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12th Monarch Assurance Isle of Man International
27 Sept - 5 Oct 2003
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MUSICAL CLOCKS
John Saunders reports: Leaders with 2/2 are Del Rio, Emms,
Iordachescu, Sulskis, Wells, Kogan, Korneev.
The top board game got off to an enterprising start,
with 26-year-old Moldavian GM Viorel Iordachescu offering a pawn for an
initiative against popular English GM Keith Arkell (that's the right adjective
for Keith as he finished no.2 to all-conquering Luke McShane in this year's
BCF Player of the Year vote). Arkell had no sooner declined the pawn sacrifice
than Iordachescu offered another one, although it looked like a beginner's
blunder. But it definitely wasn't a blunder. Iordachescu helped himself
to a hatful of dark squares and mounted an attack against the king. Arkell
tried to defend by pinning a rook but this allowed a devastating sacrificial
combination. Mate could only be averted by giving back more material than
had been sacrificed. Keith limped on, a piece for a pawn down, but soon
had to surrender.
Round 2 - 28 September 2003
Round 2 Bd WHITE Result BLACK 1 IORDACHESCU,Vior 2606 (1) 1-0 ARKELL,Keith C 2513 (1) 2 SULSKIS,Sarunas 2593 (1) 1-0 PERT,Nicholas 2483 (1) 3 MORENO CARNERO,J 2512 (1) 1/2 AL-MODIAHKI,Moha 2574 (1) 4 LUTHER,Thomas 2574 (1) 0-1 WELLS,Peter K 2481 (1) 5 DAVIES,Nigel R 2482 (1) 1/2 AGDESTEIN,Simen 2571 (1) 6 KORNEEV,Oleg 2561 (1) 1-0 HANDKE,Florian 2476 (1) 7 DEL RIO ANGELIS, 2479 (1) 1-0 HEBDEN,Mark 2544 (1) 8 KOGAN,Artur 2534 (1) 1-0 BAE,Torstein 2366 (1) 9 SANDIPAN,Chanda 2469 (1) 1/2 BARSOV,Alexei 2526 (1) 10 EMMS,John 2520 (1) 1-0 BJARNASON,Oskar 2261 (1) 11 PORAT,David 2235 (1) 0-1 LPUTIAN,Smbat G 2623 (0) 12 EPISHIN,Vladimir 2642 (0) 1-0 GABRIELSEN,Trond 2228 (1) 13 KUZMIN,Alexey 2583 (½) 1-0 ALLEN,Keith 2224 (1) 14 GORDON,Stephen J 2216 (1) 0-1 KOTRONIAS,Vasili 2602 (½) 15 PSAKHIS,Lev 2550 (½) 1-0 HUGHES,Howard 2215 (1) 16 TIMMERMANS,Ivo 2213 (1) 1/2 FRIDMAN,Daniel 2592 (½) 17 MOTWANI,Paul 2525 (½) 1-0 SHAW,David A 2183 (1) 18 WALTON,Alan J 2158 (1) 0-1 HALKIAS,Stelios 2560 (½) 19 ZATONSKIH,Anna 2423 (½) 1-0 MAY,Frank 2153 (1) 20 PORAT,Ido 2153 (1) 0-1 MIKHALEVSKI,Vict 2523 (½) 21 VAN KEMENADE,Rud 2140 (1) 0-1 JONKMAN,Harmen 2424 (0) 22 VAN DER WEIDE,Ka 2412 (½) 1-0 BRAUNLICH,Tom 2135 (1) 23 COATHUP,Roger 2134 (1) 0-1 LANE,Gary W 2412 (0) 24 PRASAD,Devaki V 2407 (0) 1-0 HORTON,E Justin 2120 (1) 25 ADAMS,Phil 2115 (1) 1/2 MAZE,Sebastien 2412 (½) 26 HUNT,Harriet 2402 (0) 1-0 GOODGER,Martyn 2114 (1) 27 WILLIAMS,Simon K 2381 (½) 1-0 FOSSUM,Oystein B 2090 (1) 28 DEVEREAUX,Maxim 2329 (½) 1-0 GRUETTNER,Ralf 2073 (1) 29 TAGNON,Nicole 2071 (1) 0-1 PERT,Richard 2380 (½) 30 STUBBERUD,Omulf 1965 (1) 1/2 COOPER,Lawrence 2335 (½) 31 ASHTON,Adam G 2234 (½) 1/2 GRUNBERG,Mihai 2406 (0) 32 VALAKER,Ole J 2207 (½) 1/2 CIOARA,Andrei N 2394 (0) 33 AAGAARD,Jacob 2360 (0) 1-0 KOVACHEV,Daniel 2066 (½) 34 MANNION,Steven R 2339 (0) 1/2 MCPHILLIPS,Karl 1918 (½) 35 LUTTON,E Josiah 2031 (0) 1/2 DALY,Colm 2355 (0) 36 SPANTON,Tim 2021 (0) 0-1 DANNEVIG,Oystein 2331 (0) 37 MENACHER,Manfred 2327 (0) 1-0 MOES,Waldemar 2027 (0) 38 MURTAGH,Dermot 1798 (0) 0-1 MOLANDER,Riku 2324 (0) 39 KISELEVA,Natalia 2322 (0) 1-0 YOUNG,Mel 2005 (0) 40 RYAN,Joe 2291 (0) 1-0 EGELAND,Marte 1990 (0) 41 LOUGHRAN,John 1830 (0) 0-1 THOMPSON,Ian D 2290 (0) 42 ORMSBY,Alan 1792 (0) 0-1 GRANT,Alan 2270 (0) 43 HUTCHINSON,Paul 2255 (0) 1-0 AGDESTEIN,Emil 1668 (0) 44 DE LANGE,Hans JG 1721 (0) 0-1 RADOVANOVIC,Jovi 2239 (0) 45 BENTLEY,John L 2211 (0) 1/2 BREKKE,Jorunn 1527 (0) 46 BRYN,Askild 1574 (0) 0-1 SPENCE,David 2187 (0) 47 FAIRBAIRN,Stephe 2096 (0) 1-0 GUINEY,James (0) 48 REPPEN,Ellsiv 1374 (0) 0-1 SHEPHERD,Mike 2037 (0)