Gold and bronze medals for Romanian teams at the European Youth Team Championship

Gold and bronze medals for Romanian teams at the European Youth Team Championship

From 15^th to 21^st of July took place the 7 round European Youth Team Championship, in Iasi, Romania. The competition was for both boys and girls under 18 years of age.

In the girls’ tournament, the gold medal was for Romanian team (Irina Bulmaga 2293, and Mihaela-Veronica Foisor 2217). The second place was taken by the first team of Hungary (Papp Petra 2261, and Varga Melinda 2152), and the third place by the second team of Hungary (Varga Klara 2161, and Kabai Zsuzsanna 2146).

Rank table Rk. SNo Team Games + = - TB1 TB2 TB3 1 1 ROMANIA 1 7 5 2 0 12 10.0 39.00 2 3 HUNGARY 1 7 5 1 1 11 10.5 31.75 3 6 HUNGARY 2 7 3 3 1 9 8.5 25.25 4 4 BULGARIA 7 1 5 1 7 7.5 22.00 5 2 ROMANIA 2 7 1 3 3 5 6.0 13.75 6 7 POLAND 7 1 3 3 5 5.5 14.50 7 5 SLOVENIA 7 2 1 4 5 5.0 12.75 8 8 ROMANIA 3 7 0 2 5 2 3.0 6.50

In the open tournament, the first place was taken by the unstoppable Poland (Kanarek Marcel 2435, Strzemiecki Zbigniew 2420, Sadzikowski Daniel 2388, Weichhold Pawel 2336). The second place was taken by Turkey (Firat Burak 2373, Ali Marandi Cemil Can 2295, Sanal Vahap 2243, Dastan Batuhan 2239, Emiroglu Cankut 2260 ), and the third place by first team of Romania (Stanciu Alexandru-Ovidiu 2369, Doros Radu-Marian 2338, Hajbok Robert 2246, Stegariu Vlad-Ionut 2216, Malureanu Costin-George 2144)

Final Rank

Rk.	SNo	Team	Games	+	=	-	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	1	POLAND	7	6	0	1	12	20.0	106.0
2	3	TURKEY	7	5	2	0	12	19.0	96.5
3	4	ROMANIA 1	7	3	2	2	8	16.0	99.0
4	2	HUNGARY	7	3	2	2	8	15.5	107.5
5	5	CROATIA	7	2	4	1	8	14.0	105.0
6	7	ROMANIA 2	7	2	3	2	7	15.0	88.0
7	6	SLOVENIA	7	3	1	3	7	14.5	98.0
8	10	BULGARIA	7	3	1	3	7	12.0	107.5
9	8	GERMANY	7	2	2	3	6	11.5	87.5
10	9	ISRAEL	7	0	5	2	5	12.5	95.0
11	11	ROMANIA 3	7	1	1	5	3	12.0	85.5
12	12	MOLDOVA	7	0	1	6	1	6.0	100.5

More info, games and photos at the official site: http://www.ajsiasi.ro/eytc2011/index_en.html

Source: http://iulianceausescu.blogspot.com/

4th Arad Open

4th Arad Open
5-11th August in the Great Concert Hall of the Arad Cultural Palace

The 4th Arad Open will start Friday 5th August in the beautiful Great Concert Hall of the Arad Cultural Palace. The prize fund for this year will be slightly increased to a total of 4500 EUR.

The entry fees are affordable for everyone and the accommodation is just superb with the excellent Coandi Hotel at the rates as low as 17 euro/person/night in double room (special discount for chess players).

The tournament is organized by the Sah Club Vados and tournament director is IO Alin Campeanu. Last year winner was GM Vlad-Christian Jianu.

Come and discover western Romania and the beauty of Arad city. The organizers have prepared many interesting side events - wine tasting trip, boat trip on the Mures river, bughouse and pair tournaments.

Arad is a beautiful city with nearly 200.000 inhabitants, located in north-western Romania, on the banks of river Mures, near the border with Hungary. There is no street rush, no traffic jams, the atmosphere is peaceful and pleasant, and local folks, despite few English-speakers, are always friendly and ready to help.

Star of the region is the vineyard of Minis. In 1862, at a wine contest in London, Rosu de Minis was awarded the biggest prize. More than a century before, the wines of Minis were exported to England, Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland and even America.

Official website

Pre-registered top 10 players:

1 GM Manolache Marius ROU 2533
2 GM Drenchev Petar BUL 2523
3 GM Jianu Vlad-Cristian ROU 2518
4 GM Pap Misa SRB 2507
5 GM Murariu Andrei ROU 2499
6 IM Smith Bryan G USA 2481
7 IM Cioara Andrei-Nestor ROU 2430
8 IM Ardeleanu Alin ROU 2394
9 IM Bogdan Dan ROU 2362
10 FM Anton Teodor ROU 2355