2nd Chess Mitropa Cup (women): Steinbrunn 2005

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Basic data

2nd Chess Mitropa Cup (women) (see all-time tournament summary)
Date: 21st - 29th May 2005
City: Steinbrunn, Austria
Venue: Sporthotel Viva
Tournament Director: Mr. Robert Zsifkovits (AUT)
Chief Arbiter: IA Werner Stubenvoll (AUT)
Teams participating: 10 (incl. Austria "B")
Players participating: 27 (incl. 1 IM, 2 WGMs, 7 WIMs and 6 WFMs)
Games played: 90
Competition format: Two board round robin.
Final order decided by: 1. Game points; 2. Match points; 3. Berger; 4. Direct match
Time control: 40 moves in 100 minutes and 50 minutes to finish the game. Additional 30 seconds per move from move one.
Official logo: Steinbrunn 2005
Website: http://www.mitropacup2005.at
Downloadable game file: 05mitropaw.zip

Tournament review

There were 10 teams in the second women's Mitropa Cup held in Steinbrunn, Eastern Austria. The event drew one IM (Hagarová of Slovakia, she was also top rated player at 2386) and two WGMs (Muzičuk and Lematschko). Top rated teams were Slovakia, Slovenia and the Czech Republic.

Anna Muzičuk taking the restSlovenia took easy win despite losing sensationally to Austria on day four. They had 1½ point edge over the rest of the field. Three teams came second at 13 points. Slovak board #2 Borošová lost to Kruljac of Croatia in the last round to allow the Czech team to overtake Slovakia. Switzerland came fourth despite of dreadful start (1/4). Best individual results were achieved by Blažková of the Czech Republic and Muzičuk of Slovenia - 8/9.

Best board results

bd name code pts gms %
1. WGM Muzičuk, Anna SLO 8 9 88.9
2. WIM Blažková, Petra CZE 8 9 88.9

Interesting games


Shortest decisive game.
Kopinits, Anna-Christina (AUT) - Muzičuk, Anna (SLO) 1 - 0

Apparently Black believed pressure on c2 is ample threat to defy White.
Hagarová, Zuzana (SVK) - Čedíková, Kateřina (CZE) 1 - 0