The 23rd Cappele la Grande tournament in France is now over. Out of 600 players, roughly 150 held the GM or IM title. GM Yue Wang took first on tiebreaks with a score of 7.0/9, good for a performance rating of 2784. Also tied at 7.0 were GMs Evgenij Miroshnichenko, Vugar Gashimov, David Arutinian, Yuri Drozdovskij and Vasily Yemelin.
Our local hero, IM David Pruess, drew his final game against GM Czaba Balogh to finish with 5.5/9. This was enough for David’s second Grandmaster norm! His performance rating of 2611 placed him on the top of the 5.5 point group. David defeated four GMs, lost to three GMs and drew the final round.
Way to go David!
His colleague from the East Bay Chess Club in Oakland, CA, IM Josh Friedel, finished with 5.0/9. Both David and Josh are now just one norm away from the Grandmaster title!
Report by NM Michael Aigner, soon to be FM and qualifier of the 2007 US Championship! Thanks Michael!
Congrats to IM Pruess for earning his second GM norm and to IM Friedel for a fine tournament as well!
Way to go, Yes sirs !!
fcongratualations to all and david.
heres a good way to celebrate.
jcalekhine – kimosabry2007. (1182)
(1546). 10.iii.2007. midi.
b2b4 e7e5
e2e4 g8h6
d2d4 c7c6
d4xe5 d8b6
c2c3 d7d6
c1e3 b6b5
f1xb5 c6xb5
e5xd6 b8c6
e3c5 e8d7
f2f4 f8xd6
d1xd6+ d7e8
g1f3 c8g4
f3d4 c6xd4
0-0 a8d8
d6e7++.
5m unr. congratualations to jb.
and to the winner of Linares too!!
and to susan who always gives her best to amuses us without charging us a penny!!!
tks.
A few games from France. http://www.calchess.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=1674#1674
http://www.calchess.org/modules.php?
name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=1674#1674
(put that entire link in one link in your browser)
Congratulations David.
And you also Susan. I really enjoyed listening to you on ICC chessfm.
Unfortunately Magnus lost today. But he still did very well.
I guess Miss Susie is sleeping with the american flag
Ouch