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 ;)

The Wolf

     It's been a very good day for me!
     I won a nice game against Prizant Yaroslav (2537) with white. It was a very complicated game with a lot of interesting possibilities for both black and white. The game was so tense- everything was decided on the last 30 seconds in the first time trouble. My opponent missed a nice idea and gave me the chance to win- a chance which I gladly took. You can see my game here:

 
   

Constantin Lupulescu with 5p out of 6

     Moiseenko Alexander is leading the tournament with 5,5p out of 6. He beated Shengelia David today and will face Evgeny Alekseev with black tomorrow.
     Constantin Lupulescu won a nice game against Grachev Boris proving why his friends call him "Lupu"- which means "The Wolf" in Romanian. He's got 5p out of 6 and has an impressive 2803 performance. He has got one more white tomorrow-against Fransisco Vallejo Pons.

     Here you can see the results of all the Romanians:

6	7	54		GM	LUPULESCU Constantin	2634	4	1 - 0	4	GM	GRACHEV Boris	2687		19
6	29	102		GM	PARLIGRAS Mircea-Emilian	2570	3½	½ - ½	3½	GM	HRACEK Zbynek	2628		57
6	37	112		GM	JIANU Vlad-Cristian	2555	3	½ - ½	3	GM	NEPOMNIACHTCHI Ian	2710		4
6	39	126		GM	YILMAZ Mustafa	2537	3	½ - ½	3	GM	NISIPEANU Liviu-Dieter	2679		21
6	63	142		IM	ARDELEAN George-Catalin	2510	2½	½ - ½	2½	GM	CHEPARINOV Ivan	2700		12
6	81	199		WGM	BULMAGA Irina	2393	2½	1 - 0	2½	IM	PRIZANT Jaroslav	2537		127
6	82	201		IM	MANEA Alexandru	2389	2½	0 - 1	2½	GM	ZOLER Dan	2533		129
6	93	211		IM	PETRISOR Adrian-Marian	2378	2	0 - 1	2	IM	MATINIAN Nikita	2491		152
6	101	175		IM	ANTON Teodor	2441	2	1 - 0	2	IM	VUILLEUMIER Alexandre	2319		224
6	109	259			DEAC Bogdan-Daniel	2183	2	½ - ½	2	IM	ARNGRIMSSON Dagur	2390		200
6	122	271			ULANOWSKI Karol	2091	1½	0 - 1	1½		STANCIU Alexandru-Ovidiu	2335		220
6	129	219		FM	POSEDARU Bogdan	2339	1	0 - 1	1		POGOSIAN Vladimir	2132		267

As well as the pairings:

7	2	54		GM	LUPULESCU Constantin	2634	5		5	GM	VALLEJO PONS Francisco	2695		16
7	26	43		GM	SOCKO Bartosz	2647	4		4	GM	PARLIGRAS Mircea-Emilian	2570		102
7	39	21		GM	NISIPEANU Liviu-Dieter	2679	3½		3½	GM	GRANDELIUS Nils	2556		110
7	41	29		GM	ZHIGALKO Sergei	2660	3½		3½	GM	JIANU Vlad-Cristian	2555		112
7	61	103		GM	RUCK Robert	2570	3½		3½	WGM	BULMAGA Irina	2393		199
7	74	115		GM	GRITSAK Orest	2549	3		3	IM	ANTON Teodor	2441		175
7	85	228			GOLUB Dan	2305	3		3	IM	ARDELEAN George-Catalin	2510		142
7	90	111		GM	DJUKIC Nikola	2555	2½		2½	IM	MANEA Alexandru	2389		201
7	101	220			STANCIU Alexandru-Ovidiu	2335	2½		2½	IM	SIPILA Vilka	2445		171
7	102	178		IM	DIERMAIR Andreas	2431	2½		2½		DEAC Bogdan-Daniel	2183		259
7	117	267			POGOSIAN Vladimir	2132	2		2	IM	PETRISOR Adrian-Marian	2378		211
7	134	269			WENZEL Birger	2110	1		1	FM	POSEDARU Bogdan	2339		219

     Tomorrow is the last round before the free day. I play against Ruck Robert (2570) with black. I won very luckily against him last year at the EICC. He forgot about time in a drawish endgame. I hope that the fortune will smile to me again tomorrow :)

xoxo from Legnica! ;)