Rijeka Chess

4th TOP 10 KADETS FROM RIJEKA CHESS CLUB

Chess Club Rijeka is organizing 4th TOP 10 CADETS FROM RIJEKA CHESS CLUB in the period 09-14.01.2012. year. Participates top 10 cadets in 2011. year from Rijeka.

IT WAS AN UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCE (by Adolivio Capece)

Tournament competitors and their accompanying persons shared with us their impressions of the tournament and Opatija. All of them agreed on the following: We will never forget the World Senior Championship in Opatija!

NEW WORLD SENIOR CHAMPIONS - IM VLADIMIR OKHOTNIK (open) and WIM GALINA STRUTINSKAYA (women)

OPEN SECTION 1. IM OKHOTNIK VLADIMIR (FRA) 2. GM KOMLJENOVIC DAVORIN (CRO) 3. GM TIMOSCENKO GENNADIJ (SVK) WOMEN SECTION 1. WIM STRUTINSKAYA GALINA N (RUS) 2. WFM MELASHVILI NINO (GEO) 3. WGM SAUNINA LUDMILA (RUS)

Behind the scene - INTERVIEW WITH BORIS GOLUBOVIC, the Tournament Director (by Adolivo Capece)

Boris Golubovic is International Master. He gained the title in 1997. A few years ago, due to obligations at work, he almost stopped playing, but not following chess. Now he is the President of the Rijeka Chess Club, a member of the Croatian Chess Federation and one of the main artificers of the success of this event.

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VERSES BY RIMMA BILUNOVA

Thursday, 08 December 2011

One of the competitors at the World Senior Championship in Opatija, Rimma Bilunova was so much impressed with Opatija and the tournament organization that she wrote a song.
Ms Bilunova expressed her wish in the last verse of the song and the organizer is ready to fulfill her wish. Those who understand Russian may enjoy the whole song while the rest of us may read the the first and the final verse...

VLADIMIR OKHOTNIK AND GALINA STRUTINSKAYA NEW WORLD CHAMPIONS (by GM Vlado Kovacevic)

Sunday, 27 November 2011

slide_20111126winners In the last, 11th round of the World Senior Championship Bojan Kurajica forced too much in the game against Vladimir Okhotnik, lost a pawn and he had to congratulate the new World Senior Champion. Miso Cebalo did not manage to break through the defense of Anatoly Vaisser, while Gennadij Timoscenko easily won the game against Mario Leskovar. Davorin Komljenovic took advantage of the chance given by Vlado Kovacevic and Nukhim Rashkovsky lost the game against Dusan Rajkovic because his mobile phone started to ring. That might be the sign that 11 rounds are too much for seniors. To end with – believe it or not – Mihai Suba ended the game in a draw!

ANOTHER HULAK'S MISTAKE (by GM Vlado Kovacevic)

Saturday, 26 November 2011

20111126_hulakprevid In the tenth round of the World Senior Championship, Krunoslav Hulak made another mistake which made him the most tragic figure of the Championship. In the game against Mario Leskovar, he forgot to turn off his mobile phone and after it began to ring his dream of the great result at the Championship was simply gone, vanished.

FABULOUS KURAJICA TOOK OVER THE LEADING POSITION (by GM Vlado Kovacevic)

Friday, 25 November 2011

In the ninth round of the World Senior Championship, fabulous Bojan Kurajica won the forth game in a row and took over the leading position. GennadijTimoscenko and Anatoly Vaisser played to draw.Kurajica was better than Komljenovic, he played carefully and Komljenovic ended up with a weak pawn in the center. Then Kurajica attacked the opponent and easily won the game.