V Internet Chess Tournament “Ciudad de Dos Hermanas”

(Internet Chess Club (ICC), 6th-14th March, 2004)
IM Michael Rahal (EDAMI, Barcelona)
 

For the fifth year running Internet Chess Club (www.chessclub.com) holds the annual Internet Chess Tournament “Ciudad de Dos Hermanas” (Spain). This event has consolidated itself as the most important Internet tournament in the world, both in number and strength of players. 2400 participants have already registered.

As last year, the playing system is as follows: twelve  9-round Swiss qualifiers using the Fischer System playing rate: 8 minutes + 2 seconds. Qualifiers are held twice a day (from March 6th to 11th). March 12th is a rest day, and the finals are held on March 13th-14th. The 12 qualifier winners plus the 20 best scores qualify to the 32 KO final. Registration for the last six qualifiers is still open. Complete standings, game file, PGN game files and other interesting information can be found at the Dos Hermanas web site www.doshermanas.net

Standings qualifiers 1-4 (in black qualified players)

Section 06A, Saturday March 6, 1:00pm EST

553 players, 9 rounds
1. "A-Riazantsev", GM Alexander Riazantsev, RUS, 8.5
2. "zevs", IM Dmitry Fingerov, UKR, 8.0 (opponents averaged 2330)
3. "Vanych", GM Viktor Komliakov, RUS, 7.5 (opponents averaged 2491)
4. "Tavria", GM Sergey Karjakin, UKR, 7.5 (opponents averaged 2368)
5. "mdrasko", GM Milan Drasko, YUG, 7.5 (opponents averaged 2306)
6. "Lobo", IM Cristian Michel Yunis, CHL, 7.5 (opponents averaged 2199)

Section 06B, Saturday March 6, 8:00pm EST

307 players, 9 rounds
1. "zhong", GM Zhang Zhong, CHN, 8.0 (opponents 54.5 averaged 2434)
2. "BERTA", GM Ulf Andersson, SWE, 8.0 (opponents 52.0 averaged 2355)
3. "icclover", GM Julio Becerra Rivero, USA, 7.5 (opponents averaged 2360)
4. "ZARNICKI", GM Pablo Zarnicki, ARG, 7.5 (opponents averaged 2511)
5. "inmortal", FM Gustavo Mahia, ARG, 7.5 (opponents averaged 2252)

Section 07A, Sunday March 7, 1:00pm EST

464 players, 9 rounds
1. "chaozz", GM Sergei Movsesian, SVK, 8.0 (opponents 54.5 averaged 2634)
2. "lorenzo", GM Henrique Costa Mecking, BRA, 8.0 (opponents 54.5 averaged 2512)
3. "Crest", GM Sergey Shipov, RUS, 8.0 (opponents 53.5 averaged 2639)
4. "Oficer", IM Farid Abbasov, AZE, 8.0 (opponents 50.5 averaged 2515)
5. "Volkov", GM Sergey Volkov, RUS, 7.5 (opponents averaged 2726)
6. "Moonspell", IM Radoslaw Jedynak, POL, 7.5 (opponents averaged 2691)
7. "babloo", GM Krishnan Sasikiran, IND, 7.5 (opponents averaged 2594)
8. "Huitag", Lars Andreassen, NOR, 7.5 (opponents averaged 2648)

Section 07B, Sunday March 7, 8:00pm EST

321 players, 9 rounds
1. "ZARNICKI", GM Pablo Zarnicki, ARG, 8.5
2. "Boaz", IM Boaz Emanuel Berg, SWE, 8.0 (opponents averaged 2602)
3. "norival", GM Ni Hua, CHN, 7.5 (opponents averaged 2559)
4. "ninguno", IM Renier Gonzalez, USA, 7.5 (opponents averaged 2590)
5. "YuST", IM Yu Shaoteng, CHN, 7.5 (opponents averaged 2504)
6. "Jin", IM Imre Fancsy, HUN, 7.5 (opponents averaged 2358)