
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 five report

In Open section the derby between two leaders, Saint-Petersburg Chess Federation
and Tomsk-400, finished on favor of Petersburg, thanks to decisive victories
by Peter Svidler and Nikita Vitiugov against Ruslan Ponomariov and Viktor Bologan
respectively. As a result, after five rounds Saint-Petersburg Chess Federation
has taken the sole lead in the tournament.

Peter Svidler and Leinier Dominguez (left) playing for Saint-Petersburg
SOCAR Azerbaijan is making their way to the top after beating the G-Team Novy
Bor. Veselin Topalov and Gata Kamsky scored important victories to gain the
lead for their team in the match. Alexander Morozevich, Evgeny Tomashevsky and
Alexander Moiseenko from Economist-SGSEU Saratov outplayed their opponents from
Gros Xake Taldea, and with the other three games being drawn, Saratov gained
an important victory and shares second place with two rounds to go.
Ugra managed to win the tough match against OSG Baden-Baden e.V. Arkadij Naiditsch
defeated Alexei Shirov on the second board, but his victory didn’t affect
the final outcome, as Ugra members Anton Korobov and Alexei Dreev succeeded
to win their games against Peter Heine Nielsen and Jan Gustafsson.

Obiettive Risarcimento vs Oslo Schakselskap with a rare female player in
the open
section: WGM Olga Dolzhikova, 2286, who drew GM Michele Godena, 2526
It was absolutely impossible to predict the outcome of the match between SHSM-64
and Rishon Le-Zion. Despite the rating advantage on every board on favor of
Russian team the situation looked more promising for Israeli Club. At the beginning
Anish Giri made a draw on the second board while Alexander Riazantsev lost the
game against Tal Baron. An extraordinary accident, which turned to be decisive
for the fate of the match, happened in the game Leko-Alterman later on. In a
slightly worse endgame Peter Leko proposed a draw, but his opponent Boris Alterman
made a move which turned to be not a good one. When the Israeli GM realized
he had blundered an exchange he tried to accept the proposed draw, but Peter
Leko preferred to continue playing and converted his advantage into a full point.
The victory of Vladimir Potkin on the last board and heroic defense of Boris
Grachev not only saved the match but brought an important victory to Russian
team.
Top pairing results from round five
Bo. |
4 |
Saint-Petersburg CF |
Rtg |
4:2 |
7 |
Tomsk-400 |
Rtg |
1.1 |
GM |
Svidler, Peter |
2747 |
1-0 |
GM |
Ponomariov, Ruslan |
2735 |
1.2 |
GM |
Dominguez Perez, Leinier |
2734 |
½-½ |
GM |
Areshchenko, Alexander |
2710 |
1.3 |
GM |
Vitiugov, Nikita |
2691 |
1-0 |
GM |
Bologan, Viktor |
2695 |
1.4 |
GM |
Movsesian, Sergei |
2699 |
½-½ |
GM |
Kurnosov, Igor |
2660 |
1.5 |
GM |
Efimenko, Zahar |
2689 |
½-½ |
GM |
Motylev, Alexander |
2655 |
1.6 |
GM |
Zvjaginsev, Vadim |
2678 |
½-½ |
GM |
Khismatullin, Denis |
2638 |
Bo. |
1 |
SOCAR Azerbaijan |
Rtg |
3½:2½ |
8 |
G-Team Novy Bor |
Rtg |
2.1 |
GM |
Radjabov, Teimour |
2792 |
½-½ |
GM |
Wojtaszek, Radoslaw |
2733 |
2.2 |
GM |
Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar |
2748 |
½-½ |
GM |
Navara, David |
2722 |
2.3 |
GM |
Topalov, Veselin |
2751 |
1-0 |
GM |
Laznicka, Viktor |
2678 |
2.4 |
GM |
Grischuk, Alexander |
2752 |
½-½ |
GM |
Sasikiran, Krishnan |
2680 |
2.5 |
GM |
Kamsky, Gata |
2755 |
1-0 |
GM |
Bartel, Mateusz |
2635 |
2.6 |
GM |
Sutovsky, Emil |
2685 |
0-1 |
GM |
Hracek, Zbynek |
2612 |
Bo. |
12 |
Gros Xake Taldea |
Rtg |
1½:4½ |
3 |
Economist-SGSEU Saratov |
Rtg |
3.1 |
GM |
Van Wely, Loek |
2688 |
½-½ |
GM |
Nepomniachtchi, Ian |
2704 |
3.2 |
GM |
Bauer, Christian |
2664 |
½-½ |
GM |
Alekseev, Evgeny |
2683 |
3.3 |
GM |
Landa, Konstantin |
2641 |
0-1 |
GM |
Morozevich, Alexander |
2758 |
3.4 |
IM |
Franco Alonso, Alejandro |
2479 |
0-1 |
GM |
Tomashevsky, Evgeny |
2720 |
3.5 |
IM |
Gonzalez De La Torre, Santiago |
2442 |
0-1 |
GM |
Moiseenko, Alexander |
2700 |
3.6 |
IM |
Argandona Riveiro, Inigo |
2402 |
½-½ |
GM |
Lysyj, Igor |
2628 |
Bo. |
9 |
Ashdod |
Rtg |
4:2 |
19 |
Hapoel Kfar Saba |
Rtg |
4.1 |
GM |
Ivanchuk, Vassily |
2771 |
1-0 |
IM |
Raznikov, Danny |
2465 |
4.2 |
GM |
Eljanov, Pavel |
2681 |
0-1 |
IM |
Boruchovsky, Avital |
2435 |
4.3 |
GM |
Smirin, Ilia |
2638 |
1-0 |
FM |
Givon, Asaf |
2405 |
4.4 |
GM |
Romanov, Evgeny |
2611 |
1-0 |
|
Galburd, Yan |
2331 |
4.5 |
GM |
Avrukh, Boris |
2585 |
1-0 |
|
Ben Artzi, Ido |
2286 |
4.6 |
GM |
Kogan, Artur |
2583 |
0-1 |
|
Mindlin, Alon |
2237 |
Bo. |
6 |
OSG Baden-Baden e.V. |
Rtg |
2½:3½ |
5 |
Ugra |
Rtg |
5.1 |
GM |
Adams, Michael |
2720 |
½-½ |
GM |
Jakovenko, Dmitry |
2732 |
5.2 |
GM |
Naiditsch, Arkadij |
2704 |
1-0 |
GM |
Shirov, Alexei |
2718 |
5.3 |
GM |
Kasimdzhanov, Rustam |
2690 |
½-½ |
GM |
Malakhov, Vladimir |
2713 |
5.4 |
GM |
Nielsen, Peter Heine |
2662 |
0-1 |
GM |
Korobov, Anton |
2705 |
5.5 |
GM |
Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter |
2661 |
½-½ |
GM |
Rublevsky, Sergei |
2693 |
5.6 |
GM |
Gustafsson, Jan |
2622 |
0-1 |
GM |
Dreev, Aleksey |
2677 |
Bo. |
13 |
Rishon Le-Zion |
Rtg |
2½:3½ |
2 |
SHSM-64 |
Rtg |
6.1 |
GM |
Alterman, Boris |
2584 |
0-1 |
GM |
Leko, Peter |
2734 |
6.2 |
IM |
Popilski, Gil |
2475 |
½-½ |
GM |
Giri, Anish |
2730 |
6.3 |
GM |
Baron, Tal |
2454 |
1-0 |
GM |
Riazantsev, Alexander |
2712 |
6.4 |
IM |
Caspi, Israel |
2451 |
½-½ |
GM |
Grachev, Boris |
2672 |
6.5 |
IM |
Kaspi, Alexander |
2435 |
½-½ |
GM |
Najer, Evgeniy |
2664 |
6.6 |
IM |
Klenburg, Mikhail |
2366 |
0-1 |
GM |
Potkin, Vladimir |
2663 |
Top current rankings
Selection of games
Women's section
In the Women's section Monte-Carlo confidently won against Chigorin Club and
keeps the lead in the tournament. Anastasia Bodnaruk drew her game against Hou
Yifan while the others could not hold the pressure. Ugra defeated Rishon Le-Zion
with 3,5-0,5 score and placed second only one point behind of Monte-Carlo. AVS
managed to win the first match in the tournament against Israeli club Ashdot
with a 3:5-0:5 score. The only draw in the match was made between Masha Klinova
and Antoaneta Stefanova.

Mika (left) defeated SHSM-Nashe Nasledie to climb to the third rank in the
table.
Bo. |
3 |
Mika |
Rtg |
3:1 |
8 |
SHSM-Nashe Nasledie |
Rtg |
1.1 |
GM |
Danielian, Elina |
2476 |
½-½ |
GM |
Kosteniuk, Alexandra |
2490 |
1.2 |
GM |
Harika, Dronavalli |
2512 |
1-0 |
IM |
Gunina, Valentina |
2514 |
1.3 |
IM |
Mkrtchian, Lilit |
2456 |
½-½ |
IM |
Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina |
2405 |
1.4 |
IM |
Javakhishvili, Lela |
2444 |
1-0 |
WGM |
Kashlinskaya, Alina |
2368 |
Bo. |
4 |
Ashdod |
Rtg |
½ :3½ |
2 |
AVS |
Rtg |
2.1 |
IM |
Klinova, Masha |
2324 |
½-½ |
GM |
Stefanova, Antoaneta |
2493 |
2.2 |
IM |
Borsuk, Angela |
2260 |
0-1 |
GM |
Lahno, Kateryna |
2551 |
2.3 |
WIM |
Vasiliev, Olga |
2240 |
0-1 |
WGM |
Pogonina, Natalija |
2476 |
2.4 |
WFM |
Dotan, Valeria |
2064 |
0-1 |
IM |
Muzychuk, Mariya |
2474 |
Bo. |
5 |
Chigorin Club |
Rtg |
½ :3½ |
1 |
Cercle d'Echecs Monte-Carlo |
Rtg |
3.1 |
IM |
Bodnaruk, Anastasia |
2425 |
½-½ |
GM |
Hou, Yifan |
2605 |
3.2 |
WIM |
Bronnikova, Elizaveta |
2244 |
0-1 |
GM |
Koneru, Humpy |
2607 |
3.3 |
WIM |
Ivkina, Olga |
2266 |
0-1 |
GM |
Cramling, Pia |
2514 |
3.4 |
|
Ivanova-Skripova, Tatiana |
2173 |
0-1 |
IM |
Skripchenko, Almira |
2437 |
Bo. |
6 |
Rishon Le-Zion |
Rtg |
½ :3½ |
7 |
Ugra |
Rtg |
4.1 |
WIM |
Efroimski, Marsel |
2162 |
0-1 |
WGM |
Kovanova, Baira |
2408 |
4.2 |
|
Reprun, Nadejda |
2143 |
½-½ |
WGM |
Girya, Olga |
2454 |
4.3 |
|
Vardi, Shlomit |
2010 |
0-1 |
WGM |
Shadrina, Tatiana |
2361 |
4.4 |
|
Federovski, Adi |
1829 |
0-1 |
WIM |
Bezgodova, Maria |
2177 |
Selection of games
Posters in the playing hall by Nir Slav

All pictures by Anastasiya Karlovich
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