Jan Markos Victorious, but not without Stains

On Tuesday, 14/9/2011, the very first simultaneous exhibition by the best Slovak chess player, Grandmaster Jan Markos, took place at ChessFriends.com. He faced six chess players from five countries. This time, challenging players were more successful than in the last simul against GM Ipatov. The final score was 4.5 to 1.5 for the grandmaster. Jan has made the event interesting by the choice of his first move. In contrast to Ipatov, who moved to 1.b3 every time, Markos started every game by a different move, which concluded in several different positions. During opening, Brazilian player called brazilian has acquired the greatest advantage. By very clever exchange of Queens, brazilian got into markedly better endgame and due to lack of active counter attack, Slovak Grandmaster had to congratulate his opponent a few moves afterwards. The game against German chess player nicknamed Husplayer resulted in a draw. In this game, Markos was not able to prevail in a King’s gambit while playing white and as Husplayer played without apparent flaws, the game ended undecidedly. The rest of the games did not bring any surprises, Jan was always triumphant. Games of the event:
We would like to congratulate to players, who did remarkably well. To the rest of the protagonists, including GM Jan Markos himself, we would like to thank on behalf of the complete ChessFrends.com. The next simul takes place on Wednesday, 21/9/2011 at 17:00 GMT. The ChessFriends.com qualification will held on Tuesday and is open to everybody registered to ChessFriends.com. More information and registration can be found it in the site's tournament section. “We would like to offer an opportunity for anybody to play against a grandmaster,” says Marek Holeva from ChessFriends.com. “And everybody is invited to try to defeat him,” he adds, smiling. You can stream the Simultaneous Exhibition real-time on your web or blog by simple embedding this code:
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Simultaneous Exhibitions by Grandmaster Jan Markos on ChessFriends.com

Currently the best player in Slovakia, Grandmaster Jan Markos has accepted the offer of ChessFriends.com. He is going to play regular simultaneous exhibitions on the website. The simuls will take place every Tuesday at 18:00 CET and are open to anybody. Every week, 6 simultaneous games will be played. The Grandmaster plays white, and players will have 30 minutes on hand to play their moves.

Every registered user of ChessFriends.com is eligible for qualification for one of the six tickets to try out his/her skills against the famed Grand Master. Prospective attendees can register at ChessFriends.com in the Tournaments section. After registrations, qualification pre-tournament will be held, from which six best players will arise. They will be the challengers of GM Jan Markos.

The first simul is about to be held on next Tuesday, 13/9/2011. Qualification tournament is taking place on Monday the 12th. After 9 rounds of 5-minute battles, the best players will recieve their tickets. There are still 3 players’ and 3 substitue tickets available.

You can stream the event real-time on your website by simple embedding of one of these codes:

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