ICC/OZ Super Blitz
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    On March 5th there was a first biggest event in history of the chess on the Internet ! Blitz tournament with 310 FIDE-rated players among which there were 64 grandmasters ! Time control was 5 5, which means 5 minute per game and increment of 5 seconds occurred after each move. Full list of players and thei FIDE ratings can be found at http://www.chessclub.com/oz.html 

    The tournament has been won by polish champion Aleksander Wojtkiewicz (ICC handle "happensreels"), known by his nickname as "Wojt". Alex won the tournament in unbelievable style wining 8 games and loosing 1 to grandmaster Nigel Short from England. After 9 round Swiss Wojt played playoff with grandmaster Kempinski (another polish GM !)  and crushed him 3-1. Wojt won $500 and a free trip to Reykjavik in Iceland, where he will play in super strong tournament with Kasparov, Anand Jan Timman, Viktor Kortchnoi, GM Ivan Sokolov, and 6 Icelandic GMs on April 1st - 2nd 2000. the other prizes were as follows: 2nd Place: $700 3rd Place: $500 4th Place: $300 5th Place: $200 6th Place: $100 7th Place: $100 8th Place: $100

    Grandmaster Kempinski won $700 and yours truly won $0. I have to say I played very bad and scored only 4.5 points, which is actually not so bad, many grandmaster had the same or worse result.

    All games played by the winner GM Aleksander Wojtkiewicz in Java Viewer !

Playoff:
Kempka - happensreels 0-1

happensreels - Kempka 1-0
Kempka - happensreels 1-0
happensreels - Kempka 1-0

9 round swiss:
Igrok - happensreels 0-1
NDShort - happensreels 1-0
Pop-eye - happensreels 0-1
airgun - happensreels 0-1
happensreels - Tankist 1-0
happensreels - garompon 1-0
happensreels - israpu 1-0
happensreels - kidman 1-0

Few of my games (Rafal Furdzik - US Master):
rfurdzik - Drei 1-0
rfurdzik - Kine 1-0
A-Zapata - rfurdzik 1-0


All games on this page as PGN here