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4th
European Individual May 30th – June 14th 2003 in Silivri, Turkey
After eight rounds of the European Individual Championships in the men's group there is a five-way tie for the lead: Konstantin Sakaev 2664 RUS, Zurab Azmaiparashvili 2678 GEO, Aleksej Aleksandrov 2650 BLR 6, Kiril Georgiev 2647 MKD and Vladimir Malakhov 2672 RUS, each with six points.
They are followed by 17 players with 5.5 points each.
The tournament is still wide open, so instead of a report we bring you a lot of very nice pictures thankfully sent to us by Galina Tiviakova. Today you get to see some of the players from the men's section, tomorrow we bring you an equally picturesque report from the women's championship.
23-year-old Armenian Karen Asrian
Veteran GM Alexander Beliavsky (49, Slovenia)
GM Zurab Azmaiparashvili (it's easy: Ahs-my-pah-rah'-shvi-li, 43, Georgia)
GM Viktor Bologan, 31, Moldavia
Vassily Ivanchuk, 34, vs Andrei Volokitin, 17, both from the Ukraine
GM Oleg Romanishin, 51, Ukraine
Armenian GM Smbat Lputian, 45
GM Aleksej Aleksandrov, 30, Belarus, at the chessboard...
...and taking a dive in the hotel pool.
GM Pavel Tregubov, 31, Russia, less successful than Aleksandrov at the board...
...but with the bigger jump into the pool.
GMs Viorel Iordachescu, 26, Romania and Sergei Rublevsky, 28, Russia
Dutch GM Friso Nijboer, 38
Flamboyant GM Vladislav Tkachiev, 29, France
Russian GM Andrei Volokitin, 17, all dressed up
GM Alexander Huzman, 41, Israel (without the famous moustache)
And what is Sergei Tiviakov up to in this picture? The solution will follow
tomorrow. All we can reveal is that the Dutch GM jumps!
Pictures by Galina Tiviakova
