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The 13th Bangkok Chess Club Open 2013

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Today the Bangkok Chess Club Open starts! The event hosts some very strong GMs including Short, Vajda, Gustafsson, Koneru (3rd female player in the world by rating), etc.

1st round results (view all of them here)

1 101 Wang Xinyue 2117 0 0 – 1 0 GM Short Nigel D 2697 1
2 2 GM Vajda Levente 2632 0 1 – 0 0 Kulpruethanon Thanadon 2114 102
3 103 Langer Christian 2110 0 0 – 1 0 GM Gustafsson Jan 2621 3
4 4 GM Koneru Humpy 2597 0 1 – 0 0 Ilmoni Tommy 2109 104
5 105 Thanatipanonda Thotsaporn 2109 0 0 – 1 0 GM Barbosa Oliver 2563 5
6 6 GM Lu Shanglei 2562 0 1 – 0 0 Karthik V. Ap 2093 106
7 107 WFM Qiu Mengjie 2088 0 0 – 1 0 GM Hansen Sune Berg 2561 7
8 8 GM Paragua Mark 2557 0 1 – 0 0 Hj Azahari Md Aliuddin 2087 108
9 109 Wong Jianwen 2076 0 0 – 1 0 GM Megaranto Susanto 2541 9
10 10 GM Zhao Zong-Yuan 2537 0 1 – 0 0 Gurevich Alexander Y. 2074 110

Pairings of the 2nd round (view all of them here)

1 1 GM Short Nigel D 2697 1 – 1 FM Andreasen Per Naesby 2304 48
2 49 FM Pitra Andika 2292 1 – 1 GM Vajda Levente 2632 2
3 3 GM Gustafsson Jan 2621 1 – 1 FM Bisby Daniel L 2288 50
4 53 FM Pitirotjirathon Jirapak 2283 1 – 1 GM Koneru Humpy 2597 4
5 5 GM Barbosa Oliver 2563 1 – 1 FM Teerapabpaisit Wisuwat 2284 52
6 55 FM Aschenbrenner Robert 2276 1 – 1 GM Lu Shanglei 2562 6
7 7 GM Hansen Sune Berg 2561 1 – 1 Kozelov Roman 2281 54
8 57 Causo Deniel 2271 1 – 1 GM Paragua Mark 2557 8
9 9 GM Megaranto Susanto 2541 1 – 1 Mu Ke 2274 56
10 59 FM Frosch Erich 2264 1 – 1 GM Zhao Zong-Yuan 2537 10

Will post the games as soon as I get them 🙂

View Live games here.

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Russian Women & Men Team Championships 2013

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Last round of the teams championship
(Photo taken from the official site)

Board results of the last round (view all of them here)

Round 7 on 2013/04/13 at 13:00
Bo. 4 SPb Chess Fed Rtg – 6 PGMB Rostov Rtg 2½:3½
1.1 GM Svidler, Peter 2747 – GM Jobava, Baadur 2702 ½ – ½
1.2 GM Dominguez Perez, Leinier 2723 – GM Cheparinov, Ivan 2702 ½ – ½
1.3 GM Movsesian, Sergei 2695 – GM Zhigalko, Sergei 2656 ½ – ½
1.4 GM Efimenko, Zahar 2697 – GM Sjugirov, Sanan 2657 ½ – ½
1.5 GM Zvjaginsev, Vadim 2658 – GM Smirnov, Pavel 2628 ½ – ½
1.6 GM Matlakov, Maxim 2653 – GM Popov, Ivan 2627 0 – 1

Bo. 1 Malakhit Chess Club Rtg – 3 SHSM “Nashe Nasledie” Moskow Rtg 3 : 3
2.1 GM Karjakin, Sergey 2786 – GM Caruana, Fabiano 2772 ½ – ½
2.2 GM Grischuk, Alexander 2764 – GM Nepomniachtchi, Ian 2708 1 – 0
2.3 GM Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar 2766 – GM Le, Quang Liem 2717 ½ – ½
2.4 GM Shirov, Alexei 2700 – GM Wojtaszek, Radoslaw 2700 ½ – ½
2.5 GM Bologan, Viktor 2681 – GM Dubov, Daniil 2614 0 – 1
2.6 GM Riazantsev, Alexander 2705 – GM Najer, Evgeniy 2634 ½ – ½

Bo. 7 AGU – Belorechensk Rtg – 5 Yugra Rtg 1½:4½
3.1 GM Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime 2722 – GM Jakovenko, Dmitry 2734 ½ – ½
3.2 GM Tregubov, Pavel V. 2611 – GM Leko, Peter 2744 ½ – ½
3.3 GM Savchenko, Boris 2604 – GM Korobov, Anton 2698 0 – 1
3.4 GM Landa, Konstantin 2642 – GM Dreev, Aleksey 2654 0 – 1
3.5 GM Aleksandrov, Aleksej 2604 – GM Rublevsky, Sergei 2688 ½ – ½
3.6 GM Korneev, Oleg 2609 – GM Khismatullin, Denis 2640 0 – 1

Bo. 2 Economist-SGSEU Rtg – 12 Politekhnik Rtg 5 : 1
4.1 GM Ivanchuk, Vassily 2757 – GM Kokarev, Dmitry 2648 1 – 0
4.2 GM Morozevich, Alexander 2758 – GM Shomoev, Anton 2543 ½ – ½
4.3 GM Tomashevsky, Evgeny 2722 – GM Yudin, Sergei 2548 1 – 0
4.4 GM Andreikin, Dmitry 2727 – GM Vokarev, Sergey 2454 ½ – ½
4.5 GM Volokitin, Andrei 2702 – IM Pogromsky, Mikhail 2431 1 – 0
4.6 GM Moiseenko, Alexander 2703 – Ozgibcev, Anatoly 2379 1 – 0

Bo. 8 Navigator Rtg – 9 Kazan-2013 Rtg 3½:2½
5.1 GM Sutovsky, Emil 2671 – GM Kamsky, Gata 2741 ½ – ½
5.2 GM Sasikiran, Krishnan 2663 – GM Timofeev, Artyom 2616 0 – 1
5.3 GM Safarli, Eltaj 2644 – GM Ibragimov, Ildar 2567 ½ – ½
5.4 GM Chadaev, Nikolai 2582 – GM Iljin, Artem 2538 1 – 0
5.5 GM Yemelin, Vasily 2588 – GM Hasangatin, Ramil 2496 1 – 0
5.6 IM Mozharov, Mikhail 2523 – FM Makhmutov, Rail 2362 ½ – ½

SPb Chess Fed and Malakhit Chess Club shared 1st – 2nd places (11 match points) but the first team had better tie-break and Yugra was better on tie-break than PGMB Rostov (10 match points). View all results here.

In the women’s championship Yugra was better by tie-break than SHSM “Nashe Nasledie” Moskow (both 8 match points) and AGU – Belorechensk was 3rd with 4 match points.

Results by board

Round 5 on 2013/04/13 at 13:00
Bo. 3 AGU – Belorechensk Rtg – 6 M.I.Chigorin Chess Club Rtg 4 : 0
1.1 GM Lagno, Kateryna 2550 – IM Bodnaruk, Anastasia 2443 1 – 0
1.2 IM Gaponenko, Inna 2397 – WGM Mammadova, Gulnar 2322 1 – 0
1.3 WGM Kashlinskaya, Alina 2305 – WIM Bronnikova, Elizaveta 2245 1 – 0
1.4 WIM Baraeva, Marina 2176 – WIM Ivkina, Olga 2269 1 – 0

Bo. 4 Yugra Rtg – 2 Economist Saratov Rtg 4 : 0
2.1 GM Ushenina, Anna 2488 – WGM Iljushina, Olga 2325 1 – 0
2.2 WGM Pogonina, Natalija 2473 – WIM Tarasova, Viktoriya 2298 1 – 0
2.3 IM Romanko, Marina 2367 – WFM Tomnikova, Lidia 2173 1 – 0
2.4 WGM Shadrina, Tatiana 2372 – Dogodkina, Julia 2136 1 – 0

Bo. 5 Ladya Kazan Rtg – 1 SHSM “Nashe Nasledie” Moskow Rtg 1 : 3
3.1 IM Atalik, Ekaterina 2455 – GM Kosteniuk, Alexandra 2496 1 – 0
3.2 IM Zaiatz, Elena 2430 – IM Gunina, Valentina 2510 0 – 1
3.3 WGM Ambartsumova, Karina 2306 – WGM Girya, Olga 2464 0 – 1
3.4 WFM Belova, Olga 2134 – IM Savina, Anastasia 2372 0 – 1

Russian Women & Men Team Championships 2013

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Teams in the women’s event had a rest day yesterday. Yugra and SHSM “Nashe Nasledie” Moscow lead with 6 match points. Today is the last round.

Boards pairings

Round 5 on 2013/04/13 at 13:00
Bo. 3 AGU – Belorechensk Rtg – 6 M.I.Chigorin Chess Club Rtg 0 : 0
1.1 GM Lagno, Kateryna 2550 – IM Bodnaruk, Anastasia 2443
1.2 IM Gaponenko, Inna 2397 – WGM Mammadova, Gulnar 2322
1.3 WGM Kashlinskaya, Alina 2305 – WIM Bronnikova, Elizaveta 2245
1.4 WIM Baraeva, Marina 2176 – WIM Ivkina, Olga 2269

Bo. 4 Yugra Rtg – 2 Economist Saratov Rtg 0 : 0
2.1 GM Ushenina, Anna 2488 – WGM Iljushina, Olga 2325
2.2 WGM Pogonina, Natalija 2473 – WIM Tarasova, Viktoriya 2298
2.3 IM Romanko, Marina 2367 – WFM Tomnikova, Lidia 2173
2.4 WGM Shadrina, Tatiana 2372 – Dogodkina, Julia 2136

Bo. 5 Ladya Kazan Rtg – 1 SHSM “Nashe Nasledie” Moscow Rtg 0 : 0
3.1 IM Atalik, Ekaterina 2455 – GM Kosteniuk, Alexandra 2496
3.2 IM Zaiatz, Elena 2430 – IM Gunina, Valentina 2510
3.3 WGM Ambartsumova, Karina 2306 – WGM Girya, Olga 2464
3.4 WFM Belova, Olga 2134 – IM Savina, Anastasia 2372

Men's event - 6th round
(Photo taken from the official site)

SPb Chess Fed leads the tournament with 11 match points, Malakhit Chess Club is 2nd with 10 and two teams share 3rd-4th – PGMB Rostov and Yugra.

Boards results of the 6th round (view all of them here)

Round 6 on 2013/04/12 at 15:00
Bo. 5 Yugra Rtg – 1 Malakhit Chess Club Rtg 3 : 3
1.1 GM Jakovenko, Dmitry 2734 – GM Karjakin, Sergey 2786 ½ – ½
1.2 GM Leko, Peter 2744 – GM Grischuk, Alexander 2764 ½ – ½
1.3 GM Korobov, Anton 2698 – GM Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar 2766 ½ – ½
1.4 GM Dreev, Aleksey 2654 – GM Shirov, Alexei 2700 0 – 1
1.5 GM Rublevsky, Sergei 2688 – GM Bologan, Viktor 2681 1 – 0
1.6 GM Khismatullin, Denis 2640 – GM Malakhov, Vladimir 2709 ½ – ½

Bo. 3 SHSM “Nashe Nasledie” Moskow Rtg – 4 SPb Chess Fed Rtg 2 : 4
2.1 GM Caruana, Fabiano 2772 – GM Svidler, Peter 2747 0 – 1
2.2 GM Nepomniachtchi, Ian 2708 – GM Vitiugov, Nikita 2712 ½ – ½
2.3 GM Le, Quang Liem 2717 – GM Dominguez Perez, Leinier 2723 ½ – ½
2.4 GM Wojtaszek, Radoslaw 2700 – GM Movsesian, Sergei 2695 ½ – ½
2.5 GM Grachev, Boris 2693 – GM Efimenko, Zahar 2697 ½ – ½
2.6 GM Dubov, Daniil 2614 – GM Matlakov, Maxim 2653 0 – 1

Bo. 6 PGMB Rostov Rtg – 7 AGU – Belorechensk Rtg 3½:2½
3.1 GM Jobava, Baadur 2702 – GM Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime 2722 0 – 1
3.2 GM Cheparinov, Ivan 2702 – GM Mamedov, Rauf 2662 1 – 0
3.3 GM Sjugirov, Sanan 2657 – GM Tregubov, Pavel V. 2611 ½ – ½
3.4 GM Azarov, Sergei 2626 – GM Savchenko, Boris 2604 1 – 0
3.5 GM Smirnov, Pavel 2628 – GM Landa, Konstantin 2642 1 – 0
3.6 GM Kryakvin, Dmitry 2588 – GM Aleksandrov, Aleksej 2604 0 – 1

Bo. 9 Kazan-2013 Rtg – 2 Economist-SGSEU Rtg 2 : 4
4.1 GM Kamsky, Gata 2741 – GM Ivanchuk, Vassily 2757 ½ – ½
4.2 GM Timofeev, Artyom 2616 – GM Morozevich, Alexander 2758 0 – 1
4.3 GM Atalik, Suat 2593 – GM Tomashevsky, Evgeny 2722 ½ – ½
4.4 GM Ibragimov, Ildar 2567 – GM Andreikin, Dmitry 2727 ½ – ½
4.5 GM Iljin, Artem 2538 – GM Eljanov, Pavel 2703 ½ – ½
4.6 IM Sharafiev, Azat 2451 – GM Moiseenko, Alexander 2703 0 – 1

Bo. 12 Politekhnik Rtg – 11 Zhiguli Rtg 3 : 3
5.1 GM Kokarev, Dmitry 2648 – GM Frolyanov, Dmitry 2561 ½ – ½
5.2 GM Shomoev, Anton 2543 – GM Geller, Jakov 2545 ½ – ½
5.3 GM Yudin, Sergei 2548 – GM Yakovich, Yuri 2517 ½ – ½
5.4 GM Vokarev, Sergey 2454 – GM Skatchkov, Pavel 2485 1 – 0
5.5 IM Pogromsky, Mikhail 2431 – Predke, Alexandr 2481 0 – 1
5.6 Ozgibcev, Anatoly 2379 – FM Mokshanov, Alexey 2416 ½ – ½

Board pairings of the last round (view all of them here)

Round 7 on 2013/04/13 at 13:00
Bo. 4 SPb Chess Fed Rtg – 6 PGMB Rostov Rtg 0 : 0
1.1 GM Svidler, Peter 2747 – GM Jobava, Baadur 2702
1.2 GM Dominguez Perez, Leinier 2723 – GM Cheparinov, Ivan 2702
1.3 GM Movsesian, Sergei 2695 – GM Zhigalko, Sergei 2656
1.4 GM Efimenko, Zahar 2697 – GM Sjugirov, Sanan 2657
1.5 GM Zvjaginsev, Vadim 2658 – GM Smirnov, Pavel 2628
1.6 GM Matlakov, Maxim 2653 – GM Popov, Ivan 2627

Bo. 1 Malakhit Chess Club Rtg – 3 SHSM “Nashe Nasledie” Moscow Rtg 0 : 0
2.1 GM Karjakin, Sergey 2786 – GM Caruana, Fabiano 2772
2.2 GM Grischuk, Alexander 2764 – GM Nepomniachtchi, Ian 2708
2.3 GM Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar 2766 – GM Le, Quang Liem 2717
2.4 GM Shirov, Alexei 2700 – GM Wojtaszek, Radoslaw 2700
2.5 GM Bologan, Viktor 2681 – GM Dubov, Daniil 2614
2.6 GM Riazantsev, Alexander 2705 – GM Najer, Evgeniy 2634

Bo. 7 AGU – Belorechensk Rtg – 5 Yugra Rtg 0 : 0
3.1 GM Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime 2722 – GM Jakovenko, Dmitry 2734
3.2 GM Tregubov, Pavel V. 2611 – GM Leko, Peter 2744
3.3 GM Savchenko, Boris 2604 – GM Korobov, Anton 2698
3.4 GM Landa, Konstantin 2642 – GM Dreev, Aleksey 2654
3.5 GM Aleksandrov, Aleksej 2604 – GM Rublevsky, Sergei 2688
3.6 GM Korneev, Oleg 2609 – GM Khismatullin, Denis 2640

Bo. 2 Economist-SGSEU Rtg – 12 Politekhnik Rtg 0 : 0
4.1 GM Ivanchuk, Vassily 2757 – GM Kokarev, Dmitry 2648
4.2 GM Morozevich, Alexander 2758 – GM Shomoev, Anton 2543
4.3 GM Tomashevsky, Evgeny 2722 – GM Yudin, Sergei 2548
4.4 GM Andreikin, Dmitry 2727 – GM Vokarev, Sergey 2454
4.5 GM Volokitin, Andrei 2702 – IM Pogromsky, Mikhail 2431
4.6 GM Moiseenko, Alexander 2703 – Ozgibcev, Anatoly 2379

Bo. 8 Navigator Rtg – 9 Kazan-2013 Rtg 0 : 0
5.1 GM Sutovsky, Emil 2671 – GM Kamsky, Gata 2741
5.2 GM Sasikiran, Krishnan 2663 – GM Timofeev, Artyom 2616
5.3 GM Safarli, Eltaj 2644 – GM Ibragimov, Ildar 2567
5.4 GM Chadaev, Nikolai 2582 – GM Iljin, Artem 2538
5.5 GM Yemelin, Vasily 2588 – GM Hasangatin, Ramil 2496
5.6 IM Mozharov, Mikhail 2523 – FM Makhmutov, Rail 2362