This weekend: 3rd ACP World Rapid Cup

This weekend the 3rd ACP World Rapid Cup takes place; a rapid knockout tournament with Grischuk, Eljanov, Moiseenko, Bacrot, Movsesian, Tregubov, Karpov, Svidler, M.Gurevich, Jakovenko, Drozdovskij, Naiditsch, Najer, Gelfand, Gashimov and Efimenko.

The 3rd ACP World Rapid Cup takes place May 22-24 in Odessa, Ukraine. The venue the Odessa National Academy of Law. It's a 16-player knockout tournament with 16 participants with two-game matches, except for the final which has four games. The rate of play is 20 minutes per game with an increment of 5 seconds per move.

Again sponsored by the Pivdenny Bank in Odessa, the prize fund is USD $57,000 with USD $10,000 for the winner. There's also a special prize, named after IM Mikhail Podgaets who was from Odessa and who passed away on May 14th, 2009.

The participants are the 13 players who performed best in the ACP Tour 2007/2008 + 3 Wild Cards given by the organizers. Last year both Karpov and Kortchnoi were playing; this time only the former world champion participated (and was knocked out by Svidler in the first round), while Kortchnoi is giving commentary.

Results so far:

1/8		1/4		1/2		Final		Winner
A.Grischuk (W)
2 - 0		A.Grischuk (W)
P.Eljanov (B)
		1,5 - 0,5		A.Grischuk
A.Moiseenko (W)
1,5 - 0,5		A.Moiseenko (B)
E. Bacrot (B)
				0:0		Player
S.Movsesian (W)
1,5 - 0,5		S.Movsesian
P.Tregubov (B)
		1,5 - 2,5		P.Svidler
A.Karpov (W)
1,5 - 2,5		P.Svidler (W)
P.Svidler (B)
						0:0	Player
M.Gurevich (W)
0,5 - 1,5		D.Jakovenko (W)
D.Jakovenko (B)
		14:30		Player
Y.Drozdovskij (W)
1 - 3		A.Naiditsch (B)
A.Naiditsch (B)
				0:0		Player
E.Najer (W)
0,5 - 1,5		B.Gelfand (W)
B.Gelfand (B)
		14:30		Player
V.Gashimov (W)
1,5 - 0,5		V.Gashimov (B)
Z.Efimenko (B)

Games Day 1

Click on the pairings at the top of the board to reveal a drop down list of all the games. Click on the arrow under the board just once, then the arrow keys of your keyboard also work.




































All photos © Boris Bukhman

Links

• Tournament website
• Live games
• Games in PGN