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First Saturday Chess Tourneys

November 3, 2002

Budapest, Hungary

Starting on the first Saturday of each month, Chess Organizer and Tournament Director László Nagy organizes a series of tournaments with the intent of providing title norm and FIDE rating opportunities.   Separate events are held simultaneously:

• GM Tourney - at least a Category VII - VIII event.  Possible norms: GM, IM

• IM Tourney - at least a Category I - III event.  Possible norms: IM, FM

• FM Tourney - all players FIDE rated.  Possible norm: FM, also can establish a FIDE rating

These round-robin events are played at the headquarters of the Hungarian Chess Federation, in Budapest.  The web site offers information on accommodations for players &/or guests, as well as practical tips like the best methods of transportation around Budapest, places to eat, and recommended currency exchange businesses.

Players from all over Europe, and occasionally other parts of the world as well, flock here each month to fight over those coveted title norms, and as you might imagine, the fighting gets fierce at times.  Take this game, for example: going into the final round of the October GM Tourney, Hungarian IM Gergely Antal sat at 7.0 points, one full point short of this Category VIII tourney's GM-norm.  He already led the field by a half-point though, and could have contented himself with a draw, earning at least a share of 1st place.  He was paired against one of the three GMs participating - Yugoslavian GM Goran Todorovic:

Antal, G. (2465) - Todorovic, G. (2465), ECO B33:  1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Bf4 d6 7. Ndb5 e5 8. Bg5 a6 9. Na3 b5 10. Bxf6 gxf6 11. Nd5 f5 12. c3 Bg7 13. exf5 Bxf5 14. Nc2 O-O 15. Nce3 Bd7 16. Bd3 f5 17. Qh5 e4 18. Bc2 Qe8 19. Qh4 b4 20. O-O bxc3 21. bxc3 Ne5 22. f3 Ng6 23. Qh5 Rc8 24. fxe4 fxe4 25. Rxf8+ Nxf8 26. Qh4 Ng6 27. Nf6+ Kf8 28. Nxh7+ Kg8 29. Nf6+ Bxf6 30. Qxf6 Kh7 31. Rf1 Qe6 32. Qd4 Bc6 33. Bb3 Qe5 34. Qa7+ Kh8 35. Rf5 1-0

And so another title norm was achieved.  Untitled Hungarian Victor Erdos also achieved a last-round victory (over German FM Juergen Brustkern) to lock up an IM norm.  In the IM-A Group tourney, untitled Hungarian Gellert Papp won his last round game to secure an IM norm, while Israeli FM Zeev Dub did likewise in the IM-B Group.

With plenty of fighting chess, and beautiful historic Budapest to explore, these tourneys make a great vacation idea for the chess enthusiast, as well as creating otherwise hard to come by opportunities for title norms and FIDE ratings.  Visit the First Saturday site today, and plan your trip to Budapest!  Follow the First Saturday tourneys at Chessville News.
 

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