Ronde 1
As expected, the highest rated players in such a field already met fairly strong opposition as early as in the first round. While the first four favourites in the initial rating list (Navara, Vitiugov, Eljanov and Nepomniatchi) managed to score a first full point, the remaining two 2700+ players, Spain’s No.1 Vllejo-Pons and France No.2 Bacrot had to settle for a draw against former Israeli champion GM Yehuda Grunfeld and Swiss IM Richard Forster respectively.
De speelzaal (foto: Moshe Slav)
The great upset of the first round was nonetheless the dramatic defeat of the current Israeli champion Victor Mikhalevski (2559) against 17 years old Itay Westreich who is rated 630 Elo points lower! Having the white pieces Mikhalevski sacrificed a central pawn in the opening for well compensated initiative against the black king. His young opponent however did not lose his temper and defended accurately before launching a decisive counter attack against the white king. Another surprised member of the Israeli Olympic team was Evgeny Postny who lost against the 3 times former Israeli champion IM Nathan Birnboim (63).
Uitslagen Nederlanders:
| FM | Zalkind Konstantin | ISR | 2222 | 0 – 1 | GM | Van Kampen Robin | NED | 2626 | |
| GM | Shimanov Aleksandr | RUS | 2594 | 1 – 0 | Henseler Jorgen | NED | 2123 | ||
| Bochkarev Yuriy | RUS | 2076 | 1 – 0 | GM | Bok Benjamin | NED | 2587 | ||
| Iliaguev Daniel | ISR | 1813 | 0 – 1 | GM | Klein David | NED | 2505 | ||
| Gottfried Jonathan | BEL | 1653 | 0 – 1 | IM | Ducarmon Quinten | NED | 2482 |
248 players from 33 countries take part in the championship.167 of them are titled players of which 112 are grandmasters. Six grandmasters are rated 2700+ and seven are past European champions including the current champion, the Russian Alexander Motylev. The largest national group is,as expected, the Israeli one with 101 players led by Israel’s No.2 Maxim Rodshtein. The largest and the strongest guest group is the Russian delegation with 42 players ahead of Ukraine 12, Armenia and Turkey 9 each.
Yochanan Afek
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[Event “16th ch-EUR Indiv 2015”]
[Site “Jerusalem ISR”]
[Date “2015.02.25”]
[Round “1.45”]
[White “Zalkind, Konstantin”]
[Black “Van Kampen, Robin”]
[Result “0-1”]
[ECO “B31”]
[WhiteElo “2222”]
[BlackElo “2626”]
[PlyCount “57”]
[EventDate “2015.02.24”]
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 g6 4. O-O Bg7 5. Re1 e5 6. d3 Nge7 7. Bg5 h6 8. Bxe7
Nxe7 9. Nc3 O-O 10. Bc4 d6 11. Nd5 Kh7 12. c3 f5 13. Nxe7 Qxe7 14. d4 fxe4 15.
Rxe4 Bf5 16. Re3 e4 17. Bd5 cxd4 18. cxd4 Rae8 19. Qe1 g5 20. h3 Bg6 21. Rd1
Rf4 22. Nh2 Bf7 23. Bxf7 Rxf7 24. Nf1 d5 25. Ng3 Qd6 26. Rd2 Qg6 27. Qd1 Bf8
28. Rc2 Bd6 29. Nf1 0-1
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[Event “EICC 2015 Jerusalem”]
[Site “?”]
[Date “2015.02.24”]
[Round “1.71”]
[White “Bochkarev, Yuriy”]
[Black “Bok, Benjamin”]
[Result “1-0”]
[ECO “A47”]
[WhiteElo “2076”]
[BlackElo “2587”]
[PlyCount “197”]
[EventDate “2015.??.??”]
1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 b6 3. g3 Bb7 4. Bg2 c5 5. c3 e6 6. O-O Be7 7. Bf4 O-O 8. Na3
Nc6 9. Nc4 d5 10. Nce5 Nh5 11. Bd2 Bd6 12. Nxc6 Bxc6 13. Ne5 Bb7 14. e4 Nf6 15.
exd5 Nxd5 16. c4 cxd4 17. Nd3 Ba6 18. Qb3 Nc7 19. Bxa8 Qxa8 20. f3 Bb7 21. Bb4
Ne8 22. c5 Bd5 23. Qd1 bxc5 24. Bxc5 Bxc5 25. Nxc5 Nf6 26. Qxd4 Bxf3 27. Nd7
Nxd7 28. Qxd7 h6 29. Rac1 Bh5 30. Rc7 a5 31. Rfc1 Kh7 32. Qc6 Qb8 33. Qc5 Bg6
34. b3 Qa8 35. Qc6 Qd8 36. Qc5 Qd2 37. Qf2 Rd8 38. Qxd2 Rxd2 39. a3 Rb2 40.
R1c3 Rb1+ 41. Kf2 Rb2+ 42. Kg1 Rb1+ 43. Kf2 Rb2+ 44. Kf3 Rxh2 45. R7c5 Bf5 46.
Rxa5 g5 47. Rac5 h5 48. b4 Rb2 49. b5 Kg6 50. a4 Ra2 51. b6 Rxa4 52. R5c4 Ra2
53. Rb4 Bh3 54. b7 Bg2+ 55. Ke3 Bxb7 56. Rxb7 Ra5 57. Rbc7 Ra4 58. Kf3 Rb4 59.
Kg2 Rb2+ 60. Rc2 Rb6 61. Rf2 f6 62. Rfc2 Rb8 63. R7c6 Kf7 64. Rc7+ Kg6 65. Re7
Rb6 66. Rec7 Rb8 67. R7c6 Kf7 68. Re2 Re8 69. Kf3 f5 70. Re3 Kf6 71. Ke2 Kf7
72. Kd3 Kf6 73. Rd6 Kf7 74. Kd4 Kf6 75. Re1 g4 76. Rh1 Rh8 77. Rc6 Rh7 78. Kc5
Ra7 79. Rxh5 Ra3 80. Rh6+ Kg5 81. Rcxe6 Rxg3 82. Kd4 Ra3 83. Rh1 Ra4+ 84. Ke3
f4+ 85. Kf2 Ra2+ 86. Re2 g3+ 87. Kf1 Ra3 88. Rh8 Kg4 89. Re1 f3 90. Rc1 Rb3 91.
Rc4+ Kf5 92. Rf8+ Ke5 93. Rc1 Ra3 94. Re1+ Kd6 95. Rd8+ Kc7 96. Rg8 f2 97. Rc1+
Kd6 98. Kg2 Re3 99. Rf1 1-0
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[Event “16th ch-EUR Indiv 2015”]
[Site “Jerusalem ISR”]
[Date “2015.02.25”]
[Round “1.30”]
[White “Postny, Evgeny”]
[Black “Birnboim, Nathan”]
[Result “0-1”]
[ECO “E81”]
[WhiteElo “2647”]
[BlackElo “2347”]
[PlyCount “104”]
[EventDate “2015.02.24”]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. f3 d6 4. e4 Bg7 5. Nc3 O-O 6. Be3 c5 7. Nge2 Nc6 8. d5
Ne5 9. Ng3 h5 10. Be2 Nh7 11. O-O e6 12. Qd2 exd5 13. cxd5 a6 14. a4 Re8 15.
Nh1 f5 16. Nf2 Rb8 17. h3 Qh4 18. Bf4 Bd7 19. a5 Rf8 20. exf5 gxf5 21. Kh1 Rbe8
22. Ra3 Qe7 23. Bh2 c4 24. Nfd1 Rc8 25. f4 Nd3 26. Bxd3 cxd3 27. Qxd3 Nf6 28.
Bg1 Ne4 29. Re1 Qh4 30. Re3 Nxc3 31. Nxc3 Qxf4 32. Re7 Rf7 33. Qe2 Rxe7 34.
Qxe7 Re8 35. Qxd7 Re1 36. Qd8+ Kh7 37. Ne2 Rxe2 38. Rf3 Qe4 39. Qxd6 Re1 40.
Qd7 Qb1 41. Qxf5+ Qxf5 42. Rxf5 Bd4 43. Rxh5+ Kg6 44. g4 Rxg1+ 45. Kh2 Rb1 46.
Kg3 Rxb2 47. Rf5 Bc3 48. d6 Rb5 49. d7 Bxa5 50. Rf8 Rd5 51. h4 Be1+ 52. Kf4
Bxh4 0-1
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