Final Ranking after 6 Rounds

Juhasz Mark and Piroska Istvan shared first with 5/6. Tapp Ashley(CAN) finished with 2.5/5(one bye).

Team-Results by Player

Poland won by a narrow margin 17.5-16.5. Looking forward to the next big event in Hungary.

Here is Ashley Tapp(CAN) with some members of the Hungarian Women’s National team from the event. Ashley is living and training in Budapest to boost her chess strength.

Ashley Tapp(CAN) on right with Hazai,L(far left), Gara,Anita, Gara, Ticia and Papp, Petra. Photo from Ashley’s Facebook page

More from the Hungarian Chess Ladies.

Petra Papp

Ticia Gara

Round 6 Results

Team Results-by Player 

Poland 21-Hungary 14

Results Rd1

The big guns won as expected.

Start List

Thirty-eight players so far. This small weekend tournament is now an International Open! Juhasz Mark is the top seed at ELO 2199. He needs one more rating point to be officially too strong to play in this time control (G/90).

Entry Fees

The fees are so low, one would think they were a misprint. These small opens some of the hidden gems of Hungarian chess life.

                                      2 000  ÉLŐ pont felett:                                   3 000 Ft(9.8EUR/14.4CAN/13.2USD)

                                      1 600 – 2 000  ÉLŐ pont között:               3 500 Ft

                                      1 600  ÉLŐ pont alatt  (vagy nélkül):   4 000 Ft

The never ending Hungarian chess paradise continued with rd5 of the HUN-POL match. There is one more round to play.

The best part of the match is to watch the analysis in the hotel lobby by the players when they are in the mood and listen to the lines they discuss. The common language for analysis in English so chess visitors have no trouble listening in.

More info and PGNs from Chess.hu blog

Here is current Hungarian Women’s Champion IM Gara,Anita.

Women-Board Results

Gara,Ticia was in crushing form and won with a blistering attack against a Sicilian (Kan-I think).

Team-Results by Player

Men-Board Results

Almasi won  RN-RR ending.

Team-Results by Player

West End Mall-Portisch Simul

Ashley Tapp’s  tour of chess heaven continues…

Tapp played against Hungarian legend GM Lajos Portisch in a simul event organized by the Hungarian Chess Federation. Thanks to Tapp family for the photos.

GM Portish(left)-Tapp,A(right)

GM Portisch signing a board for Ashley

GM Portish thinking hard against Ashley

More Canadians in Budapest!

The Canadian invasion continues as Jacob Tapp played in his first tournament this month. Now there are three Canadian players living and training in Budapest.(Photos-Tapp family)

Jacob is also an accomplished soccer player.

Jacob Tapp(CAN) front left

Jacob Tapp(CAN) 3rd place. Well done!

Hungary-Poland-(More Info Hungarian Chess Federation)

Chess in Budapest continues to overflow.

Rd2

Hungarian Womens’  Champion IM Gara,Anita led the Hungarian team with a win over GM Socko,Monika.

The event is two  6- player Schevningen tournaments between the Men’s and Womens’ teams.

A férfi magyar csapat:(Men)
Polgár Judit, Almási Zoltan, Balogh Csaba, Rapport Richárd, Erdős Viktor, Berkes Ferenc

A férfi lengyel csapat:(Men)
Wojtaszek Radoslaw, Bartel Mateusz, Socko Bartosz, Gajewski Grzegorz, Swiercz Dariusz, Duda Jan-Krzysztof

A női magyar csapat:(Women)
Gara Tícia, Gara Anita, Mádl Ildikó, Papp Petra, Rudolf Anna, Vajda Szidónia

A női lengyel csapat:(Women)
Socko Monika, Majdan-Gajewska Joanna, Rajlich Iweta, Zawadzka Jolanta, Kulon Klaudia, Szczepkowska-Horowska Karina

Hotel Danubius Tas vezer ut 3-7 BP 1113

Simuls at WestEnd Mall

Jelentkezz kihívónak! A szimultán időpontok a következők:

• Június 10-én, kedden – szimultán Bánusz Tamás nemzetközi nagymesterrel15:00-tól
• Június 11.én, szerdán – szimultán Portisch Lajossal, a Nemzet Sportolójával15:00-tól
• Június 12-én, csütörtökön – szimultán Héra Imre nemzetközi nagymesterrel15:00-tól
• Június 13-án pénteken – szimultán Hoang Thanh Trang Európa-bajnokkal15:00-tól

Helyszín: WestEnd City Center Millennium udvar (szökőkút)

Jelentkezés: sakkcsata@gmail.com

WestEnd Mall Chess-Simuls every day

Final Ranking 6 Rounds

Kovacs Marton(2141) took first on tiebreak ahead of Fodor Balazs after both finished with 5/6. FM Mihok Laszlo took third on tiebreak with 4.5/6.

I finished with a modest 3.5/6. Thanks to Thomas Heyl(GER) for the nice pictures taken in rd4.

Thirty-five players came by the ‘Castle’ to battle it out in another edition of the Rakosmente Open. There will be more pics later.

The ‘Castle’-the super venue

Top boards in action in Rd4

Horvath Csaba(left)-Yip(right) in rd4

Yip,M-Kovacs,M Rd2

I played the top seed and eventual winner, Kovacs  in rd2. During the last month I worked quite hard on solving tactical problems and had some minor sucesses in other games but when it counted the most, I could not navigate the tactical problems that my opponent gave me.

I started with my usual 1.d4 and was met by the solid Nimzo-Indian. After 17..c5(diagram) I had good reason to be optimistic

After 17..c5 Yip(1925)-Kovacs,M(2141) Rd2

I found the strong 18.Bb5! and Black replied with the meek 18..Rf8 and followed up with a draw offer, which I quickly declined. White has a strong mobile pawn center and the bishop-pair to work with while Black’s minor pieces lack stable posts.

A bit later Black played 21..Bxf3?(diagram) The position is now winning for White and all I had to do was find the correct sequence in a ‘White-to-Play-and Win’ type of problem. But alas I could not.

After 21..Bxf3 Yip-Kovacs

I played 22.Qh4? to get the queen out of forking range(..Nh3+ trick) and to attack the hanging Ng5. Black replied 22..Ng4! and eventually I lost my way in a complex tactical fight.

Winning outright was 22.Bxf6! Qxf6 23.Qa2!(getting out of the f-file pin).