Mechanics' Institute Chess Room Newsletter #35

"Chess, like literature and the arts, often suffers a premature loss. The poems that Keats and Shelley might have written, the music that Mozart and Schubert might have composed, these have their counterparts in the missing games due to the early deaths of such masters as Charousek, Breyer and Reti. Fortunately for us, however, just as the poets and composers managed to pack into their brief life an abundance of poetry and music, so these chess masters produced a wealth of beautiful games!"

Harry Golombek

1) 2000 USCF Grand Prix Final Standing

It took awhile, but the results of the 2000 USCF Grand Prix have finally come in with two members of the MI staff finishing in the top twenty places. The USCF reports:

"Once again Alex Wojtiewicz has come out on top of the USCF Grand Prix. (He also won in 1999.) Five hundred and nine players qualified for Grand Prix points this year, down by a hair from the 514 in 1999.

Total points offered in 1999: 6,935 in 2000: 9,106 GP events in 1999: 353 in 2000: 361

The following final point totals reflect all rated event information received and rated through March. The Grand Prix is a yearlong contest with $25,000 in prizes."

1 GM Alex Wojtkiewicz 457.64 $7,000 
2 GM Alexander Stripunsky 396.30 3,500 
3 GM Alexander Ivanov 349.63 2,500 
4 GM Pavel Blatny 322.99 1,200 
5 GM Alexander Goldin 275.04 1,200 
6 GM Alexander Shabalov 243.20 1,200 
7 GM Jaan Ehlvest 220.24 1,200 
8 GM Alex Yermolinsky 204.61 1,200 
9 IM Rogelio Barcenilla 187.40 1,000 
10 GM Gregory Serper 186.06 1,000 
11 FM Igor Foygel 160.69 500 
12 IM Enrico Sevillano 147.50 450 
13 GM Sergey Kudrin 145.37 400 
14 IM Nikolay Andrianov 129.00 350 
15 IM Rashid Ziatdinov 115.97 300 
16 IM John Donaldson 111.05 250 
17 GM Gregory Kaidanov 96.97 200

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