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15th Monarch Assurance Isle of Man International
23 September - 1 October 2006
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Round 9 - 1 October 2006 - Alexander Areshchenko is the 2006 Manx Monarch
The man of the moment: Dennis Hemsley says a few words at the start
of
his last round as the Monarch's tournament director. Next year's TD will
be
Jean Depin, chess-playing manager of the Ocean Castle Hotel.
John Saunders reports: 20-year-old Alexander Areshchenko
of Ukraine is the Manx Monarch. He wins on tie-break - sum of progressive
scores - from Volkov after they both scored 7/9. This is only fitting
after Areshchenko was edged out on tie-break in 2005. The top board game
was a quick draw, which meant Areshchenko was at least first equal but
could be caught by a winner of the Akopian-Volkov game. Volkov eventually
won after Akopian had tried too optimistic an exchange sacrifice. Look
out for Mark Ferguson taking a heavy sledgehammer to David Eggleston's
kingside. Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi's GM norm attempt ended in disappointment
and I think Elisabeth Paehtz has won the women's prize. Gormally-Hanley
was a typically mad last round game - it looked like Gormally was committing
hara kiri with his king and he probably would have been had Hanley foun
the way to win. Also there were a couple of tragi-comedies this afternoon
- have a look at Sharma - Kazhgaleyev - how did White manage to lose that
game?
The tournament ended a minute or two short of seven
hours into the round on move 100, as John Cox removed Petr Kiriakov's
last piece from the board leaving just the two kings and a draw. Very
fitting of a tournament that was very well fought. That's not quite all
- I'll have some more stats and photos in due course (perhaps on Monday
evening or Tuesday when I get home).
Round: 9 Bd White Result Black --No-- 1 Areshchenko, Alexander.. 2641 (6½) ½ - ½ Bartel, Mateusz......... 2561 (6) 4 21 2 Akopian, Vladimir....... 2713 (6) 0 - 1 Volkov, Sergey.......... 2628 (6) 1 8 3 Postny, Evgeny.......... 2591 (5½) 0 - 1 Kobalia, Mikhail........ 2647 (5½) 14 3 4 Krasenkow, Mikhal....... 2635 (5½) ½ - ½ Landa, Konstantin....... 2584 (5½) 6 17 5 Yakovich, Yuri.......... 2583 (5½) 1 - 0 Shabalov, Alexander..... 2604 (5½) 18 11 6 Iordachescu, Viorel..... 2603 (5½) 0 - 1 Golod, Vitali........... 2576 (5½) 12 19 7 Khenkin, Igor........... 2586 (5½) 0 - 1 Kuzubov, Yuri........... 2554 (5½) 16 25 8 Paehtz, Elizabeth....... 2456 (5) ½ - ½ Socko, Bartosz.......... 2621 (5) 37 9 9 Vijayalakshmi, Subbarama 2417 (5) 0 - 1 Malakhatko, Vadim....... 2594 (5) 44 13 10 Palliser, Richard JD.... 2413 (5) ½ - ½ Greenfeld, Alon......... 2551 (5) 46 26 11 Gormally, Daniel W...... 2513 (5) ½ - ½ Hanley, Craig A......... 2419 (5) 30 41 12 Korneev, Oleg........... 2638 (4½) 1 - 0 Sahl, Bjarke............ 2364 (4½) 5 56 13 Efimenko, Zahar......... 2632 (4½) 1 - 0 Sarakauskas, Gediminas.. 2414 (4½) 7 45 14 Siebrecht, Sebastian.... 2417 (4½) 0 - 1 Stocek, Jiri............ 2561 (4½) 43 22 15 Neverov, Valeriy........ 2556 (4½) 1 - 0 Sriram, Jha............. 2408 (4½) 23 49 16 Cox, John J............. 2418 (4½) ½ - ½ Kiriakov, Petr.......... 2554 (4½) 42 24 17 Haslinger, Stewart G.... 2423 (4½) ½ - ½ Bobras, Piotr........... 2535 (4½) 40 28 18 Hebden, Mark L.......... 2532 (4½) 1 - 0 Devereaux, Maxim L...... 2377 (4½) 29 53 19 Mannion, Steve R........ 2346 (4½) ½ - ½ Wells, Peter K.......... 2480 (4½) 60 33 20 Kononenko, Tatiana...... 2387 (4) ½ - ½ Williams, Simon K....... 2473 (4½) 52 36 21 Sharma, Dinesh K........ 2358 (4) 0 - 1 Kazhgaleyev, Murtas..... 2606 (4) 58 10 22 Zatonskih, Anna......... 2432 (4) ½ - ½ Peek, Marcel............ 2367 (4) 39 55 23 Vasilevich, Tatiana..... 2412 (4) 0 - 1 Quillan, Gary........... 2344 (4) 47 62 24 Ledger, Andrew J........ 2411 (4) 1 - 0 Mohota, Nisha........... 2313 (4) 48 65 25 Zozulia, Anna........... 2352 (4) 0 - 1 Roy Chowdhury, Saptarshi 2394 (4) 59 50 26 Ferguson, Mark.......... 2389 (4) 1 - 0 Eggleston, David J...... 2232 (4) 51 67 27 Grant, Alan G........... 2193 (3½) 0 - 1 Ikonnikov, Vyacheslav... 2587 (3½) 70 15 28 Arkell, Keith C......... 2479 (3½) 1 - 0 Savory, Richard J....... 2101 (3½) 34 77 29 Groffen, Hans........... 2171 (3½) 0 - 1 Dworakowska, Joanna..... 2359 (3½) 72 57 30 Ashton, Adam G.......... 2329 (3½) ½ - ½ Szieberth, Adam......... 2328 (3½) 63 64 31 Al Sayed, Mohamad N..... 2492 (3) 1 - 0 Fox, Anthony............ 2117 (3) 32 74 32 Zimmerman, Yuri......... 2374 (3) 1 - 0 Spanton, Tim R.......... 2075 (3) 54 83 33 Hutchinson, Norman A.... 2107 (3) 0 - 1 Meenakshi, Subbaraman... 2310 (3) 75 66 34 Walton, Alan J.......... 2222 (3) 1 - 0 Majer, Chris E.......... 1991 (3) 68 87 35 Cafolla, Peter.......... 2062 (3) 0 - 1 Spence, David J......... 2205 (3) 85 69 36 Fairbairn, Stephen...... 2088 (3) ½ - ½ Collier, David O........ 2175 (3) 80 71 37 Sarakauskiene, Zivile... 2158 (3) 1 - 0 De Lagontrie, Jean...... 1974 (2½) 73 88 38 Henderikse, Bert........ 2019 (2½) ½ - ½ Nicholson, John......... 1945 (2½) 86 90 39 Lunn, Timothy........... 2079 (2) 1 - 0 Werner, Gert............ 2069 (2) 81 84 40 Fraser-Mitchell, Jeremy 2077 (2) 1 - 0 Marks, Ian A............ 1944 (2) 82 91 41 Ormsby, Alan............ 1939 (½) 0 - 1 Henrichsen, Jens........ 2106 (1½) 93 76 Monarch Assurance Isle of Man Open Venue: Ocean Castle Hotel Port Erin Date: 23 Sep 06 to 01 Oct 06 Timings: First 40 moves in 120 mins. Next 20 moves in 60 mins. 30 mins to completion.
Tournament Director/Organiser: Dennis HemsleyWebmaster: John Saunders
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