GM Savchenko Wins 2008 Final Moscow Championship

The Final tournament of the Moscow Chess Championship took place May 12-18, 2008. This was a category XI event with an average rating of 2516 with 8 players participating including 6 GMs and 2 IMs. GM Boris Savchenko took clear first with a score of 5/7 and a performance rating of 2665.

Now let's take a look at one of his key victories which led him to win the event. Here is GM Savchenko - IM Deviatkin with full annotations and commentary:

Final Standings:

1) GM Boris Savchenko (5/7)

2) GM Evgeny Vorobiov (4.5/7)

3-5) IM Artur Gabrielian, GM Alexander Rustemov, IM Andrei Deviatkin (4/7)

To download all the games from the Moscow Championship Final in PGN format - http://www.chess.com/download/view/2008-moscow-championship-games