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These photos were taken in the period September 15-20, 2004 at the Lausanne Young Masters Tournament. The winner of the tournament was GM Luke McShane (ELO 2643), followed by GM Shakhryar Mamedyarov (ELO 2662), congratulations!
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| Thanks to the organizer of the event, Mr. René Kesselring, who did a wonderful job | Our friend from Chessbase Switzerland Lucio Barvas and the webmaster of the event, Mr. Jean-François Croset | The City Councellor Jean-Jacques SCHILT (in charge of Culture and sports) came to address the audience before the tournament | The Manager of Press Mr. Georges Bertola did a great job to promote the event |
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| Some gifts were given to the players before the start of the game | The 8 young masters before the tournament started | Ekateryna Lahno, Shakhryar Mamedyarov and Alexandra Kosteniuk | Zeinab Mamedyarova and her brother Shakhryar Mamedyarov, and Alexandra |
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| The girls are first to get to their boards | The press was covering the event quite well | The tournament room at the Casino de Montbenon de Lausanne was very nice | The tournament room at the Casino de Montbenon de Lausanne was very nice |
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| Alexandra Kosteniuk | Alexandra Kosteniuk | Alexandra Kosteniuk | Alexandra Kosteniuk |
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| Alexandra Kosteniuk | Alexandra Kosteniuk | Alexandra Kosteniuk | Alexandra is playing her first match against GM David Navara |
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| Alexandra is playing her second match against IM Ekateryna Lahno | Alexandra is playing her third match against Severin Papa | Luke McShane, the winner of the Young Masters 2004 Tournament | Shakhryar Mamedyarov is playing against Luke McShane for the title |
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| Shakhryar Mamedyarov is playing against Luke McShane for the title | Shakhryar Mamedyarov is playing against Luke McShane for the title | Shakhryar Mamedyarov | Shakhryar Mamedyarov |
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| David Navara | David Navara | David Navara | Evgeny Alekseev |
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| Evgeny Alekseev | Magnus Carlsen | Magnus Carlsen | Magnus Carlsen |
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| Magnus Carlsen | Magnus Carlsen | Magnus Carlsen is playing against Ekateryna Lahno | Ekateryna Lahno |
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| Ekateryna Lahno | Ekateryna Lahno | Ekateryna Lahno | Severin Papa |
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| Severin Papa | Severin Papa | Melissa Levacic in the Open tournament | Yannick Pelletier is playing Ali Habibi in the Open tournament |
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| Zeinab Mamedyarova in the Open tournament | Pierre-André Buffat playing André Meylan in the Open tournament | The room for the Open tournament | David Navara is playing against Evgeny Alekseev |
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| The winners of the Open: Pavlovic (3), Lazarev (1), Akopian (2) | The winners of the Maitre-Espoirs: Marcelin (2), Tukmakov (1), Raetsky (3) | The 8 young masters at the prize distribution | Good mood after the prize distribution |
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| Alexandra is playing a blitz game with Tigran L. Petrosian | Ekateryna Lahno and Alexandra Kosteniuk team up against the boys | Ekateryna Lahno and Alexandra Kosteniuk | Ekateryna Lahno and Alexandra Kosteniuk make sure the clocks are well set up |
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| Blitz in teams is quite fun! | Magnus Carlsen and Tigran L. Petrosian | Patrick Guyer and his pupil André Meylan | David Navara and Magnus Carlsen playing against Alexandra and Ekateryna |
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| The boys were able to beat the girls quite convincingly in this game | Ali Habibi and his book stand | After the closing dinner, almost all the players went to a Game Hall to unwind | ... except McShane - no wonder he won the tournament |
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| Alexandra Kosteniuk is a master at Table Hockey! | Tigran L. Petrosian and Shakhryar Mamedyarov team together | Alexandra Kosteniuk is racing with Ekateryna Lahno | Alexandra Kosteniuk is racing with Ekateryna Lahno |
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| In this case, Alexandra was holding a little better to the road | Magnus and Ekateryna formed a great team | Shakhryar Mamedyarov and Alexander Rustemov show their mastery at billiards | Magnus Carlsen and Evgeny Alekseev |
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| Alexandra and Magnus get their puck back from an (almost) goal | Magnus Carlsen is quite good at Table Hockey! |
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