7th May, 2003

SINCE 1993, Sweden's Limhamn Chess Club have been organising an annual
tournament in central Malmo, sponsored by a consortium led by the top
legal firm of Sigeman & Co.

This year, as Sweden and Denmark continues a drive to increase cultural
exchanges between the two Scandinavian countries, there is a radical
change to the tournament. Limhamn have joined forces with the
Copenhagen Chess Federation, the merger now seeing the tournament being
split into two, with five rounds played in Malmo, and then concluding
with four rounds in neighbouring Copenhagen.

Despite the change, the name remains the same as does the format: a
ten-player all-play-all (running 29 April to 8 May), with six
Scandinavian players facing four world class opponents. The line-up for
the category 13 event (average rating 2572) is headed by world elite
player GM Vassily Ivanchuck (Ukraine), and includes, in rating order, GM
Emil Sutovsky (Israel), GM Peter Heine Nielsen (Denmark), GM Curt Hansen
(Denmark), GM Luke McShane (England), GM Jan Timman (Netherlands), GM
Jonny Hector (Sweden), GM Sune Berg Hansen (Denmark), GM Tiger Hillarp
Persson (Sweden) and FM Bengt Lindberg (Sweden).

As the tournament reached its midway point with the transfer to
Copenhagen, Ivanchuk has taken the sole lead on 4.5/6, a half-point
behind the chasing pack of Nielsen, McShane and Sutovsky on 4.

S Hansen - V Ivanchuk
11th Sigeman & Co., (4)
Sicilian Scheveningen
1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 d4 cxd4 4 Nxd4 Nf6 5 Nc3 d6 6 g3 e6 7 Bg2 Bd7 8 0-0
Be7 9 Nxc6 Bxc6 10 a4 0-0 11 Be3 Qc7 12 Qe2 a6 13 Rfd1 Rfe8 14 a5 Rac8
15 Qc4 Nd7 16 Qa2 h5 17 h4 g6 18 Rd2 Ne5 19 Bb6 Qb8 20 Bd4 Bf8 21 Rad1
Bh6 22 Re2 Qc7 23 Bb6 Qe7 24 Be3 Bxe3 25 Rxe3 Red8 26 Qb3 Qc7 27 Ra1 Rb8
28 Nd1 d5 29 exd5 Bxd5 30 Qc3 Nc6 31 Bh3 b6 32 Qf6 bxa5 33 Nc3 Rd6 34
Rae1 Rf8 35 g4 Qe7 36 Qf4 hxg4 37 Bxg4 Rfd8 38 Rg3 e5 39 Qh6 Qf6 40 h5
Qf4 41 Qxf4 exf4 42 Rd3 Nb4 43 Rd2 Bc6 44 Rxd6 Rxd6 45 Re5 Rd2 46 Bd1
Na2 0-1

JOHN B HENDERSON