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13th Monarch Assurance Isle of Man International
25 Sept - 3 Oct 2004
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Round 9 - 3 October 2004 - "And the winner is..."
Ehsan Ghaem Maghami of Iran receiving the winner's trophy from the
sponsor, Mr Patrick Taylor of Monarch. The 22-year-old grandmaster was
placed first on tie-break from Petr Kiriakov of Russia (on the left of
the photo).
Ehsan
Ghaem Maghami (pictured left) of Iran is the 2004 'Manx Monarch'.
He placed first on tie-break from 29-year-old Russian grandmaster Petr
Kiriakov (right). They shared the first prize money and received £2,000
each - congratulations to them. This is a fantastic achievement for the
22-year-old grandmaster from Iran, who was ranked only 18th in this tournament,
which almost certainly ranks as the strongest open tournament ever held
in the British Isles. He is a shy but friendly young man, and a great
credit to his country. Well done too, Petr Kiriakov, a quiet, genial grandmaster
who came close to winning here in 2001, and has only lost one game in
his last three visits to the Isle of Man.
Kiriakov beat Murray Chandler in a tough game where Black ran out of time and ideas at about the same moment. Black blundered on move 37,though it was already a difficult defence. Ghaem Maghami beat Handke in a rook and pawns ending. Zhang Zhong and Kotronias drew so fell out of contention for first prize.
Simon Williams' game was typical: queen out to g5 and a rook lift to f6 followed by a mating attack against the white king. The slight drawback was that Simon had the white pieces. Pavlovic was Black and played a very good game. So his attempt to score three GM norms in a similar number of months just failed. But another excellent performance all the same.
The only way Andrew Greet could fail to get an IM norm was by failing to turn up. He tried hard to do just that, but walked into the venue about half an hour late just as the arbiters were starting to phone round to find out where he was. Move played, he had his norm. He played rather a poor game, however, and presented Jovanka Houska with a fairly easy win. Stephen Gordon came close to scoring an IM norm but didn't have quite enough to win. He played an excellent game, though. Volkov was well beaten by former British champion RB Ramesh.
Make sure you play through the game Sprenger-Kolbus - a delightful miniature.
Norms in the last round: Williams, Gordon and Gottschlich needed wins for norms (Williams for GM, the other two for IM). Tea Bosboom-Lanchava and Andrew Greet merely need to turn up and make a move for their IM norms.
Round 9 Bd WHITE Result BLACK 1 KIRIAKOV,Petr 2555 (6) 1 - 0 CHANDLER,Murray 2531 (6½) 2 ZHONG,Zhang 2603 (6) ½ - ½ KOTRONIAS,Vassil 2608 (6) 3 GHAEM MAGHAMI,Eh 2552 (6) 1 - 0 HANDKE,Florian 2461 (6) 4 MOISEENKO,Alexan 2640 (5½) ½ - ½ ROGERS,Ian 2588 (5½) 5 KORCHNOI,Viktor 2568 (5½) ½ - ½ AGREST,Evgenij 2602 (5½) 6 NAKAMURA,Hikaru 2601 (5½) 0 - 1 ROWSON,Jonathan 2558 (5½) 7 BAKLAN,Vladimir 2595 (5½) ½ - ½ GALLAGHER,Joseph 2541 (5½) 8 SMIRIN,Ilya 2671 (5) ½ - ½ KULAOTS,Kaido 2593 (5) 9 CONQUEST,Stuart 2488 (5) ½ - ½ IORDACHESCU,Vior 2633 (5) 10 VOLKOV,Sergey 2625 (5) 0 - 1 RAMESH,Ramachadr 2484 (5) 11 WILLIAMS,Simon K 2427 (5) 0 - 1 PAVLOVIC,Milos 2498 (5) 12 WELLS,Peter 2494 (5) ½ - ½ MCNAB,Colin 2427 (5) 13 BOSBOOM-LANCHAVA 2370 (4½) 0 - 1 MILOV,Vadim 2683 (4½) 14 PEEK,Marcel 2406 (4½) ½ - ½ SPEELMAN,Jon 2555 (4½) 15 GORDON,Stephen 2338 (4½) ½ - ½ HOLZKE,Frank 2492 (4½) 16 SPRENGER,Jan Mic 2477 (4½) 1 - 0 KOLBUS,Dietmar 2303 (4½) 17 SCHNEIDER,Dmitry 2454 (4½) ½ - ½ GOTTSCHLICH,Cars 2382 (4½) 18 AFEK,Yochanan 2325 (4½) 0 - 1 ARAKHAMIA-GRANT, 2446 (4½) 19 SARAKAUSKAS,Gedi 2442 (4½) 0 - 1 HOWELL,David W 2334 (4½) 20 RUOFAN,Li 2414 (4½) ½ - ½ ASHTON,Adam 2270 (4½) 21 GREET,Andrew N 2310 (4½) 0 - 1 HOUSKA,Jovanka 2375 (4½) 22 HUTCHINSON,Paul 2216 (4) 0 - 1 BERZINSH,Roland 2455 (4) 23 BIGG,Andrew J 2275 (4) ½ - ½ GRAFL,Florian 2411 (4) 24 RENDLE,Thomas 2258 (4) ½ - ½ PERT,Richard 2407 (4) 25 GOODGER,Martyn 2136 (4) 0 - 1 ARMBRUSTER,Alexa 2351 (4) 26 MANNION,Steve R. 2333 (4) 1 - 0 MCPHILLIPS,Karl 2172 (4) 27 COX,John 2314 (4) 1 - 0 CANNON,Richard 2060 (4) 28 HUTCHINSON,Norma 2176 (4) 0 - 1 BANNINK,Bernard 2280 (4) 29 GRANT,Alan 2193 (3½) ½ - ½ DUNN,Andrew 2192 (4) 30 SKRIPCHENKO,Almi 2453 (3½) 1 - 0 ALMOND,Richard J 2158 (3½) 31 JONKMAN,Harmen 2425 (3½) 1 - 0 LUTTON,J Ezra 2134 (3½) 32 RAMASWAMY,Aarthi 2299 (3½) 1 - 0 FOX,Anthony 2123 (3½) 33 MILLIGAN,Helen 2077 (3½) 0 - 1 ZAWADZKA,Jolanta 2272 (3½) 34 GROFFEN,Hans 2244 (3½) 1 - 0 HAGESAETHER,Arne 2101 (3½) 35 SPENCE,David 2236 (3½) ½ - ½ FRASER-MITCHELL, 2082 (3½) 36 TWITCHELL,Nevill 2003 (3½) 0 - 1 WALTON,Alan J 2208 (3½) 37 PLANT,Paul R 2107 (3½) 1 - 0 PYM,Thomas W 2059 (3) 38 SMITH,Andrew P 2205 (3) 1 - 0 FAIRBAIRN,Steve 2057 (3) 39 ADAMS,Phil 2124 (3) 0 - 1 BENNION,David A. 2052 (3) 40 SPANTON,Tim 2004 (3) 0 - 1 NOORDHOEK,Henk 2095 (3) 41 HORTON,Justin 2091 (3) 1 - 0 MURTAGH,Dermot 1889 (3) 42 HENRICHSEN,Jens 2084 (3) 0 - 1 GORKA,Carl 1882 (3) 43 WERNER,Gert 2085 (2½) 0 - 1 ALLEN,Keith 2241 (2½) 44 COLLIER,David O. 2168 (2½) 0 - 1 NICHOLSON,John 1834 (2½) 45 MARKS,Ian 1910 (2½) 0 - 1 VAN KEMENADE,Rud 2090 (2½) 46 PIMMINGSTORFER,C 2116 (2) 1 - 0 WEBSTER,Richard 2008 (2½) 47 TRUMAN,Richard G 2023 (2) 1 - 0 WAUGH,Jonathan C 1885 (2) 48 DOSSETT,Christop 1886 (2) ½ - ½ DE LAGONTRIE,Jea 1968 (1)