3rd Annual Little Sweden Chess Festival takes place 13-14 December in
Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas, USA.
Participants: Anatoly Karpov RUS 2693, Alexander Onischuk USA 2661, Ivan
Morovic CHI 2583, Ulf Andersson Sweden 2566, Yuri Shulman USA 2564 and John
Donaldson USA 2456.
5 rounds, Games 25' +10".
Schedule:
December 13: 11:00 am and 6:00 pm
December 14: 11:00 am, 2:00 pm, 4:00 pm
Closing ceremony December 14 at 5:30 pm
Internet site: www.intecsus.org and www.lindsborg.org

Mr Karpov has just received an honary degree to honour his UNICEF work, and
this is only his second tournament in the USA. He has also formally opened a
new chess school in Lindsborg.

Phil Innes

"Phil Innes" wrote in message
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Thanks for the post Phil... very informative! Do you mean that Mr. Karpov
will be moving to Kansas and teaching Chess there? Thanks!

"Phil Innes" wrote in message
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I visited both sites listed but could not find any coverage of the
event... Will it be covered? If so please give the URL.... Thanks!

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"Phil Innes" wrote in message
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I visited both sites listed but could not find any coverage of the
event... Will it be covered? If so please give the URL.... Thanks!


Karpov deserves it.

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Karpov deserves it.

The tournament dates are Dec 19-23. They are not really looking for big
pre-game publicity because Lindsborg is a very small place and the event is
totally booked up.

Anatoly Evgenievich will not be 'moving' to Kansas, as far as I understand


I could write more of the chess school, however it is proper to wait for
official announcements which will be forthcoming from gospodin Mikhail
Korenman, the director of the school.

I think there may be a public live match broadcast, if so, I will post
times, dates and URL here - although this broadcast may be a private one.

Both Karpov and Kasparov give much of their time, money and support to
fundraising events as well as directly working with disadvantaged people.

Cordially, Phil Innes

The tournament dates are Dec 19-23. They are not really looking for big
pre-game publicity because Lindsborg is a very small place and the event is
totally booked up.

Actually those dates are for the Lindsborg Open and I don't believe Karpov is
scheduled to play in it. There is also a Lindsborg Rotary Open scheduled for
Dec 19-21 for lower rated players. I don't know about the event being totally
booked up, either. I didn't ask specifically, since I will not be playing in
the professional level event :-), but the way the director talked today they
have plenty of slots available.

Karpov did play in Lindsborg this weekend, yesterday and today, in a 6 player
round robin tournament, the Lindsborg Invitational. I just got back from
watching two of todays rounds. I had to leave before the final round, but
Karpov was leading the tournament with 3 points in the first 5 rounds. In 2nd
place was IM John Donaldson with 2 1/2 points. He drew with Karpov in the
first round today.

Karpov has been in Lindsborg for about 9 days helping with clinics for juniors
and overseeing a juniors tournament. Lindsborg is a small Kansas town of about
4,000 people and a very nice liberal arts college, Bethany College. Lindsborg
is known as Little Sweden and is a touristy place nestled in the middle of
Kansas. They have a very active chess community and club run by Mikhail
Korenman, who is a friend of Anatoly Karpov, I believe.

The other 4 players we Alexander Onischuk, Ivan Morovic, Yuri Shulman - all
GM's and another IM, named Charbonneau from Montreal who filled in for Ulf
Andersson because he cancelled out. Charbonneau also drew with Karpov in their
match. I was told by the tournament director that he actually will be a GM
when the next ratings are released - he was listed as 2485 in this tournament.
Not bad for a 20 year old.

They used chess boards and chess men that have computer chips in them and
transmitted the moves to computers that displayed them, for all three games, on
boards on a large screen. They were using the 25 minute and 10 second extra
per move time control. This was interesting to me as I had never seen it used.
The games lasted for about an hour or so each. However, since you always got
10 more seconds after each move, you could never run out of time as long as you
made your moves in less than then 10 seconds even if you had virtually no time
left on your clock.

Very enjoyable way to spend a day. I would have also been there yesterday but
we had a large snowstorm on Friday and Saturday and the roads were in terrible
condition most of the day.

Dick Schneiders

I had to leave before the final round, but
Karpov was leading the tournament with 3 points in the first 5 rounds.

Oops, that should read in the first 4 rounds, since there are only 5 rounds
total in a 6 player round robin. :-0

Dick (chagrined) Schneiders

Karpov did play in Lindsborg this weekend, yesterday and today, in a 6 player
round robin tournament, the Lindsborg Invitational. I just got back from
watching two of todays rounds. I had to leave before the final round, but
Karpov was leading the tournament with 3 points in the first 5 rounds. In
2nd
place was IM John Donaldson with 2 1/2 points. He drew with Karpov in the
first round today.

Also, there was a very attractive young Russian female in the front row with a
large, ahem, sweater that added to my enjoyment of this event. She looked way
too young to be part of Karpov's entourage, so I assume that she was with
Onischuk. Anybody ever seen her at other events attended by him? She was
about 5' 6", very black hair and wore a sweater that was working well beyond
the normal duty expected - probably cashmere.

I never envisioned that I would go to a chess tournament and be distracted by a
sexy female.

My wife was with me, so I wasn't able to let my distraction become too obvious.
:-)

Dick Schneiders

3rd Annual Little Sweden Chess Festival took place 13-14 December in Bethany
College, Lindsborg, Kansas, USA.
Participants: Anatoly Karpov RUS 2693, Alexander Onischuk USA 2661, Ivan
Morovic CHI 2583, Yuri Shulman USA 2564, Pascal Charbonneau CAN 2485 and
John Donaldson USA 2456.
5 rounds, Games 25' +10".
Schedule:
December 13: 11:00 am and 6:00 pm
December 14: 11:00 am, 2:00 pm, 4:00 pm
Closing ceremony December 14 at 5:30 pm
Final standings:
1 Karpov 3.5
2 Onischuk 3.0
3 Donaldson 2.5
4 Shulman 2.5
5 Morovic 2.0
6 Charbonneau 1.5

A Selection of Games were broadcast live on ICC. Considering the opposition,
John Donaldson did particularly well. A Replay engine as well as .pgn
downloads are at:-

www.ruschess.com

Phil Innes

Check out John Donaldson's very creditable game against Karpov. [John is
playing up 200 points]

"Phil Innes" wrote in message
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3rd Annual Little Sweden Chess Festival took place 13-14 December in
Bethany
College, Lindsborg, Kansas, USA.
Participants: Anatoly Karpov RUS 2693, Alexander Onischuk USA 2661, Ivan
Morovic CHI 2583, Yuri Shulman USA 2564, Pascal Charbonneau CAN 2485 and
John Donaldson USA 2456.
5 rounds, Games 25' +10".
Schedule:
December 13: 11:00 am and 6:00 pm
December 14: 11:00 am, 2:00 pm, 4:00 pm
Closing ceremony December 14 at 5:30 pm
Final standings:
1 Karpov 3.5
2 Onischuk 3.0
3 Donaldson 2.5
4 Shulman 2.5
5 Morovic 2.0
6 Charbonneau 1.5

A Selection of Games were broadcast live on ICC. Considering the
opposition,
John Donaldson did particularly well. A Replay engine as well as .pgn
downloads are at:-

www.ruschess.com

Phil Innes