman Sergejev (8.5p), 3. Anto Remmel (8p), 4. Olav Sepp (8p), 5. Juri Krupenski (8p), 6.-11. I. Kuusk, J. Narva, O. Kortšagin, H. Karner, A. Jemeljanov, N. Danilov (7.5p).

Estonian Seniors Rapid Championship :
1. Hillar Karner (7.5p, 9.-10.), 2. Harald Koitla (7p, 12.-16.), 3. Arvo Sarv (6.5p, 17.-28.).

Santo Domingo Open, 27.11.-05.12.

GM Jaan Ehlvest tied 10 th - 14 th place, 7 points from 10. Ehlvest won five and did four draws, only lost came playing with GM Daniel H. Campora (ARG). The winner was Vadim Milov (SUI 2574) with 7.5 points. In blitz tournament, Ehlvest tied 15 th place.

  Blitz table
  Ehlvest's games (PGN)      Watch with PGN-viewer