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Match Baltijos Lyga-GANDALF 2,5-1,5

The only victory against Gandalf was achieved by IM Oleg Krivonosov. The master of endgame technique. Who had realized the extra pawn in a difficult queens endgame after a hard work.

Tournament in France

2004 07 08 - 2004 07 16d. in France was an international chess tournament "6eme festival international d'echecs de Saint-Lo". 2 chess-players were represented for Lithuania: Airidas Savickas and Etjenas Badaljanas, whose played in junior tournament (229 members from 24 countries). Etjenas Badaljanas collected 6,5 points from 9 and took 11 place , but Airidas Savickas after failure in last round collected 6 points and took 17 place.

Lithuanian Correspondence Chess championship

Lithuanian Correspondence Chess championship XXIV has started on february 10th 2004. It is 3th individual corrchess competition played by e-mail. Average rating of the competition is 2377. The highest in Lithuanian individual e-mail tournaments history.

ICCF Champions League

15 June 2002 ICCF has started World Team Corchess Championship with original competition structure. Ambitious title "Champions League". Very many teams from all over the world consisting from 4 players each were sorted into preliminary groups. Only the 1-th place winner of preliminary group, leaving behind 10 rival teams promote to ICCF WORLD final team tournament. Also this promotion Quarantees the team-winner participation in a prestige CHAMPIONS LEAGUE. An elite company of the strongest world teams. Lithuania chess club "Baltijos Lyga" team had already decided the first place In a preliminary group and a promotion to a CHAMPION`s LEAGUE final. Sure the battle was very ambitious and we had difficult chess fights with rivals from Germany, former Yugoslavia, Brazil, Russia, Poland, Italy……

Oleg Krivonosovs wins in Gothenburg

Baltijos Lyga player Oleg Krivonosovs has won the first place in the international tournament in Gothenburg /Sweden/. In this event /" Spiltan & Pelaro IM-Swiss"/ he had left behind such many titled and strong players as GM Juan Bellon/Spain/, IM Dragos Dumitrache/Romania/, IM Andrei Cioara/Romania/, IM Vasilyj Gagarin/Russia/, IM Vladimir Polei/Belarussia/ .