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...

Playing in the snow

   Here's a big pictorial report from today's 2nd round of the "Pius Branzeu Memorial":

Top seed of the tournament- GM Vladislav Nevednichy (2545)

WIM Veronica Foisor (2208)

IM Adrian Petrisor (2380)

IM Cristina Foisor (2383)

WIM Angela Dragomirescu (2252)

WGM Iulia Ionica (2220)

Malureanu George (2116)

IM Mladen Milenkovic (2399)- the only foreigner playing in the tournament

Epic encounter- boyfriend vs girlfriend and no,it wasn't a draw, I guess someone will have to suffer ;)

Family playing next to each other- FM Calin Dragomirescu (2215) and WIM Angela Dragomirescu (2252)

Our beautiful and talented junior,the U16 European Silver Medalist- WFM  Daria Visanescu (2050)

GM Marius Manolache (2541), I'm playing against him tomorrow (damn,I should have made a worse picture :)))

Thophies are waiting for their winners with the arbiter  of the tournament- Dinu  Nicula

Who's the best grandparent,huh?

"Red ponytail" is tough, what should I do now??

"Please,not the knight!"

Alexandra Nevednichy, the daughter of Gabriela Olarasu and Vladislav Nevednichy -right, and  me visualizing myself with the big cup on left

My first round game 

   An interesting round awaits for us tomorrow,at 9 am . I'm playing against the 2nd seed Marius Manolache with black (hope he's not an early bird ;))) The Foisor's family motto will be "Every point goes into the family's pocket", as they're playing against each other.

   Here's the link where you can follow the tournament results:  http://chess-results.com/tnr84809.aspx?art=2&rd=3&lan=11

   These being said, I'll start my preparation ;)

   Will keep you posted!