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Ivanchuk Wins Jermuk Grand Prix

  • SonofPearl
  • on Sun, 8/23/2009 12:17pm.

An exciting last round in the Jermuk Grand Prix saw Vassily Ivanchuk (pictured) win with the black pieces to finish the undefeated sole winner on 8.5/13.

A great result for the popular Ukrainian, who re-enters the world's top 10 after a recent poor run of form saw his world ranking slide.

Spare a thought for Peter Leko, who entered the final round tied with Ivanchuk on 7.5/12 but lost his final round game against Boris Gelfand to finish fifth.  It was Leko's only loss of a closely fought tournament.

That win for Gelfand lifted him into a share of second place with Aronian, who also won his last round game against backmarker Inarkiev.  As a result, Aronian clinches first place in the Grand Prix series as he cannot be caught with one tournament to go.  Congratulations Lev!

The final standings:

1 Ivanchuk, Vassily   UKR   *   ½   1 ½   ½   1 ½   ½   ½   ½   ½   1 ½   1 8½  
2 Aronian, Levon  ARM  ½  *  1 0 ½  1 ½  0 ½  1 1 ½  1 ½  8
3 Gelfand, Boris  ISR  0 0 *  1 1 ½  ½  ½  ½  ½  ½  1 1 1 8
4 Kasimdzhanov, Rustam  UZB  ½  1 0 *  ½  ½  ½  ½  ½  ½  ½  ½  1 1 7½ 
5 Leko, Peter  HUN  ½  ½  0 ½  *  ½  1 ½  ½  ½  ½  ½  1 1 7½ 
6 Alekseev, Evgeny  RUS  0 0 ½  ½  ½  *  ½  1 ½  1 ½  ½  1 1 7½ 
7 Karjakin, Sergey  UKR  ½  ½  ½  ½  0 ½  *  ½  1 ½  ½  1 ½  ½  7
8 Eljanov, Pavel  UKR  ½  1 ½  ½  ½  0 ½  *  ½  0 ½  ½  ½  1 6½ 
9 Bacrot, Etienne  FRA  ½  ½  ½  ½  ½  ½  0 ½  *  ½  1 ½  0 ½  6
10 Kamsky, Gata  USA  ½  0 ½  ½  ½  0 ½  1 ½  *  0 ½  1 ½  6
11 Jakovenko, Dmitry  RUS  ½  0 ½  ½  ½  ½  ½  ½  0 1 *  ½  0 0 5
12 Akopian, Vladimir  ARM  0 ½  0 ½  ½  ½  0 ½  ½  ½  ½  *  ½  ½  5
13 Inarkiev, Ernesto  RUS  ½  0 0 0 0 0 ½  ½  1 0 1 ½  *  ½  4½ 
14 Cheparinov, Ivan  BUL  0 ½  0 0 0 0 ½  0 ½  ½  1 ½  ½  *  4

 





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  • 3 years ago

    Plasmic

    And...

    Quote of the year once again goes to demetrios18

    Congratulations. You have 72 hours to receive your prize from "Claims."

  • 3 years ago

    arlojwhite

    Demetrios18 said:

    im impressed, very nice chess games, well played by so called weak GM who will never win world champion. These players here are far more better than kasparov and Anand and have showed it in this decade by destroying those players. Kasparov easily destroyed Anand as well and told the media that he does not know how Anand even quailified as a GM where he could not even keep up with Kasparov in 17 moves.

     

    demetrios, are you aware of how idiotic you sound? no offence, just curious...

  • 3 years ago

    cslvs

    Great games by Ivanchuck

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