
The Sberbank Open was organised by Sberbank,
the largest bank in Russia and the third largest in Europe. The main event
was a ten-player rapid tournament with time control of 25 minutes for the
whole game + 10 seconds increment per move. Here the participants:
In the end it was Ukrainian (now Russian) GM Sergey Karjakin who won the
GM rapid tournament, after finishing the last three rounds with 2.5 points
and overtaking his main rival Veselin Topalov in the process.


The start of the rapid tournament, with round
one in progress

Of special interest was the participation of
former World Champion Anatoly Karpov

Sergey Karjakin working hard to win the event
with a 2871 performance