IM Samy Shoker won the 8th Condom Chess Festival

by IA Dominique Dervieux

IM Samy Shoker won the 8th Condom Chess Festival that took place last week in France. IM Shoker managed to take the first position with a final sprint. Most of the competition was led by Fiona Steil-Antoni who also achieved a norm at the event.

Condom Chess Festival standings

1 m SHOKER Samy FRA 7
2 ff STEIL-ANTONI Fiona LUX 6
3 mf GUICHARD Pauline FRA 6
4 ff CONGIU Mathilde FRA 5,5
5 gf MATSEYKO Katerina UKR 5
6 mf ROBLES GARCIA Claudia ESP 4,5
7 gf ARUTYUNOVA Diana UKR 4
8 mf GUTIERREZ CASTILLO Paloma ESP 3
9 ff VIDENOVA Iva BUL 2,5
10 ff BENMESBAH Natacha FRA 1,5

OPEN A Condom 2008 : Results : 1. IM Benjamin Bushijo (FRA), 2. IM Vaszilij Sikula (UKR), 3. IM Vladimir OKHOTNIK (FRA), 7 points, etc.

The 9th Condom Chess festival will take place 11 – 18th July 2009.

from left to right : mf Claudia ROBLES GARCIA, mf Paloma GUTIERREZ CASTILLO, mf Pauline GUICHARD, ff Natacha BENMESBAH, ff Mathilde CONGIU, ff Fiona STEIL-ANTONI, gf Katerina MATSEYKO, gf Diana ARUTYUNOVA, ff Iva VIDENOVA and m Samy SHOKER

Condom chess club : http://www.chess32.tonsite.biz/

Open site : http://zentiltoutou.free.fr/