More, or less, the outcome of the tournament was expected no matter it did not look that nobody will fulfill any international title norm on this competition – young and feisty Jasmina Milivojevic “grabbed” half a point from an ambitious Milos Stankovic, which was just enough for him to miss a chance to become an international master (IM)…

On the first board, GM Dobrov, too relaxed, played Kohren gambit, with an early knight sacrifice on F7 and that almost did cost him a point (who could clean-up “the mess” afterwards…?), but, the last mistake was made by Mr. Aleksic (“the eng.”), already satisfied with he has done!! On the second board, Mr. Omorjan played a very good game, captured a piece, but the position was 3 times repeated (a draw by the rules), after a draw was rejected mistakenly (“smelling the blood in the air”), by Mr. Drazic, while being “lost”, but due to a bad position of youngster’s heavy artillery and GM’s trapping skills, in a very fast manner Mr. Drazic prevented Mr. Omorjan to get the first scalp from a grandmaster!! There were some tears after the game, hopelessly, but it can be written that, even with an achieved performance of 45 Elo points, “the kid” must be satisfied.

Besides young Omorjan, the most winning games had also a very young Miss Masha Milivojevic, who, on the lady’s side derby, lost against more experienced Miss Dimitrijevic. It is respectful that “hearty” Mr. Jakovljevic took half a point from a 300 Elo higher ranked Turkish opponent.

The next tournament, in our organization, will be held in January!! (more info on this web page also …)

Once again, we thank SPS political party ,  who let us use an excellent hall in downtown.

P.S. At the end of all chess events, a blitz tournament was held, but that will be covered separately. 

Final standings after round 9    !!