Playing giveaway

   The tournament "Pius Branzeu Memorial" has finished. My result was far from my expectations, I wanted myself to fight for the general prizes, but ended up taking only the 4th women prize...

    Here are the final standings:

1	GM	Nevednichy Vladislav	ROU	2545	2545	Cs Aem Luxten Timisoara	7.0	50.5	39.5	38.00
2	GM	Manolache Marius	ROU	2541	2541	Cs Studentesc Medicina Timisoa	6.5	53.5	42.5	37.25
3	GM	Jianu Vlad-Cristian	ROU	2498	2498	Csm Lugoj	6.5	52.0	41.0	36.25
4	IM	Anton Teodor	ROU	2423	2423	Cs Studentesc Medicina Timisoa	6.5	49.5	39.5	33.00
5	IM	Bogdan Dan	ROU	2379	2379	Sah Club Cugir	6.5	48.5	39.0	34.25
6	IM	Foisor Cristina-Adela	ROU	2383	2383	Cs Aem Luxten Timisoara	6.5	44.5	34.5	32.00
7	IM	Petrisor Adrian-Marian	ROU	2380	2380	Css Nr. 1 Timisoara	6.0	54.0	43.0	34.50
8	I	Deac Bogdan-Daniel	ROU	2039	2039	Sah Club Ramnicu Valcea	6.0	50.0	40.0	31.25
9	IM	Peptan Corina-Isabela	ROU	2447	2447	Csm Bucuresti	6.0	50.0	39.0	32.75
10	IM	Milenkovic Mladen	SRB	2399	0		6.0	48.5	37.5	30.75
11	WFM	Visanescu Daria-Ioana	ROU	2050	2050	Clubul De Sah Deva	6.0	38.5	31.0	20.50
12	WGM	Bulmaga Irina	ROU	2364	2364	Cs Politehnica Iasi	5.5	49.5	38.5	28.25
13	WIM	Foisor Mihaela-Veronica	ROU	2208	2208	Css Nr. 1 Timisoara	5.5	47.5	37.5	26.75

   I'd like to congratulate the winner- Vladislav Nevednichy- he showed a great fighting spirit, managing to win 3 games in a row after losing from his "student" Adrian Petrisor.

Vladislav and his daughter- Alexandra, together in happiness and  sorrow

   There's been a very unpleaseant incident yesterday. I won't mention the names of the persons who were involved, but I would never believe that they were capable of such things if I didn't know for sure. In order for his opponent to take a prize and to share it with him afterwards some player "blundered" in a completely winning position. I didn't believe that his opponent agreed for such a thing- I respected that player and I believed he had a future in chess ahead, now I think he must do some serious thinking and to reconsider his status of a "chess player", because this kind of people are no better than cheaters and there is no place for them in any kind of sports.

   As about the tournament, I can't help being amazed by Deac Bogdan-Daniel, an 11 yo boy who beated me and scored 6 points out of 9, showing a great playing skill!

   I will leave from Timisoara tomorrow, returning to Iasi for some days and then I'll go to Chisinau for hollidays. Coming to Timisoara always leaves nice memories, though this time they were somehow bitter-sweet...