8th Poikovsky Karpov Tournament (2007)

Player: Andrei Istratescu

page 1 of 1; 8 games    Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. A Istratescu vs Rublevsky   ½-½ 22 2007 8th Poikovsky Karpov Tournament B46 Sicilian, Taimanov Variation 2. E Alekseev vs A Istratescu   0-1 38 2007 8th Poikovsky Karpov Tournament B91 Sicilian, Najdorf, Zagreb (Fianchetto) Variation 3. A Istratescu vs Onischuk   ½-½ 21 2007 8th Poikovsky Karpov Tournament E34 Nimzo-Indian, Classical, Noa Variation 4. A Istratescu vs Zhang Pengxiang   ½-½ 17 2007 8th Poikovsky Karpov Tournament C42 Petrov Defense 5. Bologan vs A Istratescu   1-0 51 2007 8th Poikovsky Karpov Tournament E15 Queen's Indian 6. A Istratescu vs Tkachiev   ½-½ 14 2007 8th Poikovsky Karpov Tournament E18 Queen's Indian, Old Main line, 7.Nc3 7. Dreev vs A Istratescu   ½-½ 42 2007 8th Poikovsky Karpov Tournament E12 Queen's Indian 8. Sutovsky vs A Istratescu   ½-½ 38 2007 8th Poikovsky Karpov Tournament B43 Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3   REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2) | Istratescu wins | Istratescu loses

Mar-16-07    Knight13: Nice. Onischuk and Dreev is in there!! Mar-16-07    thatsmate: Is it just me, or is Jakovenko playing in a lot of tournaments, and scoring pretty well in almost all of them? Mar-16-07    Dr.Lecter: Best lucks to Onischuk. He's still in his solid form. Mar-17-07    cannibal: Didn't Bologan already suck last year? He apparently wants to continue that streak. Mar-17-07    Mameluk: <thatsmate> Jakovenko is surely a new top 20 player and Kamsky-like fighter, but today he is in trouble in super-sharp game against Dreev. 12. Bd3!!?? Mar-17-07    cannibal: <Mameluk> Can you post a link for live games? I only found one for Bologan-Rublevsky at chesspro. Mar-17-07    Raskolnikov: <cannibal: <Mameluk> Can you post a link for live games? I only found one for Bologan-Rublevsky at chesspro.> You can try http://russiachess.org/online/. Mar-17-07    cannibal: What a drama in Bologan-Rublevsky! On move 76 they reached a theoretically drawn endgame rook+bishop (for Bologan) vs rook. Rublevsky seemed to defend easily for a long time, but when the game already headed towards a 50-move-rule draw, he finally blundered. When he resigned (on move 124), white would have mated or won the rook on the next move, which would have been 49 moves after the last capture Mar-17-07    chislanoua: Bravo, Viorel! Mar-18-07    Dr.Lecter: Onischuk drew four rounds. He needs a win. Mar-19-07    cannibal: Three disappointing short draws in round 5 (12, 13 and 16 moves!), wins for Bologan (without him this tournament would be a drawfest) and Jakovenko, who now leads with 3.5/5 Mar-20-07    Resignation Trap: I wonder if a day of rest will help Bologan. Of the nine decisive games in this tournament, he was involved in five if them! Viorel does not produce many short draws, but goes gushing for a win in most instances. When he is in top form it works out well, as in Dortmund 2003: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... . When he's not in his best form, this strategy often backfires. Mar-21-07    PhilFeeley: Bologan is fighting his way back. Today's game was really sharp. No boring draws for him! Mar-22-07    Raskolnikov: Jakovenko just won against Alekseev. I think he is goint to win the tournament. Mar-22-07    sapfy: Jakovenko right now has an unofficial rating of 2710, though he'll 'only' be 2698 on the April list. Mar-22-07    s4life: <Resignation Trap: I wonder if a day of rest will help Bologan. Of the nine decisive games in this tournament, he was involved in five if them!> That's just things as usual.. he's a fighter! Mar-23-07    PhilFeeley: Another win today by Bologan! He's now tied for second. Nice comeback. Mar-24-07    Mameluk: <sapfy> I think you got something wrong. Do you count both Pamplona and Aeroflot? Then some small loss from Wijk B, still 2700+ though even not counting Poikovsky. He will play European championship, so he is probably tireless. Mar-25-07    Resignation Trap: <www.chessgames.com> The round 8 game Andrei Istratescu - Dmitry Jakovenko needs to be added to our database to complete the tournament record: (E15) 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.g3 Ba6 5.b3 Bb4+ 6.Bd2 Be7 7.Bg2 c6 8.Bc3 d5 9.Ne5 Nfd7 10.Nxd7 Nxd7 11.Nd2 0-0 12.0-0 Rc8 13.e4 c5 14.exd5 exd5 15.dxc5 dxc4 16.c6 cxb3 17.Re1 b2 18.Bxb2 Nc5 19.Ba3 Bf6 20.Rc1 Bb5 21.Bxc5 bxc5 22.Rxc5 Qb6 23.Ne4 Rxc6 24.Rxc6 Qxc6 25.Nd6 Qc5 26.Nxb5 Qxb5 27.Bd5 g6 28.Qf3 Kg7 29.Bb3 Re8 30.Rxe8 Qxe8 31.Qd5 h5 32.h4 Qe7 1/2-1/2 Mar-26-07    Timex: Jakovenko won!! Mar-27-07    Resignation Trap: Here's a good photoreport on Poikovsky 2007: http://chessbase.de/nachrichten.asp... . Mar-27-07    elLocoEvans: Nice pic that of Karpov at Poikovsky, analyzing blindfold with Sutovsky. Everybody plays that way these days ;)

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