Updated May 10, 1997
Subsriptions to 6th Open Thematic Tournament are open until Sunday 2 March, absolutely free
To subscribe, send a message to Vito Calvani , specifying :
First Name
Last Name
City
Country
ELO rating ( nc. if not available )
E-mail address
Snail Mail Address ( optional )
1) The Tournament regards the Slav defence, so first two moves of every match must be:
2)Due to peculiarity of E-mail playing, is impossible to control all ways to play a match ( i mean, if you play with computer help, opening books help and so on ), so there are NOT limitations about using every help you need to play the game.
3)The tournament will consist of three Rounds:
a) A knock-out round, in which every player will play both Black and White
simultaneously
b) 2 Italian rounds, where the 8 players who will survive to a) will meet
3 other players, playing both Black and White simoultaneously. In this rounds, every Win will count as 1 point, a draw will be 1/2- 1/2 , a lose will be 0 points.
c) The winners of rounds will meet each other in the Final, playing simultaneously black and white.
Winner is the first player who will reach 5 points ( 1 point win, 1/2 draw, 0 lose)
5) The official notation of tournament is English notation. If players agree in using a local notation, white player must tell it to the tournament director, together with 1st move of the match, showing ALL the meanings of chosen Notation
ENGLISH NOTATION: d4 pawn from d2 to d4 Nf3 k(N)ight in f3 Bb4 Bishop in b4 Rb1 Rook in b1 Qd3 Queen in d3 Kh1 King in h1 0-0 king-side castling 0-0-0 queen-side castling + check # checkmate Rad1 Rook from a1 to d1
5) The miminum play-time is 10 moves in 30 days.
The White player must send his first move in cc to the director
( vito.calvani@iol.it )
At the end of 10th Black move, the White player must send to director a message containing all moves done in the match ( Better if in PGN format)
The director will immediately confirm the received message, and the play-time will restart from 0 for other 10 moves in 30 days.
6) If a player can't play the minimum play-time required, he must advise both opponent and director, telling how many days he'll be out of playing. The director reserves the right to decide if player request is good enough to let him go on play.
7) The tournament will start Monday 3 March. Director will send to all players the Knock-out List of matches. If possible, he will send each player name and E-mail address of opponent. If not possible, he'll write all E-mail addresses in the Knock-Out List.
TOURNAMENT FAQ
A) I sent my move to opponent, but it seem that his E-mail Address is not existing.
- Look at the correct address.
- resend your move the day after
- If nothing happens, wait for three days, send again your move and send a
cc message to director explaining the problem.
B) I sent my move, but i didn't receive any answer
- Wait 7 days and if nothing happens, resend your move
- wait 7 days again, resend your move and communicate problem to director, sending him a cc mail
C) My opponent send me an illegal move
- Check moves done previously, be sure of illegality and communicate it at
your opponent
D) I realize my last move was illegal or wrong in my plain
- If move is illegal, send correction to your opponent
- if move is wrong but legal... well... What is done is done...no way to correct it.
I hope this is sufficiently clear as Rules of Tournament. I'm sorry for my bad English, but I'm sure you can understand it all. If you have some doubts about rules, contact me at: vito.calvani@iol.it
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Lupini - 0 0 0 0.0/6.0 Enev 0 - 0 0 0.0/6.0 Miraglia 0 0 - 1.5 0.0/6.0 Atienza 0 0 0.5 - 0.0/6.0 All games result started Atienza- Miraglia 0.5-0.5 Miraglia-Atienza 1-0 ROUND B Vito Calvani (vito.calvani@iol.it) (ITA) 1372 Dinesh Rajan ( ee93147@ee.iitm.ernet.in) (IND) 1000 Edward Burrell(eb0001@jove.acs.unt.edu) (USA) 2141 IECC ( now also SEMI ) Alex Relyea ( relyea@seas.smu.edu ) (USA) 1400 Calvani - 2 0.0 0 2.0/6.0 Rajan 0 - 0 0 0.0/6.0 Burrell 2.0 2 - 2.0 6.0/6.0 Qualified for Final Round Relyea 0 2 0.0 - 2.0/6.0 All games result started Rajan Dinesh was disqualified for repeated delays in games Burrell-Calvani 1-0 Calvani-Burrell 0-1 Relyea-Burrell 0-1 Burrell-Relyea 1-0 Round C Eduardo Mayer (emaque@pronet.net.gt) (GUA) 1000 Savino Pepe (pepesavi@mbox.lol.it) (ITA) 1400 Angel Imenez Arteaga (angmel@arrakis.es) (ESP) 2150 Spanish fed. Mayer - 0 0 0.0/4.0 Pepe 0 - 0 0.0/4.0 Arteaga 0 0 - 0.0/4.0 All games result started Round D Manuel Farina ( faloria@softcom.it) (ITA) 1016 Roberto Riva (Orloch@iol.it) (ITA) 1046 Geoffrey Borg (gdborg@keyworld.net) (MTA) 2487 Farina - 0 0 0.0/4.0 Riva 0 - 1.0 0.0/4.0 Dietrich 0 1.0 - 1.0/4.0 All games result started Riva-Borg 0-1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Here are the PGN of all the games finished and rated :
[Event "ENGLISH-03"]
[Site "SEMI"]
[Date "10-03-97"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Hilario Atienza"]
[Black "Jorge Miraglia"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
1.c4 c5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nc3 e6 4.g3 Nc6 5.Bg2 d5 6.cxd5 Nxd5 7.O-O Be7 8.b3
O-O 9.Bb2 Bf6 10.Rc1 b6 11.d3 Bxc3 12.Bxc3 Nxc3 13.Rxc3 Bb7 14.Ne5 Qf6 15.Nxc6
Bxc6 16.Bxc6 Qxc3 17.Bxa8 Rxa8 18.Qc1 Qe5 19.Qd2 f6 20.Rc1 Rd8 21.Rc4 Rd4 22.e3 Rd8
23.d4 cxd4 24.Rxd4 Rxd4 25.Qxd4 Qxd4 1/2-1/2
[Event "ENGLISH-03"]
[Site "SEMI"]
[Date "10-03-97"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Jorge Miraglia"]
[Black "Hilario Atienza"]
[Result "1-0"]
1.c4 Nf6 2.d4 e6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e3 O-O 6.Nf3 Nbd7 7.Rc1 h6 8.Bh4
b6 9.cxd5 exd5 10.Bb5 Bb7 11.O-O Rc8 12.Qa4 a6 13.Bd3 Ne4 14.Bxe7 Qxe7 15.Qb3 c6
16.Bxe4 dxe4 17.Nd2 Kh8 18.Ndxe4 f5 19.Nc5 Nxc5 20.dxc5 b5 21.Ne2 Rcd8 22.Nf4
Bc8 23.Ng6+ 1 - 0
[Event "ENGLISH-03"]
[Site "SEMI"]
[Round "1"]
[Date "1997.03.10"]
[White "Calvani, Vito"]
[Black "Burrell, Edward"]
[Result "0-1"]
1.c4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e5 5.Nb5 d6 6.e4 Be7
7.N1c3 a6 8.Na3 Nf6 9.Bd3 O-O 10.0-0 Bg4 11.Qd2 Nb4
12.h3 Nxd3 13.Qxd3 Be6 14.Be3 Qa5 15.Rac1 Qb4 16.Nd1 b5
17.Bd2 Qa4 18.Be1 Rfc8 19.Nc3 bxc4 20.Nxc4 Qxc4
21.Qd2 Nxe4 22.Nxe4 Qxc1 23.Qxc1 Rxc1 24.Ng5 Bxg5 0-1
[Event "English"]
[Site "SEMI"]
[Date "1997.03.12"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Burrell"]
[Black "Calvani"]
[Result "1-0"]
1. c4 Nf6 2. d4 a6 3. Nf3 b5 4. e3 Nc6
5. cxb5 axb5 6. Bxb5 e6 7. O-O Bb7 8. Bd2
d5 9. Qc2 h6 10. Bxc6+ Bxc6 11. Qxc6+ Nd7
12. Nc3 Qc8 13. Nb5 Rb8 14. Nxc7+ Ke7
15. Rfc1 Rb6 16. Nxd5+ exd5 17. Qxc8 1-0
[Event"ENGLISH-03"]
[Site "SEMI"]
[Round "1"]
[Date "1997.03.11"]
[White "Relyea, Alex"]
[Black "Burrel, Edward"]
[Result "0-1"]
1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 d5 3.cxd5 Nxd5 4.g3 e5 5.Bg2 Nxc3 6.bxc3 Nc6
7.Rb1 Bc5 8.e3 Qd3 9.Bb2 Be6 10.a4 Bb3 11.Qxb3 Qxb1+ 12.Ke2 O-O-O
13.d4 e4 14.c4 Bxd4 0-1
[Event "ENGLISH-03"]
[Site "SEMI"]
[Round "2"]
[Date "1997.03.??"]
[White "Burrell, Edward"]
[Black "Relyea, Alex"]
[Result "1-0"]
1.c4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Nf3 Nd4 4.e3 Nxf3+ 5.Qxf3 g6 6.d4 Bg7
7.dxc5 Qa5 8.Bd2 Qxc5 9.Bd3 Nf6 10.Rc1 O-O 11.O-O d5 12.Nxd5 Rd8
13.Bb4 Bg4 14.Qxf6 Qxb4 15.Qxg7 Kxg7 16.Nxb4 a5 17.Nd5 e6 18.f3 Bh5
19.Nf4 1-0
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