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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

GM Alexander Morozevich wins Saratov Governor's Chess Cup and gains 25 elo points!

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Hi everyone,


Congratulations to GM Alexander Morozevich for winning the Saratov Chess Tournament. The chess news update from www.chessdom.com is that the Saratov Governor’s Cup was 11 rounds all-play-all event with an impressive field. The region is honouring the members of Ekonomist Saratov, a very successful team which claimed the European Club Cup twice (2009 and 2010). Alexander Morozevich played in excellent form to witn the tournament with 8.5/11 and a whopping 25 elo points! With this success Moro establishes himself on the 9th place of the live rating list. His next competition will be the European Team Chess Championship in Greece.


Former European champion Evgeny Tomashevsky is clear second with 7 points, while former World Championship challenger Peter Leko is third with 6.5. Nikita Vitiugov was forced to withdraw after nine rounds due to illness.


Final standings:
1. Alexander Morozevich RUS 2737 – 8.5
2. Evgeny Tomashevsky RUS 2710 – 7.0
3. Peter Leko HUN 2728 – 6.5
4. Evgeny Alekseev RUS 2662 – 6.0
5. Alexei Shirov ESP 2713 – 5.5
6-9. Michael Roiz ISR 2668, Alexander Moiseenko UKR 2726, Ruslan Ponomariov UKR 2758 and Pavel EljanovUKR 2683 – 5.0
10. Nikita Vitiugov RUS 2726 – 4.5 (9)
11-12. Dmitry Andreikin RUS 2705 and Ni Hua CHN 2670 – 4.0

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5 Comments:

  • At October 19, 2011 at 11:55 AM , Anonymous Alexis Cochran, New Zealand said...

    25 elo points in one tournament! Mr. Demorolition!

     
  • At October 19, 2011 at 11:57 AM , Anonymous olga, moscow said...

    Carlsen Gelfand Anand watch out my fav is on a roll

     
  • At October 19, 2011 at 11:59 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

    # LIVE RATING
    1 Carlsen, Magnus 2823 +2.8 10 2825.8
    2 Anand, Viswanathan 2817 -6 10 2811.0
    3 Aronian, Levon 2807 -1.1 11 2805.9
    4 Kramnik, Vladimir 2791 +6.8 3 2797.8
    5 Radjabov, Teimour 2752 +29 15 2781.0
    6 Ivanchuk, Vassily 2765 +10 26 2775.0
    7 Topalov, Veselin 2768 0 0 2768.0
    8 Karjakin, Sergey 2772 -8.8 15 2763.2
    9 Morozevich, Alexander 2737 +25.4 17 2762.4
    10 Nakamura, Hikaru 2753 +4.8 10 2757.8
    11 Svidler, Peter 2740 +12.1 24 2752.1
    12 Grischuk, Alexander 2757 -5.4 21 2751.6
    13 Gashimov, Vugar 2756 -9.2 13 2746.8
    14 Gelfand, Boris 2746 -1.6 4 2744.4
    15 Tomashevsky, Evgeny 2710 +30.3 22 2740.3
    16 Wang, Hao

     
  • At October 19, 2011 at 12:04 PM , Anonymous Amrit Puri, Knights Chess Club, New Delhi said...

    Great show. Solid performance. He's back. Morozevich.

     
  • At October 19, 2011 at 1:16 PM , Anonymous Sainath, Colombo said...

    He's going to be in top-5 by the end of the year i think.

     

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