Linex-Magic retains national title
24 October 2007 19:00 PM | Last modified: 19:11
After they recently won the European Club Cup in Kemer, the Spanish top team Linex-Magic also prolonged their status as Spanish national champion this weekend. In Calvia (on the island of Mallorca) they beat Intel - Tiendas UPI in the semis and Cuna de Dragones in the final. This was the same final as last year. Like in Turkey, Linex-Magic’s big hero was Ivan Cheparinov.
In the final against the team from MĂ©rida only one game was decisive and this made Ivan Cheparinov the match winner thanks to his victory over Ibrahim Khamrakulov.
The final phase of the Spanish team championship was part of a big chess festival in Calvia. Three years ago the 36th Chess Olympiad generated a lot of attention for the game of chess there on the Mallorca island and this year the sponsors made it possible to organize the fourth festival. It all started two weeks ago with an open amateur tournament and two youth events and on Monday last week a big international open started with players such as Paco Vallejo, Emanuel Berg and Kevin Spraggett. Eventually it was the Israeli GM Victor Mikhalevski who left the tournament as the winner, after an amazing 8 out of 9 (7 out of 7 and then two draws). There was also a veterans tournament (won by Sveshnikov) and daily blitz events. They sure understand chess there in Calvia.
Results of the Final Campeonato de España por Equipos:
Semi-finals:
Linex Magic 3,5-2,5 Tiendas UPI
Alexei Shirov 1/2 Vasily Ivanchuk Michael Adams 0-1 Alexander Grischuk Sergei Rublevsky 1-0 Etienne Bacrot Gabriel Sargissian 0-1 Paco Vallejo Iván Cheparinov 1-0 Sergey Tiviakov M. PĂ©rez Candelario 1-0 Enrique RodrĂguez
Iretza - Gros 2-4 Cuna de Dragones
Vadim Milov 1/2 Alexander Jakovenko Alexander Tkachiev 0-1 Evgeny Alekseev Christian Bauer 1-0 Alexander Timofeev Roberto Cifuentes 0-1 Victor Bologan Alberto Andrés 0-1 Ibrahim Khamrakulov �ñigo Argandoña 1/2 Miguel Llanes
Final:
Cuna de Dragones 2,5-3,5 Linex Magic
Alexander Jakovenko 1/2 Alexei Shirov Evgeny Alekseev 1/2 Michael Adams Alexander Timofeev 1/2 Sergei Rublevsky Victor Bologan 1/2 Gabriel Sargissian Ibrahim Khamrakulov 0-1 Ivan Cheparinov Miguel Llanes 1/2 Manuel PĂ©rez Candelario
3rd/4th place:
Tiendas UPI 4-2 Iretza - Gros Alexander Grischuk 1/2 Vadim Milov Etienne Bacrot 1/2 Alexander Tkachiev Paco Vallejo 1-0 Christian Bauer Baadur Jobava 1/2 Roberto Cifuentes Sergey Tiviakov 1-0 Alberto AndrĂ©s Enrique RodrĂguez 1/2 Ă?ñigo Argandoña
The final
The winning team, on the photo without Ivanchuk because on Sunday he played for his club Remagen in de Bundesliga (a draw against Navara).
Star player Ivan Cheparinov
I’m afraid this report is wrong.
Cheparinov WAS the big man, however.
Linex Magic Champions of Spain
The magic is again with Ivan Cheparinov
MERIDA - LINEX - MAGIC 2,5:3,5
GM Dimitry Jakovenko (Merida) - GM Alexei Shirov (Linex) 1/2-1/2
GM Michael Adams (Linex) - GM Evgeny Alekseev (Merida) 1/2-1/2
GM Artyom Timofeev (Merida) - GM Sergei Rublevsky (Linex) 1/2-1/2
GM Gabriel Sargissian (Linex) - GM Viktor Bologan (Merida) 1/2-1/2
GM Ibragim Khamrakulov (Merida) - GM Ivan Cheparinov (Linex) 0-1
IM Manuel Perez Candelario (Linex) - IM Miguel Llanes Hurtado (Merida) 1/2-1/2
After winning the Club Cup in Turkey earlier this month, Linex Magic won the Spanish Team Championship. Linex won the semi final against UPI (the team of Ivanchuk) and today they defeated Merida to clinch the title.
The Magical boy for Linex this month has clearly been Ivan Cheparinov. After having the highest performance in Turkey, he brought the Spanish Team title after being the winner of the only decisive game of the day. He defeated with black GM Ibragim Khamrakulov to give Linex the 2,5:3,5 victory.
With this victory Ivan Cheparinov passes the 2700 ELO barrier for the first time in his life and joins the 2700+ club! A fantastic prize for the young player who had top performances this year.
Thanks for copypasting this news item from Chessdom, but there wasn’t anything wrong with my article, RenĂ©. As you can see, the only difference is that the Chessdom guys call the team “MĂ©rida” while I call them “Cuna de Dragones” (and earlier in the article “the team from MĂ©rida”). At the website of the Calvia chess festival the team is also called Cuna de Dragones. However, at the website of the Spanish Chess Federation the team is given the beautiful name MĂ©rida Patrimonio de la Humanidad-Cuna-Ajoblanco.
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