Russian Championship Higher League (2007)

Player: Pavel Smirnov

page 1 of 1; 11 games    Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. P Smirnov vs D Chuprov   ½-½ 52 2007 Russian Championship Higher League B79 Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack, 12.h4 2. M Turov vs P Smirnov   ½-½ 45 2007 Russian Championship Higher League D45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 3. P Smirnov vs M Panarin   ½-½ 62 2007 Russian Championship Higher League B12 Caro-Kann Defense 4. A Shomoev vs P Smirnov   0-1 38 2007 Russian Championship Higher League D45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 5. P Smirnov vs S Novikov   ½-½ 66 2007 Russian Championship Higher League B48 Sicilian, Taimanov Variation 6. B Savchenko vs P Smirnov   ½-½ 17 2007 Russian Championship Higher League B30 Sicilian 7. P Smirnov vs V Zakhartsov   0-1 38 2007 Russian Championship Higher League B90 Sicilian, Najdorf 8. E Romanov vs P Smirnov   0-1 40 2007 Russian Championship Higher League B42 Sicilian, Kan 9. P Smirnov vs P Tregubov   0-1 40 2007 Russian Championship Higher League B33 Sicilian 10. V Belov vs P Smirnov   ½-½ 20 2007 Russian Championship Higher League B33 Sicilian 11. P Smirnov vs P Maletin   1-0 34 2007 Russian Championship Higher League B35 Sicilian, Accelerated Fianchetto, Modern Variation with Bc4   REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2) | Smirnov wins | Smirnov loses

Sep-06-07    chessgames.com: The 60th Championship of Russia ("Higher League") takes place in Krasnoyarsk 3rd-11th September 2007 Official site: http://russiachess.org/ These games are broadcast live at this page: http://russiachess.org/online/ Sep-06-07    malthrope: Good move CG.com! Round #4 is now underway and the games started at 3 AM EDT (just over one hour ago). ;-) Sep-06-07    percyblakeney: No wins for Rublevsky yet, today he lost with white against Zakhartsov (2559). Sep-08-07    percyblakeney: Top boards in round 5: Dreev-Timofeev ½-½ (13 moves) Vitiugov-Najer 1-0 Korotylev-Amonatov ½-½ (9 moves) Khismatullin-Zvjaginsev 0-1 Sep-08-07    Karpova: Bareev won against Lastin and Rublevsky scored against Voinov Sep-08-07    percyblakeney: Apart from board 1 and 3 a hard-fought round, and most of the games on the top 15 boards were decisive. Sep-09-07    queener: After the 5th round, Vitiugov and Dreev lead with 4.0, while Malakhov, Bareev and some other GMs trail by half a point. http://russiachess.org/content/view... Sep-10-07    percyblakeney: Zvjaginsev's more than a year long unbeaten sequence was ended today by Rychagov. The other six top boards were drawn. Sep-10-07    DCP23: <percyblakeney: No wins for Rublevsky yet, today he lost with white against Zakhartsov (2559).> Looks like Rublevsky heard your critique, because he won 3 in a row right after that. Sep-11-07    Troller: Two of the biggest favourites are playing now in Drejev-Rublevskij. Play has ground to a halt after 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c5 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Qb3 dc4 5.Qc4 Bg4 6.Bf4 Nbd7 7.Nbd2 e6 8.e3 Be7 9.Ne5: click for larger view I like Bareev's position as black against Amonatov, position after 22..Ndf6: click for larger view But maybe that's just because I play the Caro-Kann myself. Sep-11-07    Troller: OK, so Drejev-Rublevskij took a long time since they drew at move 9. Wow. Sakaev seems to have an edge against Malakhov. Grigoriants as white has an isolani on the d-file against Motylev compensated by some activity, but black looks better imo. Kobalia-Khismatullin is highly interesting after 12..e5: click for larger view Sep-11-07    percyblakeney: Zvjaginsev wants revenge today and has a promising position against Grachev after playing 19. Nc5: click for larger view Sep-11-07    Karpova: Nepomnyashiy-Makarov after 22...Bd8 click for larger view Sep-11-07    Karpova: Nepomnyashiy-Makarov after 33...Bg7 click for larger view Zvjaginsev-Grachev 1-0 after 32 moves. Sep-14-07    percyblakeney: In the last round Zvjaginsev quickly sacrificed a knight and won, ending up as one of eleven players that shared first with 7/11. Sep-14-07    percyblakeney: Zvjaginsev chose a line where the Opening Explorer had 9 black wins and 1 draw in 10 games after black's fifth move. Here comes the knight sacrifice with 11. d4 (and after 30 moves Chuprov resigned): click for larger view Sep-14-07    tal lover: <percyblakeney> i think that this line is actually a blunder, and Zvjaginsev was caught in the opening but outplayed his oponent in the middle game Sep-16-07    notyetagm: <percyblakeney: In the last round Zvjaginsev quickly sacrificed a knight and won, ending up as one of eleven players that shared first with 7/11.> Clutch win by the Z-man, and in excellent style no less.

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