[chessmind] Dennis Monokroussos: Tournament update: China-Russia, Hungarian Championship and the SPICE Cup

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Posted by Dennis Monokroussos:
Tournament update: China-Russia, Hungarian Championship and the SPICE Cup
http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1222401952.shtml


   First, the China-Russia match. There's no official site, [1]TWIC is a
   couple of days behind and I can't read [2]Russian, but my use of [3]an
   online translation leads me to think the current score is 41-41.
   Andrey, Mikhail Golubev or other Russian readers are welcome to set
   things straight if I've gotten it wrong.
   Zoltan Almasi and Csaba Balogh made it to the final match of the
   [4]Hungarian Championship, and I wasn't sure who to root for. I'm a
   fan of part of Almasi's repertoire, while I drew with Balogh in an
   online tournament a few years ago. These incredibly deep motivations
   nearly canceled each other out, which is probably why the match was
   settled in a tiebreaker won by...Almasi.
   [5]SPICE Cup: After 6 (of 9) rounds, Victor Mikhalevski and Varuzhan
   Akobian are tied for first with 4 points, but four players (Julio
   Becerra, Alexander Onischuk, Leonid Kritz and Pentala Harikrishna) are
   just half a point behind.

References

   1. http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/twic.html#news795
   2. http://www.russiachess.org/
   3. http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-home&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.russiachess.org%2F&lp=ru_en&btnTrUrl=Translate
   4. http://dodicsek.unsoft.hu/2008/0912ferfiko/menkoch2008.htm
   5. http://monroi.com/2008-spice-cup-home.html