Svidler wins Jerusalem Masters

by André Schulz
9/26/2024 – Peter Svidler is the winner of the 2024 Jerusalem Masters. On the second day of the rapid chess tournament, the St Petersburg-born player built on his strong performance from the day before to finish the tournament in first place, one point ahead of Jorden van Foreest and Daniil Dubov. | Photos: Tournament page / Dr. ML Photos
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Peter Svidler is the clear winner of the Jerusalem Masters 2024. Ten players took part in this rapid tournament, which was part of a three-day chess festival. Five players were from Israel and five from other countries.

Peter Svidler was top seed, and lived up to his role as favourite. He finished day 1 of the rapid tournament with 4.0/5 to share the lead Vasyl Ivanchuk. Svidler then began two 2 with two wins in a row.

Svidler, Peter26981–0Gorshtein, Ido2543
Jerusalem Masters 2024
25.09.2024[Schulz,A]
1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.Nf3 e6 5.Be2 c5 Another popular setup is 5...Nd7 6.0-0 Ne7 7.Nbd2 h6 8.Nb3 g5 6.0-0 Nc6 7.c3 Bg4 More popular is 7...cxd4 8.Nxd4 Nge7 z.B.: 9.Nxf5 Nxf5 10.Bd3 g6 11.Qe2 Bg7 12.f4 0-0 13.Nd2 f6 14.exf6 Qxf6 15.Nf3 Rae8 16.Bb5 Qd8 17.Bd2 Nd6 18.Bd3 e5 19.fxe5 Nxe5 20.Nxe5 Rxe5 21.Rxf8+ Qxf8 22.Qg4 Ne4 23.Be3 Nc5 24.Rf1 Rxe3 25.Rxf8+ Bxf8 26.Bc2 Re1+ 27.Kf2 Re5 28.Qc8 b6 29.b4 Ne6 30.Bb3 Ng5 31.Bxd5+ 1-0 Carlsen,M (2863)-Harikrishna,P (2732) Saint Louis Rapid Lichess.org INT 2020 (6) 8.Nbd2 cxd4 9.Nxd4 Bxe2 10.Qxe2 Nxd4 11.cxd4 Ne7 12.Nf3 Nc6 13.h4 Be7 14.h5 h6 15.Be3 15.Bf4 Qb6 16.Rfd1 a5 17.Qe3 a4 18.Rab1 Kd7 19.Ne1 Rhc8= 1-0 Wei,Y (2722)-Anton Guijarro,D (2690) Chessable Masters Div 3 Lose Chess.com INT rapid 2023 (4.1) 15...0-0 16.Rad1 Qa5 17.a3 Rac8 18.Nh2 Qa6 19.Rd3 Kh8
20.Ng4 Eyeing h6 and suggesting ideas such as Qd2 followed by Bxh6. f5?! 20...Na5 with the idea 21.Qd2?! Nc4 might have been a better try. 21.exf6 Bxf6 22.Qd2 Renewing the threat of Bxh6. Kg8 23.Re1 23.Bxh6 gxh6 24.Rg3 leads only to a perpetual. Bg7 25.Nxh6+ Kh8 26.Rxg7 Kxg7 27.Qg5+ Kh8 28.Nf5 exf5 29.Qh6+ Kg8 30.Qg6+ 23...Ne7 24.Bf4 Nf5 25.Nxf6+ Rxf6 26.Be5 Rf7 27.Rf3 Nd6 28.Rg3 Nf5 29.Rg6 Kh7?! 29...Qb6!? 30.Qf4
30...Qd3? Until now Black has defended carefully, but this move blunders the game. More stubborn was 30...Kg8 White is clearly better, but Black can still fight. 31.Rxe6 Rc2 32.Qg4 Rf8 33.Qg6+ Kg8 34.Re7 1–0

In addition to Idor Gorshtein, Svidler also defeated Evgeny Postny. After a draw with Dutchman Jorden van Foreest in round eight, Svidler suffered a defeat to Daniil Dubov, but it did not threaten his victory.

Dubov, Daniil26931–0Svidler, Peter2698
Jerusalem Masters 2024
25.09.2024[Schulz,A]
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.g3 a6 7.Bg2 h5!? Black has a number of alternatives, e.g. 7...Nf6 8.0-0 Bc5 After 8...Be7 9.Re1 d6 10.Nxc6 bxc6 11.e5 dxe5 12.Rxe5 White has scored well. 8...Nxd4 9.Qxd4 Bc5 10.Bf4 d6 11.Qd2 8...d6 9.Re1 Bd7 9.Nxc6 dxc6 8.0-0 h4 9.Re1 hxg3 10.hxg3 d6 11.Bg5 In a number of games White played 11.Nxc6 bxc6 12.e5± 11...Nf6 12.Qd2
12...Be7 12...Ne5!?= 13.Nxc6 bxc6 14.e5 dxe5 15.Rxe5 0-0 16.Rae1 Rd8 17.Qf4 Bb7 18.Ne4 Nxe4 19.Bxe7 Qxe7 20.Bxe4 c5 21.Rh5 Bxe4 22.Rxe4 22.Qxe4 g6= 22...Rd1+ 23.Kg2 Rad8 24.Qh4 Qxh4 25.Rexh4
25...Kf8? Blundering the pawn on c5. Correct was 25...f5 26.Rh8+ 26.Ra4 R1d2= 26...Kf7= 26.Rxc5 Ke7 27.Ra4 R1d6 28.Kf3 f6 29.Rc7+ R8d7 30.Rxd7+ Kxd7 31.Ke3 White will create two connected passed pawns on the queenside, and Svidler did not want to see the rest. 1–0

Ivanchuk, however, was unable to repeat his good result from the first day of the tournament. The veteran began with a win over Postny, but then suffered three successive defeats to van Foreest, Dubov and Pavel Eljanov.

Jorden van Foreest and Daniil Dubov

Van Foreest started day 1 with 2.5/5, but on day 2 he scored 3 points from four games and finished second on tiebreak, ahead of Dubov and Avital Boruchovsky. All three finished on 5.5/9.

The 28-year-old Avital Boruchovsky, a Grandmaster since 2014, is thus the best local player in the tournament.

The players of the Masters with officials

Final standings Masters

Rk. Name Pts  Tb1 
1 Svidler, Peter 6,5 25,75
2 Van Foreest, Jorden 5,5 25,75
Dubov, Daniil 5,5 25,75
4 Boruchovsky, Avital 5,5 19,75
5 Ivanchuk, Vasyl 5 19,25
6 Eljanov, Pavel 4,5 18,00
7 Smirin, Ilia 4 15,25
8 Rodshtein, Maxim 4 15,00
9 Postny, Evgeny 2,5 9,50
10 Gorshtein, Ido 2 10,50

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Jerusalem Open

With over 300 participants, most of them from Israel, the Open was very well attended. A number of grandmasters and other titleholders took part. The winner was Grandmaster Yahli Sokolovsky who won with 8.0/9 on tiebreak, ahead of GM Dan Zoler, who also had 8.0/9.

Final standings Open

Rk. Snr Name Country Elo EloI EloN Pts.  Tb1   Tb2   Tb3 
1 1
GM Sokolovsky, Yahli ISR 2563 2291 2563 8 0 53 58
2 7
GM Zoler, Dan ISR 2496 2351 2496 8 0 47,5 51,5
3 3
IM Gorodetzky, David ISR 2522 2397 2522 7,5 0 52,5 56,5
4 15
GM Van Foreest, Lucas NED 2531 2448 2531 7,5 0 51,5 55,5
5 5
IM Rozen, Eytan ISR 2505 2444 2505 7,5 0 50,5 54,5
6 17
IM Levin, Guy ISR 2432 2363 2432 7,5 0 47 51
7 12
IM Aizenberg, Benny ISR 2460 2394 2460 7 0 51,5 55,5
8 13
IM Bronstein, Or ISR 2460 2351 2460 7 0 51 56
9 6
IM Ben Ari, Yannay ISR 2497 2338 2497 7 0 50,5 55
10 10
GM Mikhalevski, Victor ISR 2487 2462 2487 7 0 50,5 54,5
11 18
FM Zemach, Nadav ISR 2428 2285 2428 7 0 49,5 53,5
12 20
FM Iliaguev, Nisim ISR 2424 2320 2424 7 0 48 53
13 21
FM Sherman, Raem ISR 2421 2284 2421 7 0 46,5 50
14 31
FM Streltsov, Alexey ISR 2355 2235 2355 7 0 45,5 49,5
15 14
IM Shohat, Yotam ISR 2460 2333 2460 7 0 43,5 47,5
16 37
FM Uritsky, Yonathan ISR 2305 2099 2305 7 0 43 47
17 67
Gurevich, Yosef ISR 2154 1939 2154 7 0 37,5 41
18 4
IM Erenberg, Ariel ISR 2514 2383 2514 6,5 0 51,5 56,5
19 28
GM Kantsler, Boris ISR 2359 2293 2359 6,5 0 49 52
20 24
FM Liubarov, Mark ISR 2398 2225 2398 6,5 0 47 51

304 players

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