4th OIBM in Bad Wiessee
28/10/-5/11/2000, Bad Wiessee
Thomas Leckner reports:
Beginning in different languages Norbert Kerkel,
district president in the Bad Wiessee area and protector of the 4th OIBM,
welcomed the participants to Bad Wiessee during the opening ceremony. And
this polyglot speech was a good idea for the nearly 100 foreign
chess-players coming from 27 different countries to the lake Tegernsee. The
event was sponsored by Bank Hofmann (Zurich, Switzerland).
Altogether 86 FIDE-title-holders competed to become the successor to
Alexander Shabalov, the winner of last year's event. Some grandmasters had
to cancel their participation in Bad Wiessee, because of the chess-olympiad
in Istanbul, which was held at the same time. Nevertheless Bad Wiessee had
a high-quality field with 26 grandmasters and two female grandmasters. And
the number of participants was greater than ever before: 495 chess-players
took part in Bad Wiessee 2000, 116 more than last year and the organisers
had a lot of work due to the huge field. But again the chess-club of
Tegernsee, lead by Horst and Thomas Leckner succeeded in holding a perfect
tournament. All participants got a very good environment so they had an
opportunity to play their best chess. The 4th OIBM was the largest open
chess-tournament in Germany and also one of the largest in Europe.
The ELO-favorite was GM Alexander Nenashev (ELO: 2645) who got his German
passport only some weeks ago. In round 3 Nenashev had to accept a draw
against IM Martin Senff (ELO: 2369). There was even worse news for GM Igor
Khenkin, he lost his game in round 3 against Janusch Koscielski (ELO:
2376). GM Lev Gutman (ELO: 2519) got off to a good start in the early
rounds. He won one game after another and was the only grandmaster with
6/6. Even after round 7 he was leading the tournament after a draw against
the Israeli GM Vitali Golod (ELO: 2590). But in round 8 Gutman had to play
against GM Konstantin Lerner (ELO: 2574) from the Ukraine. Early in the
game Lerner sacrificed the exchange for two pawns and so it was clear, that
Lerner would not be satisfied with draw. And indeed he ground down Gutman
in an interesting game. At the same time GM Gerald Hertneck (ELO: 2541)
succeeded in winning a fantastic game against Vitali Golod. And also
Nenashev was up again, after some lucky wins against GM Viktor Gavrikov
(ELO: 2535) and IM Pawel Jaracz (ELO: 2496). So three grandmasters had 7
points going into the last round. Everything was unclear, especially as
there were also 12 players with 6½ points. So the spectators were really
surprised, when in the last round Lerner made a quick draw against
Nenashev.
But Nenashev was lucky again. Hertneck could not win against Khenkin and as
a result again a chess-player named Alexander won the event: Alexander
Nenashev with only a half buchholz point advantage over the rest of the
field.
Also the fight for the prize of best female was very interesting. WGM Maia
Lomineishvili (ELO: 2412) from Georgia had to compete against WIM Nora
Medvegy (ELO: 2339) from Hungary and against the German WGM Oksana Sarana
(ELO: 2237). Only Sarana made a mistake in the last round, but
Lomineishvili and Medvegy reached 6½ points. The prize for the best senior
was given to Werner Szenetra (ELO: 2193).
Actually FM Fabian Doettling (ELO: 2475) was the best youth-player U20. But
of course he preferred getting the prize for 6th place! So IM Dimitrij
Bunzmann (ELO: 2484) got the trophy for the best youth-player. The only 14
year old IM Andrei Volokitin (ELO: 2488, Ukraine) also scored 7 points.
Rating-prizes were given to Martin Senff (rating<2400), Aleksandar Kaminik
(rating<2200), Moritz Richter (rating<2000), Georg Meier (rating<1800) und
Marco Baldauf (rating<1600).
At the closing ceremony on November 5th Egidio Parigi from Bank Hofmann
presented the trophies. Before he thanked the chess-club of Tegernsee for
the good organisation. His special thank was to Leckner family who managed
to organise this great event again. Mr. Parigi was not sure, if Bank
Hofmann will sponsor again next year but he pointed out, that the
tournament is something very special in his eyes. And he made clear, that
this tournament should be held again next year.
Final Standings 4th Offene Internationale Bayerische Schach Meisterschaft Bad Wiessee, 28 October 2000-05th November 2000 Pl Name ELO Ti NAT Pt BH G 1 Nenashev,Alexander 2645 GM UZB 7½ 51,0 2 Hertneck,Gerald 2541 GM GER 7½ 50,5 3 Lerner,Konstantin 2574 GM UKR 7½ 50,0 3 Ekstroem,Roland 2487 IM SUI 7½ 50,0 5 Golod,Vitali 2590 GM ISR 7 52,5 5 Dfttling,Fabian 2475 FM GER 7 52,5 7 Gutman,Lev 2519 GM GER 7 52,0 8 Kindermann,Stefan 2519 GM GER 7 51,5 9 Landa,Konstantin 2610 GM RUS 7 50,5 9 Epishin,Vladimir 2559 GM GER 7 50,5 11 Ibragimov,Ildar 2559 GM RUS 7 50,0 11 Gavrikov,Viktor 2535 GM LTU 7 50,0 13 Gyimesi,Zoltan 2539 GM HUN 7 49,0 13 Kalinitschew,Sergey 2495 GM GER 7 49,0 15 Glek,Igor 2553 GM GER 7 48,5 15 Naumann,Alexander 2492 IM GER 7 48,5 15 Rabiega,Robert 2486 IM GER 7 48,5 15 Bunzmann,Dimitrij 2484 IM GER 7 48,5 19 Khenkin,Igor 2633 GM GER 7 48,0 19 Rozentalis,Eduardas 2593 GM LTU 7 48,0 21 Beim,Valeri 2528 GM ISR 7 47,5 22 Volokitin,Andrei 2488 IM UKR 7 46,5 23 Agdestein,Simen 2588 GM NOR 7 46,0 24 Farago,Ivan 2493 GM HUN 7 43,5 25 Grund,Holger 2475 GER 6½ 50,5 26 Jaracz,Pawel 2496 IM POL 6½ 50,0 27 Mikhalevski,Victor 2532 GM ISR 6½ 49,0 27 Meduna,Eduard 2485 GM CZE 6½ 49,0 27 Frfhlich,Peter 2439 FM GER 6½ 49,0 30 Senff,Martin 2369 IM GER 6½ 47,5 31 Lau,Ralf 2513 GM GER 6½ 47,0 31 Schlecht,Daniel 2348 GER 6½ 47,0 31 Reu?,Andreas 2268 GER 6½ 47,0 34 Spiess,Gunter 2398 FM GER 6½ 46,0 34 Lomineishvili,Maia 2412 WGM GEO 6½ 46,0 36 Gawehns,Klaus 2370 FM GER 6½ 45,0 37 Reefschldger,Helmut,Dr. 2357 IM GER 6½ 44,5 37 Medvegy,Nora 2339 WIM HUN 6½ 44,5 39 Muse,Mladen 2476 IM GER 6½ 43,5 40 Klundt,Klaus 2363 IM GER 6½ 43,0 40 Menacher,Manfred 2318 FM GER 6½ 43,0 42 Kummerow,Heiko 2313 FM GER 6½ 42,0 42 Sch?tte,Manfred 2265 GER 6½ 42,0 44 Forchert,Martin 2336 FM GER 6½ 41,5 45 Prusikin,Michael 2460 IM GER 6 51,0 46 Schmidt,Bodo 2368 FM GER 6 49,0 47 Renner,Christoph 2429 IM GER 6 48,5 48 Buchal,Stephan 2335 FM GER 6 48,0 48 Wippermann,Till 2306 GER 6 48,0 50 Pezerovic,Edin 2426 FM BIH 6 47,0