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Liepājas Rokāde

Liepājas Rokāde ("Liepāja Castling") is international "open" chess championship, annually held in Liepāja, Latvia in August. The first Liepājas rokāde was held in 1994, the last in 2018. [1]

List of winners edit

Year Open Tournament Super Tournament Blitz tournament Team Tournament
1994   Viesturs Meijers
1995   Edvīns Ķeņģis
1996   Guntis Jankovskis
1997   Normunds Miezis
1998   Daniel Fridman   Juzefs Petkēvičs
1999   Rolands Bērziņš
2000   Evgeny Sveshnikov   Darmen Sadvakasov
  Maxim Dlugy
2001   Evgeny Sveshnikov   Alexei Shirov   Normunds Miezis
2002   Evgeny Sveshnikov   Evgeny Sveshnikov   Daniel Fridman
2003   Arnolds Luckāns   Alexander Khalifman   Maxim Dlugy
2004   Meelis Kanep   Kaido Külaots
2005   Darius Zagorskis   Loek van Wely   Vaidas Sakalauskas Švyturys
2006   Šarūnas Šulskis   Kiril Georgiev   Kiril Georgiev Švyturys
2007   Vytautas Vaznonis   Arkadij Naiditsch   Šarūnas Šulskis Joker
2008   Valdis Troņenkovs (Open A)
  Aleksandrs Smirnovs (Open B)
  Evgeny Levin (Open C) 		  Evgeny Romanov   Daniel Fridman Joker
2009   Arturs Neikšāns   Verners Putka Joker
2010   Oleg Krivonosov   Jaan Ehlvest Joker
2011   Normunds Miezis   Jaan Ehlvest Terrabalt
2012   Alexander Khalifman   Daniel Fridman Terrabalt
2013   Emilis Pileckis   Kiril Georgiev   Igor Kovalenko MRU–Gintars
2014   Igor Kovalenko   Igor Kovalenko Terrabalt
2015   Evgeny Romanov[2]   Igor Kovalenko   Andrey Esipenko Terrabalt
2016   Vladimir Fedoseev   Daniil Lintchevski   Jaan Ehlvest Terrabalt
2017   Vladislav Kovalev   Daniel Fridman   Daniel Fridman Terrabalt
2018   Kaido Külaots   Daniel Fridman   Tomas Laurušas Terrabalt

Super Tournament is not played in 2009-2012 and 2014.

Liepājas Rokāde 2009 edit

The Liepājas rokāde 2009 was opened on August 6, 2009. The tournament taking place in Liepāja Biedrības nams. The ceremony started from the speech of tournament director Āris Ozoliņš and Vita Hartmane, which read a letter of the Liepāja mayor Uldis Sesks to participants of the tournament. In 2009 there were 147 players from Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, Portugal and Czech Republic, 7% of whom were women.[3] The open tournament was held on 79 chess tables. The championship utilizes FIDE rules and uses Swiss pairing system in 13 rounds.[4] The tournaments judged three referee — Dashkevics, Borisovs and A. Cimiņš. Overall prize fund — 2410 LVL and cups for the first 3 places. The competition traditionally has a large number of sponsors, including Liepājas Metalurgs and Liepāja City Council, additionally there was participation fee about 10 EUR for the players. Tournament results:

References edit

  1. ^ Kurzemes Vārds
  2. ^ FIDE President at Liepajas Rokade chess festival in Latvia
  3. ^ Riga chess federation, news 06.08.2009
  4. ^ Liepājas rokāde 2009 booklet

External links edit

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