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Khamrakulov the strongest in Salou

11 May 2007 20:04 PM CET | Last modified: 20:05 | By Peter Doggers  | Filed under: Reports | Tags:

With a relatively short draw against Felix Levin today Ibragim Khamrakulov secured himself of the title in Salou. He was the only player with 7 points out of 8 games, and of the group of titled players that followed, nobody had 6,5! For myself, I shouldn’t have lost against Levin in round 7, and didn’t have much of a chance against Epishin afterwards. I can recommend the Salou tournament, als long as bit of noise during the game is no problem for you (cause the chatter of the people in the hall is the only negative aspect I could think of).

The next two days I’ll be travelling via Girona and Rome to Sofia. There we’ll make some great stuff for ChessVibes! Perhaps I’ll post fragments of my games as well, like I used to do with Doggers-schaak. But I might feel a bit funny, writing and making videos about the 2700 guys and showing 2200 mistakes on the same site :-) By the way thanks for the nice comments; unfortunately I couldn’t react on all.

By the way, my travel plans so far are here. If you’re thinking about playing in some tournaments and/or have suggestions for tournaments in July and August, let me know and we might meet each other somewhere.


The tournament winner

Top final standings:

  1. Khamrakulov        7,5
2-4. Fedorchuk           7
     Hernandez
     Kalinichev
  5. Levin              6,5

Full final standings here.

I was told by Señor Rodriguez, who did so much for this tournament (the website, the electronical boards, arbiter stuff entering games, you name it) that within a few days all games will be available in PGN on the tournament website.

Comments

5 Responses to “Khamrakulov the strongest in Salou”

  1. Rob Witt on 11 May 2007 21:39 PM

    Hoi Peter,
    De hele entourage en sfeer van het toernooi lijken we geweldig. Toch zie ik nog een minpuntje voor iemand van het niveau 2200-2300. Je speelt nooi tegen iemand van vergelijkbare speelsterkte. Of je krijgt een grootmeester of een tegenstander die veel zwakker is. Het is natuurlijk wel mooi om tegen drie grootmeesters te spelen. Ala je een beetje ingespeeld bent verwacht ik wel een mooie scalp in je volgende toernooi.
    Veel succes en veel plezier!

  2. peter on 11 May 2007 22:53 PM

    Klopt, Rob. Dat is het gevolg van deze kleine groep. Ze hadden nog iets van tien spelers van mijn niveau extra moeten hebben voor meer balans. Vinden ze zelf ook. Maar gek genoeg is het lastiger om dat soort spelers naar het toernooi te trekken dan de GM’s.

  3. jan kb on 12 May 2007 11:23 AM

    Mooi resultaat gehaald Peter. Nu even nog genieten en dan naar de volgende toernooiplaats.
    Groeten, Jan/Clasien

  4. Andreas on 13 May 2007 11:52 AM

    hi peter,

    these were great articles about the salou tournament. I enjoyed the tournament and it was nice to meet you. maybe we will create a new drink next year again :-)

    so I hope you had a good travel to sofia and you will inform the whole world about the latest news and stories from sofia.

    your website will be now a regular choice for me to read!

  5. julian preda on 18 May 2007 2:21 AM

    hello
    im julian from salou how are you??all its ok??

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