GM Ivan Ivanisevic wins Chigorin Chess Memorial 2014

Hello chess blog friends, chess talent GM Ivan Ivanisevic has won the Chigorin Chess Memorial 2014. The International Chess Festival “Mikhail Chigorin Memorial 2014 was held on 17-26th October 2014 at Hotel “Park” in Saint Petersburg, the second largest city in Russia.

The 9-round Swiss event with prize fund in the amount of 1.800.000 RUB (nearly 35.000 €) was won by Serbian Olympic representative GM Ivan Ivanisevic with 7.5/9 points.

Russian GM Ivan Bukavshin obtained the same amount of points but had a worse Bucholz score and took the silver.

Third place was shared in an eight-way tie by GM Maxim Rodshtein (Israel), GM S.P. Sethuraman (India), GM Sanan Sjugirov (Russia), GM Evgeny Alekseev (Russia), GM Surya Ganguly (India), GM Vasily Yemelin (Russia), GM Evgeny Levin and GM Pavel Ponkratov on 7 points each. (FIDE)

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Ivan Ivanisevic Wins Rapid Chess Tournament in Sabac

Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013

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Rapid and blitz chess fever is becoming popular catching on around the chess planet particularly after FIDE started registering blitz and rapid chess ratings. One nice chess tournament was held recently in Serbia: Sabacki Chess Club organized the “Cedomir Petrovic Memorial” rapid tournament on 7th December in Sabac, Serbia.

The tournament format was 9-round Swiss with the time control 15 minutes per player. 133 players, including 11 Grandmasters, took participation. Top Serbian player GM Ivan Ivanisevic emerged clear winner with 7,5/9 points. (www.chessdom.com)

GM Ivan Ivanisevic

Top Final standings:
1. GM Ivanisevic Ivan 2638 – 7.5
2. FM Pezelj Novak 2409 – 7
3. GM Pikula Dejan 2500 – 7
4. GM Lajthajm Borko 2550 – 7
5. GM Popovic Dusan 2554 – 7
6. GM Savic Miodrag R 2524 – 6.5
7. GM Stojanovic Dalibor 2551 – 6.5
8. GM Antic Dejan 2456 – 6.5
9. IM Arsovic Goran 2414 – 6.5
10. FM Pantelic Sasa 2342 – 6.5
11. IM Arsovic Zoran 2422 – 6.5
12. FM Kosanovic Dragan 2341 – 6.5
13. FM Stojanovic Marko 2294 – 6.5
14. FM Kolognat Petar 2294 – 6.5
15. FM Vujic Mihailo 2323 – 6.5
16. FM Stojanovic Dobrisav 2369 – 6.5
17. FM Sredojevic Ivan 2404 – 6.5
18. GM Cabrilo Goran 2442 – 6
19. IM Ilic Dragan M 2371 – 6
20. GM Abramovic Bosko 2427 – 6
21. FM Misojcic Miroslav 2259 – 6
22. Topalov Aleksandar 2245 – 6
23. Pantovic Dragan M 2159 – 6
24. Ignjatovic Predrag 2286 – 6
25. Micic Vlado 0 – 6
26. Novakovic Slobodan 2149 – 6
27. Savic Petar A 2127 – 6

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Indonesia Chess Open 2013 Round 4: GM Ivan Ivanisevic Leads

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It has taken four rounds of play to have a sole leader at the Indonesia Chess Open 2013. GM Ivan Ivanisevic, who was leading with GM Avetik Grigoryan until the previous round, has taken sole lead after four rounds with a perfect score. On 3.5/4 are GMs Aleksey Dreev, Surya Shekhar Ganguly and Hoang Thanh Trang. Dreev outplayed local hope GM Susanto Megaranto in the endgame after achieving a better pawn structure while Ganguly was simply too strong for GM John Paul Gomez. But the main attention was on the Hoang encounter with GM Oliver Barbosa, where the Filipino sacrificed his Queen for a number of active minor pieces and a dangerous looking attack along open files against an exposed King. Hoang, however, played with great accuracy, combining attack and defense with her Queen and brought home the point.

You can replay the Hoang Thanh Trang - Oliver Barbosa game with Chess King.
In other significant GM encounters, top seeded Alexander Moiseeko managed to win the exchange, but Sandro Marco generated resources to draw, while the former student Eshan Ghaem Maghami held the draw against his old teacher Nigel Short. Vaibhav Suri was happy to use the white pieces to also draw the higher rated Eduardo Iturrizaga, while it was the same result in the match-ups between Igarza Renier Vazquez and Gundavaa Bayarsaikhan, and Jan Ehvest and Antoaneta Stefanova.

Vadmim Malakhattko came close to winning against Abhijeet Gupta, but the Indian GM was able to liquidate into a drawn Rook ending.

With Megaranto losing, the best Indonesian player is again Anjas Novitas who recovered from his first loss against a GM in the third round to beat WGM Elisabeth Paehtz.

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