Moscow Open (2008)

PARTICIPANTS (sorted by highest achieved rating; click on name to see player's games) Baadur Jobava, Vladimir Malakhov, Dmitry Andreikin, Alexander Moiseenko, Evgeny Najer, Alexander Riazantsev, Alexander Areshchenko, Le Quang Liem, Arkadi Naiditsch, Vladimir Akopian, Alexander Motylev, Zahar Efimenko, Ernesto Inarkiev, Anton Korobov, Emil Sutovsky, Sergei Tiviakov, Sergey Volkov, Evgenij Miroshnichenko, Vadim Zvjaginsev, Vladimir Potkin, Artyom Timofeev, Alexey Aleksandrov, Mikhail Kobalia, Igor Kurnosov, Vasily Papin, Denis Khismatullin, Gadir Guseinov, Hrant Melkumyan, Ngoc Truongson Nguyen, Ildar Khairullin, Alexander Lastin, Pavel Tregubov, Igor Lysyj, Boris Savchenko, Murtas Kazhgaleyev, Viorel Iordachescu, Farrukh Amonatov, Karen Asrian, Zaven Andriasian, Yaroslav Zherebukh, Vladimir Belov, Yuri Kuzubov, Pavel Smirnov, Anton Demchenko, Vladimir Burmakin, Ivan Popov, Dmitry Svetushkin, Evgeny E Vorobiov, Aleksandr Rakhmanov, Pavel Ponkratov, Andrei Deviatkin, Yuri Vovk, Anna Muzychuk, Igor V Glek, Sergei Yudin, Alexandre Danin, Artur Gabrielian, Vasily Yemelin, Mikhailo Oleksienko, Andrey Rychagov, Evgeni Ellinovich Sveshnikov, Anton Shomoev, Alexandr V Kharitonov, Jakov Geller, Alexander Evdokimov, Stanislav Novikov, Alexei Iljushin, Kateryna Lahno, Joshua E Friedel, Eldar Gasanov, Konstantin Tarlev, Shukhrat Safin, Oleg Nikolenko, Al-Rakib Abdulla, Sergei Iskusnyh, Enamul Hossain, Mikhail Krylov, Valeri Yandemirov, Dronavalli Harika, Elina Danielian, Artem Chernobay, Egor Krivoborodov, Alexander Zabotin, Dzhakay Dzhakaev, Victor L Ivanov, Igor Naumkin, Anna Ushenina, Jaroslav Ulko, Natalia Pogonina, Pavel Dvalishvili, Natalia Zhukova, Irina Krush, Pavel Potapov, Alexei Gubajdullin, Salome Melia, Olga Girya, Batkhuyag Munguntuul, Alexander Moskalenko, Elena Tairova, Sergey Slugin, Anastasia Bodnaruk, Irina Slavina Turova, Vladimir Demin, Anatoliy Polivanov, Alexey Kostin, Oleg Aleshin, Oleg Ivanov, Alexander Chudinovskikh, Sopio Gvetadze, Andrey Okara, Nickolai Peregudov, Pavel Kotenko, Baira Kovanova, Boris Onoprijchuk, Armen Tonoian, Igor Zemtsov, Tatiana Malgina-Sterliagova, Svetlana Vasilkova, Zoja Severiukhina, Evgenia Kuzevanova, Anastasia Kalmykova, Julia Yakovich, Elena Kuzmenko, Maria Kiseljova

page 1 of 7; games 1-25 of 159  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. I Khairullin vs A Aleksandrov ½-½ 61 2008 Moscow Open C65 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense 2. Motylev vs A Timofeev ½-½ 41 2008 Moscow Open B48 Sicilian, Taimanov Variation 3. E Inarkiev vs I Popov 1-0 42 2008 Moscow Open D15 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 4. A Zabotin vs I Lysyj   ½-½ 40 2008 Moscow Open A13 English 5. S Yudin vs P Smirnov   0-1 40 2008 Moscow Open B06 Robatsch 6. Le Quang Liem vs Y Kuzubov   ½-½ 33 2008 Moscow Open D10 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 7. S Volkov vs D Svetushkin   1-0 37 2008 Moscow Open D45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 8. A Deviatkin vs Potkin   ½-½ 30 2008 Moscow Open D30 Queen's Gambit Declined 9. S Yudin vs A Lastin 0-1 42 2008 Moscow Open C55 Two Knights Defense 10. Ngoc Truongson Nguyen vs M Kobalia   0-1 56 2008 Moscow Open D31 Queen's Gambit Declined 11. Jobava vs S Volkov   ½-½ 35 2008 Moscow Open A29 English, Four Knights, Kingside Fianchetto 12. E Vorobiov vs Miroshnichenko ½-½ 16 2008 Moscow Open B57 Sicilian 13. Naiditsch vs A Lastin 0-1 33 2008 Moscow Open B12 Caro-Kann Defense 14. K Asrian vs S Novikov   1-0 55 2008 Moscow Open B83 Sicilian 15. A Rychagov vs A Riazantsev 0-1 41 2008 Moscow Open E15 Queen's Indian 16. Glek vs E Najer   1-0 60 2008 Moscow Open C24 Bishop's Opening 17. D Khismatullin vs Efimenko   0-1 43 2008 Moscow Open D78 Neo-Grunfeld, 6.O-O c6 18. D Svetushkin vs Miroshnichenko   ½-½ 40 2008 Moscow Open E12 Queen's Indian 19. V Malakhov vs A Evdokimov   1-0 59 2008 Moscow Open A10 English 20. I Kurnosov vs M Kobalia   ½-½ 25 2008 Moscow Open B46 Sicilian, Taimanov Variation 21. Potkin vs Le Quang Liem 1-0 60 2008 Moscow Open D15 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 22. P Smirnov vs A Moiseenko   ½-½ 67 2008 Moscow Open B32 Sicilian 23. E Najer vs A Rychagov   ½-½ 42 2008 Moscow Open C11 French 24. P Tregubov vs D Svetushkin   ½-½ 65 2008 Moscow Open D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 25. V Yemelin vs Naiditsch 0-1 89 2008 Moscow Open B29 Sicilian, Nimzovich-Rubinstein  page 1 of 7; games 1-25 of 159    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)

< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 11 OF 12 ·  Later Kibitzing> Feb-08-08    Wild Bill: Ernesto just defeated Riazantsev in a R & P ending (74 moves). Feb-08-08    percyblakeney: Another upset in the women's section is Olga Girya winning with black against the two years older Lahno. So after 7 rounds the top looks like this: Muzychuk: 6.5 Bodnaruk, Girya: 6 Ushenina, Lahno, Pogonina, Krush, Zhukova and Danielian and so on seem to be too far behind but it's not over yet. Feb-08-08    percyblakeney: Round 8 top boards: Girya-Muzychuk Bodnaruk-Ushenina Elena Fatalibekova has 4/7, and won some nice games already in the 60's: M Litinskaya-Shul vs E Fatalibekova, 1969 Feb-08-08    BIDMONFA: Moscow Open (2008) Round 7, leaders Ernesto Inarkiev, Artyom Timofeev and Ivan Popov 6 points http://www.bidmonfa.com/informacio_... _ Feb-08-08    Rottamo: I was on the venue today. I spent some time waching Nyzhnyk's loss against Grigorij. He was playing on the board 102. number of IM level players is huge here in Russia. Feb-08-08    pawnofdoom: This is a lousy tournament for top seed Akopian. ANyone know his score? I couldn't find him in the "top list" on chessbase so I just assumed he wasn't doing so well. For his rating, at least. Feb-08-08    ChessNe1: <percyblakeney>, how did Elena Tairova do today? Feb-08-08    percyblakeney: <ChessNe1> She won with black against Gvetadze and shares 4-8th. Feb-08-08    wolfmaster: How's Sutovsky doing so far? Feb-09-08    jamesmaskell: Sutovsky is 96th with 4/7. Its a strange system because he's drawn with loads of others on 4/7 but it separates by number of victories and also by this mysterious FIDE tiebreak. I saw this tiebreak on the Chessbase table for Corus, but I dont know how it works. Its not the same as Buchholz though. Anyone shed some light? Feb-09-08    percyblakeney: Muzychuk is playing some odd looking Scandinavian line in round 8, moving the queen's bishop three times in the first five moves to get it back to c8... Feb-09-08    nescio: Malakhov and Evdokimov played an unusual move order, but finally agreed on a normal looking King's Indian position: 1.c4 g6 2.e4 e5 3.d4 d6 4.Nc3 Nc6 5.d5 Nce7 6.Bd3 Bg7 7.Nge2 Nf6. Feb-09-08    nescio: <percyblakeney> I remember this game: N Alexandria vs N Gaprindashvili, 1975, though I don't know if Gaprindasjvili invented the system. I suspect it had been around for awhile. Feb-09-08    SwitchingQuylthulg: I think that crazy-looking system might be of Icelandic origin: [Event "Moscow ol (Men) qual-C"] [Site "Moscow"] [Date "1956.08.31"] [Round "4"] [White "Niephaus,Walter"] [Black "Thorbergsson,Freysteinn"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "B01"] <1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Nf6 3.Bb5+ Bd7 4.Bc4 Bg4 5.f3 Bc8> 6.Nc3 Nbd7 7.Ne4 Nb6 8.Nxf6+ gxf6 9.Bb3 Nxd5 10.d4 Rg8 11.g3 c6 12.Qd3 f5 13.Bd2 e6 14.0-0-0 a5 15.Kb1 Nb4 16.Bxb4 axb4 17.Nh3 Ra5 18.Rhe1 Be7 19.Qe3 Rg6 20.Qe2 Kf8 21.Nf4 Rg8 22.Qd2 Qd6 23.Ng2 Bg5 24.f4 Bf6 25.Ne3 b5 26.c4 bxc3 27.Qxc3 Ra6 28.Nc2 Bd7 29.Nb4 Ra8 30.Re2 Rc8 31.Na6 Kg7 32.Qc5 Qxc5 33.dxc5 Rgd8 34.Red2 Be8 35.Rxd8 Rxd8 36.Rxd8 Bxd8 37.Bd1 f6 38.Bb3 e5 39.Be6 Kg6 40.b4 h5 41.Kc2 exf4 42.gxf4 h4 43.h3 Kg7 44.Kd3 Kf8 45.Bxf5 Ke7 46.Ke3 Bf7 47.Nb8 Be8 48.Be4 Bc7 49.Nxc6+ Bxc6 50.Bxc6 Ke6 51.Bxb5 Kd5 52.a4 Bb8 53.a5 Bc7 54.a6 Bb8 55.Kd3 Ba7 56.Bd7 Bb8 57.Bf5 1-0 Feb-09-08    nescio: <SwitchingQuylthulg> Well, I don't think Niephsus Thorbergsson is a great invitation to repeat the moves. I've seen better games :) Feb-09-08    percyblakeney: It ended well for Muzychuk anyhow, and with one round to go she's leading with a full point after going +7 -0 =1. Feb-09-08    PhilFeeley: I don't understand this tournament. I can find neither Krush nor Sutovsky in any of their crosstables. What's going on? Feb-09-08    chessmoron: <PhilFeeley> #8 http://www.moscowchessopen.ru/2008/... #135 http://www.moscowchessopen.ru/2008/... Feb-09-08    PhilFeeley: So how come neither are listed in the next pairings? http://www.moscowchessopen.ru/2008/... Did they get a bye or something? Feb-10-08    PhilFeeley: Found Krush here: http://www.moscowchessopen.ru/2008/... No sign of Sutovsky yet... Feb-10-08    brankat: <PhilFeely> You have a Crush on Krush? :-) Feb-10-08    Boomie: GM Timofeev,Artyom(RUS) (2664) - GM Inarkiev,Ernesto(RUS) (2681) 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 0-0 8.h3 Bb7 9.d3 d6 10.c3 Na5 11.Bc2 c5 12.Nbd2 Re8 13.Nf1 Bf8 14.Bg5 h6 15.Bh4 Be7 16.Ne3 g6 17.Nh2 Nc6 18.Bb3 click for larger view Feb-10-08    Boomie: Ushenina Anna - Krush Irina 1.e4 c5 2.c3 Nf6 3.e5 Nd5 4.Nf3 Nc6 5.Bc4 Nb6 6.Bb3 c4 7.Bc2 Qc7 8.Qe2 g5 9.e6 dxe6 10.Nxg5 Qe5 11.d4 cxd3 12.Bxd3 Qxe2+ 13.Bxe2 Bg7 click for larger view Feb-10-08    percyblakeney: I think it's the first time that the transmission of the women's section seems to be working, but they only follow other games than the one that decides the winner, Muzychuk-Harika. Feb-10-08    researchj: Muzychuk wins the tournament even with a loss in the last round, acording to the additional criteria. Jump to page #    (enter # from 1 to 12) < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 11 OF 12 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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