We organize the "Third Thursday" International Master Tournaments at Szeged, and the latest now finished , the winners of our event is
IM Tibor Farkas (YUG) 2340 FIDE rating 7 points,and Endre Ambrus (ROM) 2230 FIDE rating 7 points - IM-norm!!
3-4.Nanu Ciprianu (FM, ROM,2325) and Jury Dovzik (IM, UKR, 2375) 6,5-6,5 points.
5. Dan Bogdan (IM, ROM, 2410) 6 points.


In the recent "June" TT after the last round the crosstable is:
The IM-norm was 7 point and now only IM Kustar Sandor reached this level.

Szeged HUN Third Thursday '98 June Cat.II (2281)

1. KUSTAR Sandor IM HUN 2405 x = 1 1 1 1 = = 1 =
2. DOVZIK Jurij IM UKR 2375 = x 1 1 0 1 = = 1 0
3. NAGY Andras HUN 2195 0 0 x 1 1 1 0 0 0 =
4. RESIKA Nathan USA 2170 0 0 0 x 0 = 1 0 1 0
5. AMBRUS Endre ROM 2230 0 1 0 1 x 1 = 0 0 =
6. REVUCKIJ Vladimir UKR 2215 0 0 0 = 0 x = 0 1 =
7. FLUMBORT Andras HUN 2225 = = 1 0 = = x = 0 =
8. IANOV Viktor IM UKR 2360 = = 1 1 1 1 = x 1 0
9. NAGY Janos FM HUN 2260 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 x 1
10.MORARU Marius ROM 2375 = 1 = 1 = = = 1 0 x


At the end of last year we organized the Maroczy Geza Grandmaster Tournament with Miles, Oll, Zhang, Atalik, Adorjan, Ribli, Sax, Wells, Lalic and Ivanisevic. At Szeged, in this event was played the "Game of 1997", Suat Atalik against Gyula Sax.


The name of the Series is "Third Thursday" because we organize one or more groups (with 10 or 12 chess players) in every month and the clocks start at every 3rd Thursday of the month.


Starting dates for 1998: 5/21,6/18,7/16,8/20,9/17,10/15,11/19,12/10 (before Christmas)
We plan to organize GM-norm Robin Round Tournaments, too.

Entry fees for the IM-norm Tournaments are:

Below 2200 FIDE Elo : DM-450
2201-2300 : DM-400
2301-2400 : DM-350
Above 2400 : DM-300

with lodgings at the place of the tournament!
Place is Chess-Cafe, Szeged, Szent-Gyorgyi Albert street 13.(opposite to the "Hotel Forras").


More info and entry:
Blazsik Zoltan
e-mail: blazsik@sol.cc.u-szeged.hu
6701 Szeged
Pf.: 1298
Phone (Hungary): 62-319399