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Friday, May 16, 2014

GM Rinat Jumabayev is Kazakhstan National Chess Champion 2014

Hello chess blog readers, considering the upcoming Chess Olympiad, here's more national chess news: The 2014 Kazakhstan Chess Championship for men was held from 3rd to 12th May, 2014 in Astana, the capital city of Kazakhstan. The tournament was a 12 player FIDE round robin with an average rating 2417 (seventh category).

GM Rinat Jumabayev was the winner with an impressive score of 9/11 points, a full point ahead of the runners-up. Second place is for GM Anuar Ismagambetov with 8/11 points, while GM Murtas Kazhgaleyev takes the bronze. (FIDE)

Official website

Final standings:
1 GM Rinat Jumabayev 2561 9
2 GM Anuar Ismagambetov 2508 8
3 GM Murtas Kazhgaleyev 2570 7,5
4-6 IM Aslan Aitbayev 2420 6
IM Kirill Kuderinov 2442 6
GM Rustam Khusnutdinov 2495 6
7 IM Evgeny Egorov 2356 5,5
8 Erkin Kozganbay 2362 5
9-10 GM Petr Kostenko 2507 4,5
Ayan Akhmetov 2386 4.5
11 Denis Makhnyov 2187 4
12 Anton Gurkin 2206 0


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Friday, December 27, 2013

Pavlodar Chess Open 2013: GM Rinat Jumabayev wins on Tiebreak

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

Hello everyone,

The Pavlodar Chess Open 2013 took place from 10-19th December at the Estaya St. 83 in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan.

The chess tournament was devoted to the Republic of Kazakhstan Independence Day and organized by the Kazakhstan Chess Federation, Management of tourism, physical training and sports of the Pavlodar area, and Pavlodar Chess Federation.




A total of 104 players competed in the 10-rounds Swiss event. Among them were 15 Grandmasters and 10 International Masters.

Grandmasters Rinat Jumabayev, Semen Dvoirys and Andrey Zhigalko shared the first place with 7,5/9 points each, but the trophy goes to the local star Jumabayev who had the best tie-break. (FIDE)

Final standings:
1-3. GM Jumabayev Rinat KAZ 2561, GM Dvoirys Semen RUS 2562 and GM Zhigalko Andrey BLR 2628 – 7,5
4-13. GM Solak Dragan TUR 2618, GM Kostenko Petr KAZ 2497, GM Zubarev Alexander UKR 2546, GM Ovetchkin Roman RUS 2542, GM Vokarev Sergey RUS 2464, IM Amanov Zhanibek KAZ 2362, GM Zablotsky Sergei RUS 2522, GM Burmakin Vladimir RUS 2585, FM Khegay Dmitriy RUS 2348 and FM Kazakov Konstantin KAZ 2339 – 7,0 etc

Tournament website

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