Chernyshov first on tiebreak in Moscow
8 February 2010, 11.58 CET | Last modified: 10:31 | By Peter Doggers | Filed under: Reports | Tags:
42-year-old Konstantin Chernyshov won the strong Moscow Open with 7 out of 9. The Russian GM finished shared first with another 40+ grandmaster, Evgeny Bareev, and both Le Quang Liem and Ernesto Inarkiev also ended on 7 points. Chernishov had the best tiebreak: most wins.
The 6th Moscow Open took place January 30-February 7 at the Russian State Social University in Moscow, Russia. The festival consisted of many different events, and attracted 1,500 participants from 30 countries worldwide. The main event, a very strong 9-round Swiss, consisted of 187 players, including 73 grandmasters and 49 masters. The time control was 1 hour and 30 minutes + 30 seconds increment from move 1.
The tournament was surprisingly won by 46th seeded Konstantin Chernyshov. In the last round the grandmaster from Voronezh drew with Vietnamese GM Le Quang Liem and so the two ended the tournament with 7 points, together with Evgeny Bareev and Ernesto Inarkiev. Chernyshov was declared winner as he had the highest number of wins. Le Quang Liem ended second and Bareev third. The prize fund of the main tournament was 2,500,000 rubles (60,000 Euros) and the first prize 500,000 (12,000 Euros).
Chernyshov and Liem shaking hands for their last-round game
Moscow Open 2010 | Final Standings (top 40)
Full final standings here
Selection of games
Game viewer by ChessTempo
Another famous name who could be found in the playing hall almost every day was Alexei Shirov. The reason? He came to support his girlfriend Olga Dolgov, who played in the women’s tournament (and who could be found in the playing hall of the Corus Chess Tournament almost every day, supporting her boyfriend). Besides, Shirov decided to meet with relatives and school friends, as he mentioned in an interview at the tournament website.
Apparently the two believe in the power of love. The interview was conducted when Sasikiran was leading the tournament. Shirov: “Naturally, he is very high class player. Besides, not so long ago he got married, and this also gives an additional impetus.”
Winter in Moscow, chess in Moscow
One of the playing halls in the university
Second on tiebreak: Le Quang Liem
Third on tiebreak, still going strong: Evgeny Bareev
Fourth on tiebreak: Ernesto Inarkiev
Krishnan Sasikiran had a good start, but finished on shared 5th-15th
Vladimir Belov, also shared 5th-15th
Bu Xiangzhi, also shared 5th-15th
Open tournament tiger Evgeny Najer, this time shared 15th-28th
Top seed Alexander Motylev, also shared 15th-28th
Giovanni Vescovi from Brazil, shared 15th-28th
Semen Dvoirys ended on 5.5 points
Ian Nepomniachtchi, also shared 15th-28th
Hou Yifan ended on a disappointing 4.5/9
Evgeny Sveshnikov still plays and ended on 4 points
Photos © Maria Fomynikh, Eldar Mukhametov, Yana Melnikova
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Evgeny Sveshnikov? Is the guy we get the Sveshnikov variation in the Sicilian?
@buri Yes, that’s him.
“The 9th Aeroflot Open takes place 8th February – 19th February 2010. This is the strongest open of the year. Players include: Bacrot, Bu Xiangzhi, Cheparinov, Motylev, Khalifman, Niaditsch, Nepomniatchi, Sargissian, Sasikiran, Smirin, Timofeev, Vachier-Lagrave, Van Wely and Zvjaginsev.”
The tiebreak system used wasn’t very good – rewarding the player with the lowest performance rating. The Buchholz system would have been much fairer.
What’s fairer about Buchholz ? It rewards people for having the luck to have opponents who then go on to perform well.
Not necessarily – if you play a tougher field, you have to play better to achieve the same score.
I love that picture of Sveshnikov.
some of the local players need a haircut a shave a warm bath and a new garderobe
I encourge everyone to take a look at Game 19 (Vescovi vs Krylov) in the games applet, a fantastic Kings Indian where Black attacked on the king side and White on the queen side. Whites king was under heavy attack and escaped to queen side, White sacrificed a queen but advanced two connected pawns to the seventh rank, four pawns were promoted to queen, twice during the game there were four queens on the board with both kings exposed, a very exciting game albeit full of mistakes due to time trouble!
Is it possible to write something about the winner? He’s unknown to me.
And of course both Vescovi and Krylov are very strong GMs. The material imbalances during this game were simply fascinating, both GMs should receive a brilliance prize for their efforts. Chess is alive and well in the 21st century.
INCREDIBLE! I have never heard of Chernyshov until now. It just shows the wealth of strong players the old ruskis have….and that a journeyman player there would be a board 2 or 3 for any western country…..Well played Mr. Tash!
And also look how Chernyshov played against Motylev… is this provocative play really possible against the world sub-top? Wow!
Provocative? I don’t like that notion a bit, in this context. It’s merely interesting inventive chess. Maybe the only way to win against stronger players.
After “just” drawing against Tartakower, Capablanca told him “Nevertheless I think your play lacks solidity”. Tartakower answered:
“You know, THAT is my saving grace!”
Dogma have the precise weakness of being dogma: Ready to be put down!
@Arne: Something even more provocative was successful (once) against the very world top:
Karpov-Miles, Skara 1980, 0-1 (B00 “Uncommon King Pawn” or “St. George Defense”)
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1068157
with detailed annotations by Tony Miles and Ray Keene
I know, Thomas, but of course Miles was himself a world class player. This can hardly be said of Chernyshov, though perhaps after this tournament we should reconsider this.
Kudos to Chernyshov of course, but Motylev’s Na1 is certainly more “provocative” than any of his opponent’s moves.
Arne, I wondered if you knew the game Karpov-Miles as you were seven years old at the time (noone with a FIDE or KNSB rating can keep his age secret
) but you may have seen it later on.
Regarding Chernyshov as a [future] world class player: Anish Giri (2588) had a TPR of 2773 at Corus B, Chernyshov (2556) had a TPR of 2726. But here the similarities end: Chernyshov was born in 1967 (my age …) and his rating has fluctuated between 2500 and 2600 for the last ten years – one excellent tournament doesn’t change the overall picture, at least not yet.
Chernyshov is a surprise winner and congratulations to him. But he could have easily lost that game against Motylev. In that case the final standings would most likely have been a lot more unremarkable. So overall, not that much out of the ordinary has really happened I think.
Thomas, I think there is no self-respecting chess player alive, even if he’s only of Giri’s age, who doesn’t know the first move of Karpov-Miles, Skara 1980. Karpov-Miles, Skara 1980: the very words are like a bell.
Six players is very sad. Linares used to be by far the biggest tourney in the world. Corus was a distant second. Check out this list of all time great performances. Corus didn’t even make the list.
1
Anatoly Karpov
11/13 (85%)
2729 2899 Linares, 1994
2
Garry Kasparov
12/14 (86%)
2692 2881 Tilburg, 1989
3
Emanuel Lasker
18/22 (82%)
2667 2878 London, 1899
4
Garry Kasparov
10.5/14 (75%)
2758 2877 Linares, 1999
5
Mikhail Tal
20/28 (71%)
2716 2869 Bled/Zagreb/Belgrade (Cand.), 1959
6
Alexander Alekhine
13/14 (93%)
2626 2865 San Remo, 1930
7
Garry Kasparov
10/13 (77%)
2737 2863 Linares, 1993
8
Alexander Alekhine
19.5/24 (81%)
2644 2859 Bled, 1931
9
Garry Kasparov
11.5/15 (77%)
2715 2856 Belfort (World Cup), 1988
10
Garry Kasparov
10/13 (77%)
2728 2855 Linares, 1992
11
Emanuel Lasker
11.5/16 (72%)
2738 2853 St. Petersburg, 1914
12
Garry Kasparov
9/12 (75%)
2744 2851 Amsterdam (Optiebeurs), 1988
13
Garry Kasparov
9.5/11 (86%)
2682 2850 Belgrade (Investbank), 1989
Bobby Fischer
18.5/23 (80%)
2643 2850 Palma de Mallorca (Interzonal), 1970
Mikhail Botvinnik
14/20 (70%)
2729 2850 The Hague/Moscow (WCh), 1948
Magnus Carlsen
8/10 (80%)
2733 2850 Nanjing, 2009
17
Siegbert Tarrasch
29/39 (74%)
2650 2846 Vienna, 1898
18
Garry Kasparov
8.5/11 (77%)
2733 2845 Linares, 1997
19
Johannes Zukertort
22.5/29 (78%)
2641 2844 London, 1883
20
Garry Kasparov
11/14 (79%)
2691 2840 Niksic, 1983
21
Vassily Ivanchuk
9.5/13 (73%)
2732 2837 Linares, 1991
I may be the only one here, but I’m interested in the strongest Open in the world, the Aeroflot. “This year’s tournament is led by two players rated over 2700, both from France: Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Etienne Bacrot. There’s also a strong American contingent, including Kamsky, Alexander Shabalov, Jaan Ehlvest and other notable players like Alexander Motylev and Arkadij Naiditsch.”