- The Eighth Amber Blindfold and Rapid Chess Tournament took place in the Metropole Palace hotel at the casino square in Monaco, from March 16 until March 28 1999. The players played one rapid game and one blindfold game with reversed colours against the same opponent each day. The time control was 25 min per game plus 10 sec (rapid) or 20 sec (blindfold) per move. Russian GM Kramnik won the combined event ahead of Topalov and Shirov by 1/2 pt.
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Turkish GM Suat Atalik won a Category 10 tournament in Alushta, Ukraine that took place March 3rd-13th. He performed an 2737 ELO performance by scoring 9/12.
Further details including annotated games by the winner at Mikhail Golubev's www site: http://chess-sector.odessa.ua
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