On Friday 22nd November, Magnus Carlsen became the 16th World Champion, and as in my last article I predicted exactly how the last game will end (also I predicted the result of the match, before it started) I have no intention to go deeper in the analysis of this match. You can find that everywhere on the Internet.
In this article I will write about start of Swedish Elitserien, the highest division in Sweden.
I assume that this article will be the most interesting for the people from Sweden (they are about 30% of all blog readers) but for others, there will be tables and results for quicker overview.
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Friday, 22nd November
As I already wrote in my introduction for Elitserien, there will be five clubs which should perform clearly better then five other clubs (something as the big five).
My club Eksjö S.K. lost one Grandmaster (Slavko Cicak) but got two more Pontus Carlsson and Allan Stig Rasmussen.
As we avoided relegation in the very last rounds in the two previous seasons, many of people expected us to fight for the place in the league.
What they did not anticipated is that during the sammandrags (when three rounds are played for one weekend) our average in rating were higher then, for example last season winners, Limhamn S.K.
Our weakness were single matches.
This year, as I said we had one extra GM, so only that fact gave us hope that we could perform really well.
We were hugely misjudged by our first opponents, Uppsala ASS.
On the one of the websites about chess in Uppsala (not their official), webmaster thought that the match against us would be critical for their final place this season.
You can read the details here: Chess in Uppsala
Our opponents had interesting match strategy, with their best players on two highest white boards (second and fourth).
On that boards they managed to drew their games. I have to admit that I saved a draw by pure luck on fourth board.
On every other board we dominated and at the end we won with 7-1 !
| ond: 1 | Upsala ASS | 2295 | - | Eksjö SK | 2459 | 1 - 7 | |||||||||
| Bord 1: | Torbjörn Glimbrant | 2336 | - | GM | Pontus Carlsson | 2593 | 0 - 1 | ||||||||
| Bord 2: | IM | Jan Johansson | 2409 | - | GM | Jacek Gdanski | 2571 | ½ - ½ | |||||||
| Bord 3: | Malte Burwick | 2300 | - | GM | Allan Stig Rasmussen | 2570 | 0 - 1 | ||||||||
| Bord 4: | FM | Fredrik Andersson | 2344 | - | IM | Jasmin Bejtovic | 2441 | ½ - ½ | |||||||
| Bord 5: | CM | Carl Fredrik Johansson | 2225 | - | Michael De Verdier | 2424 | 0 - 1 | ||||||||
| Bord 6: | Henrik Lindberg | 2292 | - | Per Vernersson | 2406 | 0 - 1 | |||||||||
| Bord 7: | Sverrir Thorgeirsson | 2222 | - | FM | Nedeljko Malesevic | 2340 | 0 - 1 | ||||||||
| Bord 8: | Thomas Marttala | 2233 | - | IM | Axel Ornstein | 2329 | 0 - 1 | ||||||||
*On highlighted boards we had the white pieces
** The ratings are local Swedish ratings, which are in principle about 50 points higher then Elo ratings
Saturday, 23th November
Our good result on Friday gave us a very needed confidence in front of our match against one of the favourites for the title, Team Viking.
This was the first match between the top five clubs in the league, and the only one in the first three rounds. In our advantage was the results of LASK and Limhamn S.K. from the first round, when they lost one respective two points.
Against Team Viking we tried to neutralise their GMs, while we felt that in the middle of team we should be better.
This was the case when both Michael de Verdier and me won our games with white pieces.
Team Vikings slight advantage on lower boards were compensate by our slight advantage on higher boards, and we won the match with smallest possible margin.
| Rond: 2 | Eksjö SK | 2459 | - | SK Team Viking | 2486 | 4½ - 3½ | |||||||||
| Bord 1: | GM | Jacek Gdanski | 2571 | - | GM | Emanuel Berg | 2593 | 1 - 0 | |||||||
| Bord 2: | GM | Pontus Carlsson | 2593 | - | FM | Bo Lindberg | 2495 | 1 - 0 | |||||||
| Bord 3: | GM | Allan Stig Rasmussen | 2570 | - | GM | Evgenij Agrest | 2675 | 0 - 1 | |||||||
| Bord 4: | IM | Jasmin Bejtovic | 2441 | - | FM | Jonathan Westerberg | 2463 | 1 - 0 | |||||||
| Bord 5: | Per Vernersson | 2406 | - | GM | Pia Cramling | 2501 | 0 - 1 | ||||||||
| Bord 6: | Michael De Verdier | 2424 | - | IM | Dan Cramling | 2400 | 1 - 0 | ||||||||
| Bord 7: | IM | Axel Ornstein | 2329 | - | FM | Rauan Sagit | 2415 | 0 - 1 | |||||||
| Bord 8: | FM | Nedeljko Malesevic | 2340 | - | FM | Anders Pettersson | 2349 | ½ - ½ | |||||||
*On highlighted boards we had the white pieces
** The ratings are local Swedish ratings, which are in principle about 50 points higher then Elo ratings
What a feeling. We were leaders, and we just won against one of the favourites.
Sunday, 24th November
In the third match, we were favourites against Burgsvik Alva.
We understood that our opponents are underrated, and that they just played two very good matches against higher rated opponents with success.
We were fully prepared, and we wanted to win the match with a margin that would leave us at the top of the league.
I won against Team Viking with White pieces, and against Burgsvik Alva I got second black pieces this weekend.
My opponent had some success in the last period when he won Swedish Blitz Championship and also Swedish B Champinship (he will play in the highest Championship in 2014).
However, I played a very good game and I got a lot of praise for my play.
Also, Mr. Michael de Verdier were unstoppable.
After his victories against the President of Swedish Chess Federation in the first round, and the old ace Dan Cramling in the second round, he also won in the third round.
We won just enough to keep our position at the top of the league.
| Rond: 3 | Burgsvik Alva SK | 2313 | - | Eksjö SK | 2459 | 2½ - 5½ | |||||||||
| Bord 1: | FM | Niels J Fries Nielsen | 2417 | - | GM | Allan Stig Rasmussen | 2570 | 0 - 1 | |||||||
| Bord 2: | FM | Juri Krupenski | 2328 | - | GM | Pontus Carlsson | 2593 | ½ - ½ | |||||||
| Bord 3: | IM | Jens Ove Fries Nielsen | 2455 | - | GM | Jacek Gdanski | 2571 | ½ - ½ | |||||||
| Bord 4: | FM | Tommy Andersson | 2419 | - | IM | Jasmin Bejtovic | 2441 | 0 - 1 | |||||||
| Bord 5: | Pelle Linusson | 2198 | - | Per Vernersson | 2406 | ½ - ½ | |||||||||
| Bord 6: | Axel Åkerman | 2150 | - | Michael De Verdier | 2424 | 0 - 1 | |||||||||
| Bord 7: | FM | Björn Andersson | 2304 | - | IM | Axel Ornstein | 2329 | 0 - 1 | |||||||
| Bord 8: | Victor Larsson | 2239 | - | FM | Nedeljko Malesevic | 2340 | 1 - 0 | ||||||||
*On highlighted boards we had the white pieces
** The ratings are local Swedish ratings, which are in principle about 50 points higher then Elo ratings
Here is the table after three rounds:
Standings:
| 1 | Eksjö SK | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 17.0 | 6 | |||||||||||
| 2 | SK Rockaden, Sthlm | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 17.0 | 6 | |||||||||||
| 3 | Lunds ASK | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 15.0 | 5 | |||||||||||
| 4 | SK Team Viking | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 15.5 | 4 | |||||||||||
| 5 | Limhamns SK | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 13.5 | 4 | |||||||||||
| 6 | Farsta SK | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 11.5 | 2 | |||||||||||
| 7 | Västerås SK | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 10.5 | 2 | |||||||||||
| 8 | Burgsvik Alva SK | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 10.0 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 9 | Upsala ASS | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6.0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 10 | Örgryte SK | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4.0 | 0 | |||||||||||
This is how it will be to the 18th January 2014 when league will continue with the single round.
In the next articles I will show some details from the games that I played.
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