The 6th Aeroflot Festival took place in Moscow. Evgeny Alekseev won in the final round to take clear first place and a spot in the Dortmund tournament.
Victor Bologan obtained only 4 points out of 9 due to illness.
12.02.2007French Ligue: Gonfreville is the Group A leader
During February 9th-11th, Victor Bologan competed in the French Ligue as the captain of the team Gonfreville. The team performance was excelent: 3 victories in 3 matches! It started with 2-1 against Bischwiller, with Bologan drawing against Schlosser Phil.(2562). In the second match, it was 4-0 score against Vandeuvre, Bologan drawing against former FIDE Champion, Uzbek Rustam Kasimdjanov(2682). And finally, it was 7-0 victory against team Creteil. Victor Bologan won French Nicolas Bouchet(2320).
So, after three rounds, Bologan contributed with 2 points out of 3 for his team and Gonfreville is on the first place of the Group A, alongside Cannes. Both teams have 9 points. The competition will continue on April 2007 with the next four rounds.
07.02.2007Victor Bologan starts today in the French League
GM Bologan Victor is the captain of the team GONFREVILLE L'ORCHER, and will have the following teammates: Mihail Guverici(TURa, 2635), Degraeve Jean-Marc(FRA, 2548), Rausis Igors (BAN, 2521) and others. Gonfreville team wil take part in group A, alongside other 7 teams:: Antibes, Bischwiller, Cannes, Creteil, Marseile, Paris Chess Club, Vandoeuvre.
The best 16 teams are playing in the French league and will dispute this competition into two phases: in the first one the teams are divided into two groups A and B, and will play with each other. In the second, the best 4 teams from each group will meet in the final group to decide the winner. The first three rounds of the first phase will be played in Vandoeuvre les Nancy, and Gonfreville will meet:
18.01.2007Vijk aan Zee 2007: Bologan is the leader of B tournament
Round1: J. Werle - V. Bologan 0-1
Round2: D. Jakovenko - V. Bologan 0,5-0,5
Round3: V. Bologan - D. Stellwagen 0,5-0,5
Round4: E. L’Ami - V. Bologan 0,5-0,5
In the 5th round, Victor Bologan won the game against Jan Smeets, after 37 moves. Thus, the Moldavian GM became the leader of the B tournament, with 3,5 points, alongside with
J. Smeets,
P. Eljanov,
D. Jakovenko.
In the 6th round, Bologan will meet French Maxime Vachier-Lagrave(2573).
Here are all the games played in the first 5 rounds:: round1, round2, round3, round4, round5. Partidele are in PGN format, but can also be viewed with MS Word.
There it will be 13 rounds to be played, and the average raiting of the B tournament participants is 2600! Victor Bologan had participated once in the main tournament, in 2004, were he shared the 4th place.
An unfortunate accident happened to Viorel Bologan. Having a noticeable advantage, the Moldovan grandmaster first let it go, and then, having rejected a drawing continuation, blundered and parted with a piece.
04.01.2007Today starts the first ACP World Rapid Cup in Odesa
During January 4zh-8th, the first ACP World Rapid Cup will be played in Odesa, Ukraine.
The 14 players who will therefore take part in the first ACP WRC are: Alexander Morozevich (Russia), Peter Leko (Hungary), Boris Gelfand (Israel), Teimour Radjabov (Azerbaijan), Alexei Shirov (Spain), Etienne Bacrot (France), Sergey Rublevsky (Russia), Evgeny Bareev (Russia), Arkadij Naiditsch (Germany), Pentala Harikrishna (India), Ivan Sokolov (Netherlands), Victor Bologan (Moldova), Hikaru Nakamura (USA), Farrukh Amonatov (Tajikistan).
In addition, on the proposal of Bank Pivdennyi, two Wild Cards are given to Vassily Ivanchuk (highest rated Ukrainian Grandmaster) and Ilia Smirin (Israel).
Sixteen world level grandmasters will thus take part in this competition, which will be a knock-out tournament. The World Cup regulations and schedule are published on the ACP official website (www.chess-players.org)
16.12.2006Victor Bologan starts at European Rapid Chess Championship
On December 16th-17th, Victor Bologan will take parti in the traditional European Individual Rapid Chess Championship. It is the 6th edition and the number of participants is 535!. According to the Elo raiting, Bologan is the second, with 2659 points and the favourite is Spanish Alexei Shirov, with 2720 points.
14.12.2006Congratulations, Master !
Congratulations, dear Grandmaster, Victor Bologan, an behalf of your 35th anniversary that you celebrate today, December 14th!
05.12.2006The game of the month: October 2006
Here is the best game GM Victor Bologan played in October 2006, against Dutch Jan Timman.
27.11.2006The Worldchampion Vladimir Kramnik is fighting Fritz
During November 25th - December 5th, the Worldchampion Vladimir Kramnik will play 6 games against the computer program Deep Fritz. Time control: 2 hours for the first 40 moves and additionally one hour for the next 16 moves. In case of victory, Kramnik will gain one million USD, otherwise, "only" 500.000 USD.
In 2002, in Bahrain, Kramnik drawed with a previous version of Fritz 4-4.
The first game, where Kramnik played whites, ended in a draw on the 47th move.
source: www.chesspro.ru
11.11.2006Three tournaments circuit in Corsica
GM Victor Bologan competed at three rapid chess tournaments in Corsica on October 30th - November 7th in Ajaccio, Venaco and Bastia.
Here are the results:
Ajaccio: Qualification tournament, 6,5 points out of 9, 25th place out 311 players and did not qualify for playoffs.
Venaco: Qualification tournament 6,5 poitns out of 9, 9th place out of 137 players and did not qualify for playoffs.
Bastia: In 1/8 finals: 3-1 win over Hungarian Csaba Balogh. in 1/4 finals: lost to Rustam Kasimdzanov from Uzbekistan 0,5-1,5.
28.10.2006Victor Bologan finished 4th in Barcelona
Victor Bologan finished with 5 points out of 9 in Barcelona. The winner of the tournament became Cubanese Linier Dominguez, with a fantastic result: 8 points out of 9.
21.10.2006Victor Bologan was invited to take part in the first World Rapid Chess Championship, ACP version
The first World Rapid Chess Championship, under ACP version will take part in Odesa, Ukraine, on 4th-8th January 2007. At this contest will take part 16 players, 2 of them are unknown at the moment and will be selected by wildcard system.
The competitors : Vladimir Kramnik (world champion, Russia), Viswanathan Anand (world
champion in rapid chess, India), Alexander Morozevich (Russia), Levon
Aronian (winner of the 2005 World Cup and Olympic Champion,
Armenia), Peter Leko (Hungary), Boris Gelfand (Israel), Teimour
Radjabov (Azerbaijan), Alexei Shirov (Spain), Sergey Rublevsky
(Russia), Evgeny Bareev (Russia), Arkadij Naiditsch (Germany),
Penteala Harikrishna (India), Ivan Sokolov (The Netherlands), Victor
Bologan (Moldova).
20.10.2006Victor Bologan starts in Barcelona tournament
In the first round of the 14th category tournament, held in Barcelona, Victor Bologan lost to Lioner Domingues.
In the tournament are participating 10 players, among them: Granda Zuniga J., Timman Jan, Narciso Dublan M., Lacasa Diaz J., Peralta F., Lopez Martinez J., Ivanciuk Vasili, Korneev O.
More details can be found on the official site(in Catalan):http://fcde.org/casino/resultats.html
16.10.2006Victor Bologan: "We won due to team spirit"
After winning the European Chess Champioship with his team Tomsk-400, GM Victor Bologan accepted to share his impressions with www.bologan.md site visitors:
"We won for the second time this title due to team spirit and exceptional play of the each member. There was no match for our team, without winning two games, that is a very good result for this level. Of course, the leader, Morozevich, with his 5 wins on the first table contributed most to our common win. It was interesting to notice that before the last round, even if we were champions en-titre and were leading the standings, nobody considered seriously our chances to win."
Considering the match for the World Champion title, between Kramnik and Topalov, Victpr Bologan declared:
" Kramnik proved his superiority both in the rapid and classical chess. It will be ideal for the chess world if he will compete in the World Championship in Mexico 2007, among other 7 candidates. If it will happen, we would say for sure that the world chess unified. I'm happy for Kramnik, especially because his opponent used uncorrect methods during the match."
15.10.2006Yesterday evening, Tomsk-400 won the European title
The Moldavian chessplayer Victor Bologan won his third European team title, after ending in a draw in the last round, meanwhile his team won 3,5-2,5 against Elara and claimed the win in this constest.
GM Bologan also won this event in 1996, playing for Ladya Kazani, and in 2005 he celebrated the win together with Tomsk-400
Other details from this competition you may find on the officila site www.ecc2006.com
08.10.2006Veselin Topalov wins the second game in a row
After drawing three games with blacks, Kramnik lost two games, with whites and with blacks to Topalov, thus giving the Bulgarian the lead in the match, for the first time. There are three more games to be playing and it looks like Topalov is in a greater form after the "WC" dispute.
Acording to the last issue of Top 100 players, Victor Bologan climbed several places and now his ist nomber 45 in the World, having 2659 Elo points. On the first place is still Veselin Topalov, with 2813 points. After him comes V. Anand with 2759 points and then Vladimir Kramnik and Peter Svidler with 2750 points each.
02.10.2006 FIDE President thanked both players for the decision of continuing the match
The "WC" problem was solved at the last. After discution, the players had muttualy agreed to continue the match. The single unsolved issue was the score that will remain 3-2 in favour of Kramnik. The 6th round is being played today, October 2nd.
The members of the Apeals Committe were replaced by new members that had arrived recently in Elista.
The fifth round was not disputed because of the absence of Vladimir Kramnik. As a result, Topalov gained a technical victory. Acording to the official site, the score now is 3-2 in favour of Kramnik. The conflict situation was created after Topalov's delegation protested because Kramnik used very often the bathroom. The Apeal Committee decided then to interdict the use of the individual bathrooms. The fact is that these rooms
are the only places without video surveillance.
25.09.2006 Vladimir Kramnik won the second game after Veselin Topalov missing the mate in three!
The second round proved to be a dramatic one. Again, the Bulgarian GM controled the situation, but he haven't seen the mate in three, and Kramnik won again.
23.09.2006 Russian Vladimir Kramnik starts with a victory over Bulgarian Veselin Topalov in the first game!
In the first game of the Unification World Champion Title, Vladimir Kramnik won, playing white. Topalov had several chances to force the draw by move repetition.
22.09.2006 The Kramnik-Topalov match will start tommorow!
Yesterday was held the Opening Ceremony of this historic match, on the Football Stadium in Elista. The first game will be played tommorow, and all the results and news will be available on our site!
16.09.2006The new World Chess Champion will be known in October!
Kramnik and Topalov to play re-unification match. (FIDE : http://www.fide.com/news.asp?id=978 There will be a 12 game reunification match between Vladimir Kramnik and Veselin Topalov in Elista.
Each player will receive 500,000 USD net from FIDE and in addition certain revenues from possible commercial sponsorships. The winner goes to the WCC tournament 2007, the loser has to wait for the next cycle. The games will be played under classical time control (120 minutes for the first 40 moves, 60 minutes for the next 20 moves and then 15 minutes for the rest of the game plus an additional 30 seconds per move starting from move 61). Possible Tiebreak: 4 games of rapid chess (25min+10sec), then 2 blitz games (5min+10sec), then sudden death (6min/5min) with white to win.
Dates: Open Ceremony 21st September 2006, 7.00 p.m. Play on: 23rd, 24th, 26th, 27th, 29th, 30th September, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, 8th, 10th and 12th (tie-breaks) October 2006. Closing ceremony 13th October 2006.
08.09.2006 Spanish Team Championship. Round 3. Sasikirian(IND)-Bologan 0,5-0,5
Round 4: Bologan-Nisipeanu 0-1.
Round 5: De La Riva Aguado Oscar - Bologan 0-1
08.09.2006 Spanish Team Championship
During September 6th-10th, GM Victor Bologan will take part in the Spanish Team Championship, playing for the team UGA Barcelona.
In the first round, UGA suffered a defeat 0,5-5,5 from the favourites Intel, Bologan(2645) loosing to Vasily Ivanchiuk(2734) from Ukraine. In the second round, UGA won the team
Reverte Albox-Unicaja with the score 3,5-2,5. Their captain, Bologan won Michael Krasenkow from Poland, playing with whites. There are still three more rounds to be played.
