VII Internet Chess Tournament “Ciudad de Dos Hermanas”

(Internet Chess Club (ICC), March 17th-25th 2006)
IM Michael Rahal (EDAMI, Barcelona)
 

The twelve qualifiers of the VII Internet Chess Tournament “Ciudad de Dos Hermanas” (Spain) have finished.  Subject to definite participation figures, 2002! players have registered for the event.

Today March 23rd will be a rest day, during which the organization will publish the relation of the 32 finalists on the follwing link

http://www.chessclub.com/resources/event/doshermanas2006/

Meanwhile you can check out the provisional qualifiers here:

http://www.chessclub.com/resources/event/doshermanas2006/contenders.html

The finals are scheduled for March 24th-25th. The 12 qualifier winners plus the 20 best scores qualify to the 32-player KO final stage. The total prize fund amounts to 6.100 euros and the first prize is 1.800 euros.

Complete standings, game file, PGN game files and other interesting information can be found at the Dos Hermanas web site www.doshermanas.net

Standings of the first twelve qualifiers

Qualifying tournaments

Swiss 1 - Friday March 17th , 2:00pm EST

Rk Handle Title and name
Country
 Score S.O.S. Opp.Rating
1 Sheki GM Jamil Agamaliev
AZE
 11.0 98.5 2761
2 Imperator15 IM Yuri Vovk
UKR
 10.0 98.0 2782
3 olimpus FM Axel Bachmann
PRY
 10.0 89.5 2576
4 Volkov GM Sergey Volkov
RUS
 9.5 97.0 2644
5 GeneraLisimus GM Rauf Mamedov
AZE
 9.5 93.0 2690

Swiss 2 - Friday March 17th, 7:00pm EST

Rk Handle Title and name
Country
 Score S.O.S. Opp.Rating
1 Petrushka18 GM Eljanov Pavel
UKR
 10.0 98.5 2620
2 Shadeath IM Andrey Deviatkin
RUS
 10.0 96.5 2618
3 RMOI Rasul
AZE
 10.0 89.0 2454
4 GeneraLisimus GM Rauf Mamedov
AZE
 9.5 98.0 2603
5 HLP IM Hector Leyva
GTM
 9.5 83.0 2343

Swiss 3 - Saturday March 18th, 2:00pm EST

Rk Handle Title and name
Country
 Score S.O.S. Opp.Rating
1 gorato GM Goran Todorovic
SCG
 10.5 86.5 2601
2 Magnus GM Magnus Carlsen
NOR
 10.0 97.5 2700
3 vigleik GM Kjetil Aleksander Lie
NOR
 10.0 91.5 2687
4 GeneraLisimus GM Rauf Mamedov
AZE
 10.0 91.5 2644
5 Gruk GM Simen Agdestein
NOR
 9.5 102.5 2678

Swiss 4 - Saturday March 18th, 7:00pm EST

Rk Handle Title and name
Country
 Score S.O.S. Opp.Rating
1 Smallville GM Hikaru Nakamura
USA
 10.5 101.0 2518
2 Mamey IM Luis Manuel Perez
CUB
 10.5 96.5 2499
3 Panaman FM Luis Esquivel
ESP
 10.0 90.5 2582
4 Ildar GM Ildar Ibragimov
USA
 9.5 98.0
 		 2555
5 LittleOne GM Peng Zhaoqin
NED
 9.0 96.5
 		 2464

Swiss 5 - Sunday March 19th, 2:00pm EST

Rk Handle Title and name
Country
 Score S.O.S. Opp.Rating
1 GeneraLisimus GM Rauf Mamedov
AZE
 10.5 100.0 2672
2 INDIAN-ELEPHANT IM RAJARAMLAXMAN
IND
 10.5 100.0
 		 2672
3 pelaohh IM Herminio Herraiz Hidalgo
ESP
 10.0 91.0 2548
4 VerdeNotte IM Gawain Jones
IRL
 9.5 100.5
 		 2675
5 TINTIRITO GM Tigran L. Petrosian
ARM
 9.5 98.5
 		 2561

Swiss 6 - Sunday March 19th, 7:00pm EST

Rk Handle Title and name
Country
 Score S.O.S. Opp.Rating
1 olimpus FM Axel Bachmann
PRY
 11.0 95.0 2572
2 INDIAN-ELEPHANT IM RAJARAMLAXMAN
IND
 10.5 98.0
 		 2642
3 LeonHoyos IM Manuel León Hoyos
MEX
 10.0 95.0 2557
4 Fier IM Alexandr Fier
BRA
 9.0 100.0
 		 2610
5 BERTA GM Ulf Andersson
SWE
 9.0 91.5
 		 2462

Swiss 7 - Monday March 20th, 2:00pm EST

Rk Handle Title and name
Country
 Score S.O.S. Opp.Rating
1 TINTIRITO GM Petrosian Tigran L.
ARM
 10.0 97.0 2677
2 Oligarkh GM Baadur Jobava
ESP
 10.0 95.5
 		 2630
3 Inch GM Ivan Cheparinov
ESP
 10.0 94.5 2563
4 Magnus GM Magnus Carlsen
NOR
 10.0 93.0
 		 2601
5 Parsifal GM James Plaskett
GBR
 9.5 98.0
 		 2627

Swiss 8 - Monday March 20th, 7:00pm EST

Rk Handle Title and name
Country
 Score S.O.S. Opp.Rating
1 Dlugy GM Max Dlugy
USA
 10.5 95.0 2557
2 jm-2460IM IM Alfredo Giaccio
ARG
 10.0 94.5
 		 2604
3 Serghik GM Azarov Sergei
BLR
 9.5 99.5 2554
4 Machinegun IM Alfonso Almeida Saenz
USA
 9.5 93.5
 		 2508
5 A-Zubarev IM Cernousek Lukas
CZE
 9.5 93.0
 		 2534

Swiss 9 - Tuesday March 21th, 2:00pm EST

Rk Handle Title and name
Country
 Score S.O.S. Opp.Rating
1 FabsiD GM Fabian Doettling
DEU
 10.5 98.0 2717
2 norival GM Ni Hua
CHN
 10.5 97.5
 		 2836
3 bxz GM Bu Xiangzhi
CHN
 10.0 98.0 2711
4 YaacovN Yaacov Norowitz
USA
 9.5 93.5
 		 2718
5 LittleOne GM Peng Zhaoqin
NLD
 9.5 90.5
 		 2635

Swiss 10 - Tuesday March 21th, 7:00pm EST

Rk Handle Title and name
Country
 Score S.O.S. Opp.Rating
1 sunshine GM Surya Sekhar Ganguly
IND
 10.5 97.0 2617
2 Talion GM Gata Kamsky
USA
 10.5 97.0
 		 2593
3 scodaoctavia GM pawel jaracz
POL
 10.0 96.5 2615
4 Neurisdr GM Neuris Delgado
CUB
 10.0 84.5
 		 2483
5 zpx GM Zhang Pengxiang
CHN
 9.0 100.5
 		 2632

Swiss 11 - Wednesday March 22th, 2:00pm EST

Rk Handle Title and name
Country
 Score S.O.S. Opp.Rating
1 chaozz GM Sergei Movsesian
CZE
 10.5 95.0 2639
2 BoGoSS IM Abergel
FRA
 10.0 99.0
 		 2660
3 Gela GM Tamaz Gelashvili
GEO
 10.0 96.0 2747
4 Iturrizaga IM Eduardo Iturrizaga
VEN
 9.5 93.5
 		 2498
5 AZ79 IM Antti Pihlajasalo
FIN
 9.5 88.5
 		 2514

Swiss 12 - Wednesday March 22th, 7:00pm EST

Rk Handle Title and name
Country
 Score S.O.S. Opp.Rating
1 B-Savchenko IM Boris, Savchenko
RUS
 10.5 86.5 2562
2 zpx GM Zhang Pengxiang
CHN
 10.0 96.0
 		 2634
3 DJShrek GM Zviad Izoria
GEO
 10.0 94.5 2623
4 VDV GM Dobrov Vladimir
RUS
 9.5 97.0
 		 2754
5 Talion GM Gata Kamsky
USA
 9.5 87.5
 		 2419