Karjakin wins Tomsk with 2834 performance

Tenth Petr Izmailov Memorial

The 10th Petr Izmailov Memorial rapid tournament took place in Tomsk, Russia, from July 11 to 16th 2006. The double round robin event was won by Sergey Karjakin, who scored 1.5 points more than his nearest rival (Rublevsky) and produced a 2834 performance in the process.

The winner with a 2834 performance: 16-year-old Sergey Karjakin

Final standings

Or if you prefer a manually generated table from the official web site:

N	Фамилия	Страна	ЭЛО	1	2	3	4	5	6	1	2	3	4	5	6	О	М
1	Карякин Сергей	УКР	2679		1	1	½	½	½		0	1	1	½	1	7	I
2	Морозевич Александр	РОС	2731	0		½	½	0	1	1		0	½	1	0	4,5	IV
3	Бологан Виорел	МОЛ	2645	0	½		1	½	0	0	1		0	½	½	4	V-VI
4	Пономарев Руслан	УКР	2721	½	½	0		0	0	0	½	1		1	½	4	V-VI
5	Рублевский Сергей	РОС	2667	½	1	½	1		½	½	0	½	0		1	5,5	II
6	Касымжанов Рустам	УЗБ	2672	½	0	1	1	½		0	1	½	½	0		5	III

All available games. The games of rounds 1, 3 and 4 remain unavailable. Mark Crowther of The Week in Chess typed up the rest of the games as they were played.

Picture Gallery

Players at the opening ceremony: Sergei Rublevsky, Ruslan Ponomariov, Alexander
Morozevich, Sergey Karjakin, Rustam Kasimdzhanov and Viorel Bologan

The tournament hall, with Karjakin-Kasimdzhanov (foreground), Morozevich-
Rublevsky and Bologan-Ponomariov (background) under way

Former FIDE world champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov vs boy wonder Sergey Karjakin

Between a rock and an attractive guide: Players take an outing in Tomsk

Prayers not answered: Viorel (Viktor) Bologan makes an offering in a Tomsk church

Rustam Kasimdzhanov with his young son

Tomsk

Tomsk, a centre of the Tomsk region, is located on the right bank of the Tom river. It was founded in 1604 after the Russian tsar Boris Godunov ordered Cossack leader Gavril Pisemsky and officer Vasiliy Tyrkov to found a fort on the Tom River, on Tatar land, to protect the river crossing and Eushta population from Kalmyk and Kyrghiz tribes.

In 1629 Tomsk was raised into the status of a centre of the region. It became important as a military center for pacifying the native people and evolved into a regional administrative center. Beginning in the late 1830s, its population grew quickly thanks to the intensifying gold-mining activity in Siberia. The present Tomsk with a population of 473 thousand is one of the largest industrial, scientific and cultural centers of Western Siberia.