AEROSVIT-2007 chess tournament

INTERNATIONAL CHESS TOURNAMENT 'AEROSVIT-2007', CRIMEA, FOROS, 17-30.06.2007

The list of participants:

1 Svidler, Peter           g RUS 2736
2 Ivanchuk, Vassily        g UKR 2729
3 Jakovenko, Dmitry        g RUS 2708
4 Shirov, Alexei           g ESP 2699
5 Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter g ROM 2693
6 Sasikiran, Krishnan      g IND 2690
7 Eljanov, Pavel           g UKR 2686
8 Karjakin, Sergey         g UKR 2686
9 Rublevsky, Sergei        g RUS 2680
10 Dominguez Perez, Lenier g CUB 2678
11 Van Wely, Loek           g NED 2674
12 Onischuk, Alexander      g USA 2663

         Average rating 2693,6

29.06.07

Last round has defined success of the Ukrainian chessplayers: Vassily Ivanchuk won the 1st prize and Sergey Karjakin became the 2nd.

Standings of participants after the 11th round:

1. Ivanchuk V. (UKR) - 7,5;

2. Karjakin S. (UKR) - 7;

3-6. Onischuk A. (USA), Svidler P. (RUS), van Wely L. (NED), Shirov A. (ESP) - 6;

7. Dominguez L. (CUB), - 5,5;

8. Rublevsky S. (RUS) - 5;

9-10. Jakovenko D. (RUS), Eljanov P. (UKR) - 4,5;

11-12. Sasikiran K. (IND), Nisipeanu D.-L. (ROM) - 4;

GM Mikhail Golubev annotates games of round 11

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28.06.07

Round 10: Changes at the top. Vassily Ivanchuk beat Alexey Shirov and headed the tournament while Sergey Karjakin played draw with Onischuk. Svidler won the first victory after a series of 9 draws.

Standings of participants after the 10th round:

1. Ivanchuk V. - 7;

2. Karjakin S. - 6,5;

3-4. Shirov A., Svidler P. - 5,5;

5-7. Dominguez L., Onischuk A., van Wely - 5;

8. Rublevsky S. - 4,5;

9-12. Jakovenko D., Sasikiran K., Nisipeanu D.-L., Eljanov P. - 4.

GM Mikhail Golubev annotates games of round 10

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27.06.07

Both leaders had hard draw games in round 9. Only Shirov gained the victory in the game with Jakovenko.

Standings of participants after the 9th round:

1. Karjakin S. and Ivanchuk V. - 6;

3. Shirov A. - 5,5;

4-7. Dominguez L., Svidler P., Onischuk A., van Wely - 4,5;

8-9. Jakovenko D., Rublevsky S. - 4;

10-12. Sasikiran K., Nisipeanu D.-L., Eljanov P. - 3,5.

GM Mikhail Golubev annotates games of round 9

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26.06.07

After a quick draw in the game between leader Karjakin and Nisipeanu in round 8, the meeting Rublevsky-Ivanchuk was in the high light. Vassily Ivanchuk won this game and came up to Karjakin. Van Wely beat Eljanov. Four games were drawn.

Standings of participants after the 8th round:

1. Karjakin S. and Ivanchuk V. - 5,5;

3. Shirov A. - 4,5;

4-8. Dominguez L., Svidler P., Onischuk A., Jakovenko D., van Wely - 4;

9. Rublevsky S. - 3,5;

10-12. Sasikiran K., Nisipeanu D.-L., Eljanov P. - 3.

GM Mikhail Golubev annotates games of round 8

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25.06.07

Sergey Karjakin continue to head the tournament. In round 7 he carried out the effective attack against van Wely and won the game. Vassily Ivanchuk beat Eljanov in a hard struggle and retained the 2nd position. Shirov defeated Sasikiran and became the 3rd. The rest games were drawn.

Standings of participants after the 7th round:

1. Karjakin S. - 5;

2. Ivanchuk V. - 4,5;

3. Shirov A. - 4;

4-8. Dominguez L., Svidler P., Onischuk A., Jakovenko D., Rublevsky S. - 3,5;

9-10. van Wely, Eljanov P. - 3;

11-12. Sasikiran K., Nisipeanu D.-L. - 2,5.

GM Mikhail Golubev annotates games of round 7

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23.06.07

All the games of the 6th round were straight-out but finally were drawn. 24th of June is the rest day.

Standings of participants after the 6th round:

1. Karjakin S. - 4;

2. Ivanchuk V. - 3,5;

3-10. Dominguez L., Shirov A., Svidler P., Onischuk A., Jakovenko D., Eljanov P., Rublevsky S. and van Wely - 3;

11. Sasikiran K. - 2,5;

12. Nisipeanu D.-L. - 2.

GM Mikhail Golubev annotates games of round 6

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22.06.07

Sergey Karjakin became the leader after his victory over Alexey Shirov in the 5th Round. Rublevsky beat Sasikiran. Four games were drawn. Svidler played with Van Wely and have made the 5th draw while his opponent only the first.

Standings of participants after the 5th round:

1. Karjakin S. - 3,5;

2. Ivanchuk V. - 3;

3-10. Dominguez L., Shirov A., Svidler P., Onischuk A., Jakovenko D., Eljanov P., Rublevsky S. and van Wely - 2,5;

11. Sasikiran K. - 2;

12. Nisipeanu D.-L. - 1,5.

GM Mikhail Golubev annotates games of round 5

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21.06.07

The most spectacular game of the 4th was van Wely - Jkovenko. White sacrificed the knight and carried out a nice attack. The rest games were drawn.

Standings of participants after the 4th round:

1-3. Shirov A., Ivanchuk V. and Karjakin S. - 2,5;

4-10. Dominguez L., Svidler P., Sasikiran K., Onischuk A., Jakovenko D., Eljanov P. and van Wely - 2;

11. Rublevsky S. -1,5;

12. Nisipeanu D.-L. - 1.

GM Mikhail Golubev annotates games of round 4

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20.06.07

In the 3rd round leader of the tournament Alexey Shirov lost game to Loek van Wely. Eljanov played black with Nisipeanu and gained his first victory. Four games were drawn.

Standings of participants after the 3rd round:

1-4. Shirov A., Ivanchuk V., Jakovenko D. and Karjakin S. - 2(3);

5-9. Dominguez L., Svidler P., Sasikiran K., Onischuk A. and Eljanov P. - 1,5;

10-11. Rublevsky S., van Wely L. - 1;

12. Nisipeanu D.-L. - 0,5.

GM Mikhail Golubev annotates games of round 3.

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19.06.07

The 2nd round became a battle one. The only game Rublevsky - Svidler was drawn. Karjakin sacrificed a knight to Eljanov and won the game. Ivanchuk beat Nisipeanu after black unsuccessfully sacrificed the Queen. Jakovenko beat Sasikiran, Onischuk and Shirov playing as black defeated van Wely and Dominguez.

Alexey Shirov is leading with two victories in first two rounds.

GM Mikhail Golubev annotates games of round 2.

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18.06.06

The International Tournament "AEROSVIT-2007" has started. A lot of guests arrived to the opening ceremony of the tournament.

Among them FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and Vice-Premier of Ukraine Dmitry Tabachnik. You can look a photo-report about the opening ceremony in the "Photo" section.

In the first round Dominguez beat van Wely, Shirov beat Rublevsky and Sasikiran defeated Onischuk. The rest games were drawn.

GM Mikhail Golubev annotates games of round 1.

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