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The Keres Memorial - ACP Open is organised by the Association of Chess Professionals, the Estonian Chess Federation and the Kalev Sports Association.
Eleven rounds will be played in Tallinn, four on Friday, four on Saturday and the final three on Sunday. Each player has 15 minutes for the whole game and gets an additional 10 seconds per move. With a current rating of 2685 three times British Champion David Howell is currently England's number two (narrowly ahead of Nigel Short with 2684 and behind Michael Adams with 2744) and started the Keres Memorial as number ten on the ranking list. But he showed good form and with six wins and two draws he finishes day two as the sole leader of the tournament.
Howell finished day two in style and won with a fine attack:
| Rg. | Snr | Name | Land | Elo | Pkt. | Wtg1 | |
| 1 | 10 | GM | Howell David W L | ENG | 2646 | 7,0 | 38,0 |
| 2 | 14 | GM | Duda Jan-Krzysztof | POL | 2603 | 6,5 | 39,5 |
| 3 | 2 | GM | Kovalenko Igor | LAT | 2734 | 6,5 | 37,5 |
| 4 | 1 | GM | Svidler Peter | RUS | 2736 | 6,5 | 36,0 |
| 5 | 3 | GM | Gelfand Boris | ISR | 2733 | 6,5 | 34,5 |
| 6 | 16 | GM | Miton Kamil | POL | 2597 | 6,5 | 34,0 |
| 7 | 12 | GM | Georgiev Kiril | BUL | 2612 | 6,0 | 39,5 |
| 8 | 6 | GM | Berkes Ferenc | HUN | 2685 | 6,0 | 38,0 |
| 9 | 27 | GM | Kosteniuk Alexandra | RUS | 2514 | 6,0 | 37,5 |
| 10 | 29 | IM | Sveshnikov Vladimir | LAT | 2467 | 6,0 | 37,0 |
| 11 | 17 | GM | Jumabayev Rinat | KAZ | 2590 | 6,0 | 36,0 |
| 12 | 20 | GM | Tregubov Pavel V. | RUS | 2566 | 6,0 | 35,5 |
| 13 | 11 | GM | Ganguly Surya Shekhar | IND | 2615 | 6,0 | 35,5 |
| 14 | 26 | GM | Romanov Evgeny | RUS | 2529 | 6,0 | 34,0 |
| 15 | 19 | GM | Neiksans Arturs | LAT | 2579 | 6,0 | 33,5 |
| 16 | 9 | GM | Motylev Alexander | RUS | 2651 | 5,5 | 40,0 |
| 17 | 8 | GM | Vitiugov Nikita | RUS | 2665 | 5,5 | 39,5 |
| 18 | 18 | GM | Mikhalevski Victor | ISR | 2590 | 5,5 | 39,0 |
| 19 | 22 | GM | Lintchevski Daniil | RUS | 2549 | 5,5 | 38,0 |
| 20 | 4 | GM | Fridman Daniel | GER | 2688 | 5,5 | 37,5 |
| 31 | GM | Volodin Aleksandr | EST | 2457 | 5,5 | 37,5 | |
| 22 | 23 | IM | Kantans Toms | LAT | 2547 | 5,5 | 37,5 |
| 23 | 5 | GM | Matlakov Maxim | RUS | 2686 | 5,5 | 37,0 |
| 54 | IM | Seeman Tarvo | EST | 2303 | 5,5 | 37,0 | |
| 25 | 38 | GM | Balashov Yuri S | RUS | 2423 | 5,5 | 37,0 |
| 26 | 24 | GM | Goganov Aleksey | RUS | 2545 | 5,5 | 36,5 |
| 27 | 13 | GM | Sutovsky Emil | ISR | 2604 | 5,5 | 36,0 |
| 28 | 33 | GM | Sveshnikov Evgeny | RUS | 2455 | 5,5 | 35,0 |
| 29 | 37 | FM | Mustaps Matiss | LAT | 2429 | 5,5 | 34,5 |
| 30 | 21 | GM | Rakhmanov Aleksandr | RUS | 2564 | 5,5 | 34,0 |
| 31 | 56 | IM | Nyysti Sampsa | FIN | 2287 | 5,5 | 31,0 |
| 32 | 42 | IM | Padmini Rout | IND | 2392 | 5,5 | 29,5 |
| 33 | 35 | GM | Yevseev Denis | RUS | 2442 | 5,0 | 38,0 |
...177 players
Some of the participants: E. Sveshnikov, I. Kovalenko, D. Fridman,
E. Sutovsky, B. Gelfand, P. Svidler, P. Eljanov (Photo: Russian Chess Federation)
Paul Keres - always ready for a game.
Okay, let's go!
Addendum: Some readers wondered whether the position on the board was taken from a game Keres played or whether it is one of the studies he composed. The position on the board of the statue is almost identical to the final position of the game Walter Browne - Paul Keres, Vancouver 1975, the last tournament game Keres ever played. However, in the real Browne - Keres game the white rook was on g4, not on h3.
It is also slightly confusing that the statue of Keres plays with White whereas Keres had Black in the actual game.
Final position of Keres' last tournament game.
Paul Keres
