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European Club Cup (2009)

  PARTICIPANTS (sorted by highest achieved rating; click on name to see player's games)
Vassily Ivanchuk, Levon Aronian, Peter Svidler, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Vugar Gashimov, Boris Gelfand, Alexey Shirov, Michael Adams, Sergei Movsesian, Alexander Grischuk, Gata Kamsky, Evgeny Bareev, Hikaru Nakamura, Sergey Karjakin, Etienne Bacrot, Pavel Eljanov, Evgeny Alekseev, Ni Hua, Vladimir Malakhov, Bu Xiangzhi, Vladimir Akopian, Francisco Vallejo-Pons, Alexander Beliavsky, Alexander Motylev, Evgeny Tomashevsky, Liviu Dieter Nisipeanu, Alexey Dreev, Sergei Rublevsky, Ilya Smirin, Viktor Bologan, Arkadi Naiditsch, Sergei Tiviakov, Alexander Onischuk, Emil Sutovsky, Evgenij Miroshnichenko, Kiril D Georgiev, Nikita Vitiugov, Alexander Moiseenko, Andrei Volokitin, Zahar Efimenko, Ernesto Inarkiev, Boris Grachev, Evgeny Najer, Artyom Timofeev, Michael Roiz, Gabriel Sargissian, Vadim Zvjaginsev, Laurent Fressinet, Evgeny Postny, Alexander Areshchenko, Vladislav Tkachiev, Konstantin Sakaev, Sergey A Fedorchuk, Fabiano Caruana, Boris Avrukh, Gadir Guseinov, Daniel Fridman, Arman Pashikian, Alexander Riazantsev, Dmitry Andreikin, Tomi Nyback, Vladimir Baklan, Maxim Rodshtein, Farrukh Amonatov, Zbynek Hracek, Rauf Mamedov, Denis Khismatullin, Robert Huebner, Viktor Laznicka, Yuri Kuzubov, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Igor Miladinovic, Sergei Azarov, Tigran L Petrosian, Yuri Drozdovskij, Alexander Chernin, Zaven Andriasian, Vlastimil Babula, Vladimir Chuchelov, Vitali Golod, Boris Chatalbashev, Alexander Huzman, Igor V Glek, Andrey Zhigalko, Normunds Miezis, Maxim Turov, Milos Pavlovic, Jiri Stocek, Vladimir Georgiev, Artur Kogan, Sarunas Sulskis, Alon Greenfeld, Vasily Yemelin, Anish Giri, Alexander Zubov, Robert Ruck, Mikhail M Ivanov, Andrei Kovalev, Philipp Schlosser, Lubomir Ftacnik, Rafal Antoniewski, Spartak Vysochin, Jan Markos, Sebastien Feller, Dmitry Kononenko, Petr Haba, Michail Feygin, Alexander Zubarev, Bragi Thorfinnsson, Robert Cvek, Aloyzas Kveinys, Nikola Djukic, Jurij Tihonov, Vidmantas Malisauskas, Yaroslav Zinchenko, Trajce Nedev, Daniel Hausrath, Allan Stig Rasmussen, Gerhard Schebler, Adam Horvath, Slavisa Brenjo, Gannadij Fish, Arnaud Hauchard, Marek Vokac, Zvonko Stanojoski, Gabor Kovacs, Darius Zagorskis, Robin Swinkels, Tamir Nabaty, Michael Hoffmann, Pavel Simacek, Jean Luc Chabanon, Ilja Schneider, Denes Boros, Eloi Relange, Martijn Dambacher, Sebastian Siebrecht, Zoran Arsovic, Igor Lutsko, Peter Vavrak, Gerlef Meins, Miklos Nemeth, Ilya Khmelniker, R Polzin, Sven Joachim, Igor Efimov, Jan Willem de Jong, Petar Benkovic, Mikulas Manik, Kalle Kiik plus 220 more players

 page 1 of 44; games 1-25 of 1,100  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves Year Event/LocaleOpening
1. E Alekseev vs S Sulskis 0-139 2009 European Club CupC77 Ruy Lopez
2. V Malisauskas vs Bu Xiangzhi ½-½30 2009 European Club CupB92 Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation
3. Ni Hua vs A Butnorius 1-041 2009 European Club CupC99 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin, 12...cd
4. M Beinoras vs A Moiseenko  0-194 2009 European Club CupD38 Queen's Gambit Declined, Ragozin Variation
5. D Andreikin vs T Laurusas 0-138 2009 European Club CupA16 English
6. L Solys vs M Roiz  0-130 2009 European Club CupD31 Queen's Gambit Declined
7. R Ruck vs Grischuk ½-½12 2009 European Club CupE60 King's Indian Defense
8. Shirov vs M Manik 1-035 2009 European Club CupB42 Sicilian, Kan
9. R Antoniewski vs V Malakhov  ½-½25 2009 European Club CupC67 Ruy Lopez
10. Rublevsky vs J Lipka  1-034 2009 European Club CupC07 French, Tarrasch
11. A Vitouch vs Dreev  0-136 2009 European Club CupA07 King's Indian Attack
12. Bareev vs Bob Bozinovic  1-025 2009 European Club CupD45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
13. Karjakin vs B Chatalbashev 1-033 2009 European Club CupB09 Pirc, Austrian Attack
14. O Dancevski vs F Caruana 0-144 2009 European Club CupD12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
15. A Riazantsev vs M Mitkov  ½-½58 2009 European Club CupD37 Queen's Gambit Declined
16. Z Stojcevski vs E Najer  0-132 2009 European Club CupB23 Sicilian, Closed
17. I Nepomniachtchi vs O Organdziev  1-0106 2009 European Club CupC60 Ruy Lopez
18. L Andonovski vs B Grachev  0-143 2009 European Club CupD45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
19. M Hoffmann vs Movsesian  0-129 2009 European Club CupE69 King's Indian, Fianchetto, Classical Main line
20. Bacrot vs J Wegerle 1-055 2009 European Club CupC67 Ruy Lopez
21. T Michalczak vs Naiditsch  0-156 2009 European Club CupC37 King's Gambit Accepted
22. Adams vs O Kniest 1-037 2009 European Club CupC97 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin
23. M Gupta vs Nisipeanu  0-146 2009 European Club CupE90 King's Indian
24. P Schlosser vs A Peschel  1-030 2009 European Club CupE04 Catalan, Open, 5.Nf3
25. Ivanchuk vs J W de Jong ½-½100 2009 European Club CupB13 Caro-Kann, Exchange
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Oct-10-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  zarg: Alekseev getting tortured
Oct-10-09   anandrulez: <percyblakeney: Beating Grischuk in less than 30 moves with black is no trivial achievement, it looks like no one ever had done it before with classical time controls. The fact that Grischuk only had seconds left against Aronian's 1 hour 20 minutes indicates that the latter was rather well prepared...> Girshcuk is rather well known for his time handling skills albeit for wrong reasons ... That line is what Aronian plays a lot especially u saw in Mexico where Anand won as black vs Aronian ...
Oct-10-09   siamesedream: What a game Nakamura - Grischuk!
Oct-10-09   PhilFeeley: <siamesedream> ?? You mean the draw?
Oct-10-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  Open Defence: <Carlsen is getting pure, "concentrated" Kasparov, if you catch my meaning.> yes but probably forgotten pre-computer study methods of Botvinnik's school which actually enhances and moulds one's chess strength?
Oct-10-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  timhortons: <You mean the draw> the game is drawn, grischuk handle scotch better than leko.leko mishandling of the game created to much story, nothing special in it.he lost the game against carlsen because he play bad.
Oct-10-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  rogge: Chairman Naka is much better than Carlsen, obviously.
Oct-10-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  timhortons: <rogge> magnus performance at china is amazing, im just talking about the merit of scotch game. dont be sensitive,i am not disrespecting magnus.
Oct-10-09   jon01: Was there a chance to obtain GM/IM norms in this tournament?
Oct-10-09   siamesedream: <?? You mean the draw?> Yeah, forgot to add ";".
Oct-10-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  messachess: Amazing, the good players you never hear about--Evgenij Miroshnichenko for example.--doing well here.
Oct-10-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  timhortons: <Yeah, forgot to add ";".>

http://gnblayouts.com/comments/pics...

dont spank.hehe..

Oct-10-09   returnoftheking: Motylov lost a Petroff! As <DCP> has pointed out, that happens rarely.

Topscorers:
Adams (who won easily today) 6,5/7
Volokitin 6/7
Greenfeld 6/7
Nisipeanu 6/7 (relatively easy schedule)
Svidler 5,5/7 (Why isn't he wch candidate?)
Gashimov 5/6

Ranked on tpr:

Svidler, Volokitin, Gashimov, Adams, Eljanov

Wish there was a tournament book or bulletin with a selection of interesting games of this event.

Oct-10-09   jon01: Yeah, it's quite difficult to go through all these 1000 games.
Oct-10-09   returnoftheking: If Volokitin was on 2691 after the 4th round he might be 2700 now - he scored 2points in the 3 remaining games, against Sargissian, Thomashevsky and Kuzubov.
Oct-10-09   Paraconti: I thought as games progressed the leading teams would play one another. This last round seems to show a lot of strong teams playing weaker ones, leading to many quick wins for the top players.
Oct-11-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  notyetagm: <Paraconti: I thought as games progressed the leading teams would play one another. This last round seems to show a lot of strong teams playing weaker ones, leading to many quick wins for the top players.>

That's because you cannot play the same team twice. Once a top team has played all the other top teams once, then they are left with weaker teams to play.

If there are 6 strong teams in a 7 round event, then twice a strong team will have to play a weak team, maybe even in the last round.

Oct-11-09   kurtrichards: Congratulations to Economist-SGSEU-1 Saratov for winning the European Club Cup (2009)!

http://www.ecc2009.com/pic/oct10cc/...

Oct-11-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  timhortons: GM Moiseenkoo is part of the winning team!
Oct-11-09   Paraconti: <notyetagm> Thanks. That's enlightening.
Oct-11-09   DCP23: <returnoftheking: Motylov lost a Petroff! As <DCP> has pointed out, that happens rarely.>

That's correct ;) At the same time, as I have also pointed out before, Svidler is one of the best on the White side of the Petroff -- he already had wins over Kramnik's and Gelfand's petroffs, and now with Motylev's he completes the trifecta of beating the World's best Petroff masters :)

Another point to consider is that Motylev used to be Svidler's second (including the WCC San Luis 2005), and so Peter knows Motylev's play and openings very well.

Oct-11-09   DCP23: Source: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr258...

Ten best perfomances from the ECC 2009:

1 GM Svidler Peter, SPbChFed Sankt-Peterburg 2920
2 GM Volokitin Andrei, Alkaloid Skopje 2912
3 GM Gashimov Vugar, Ashdod Illit Chess Club 2883
4 GM Adams Michael, OSG Baden-Baden 2863
5 GM Eljanov Pavel, Economist-SGSEU-1 Saratov 2841
6 CM Rathlev Jakob, Jetsmark 2837
7 GM Gelfand Boris, ShSM-64 Moscow 2827
8 GM Vallejo Pons Francisco, OSG Baden-Baden 2800
9 GM Khismatullin Denis, Tomsk-400 2800
10 GM Aronian Levon, Mika Yerevan 2778

Oct-11-09   returnoftheking: 1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 e5 4. Nf3 Nbd7 5. Bc4 Be7 6. O-O O-O 7. Re1 c6 8. a4 b6 9. Ba2 a6 10. h3 Rb8 11. Qd3 b5 12. axb5 axb5 13. Ne2 c5 14. c3 d5 15. Nxe5 c4 16. Qc2 Nxe5 17. dxe5 Nxe4 18. Be3 Bg5 19. Nd4 Rb6 20. Bb1 Rg6 21. Qd1 Bxh3 22. Bxe4 dxe4 23. Nc6 Qe8 24. Bc5 Bxg2


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Painful game for GM Nedev..

Oct-12-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  notyetagm: <returnoftheking: ... Painful game for GM Nedev..>

Ouch!

Hurts to get your ass beaten like this with White.

Oct-12-09   returnoftheking: yes, I thought so. 14..d5 was a total bluff though, white missed a lot this game.
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