ECCC Eilat: five teams lead, Hou Yifan strikes back
10/13/2012 – In the open section there were two mini-upsets: second seed SHSM-64, with an average rating of 2722, could only draw OSG Baden-Baden e.V., average 2690; and Ashdod, average 2668, defeated Ugra, average 2706, by 3½:2½. Five teams lead with four points each. In the women's section world champion Hou Yifan beat former world champion Antoaneta Stefanova. Report with selected games.
The 28th European Club Cup 2012 is taking place in Eilat, Israel, as a seven-round Swiss from October 11 to 18 (no free day). The rounds starts at 15:00 local time. The time controls are 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an increment of 30 seconds per move, starting from move one. The zero tolerance rule (6.6a of the FIDE Laws of Chess) will be applied: any player who arrives at the chessboard after the start of the session loses the game.
Round two report
SHSM-64, one of the five teams with a rating average of over 2700, could only draw against OSG Baden-Baden e.V., in spite of a win by World Championship challenger Boris Gelfand over Britain's Michael Adams (in return Arkadij Naiditsch defeated Anish Giri). The other "upset" was Ashdod, average rating 2668, defeating Ugra, 2706, by 3½:2½, with wins by Ivanchuk and Eljanov and a loss by Smirin. After two rounds there are five teams with four points each: Ashdod, Saint-Petersburg Chess Federation, Economist-SGSEU Saratov, Tammer-Shakki and Tomsk-400. It's too early to be very meaningful, but you will find the full rankings here.
Top pairing results from round two
| Bo. | 2 | SHSM-64 | Rtg | 3:3 |
6 | OSG Baden-Baden e.V. | Rtg |
| 1.1 | GM | Gelfand, Boris | 2736 | 1-0 |
GM | Adams, Michael | 2720 |
| 1.2 | GM | Leko, Peter | 2734 | ½-½ |
GM | Bacrot, Etienne | 2705 |
| 1.3 | GM | Giri, Anish | 2730 | 0-1 |
GM | Naiditsch, Arkadij | 2704 |
| 1.4 | GM | Riazantsev, Alexander | 2712 | ½-½ |
GM | Kasimdzhanov, Rustam | 2690 |
| 1.5 | GM | Grachev, Boris | 2672 | ½-½ |
GM | Nielsen, Peter Heine | 2662 |
| 1.6 | GM | Potkin, Vladimir | 2663 | ½-½ |
GM | Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter | 2661 |
| Bo. | 8 | G-Team Novy Bor | Rtg | 2½:3½ |
3 | Economist-SGSEU Saratov | Rtg |
| 2.1 | GM | Wojtaszek, Radoslaw | 2733 | ½-½ |
GM | Andreikin, Dmitry | 2718 |
| 2.2 | GM | Navara, David | 2722 | ½-½ |
GM | Nepomniachtchi, Ian | 2704 |
| 2.3 | GM | Laznicka, Viktor | 2678 | ½-½ |
GM | Alekseev, Evgeny | 2683 |
| 2.4 | GM | Sasikiran, Krishnan | 2680 | ½-½ |
GM | Morozevich, Alexander | 2758 |
| 2.5 | GM | Bartel, Mateusz | 2635 | 0-1 |
GM | Tomashevsky, Evgeny | 2720 |
| 2.6 | GM | Hracek, Zbynek | 2612 | ½-½ |
GM | Moiseenko, Alexander | 2700 |
| Bo. | 4 | Saint-Petersburg CF | Rtg | 5:1 |
17 | Vesnianka Gran | Rtg |
| 3.1 | GM | Svidler, Peter | 2747 | ½-½ |
GM | Zhigalko, Andrey | 2582 |
| 3.2 | GM | Vitiugov, Nikita | 2691 | ½-½ |
GM | Teterev, Vitaly | 2529 |
| 3.3 | GM | Movsesian, Sergei | 2699 | 1-0 |
IM | Kovalev, Vladislav | 2473 |
| 3.4 | GM | Efimenko, Zahar | 2689 | 1-0 |
IM | Gorovets, Andrey | 2459 |
| 3.5 | GM | Zvjaginsev, Vadim | 2678 | 1-0 |
IM | Mochalov, Evgeny V | 2403 |
| 3.6 | GM | Matlakov, Maxim | 2665 | 1-0 |
Oblamski, Vladimir | 2114 | |
| Bo. | 9 | Ashdod | Rtg | 3½:2½ |
5 | Ugra | Rtg |
| 4.1 | GM | Ivanchuk, Vassily | 2771 | 1-0 |
GM | Jakovenko, Dmitry | 2732 |
| 4.2 | GM | Volokitin, Andrei | 2724 | ½-½ |
GM | Shirov, Alexei | 2718 |
| 4.3 | GM | Eljanov, Pavel | 2681 | 1-0 |
GM | Malakhov, Vladimir | 2713 |
| 4.4 | GM | Smirin, Ilia | 2638 | 0-1 |
GM | Korobov, Anton | 2705 |
| 4.5 | GM | Romanov, Evgeny | 2611 | ½-½ |
GM | Rublevsky, Sergei | 2693 |
| 4.6 | GM | Avrukh, Boris | 2585 | ½-½ |
GM | Dreev, Aleksey | 2677 |
| Bo. | 22 | Gambit Aseko-See | Rtg | ½ :5½ |
1 | SOCAR Azerbaijan | Rtg |
| 5.1 | IM | Arnaudov, G. Petar | 2471 | ½-½ |
GM | Radjabov, Teimour | 2792 |
| 5.2 | IM | Mitkov, Marjan | 2331 | 0-1 |
GM | Topalov, Veselin | 2751 |
| 5.3 | IM | Dancevski, Orce | 2389 | 0-1 |
GM | Kamsky, Gata | 2755 |
| 5.4 | FM | Stojcevski, Zoran | 2325 | 0-1 |
GM | Sutovsky, Emil | 2685 |
| 5.5 | FM | Andonovski, Ljubisa | 2274 | 0-1 |
GM | Safarli, Eltaj | 2616 |
| 5.6 | FM | Dinev, Dejan | 2348 | 0-1 |
GM | Guseinov, Gadir | 2608 |
| Bo. | 13 | Rishon Le-Zion | Rtg | 0:6 |
7 | Tomsk-400 | Rtg |
| 6.1 | IM | Popilski, Gil | 2475 | 0-1 |
GM | Ponomariov, Ruslan | 2735 |
| 6.2 | GM | Kosashvili, Yona | 2529 | 0-1 |
GM | Bologan, Viktor | 2695 |
| 6.3 | GM | Baron, Tal | 2454 | 0-1 |
GM | Inarkiev, Ernesto | 2683 |
| 6.4 | GM | Liss, Eran | 2464 | 0-1 |
GM | Kurnosov, Igor | 2660 |
| 6.5 | IM | Caspi, Israel | 2451 | 0-1 |
GM | Motylev, Alexander | 2655 |
| 6.6 | IM | Klenburg, Mikhail | 2366 | 0-1 |
GM | Khismatullin, Denis | 2638 |
The start of round two of the European Club Cup 2012 in Eilat
G-Team Novy Bor, with Wojtaszek, Navara, Laznicka, Sasikiran, Bartel, and Hracek,
playing Economist-SGSEU with Andreikin, Nepomniachtchi, et al. Ecomomist won
3½:2½
Ashdod, with Ivanchuk, Volokitin and Eljanov, defeated Ugra 3½:2½
Selection of games
Women's section
Yesterday she was beaten by a former women's world champion, today the reigning women's world champion, Hou Yifan, beat another former women's world champion: GM Antoaneta Stefanova of Bulgaria. That gave Hou's team Cercle d'Echecs Monte-Carlo a second straight win. Mika, with two GMs and two IMs was beaten by Ugra, which fielded one IM and three WGMs.
| Bo. | 8 | SHSM-Nashe Nasledie | Rtg | 2:2 |
5 | Chigorin Club | Rtg |
| 1.1 | GM | Kosteniuk, Alexandra | 2490 | ½-½ |
IM | Bodnaruk, Anastasia | 2425 |
| 1.2 | IM | Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina | 2405 | ½-½ |
WIM | Bronnikova, Elizaveta | 2244 |
| 1.3 | WGM | Kashlinskaya, Alina | 2368 | 0-1 |
WIM | Ivkina, Olga | 2266 |
| 1.4 | IM | Savina, Anastasia | 2303 | 1-0 |
Ivanova-Skripova, Tatiana | 2173 | |
| Bo. | 6 | Rishon Le-Zion | Rtg | 1:3 |
4 | Ashdod | Rtg |
| 2.1 | WIM | Efroimski, Marsel | 2162 | ½-½ |
IM | Klinova, Masha | 2324 |
| 2.2 | Reprun, Nadejda | 2143 | 0-1 |
WIM | Vasiliev, Olga | 2240 | |
| 2.3 | Federovski, Adi | 1829 | 0-1 |
WIM | Tsifanskaya, Ludmila A | 2087 | |
| 2.4 | Lahav, Michal | 1732 | ½-½ |
WFM | Dotan, Valeria | 2064 | |
| Bo. | 7 | Ugra | Rtg | 2½:1½ |
3 | Mika | Rtg |
| 3.1 | WGM | Kovanova, Baira | 2408 | 0-1 |
GM | Danielian, Elina | 2476 |
| 3.2 | WGM | Girya, Olga | 2454 | 1-0 |
GM | Harika, Dronavalli | 2512 |
| 3.3 | IM | Romanko, Marina | 2365 | ½-½ |
IM | Mkrtchian, Lilit | 2456 |
| 3.4 | WGM | Shadrina, Tatiana | 2361 | 1-0 |
IM | Javakhishvili, Lela | 2444 |
| Bo. | 1 | Cercle d'Echecs Monte-Carlo | Rtg | 2½:1½ |
2 | AVS | Rtg |
| 4.1 | GM | Hou, Yifan | 2605 | 1-0 |
GM | Stefanova, Antoaneta | 2493 |
| 4.2 | GM | Koneru, Humpy | 2607 | ½-½ |
GM | Lahno, Kateryna | 2551 |
| 4.3 | GM | Muzychuk, Anna | 2587 | ½-½ |
GM | Cmilyte, Viktorija | 2528 |
| 4.4 | GM | Cramling, Pia | 2514 | ½-½ |
WGM | Pogonina, Natalija | 2476 |
A determined Hou Yifan about to defeat Antoaneta Stefanova (in the background,
standing: Almira Skripchenko, seated: Anna Muzychuk)
Photos by WGM Anastasiya Karlovich
Selection of games
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