Alekhine Mem.: Ponkratov snatches win at end
6/21/2014 – The Alekhine Memorial finished with a heavily bloodied battlefield since none of the players were able to stay clear ahead of the field for any length of time. Though Ponkratov and Artemiev were clear leaders after five rounds with 4.5/5, one round later they had been caught by two more, and after round seven the new leader was Fedorov. It ended in a photo finish.
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Ultimately it came down to the last round as the two leaders Fedorov and Khalifman drew,
while Pavel Ponkratov edged them out when he scored a crucial win on board three against...
... Alexander Rakhmanov (2614).
Alexei Fedorov came second with 7.0/9, losing to Ponkratov on tiebreak
Vladislav Artemiev ran a bit out of steam at the end, and finished with four draws, though
still a fourth place and 2687 TPR
Untitled Alexander Predke (2491) finished with a superb 6.5/9 and 2670 performance with this win over mexican GM Manuel Leon Hoyos in round nine:
Fortunately for Predke, this superlative performance and positive score against seven grandmasters, was worth a GM norm despite playing GMs from only two nationalities, instead of the required three. The reason, as explained by tournament director Alexander Raetsky, is in rule 1.43e in the FIDE Handbook which includes the exception "Swiss System tournaments in which participants include at least 20 FIDE Rated players not from the host federation, but from at least 3 federations and at least 10 of whom hold GM, IM, WGM,WIM titles."
The player area is cordoned off
12-year-old Alexey Episenko finished with 5.0/9, but more importantly: a win over GM Vitaly Kunin
16-year-old Kirill Kozionov had a solid tournament and ended on 5.5/9
Final standings
|
Rk
|
SNo
|
Ti.
|
Name
|
FED
|
Rtg
|
Pts
|
Perf
|
|
1
|
9
|
GM
|
PONKRATOV Pavel |
RUS
|
2595
|
7.0
|
2738
|
|
2
|
13
|
GM
|
FEDOROV Alexei |
BLR
|
2574
|
7.0
|
2694
|
|
3
|
4
|
GM
|
KHALIFMAN Alexander |
RUS
|
2617
|
7.0
|
2644
|
|
4
|
2
|
GM
|
ARTEMIEV Vladislav |
RUS
|
2647
|
6.5
|
2682
|
|
5
|
32
|
|
PREDKE Alexandr |
RUS
|
2491
|
6.5
|
2670
|
|
6
|
3
|
GM
|
KOKAREV Dmitry |
RUS
|
2628
|
6.5
|
2666
|
|
7
|
16
|
GM
|
BRODSKY Michail |
UKR
|
2556
|
6.5
|
2638
|
|
8
|
29
|
GM
|
NOSENKO Alexander |
UKR
|
2492
|
6.0
|
2619
|
|
9
|
19
|
IM
|
ROZUM Ivan |
RUS
|
2544
|
6.0
|
2589
|
|
10
|
21
|
GM
|
ZONTAKH Andrey |
UKR
|
2533
|
6.0
|
2586
|
|
11
|
38
|
IM
|
ULKO Jaroslav |
RUS
|
2422
|
6.0
|
2584
|
|
12
|
6
|
GM
|
TIMOFEEV Artyom |
RUS
|
2603
|
6.0
|
2583
|
|
13
|
18
|
GM
|
TUKHAEV Adam |
UKR
|
2547
|
6.0
|
2579
|
|
14
|
24
|
IM
|
PRIZANT Jaroslav |
RUS
|
2516
|
6.0
|
2568
|
|
15
|
11
|
GM
|
KRYAKVIN Dmitry |
RUS
|
2581
|
6.0
|
2562
|
|
16
|
17
|
GM
|
MOZHAROV Mikhail |
RUS
|
2552
|
6.0
|
2555
|
|
17
|
15
|
GM
|
KHARITONOV Alexandr |
RUS
|
2558
|
6.0
|
2509
|
|
18
|
26
|
IM
|
DEMIDOV Mikhail |
RUS
|
2512
|
6.0
|
2483
|
|
19
|
14
|
GM
|
SHARIYAZDANOV Andrey |
RUS
|
2568
|
6.0
|
2467
|
|
20
|
5
|
GM
|
RAKHMANOV Aleksandr |
RUS
|
2614
|
5.5
|
2554
|
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Pictures by Elena Ponomarev
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