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The entry fee is 1000 Roubles (for juniors under 16, seniors and women 800 Roubles). The prizes were paid out in Russian Roubles, the total prize fund, guaranteed by the St. Petersburg Chess Federation, is 1.4 million Roubles = 32,000 Euros = US $46,000, with 400,000 Roubles = 9,300 Euros or US $13,000 for the rapid chess event. The first prize for the rapid is 75,000 Roubles = 1,700 Euros or US $2,400.
The venue: "Moskva" Hotel located in the city center, in the end
of Staronevsky Prospect
The Rapid Chess tournament took place from October 26-27. It was a nine-round Swiss with time controls of 15 minutes per game + 5 seconds increment for each move. There were 274 players in the main tournament, including 68 grandmasters and 23 players rated higher than 2600.
![]() Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin, (born on 12 November 1850 near St. Petersburg, Russia, died on 25 January 1908 in Lublin, Poland) was a leading Russian chess player. He served as a major source of inspiration for the "Soviet school of chess", which dominated the chess world in the middle and latter parts of the 20th century. Overshadowed to some extent in the 1920s by the exciting new theories of the hypermodern movement, Chigorin's influence nevertheless demands a prominent and permanent place in the Soviet chess hegemony of the 20th century. Chigorin has several chess openings or variations of openings named after him, the two most important being the Chigorin Variation of the Ruy Lopez (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.c3 O-O 9.h3 Na5) and the Chigorin Defence to the Queen's Gambit (1.d4 d5 2.c4 Nc6). Whilst the former has remained popular through the 1900s, the latter struggled to attract devotees until relatively recently. Igor Miladinovic has used the Chigorin Defence with great regularity, but its current revival owes much to the efforts of Alexander Morozevich, who has championed the opening both in play and in his book, The Chigorin Defence According To Morozevich (published 2007). |
The festival started with the two-day rapid open, with the prize fund of nearly 10,000 Euros. Six players tied for the first place with 7 points out of 9, and Sergei Yudin (2521) won on tiebreak. Last year’s rapid winner, Zaven Andriassian, came second, and Pablo Lafuente got the third prize, leaving all Elo favorites behind them.
Tournament director Vladimir Bykov, Pablo Lafuente, Sergei Yudin, Zaven
Andriassian
# |
Name |
Fed. |
Rtng |
Pts |
TPR |
W-We |
BH |
HiLo |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | GM Yudin, Sergei | RUS | 2521 | 7.0 | 2792 | +3.19 | 53.0 | 42.5 |
2 | GM Andriasian, Zaven | ARM | 2579 | 7.0 | 2727 | +1.68 | 52.5 | 42.0 |
3 | GM Lafuente, Pablo | ARG | 2565 | 7.0 | 2696 | +1.48 | 51.0 | 41.0 |
4 | GM Vorobiov, Evgeny E. | RUS | 2565 | 7.0 | 2714 | +1.72 | 51.0 | 40.0 |
5 | GM Gasanov, Eldar | UKR | 2482 | 7.0 | 2756 | +3.24 | 49.5 | 40.5 |
6 | GM Melkumyan, Hrant | ARM | 2614 | 7.0 | 2688 | +0.89 | 44.5 | 35.5 |
7 | GM Sokolov, Ivan | BIH | 2641 | 6.5 | 2683 | +0.52 | 52.5 | 41.5 |
8 | IM Geller, Jakov | RUS | 2544 | 6.5 | 2712 | +2.12 | 50.5 | 41.0 |
9 | GM Areshchenko, Alexander | UKR | 2664 | 6.5 | 2662 | +0.05 | 50.0 | 40.0 |
10 | GM Alekseev, Evgeny | RUS | 2691 | 6.5 | 2699 | +0.13 | 50.0 | 39.0 |
11 | GM Tkachiev, Vladislav | FRA | 2632 | 6.5 | 2677 | +0.57 | 50.0 | 39.0 |
12 | IM Demchenko, Anton | RUS | 2529 | 6.5 | 2704 | +2.21 | 49.5 | 39.0 |
13 | GM Grachev, Boris | RUS | 2668 | 6.5 | 2696 | +0.37 | 49.0 | 39.0 |
14 | IM Krylov, Mikhail | RUS | 2516 | 6.5 | 2668 | +2.01 | 48.0 | 38.5 |
15 | GM Khismatullin, Denis | RUS | 2654 | 6.5 | 2697 | +0.55 | 46.5 | 36.5 |
16 | GM Chadaev, Nikolai | RUS | 2574 | 6.5 | 2667 | +1.21 | 46.0 | 35.5 |
17 | IM Rozum, Ivan | RUS | 2476 | 6.5 | 2647 | +2.15 | 41.5 | 33.5 |
18 | GM Sakaev, Konstantin | RUS | 2607 | 6.5 | 2621 | +0.20 | 41.5 | 32.5 |
19 | GM Jumabayev, Rinat | KAZ | 2547 | 6.0 | 2642 | +1.31 | 52.0 | 42.0 |
20 | GM Zvjaginsev, Vadim | RUS | 2664 | 6.0 | 2657 | -0.08 | 51.0 | 40.0 |
21 | GM Rodshtein, Maxim | ISR | 2632 | 6.0 | 2634 | +0.06 | 50.0 | 39.0 |
22 | GM Inarkiev, Ernesto | RUS | 2671 | 6.0 | 2655 | -0.15 | 49.5 | 38.5 |
23 | GM Kryakvin, Dmitry | RUS | 2591 | 6.0 | 2558 | -0.31 | 49.0 | 37.5 |
24 | IM Bogdanovich, Stanislav | UKR | 2464 | 6.0 | 2678 | +2.66 | 47.0 | 38.5 |
25 | GM Shipov, Sergei | RUS | 2557 | 6.0 | 2656 | +1.28 | 47.0 | 38.0 |
26 | GM Romanov, Evgeny | RUS | 2598 | 6.0 | 2605 | +0.18 | 46.5 | 36.0 |
27 | GM Sulypa, Oleksandr | UKR | 2495 | 6.0 | 2588 | +1.24 | 44.5 | 35.0 |
28 | GM Dreev, Alexey | RUS | 2649 | 6.0 | 2600 | -0.52 | 43.5 | 33.0 |
29 | GM Kokarev, Dmitry | RUS | 2623 | 6.0 | 2572 | -0.45 | 43.5 | 33.0 |
30 | GM Zhigalko, Sergei | BLR | 2640 | 6.0 | 2532 | -1.04 | 42.0 | 31.5 |
The tournament hall for the leading players
Dmitry Kokarev, Yuri Kuzubov, Sergei Yudin, Alexey Dreev, Denis Yevseev
and Davit Petrosian
Andrey Stukopin, best junior under sixteen
These guys prefer rapid chess: Ernesto Inarkiev and Vladislav Tkachiev
Dmitry Kryakvin, who caused a panic on the first day of the rapid tournament
Kryakvin defended a position with rook against rook and knight for about 180 moves before he applied to the arbiter to claim a draw – which was granted after the chief arbiter counted out 50 moves. Thankfully it was the last round of the day and the rest participants didn’t have to wait for the end of this game.
Rustam Khusnutdinov
This has started, with GM Ivan sokolov in the lead at the moment. Many top GMs have already suffered defeats against weaker participants. You can follow the results and games of the tournament day by day at the official website.
# |
Name |
Fed. |
Rtng |
Pts |
TPR |
W-We |
BH |
HiLo |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | GM Sokolov, Ivan | 5.0 | BIH | 2641 | 3220 | +1.54 | 18.5 | 11.0 |
2 | GM Smirin, Ilia | 4.5 | ISR | 2657 | 2856 | +0.96 | 17.0 | 10.5 |
3 | GM Zhigalko, Sergei | 4.5 | BLR | 2640 | 2823 | +0.86 | 16.5 | 10.5 |
4 | GM Safarli, Eltaj | 4.5 | AZE | 2607 | 2777 | +0.78 | 15.5 | 9.5 |
5 | GM Sakaev, Konstantin | 4.5 | RUS | 2607 | 2800 | +0.94 | 14.5 | 9.5 |
6 | GM Fedorov, Alexei | 4.5 | BLR | 2599 | 2708 | +0.46 | 14.5 | 8.5 |
7 | GM Grachev, Boris | 4.0 | RUS | 2668 | 2734 | +0.42 | 18.0 | 11.5 |
8 | GM Savchenko, Boris | 4.0 | RUS | 2627 | 2717 | +0.58 | 17.5 | 10.5 |
9 | GM Areshchenko, Alexander | 4.0 | UKR | 2664 | 2725 | +0.40 | 17.0 | 10.5 |
10 | GM Andriasian, Zaven | 4.0 | ARM | 2579 | 2718 | +0.91 | 17.0 | 10.0 |
11 | IM Fedoseev, Vladimir | 4.0 | RUS | 2477 | 2691 | +1.42 | 16.0 | 9.5 |
12 | GM Popov, Valerij | 4.0 | RUS | 2559 | 2657 | +0.63 | 16.0 | 9.0 |
13 | GM Aleksandrov, Aleksej | 4.0 | BLR | 2647 | 2698 | +0.33 | 15.5 | 9.0 |
14 | IM Ipatov, Alexander | 4.0 | ESP | 2521 | 2613 | +0.60 | 15.5 | 9.0 |
15 | GM Khairullin, Ildar | 4.0 | RUS | 2620 | 2635 | +0.15 | 15.0 | 8.5 |
16 | GM Chadaev, Nikolai | 4.0 | RUS | 2574 | 2656 | +0.54 | 15.0 | 8.5 |
17 | GM Dreev, Alexey | 4.0 | RUS | 2649 | 2676 | +0.23 | 14.5 | 8.5 |
18 | GM Kharlov, Andrei | 4.0 | RUS | 2510 | 2647 | +0.91 | 14.5 | 8.5 |
19 | GM Dzhumaev, Marat | 4.0 | UZB | 2487 | 2651 | +1.07 | 14.5 | 8.5 |
20 | IM Demchenko, Anton | 4.0 | RUS | 2529 | 2635 | +0.69 | 14.0 | 9.0 |
21 | GM Amonatov, Farrukh | 4.0 | TJK | 2602 | 2655 | +0.33 | 14.0 | 8.5 |
22 | GM Stefansson, Hannes | 4.0 | ISL | 2585 | 2638 | +0.32 | 14.0 | 8.5 |
23 | GM Romanov, Evgeny | 4.0 | RUS | 2598 | 2681 | +0.53 | 14.0 | 8.0 |
24 | GM Andreikin, Dmitry | 4.0 | RUS | 2669 | 2632 | -0.11 | 13.5 | 8.5 |
25 | IM Kalegin, Evgenij | 4.0 | RUS | 2453 | 2615 | +1.06 | 13.0 | 7.5 |
26 | GM Khismatullin, Denis | 4.0 | RUS | 2654 | 2609 | -0.16 | 12.5 | 7.5 |
Ninth: GM Alexander Areshchenko, 2664, UKR, 4.0/5, perf. 2725
Tenth: GM Zaven Andriassian, 2579, ARM, 4.0/5, perf. 2718
Fresh GM Maxim Matlakov, 2613, RUS, 3.5/5, perf. 2447
Aghasi Inants, 2281, ARM, 2.0/5, perf. 2045
# |
Name |
Fed. |
Rtng |
Pts |
TPR |
W-We |
BH |
HiLo |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
41 | WGM Paikidze, Nazi | 3.5 | GEO | 2376 | 2600 | +1.56 | 14.5 | 10.5 |
68 | WIM Akatova, Ekaterina | 3.0 | RUS | 2260 | 2505 | +1.50 | 15.0 | 9.0 |
80 | WIM Charochkina, Daria | 3.0 | RUS | 2303 | 2422 | +0.78 | 14.0 | 8.0 |
83 | IM Ovod, Evgenija | 3.0 | RUS | 2401 | 2414 | +0.17 | 13.5 | 7.5 |
85 | IM Ushenina, Anna | 3.0 | UKR | 2466 | 2387 | -0.41 | 13.0 | 8.0 |
87 | WGM Shaydullina, Sandugach | 3.0 | RUS | 2175 | 2461 | +1.71 | 13.0 | 8.0 |
91 | WIM Ivkina, Olga | 3.0 | RUS | 2251 | 2413 | +0.97 | 13.0 | 7.0 |
119 | IM Bodnaruk, Anastasia | 2.5 | RUS | 2399 | 2405 | +0.11 | 15.0 | 9.5 |
126 | WIM Ambartsumova, Karina | 2.5 | RUS | 2302 | 2343 | +0.23 | 14.0 | 8.5 |
127 | WIM Tarasova, Viktoriya | 2.5 | RUS | 2298 | 2403 | +0.55 | 14.0 | 8.5 |
135 | WGM Demina, Julia | 2.5 | RUS | 2336 | 2340 | +0.09 | 13.0 | 9.0 |
158 | WIM Dolzhykova, Kateryna | 2.5 | UKR | 2298 | 2194 | -0.71 | 11.5 | 5.5 |
175 | WGM Mirzoeva, Elmira | 2.0 | RUS | 2239 | 2240 | -0.08 | 13.0 | 8.0 |
176 | Balaian, Alina | 2.0 | RUS | 2157 | 2223 | +0.36 | 13.0 | 8.0 |
177 | WIM Komiagina, Maria | 2.0 | RUS | 2263 | 2248 | -0.21 | 13.0 | 7.5 |
179 | Zaryvkina, Anastasia | 2.0 | RUS | 2063 | 2137 | +0.40 | 12.5 | 8.5 |
185 | WIM Sazonova, Elena N. | 2.0 | RUS | 2118 | 2157 | +0.13 | 12.0 | 7.5 |
189 | WIM Butuc, Maria | 2.0 | RUS | 2180 | 2085 | -0.67 | 12.0 | 7.0 |
190 | WIM Solovjova, Valentina | 2.0 | RUS | 2253 | 2126 | -0.84 | 12.0 | 6.5 |
191 | WFM Sorokina, Anastasia | 2.0 | RUS | 2094 | 2211 | +0.66 | 12.0 | 6.5 |
196 | Zizlova, Sofia | 2.0 | RUS | 2088 | 2181 | +0.49 | 11.0 | 7.0 |
203 | Sukhareva, Evgeniya | 2.0 | RUS | 2176 | 2156 | -0.19 | 10.5 | 6.5 |
205 | WCM Kiseleva, Arina | 2.0 | RUS | 1841 | 2074 | +1.28 | 10.5 | 6.5 |
209 | WFM Belenkaya, Dina | 2.0 | RUS | 2109 | 2032 | -0.62 | 10.5 | 6.0 |
213 | WFM Sokolova, Vera | 2.0 | RUS | 2022 | 2092 | +0.39 | 9.5 | 6.5 |
WIM Kateryna
Dolzhykova, 2298, UKR, 2.5 /5, perf. 2194
Sofia Zizlova, 16 years old, 2088, RUS, 2.0/5, perf. 2181
Veronika Minina, 2147, RUS, 1.5/5, perf. 1707
Naruna Chan, 1753, RUS 0.5/5, perf. 1681
Pavel Martynov is selling books under a palm tree
The Neva and Alexander Nevsky Bridge – on a normal St. Petersburg
sunless day
Alexander Nevsky, the Grand Duke who lived in the 13th century.
The square where the Moskva hotel is located is named after him. He lookes at the Nevsky prospect, the main street of St. Petersburg, and behind him there is the Holy Trinity Alexander Nevsky Monastery.
The monument for Fedor Dostoevsky. Also there are Petr Chaikovsky,
Glinka, Stravinsky, Musorgsky and many other people from the Arts.
This Monastery (or Lavra) where the most famous people of Russian
Empire were buried. This monument belongs to Mikhail Lomonosov.
The Necropolis of the XVIII century has the graves of statesmen and outstanding
St. Petersburg citizens, like the Minister of Finance S.Vitte, Army Minister
A. Gorchakov, Euler, K. Rossi, the widow of A. Pushkin, Natalia and others.
The Monastyrka river
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