Category Archives: First Saturday
FS Standings and Results Rd2 2012-12
Standings and Results[From Chess-results FS 2012-12]
There are no TWIC games yet. Morin Yves(CAN) has 0.5/2 in the IM group. There are 5 IMs in the IM group where the top player is IM Kislik(USA 2361). Kislik has been living in Budapest for a few years now and is planning to return to the US soon.
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Rk. | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | |
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1 | IM | Franco Alonso Alejandro | ESP | 2480 | 1.5 |
2 | IM | Radlovacki Jovan | SRB | 2419 | 1 |
3 | GM | Lalic Bogdan | CRO | 2484 | 1 |
4 | IM | Arngrimsson Dagur | ISL | 2384 | 1 |
FM | Bagi Mate | HUN | 2364 | 1 | |
6 | GM | Czebe Attila | HUN | 2481 | 1 |
IM | Antipov Mikhail Al. | RUS | 2456 | 1 | |
8 | FM | Dastan Muhammed Batuhan | TUR | 2370 | 0.5 |
9 | FM | Tesik Csaba | HUN | 2369 | 0.5 |
GM | Varga Zoltan | HUN | 2455 | 0.5 |
Results
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Bo. | Rtg | Name | Result | Name | Rtg | ||
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1 | 2480 | IM | Franco Alonso Alejandro | ½ – ½ | FM | Dastan Muhammed Batuhan | 2370 |
2 | 2419 | IM | Radlovacki Jovan | 1-0 | IM | Antipov Mikhail Al. | 2456 |
3 | 2369 | FM | Tesik Csaba | ½ – ½ | FM | Bagi Mate | 2364 |
4 | 2484 | GM | Lalic Bogdan | ½ – ½ | IM | Arngrimsson Dagur | 2384 |
5 | 2455 | GM | Varga Zoltan | GM | Czebe Attila | 2481 |
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Bo. | Rtg | Name | Result | Name | Rtg | ||
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1 | 2370 | FM | Dastan Muhammed Batuhan | 0 – 1 | GM | Czebe Attila | 2481 |
2 | 2384 | IM | Arngrimsson Dagur | ½ – ½ | GM | Varga Zoltan | 2455 |
3 | 2364 | FM | Bagi Mate | ½ – ½ | GM | Lalic Bogdan | 2484 |
4 | 2456 | IM | Antipov Mikhail Al. | 1-0 | FM | Tesik Csaba | 2369 |
5 | 2480 | IM | Franco Alonso Alejandro | 1-0 | IM | Radlovacki Jovan | 2419 |
IM Group
The two visiting players are from China and Canada(!)
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Rk. | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | |
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1 | FM | Hou Qiang | CHN | 2345 | 2 |
2 | FM | Kantor Gergely | HUN | 2306 | 1.5 |
3 | IM | Boguszlavszkij Jevgenyij | HUN | 2208 | 1.5 |
4 | IM | Szeberenyi Adam | HUN | 2331 | 1 |
5 | FM | Lyell Mark | ENG | 2226 | 1 |
IM | Kislik Erik Andrew | USA | 2361 | 1 | |
7 | Morin Yves | CAN | 2201 | 0.5 | |
8 | IM | Kahn Evarth Dr. | HUN | 2255 | 0.5 |
9 | Grimm Daniel | HUN | 2198 | 0 | |
IM | Szalanczy Emil | HUN | 2259 | 0 |
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Rk. | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | |
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1 | Bohus Adam | HUN | 1819 | 1.5 | |
2 | Juracsik Jozsef | HUN | 2145 | 1.5 | |
3 | Marcu Simon | SVK | 1909 | 1 | |
4 | Farkas Richard | HUN | 2115 | 1 | |
5 | Montolio Benedicto Cesar | ESP | 1962 | 1 | |
6 | Kuehn Matthias | GER | 1958 | 0.5 | |
7 | Lukacs Albert | HUN | 1858 | 0.5 | |
8 | FM | Mayer Istvan | HUN | 2058 | 0 |
Grimm Gyorgy | HUN | 2043 | 0 | ||
Brassoi Tarnovszki A | HUN | 0 | 0 |
FMB
Rk. | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts |
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1 | Nemeth Otto | HUN | 1781 | 2 |
2 | Mihajlova Diana | ENG | 1479 | 1.5 |
3 | Bella Zsolt | HUN | 1401 | 1 |
4 | Engelbrecht Imre Dr. | HUN | 1640 | 1 |
5 | Dickel Hans | GER | 0 | 0.5 |
6 | Czipp Janos | HUN | 1445 | 0 |
Budapest RR Prices(1 Game/Day) Non-Norm Tournaments
Budapest offers a wide variety of RR tournaments to choose from for non-norm seekers. The prices are quite close together for non-monthly tournaments. These are good value and are the ones I seek out to play in.
First Saturday has a long runnning a monthly series priced at a premium rate.
Budapest(Non-Monthly) [See-Hungarian Chess Federation Tournament Listing-chess.hu]
Finding these tournaments is not obvious for foreign players, but now I have the hang of it. The trick is to find the general tournament listing of the Hungarian Chess Federation and follow the breadcrumbs to the indvidual advertisement(usually in Hungarian) and then decipher them. The cheap prices make it worth the effort.
I played in all the following this past year. The Amator Cup was held in the downtown Hungarian Federation builiding. I liked this one best of all. It was a strange feeling to be the only foreign player, but I had the consolation of being the top-rated player.
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Rounds | Prizes | Entry Fee(FIDE 2000+) | |||||
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HUF | EUR | USD | CAN | 2012 | |||
Round Robin | |||||||
Amator Cup | 9 | Yes | 5,000 | 17.8 | 23.1 | 22.9 | November |
Torokves A RR | 9 | Yes | 5,500 | 19.4 | 25 | 25 | April |
Frech Karolyi | 9 | Yes | 4,000 | 14 | 17.67 | 18 | June |
Torokves A RR | 9 | Yes | 5,500 | 19.4 | 25 | 25 | Sept |
First Saturday(Monthly)
First Saturday(FS) programme 2012-13 First Saturday 2012-13
FS contact and other info see First Saturday
These are the most well-known and offer no prizes. Non-norm tournaments run beside IM and GM norm tournaments. The non-norm tournaments are classified as FM tournaments with various subcategories. Prices are summarized from their 2012-13 programme as follows.
[Exchange rates were from xe.com]
Exchange Rate | EUR Rate | USD Rate | CAN Rate | ||
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3/12/2012 | 282.7 | 1.30547 | 1.29875 |
FM-A(FIDE 2000+)
I played in this type of group in 2009 several times.
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Rating | HUF | EUR | USD | CAN | |
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Low | High | ||||
Unrated | 56,540 | 200 | 261.09 | 259.75 | |
1800 | 1900 | 50,886 | 180 | 234.98 | 233.78 |
1901 | 2000 | 45,232 | 160 | 208.88 | 207.80 |
2001 | 2100 | 39,578 | 140 | 182.77 | 181.83 |
2101 | 2200 | 33,924 | 120 | 156.66 | 155.85 |
2200 | 2250 | 28,270 | 100 | 130.55 | 129.88 |
FM-B(FIDE 1600-1800)
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Rating | EUR | USD | CAN | ||
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Low | High | ||||
Unrated | 56,540 | 200 | 261.09 | 259.75 | |
1500 | 1700 | 50,886 | 180 | 234.98 | 233.78 |
1701 | 1800 | 45,232 | 160 | 208.88 | 207.80 |
1801 | 1850 | 39,578 | 140 | 182.77 | 181.83 |
1851 | 1900 | 33,924 | 120 | 156.66 | 155.85 |
1901 | 2000 | 28,270 | 100 | 130.55 | 129.88 |
FM-C(FIDE under 1600)
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Rating | EUR | USD | CAN | ||
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Low | High | ||||
Unrated | 56,540 | 200 | 261.09 | 259.75 | |
1200 | 1400 | 50,886 | 180 | 234.98 | 233.78 |
1401 | 1500 | 45,232 | 160 | 208.88 | 207.80 |
1501 | 1600 | 39,578 | 140 | 182.77 | 181.83 |
1601 | 1700 | 33,924 | 120 | 156.66 | 155.85 |
1700 | Any | 28,270 | 100 | 130.55 | 129.88 |
Local Player Rates
Hungarian players pay a standard unadvertised entry fee of 12,000HUF which is still very expensive by local standards(a monthly transit pass is 9,800HUF).
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HUF | EUR | USD | CAN |
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12,000 | 42.45 | 55.41 | 55.13 |
Foreign players living in the city who know this rate also get this rate. Incoming foreign player tourists are usually unaware of this pricing practive. It took me a year to find out this key piece of information in late 2009. Also note that FS prices are negotiable at all levels, you just have to know this in advance.
Conclusions
Usually for RR tournaments I expect to be paying in the 20EUR(25CAD/25USD) range and always for prizes(which are quite modest). FS falls far outside of this range and offer no prizes so I don’t play in their events.
There are many bargain level tournaments in all formats(RRs, opens and weekenders) in Budapest. The key is to know where to look.
First Saturday 2012-11
November Tournament Participants
37 players this month with 7 players in the GM group.
GM Group(7 players)
Title Name FED Rtg
GM Bakre Tejas IND 2481
IM Hagen Andreas Skytte DEN 2418
IM Arngrimsson Dagur ISL 2386
FM Gledura Benjamin HUN 2336
GM Varga Zoltan HUN 2456
GM Szabo Krisztian HUN 2541
IM Kharous Ernest RUS 2367
IM Group(12 players)
Title Name FED Rtg
FM Holm Sejer DEN 2274
Liu Guanchu CHN 2233
FM Massoni Michael FRA 2381
FM Kojima Shinya JPN 2339
IM Kislik Erik Andrew USA 2413
Aryan Chopra IND 2051
IM Wittmann Walter AUT 2245
Atnilov Michael ISR 2099
FM Stigar Petter NOR 2290
IM Battey Alexander USA 2362
IM Szeberenyi Adam HUN 2347
FM Hou Qiang CHN 2289
FMA(6 players)
Title Name FED Rtg
IM Szalanczy Emil HUN 2237
Schenkerik Csaba HUN 2074
Farkas Richard HUN 2107
Juracsik Jozsef HUN 2157
Atnilov Boris ISR 2118
Egri Laszlo Jr. HUN 2134
FMB(6 players)
Title Name FED Rtg
Marcu Simon SVK 1901
Havaskori Laszlo HUN 1950
Burghardt Michael GER UNR
Csetneki Mark HUN 1834
FMC(6 players)
Title Name FED Rtg
Nemeth Otto HUN 1790
Schmidt Wolfgang GER 1390
Merk Andras HUN 1498
Szalay Tibor HUN 1804
Mihajlova Diana ENG 1445
Szabo Miklos Istvan HUN 1342
Here is a recent game from GM Szabo,K
Szabo,Krisz1 (2540) – Fodor,T jr (2502) [C65]
4th Limpedea Cup Baia Sprie ROU (1.4), 21.05.2012
The preceding moves were 13.Bf4 Qb4 White is on the hunt for black’s king.
White to play