Cheparinov Shines In Ruy Lopez Festival
Submitted by
SonofPearl on Mon, 06/21/2010 at 9:52am.
The large number of chess 'supertournaments' in the modern era is such that many strong tournaments just below that level can be somewhat overshadowed.
This is a shame, especially when the tournaments are as entertaining as the Ruy Lopez Chess Festival which took place in Villafranca de los Barros, Spain from 11-19 June.
This 8-player single round-robin event had an interesting field, a very low percentage of drawn games, and a fantastic (TPR>2900 Elo) performance from Bulgarian Ivan Cheparinov to win by a clear 1.5 points.
Cheparinov also won the event last year, and will be back again to defend his title in 2011.
The final cross-table:
| Cheparinov, Ivan |
BUL
|
2640 |
* |
½ |
1 |
½ |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
6 |
| Caruana, Fabiano |
ITA |
2675 |
½ |
* |
1 |
½ |
1 |
0 |
½ |
1 |
4½ |
| Malakhov, Vladimir |
RUS |
2722 |
0 |
0 |
* |
1 |
½ |
1 |
1 |
1 |
4½ |
| Sargissian, Gabriel |
ARM |
2677 |
½ |
½ |
0 |
* |
½ |
½ |
1 |
1 |
4 |
| Salgado Lopez, Ivan |
ESP |
2606 |
0 |
0 |
½ |
½ |
* |
1 |
1 |
1 |
4 |
| Perez Candelario, Manuel |
ESP |
2527 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
½ |
0 |
* |
½ |
0 |
2 |
| Cramling, Pia |
SWE |
2536 |
0 |
½ |
0 |
0 |
0 |
½ |
* |
1 |
2 |
| Cori T. Deysi |
PER |
2409 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
* |
1 |
All the games can be downloaded in pgn format from the official site via this link. A brief selection of games are below.
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