Thunderstruck

     The free day is almost over. It's been a very lovely day- raining lots with thunder :))) It's good that we didn't go to any excursion and chose to play the blitz tournament. It was very fun! (until I started to "sacirifice" rooks :)))
     All in all- it was a very nice way to spend the time for me- I really like playing blitz. I started the tournament with 5p/7, beating 2450 after 2450, but the thunderstruck stopped at some point and my strike also, so I finished with 7p/13, but still won some 20 Elo points.
     Catalin-George Ardelean (2510) had a fantastic tournament, sharing the 1st place with 10,5p/13. He raised his blitz Elo with 60 points, showing a 2695 performance. You can see the final standings here:
http://chess-results.com/tnr100912.aspx?art=1&lan=11&fed=ROU&turdet=YES&wi=984

1	GM	YILMAZ Mustafa	TUR	2566	10.5	99.5	105.5	10	2.28	20	45.6
2	IM	ARDELEAN George-Catalin	ROU	2510	10.5	98.5	105.0	10	3.02	20	60.4
3	GM	JOBAVA Baadur	GEO	2615	10.0	100.5	106.5	9	0.65	20	13.0
4	IM	PASIEV Rakhim	RUS	2460	9.5	102.0	108.0	9	3.15	20	63.0
5	GM	RAKHMANOV Aleksandr	RUS	2582	9.5	94.5	100.0	9	0.03	20	0.6
6	IM	ANTIPOV Mikhail Al.	RUS	2506	9.0	94.0	99.5	9	0.55	20	11.0
7	IM	PERUNOVIC Miodrag	SRB	2430	9.0	92.0	97.0	9	1.96	20	39.2
8	FM	MINKO Vladimir	RUS	2385	8.5	98.5	104.0	8	2.90	20	58.0
9	GM	PAP Gyula	HUN	2587	8.5	91.5	97.5	8	-1.59	20	-31.8
10	GM	ZEZULKIN Jurij	POL	2478	8.5	90.0	95.0	8	0.20	20	4.0
11	IM	RZAYEV Bahruz	AZE	2411	8.0	102.5	107.0	8	2.14	20	42.8
12	GM	KISLINSKY Alexey	CZE	2415	8.0	102.0	107.5	6	2.24	20	44.8
13	GM	SANIKIDZE Tornike	GEO	2656	8.0	98.5	105.0	8	-2.13	20	-42.6
14	IM	CAPRIO Guido	ITA	2457	8.0	96.5	102.5	7	0.24	20	4.8
15	GM	STOCEK Jiri	CZE	2565	8.0	94.5	101.0	6	-1.63	20	-32.6

     Here are some photos from the blitz tournament and from the walk I took this morning:

Enjoying the frizzy Polish weather after the Thai heat

George-Catalin Ardelean and Alexandru Stanciu 

Registering for the blitz tournament

Ivan "The Spanish" vs Ivan "The Bulgarian" playing friendly games before  a 3 hours football match

Family encounter- Marie Boyard vs Tornike Sanikidze

Bogdan Posedaru vs Teodor Anton

Friendly games between Baadur Jobava and Eltaj Safarli before the start of the tournament

George-Catalin Ardelean vs Vladimir Pogosian

1st place to be decided- "Who will win?"

Yilmaz Mustafa- the winner of the tournament wathcing the encounter of Rakhmanov Alexandr vs Jobava Baadur in the last round

George-Catalin Ardelean, Teodor Anton, Bogdan Posedaru

   
     It's been a very nice day! I hope that the next rounds will go fine for me, but I have time to worry about it tomorrow- it's still the free day now, right? :P

xoxo from Legnica ;)