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News
02.07.2006 Sergei
Shipov is the winner of Midnight Sun Chess Challenge 2006! Today
he beat Kjetil A. Lie with black. A very deserved winner!
Magnus Carlsen took second place with 7 points; equal on points
but with better tie breaks than third place holder Leif Erlend
Johannessen. Local hero Gunnar Johnsen from Tromsø grabbed the 4th place
splitting the grandmasters.
Final results are now available.
Games can be found here. (complete)
Rating performances (updatered with
latest rating from the July list from FIDE)
01.07.2006 A new
picture gallery is ready for viewing with pictures from the
tournament, the fishing trip for players and organizers and from
the chess camp.
01.07.2006 Nothing is
decided before the last round of Midnight Sun Chess Challenge.
Shipov drew Johannessen and keeps his 0,5 point lead to his
Norwegian challengers Carlsen, Johannessen and Lie. With
Carlsens win today he do absolutely still have a chance for the
first place in the tournament, but also Johannessen and Lie are
of course potential winners of the tournament.
Results
and pairings are now available.
Games can be found here. (complete)
Tomorrow we have the
following top games:
Lie - Shipov
Carlsen - Hammer
Rozentalis - Krasenkow
Johannessen - Royset
30.06.2006
Before this game Magnus Carlsen had been undefeated for a long
time. Today though the streak was over. Carlsen made a mistake
in a promising position, and lost to Shipov. This was not the
day for the young and promising as Jon Ludvig Hammer also lost
to Kjetil A. Lie. Eirik Gullaksen showed strenght by drawing top
seed Michal Krasenkow, while Leif Erlend Johannessen showed no
mercy against Joanna Dworokowska. Of the local player we should
mention that Lars Andreassen drew against FM Frank Wuts, and the
very talented 13 years old Benjamin Arvola beat former North
Norwegian champion Stein Jensen.
Results
and pairings are now available.
Games can be found here. (complete)
Tomorrow we have the
following top games:
Shipov - Johannessen
Rozentalis - Lie
Krasenkow - Åkesson
Gullaksen - Carlsen
Dworakowska - Arvola
Røyset - Wuts
29.06.2006 Todays top
game between Eduardas Rozentalis and Magnus Carlsen was quite as
violents we could have hoped for and ended in a draw in 22 moves.
The other games between GMs also ended in a draw. Local hope
Paal Royset had to bite the dust against IM Eirik Gullaksen in
an endgame after having a good position earlier in the game.
Results
and pairings are now available.
Games can be found here. (complete)
Tomorrow we can look forward
to the following top games:
Carlsen - Shipov
Åkesson - Rozentalis
Gullaksen - Krasenkow
Johannessen - Dworokowska
Lie - Hammer
28.06.2006 Todays top
game between Magnus Carlsen and Michal Krasenkow ended in a draw.
Even so the game was very exciting, with Carlsen having the
initiative all the way. The computer suggest that 30.Rf1 would
perhaps give better chances for a win than the played 30.Rg1.
Shipov and Rozentalis played a quick draw, and are of course
both still fighting in the top. Todays surprise was
Narvik-player Soraas' draw against IM Joanna Dworakowska.
Results
and pairings are now available.
Games can be found here. (complete)
Some of the top games
tomorrow will be:
Rozentalis - Carlsen
Krasenkow - Johannessen
Åkesson - Lie
27.06.2006 Here are
a few pictures from the tournament and the children chess
camp (use the arrows at the bottom of the pages to navigate the
series).
27.06.2006 Four round
are now played, and Magnus Carlsen is alone on the top of the
standing. Today he beat Leif Erlend Johannessen in 36 moves in a
Benko gambit. The game between Krasenkow and Shipov was very
dramatic with Krasenkow being in desperate time-trouble before
the first time control. He managed to make 8 moves in 10 seconds,
and took the game safely to a draw afterwards. We also see that
Jon Ludvig Hammer is on route to a IM norm after beating IM
Eirik Gullaksen today.
The transmition of live games
was doday interrupted because of heavy load on the servers. Our
web-host had to upgrade and reboot the server during the games,
with some downtime as a result. We will tomorrow move our live
games to another web host, and we hope we can offer more stable
transmitions in the days to come.
Results
and pairings are now available.
Games can be found here. (complete)
Some of the top games
tomorrow will be:
Carlsen - Krasenkow
Shipov - Rozentalis
Johannessen - Hammer
27.06.2006 Many thanks
go to Narvik chess
club, Alta Sjakklubb,
Vadsø Sjakklubb and
Harstad Sjakklubb for contributing with material. Also thanks to
sjakkbutikken.no for
getting us a cable to the live boards on short notice.
26.06.2006 Round 3 is
now finished and the only big suprise was that GM Ralf Åkesson
again had to take a draw against a considerable lower rated
player. This time it was Thomas Nyland who gained half a point
from the Swedish grandmaster.
Here
you can find results and pairing.
Games can be found here. (all games now
available)
Top boards for tomorrow will
be:
Krasenkow-Shipov
Johannessen-Carlsen
Bryn-Gullaksen
Rozentalis-Nyland
25.06.2006 Midnight
Sun Blitz is a series of bltz tournament which are played each
day after the round is finnished in the main tournament.
More
information on the blitz tournaments here.
25.06.2006 Today the
world's most visited chess website
chessbase.com has a
big illustrated report on Midnight Sun Chess Challenge!
25.06.2006 The second
round is now finished, and there where no big suprises, with
the possible excepion of Johannes Kvisla beating FM Frank Wuts,
and Lars Andreassen surviving as long as he did against Magnus
Carlsen.
Results
for round 2 and pairings for round 3 is now ready. Also
available is about half of the games
from round 2.
Some of the top games for
tomorrow will be:
Lie-Krasenkow
Carlsen-Dworakowska
Gullaksen-Rozentalis
25.06.2006 All
games and results
from round 1 is now available.
24.06.2006 First round
is finnished, and we got a few suprises. GM Ralf Åkesson had
give a draw against Daniel Adolfsson. FM Jon Ludvig Hammer also
had to take a draw against Robert Bergersen.
Complete results and pairings
for round 2.
Games from round 1 here. (complete)
24.06.2006 Contact
phone number for the tournament is
+4791781990
or
+4745454690
24.06.2006 We are soon
ready to go!. Follow the live
games here.
21.06.2006 We would
liike to remind the participants that registration for the
tournament will be between 11.00 AM and 3.00 PM
Saturday. The first round will begin at 5.00 PM.
10.06.2006
GM Magnus Carlsen has confirmed his participation i Midnight Sun
Chess Challenge!
29.05.2006
Check out new and afforable
accomodation possibillities here!
07.04.2006 We are
pleased to announce the fifth Grandmaster to participate in
Midnight Sun Chess Challenge. Bartosz
Socko from Poland is so far the highest rated
participant.
08.03.2006 Four
Grandmasters are now ready for the tournament, the forth being
GM Sergei Shipov of Russia!
01.03.2006
Three player profiles are now
available. We will in the time to come present more names of
great players who will participate.
17.02.2006 Our web
pages are finally up and running! This page is where we will
publish news and information regarding the tournament. Here you
can sign up for the tournament, read
the invitation and soon se
profiles of the best players who has
signed up. Some information will also be available in Norwegian at
Tromsø Chess Club's
web site.
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