6th IBCA European Chess Championship

6th IBCA European Chess Championship
Round 5 – 29 July 2015
The 5th round of this European Chess Championship for Blind and
Visually impaired players took place on Wednesday 29 July at the
Mercure Hotel, rue de Bonnel in Lyon.
The player in the light is the Russian Stanislav BABARYKIN (on the
right on the photo). Already sole leader after four rounds, he played
again a nice game to win in only 27 moves against the King's Indian
defense of Serbian DIMIC! He is now a full point ahead of four
players. His today's game will be commentated on the official
website.
The favorite of the tournament, the Grandmaster TAZBIR, conceded his 2 nd draw, to MESHKOV. On board 3, the
English Chris ROSS made the most of an incredible blunder by Russian International Master PAKHOMOV who gave a
Knight. The two other players with 4/4 are Polish IM STACHANCZYK and DUKACZEWSKI who won convincingly.
There were several unexpected results in this round and it would be impossible to list all of them. French players,
sometime in trouble in the beginning of the tournament, are recovering well since yesterday. André SCHMEISSER
(1740) overcame the Slovenian Emil MURI (1951), while Olivier DEVILLE (1868), not rewarded for his resistance
yesterday, this time held a draw against the German Franck SCHELLMANN (2093). Finally Adrien HERVAIS (2029)
played another very long game, even closing the day by defeating the Greek player KLIMIS after 5h56 of play.
See the end of the game in this video
Broadcasting and input of the games
This Wednesday there were 8 broadcasted games live in Internet. The whole 32 games played every day are entered by
the organizers and are available in PGN on the website every evening. It's far from always being easy when we know
that several players are writing in Braille, using dictaphones or writing in their own language!
Animations in the Shopping Center Part-Dieu
On the occasion of the championship, the animations in the Shopping
Center Part-Dieu began this Wednesday and will continue till
Saturday.
Address: 7 rue du Dr. Bouchut 69003 Lyon.
From Tuesday to Saturday: Initiations, giant chessboard and free
play 15h-19h
Saturday: Rapid tournament 15h-19h
Photos of today | See the full list of summer animations
The situation in the head of the tournament was summarized in the introduction with BABARYKIN at 5/5 followed by
four players at 4. Here are top pairings of round 6 on Thursday 14:30 :
Bo.
1
2
3
4
5
Title
IM
GM
FM
IM
FM
Name
Dukaczewski Piotr
Tazbir Marcin
Wassin Sergej
Nizam Rasim
Dimic Pavle
Elo
2237
2516
2298
2180
2305
Pts Result Pts
4
5
4
4
3½
4
3½
3½
3½
3½
Title
FM
CM
IM
IM
Name
Babarykin Stanislav
Ross Chris N
Stachanczyk Jacek
Meshkov Yuri A.
Draghici Flutur Gavril
Elo
2357
2184
2259
2349
2125
Results R5 | Ranking | Pairings R6 | Live games | Photos | Official page
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