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Gata Kamsky has reached the finals of the World Cup by defeating Norwegian GM Magnus Carlsen, whose opening choice for this game was not very good. Meanwhile Shirov and Karjakin will play the tie break after drawing their first two games. Kamsky,G (2714) - Carlsen,M (2714) [C43] World Cup Khanty-Mansiysk RUS (6.2), 10.12.2007

Here's what we've been waiting for, the last 8 players in the World Cup 2007: 1: Karjakin (UCR, 2694) - Alekseev (RUS, 2716) 2: Cheparinov (BUL, 2670) - Carlsen (NOR, 2714) 3: Ponomariov (UCR, 2705) - Kamsky (USA, 2714) 4: Jakovenko (RUS, 2710) - Shirov (ESP, 2739) Shirov has been playing some amazing chess and I'd really like him to win, not just because he plays for Spain , but because I think the chess world "owes him" after he defeated Kramnik in that famous match and then Kasparov chickened out and refused to play him... If Kamsnky survives the opening, he might beat Ponomariov. He's definitely the strongest minded player of those 8! I think Alekseev will beat Karjakin. As for Carlsen, he's favourite against Cheparinov, although I don't think he'll get further than that in this competition. Anyway, recently Carlsen is being called the "Bionic kid" after displaying some really amazing technique to win games like the following (pay attention to white's knight on a1!) : [Event "World Cup"] [site "Khanty-Mansiysk RUS"] [Date "2007.12.03"] [Round "4.1"] [White "Carlsen, M."] [black "Adams, Mi"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "E36"] [WhiteElo "2714"] [blackElo "2729"] [PlyCount "153"] [EventDate "2007.11.24"]

No less than 275 players (In the previous edition 163 players took part) will be completing in the Parasvnath Commonwealth Chess Championships in New Delhi, which runs from the 2nd to the 10th of December. There's a total of 13 GMs and 40 IMs from all the Commonwealth countries.

Dallas won the 2007 USCL championship by beating Boston in the final match of the third season. After the four regulation games finished in a 2-2 deadlock, the title was decided when Dallas' first board IM Drasko Boskovic beat Boston's first board GM Larry Christiansen in the seventh blitz tiebreak game. Both teams won their respective divisions in the 10-game regular season -- Boston the Eastern Division, Dallas the Western -- then defeated the division wildcard team in the playoff semifinals. View the full article

Daniel Naroditsky, from Crystal Springs Uplands School (USA) was ranked 13th in the World Under 12 Championship (Antalya, Turkey). A strong event featuring many players rated over 2200 and several FIDE Masters. A patient player who never shows off, his modest goal was to make it into the first 10... but he WON the tournament! Bebes Miller, Naroditsky's English teacher, is the sponsor of Chess Nuts, the middle school chess club. "He's very self-effacing and very patient playing with kids who are just learning to play," Miller said. Take a look at the initial ranking: 1 UKR FM NYZHNYK Illya 14118084 UKR 2377 2 PER FM CORI Jorge 3802272 PER 2316 3 AZE FM BAJARANI Ulvi 13403028 AZE 2268 4 FRA FM MOUSSARD Jules 642908 FRA 2261 5 RUS BUKAVSHIN Ivan 4199758 RUS 2248 6 IND FM GROVER Sahaj 5021103 IND 2238 7 RUS YUDIN Ivan 4198751 RUS 2192 8 ESP PARDO SIMON David 2296276 ESP 2173 9 IND FM SAI Krishna G V 5028280 IND 2167 10 MAS YEAP Eng Cheam 5702682 MAS 2138 11 USA FM YANG Darwin 2029111 USA 2124 12 IND FENIL Shah 5019850 IND 2124 13 USA NARODITSKY Daniel 2026961 USA 2124 14 IRI GHAZIOLSHARIF KAVEH 12506028 IRI 2122 15 NED BOK Benjamin 1017063 NED 2116 16 GEO BERADZE Irakli 13604597 GEO 2104 17 SIN FM FERNANDEZ Daniel Howard 5801605 SIN 2102 18 RUS ELISEEV Urii 24131920 RUS 2101 19 COL FM BARROS Raul Junior 4401140 COL 2100 20 SVK PAGERKA Martin 14911230 SVK 2099 21 GER KAPHLE Sebastian 24626708 GER 2086 22 RUS CHERNYAVSKY Alexander 24131156 RUS 2259 23 SYR ALTARBOUSH Wared 7602235 SYR 2074 24 SIN FM CHUA XING-JIAN Graham 5801656 SIN 2065 25 DEN ANDERSEN Mads 1413864 DEN 2061 26 HUN TESIK Csaba 735582 HUN 2061 27 IND UTKAL RANJAN Sahoo 5034566 IND 2056 28 CRO SRBIS Jurica 14515555 CRO 2055 29 SUI HASENOHR Benedict 1303309 SUI 2050 30 IND KHOSLA Shiven 5026415 IND 2047 31 ARM GABUZYAN Hovhannes 13303732 ARM 2046 32 ITA DE FILOMENO Simone 828688 ITA 2045 33 FRA LOISEAU Quentin 665274 FRA 2045 34 AUS FM NAKAUCHI Gene 3200698 AUS 2040 35 POL TOMSIA Kamil 1135783 POL 2032 36 AZE ISGANDAROV Misraddin 13400312 AZE 2031 37 RUS SANZHAEV Darsen 24120030 RUS 2015 38 BLR SAVITSKI Andrei 13506161 BLR 2007 39 FRA GIROYAN Gary 680281 FRA 1999 40 COL MARTINEZ Martin 4404025 COL 1997 41 ARM TOROSYAN Norayr 13300431 ARM 1991 42 TUR EMIROGLU Cankut 6306659 TUR 1990 43 CHN FU Xiaoyong 8604622 CHN 1990 44 IRI KOWSARINIA Amir 12500089 IRI 1980 45 SIN CHIN Matthew-Peter 5802253 SIN 1972 46 IRI MIRZAEI Saleh 12505960 IRI 1968 47 LTU LAURUSAS Tomas 12803731 LTU 1966 48 BUL MONEV Alexander 2910322 BUL 1962 49 CZE KRAUS Tomas 331708 CZE 1961 50 SRB DRASKOVIC Luka 944335 SRB 1944 161 players. And this is one of Daniel's victories in the event: Naroditsky,D - Nakauchi,G [A04] 2007 WYCC Kemer (10.2), 27.11.2007

(Just published in "ABC", Spanish newspaper) MADRID. The most imaginative player who has ever lived died a year ago. He managed to draw a match against Bovtinnik, although only 2 rounds before the end of the match, David Bronstein was 2 points ahead. Then, something incredibly odd happened: one of the best players in the world made a very misterious child's mistake in the last round, something which prompted many to suspect that the result had been fixed by the Russian "polit bureau". Russia didn't want Botvinnik to lose against the son of a Jewish desident. Bronstein never explained what happened... However, just recently a new book has seen the light: "Secret notes", which David Bronstein co-wrote with Sergey Voronkov and only wanted it to be published after his death. In it, Bronstein unveils that the Kremlin forced the soviet players to fix their games and thus prevent a foreigner to win the event. At the time, nobody believed him, but Bobby Fisher was right when he accused the Soviet Grandmasters of helping each other... Bronstein was the only Soviet GM who didn't sign a condemnation letter against exhiled GM Victor Kortchnoi, and that earned him the cancellation of his passport for 13 years. In the book, Bronstein also talks about how the Zurich 1953 candidates tournament was "fixed". He says that it was the most embarrasing moment of his chess career, (a tournament on which he wrote a memmorable book). There were 8 soviet GMs and US GM Samuel Reshevsky. The KGB monitored the event and instructed the players to arrange "rest draws" or even losses against the "chosen winner" (Smyslov) when the American GM was near the lead. To avoid suspicions, the players even "prepared" the games before they were played. A KGB agent even asked David: "Do you really think you've come here to play chess". David Bronstein confesses that he never in his life did he forget the shame that he felt. "We were all puppets"... Original source: HERE (In Spanish)

Javier: Don't miss the opportunity to read Speelman's great comments on a recent game of Kramnik: I reported last week, on Veselin Topalov's impressive victory at the 'Chess Champions League - Playing for a Better World' tournament in Vitoria Gasteiz in Spain. Since his defeat in the highly acrimonious Unification Match against Vladimir Kramnik just over a year ago, Topalov's career has been overshadowed by its almost equally messy aftermath, which has to some extent polarised the chess world (for the record I'm very much on Kramnik's side). And the trend continued even in Topalov's hour of triumph as Kramnik himself pulled out an even more impressive performance, at the Mikhail Tal Memorial Chess Tournament in Moscow. Tal (1936-92 and World Chess Champion from 1960-1) was, of course, one of the greatest attacking chess geniuses of all time. Various tournaments have been held in his memory including a real 'super tournament' a year ago in Moscow, with just a single 'weakie' under 2700: Magnus Carlsen. Carlsen. has, of course, now breached that barrier and was back in action in an event in which the organisers had raised the bar even higher, moving the average up to 2741 - only the top nine in the world are rated this or above. The list was headed by the current world numbers two and three: Vassily Ivanchuk and Kramnik and the bottom seed was the world number 19, Dmitri Jakovenko. In the first round on Saturday 10 November, Carlsen had the potentially treacherous pairing of Black against Kramnik. In their previous game... View the full article

November 03, 2007. This was something that we wanted to do for a while for several reasons: The previous design was table based, which made it a little ackward for Search Engines to index our site, but it was also a little heavy on images, which meant that it took a lot tonger to load than this one. There were also some resolution issues for some users and also some problems for Apple Machintosh users. Hopefully all those problems have been done away with! A couple of pages in the coaching menu are not complete, but most of the site is working.

Karpov was simply trying to pay a visit to Kasparov (as you know, he's in jail) and offer some moral support but he simply was not allowed to visit him. It really is shocking that things like this should happen in Russia in 2007. There's no democracy and citizens don't have even the most elementary rights. Very sad...

A Moscow court convicted former chess champion Garry Kasparov and sentenced him to five days in jail on Saturday for leading an opposition protest. Kasparov was among dozens detained after riot police clashed with Kremlin opponents following a protest rally that drew several thousand demonstrators. "What you've heard is all lies," Kasparov said after the sentence was read. "The testimony is contradictory. There was not a single word of truth." Read more.

Ukranian GM Vassily Ivanchuck has just won the World Blitz Championship held in Moscow. The event was incredibly strong, take a look at the crosstable: World Blitz Moscow RUS 2007 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 Ivanchuk,V 2787 +48 ** ½1 1½ 1½ 1½ ½½ 1½ ½1 1½ 01 10 ½1 ½½ 11 00 11 1½ 11 00 11 25.5/38 2 Anand,V 2801 +13 ½0 ** 0½ 0½ 0½ 01 ½1 11 11 10 11 ½0 ½1 ½½ 11 1½ ½1 1½ ½1 11 24.5/38 3 Grischuk,A 2715 +82 0½ 1½ ** ½½ 1½ ½½ ½1 ½0 1½ ½½ ½½ 01 11 1½ 1½ 10 1½ ½0 11 ½1 23.5/38 430.50 4 Kamsky,G 2714 +83 0½ 1½ ½½ ** ½½ ½½ 1½ ½1 10 ½1 ½1 01 10 10 10 ½1 01 1½ 11 1½ 23.5/38 429.00 5 Kramnik,V 2785 -30 0½ 1½ 0½ ½½ ** ½½ 01 1½ 1½ 01 10 10 ½½ 00 ½1 1½ ½1 ½1 ½1 1½ 21.5/38 393.75 6 Leko,P 2755 +1 ½½ 10 ½½ ½½ ½½ ** ½0 10 ½½ ½1 0½ 11 ½0 10 1½ 1½ 01 1½ 01 11 21.5/38 392.50 7 Rublevsky,S 2676 +84 0½ ½0 ½0 0½ 10 ½1 ** ½0 11 00 10 11 11 11 ½1 0½ ½1 1½ ½1 01 21.5/38 385.75 8 Morozevich,A 2755 -8 ½0 00 ½1 ½0 0½ 01 ½1 ** 11 1½ ½½ 10 10 ½0 ½1 11 00 11 11 01 21.0/38 9 Carlsen,M 2714 +24 0½ 00 0½ 01 0½ ½½ 00 00 ** ½1 ½1 10 ½1 1½ ½½ 11 11 11 11 10 20.5/38 10 Mamedyarov,S 2752 -53 10 01 ½½ ½0 10 ½0 11 0½ ½0 ** 01 ½½ 01 10 ½1 01 ½0 ½0 10 11 18.5/38 344.75 11 Adams,Mi 2729 -29 01 00 ½½ ½0 01 1½ 01 ½½ ½0 10 ** 10 ½1 ½0 ½0 01 01 11 10 ½1 18.5/38 337.25 12 Ponomariov,R 2705 -13 ½0 ½1 10 10 01 00 00 01 01 ½½ 01 ** 10 01 ½1 ½1 11 10 00 01 18.0/38 13 Kasimdzhanov,R 2690 -7 ½½ ½0 00 01 ½½ ½1 00 01 ½0 10 ½0 01 ** 1½ 11 10 ½0 ½½ 01 ½1 17.5/38 14 Dreev,A 2607 +70 00 ½½ 0½ 01 11 01 00 ½1 0½ 01 ½1 10 0½ ** 0½ 10 ½0 00 ½1 11 17.0/38 313.50 15 Gelfand,B 2736 -65 11 00 0½ 01 ½0 0½ ½0 ½0 ½½ ½0 ½1 ½0 00 1½ ** ½1 10 ½0 11 ½1 17.0/38 310.75 16 Savchenko,B 2583 +95 00 0½ 01 ½0 0½ 0½ 1½ 00 00 10 10 ½0 01 01 ½0 ** 11 11 11 ½1 17.0/38 291.50 17 Shirov,A 2739 -87 0½ ½0 0½ 10 ½0 10 ½0 11 00 ½1 10 00 ½1 ½1 01 00 ** ½1 0½ 10 16.0/38 18 Karpov,Ana 2670 -54 00 0½ ½1 0½ ½0 0½ 0½ 00 00 ½1 00 01 ½½ 11 ½1 00 ½0 ** 11 ½0 14.0/38 19 Bacrot,E 2695 -124 11 ½0 00 00 ½0 10 ½0 00 00 01 01 11 10 ½0 00 00 1½ 00 ** ½0 12.0/38 20 Korotylev,A 2600 -35 00 00 ½0 0½ 0½ 00 10 10 01 00 ½0 10 ½0 00 ½0 ½0 01 ½1 ½1 ** 11.5/38 Average elo: 2710 <=> Category: 19 gm = 13.68 m = 6.08 And here's Ivanchuck's victory over Shirov, in just 17 moves: Ivanchuk,V (2787) - Shirov,A (2739) [A48] World Blitz Moscow RUS (15), 21.11.2007

Bobby Fischer has been admitted to "Landspitalia", the Reikiavik University hospital in Iceland. Apparently he's got several symthoms, but the most serious one is a severe case of paranoia. His japanese girlfriend, Minoko Watai, visits hims regularly. Full article published in "El mundo", second most important newspaper in Spain.

Only two players above 50%, although Kramnik did stand out: he won 4 games and lost none. Shirov lost 2 but won 3. His second place was well deserved and he remains one of the most fighting players that the chess world has ever seen. Here's one of Kramnik's victories in this event: I have to say that Kramnik's game against Mamedyarov was rather unclear and anything could have happened... but that's another story Tal Mem Moscow RUS 2007 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 Kramnik,V 2785 +124 * 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 6.5/9 2 Shirov,A 2739 +42 0 * ½ ½ 1 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 5.0/9 3 Gelfand,B 2736 +5 ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 4.5/9 20.25 4 Jakovenko,D 2710 +34 ½ ½ ½ * 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 4.5/9 20.00 5 Carlsen,M 2714 +30 ½ 0 ½ 1 * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 4.5/9 20.00 6 Leko,P 2755 -16 0 1 ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ 4.5/9 19.50 7 Ivanchuk,V 2787 -91 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ 0 ½ 4.0/9 18.50 8 Kamsky,G 2714 -10 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ * 1 ½ 4.0/9 17.75 9 Mamedyarov,S 2752 -52 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 0 * ½ 4.0/9 17.25 10 Alekseev,Evgeny 2716 -54 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ * 3.5/9 Average elo: 2740 <=> Category: 20 gm = 2.97 m = 1.17 Here's

Only two rounds ago, GM Alexey Shirov was coming last in the Tal memorial tournament (Moscow, 9-23rd of November 2007). However, he has now won two games in a row and is currently coming second after Kramnik. Here's Shirov's impressive win against Carlsen: [Event "2nd Tal Memorial"] [site "Moscow"] [Date "2007.??.??"] [Round "6"] [White "Shirov, Alexei"] [black "Carlsen, Magnus"] [Result "1-0"] [PlyCount "67"] [EventDate "2007.??.??"] dangerous pawn on c6 and very active pieces.} Bxc2 20. Rxc2 Qa5 21. Nf3 Rfd8 22. Nd4 g6 23. e6! Bf6 24. exf7+ Kxf7 25. h4 Qb6 26. Rd2 Rd6 27. Nf5!! Rdxc6 (27... gxf5 28. Rxd5 {With a winning attack for white.}) 28. Bxd5+ Kf8 29. Bxc6 Rxc6 30. Ne3 Bxh4 31. Qf3+ Rf6 32. Qa8+ Kg7 33. Qe4 b3 (33... Bg5 34. Qe7+ Kh6 35. Ng4+ Kh5 36. Qxh7+ Kxg4 37. Qh3+ Kf4 38. Re2!! { And black is getting mated.}) 34. axb3 1-0 ' margin=0 width=584 height=399 marginwidth=1 marginheight=1 name=pgnboard scrolling=no border=0 frameborder=0>

From Fide's website: Chess is most likely to be introduced into Russian schools curriculum The Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov thinks that chess is most likely to be introduced into Russian schools curriculum. `In Kalmykia, schools have chess in their programmes for more than 10 years and the results in other school subjects have improved. Kalmyk pupils win not only Russian championships but also world ones in other sports,` Mr. Gryzlov said at the opening ceremony of the Russian Sport Forum. In Mr. Gryzlov`s opinion chess develops not only pupils` logical thinking but their striving for victory which is very important for the Russian people.

The Government of Turkey and the Turkish Chess Federation (TCF), have the honour to invite all the FIDE member Chess Federations around the world to participate in the World Youth Chess Championship 2007 (under 8, under 10, under 12, under 14, under 16 and under 18 years old - girls and boys) which will take place in Kemer-Antalya, Turkey, between November the 17th, 2007 (arrival) and November the 29th, 2007 (departure). Official website.

Veteran GM Miguel Illescas has just won the Spanish Championship by defeating GM JM Lopez in the final. This is the 7th (!) time that Miguel has won the national title and the odd thing is that he seems stronger than ever. Watch the 2 games from the final: [Event "Spanish Championship"] [site "Ayamonte"] [Date "2007.??.??"] [Round "9"] [White "Final Illescas, Miguel (2598)"] [black "Lopez, Josep (2563)"] [Result "1-0"] [PlyCount "43"] [EventDate "2007.??.??"] h-file.} Nc6 18. h5 Ne5 19. hxg6 Nxg6 20. f4 Rb8 21. Rh2 b5 22. f5 { Black resigned.} 1-0' margin=0 width=584 height=399 marginwidth=1 marginheight=1 name=pgnboard scrolling=no border=0 frameborder=0> [Event "Campeonato de España Absoluto"] [site "Ayamonte, Huelva (ESP)"] [Date "2007.11.15"] [Round "7.1"] [White "Lopez Martinez, Josep Manuel"] [black "Illescas Cordoba, Miguel"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "B30"] [WhiteElo "2563"] [blackElo "2598"] [Annotator "Ricardo Montecatine"] [PlyCount "140"] [EventDate "2007.11.09"] [EventType "k.o."] [EventCountry "ESP"] [source "Pablo Arranz"] [sourceDate "2007.11.09"]

I reported last week on the first half of the European Team Chess Championship at the Creta Maris Conference Hotel in Crete, where Russia were setting a cracking pace. A humiliating 15th at the previous European Chess Championship in Gothenburg and just 6th in last year's Turin Olympiad, the Russians certainly had something to prove and they did so in style, dropping just a single drawn match - against Spain in the penultimate round - to finish on a superb 17/18 match points and 25/36 game points, streets ahead of Armenia 14 (21.5), Azerbaijan 13 (20.5) and then three chess teams with 12/18 match points: Poland 12 (21.5), the Ukraine 12 (21) and Israel 12 (20.5). It's well known that Russian chess teams in the past haven't always been harmonious. Mikhail Botvinnik once ... View the full article

It doesn't happen everyday that a man beats two of the best players in the World (with black!) in the same event. Let alone a woman! If anyone could do it, it had to be Jutidh Polgar! The event? "Champions League", currently being played in Vitoria (Spain): Kasimdzhanov,R (2690) - Polgar,J (2708) [C92] Chess Champions League Vitoria Gasteiz ESP (3), 04.11.2007 Topalov,V (2769) - Polgar,J (2708) [C42] Chess Champions League Vitoria Gasteiz ESP (4), 06.11.2007

Round 5. French GM E.Bracot played an amazing game against Ukranian GM IVanchuck. I actually had to look twice to make sure Ivanchuk was playing white in this game, as he's usually the one who sacrifices material for attacks like this one! [Event "ETCC"] [site "Crete GRE"] [Date "2007.11.01"] [Round "5"] [White "Ivanchuk, V."] [black "Bacrot, E."] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "D15"] [WhiteElo "2787"] [blackElo "2695"]

Considered the "Fastest chessplayer in the planet", Nakamura has just won the Corsica Masters (a rapid chess Knock out event). The tournament was quite strong, just look at some of the pairing below. Corsica Masters 2007 Final ----- Kasimdzhanov,R 0.5 Nakamura,H 1.5 Semifinal --------- Kasimdzhanov,R 3.0 Karpov,Ana 1.0 Bareev,E 1.0 Nakamura,H 3.0 Quarterfinal ------------ Kasimdzhanov,R 1.5 Fridman,D2 0.5 Karpov,Ana 2.0 Guliyev,N 0.0 Bareev,E 3.0 Milov,V 1.0 Van Wely,L 1.0 Nakamura,H 3.0 Round 1 ------- Kasimdzhanov,R 1.5 Milov,L 0.5 Mchedlishvili,M 0.5 Fridman,D2 1.5 Karpov,Ana 2.0 Hamdouchi,H 0.0 Landa,K 0.5 Guliyev,N 1.5 Bareev,E 2.0 Jussupow,Ar 0.0 Milov,V 1.0 Cvitan,O 1.0 Van Wely,L 1.5 Prie,E 0.5 Nakamura,H 2.5 Mikhalevski,V 1.5 Here's one his victories:

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Shirov has lost another game, this time as white, against Croation GM Kozul. I don't know what's wrong with him, but he's definitely not the player that he used to be. I can't quite recall when was the last time he actually beat the Sicilian defence, and his openings have become rather dull, not much imagination and somewhat mechanic...

Mukachevo, 25 - 28 October 2007, exhibition match. Rapid chess, 12 games. Ivanchuk grabbed the lead in game 2 and increased it in game 6. It didn't look too good for Leko at that stage. But he won games 9 and 11. The tie break was a 2 blitz games match which Ivanchuck won (first game was a draw and he won the second with black). Ivanchuk-Leko Rapid 2007 123456789012 1 Ivanchuk,Vassily 2787 ½1½½½1½½0½0½ 6.0/12 36.00 2 Leko,Peter 2755 ½0½½½0½½1½1½ 6.0/12 36.00 Here's Leko's impressive win on round 9: Click here to visit the official website.

19 Year old, American Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura, has just won the Barcelona Open in Spain. I've seen some of the games and all I can say is: this guy is crazy! Seriously, he's got guts! Watch the following game, where Hikaru actually moved his King all the way to h7! Unbelieveable!!: But his round 2 game in the tournament was not less spectacular. Watch: Krasenkow,M (2668) - Nakamura,H (2648) Casino Barcelona ESP (2), 19.10.2007 Casino Barcelona ESP 2007 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 Nakamura,H 2648 +181 * 1 ½ ½ 1 1 0 1 1 1 7.0/9 2 Dominguez Perez,L 2683 +40 0 * ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 6.0/9 3 Gashimov,V 2664 +18 ½ ½ * ½ ½ 1 1 0 ½ 1 5.5/9 23.00 4 Beliavsky,A 2646 +38 ½ 0 ½ * 1 ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 5.5/9 22.75 5 Krasenkow,M 2668 -68 0 ½ ½ 0 * ½ 0 1 1 1 4.5/9 16.00 6 Vaganian,R 2600 +7 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ * 0 1 1 1 4.5/9 16.00 7 Oms Pallise,J 2506 +71 1 0 0 0 1 1 * ½ 0 ½ 4.0/9 8 Illescas Cordoba,M 2598 -72 0 ½ 1 0 0 0 ½ * 1 ½ 3.5/9 9 Narciso Dublan,M 2546 -58 0 0 ½ ½ 0 0 1 0 * 1 3.0/9 10 Fluvia,J 2508 -182 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 * 1.5/9 Average elo: 2606 <=> Category: 15 gm = 4.50 m = 2.70