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Russian Sergei
Rublevsky won the Aeroflot International Open Chess tournament that concluded here last
night, logging 7.0 points from nine rounds. Sharing the top spot along
with Rublevsky were GMs Vaganian and Filippov.
Rublevsky took the title with superior tie-break and also wins an
exclusive spot for the Dortmund Super Grandmaster tournament at
Germany, later this year.
The best Indian performance came from GM Krishnan Sasikiran who, with a hard fought draw against GM Darmen Sadvakasov of Kazakhstan, tied for the fourth place.
Though GM Valerij Filippov of Russia, Rafael Vaganian of Armenia and Rublevski emerged with an identical score of seven points from nine games, Rublevski won the tournament as he had played five blacks in nine rounds and had a better average rating of opponents than the other two.
Sasikiran tied for the fourth place with 12 others. The second highest rated Indian behind Anand seeded 11th here finished 11th in the tiebreak, having played whites, while Van Wely finished fourth.
In the final round, Sadvakasov who played black took Sasikiran to task and it took a good effort from the Indian to steer the game to equality. Playing white Sasikiran faced the Nimzo Indian and Sadvakasov
equalized comfortably showing his preparation against the Capablanca variation.
Sasikiran was left to defend an inferior middle game but thanks to some well-timed exchanges that led to sufficient counter attack, white was able to maintain the balance despite a pawn down in the ensuing rook and minor pieces endgame. The peace treaty was signed after 52 moves.
The other Indian players in the fray struggled in the last round though Lanka Ravi, who had a fine run in the first half of the tournament, put an end to his losing streak.
The IM who had been looking for his second GM norm here, drew with Sarhan Guliev of Azerbaijan to finish on four points.
Also finishing on four points was GM Sandipan Chanda who drew his final round game with Alexander Obukhov. GM Praveen Thipsay and IM Neelotpal Das lost their last games against Davit Shengelia of Georgia and Marat Makarov of Russia respectively.
Final Placings :
1 10 Rublevsky, Sergei 7.0 2582.3 2 26 Vaganian, Rafael A 7.0 2539.4 3 32 Filippov, Valerij 7.0 2603.0 4 28 Van Wely, Loek 6.5 2600.3 5 2 Dreev, Alexey 6.5 2582.1 6 22 Tregubov, Pavel V. 6.5 2567.6 7 30 Sadvakasov, Darmen 6.5 2563.7 8 37 Markowski, Tomasz 6.5 2558.9 9 13 Mamedyarov, Shakhriyaz 6.5 2579.1 10 38 Berkes, Ferenc 6.5 2578.6 11 11 Sasikiran, Krishnan 6.5 2575.7 12 21 Graf, Alexander 6.5 2575.6 13 9 Sakaev, Konstantin 6.5 2570.9 14 17 Motylev, Alexander 6.5 2559.0 15 40 Fedorov, Alexei 6.5 2550.1 16 72 Kotsur, Pavel 6.5 2545.3
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(Agencies)
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