Kazan

     The Universiade goes great for me so far! I've got 4p/4 and I feel just amazing.
     The tournament is organized on a very high level- it is a pleasure for me to go to the playing hall and to play every game.
     Here are some photos:

Alexandru Stanciu, Mariana Ionita, Madalina Anusca, Tibiu Georgescu and Teodora Vasile ( from left to right)

Teodor Anton and Robert Hajbok

Raluca Sgircea and me 

Madalina Anusca

Madalina and Teodora 

Alexandru and Teodor

     You can follow the results here: http://chess-results.com/tnr106012.aspx?lan=11 and the live games here: http://www.tat-chess.ru/

     I won a nice game today, here it is:

     We're going to have a double round again tomorrow. Normally, I'd say "Ufff, so difficult...", but I get a great pleasure from playing chess in this tournament!

     Today is the birthday of my teammate- Raluca Sgircea and I'd like to wish her lots of success, love and happiness! Stay the same amazing young lady we all know you as!

Raluca Sgircea

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 ;)