Virtanen is Finnish champion


Teemu Virtanen is the new Finnish Champion. He scored 4,5 points
in the main tournament. The same score was achieved by IM Mika
Kartunene. Virtanen won the play off 2-0.The players played two games
with time control 20 minutes with 10 second increment for each move.
Photo:Toivo Pudas

 

Baltic Zonal tournament: Neiksans leads


Today the 5th round of the Baltic Zonal Tournament  was played
in Liepaja.GM Arturs Neiksans (left) played a short draw as black
against GM Aloyzas Kveinys. That means Arturs leads alone with
4 points, with four rounds left to play.Kveinys is joint 2nd with 3,5
points. Another player with connection to Norway is GM Normunds
Miezis. He played several seasonsfor Moss Chessclub in Eliteserien.
Today he played a long draw as white against IM Vladimir Sveshnikov.
Normunds has 3 points. Tuesday will se the second double round.
The games start 10.00 and 16.00 local time. In the 6th round Neiksans
has white against IM Toms Kantans. Miezis plays white against Kveinys.
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Maxim wins in Teplice


Grandmaster Maxim Turov (right) won the Teplice Open in the Czech
Republic. The Russian grandmaster won against GM Kamil Dragun
from Polen in the final round to end up as single winner on 7,5 points
after 9 rounds.GM Dragun,GM Nabaty, GM Stocek, GM Rausis and
GM Lagarde followed on the next places with 7 points, also getting
big prize money.Play through the last round games here.