page 2 of 2; games 26-45 of 45  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 26. Dreev vs Svidler   ½-½ 22 2005 6th Poikovsky Karpov Tournament D80 Grunfeld 27. Vaganian vs Onischuk   ½-½ 19 2005 6th Poikovsky Karpov Tournament E14 Queen's Indian 28. L Dominguez vs Sadvakasov   1-0 62 2005 6th Poikovsky Karpov Tournament C11 French 29. Bacrot vs Rublevsky ½-½ 12 2005 6th Poikovsky Karpov Tournament B46 Sicilian, Taimanov Variation 30. Grischuk vs Bologan   ½-½ 78 2005 6th Poikovsky Karpov Tournament E05 Catalan, Open, Classical line 31. Bologan vs Vaganian   1-0 53 2005 6th Poikovsky Karpov Tournament D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst 32. Onischuk vs Bacrot 0-1 62 2005 6th Poikovsky Karpov Tournament D20 Queen's Gambit Accepted 33. Sadvakasov vs Grischuk 0-1 40 2005 6th Poikovsky Karpov Tournament B51 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack 34. Rublevsky vs Dreev ½-½ 13 2005 6th Poikovsky Karpov Tournament B12 Caro-Kann Defense 35. Svidler vs L Dominguez   ½-½ 28 2005 6th Poikovsky Karpov Tournament C42 Petrov Defense 36. Dreev vs Onischuk   1-0 57 2005 6th Poikovsky Karpov Tournament E13 Queen's Indian, 4.Nc3, Main line 37. Bacrot vs Bologan 1-0 44 2005 6th Poikovsky Karpov Tournament D37 Queen's Gambit Declined 38. L Dominguez vs Grischuk ½-½ 23 2005 6th Poikovsky Karpov Tournament C11 French 39. Vaganian vs Sadvakasov   ½-½ 10 2005 6th Poikovsky Karpov Tournament D27 Queen's Gambit Accepted, Classical 40. Svidler vs Rublevsky 1-0 70 2005 6th Poikovsky Karpov Tournament B43 Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3 41. Rublevsky vs L Dominguez   ½-½ 66 2005 6th Poikovsky Karpov Tournament B23 Sicilian, Closed 42. Onischuk vs Svidler ½-½ 20 2005 6th Poikovsky Karpov Tournament D87 Grunfeld, Exchange 43. Bologan vs Dreev   ½-½ 35 2005 6th Poikovsky Karpov Tournament B19 Caro-Kann, Classical 44. Grischuk vs Vaganian   ½-½ 29 2005 6th Poikovsky Karpov Tournament C16 French, Winawer 45. Sadvakasov vs Bacrot   ½-½ 32 2005 6th Poikovsky Karpov Tournament C67 Ruy Lopez  page 2 of 2; games 26-45 of 45    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)

Mar-15-05    cade: Vaganian is really off form at the moment. Its a shame because he can play some amazing chess when hes in the zone. Mar-15-05    AdrianP: Surprisingly lacklustre performance from Svidler as well - there are a lot of short draws in his games. Mar-15-05    AgentRgent: <cade> I don't know... Rafael drew against the big 4 (Grischuk, Bacrot, Svidler, and Dreev) including 2 with Black (Grischuk & Dreev). Onischuck sac'ed a bishop on move 16 to force a perpetual. Against Bologan, he simply was outplayed. (I suspect he overlooked 37. Ne3). The 10 mover vs Sadvakasov was sandwiched between the Loss to Bologan and the game against Grischuk. Overall not a bad result if somewhat less than stellar. Mar-15-05    iron maiden: Not really surprising for Svidler. His results in these tournaments have been mediocre ever since last year's Corus. Mar-15-05    yoozum: Svidler has been underperforming for a while now. As I've stated before, I'm glad Bologan is well on his way to joining the other 2700ers, despite him being very inconsistent. This result is exactly what Bacrot needed after some mediocre tournaments. He's actually made me realize with this tournament that he may actually deserve his rating. Mar-16-05    Illogic: Svidler - wow he really phoned it in. 5 out of 9 games were 22 moves or less. Mar-16-05    cade: Svidler may have phoned in his performance but his one win is a real classic. Svidler vs Rublevsky, 2005 Mar-16-05    somethingstrong: Anyone know the time controls of this tournament? Thanks in advance. Mar-17-05    Mameluk: Svidler currently scored 2/2 in Bundesliga, beating Landa and Volokitin. I think he may have been sick in Poikovsky or something. Time controls were quite fine I think, no FIDE-Shirov destructions. Mar-17-05    acirce: Svidler scored +1 against a 2676 rating average. Pretty much what is statistically expected, just lost a couple of points. Together with those wins in Bundesliga it could mean he's back after some mediocre results, although he would need new tests against the world's best too. Mar-17-05    nikolaas: Svidler underperformed, but only very slightly. Almost all the players performed more or less as expected. Only Sadvakasov has a significant drop and Bologan raises a fair bit. Bacrot 2715...2725.5 ==> +10.5 Bologan 2683...2698 ==> +15 Grischuk 2710...2716.5 ==> +6.5 Dreev 2704...2713 ==> +9 Svidler 2735...2733==> -2 Dominguez-Perez 2661...2659 ==> -2 Onischuk 2652...2651.5 ==> -0.5 Vaganian 2670...2667 ==> -3 Rublevsky 2650...2644.5 ==> -5.5 Sadvakasov 2635...2611.5 ==> -23.5 Rounded to halfs. Jan-30-07    positionalgenius: A little surprising that Grischuk and Svidler didn't do better,but still an interesting tournament.

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