Biel Rd 10-GM Rapport(HUN)

Rd10-Chessbase Report
Summary
A brief on-the-spot report of round 10 of the Biel Grandmasters Tournament including post-game interviews with Etienne Bacrot, Richard Rapport, Alexander Moiseenko, Ian Nepomniachtchi and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave.



Ian Nepomniachtchi and Richard Rapport discuss their round 10 game with Daniel King.

Biel Rd9-GM Rapport(HUN) Video Report

Round 9 with GM Danny King-Chessbase Report
A brief on-the-spot report of round 9 of the Biel Grandmasters Tournament including post-game interviews with Ding Liren, Etienne Bacrot, Richard Rapport and Alexander Moiseenko.

GM Rapport on Chessbase 2013-07-23

Richard Rapport: The Sky's The Limit
By Diana Mihajlova

Another article on GM Rapport.

GM Rapport At the World Junior Championship, Athens 2012

(Excerpt)

Three years ago, we wrote about the young Hungarian prodigy, Richard Rapport, on the occasion of his becoming the youngest grandmaster in the world. 

Today, at 17, both his physical appearance and his chess career have undergone rapid progress. He has sprung up, towering over almost anyone that stands next to him. 

His shyness has given way to an open and polite charm. He communicates confidently and is quite fluent in English and German. He has kept his modest manner, but he does not hide his jubilation when talking about his latest chess successes. 

“I am very happy with my performance so far in 2013. I managed to gain more than 70 points in five months. I will do my utmost to enter the top ranks of chess soon.” 

He believes in it with such fervour and earnest desire, it may well be a self-fulfilling prophecy.(More) See whole article

TWIC 976(HUN) INDEX July 23, 2013

Introduction
TWIC is the work of Mark Crowther.

Breisacher Memorial  2013(SUI)
GM Rapport an exiting draw with Vachier-Lagrave started in round 1.

Video
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Richard Rapport discuss their round 1 game with Daniel King.

GM Rapport(left)-GM Vachier Lagrave(right)

Pardubice 2013
GM Laznicka is in clear first with 4/4. A group of Hungarian players are participating included two US IMs based in Hungary,
-IM Battey(US) 2.5/4
-IM Kislik(US) 2/4

GM Nisipeanu

Photo-Official Site

Hungarian Results

SNo		Name	FIDE	FED	Pts.
15	GM	Gonda Laszlo	2538	HUN	3
32	GM	Boros Denes	2504	HUN	2.5
44	IM	Sipos Istvan	2471	HUN	2.5
45	IM	Toth Ervin	2471	HUN	2.5

Overall Standings

Rk.		Name	FED	RtgI	Pts.
1	GM	Laznicka Viktor	CZE	2684	4
2	GM	Michalik Peter	SVK	2579	3.5
3	GM	Lalith Babu	IND	2571	3.5
4	GM	Schlosser Philipp	GER	2602	3.5
5	IM	Dourerassou Jonathan	FRA	2476	3.5
6	GM	Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter	ROU	2670	3.5
7	IM	Rojicek Vojtech	CZE	2413	3.5
8	IM	Narayanan Srinath	IND	2475	3.5
9	GM	Shyam Sundar	IND	2505	3.5
10	IM	Mozharov Mikhail	RUS	2495	3.5
11	GM	Teske Henrik	GER	2517	3.5
12	GM	Chernyshov Konstantin	RUS	2514	3.5
13	GM	Kononenko Dmitry	UKR	2610	3.5
14	IM	Das Debashis	IND	2478	3.5
15	GM	Gutman Gennadi	UKR	2477	3.5
16	GM	Simantsev Mikhail	UKR	2473	3.5

7th LCT 2013-Leiden Chess Tournament(NED)
GMs Sethuraman and Sengupta finished with 7.5/9 but Sethuraman won on tiebreaks. GM Prohaszka(HUN) finished with 6/9. 

Chessbase Report-WIM Ioana Smaranda Padurariu
This is the seventh edition of LCT organized by Jan Bey. Over 20 titled players participated, from which nine were grandmasters. The tournament started on July 12 and ended on July 19. It was a nine-round Swiss and was held in the Mind Games Center of Leiden. 

People from twelve countries came to the lovely Dutch city. During weekdays the games started at 19.00h, so that people with a job would not have to take any free days. For players from abroad this offered ample opportunities to go sightseeing.

GM Prohaszka

Photo-Chessbase Report on Leiden

Winner GM Sethuraman

Photo-Official Site

Rank	Name	Score	Fed.	Rating	TPR
1	GM Sethuraman, S.P.	7.5	IND	2562	2681
2	GM Sengupta, Deep	7.5	IND	2555	2731
3	GM Nikolic, Predrag	6.5	BIH	2622	2573
4	IM Zaragatski, Ilja	6	GER	2494	2568
5	GM Prohaszka, Peter	6	HUN	2554	2588
6	GM Hasangatin, Ramil	6	RUS	2489	2549
7	GM Epishin, Vladimir	6	RUS	2598	2505
8	GM Howell, David W L	6	ENG	2639	2515
9	IM Bernal Moro, Luis Javier	6	ESP	2423	2462
10	Pijpers, Arthur	6	NED	2338	2497
11	FM Dahm, Jochen	6	GER	2304	2266
12	GM Iljin, Artem	5.5	RUS	2540	2490
13	IM Zhou, Yang-Fan	5.5	ENG	2469	2393
14	Blom, Vincent	5.5	NED	2167	2253
15	Wilschut, Peter	5.5	NED	2232	2282
16	FM Heemskerk, Wim	5.5	NED	2239	2294
17	IM Slingerland, Fred	5.5	NED	2350	2264
18	Van der Auweraert, Elwin	5.5	NED	2154	2153
19	IM Wiersma, Eelke	5.5	NED	2374	2154
20	Van Der Zon, Stef	5.5	NED	1870	2208

12th Bergamo Open  2013(ITA)
Georgiev,Ki and Brunello,S won with 5.6. GMs Hera(HUN) and Farago,I(HUN) scored 4.5/6

Playing hall

Rank	Player	FIDE	Total
1	Georgiev,Ki	2636	5.0/6
2	Brunello,S	2593	5.0/6
3	Ivanisevic,I	2649	4.5/6
4	Solodovnichenko,Y	2555	4.5/6
5	Hera,I	2558	4.5/6
6	Farago,I	2447	4.5/6

Battle of Senta 2013/ Results
GM Drazic won with 7/9. GM Balog and WIM Domany finished with 5/9.

Hungarian Results

SNo		Name	Rtg	FED	Pts.	rtg+/-
1	GM	Balog Imre	2547	HUN	5	-22.4
23	WIM	Domany Zsofia	2158	HUN	5	6.6
35		Kovacs Arthur	1995	HUN	4	7.95

Final Standings

Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.
1	GM	Drazic Sinisa	SRB	2464	7
2	FM	Dudukovic Nikola	SRB	2321	6.5
3	GM	Kosanovic Goran A	SRB	2372	6.5
4	IM	Nestorovic Dejan	SRB	2411	6.5
5	IM	Nadj Hedjesi Balind	SRB	2389	6
6	FM	Dragovic Momcilo	SRB	2387	6
7	GM	Lazic Miroljub	SRB	2467	5.5
8		Stankovic Milos	SRB	2396	5
9		Radusinovic Lazar	SRB	2310	5
10		Desnica Vladan	SRB	2257	5
11	GM	Balog Imre	HUN	2547	5
12		Vucinic Gojko	SRB	2252	5
13	IM	Farkas Tibor	SRB	2250	5
14	IM	Stanojevic Branko	SRB	2302	5
15	WIM	Domany Zsofia	HUN	2158	5
16	FM	Tancik Kristijan	SRB	2272	5

41st TCh-GRE 2013 Rd2-GM Rapport(HUN)

TWIC 974
GM Jakovenko does nothing special and wins with ease.

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Jakovenko,D (2713) - Rapport,R (2693)
Pirc c3 [B07]
41st TCh-GRE
Rio (Achaia) GRE (2.1), 03.07.2013

Position 1
White is ready to pounce on the c-file. What do you recommend for white?

White to Play

30...Rxd5

TCh-GRE 2013 Rd6-GM Rapport(HUN)

TWIC 974
GM Rapport played original defence with 3.Nc3 d5!? in a Pirc but soon had a bad, then lost position. However, normal chess rules do not apply to Rapport and he won the game in the ending after some hesitant play from GM Kotronias.

More About Achaia,Greece
The feature game was played in the TCh-GRE hosted in Achaia.

Kotronias,V (2581) - Rapport,R (2693)

Pirc 3.Nc3 d5!? [B06]

41st TCh-GRE Rio (Achaia) GRE (6.1), 06.07.2013

Position 1
Black is trying to save a bad position and has initiated tactical play with 21...Nxe5. What do you recommend for white?

White to Play

21..Nxe5

GM Rapport TV Story(Hungarian Language) 2013

GM Rapport is now getting a lot of media attention.

French Top 12 2013 Rd5-GM Rapport(HUN)

More on Haguenau,France-The French Skateboarding Ch 2012

Etape du championnat de France de skateboard en Alsace, avec Adrien Bulard, Alex Mizurov (oui !!!) et pleins d'autres.

TWIC 969

GM Rapport optimistic and aggressive attacking chess to earn the victory against the solid Nimzo-Indian.

Rapport,R (2674) - David,Alb (2584)
NI 4.Nf3 b6 5.Qb3 c5 6.Bg5 Bb7 [E21]
French Top 12 2013 Haguenau FRA (5.1), 03.06.2013

Position 1

White is on the attack. What do you suggest for white now?

White to Play

26...Ng8

French Top 12 2013 Rd2-GM Rapport(HUN)

More About Naiditsch
(German language)
Am 03.03.2013 spielte Deutschland Nummer Eins, Großmeister Arkadij Naiditsch, ein Benefiz Simultan Turnier gegen 30 Schachspieler aus dem Ruhrgebiet. Die Veranstaltung diente einem guten Zweck, denn so ging der komplette Erlös an das Evangelische Kinderheim in Herne.
Schirmherrin des Turniers war die Politikerin Michelle Müntefering, Frau des ehemaligen Vizekanzlers Franz Müntefering.



TWIC 969
GM Rapport played an energetic queenless game against GM Naiditsch to earn the victory.

Rapport,R (2674) - Naiditsch,A (2710)
Semi-Tarrach 11.Rd1[D41]

French Top 12 2013 Haguenau FRA (2.2), 31.05.2013

Position 1

White has grabbed serious space on the kingside. What do  you suggest now?

White to Play

22...Ba4

French Top 12 2013 Rd4-GM Rapport(HUN)

More About Haguenau, France(French language)
Haguenau was the French gymnastics champion in 2011.

TWIC 969

GM Rapport lit the board up with some fiery aggressive play.

Taddei,B (2374) - Rapport,R (2674)
French Winawer 6…Qa5 7.Bd2 Qa4 8.Qb1 c4 [C18]
French Top 12 2013 Haguenau FRA (4.5), 02.06.2013

Position 1
The position is closed but black wants to start some action. What do you recommend for black?

Black to Play

24.Ng2

Position 2
Black has played aggressively but now what? Make a suggestion for black.

Black to Play

30.Rg3

Position 3

The attack continues. What do you recommend for black?

Black to Play

36...c3

French Top 12 2013 Rd1-GM Rapport(HUN)

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Haguenau has a notable army base. Here is a bit more(French language).

'Rencontre avec les hommes du plus grand centre de renseignement militaire français et présentation de leur activité avec le Lieutenant Colonel André et le Sergent Richer.' 

TWIC-969
GM Rapport played a fabulous ending giving an exchange for the bishop pair and a pawn.

Rapport,R (2674) - Apicella,M (2532)

FR Advance 5.Nf3 Qb6 6.a3 c4 7.Nbd2 [C02]

French Top 12 2013 Haguenau FRA (1.1), 30.05.2013

Position 1
The passed pawn is the key. What do you recommend for white?

White to play

26...Nc6