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GRAND PRIX TOURNAMENT ENDED WITH IVANCHUK'S VICTORY
Panorama.am
14:30 24/08/2009
On August 23 the last round of the Grand Prix tournament, being held
in Jermuk, took place. In the final 13th round Ukrainian Vassily
Ivanchuk beat Armenian Vladimir Hakopian and has been crowned the
champion of the tournament.
In previous "Grand Prix" tournaments Ivanchuk has never performed a
successful participation but this time in Jermuk he has had perfect
participation winning the tournament.
After the final round Armenian GM Levon Aronian and Boris Gelfand
have 8 points and share 2-3 horizontals.
Boris Gelfand (Israel)-Peter Leko (Hungary) 1:0
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. g3 Ba6 5. Qc2 Bb7 6. Bg2 c5 7. d5 exd5
8. cxd5 Nxd5 9. O-O Be7 10. Rd1 Nc6 11. Qf5 Nf6 12. e4 g6 13. Qf4 O-O
14. e5 Nh5 15. Qc4 d5 16. exd6 Bxd6 17. Nc3 Na5 18. Qd3 Bc7 19. Qc2
Qe7 20. Re1 Qd7 21. Bg5 f6 22. Bh6 Rfd8 23. Rad1 Qf7 24. b4 cxb4
25. Nb5 Rxd1 26. Rxd1 Rd8 27. Rxd8+ Bxd8 28. Nd6 Qd7 29. Nxb7 Nxb7
30. Qc4+ Kh8 31. Bh3 Qe7 32. Qd5 Nd6 33. Nd4 Qe1+ 34. Bf1 Qe5 35. Qa8
Qe8 36. Qxa7 Nf7 37. Be3 Ne5 38. Qa8 Qg8 39. Nc6 Nxc6 40. Qxc6 Ng7
41. Bh6 Be7 42. Bc4 Qd8 43. Be3 Nf5 44. Bxb6 Qf8 45. Be6 Ng7 46. Bd7
h5 47. Qc8 Kg8 48. Kf1 Qxc8 49. Bxc8 Kf7 50. Ke2 Ne6 51. Kd3 Nc5+
52. Kc4 Ne4 53. Ba6 Ke6 54. Be3 Nc3 55. Kb3 Nd5 56. Bc4 Ke5 57. Bxd5
Kxd5 58. Bd2 Bc5 59. f3 f5 60. Bxb4 Bg1 61. h3 Bf2 62. g4 fxg4 63. fxg4
hxg4 64. hxg4 g5 65. a4 Bb6 66. Be7 Ke4 67. Bxg5 Kf3 68. Kc4 Kxg4
69. Kb5 Bf2 70. Bd2 Kf5 71. a5 Ke4 72. Kc6 Kd3 73. Bg5 Kc4 74. Be7
Be3 75. a6 Ba7 76. Bd8 Bb8 77. Bc7 Ba7 78. Kb7 1:0:
Levon Aronian (Armenia)-Ernesto Inarkiev (Russia) 1:0 1. d4 d5 2. c4
c6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e3 a6 5. Nf3 e6 6. b3 Bb4 7. Bd2 O-O 8. Bd3 Bd6 9. e4
dxe4 10. Nxe4 Nxe4 11. Bxe4 Nd7 12. c5 Bc7 13. Qc2 Nf6 14. Bd3 b6
15. Rd1 h6 16. O-O a5 17. cxb6 Bxb6 18. Qc1 Nd5 19. Rfe1 Ra7 20. Ne5
Rc7 21. Qb2 Nb4 22. Bc3 Nxd3 23. Rxd3 f6 24. Nc4 Rcf7 25. Qd2 Ra7
26. Bb2 Bc7 27. Ba3 Rf7 28. Bc5 Ra8 29. a4 Qd5 30. Qc3 Qd8 31. Qc2 Rb8
32. Rc3 Qd5 33. Ne3 Qh5 34. h3 Qg5 35. Bd6 Bxd6 36. Rxc6 Rf8 37. Rxd6
Qf4 38. Nc4 Rb4 39. Rc6 Bb7 40. Rcxe6 Qxd4 41. Re7 f5 42. Rd1 Qf6
43. Rdd7 Bd5 44. Rxg7+ Qxg7 45. Rxg7+ Kxg7 46. Nxa5 Re4 47. f3 Re1+
48. Kf2 Re7 49. Nc4 f4 50. Ne5 Re6 51. b4 h5 52. Qc5 Ba2 53. Nd3 Ref6
54. Qg5+ Kh7 55. Qxh5+ Kg7 56. Qe5 Kh7 57. b5 1:0:
Sergey Karjakin (Ukraine)-Gata Kamsky (USA) 0,5:0,5 1. e4 c6 2. d4
d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Nd2 e6 5. Nb3 c5 6. dxc5 Bxc5 7. Nxc5 Qa5+ 8. c3 Qxc5
9. Qa4+ Nc6 10. Nf3 Nge7 11. Be3 Qa5 12. Qxa5 Nxa5 13. Nd4 Nac6 14. f4
Nxd4 15. Bxd4 Nc6 16. Bc5 Rc8 17. Bd6 f6 18. Be2 Kf7 19. O-O Na5 20. b3
b6 21. Rac1 Nb7 22. Ba3 Nc5 23. Rfd1 Rhd8 24. Rd4 g5 25. exf6 g4 26. c4
Ne4 27. cxd5 Rxc1+ 28. Bxc1 exd5 29. Bb2 Nxf6 30. Rd1 Rc8 31. Bxf6 Kxf6
32. Rxd5 Rc1+ 33. Bf1 h5 34. Rd2 h4 35. g3 hxg3 36. hxg3 Rc3 37. Kh2
Be4 38. Bg2 Bxg2 39. Kxg2 a5 40. Rd6+ Kf5 41. Rd5+ Kf6 42. Rd6+
Kf5 43. Rd5+ 1/2:1/2: Pavel Eljanov (Ukraine)-Rustam Kasimjanov
(Uzbekistan) 0,5:0,5
1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 Bf5 5. Nc3 e6 6. Nh4 Bg6 7. Be2
Nbd7 8. O-O Bd6 9. g3 O-O 10. Nxg6 hxg6 11. b3 Qe7 12. Bf3 e5 13. Bd2
e4 14. Bg2 Rfe8 15. Qe1 Nf8 16. f4 exf3 17. Bxf3 dxc4 18. bxc4 Ne6
19. Bg2 Ng5 20. c5 Bc7 21. Rb1 Rab8 22. Rb3 Qd7 23. Qe2 Ba5 24. Nb1 Bc7
25. Nc3 Ba5 26. Nb1 Bc7 27. Nc3 1/2:1/2: Ettienne Bacrot (France)-Ivan
Cheparinov (Bulgaria) 0,5:0,5 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nf3 e6
5. Bg5 h6 6. Bxf6 Qxf6 7. e3 Nd7 8. Bd3 dxc4 9. Bxc4 g6 10. O-O Bg7
11. e4 O-O 12. e5 Qe7 13. Qe2 Rd8 14. Rac1 c5 15. d5 Nxe5 16. Nxe5 exd5
17. Nf3 Qxe2 18. Bxe2 d4 19. Ne4 d3 20. Bd1 b6 21. b3 Be6 22. Nfd2 Rac8
23. Bf3 Bb2 24. Rb1 Bd4 25. Rfc1 b5 26. Nc3 a6 27. Bb7 Rb8 28. Bxa6
Bxc3 29. Rxc3 Rb6 30. Bxb5 Rxb5 31. Rd1 Ra5 32. a4 Rd4 33. f3 c4
34. Nxc4 Bxc4 35. Rxc4 Rxc4 36. bxc4 Rxa4 37. Rxd3 Rxc4 1/2:1/2:
Vladimir Hakopian (Armenia)-Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukraine) 0:1 1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. d3 d6 6. c3 g6 7. O-O Bg7 8. Re1
O-O 9. Nbd2 Re8 10. Nf1 h6 11. Ng3 b5 12. Bc2 d5 13. Qe2 Be6 14. h3
Nd7 15. Be3 d4 16. Bd2 Nc5 17. Rec1 Qd6 18. cxd4 Nxd4 19. Nxd4 Qxd4
20. Bc3 Qd6 21. Bb4 Qb6 22. Qe3 Bf8 23. Bc3 Rad8 24. Qf3 Bg7 25. b4 Na4
26. Bd2 Rd7 27. a3 Red8 28. Be3 Qb7 29. Rab1 Ba2 30. Ra1 Be6 31. Rab1
Nc3 32. Ra1 f5 33. exf5 Qxf3 34. gxf3 gxf5 35. Bb3 Bxb3 36. Rxc3
Be6 37. Ba7 Rxd3 38. Rxc7 Rxf3 39. Re7 Bf7 40. Rc1 Bf6 41. Rec7 Bg5
42. Re1 e4 43. Rc5 Rd7 44. Bb6 Be6 45. Rc8+ Kf7 46. Bc5 Rxa3 47. Rf8+
Kg6 48. Re8 Kf7 49. Rf8+ Kg6 50. Re8 Bc4 51. Rb8 e3 52. h4 exf2+
53. Bxf2 Bxh4 54. Rb6+ Kg5 55. Be3+ f4 56. Ne4+ Kf5 57. Bf2 Rg7+
58. Kh2 Bxf2 59. Nxf2 Ra2 60. Kh1 Bd5+ 61. Ne4 Rc7 62. Rf6+ Ke5 0:1:
Dmitry Yakovenko (Russia)- Yevgeni Alekseev (Russia) 0,5:0,5 1. e4
c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nc3 Qc7 6. Be3 Nf6 7. Ndb5
Qb8 8. f4 d6 9. Qf3 a6 10. Nd4 e5 11. Nf5 g6 12. Ng3 exf4 13. Qxf4
Ng4 14. Nd5 Bh6 15. Nf6+ Ke7 16. Nd5+ Ke8 17. Nf6+ Ke7 18. Nd5+
Ke8 19. Nf6+
1/2:1/2: Final standing of the tournament 1. Ivanchuk, Vassily 8½
2. Aronian, Levon 8 3. Gelfand, Boris 8 4. Kasimdzhanov, Rustam
7½ 5. Leko, Peter 7½ 6. Alekseev, Evgeny 7½ 7. Karjakin, Sergey
7 8. Eljanov, Pavel 6½ 9. Bacrot, Etienne 6 10. Kamsky, Gata
6 11. Jakovenko, Dmitry 5 12. Akopian, Vladimir 5 13. Inarkiev,
Ernesto 4½ 14. Cheparinov, Ivan 4
Panorama.am
14:30 24/08/2009
On August 23 the last round of the Grand Prix tournament, being held
in Jermuk, took place. In the final 13th round Ukrainian Vassily
Ivanchuk beat Armenian Vladimir Hakopian and has been crowned the
champion of the tournament.
In previous "Grand Prix" tournaments Ivanchuk has never performed a
successful participation but this time in Jermuk he has had perfect
participation winning the tournament.
After the final round Armenian GM Levon Aronian and Boris Gelfand
have 8 points and share 2-3 horizontals.
Boris Gelfand (Israel)-Peter Leko (Hungary) 1:0
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. g3 Ba6 5. Qc2 Bb7 6. Bg2 c5 7. d5 exd5
8. cxd5 Nxd5 9. O-O Be7 10. Rd1 Nc6 11. Qf5 Nf6 12. e4 g6 13. Qf4 O-O
14. e5 Nh5 15. Qc4 d5 16. exd6 Bxd6 17. Nc3 Na5 18. Qd3 Bc7 19. Qc2
Qe7 20. Re1 Qd7 21. Bg5 f6 22. Bh6 Rfd8 23. Rad1 Qf7 24. b4 cxb4
25. Nb5 Rxd1 26. Rxd1 Rd8 27. Rxd8+ Bxd8 28. Nd6 Qd7 29. Nxb7 Nxb7
30. Qc4+ Kh8 31. Bh3 Qe7 32. Qd5 Nd6 33. Nd4 Qe1+ 34. Bf1 Qe5 35. Qa8
Qe8 36. Qxa7 Nf7 37. Be3 Ne5 38. Qa8 Qg8 39. Nc6 Nxc6 40. Qxc6 Ng7
41. Bh6 Be7 42. Bc4 Qd8 43. Be3 Nf5 44. Bxb6 Qf8 45. Be6 Ng7 46. Bd7
h5 47. Qc8 Kg8 48. Kf1 Qxc8 49. Bxc8 Kf7 50. Ke2 Ne6 51. Kd3 Nc5+
52. Kc4 Ne4 53. Ba6 Ke6 54. Be3 Nc3 55. Kb3 Nd5 56. Bc4 Ke5 57. Bxd5
Kxd5 58. Bd2 Bc5 59. f3 f5 60. Bxb4 Bg1 61. h3 Bf2 62. g4 fxg4 63. fxg4
hxg4 64. hxg4 g5 65. a4 Bb6 66. Be7 Ke4 67. Bxg5 Kf3 68. Kc4 Kxg4
69. Kb5 Bf2 70. Bd2 Kf5 71. a5 Ke4 72. Kc6 Kd3 73. Bg5 Kc4 74. Be7
Be3 75. a6 Ba7 76. Bd8 Bb8 77. Bc7 Ba7 78. Kb7 1:0:
Levon Aronian (Armenia)-Ernesto Inarkiev (Russia) 1:0 1. d4 d5 2. c4
c6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e3 a6 5. Nf3 e6 6. b3 Bb4 7. Bd2 O-O 8. Bd3 Bd6 9. e4
dxe4 10. Nxe4 Nxe4 11. Bxe4 Nd7 12. c5 Bc7 13. Qc2 Nf6 14. Bd3 b6
15. Rd1 h6 16. O-O a5 17. cxb6 Bxb6 18. Qc1 Nd5 19. Rfe1 Ra7 20. Ne5
Rc7 21. Qb2 Nb4 22. Bc3 Nxd3 23. Rxd3 f6 24. Nc4 Rcf7 25. Qd2 Ra7
26. Bb2 Bc7 27. Ba3 Rf7 28. Bc5 Ra8 29. a4 Qd5 30. Qc3 Qd8 31. Qc2 Rb8
32. Rc3 Qd5 33. Ne3 Qh5 34. h3 Qg5 35. Bd6 Bxd6 36. Rxc6 Rf8 37. Rxd6
Qf4 38. Nc4 Rb4 39. Rc6 Bb7 40. Rcxe6 Qxd4 41. Re7 f5 42. Rd1 Qf6
43. Rdd7 Bd5 44. Rxg7+ Qxg7 45. Rxg7+ Kxg7 46. Nxa5 Re4 47. f3 Re1+
48. Kf2 Re7 49. Nc4 f4 50. Ne5 Re6 51. b4 h5 52. Qc5 Ba2 53. Nd3 Ref6
54. Qg5+ Kh7 55. Qxh5+ Kg7 56. Qe5 Kh7 57. b5 1:0:
Sergey Karjakin (Ukraine)-Gata Kamsky (USA) 0,5:0,5 1. e4 c6 2. d4
d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Nd2 e6 5. Nb3 c5 6. dxc5 Bxc5 7. Nxc5 Qa5+ 8. c3 Qxc5
9. Qa4+ Nc6 10. Nf3 Nge7 11. Be3 Qa5 12. Qxa5 Nxa5 13. Nd4 Nac6 14. f4
Nxd4 15. Bxd4 Nc6 16. Bc5 Rc8 17. Bd6 f6 18. Be2 Kf7 19. O-O Na5 20. b3
b6 21. Rac1 Nb7 22. Ba3 Nc5 23. Rfd1 Rhd8 24. Rd4 g5 25. exf6 g4 26. c4
Ne4 27. cxd5 Rxc1+ 28. Bxc1 exd5 29. Bb2 Nxf6 30. Rd1 Rc8 31. Bxf6 Kxf6
32. Rxd5 Rc1+ 33. Bf1 h5 34. Rd2 h4 35. g3 hxg3 36. hxg3 Rc3 37. Kh2
Be4 38. Bg2 Bxg2 39. Kxg2 a5 40. Rd6+ Kf5 41. Rd5+ Kf6 42. Rd6+
Kf5 43. Rd5+ 1/2:1/2: Pavel Eljanov (Ukraine)-Rustam Kasimjanov
(Uzbekistan) 0,5:0,5
1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 Bf5 5. Nc3 e6 6. Nh4 Bg6 7. Be2
Nbd7 8. O-O Bd6 9. g3 O-O 10. Nxg6 hxg6 11. b3 Qe7 12. Bf3 e5 13. Bd2
e4 14. Bg2 Rfe8 15. Qe1 Nf8 16. f4 exf3 17. Bxf3 dxc4 18. bxc4 Ne6
19. Bg2 Ng5 20. c5 Bc7 21. Rb1 Rab8 22. Rb3 Qd7 23. Qe2 Ba5 24. Nb1 Bc7
25. Nc3 Ba5 26. Nb1 Bc7 27. Nc3 1/2:1/2: Ettienne Bacrot (France)-Ivan
Cheparinov (Bulgaria) 0,5:0,5 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nf3 e6
5. Bg5 h6 6. Bxf6 Qxf6 7. e3 Nd7 8. Bd3 dxc4 9. Bxc4 g6 10. O-O Bg7
11. e4 O-O 12. e5 Qe7 13. Qe2 Rd8 14. Rac1 c5 15. d5 Nxe5 16. Nxe5 exd5
17. Nf3 Qxe2 18. Bxe2 d4 19. Ne4 d3 20. Bd1 b6 21. b3 Be6 22. Nfd2 Rac8
23. Bf3 Bb2 24. Rb1 Bd4 25. Rfc1 b5 26. Nc3 a6 27. Bb7 Rb8 28. Bxa6
Bxc3 29. Rxc3 Rb6 30. Bxb5 Rxb5 31. Rd1 Ra5 32. a4 Rd4 33. f3 c4
34. Nxc4 Bxc4 35. Rxc4 Rxc4 36. bxc4 Rxa4 37. Rxd3 Rxc4 1/2:1/2:
Vladimir Hakopian (Armenia)-Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukraine) 0:1 1. e4 e5
2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. d3 d6 6. c3 g6 7. O-O Bg7 8. Re1
O-O 9. Nbd2 Re8 10. Nf1 h6 11. Ng3 b5 12. Bc2 d5 13. Qe2 Be6 14. h3
Nd7 15. Be3 d4 16. Bd2 Nc5 17. Rec1 Qd6 18. cxd4 Nxd4 19. Nxd4 Qxd4
20. Bc3 Qd6 21. Bb4 Qb6 22. Qe3 Bf8 23. Bc3 Rad8 24. Qf3 Bg7 25. b4 Na4
26. Bd2 Rd7 27. a3 Red8 28. Be3 Qb7 29. Rab1 Ba2 30. Ra1 Be6 31. Rab1
Nc3 32. Ra1 f5 33. exf5 Qxf3 34. gxf3 gxf5 35. Bb3 Bxb3 36. Rxc3
Be6 37. Ba7 Rxd3 38. Rxc7 Rxf3 39. Re7 Bf7 40. Rc1 Bf6 41. Rec7 Bg5
42. Re1 e4 43. Rc5 Rd7 44. Bb6 Be6 45. Rc8+ Kf7 46. Bc5 Rxa3 47. Rf8+
Kg6 48. Re8 Kf7 49. Rf8+ Kg6 50. Re8 Bc4 51. Rb8 e3 52. h4 exf2+
53. Bxf2 Bxh4 54. Rb6+ Kg5 55. Be3+ f4 56. Ne4+ Kf5 57. Bf2 Rg7+
58. Kh2 Bxf2 59. Nxf2 Ra2 60. Kh1 Bd5+ 61. Ne4 Rc7 62. Rf6+ Ke5 0:1:
Dmitry Yakovenko (Russia)- Yevgeni Alekseev (Russia) 0,5:0,5 1. e4
c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nc3 Qc7 6. Be3 Nf6 7. Ndb5
Qb8 8. f4 d6 9. Qf3 a6 10. Nd4 e5 11. Nf5 g6 12. Ng3 exf4 13. Qxf4
Ng4 14. Nd5 Bh6 15. Nf6+ Ke7 16. Nd5+ Ke8 17. Nf6+ Ke7 18. Nd5+
Ke8 19. Nf6+
1/2:1/2: Final standing of the tournament 1. Ivanchuk, Vassily 8½
2. Aronian, Levon 8 3. Gelfand, Boris 8 4. Kasimdzhanov, Rustam
7½ 5. Leko, Peter 7½ 6. Alekseev, Evgeny 7½ 7. Karjakin, Sergey
7 8. Eljanov, Pavel 6½ 9. Bacrot, Etienne 6 10. Kamsky, Gata
6 11. Jakovenko, Dmitry 5 12. Akopian, Vladimir 5 13. Inarkiev,
Ernesto 4½ 14. Cheparinov, Ivan 4