The Spanish Team Championships are taking place in the Hotel Villas D’Aljandar in Cala Galdana (Menorca) and run 8th-17th November 1999. There are three divisions of matches. In the First (Primera) Division the battle is between CA Marcote (Giorgadze, Vallejo Pons, Franco Ocampo) and Unio Gracienca D'Escacs (UCE with Illescas, Magem, Oms, Vehi) who have 20.5 points after seven rounds, this was after Marcote beat UCE in the seventh round. Players such as Lautier, Topalov (who is having a good event), Illescas, Giorgadze and Korneev are playing in this division. The games section has games only from this first division. I'll round up the best games from the second division at the end of the week. This section includes players such as Ian Roger, Mihai Suba, Pia Cramling (who had to go to hospital at the end of her round 3 game but rejoined the event later), Pablo Riccardi etc. The Spanish Team Championships took place in the Hotel Villas D’Aljandar in Cala Galdana (Menorca) and ran 8th-17th November 1999. There were three divisions of matches. In the First (Primera) Division Marcote took the title ahead of Unio Gracienca D'Escacs by 1.5 points, they were level after seven rounds. In the games section the games from the final two rounds in division one and a selection of the most important Division two games are given. Final Cross table No Clubs FED 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Pts Tie Place. 1 C.A. ENDESA CTL X 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 3 10th 2 C.A. MARCOTE GAL 31 X 3 2 31 21 21 31 21 31 261 1st 3 FOMENT MARTINENÇ CAT 3 1 X 21 31 2 2 11 2 2 191 11 6th 4 C.A. ALZIRA H. PRESENCIA VAL 31 2 11 X 3 11 11 2 1 2 18 11 8th 5 EPIC-BARCINO CAT 4 1 1 1 X 0 1 0 0 1 71 9th 6 UNIO GRACIENCA D'ESCACS CAT 31 11 2 21 4 X 31 3 21 21 25 2nd 7 C.A. LABRADORES AND 4 11 2 21 3 1 X 11 11 11 18 21 7th 8 GRAN CANARIA PALM OASIS CAN 31 1 21 2 4 1 21 X 21 1 191 21 5th 9 C.A. TERRASSA CAT 31 11 2 3 4 11 21 11 X 1 201 4th 10 LA CAJA DE CANARIAS CAN 4 1 2 2 31 11 21 3 3 X 22 3rd Top scorers Division 1 Board 1 01 Veselin Topalov Palm Oasis 6 75% 02 Lluis Comas Fabrego Terrassa 5 56% 03 Joel Lautier Caja Insular 5 56% Board 2 01 Francisco Vallejo Pons Marcote 8 89% 02 Jordi Magem Badals Unio Grancienca 6 67% 03 Amador Rodríguez Cespedes Terrassa 6 67% Board 3 01 Zenon Franco Ocampo Marcote 8 89% 02 Mario Gómez Esteban Caja Insular 71 83% 03 Antonio Gual Pascual U.G.d’E. 51 79% Board 4 01 Josep Oms Pallise Unio Gracienca 6 86% 02 Manel Granados Gómez F. Martinenc 7 78% 03 Roberto Paramos Dominguez Marcote 6 67% Division 2 Final standings: 1 REVERTE-ALBOX AND 2398 25 184,5 2 BARNA-VULCA CAT 2466 23,5 189 3 VILLA DE TEROR CAN 2411 23,5 178,5 4 C.A. IBERCAJA ARA 2401 23 181 5 EVAJEDREZ VAL 2419 22,5 185 6 P.A. OROMANA AND 2341 21,5 186 7 E.M. EL OLIVAR ARA 2420 21 186 8 C. DE LAS ARTES GAL 2326 20 187 9 C.E. TROPIC BAL 2321 20 165,5 10 C.D.E. FIGUERES CAT 2307 19 167 11 SAN FELIU U.C. CAT 2315 18,5 173 12 AJEDREZ KARPOV GAL 2260 18,5 164,5 13 R.C. DE REGATAS CNT 2292 18,5 152 14 AMIGOS RETIRO MAD 2281 18 159 15 UNIVERS. OVIEDO AST 2189 18 150,5 16 ZURI-BALTZA EUS 2282 18 146 17 C.A. SOLVAY CNT 2129 17,5 170,5 18 C.A. CAYMU CTM 2289 17,5 161,5 19 FERRA 7 ISLAS CAN 2323 17,5 150 20 C.A. LASKER RIO 2095 17,5 139 21 ATENEO COLON CAT 2312 17 179 22 CLUB CEUTA-64 CEU 2161 17 150 23 CABEZO TORRES MUR 2126 17 134 24 C.A. OBERENA NAV 2362 15 163,5 25 FOMENTO GANDIA VAL 2203 15 162,5 26 C.A. FERRERIES BAL 2217 15 133,5 27 C.A. LISBOA CTL 2253 14,5 143,5 28 RIBERA GUADIANA EXT 2258 11,5 139 29 C.C. ES CASTELL BAL 2142 11,5 138,5 30 P. BARCELONISTA MEL 1952 7,5 140 Top scorers division 2 Board 1 01 Carlos Matamoros Franco P.A. Oromana 7 78% 02 Pablo Ricardi Ibercaja 61 72% 03 Ian Rogers E.M. El Olivar 61 72% Board 2 01 Mauricio Vassallo Caymu 71 83% 02 Pablo Glavina Rossi Ibercaja 7 78% 03 Javier B. Campos Moreno Barcelona-Vulvá 6 67% Board 3 01 Josué Cano Sánchez Reverte-Albox 7 78% 02 Rafael Alvarez Ibarra Villa de Teror 7 78% 03 Yudania Hernández Estevez Ajedrez Karpov 7 78% Board 4 01 Sergio Bolado Sáez R.C. Regatas 6 100% 02 Francisco Sánchez Guirado Evajedrez 7 78% 03 Enrique Gavin Roche E.M. El Olivar 7 78%