Final last round

Alexei Chizhov is our new World Champion. Congratulations!

It is for the 10^th time that he took the title, which makes him even more immortal.

In the last round there was no real battle anymore, between him and Valneris.

Valneris tried something, but already early in the game it was clear that further efforts would not lead to positive results.

For Valneris it was important to know the result from the game Getmansky-Baljakin.

This game was a clear draw. So we had:

1.Chizhov 15pts

2.Valneris 14pts

3.Baljakin 13pts

The real war in the last round was at other boards. Schwarzman-G.Jansen was a serious game. The Dutchman succeeded to get a +draw from this game. It was not enough to pass his team mate Baljakin, while Jansen had two -draws .

Thijssen also failed his mission. Huseynov-Thijssen brought big advantage to Thijssen and even led to the conquer of one piece for Thijssen.

Huseynov, however, had sufficient compensation at the center of the play board and made a – draw.

Samb was angry and played a very strong game against Nasevich:

Nasevich-Samb

It is white to play and things go wrong.

White has to take the combination:

46.32-28 23x43 47.34x23 19x39 48. 30x10 9-14 49.10x19 20-24! 50.19x30 43-49

and later 0-2

Now we had:

4.G.Jansen 13pts

5.Samb 12pts

6.Thijssen 12pts

It was a fantastic tournament. Thanks to Achfaaq Mohammedjoesoef and all the help he had.

My special thanks go to Jan Pieter and Wibo Drost, Gerrit Tigchelaar, Peter Hoogteijling and Peter van Heun. They did lots of things, but I was very grateful for the moves of the games on the web site!

Paul Oudshoorn.