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The Keres Memorial - ACP Open is an 11-round rapid tournament organised by the Association of Chess Professionals, the Estonian Chess Federation and the Kalev Sports Association. Each player has 15 minutes for the whole game and gets an additional 10 seconds per move.
The crucial game for Igor Kovalenko came in round ten. He played with white against top seed Peter Svidler, won the game and started the last round as sole leader. In the last round Kovalenko decided to play it safe and made a quick draw against Boris Gelfand. This safe approach paid off because Kovalenko's closest rivals failed to win their games and Kovalenko became sole tournament winner. Half-a-point behind followed David Howell from England, Boris Gelfand from Israel and Surya Shekhar Ganguly from India. Howell, who had led the field after day two, became second on tie-break. Place three went to Gelfand.
The proud winner: Igor Kovalenko
After a few moves they shook hands again.
Rg. | Snr | Name | sex | Land | Elo | Pkt. | Wtg1 | Wtg2 | ||
1 | 2 |
|
GM | Kovalenko Igor | LAT | 2734 | 9,0 | 73,5 | 67,5 | |
2 | 10 |
|
GM | Howell David W L | ENG | 2646 | 8,5 | 73,5 | 67,5 | |
3 | 3 |
|
GM | Gelfand Boris | ISR | 2733 | 8,5 | 73,0 | 67,5 | |
4 | 11 |
|
GM | Ganguly Surya Shekhar | IND | 2615 | 8,5 | 71,0 | 65,0 | |
5 | 14 |
|
GM | Duda Jan-Krzysztof | POL | 2603 | 8,0 | 76,0 | 70,0 | |
6 | 12 |
|
GM | Georgiev Kiril | BUL | 2612 | 8,0 | 76,0 | 69,5 | |
7 | 1 |
|
GM | Svidler Peter | RUS | 2736 | 8,0 | 75,5 | 69,0 | |
8 | 6 |
|
GM | Berkes Ferenc | HUN | 2685 | 8,0 | 73,0 | 67,0 | |
9 | 9 |
|
GM | Motylev Alexander | RUS | 2651 | 8,0 | 72,5 | 67,0 | |
10 | 27 |
|
GM | Kosteniuk Alexandra | w | RUS | 2514 | 8,0 | 71,0 | 65,5 |
11 | 20 |
|
GM | Tregubov Pavel V. | RUS | 2566 | 8,0 | 71,0 | 65,0 | |
12 | 16 |
|
GM | Miton Kamil | POL | 2597 | 8,0 | 69,0 | 63,5 | |
13 | 19 |
|
GM | Neiksans Arturs | LAT | 2579 | 8,0 | 69,0 | 63,0 | |
14 | 8 |
|
GM | Vitiugov Nikita | RUS | 2665 | 7,5 | 73,5 | 67,0 | |
15 | 18 |
|
GM | Mikhalevski Victor | ISR | 2590 | 7,5 | 73,0 | 67,0 | |
16 | 5 |
|
GM | Matlakov Maxim | RUS | 2686 | 7,5 | 73,0 | 66,5 | |
17 | 35 |
|
GM | Yevseev Denis | RUS | 2442 | 7,5 | 71,0 | 65,5 | |
18 | 17 |
|
GM | Jumabayev Rinat | KAZ | 2590 | 7,5 | 70,5 | 64,5 | |
26 |
|
GM | Romanov Evgeny | RUS | 2529 | 7,5 | 70,5 | 64,5 | ||
20 | 4 |
|
GM | Fridman Daniel | GER | 2688 | 7,5 | 69,5 | 63,5 | |
21 | 13 |
|
GM | Sutovsky Emil | ISR | 2604 | 7,5 | 68,5 | 62,5 | |
22 | 21 |
|
GM | Rakhmanov Aleksandr | RUS | 2564 | 7,5 | 67,0 | 61,5 | |
23 | 7 |
|
GM | Eljanov Pavel | UKR | 2683 | 7,5 | 64,5 | 59,0 | |
24 | 38 |
|
GM | Balashov Yuri S | RUS | 2423 | 7,0 | 72,0 | 66,5 | |
25 | 22 |
|
GM | Lintchevski Daniil | RUS | 2549 | 7,0 | 70,0 | 64,0 | |
26 | 24 |
|
GM | Goganov Aleksey | RUS | 2545 | 7,0 | 69,5 | 64,0 | |
27 | 29 |
|
IM | Sveshnikov Vladimir | LAT | 2467 | 7,0 | 68,0 | 62,5 | |
28 | 44 |
|
IM | Kashtanov Ruslan | RUS | 2379 | 7,0 | 67,5 | 62,5 | |
45 |
|
Putka Verners | LAT | 2366 | 7,0 | 67,5 | 62,5 | |||
30 | 28 |
|
GM | Kulaots Kaido | EST | 2484 | 7,0 | 67,0 | 61,5 | |
31 | 32 |
|
GM | Lanka Zigurds | LAT | 2456 | 7,0 | 65,5 | 60,5 | |
32 | 34 |
|
GM | Novik Maxim | RUS | 2454 | 7,0 | 65,0 | 61,0 | |
33 | 15 |
|
GM | Postny Evgeny | ISR | 2601 | 7,0 | 64,0 | 58,5 | |
34 | 36 |
|
GM | Cramling Pia | w | SWE | 2432 | 7,0 | 63,5 | 59,0 |
35 | 62 |
|
Laimins Lauris | LAT | 2247 | 7,0 | 63,5 | 58,5 | ||
36 | 57 |
|
Dubrovin Robert | EST | 2286 | 7,0 | 59,5 | 54,5 | ||
37 | 78 |
|
Nestor Kaarel | EST | 2181 | 7,0 | 56,5 | 53,5 | ||
38 | 31 |
|
GM | Volodin Aleksandr | EST | 2457 | 6,5 | 71,5 | 66,5 |
...177 players
Emil Sutovsky, European Champion 2001 and President of the Association of Chess Professionals, which
organised the tournament together with the Estonian Chess Federation and the Kalev Sports Association.
Sutovsky finished 21st with 7.5/11.
Peter Svidler
Alexandra Kosteniuk won the women's prize.
The second women's prize went to Pia Cramling from Sweden, the third women's prize went to Rout Padmini from India.
The winners
The Keres Memorial - ACP Open on the website of the ACP...
Fotos: Vladimir Barsky