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12th Monarch Assurance Isle of Man International
27 Sept - 5 Oct 2003
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KORNEEV PURSUED BY TWO FOOTBALL TEAMS
Not too much excitement on the top boards today, though Sulskis-Emms was interesting and looked quite good for the English GM for a while. So Oleg Korneev remains the sole leader on 3½/4 while two football teams-worth of players are half a point behind him on 3. Smbat Lputian has erased the memory of his first round loss by winning three straight games. Today he beat Devaki Prasad with a typical French Defence game; lots of positional pressure.
Harriet Hunt lost to Daniel Fridman after the Latvian GM built up pressure against the e- and c-pawns of the English women's no. 1. Another English defeat was that of Keith Arkell, who turned down a draw against Natalia Kiseleva, but went on to lose a bishop to a crude knight fork. But the Pert twins both scored wins to move to 3/4.
Richard Pert claimed the scalp of Qatar GM Mohamad Al-Modiahki, husband of women's world champion Zhu Chen. Al-Modiahki got into terrible time trouble which proved highly prejudicial in a complex middlegame struggle. With 7 seconds remaining on his clock for 7 moves, Al-Modiahki's defences quickly fell apart.
Scores: Korneev 3½/4; Kotronias, N.Pert, R.Pert, Sandipan, Lputian, Sulskis, Wells, Agdestein, Emms, Iordachescu, Kuzmin, Barsov, Del Rio, Handke, Motwani, Zatonskih, Psakhis, Williams, Davies, Fridman, Kogan, Kiseleva 3.
Round 4 - 30 September 2003
Bd WHITE Result BLACK 1 KORNEEV,Oleg 2561 (3) 1/2 KOTRONIAS,Vasili 2602 (2½) 11 4 2 IORDACHESCU,Vior 2606 (2½) 1/2 WELLS,Peter K 2481 (2½) 3 24 3 SULSKIS,Sarunas 2593 (2½) 1/2 EMMS,John 2520 (2½) 5 19 4 KUZMIN,Alexey 2583 (2½) 1/2 WILLIAMS,Simon K 2381 (2½) 7 37 5 ZATONSKIH,Anna 2423 (2½) 1/2 BARSOV,Alexei 2526 (2½) 29 16 6 PRASAD,Devaki V 2407 (2) 0-1 LPUTIAN,Smbat G 2623 (2) 33 2 7 HUNT,Harriet 2402 (2) 0-1 FRIDMAN,Daniel 2592 (2) 35 6 8 PERT,Richard 2380 (2) 1-0 AL-MODIAKHI,Moha 2574 (2) 38 8 9 AAGAARD,Jacob 2360 (2) 0-1 AGDESTEIN,Simen 2571 (2) 40 10 10 PSAKHIS,Lev 2550 (2) 1-0 COOPER,Lawrence 2335 (2) 13 43 11 MENACHER,Manfred 2327 (2) 1/2 HEBDEN,Mark 2544 (2) 46 14 12 KOGAN,Artur 2534 (2) 1-0 DANNEVIG,Oystein 2331 (2) 15 44 13 MOTWANI,Paul 2525 (2) 1-0 MOLANDER,Riku 2324 (2) 17 47 14 KISELEVA,Natalia 2322 (2) 1-0 ARKELL,Keith C 2513 (2) 48 20 15 RYAN,Joe 2291 (2) 0-1 PERT,Nicholas 2483 (2) 49 22 16 DAVIES,Nigel R 2482 (2) 1-0 GRANT,Alan 2270 (2) 23 51 17 BJARNASON,Oskar 2261 (2) 0-1 DEL RIO ANGELIS, 2479 (2) 52 25 18 HUTCHINSON,Paul 2255 (2) 0-1 HANDKE,Florian 2476 (2) 53 26 19 SANDIPAN,Chandra 2469 (2) 1-0 RADOVANOVIC,Jovi 2239 (2) 27 54 20 VALAKER,Ole J 2207 (2) 1/2 VAN DER WEIDE,Ka 2412 (2) 62 31 21 MANNION,Steven R 2339 (1½) 1/2 MAZE,Sebastien 2412 (2) 42 32 22 EPISHIN,Vladimir 2642 (1½) 1-0 THOMPSON,Ian D 2290 (1½) 1 50 23 LUTHER,Thomas 2574 (1½) 1-0 ALLEN,Keith 2224 (1½) 9 57 24 DEVEREAUX,Maxim 2329 (1½) 0-1 HALKIAS,Stelios 2560 (1½) 45 12 25 HUGHES,Howard 2215 (1½) 0-1 MIKHALEVSKI,Vict 2523 (1½) 59 18 26 TIMMERMANS,Ivo 2213 (1½) 0-1 MORENO CARNERO,J 2512 (1½) 60 21 27 PORAT,Ido 2147 (1½) 1/2 JONKMAN,Harmen 2424 (1½) 97 28 28 FAIRBAIRN,Stephe 2096 (1½) 0-1 GRUNBERG,Mihai 2406 (1½) 73 34 29 STUBBERUD,Ornulf 1965 (1½) 1/2 CIOARA,Andrei N 2394 (1½) 84 36 30 ADAMS,Phil 2115 (1½) 0-1 BAE,Torstein 2366 (1½) 71 39 31 COATHUP,Roger 2134 (1) 0-1 GABRIELSEN,Trond 2228 (1½) 69 56 32 GRUETTNER,Ralf 2073 (1) 0-1 LANE,Gary W 2412 (1) 75 30 33 DALY,Colm 2355 (1) 0-1 HORTON,E Justin 2120 (1) 41 70 34 PORAT,David 2235 (1) 1-0 GOODGER,Martyn 2114 (1) 96 72 35 ASHTON,Adam G 2234 (1) 1-0 FOSSUM,Oystein B 2090 (1) 55 74 36 GORDON,Stephen J 2216 (1) 1-0 SHEPHERD,Mike 2037 (1) 58 78 37 TAGNON,Nicole 2071 (1) 0-1 SPENCE,David 2187 (1) 76 63 38 SPANTON,Tim 2021 (1) 0-1 SHAW,David A 2183 (1) 81 64 39 WALTON,Alan J 2158 (1) 1/2 YOUNG,Mel 2005 (1) 65 82 40 MCPHILLIPS,Karl 1918 (1) 1-0 MAY,Frank 2153 (1) 85 66 41 VAN KEMENADE,Rud 2140 (1) 0-1 EGELAND,Marte 1990 (1) 67 83 42 BRAUNLICH,Tom 2135 (1) 1-0 LOUGHRAN,John 1830 (1) 68 94 43 BENTLEY,John L 2211 (½) 1-0 MOES,Waldemar 2027 (½) 61 80 44 MURTAGH,Dermot 1798 (½) 0-1 KOVACHEV,Daniel 2066 (½) 95 77 45 LUTTON,E Josiah 2031 (½) 1-0 BREKKE,Jorunn 1527 (½) 79 90 46 ORMSBY,Alan 1792 (0) 1/2 DE LANGE,Hans JG 1721 (0) 86 87