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1 Ağustos 2008
The young star of Turkish chess who inflicted Turkish Champion GM Mikhail Gurevich his only defeat during the Turkish Championship and Under 16 Turkish Champion FM Mustafa Yılmaz, is playing at Young Masters Euro Chess Tournament between 1-9 August in Twente University, Holland. News from the strong youth tournament is available below. FM Yılmaz, defated GM Mairov and GM Ahmed Adly, the reigning World Junior Championship in style and has 3.5 points out of 6.
The field include 2007 World Junior Champion GM Ahmed Adly, the young Azerbaijani GM Nidjat Mamedov and the new prodigy of Ukrainian chess FM Ilya Nyzhnyk together with many young and strong players. The Turkish youngster FM Musfafa Yılmaz was not able to hold on against GM Mamedov in the first round. Below is the list of participants:
No | Unvan | İsim | Ülke | Reyting
1 | GM | Adly, Ahmed | EGY | 2593
2 | GM | Mamedov, Nidjat | AZE | 2564
3 | GM | Maiorov, Nikita | BLR | 2535
4 | GM | Filippov, Anton | UZB | 2531
5 | GM | Iotov, Valentin | BUL | 2519
6 | IM | Shimanov, Aleksandr | RUS | 2480
7 | IM | Bogner, Sebastian | GER | 2467
8 | FM | Giri, Anish | RUS | 2430
9 | FM | Nyzhnyk, Illya | UKR | 2428
10 | IM | Van Oosterom, Chiel | NED | 2420
11 | IM | Ris, Robert | NED | 2415
12 | FM | Yilmaz, Mustafa | TUR | 2362
13 | FM | Burg, Twan | NED | 2359
14 | FM | Lammens, Tim | NED | 2350
15 | FM | Bitalzadeh, Ali | NED | 2310
16 | | Van Kampen, Robin | NED | 2294
17 | | Otte, Marijn | NED | 2267
18 | | Van der Velden, Bram | NED | 2230
19 | | Van Opheusden, Bas | NED | 2172
20 | | Van Nies, Pauline | NED | 2158
FM Alper Efe Ataman, TCF web site columnist and trainer is in Enschede and reporting for TCF web site.
The format of the tournament is 9-round Swiss and the time control is 2 hours for 40 moves and 30 minutes with 30 second increment with every move. The official website of the event is: www.onjk.nl
A new live broadcast system named FOIDOS was applied in the game of FM Mustafa Yılmaz. The system is based on the idea that three camera permanently show the game together with live commentary. Two of the cameras are going to concentrate on the players while the third one will show the general atmosphere. The official commentator who can be followed at the same time is GM Yasser Seirawan.
