ACP 02: rapid World Champion out

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9/15/2013 – Many interesting games happened today in Riga. The only match to go into tiebreaks was Nepomniatchi-Malakhov in which the younger player was able to beat his opponent in tiebreaks. In two important matches Svidler was able to take out Radjabov while Grischuk took care of Wojtaszek. Meanwhile the rapid World Champion Mamedyarov was taken out by Ponomariov. Report.

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The ACP cup runs from the 13th of September to the 15th of September in Riga, Latvia. The tournament will be a rapid event with blitz tiebreaks in a knock out format. The pairings will be somewhat unusual, as the four highest rated playesr will be randomly paired against the four lowest rated players, consequently the players ranked fifth to eighth will be randomly paired against the players ranked ninth to twelfth. The tournament will follow FIDE rapid play rules and FIDE blitz play rules for the normal portion and the tiebreaks.

The matches will consist of 25 minutes per player at the start of the game with 10 seconds increment from move one. In case of a tiebreak the games will move to 3 minutes with 2 seconds increment. Finally, an Armageddon will be used where White starts with 5 minutes and must win against Black's 4 minutes; at the 61st move however players will begin to receive a 2 second increment.

Day two report

Grischuk-Wojtaszek

Grischuk completely outclassed the polish player. In the first game an endgame arose with opposite colored bishops, but White's blockade and his passed pawn were too powerful. He even sacrificed a piece to be able to push his pawn forward and convert the win. Wojtaszek tried too hard in the second game and ended up losing 2-0.

Mamedyarov-Ponomariov

Mamedyarov had to try as hard as he could with white when Ponomariov was able to swiftly take a strong advantage in game one. Despite the symmetrical structure, the pair of bishops guaranteed the Ukrainian player an advantage that he was able to convert. In the second game too many risks were taken and the Azerbaijani found himself in the worst side of complications, with his king too exposed Ponomariov was able to launch a fantastic attack and finish off the series.

Nepomniatchi-Malakhov

The only match that went to overtime. Malakhov was able to strike back in the second game despite reaching a drawish endgame after Nepomniatchi won his first game with White. However the young star was able to strike back in the tiebreaks and took the match Nepomniatchi 3-1 Malakhov

The last straw

Svidler-Radjabov

Svidler was able to quickly dismantle Radjabov with the black pieces. An anti-Paulsen backfired in Radjabov's face as Svidler took the initiative and all of Radjabov's pawns. All the Russian had to do afterwards was hold a draw and advance and he did exactly that.

Tomorrow's mataches:

Grischuk-Svidler
Nepomniatchi-Ponomariov

September 15:
Semi Finals

12:00 game 1
13:15 game 2
14:30 Tiebreaks

Finals

14:30 game 1
14:45 game 2
19:00 Tiebreaks

The games will have live broadcast in Russian and English on the official tournament site

All photos by Lennart Ootes

Round two games

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1.d4940,74255%2434---
1.Nf3279,27256%2441---
1.c4180,87056%2443---
1.g319,62256%2427---
1.b314,03354%2427---
1.f45,81948%2377---
1.Nc33,70851%2384---
1.b41,73148%2378---
1.a31,17753%2402---
1.e31,05448%2407---
1.d392750%2376---
1.g464846%2360---
1.h443852%2371---
1.c341851%2423---
1.h326055%2413---
1.a410159%2476---
1.Nh38866%2510---
1.f38247%2435---
1.Na33862%2477---
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.h3 e5 7.Nb3 Be6 8.f4 b5 9.f5 Bc8 10.Bg5 Bb7 11.Qf3 Nbd7 12.0-0-0 Be7 13.Kb1 Rc8 14.Bxf6 Nxf6 15.Nd5 Bxd5 16.exd5 h5 17.g3 h4 18.g4 Nh7 19.Nd2 Ng5 20.Qg2 Qb6 21.Bd3 Bf6 22.Rhe1 Ke7 23.Ne4 Nxe4 24.Rxe4 Bg5 25.c3 Rc5 26.Bc2 Rhc8 27.a3 Rc4 28.Bd3 Rxe4 29.Qxe4 Qe3 30.Qxe3 Bxe3 31.Re1 Bf4 32.Kc2 Kf6 33.Re4 Rc5 34.b4 Rc7 35.Kb3 Kg5 36.c4 bxc4+ 37.Bxc4 Ra7 38.Bd3 a5 39.b5 Bg3 40.Rc4 Bf2 41.Rc6 Bc5 42.Ka4 Kf4 43.b6 Rb7 44.Kxa5 e4 45.Bxe4 Kxe4 46.Ka6 Rb8 47.b7 Kxd5 48.Rc8 Rxb7 49.Kxb7 Bxa3 50.Rf8 f6 51.Rg8 Ke4 52.Kc6 Kf4 53.Rxg7 Kg3 54.g5 fxg5 55.f6 d5 56.Rxg5+ Kxh3 57.Kxd5 Kh2 58.Ke4 h3 59.Kf3 Kh1 60.Kg3 h2 61.Rd5 1–0
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WhiteEloWBlackEloBResYearECOEventRnd
Grischuk,A2785Wojtaszek,R27011–02013B90ACP Cup 20132.1
Wojtaszek,R2701Grischuk,A27850–12013D97ACP Cup 20132.2
Ponomariov,R2756Mamedyarov,S27751–02013D11ACP Cup 20132.1
Mamedyarov,S2775Ponomariov,R27560–12013A85ACP Cup 20132.2
Nepomniachtchi,I2717Malakhov,V27071–02013A15ACP Cup 20132.1
Malakhov,V2707Nepomniachtchi,I27171–02013C07ACP Cup 20132.2
Nepomniachtchi,I2717Malakhov,V27071–02013A29ACP Cup 20132.3
Malakhov,V2707Nepomniachtchi,I27170–12013B50ACP Cup 20132.4
Radjabov,T2733Svidler,P27460–12013B40ACP Cup 20132.1
Svidler,P2746Radjabov,T2733½–½2013A88ACP Cup 20132.2

 

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