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Week 1

Position 1. E. Maahs - A. Trisic, Hamburg 1999 44 Re8+! 1-0

Position 2. L. McShane - V. Mirumian, Lippstadt 1999 22...Bc4! 23 Rd1 [23 Rxd4 Re1+ 24 Rf1 Rxf1#] 23...Qxd6! 24 Ne4 Rxe4 0-1

Position 3. S. Hansen - F. Lamprecht, Hamburg 1999 19 Nxh7!! Kxh7 [19...Re8 20 Rxe6! fxe6 21 Qxg6+ Kh8 22 Ng5 Nd8 23 Ndxe6+- (23 Nxb5!? axb5 24 Rd4 Ra4 25 b4+-) ] 20 Nxe6! [20 Rxe6!? fxe6 21 Qxg6+ Kh8 22 Qh5+ Kg8 23 Rd3+-] 20...Nd8 [20...fxe6? 21 Qxg6+ Kh8 22 Rxd5+-; best was 20...Qxe6! 21 Rxe6 Nf4 22 Qg3 Nxe6 23 Rd7 Ng7 24 Be4 Re8 25 Qh4+ (25 f3) 25...Kg8 26 Qf6] 21 Nxf8+ Qxf8 22 Qd4 Ra8 23 Rd3 f6 24 Rg3 1-0

Week 2

Position 1.
In Formanek - Griguric White played 1 Re8!! and Black resigned because he is checkmated after both 1 ..Rxe8 2 Bg7# and 1...Qxe8 2 Qxf6+ Rg7 3 Qxg7#. 1-0

Position 2.
While in the game Yemelin - Nepomnyashiy the line 21 Nf6 Bxf6 22 gxf6 Rg8 23 Rdd3 (with the idea of 24 Qxh7!) looks strong, it might have allowed Black to put up some resistance with 23...g5. Instead White finished the game in style with 21 Bxe5+! dxe5 22 Nf6 1-0. Black resigned in view of 22...Bxf6 23 gxf6 Rg8 24 Rd8 Be6 25 Qg7#.

Position 3.
In Hickl - Adianto White achieved winning advantage by playing 26 Rxf6! gxf6 27 Nc6!, as 27...Nxc6 28 Qxf6 is curtains for Black. Instead the game went: 27...Nd5 28 Ne7+ Kg7 29 Nxd5 Qxc3 30 Bxc3 Bf5 31 Bxf6+ Kg6 32 Bd4 1-0

Week 3

Position 1. Fuster-Balogh: Black played 1...Qb2!! and White resigned. 0-1

Position 2. Ragozin-Panov: 25...Qc6! and White resigned as he loses a rook. 0-1

Position 3. Karasev-Klaman: 34 Re6! Qd8 35 Rg6! Rg8 36 Rxf7 Rd1+ 37 Kh2 Qb8+ 38 g3 Rd2+ 39 Kh1 1-0

Week 4

Position 1. Gliksman-Popovic: 1...Qa5! 0-1

Position 2. Zhuravlev - Kapengut: Black played 32...Bxf3+! 33 Bxf3 Rh2+! and after 34 Kxh2 Nxf3+ 35 Kg2 Nxd4 he won the resulting knight endgame: 36 Kf2 Kf6 37 Ke3 Ke5 38 Nd1 Nb3 39 Nc3 Nc5 40 Kf3 Kd4 41 Nb5+ Kxc4 42 Nxd6+ Kd5 0-1

Position 3. Eck - Gaprindashvili: White played spectacular move 19 Bf6!!, which decided the game: 19...Kh8 (also loses 19...Rfe8 20 Bxe7+- or 19...e6 20 Nf4 Qf5 21 e4+-) 20 Nxe7 Nxe7 21 Bxe7 Ne4 22 Qd3 f5 23 Bxf8 Rxf8 24 fxe4 fxg4 25 Rf1 Rd8 26 Rf7 b6 27 Rbf1 Be5 28 Rxa7 Qh3+ 29 Kg1 d5 30 Qxd5 1-0

Week 5

Position 1. Paramonov-Shekhtman: 1 Qxe5! 1-0

Position 2. Panczyk-Shurade: 1 Qa8!! 1-0

Position 3. Fedorov-Kalichkin: 15 Ne5+! Kg7 (or 15...fxe5 16 Qxe5 Bg7 17 Bxd5+ Kf8 18 Qd6+ Qxd6 19 Bxd6#. Also bad is 15...Kg8 16 Nc6 Qd7 17 Ne7+ Bxe7 18 Qxe7, winning) 16 Bh6+! Kg8 17 Nc6 1-0 After 17...Qd7 18 Bxd5+ Qxd5 19 Ne7+ Bxe7 20 Qxe7 checkmate is inevitable.

June

Position 1. W. Schmidt - P. Bobras: 30...Re1+! 0-1

Position 2. Westerinen - H. Olsen: 19 Nxe6!+- fxe6 20 Rxe6 1-0

Position 3. Gross-Borgo: 22 Bg7+! Bxg7 23 Rxh7+! 1-0