Chernyshov Wins Moscow Open

Submitted by SonofPearl on Mon, 02/08/2010 at 10:56am.

He may not be a familiar name to even the most ardent chess fans, but 42 year-old Konstantin Chernyshov rated 2556 Elo (pictured below, left) won the 2010 Moscow Open ahead of a strong field, including joint top seeds Alexander Motylev and Sergey Rublevsky (2697 Elo).

Chernyshov finished joint first with three other players on 7/9 in the 'Open A' event and won by virtue of a superior tie-break score. Many of the 180+ competitors will be staying in Moscow to take part in the even bigger Aeroflot Open, starting tomorrow - official site here.

The top finishers were:

Rank	Seed	Name	Elo	Nat	Pts
1	46	Chernyshov Konstantin	2556	RUS	7.0
2	17	Bareev Evgeny	2643	RUS	7.0
3	16	Le Quang Liem	2647	VIE	7.0
4	15	Inarkiev Ernesto	2649	RUS	7.0
5	13	Sasikiran Krishnan	2653	IND	6.5
6	3	Bologan Viktor	2692	MDA	6.5
7	20	Andreikin Dmitry	2635	RUS	6.5
8	6	Kurnosov Igor	2668	RUS	6.5
9	24	Azarov Sergei	2622	BLR	6.5
10	2	Rublevsky Sergei	2697	RUS	6.5
11	4	Bu Xiangzhi	2673	CHN	6.5
12	32	Belov Vladimir	2595	RUS	6.5
13	25	Vorobiov Evgeny E	2621	RUS	6.5
14	19	Savchenko Boris	2638	RUS	6.5

Here is a crucial victory for Chernyshov from the penultimate round against one of the top seeds.

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by windownight - 23 months ago
Auckland New Zealand

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is chernyshov always play

by magnus_carlsen_1990 - 23 months ago
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yawn

by linksspringer - 2 years ago
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It was an Owen's defence. One of my favourite openings, so it was interesting to see it played at top level!
Indeed White shouldn't have played the knight to a1 (it made the resulting win of the exchange by Ng4/Nxf6 rather useless). I suspect both players were short on time, time control was 1.5h for the whole game + 3 sec increment. I was following the game live, and the moves started to come in pretty quickly at that point.

by spank_the_bishop - 2 years ago
London United Kingdom

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Strange opening - as played black very quickly had Q-side initiative, and then white let him open up the F-file.

But why did white play his knight to a1? when black played pawn to b3, attcaking the knight, shouldn't white have looked to get the knight back into action by Ne1 (and then Nd3 or Nf3 at the right moment)? in the end it was trapped so he had to sac it for very little compensation, surely the knight deserved a better fate than that!