Eleven GMs finish shared 1st in Budva
17 March 2009, 22.00 CET | Last modified: 0:09 | By Peter Doggers | Filed under: Reports | Tags:
At the European Championship in Budva, no less than 11 grandmaster have finished on shared first position with a 8/11 score. On Wednesday, tiebreaks will decide on the medals, and on who will qualify for the FIDE World Cup.
The 10th European Chess Championship, an 11-round Swiss, takes place in Budva, Montenegro from March 5th (day of arrival) until March 19th (day of departure) 2009. It’s organized by the Montenegro Chess Federation under the auspices of the City of Budva and the European Chess Union. The European Championship is a qualification event for the next World Cup. According to FIDE regulations and the decision of the ECU Board, 22 players will qualify. The first prize is ‚Ǩ 15,000, second is ‚Ǩ 12,000 and the third player earns ‚Ǩ 10,000.
The top boards in the 11th round
European Championship 2009 | Final standings (top 100)
| Rk. | T | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 | rtg+/- |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GM | Sokolov Ivan | NED | 2657 | 8,0 | 63,0 | 76,5 | 5 | 14,7 |
| 2 | GM | Inarkiev Ernesto | RUS | 2656 | 8,0 | 62,5 | 76,0 | 6 | 17,0 |
| 3 | GM | Naiditsch Arkadij | GER | 2693 | 8,0 | 62,5 | 76,0 | 5 | 10,3 |
| 4 | GM | Tomashevsky Evgeny | RUS | 2664 | 8,0 | 62,0 | 75,5 | 5 | 8,0 |
| 5 | GM | Navara David | CZE | 2638 | 8,0 | 60,5 | 74,0 | 6 | 15,6 |
| 6 | GM | Malakhov Vladimir | RUS | 2692 | 8,0 | 60,5 | 73,5 | 5 | 8,0 |
| 7 | GM | Grachev Boris | RUS | 2655 | 8,0 | 60,0 | 73,0 | 6 | 10,3 |
| 8 | GM | Jobava Baadur | GEO | 2669 | 8,0 | 59,5 | 71,5 | 7 | 13,4 |
| 9 | GM | Kobalia Mikhail | RUS | 2634 | 8,0 | 59,0 | 72,0 | 5 | 16,2 |
| 10 | GM | Guseinov Gadir | AZE | 2661 | 8,0 | 57,5 | 70,0 | 5 | 7,7 |
| 11 | GM | Nyback Tomi | FIN | 2644 | 8,0 | 54,5 | 66,5 | 6 | 10,2 |
| 12 | GM | Meier Georg | GER | 2608 | 7,5 | 63,5 | 76,5 | 5 | 18,4 |
| 13 | GM | Nijboer Friso | NED | 2559 | 7,5 | 62,0 | 74,0 | 5 | 27,8 |
| 14 | GM | Fedorchuk Sergey A | UKR | 2633 | 7,5 | 61,5 | 75,5 | 6 | 12,4 |
| 15 | GM | Timofeev Artyom | RUS | 2671 | 7,5 | 61,5 | 74,0 | 4 | 6,4 |
| 16 | GM | Sjugirov Sanan | RUS | 2562 | 7,5 | 61,5 | 73,5 | 6 | 28,4 |
| 17 | GM | Bartel Mateusz | POL | 2594 | 7,5 | 60,5 | 73,5 | 4 | 20,3 |
| 18 | GM | Mamedov Rauf | AZE | 2638 | 7,5 | 59,5 | 72,5 | 4 | 11,6 |
| 19 | GM | Areshchenko Alexander | UKR | 2673 | 7,5 | 59,0 | 70,5 | 5 | 1,5 |
| 20 | GM | Stevic Hrvoje | CRO | 2592 | 7,5 | 59,0 | 70,5 | 5 | 16,4 |
| 21 | GM | Vitiugov Nikita | RUS | 2687 | 7,5 | 58,5 | 71,5 | 4 | 2,6 |
| 22 | GM | Dreev Alexey | RUS | 2688 | 7,5 | 58,0 | 71,0 | 4 | 1,8 |
| 23 | GM | Bologan Viktor | MDA | 2687 | 7,5 | 58,0 | 70,5 | 5 | 3,4 |
| 24 | GM | Kurnosov Igor | RUS | 2602 | 7,5 | 57,5 | 70,5 | 5 | 13,9 |
| 25 | GM | Lupulescu Constantin | ROU | 2608 | 7,5 | 57,5 | 69,0 | 4 | 4,5 |
| 26 | GM | Papaioannou Ioannis | GRE | 2609 | 7,5 | 56,5 | 69,0 | 5 | 15,0 |
| 27 | GM | Mikhalevski Victor | ISR | 2608 | 7,5 | 56,0 | 69,0 | 6 | 9,1 |
| 28 | GM | Motylev Alexander | RUS | 2676 | 7,5 | 56,0 | 68,5 | 5 | -1,9 |
| 29 | GM | Pashikian Arman | ARM | 2621 | 7,5 | 55,0 | 67,0 | 5 | 5,2 |
| 30 | GM | Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter | ROU | 2675 | 7,5 | 53,5 | 66,0 | 5 | 0,3 |
| 31 | GM | Petrosian Tigran L | ARM | 2623 | 7,5 | 52,5 | 63,5 | 6 | 3,9 |
| 32 | GM | Svetushkin Dmitry | MDA | 2593 | 7,5 | 51,5 | 62,5 | 5 | 0,6 |
| 33 | GM | Sakaev Konstantin | RUS | 2619 | 7,5 | 51,0 | 63,0 | 4 | 3,4 |
| 34 | GM | Savchenko Boris | RUS | 2654 | 7,5 | 50,0 | 61,0 | 7 | -5,9 |
| 35 | GM | Cheparinov Ivan | BUL | 2679 | 7,0 | 62,5 | 76,0 | 5 | -1,1 |
| 36 | GM | Hillarp Persson Tiger | SWE | 2586 | 7,0 | 61,0 | 74,0 | 4 | 12,9 |
| 37 | GM | Akopian Vladimir | ARM | 2700 | 7,0 | 59,0 | 72,0 | 4 | -4,2 |
| 38 | GM | Fressinet Laurent | FRA | 2666 | 7,0 | 57,5 | 70,0 | 4 | -1,9 |
| 39 | GM | Lopez Martinez Josep Manuel | ESP | 2540 | 7,0 | 56,5 | 68,5 | 5 | 16,2 |
| 40 | GM | Zhigalko Sergei | BLR | 2587 | 7,0 | 56,0 | 68,5 | 5 | 7,6 |
| 41 | GM | Postny Evgeny | ISR | 2652 | 7,0 | 55,5 | 66,5 | 5 | -3,6 |
| 42 | GM | Georgiev Kiril | BUL | 2634 | 7,0 | 55,0 | 68,5 | 4 | 2,6 |
| 43 | GM | Perunovic Milos | SRB | 2568 | 7,0 | 54,5 | 66,5 | 5 | 6,5 |
| 44 | GM | Kotronias Vasilios | GRE | 2603 | 7,0 | 54,0 | 67,0 | 6 | 3,5 |
| 45 | GM | Azarov Sergei | BLR | 2599 | 7,0 | 54,0 | 66,5 | 4 | 10,6 |
| 46 | GM | Ivanisevic Ivan | SRB | 2628 | 7,0 | 54,0 | 66,0 | 5 | -3,4 |
| 47 | GM | Khalifman Alexander | RUS | 2622 | 7,0 | 53,0 | 64,5 | 3 | -0,6 |
| 48 | GM | Lysyj Igor | RUS | 2620 | 7,0 | 52,0 | 64,5 | 5 | 0,6 |
| 49 | GM | Beliavsky Alexander G | SLO | 2646 | 7,0 | 51,0 | 62,0 | 4 | -7,3 |
| 50 | GM | Volokitin Andrei | UKR | 2671 | 6,5 | 63,0 | 76,0 | 5 | -4,7 |
| 51 | FM | Rasulov Vugar | AZE | 2391 | 6,5 | 60,5 | 74,0 | 4 | 59,0 |
| 52 | GM | Banikas Hristos | GRE | 2582 | 6,5 | 60,5 | 74,0 | 3 | 12,7 |
| 53 | GM | Bocharov Dmitry | RUS | 2647 | 6,5 | 60,5 | 73,5 | 4 | -1,7 |
| 54 | GM | Kovacevic Aleksandar | SRB | 2543 | 6,5 | 60,0 | 72,0 | 4 | 13,2 |
| 55 | GM | Andriasian Zaven | ARM | 2564 | 6,5 | 60,0 | 72,0 | 3 | 12,4 |
| 56 | GM | Shomoev Anton | RUS | 2567 | 6,5 | 59,5 | 72,5 | 4 | 12,0 |
| 57 | GM | Popov Valerij | RUS | 2561 | 6,5 | 59,5 | 71,5 | 5 | 8,9 |
| 58 | GM | Van Wely Loek | NED | 2625 | 6,5 | 57,5 | 70,5 | 5 | -4,9 |
| 59 | GM | Savic Miodrag R | SRB | 2525 | 6,5 | 57,5 | 70,0 | 5 | 13,5 |
| 60 | GM | Popov Ivan | RUS | 2541 | 6,5 | 57,5 | 70,0 | 4 | 8,8 |
| 61 | GM | Predojevic Borki | BIH | 2650 | 6,5 | 57,0 | 69,5 | 3 | -4,1 |
| 62 | GM | Rodshtein Maxim | ISR | 2650 | 6,5 | 57,0 | 69,0 | 4 | -7,3 |
| 63 | GM | Tiviakov Sergei | NED | 2685 | 6,5 | 56,5 | 69,5 | 4 | -7,6 |
| 64 | GM | Wojtaszek Radoslaw | POL | 2608 | 6,5 | 56,5 | 67,5 | 4 | 1,5 |
| 65 | GM | Riazantsev Alexander | RUS | 2634 | 6,5 | 56,0 | 69,0 | 3 | -3,1 |
| 66 | GM | Gagunashvili Merab | GEO | 2585 | 6,5 | 56,0 | 68,0 | 5 | -2,5 |
| 67 | GM | Safarli Eltaj | AZE | 2564 | 6,5 | 56,0 | 67,5 | 4 | 7,3 |
| 68 | GM | Khairullin Ildar | RUS | 2574 | 6,5 | 56,0 | 67,0 | 2 | 6,2 |
| 69 | GM | Iordachescu Viorel | MDA | 2584 | 6,5 | 55,5 | 68,0 | 3 | 2,0 |
| 70 | GM | Lenic Luka | SLO | 2547 | 6,5 | 55,5 | 66,5 | 5 | 8,9 |
| 71 | IM | Nyzhnyk Illya | UKR | 2503 | 6,5 | 55,5 | 66,5 | 5 | 13,5 |
| 72 | GM | Maze Sebastien | FRA | 2578 | 6,5 | 55,0 | 67,5 | 4 | 0,6 |
| 73 | GM | Jovanovic Zoran | CRO | 2558 | 6,5 | 55,0 | 67,5 | 3 | -0,5 |
| 74 | GM | Ragger Markus | AUT | 2540 | 6,5 | 55,0 | 67,0 | 4 | 12,1 |
| 75 | GM | Erdos Viktor | HUN | 2583 | 6,5 | 55,0 | 66,5 | 4 | -1,6 |
| 76 | GM | Maletin Pavel | RUS | 2557 | 6,5 | 54,0 | 67,0 | 5 | 1,9 |
| 77 | GM | Aleksandrov Aleksej | BLR | 2636 | 6,5 | 54,0 | 65,5 | 6 | -8,0 |
| 78 | GM | Milanovic Danilo | SRB | 2552 | 6,5 | 54,0 | 65,5 | 5 | 7,8 |
| 79 | GM | Huzman Alexander | ISR | 2602 | 6,5 | 53,5 | 66,5 | 5 | -3,2 |
| 80 | GM | Nikolic Predrag | BIH | 2623 | 6,5 | 53,5 | 66,5 | 4 | -4,6 |
| 81 | GM | Berkes Ferenc | HUN | 2651 | 6,5 | 52,5 | 65,0 | 2 | -5,4 |
| 82 | GM | Vallejo Pons Francisco | ESP | 2702 | 6,5 | 52,5 | 64,5 | 5 | -15,8 |
| 83 | GM | Evdokimov Alexander A | RUS | 2545 | 6,5 | 52,5 | 64,0 | 5 | 0,7 |
| 84 | GM | Belov Vladimir | RUS | 2627 | 6,5 | 52,5 | 63,5 | 3 | -7,7 |
| 85 | GM | Vuckovic Bojan | SRB | 2576 | 6,5 | 52,0 | 64,5 | 5 | 0,7 |
| 86 | GM | Timman Jan H | NED | 2582 | 6,5 | 52,0 | 64,0 | 5 | -2,7 |
| 87 | GM | L'Ami Erwin | NED | 2603 | 6,5 | 51,5 | 63,5 | 5 | -3,3 |
| 88 | GM | Ruck Robert | HUN | 2558 | 6,5 | 51,5 | 63,5 | 5 | 4,1 |
| 89 | GM | Nepomniachtchi Ian | RUS | 2628 | 6,5 | 51,5 | 63,0 | 5 | -9,9 |
| 90 | GM | Minasian Artashes | ARM | 2557 | 6,5 | 51,5 | 63,0 | 5 | -0,9 |
| 91 | GM | Khenkin Igor | GER | 2644 | 6,5 | 51,0 | 63,0 | 4 | -11,9 |
| 92 | GM | Potkin Vladimir | RUS | 2613 | 6,5 | 50,5 | 61,0 | 4 | -8,2 |
| 93 | GM | Pikula Dejan | SRB | 2570 | 6,5 | 50,5 | 60,5 | 5 | -2,1 |
| 94 | IM | Szabo Gergely-Andras-Gyula | ROU | 2506 | 6,5 | 50,5 | 60,5 | 4 | 7,2 |
| 95 | GM | Berg Emanuel | SWE | 2606 | 6,5 | 49,5 | 61,5 | 5 | -8,1 |
| 96 | IM | Vavrak Peter | SVK | 2489 | 6,5 | 49,5 | 60,5 | 5 | -1,7 |
| 97 | GM | Romanov Evgeny | RUS | 2576 | 6,0 | 61,5 | 73,0 | 4 | 7,4 |
| 98 | GM | Brkic Ante | CRO | 2550 | 6,0 | 60,5 | 73,0 | 5 | 3,9 |
| 99 | GM | Iljushin Alexei | RUS | 2564 | 6,0 | 60,0 | 72,0 | 3 | 5,2 |
| 100 | GM | Mastrovasilis Athanasios | GRE | 2485 | 6,0 | 60,0 | 69,0 | 4 | 18,0 |
Full standings here.
This is what the regulations say:
Tie-break Matches
In the European Individual Chess Championship and European Individual Women’s Chess Championship tie-breaks are organized only in the following cases:
a) to establish the Champion;
b) to establish the medal winners;
c) to establish qualifiers, for the World Chess Championship.
In the case of a) and b) the relevant tie-break matches will decide the final ranking and the money prizes connected with these places.
In the case of c), the relevant tie-break matches will not influence the final ranking and the money prizes will be shared equally.
System of the Tie-break matches:
Additional matches of two games will be played with 15 minutes on the clock and addition of 10 seconds before each move.
If this match is drawn again, then two games will be played with five minutes plus two seconds per move.
If this match is again drawn, then the sudden-death game will be played with white having 5 minutes on the clock and black having 4 minutes, without any addition. White has to win the sudden-death game in order to win the match.
In case that more than three tie-break rounds have to be played, the Chief-Arbiter – after confirmation by the ECU President or his representative – may change the playing schedule in such a way that the tie-break matches can be finished within one day.
Detailed Tournament Regulations for the tie-break matches and the time schedule will be announced on Friday, 17 March at 22.30 at the Technical Meeting for tie breaks.
Tomorrow the tiebreaks are scheduled at 10:00 CET.
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Interesting rankings. Early leader Volokitin didn’t do well after his los against Jobava.Kornusov almost made shared first, and if Grachev would have won his winning endgame against Navarra he might have been clear first.
I don’t know this Grachev fellow. He is Russian I presume? How long has he been playing chess?
My compliments for Nijboer. Except the first round he only met 2600+ players and scored 7.5 point. Compare this with an other Dutch player, Van Wely, who met no 2600+ player!
van Wely can play better or worse at times, but in general he´s too mediocre to be considered a top GM
Questions:
1. The rules state that they could alter the schedule of the tie-breaks, in order to have them all in one day. But they did much more than that, they changed the tie-break system, didn’t they?
2. Why have the 12th-18th players been exempted of the tie-breaks? That could not have been because of lack of time, as the tie-breaks for WCC only started in the afternoon… (And even if it was because of time, it’d look unfair, because they had 7,5 points, as the others — 19th to 34th — and the rules seem to impose tie-break games for all with the same points).
3. Was it to classify 22 players to the WCC, as writen everywhere, or 22+3 medal winners=25, as it looks like?
4. In the FIDE site we have that there will be 46 players from Europe. Here are 22 (or 25?), but how exactly does one classify the reminders?
Can anyone here enlight this unfair-looking or not understandable issues?
Thanks.
Castro, I can at least answer your fourth question: As posted by danyplayer on Dailydirt, the previous European championship (2008 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria) also was a World Cup qualifier. That’s why two players tied at 7.5 points (Bologan and Papaioannou) and already qualified from 2008 didn’t join (delined to play?) the rapid tiebreaks. And last year’s champion Tiviakov is and remains qualified despite the fact that he was only 63rd (with 6.5 points) at this occasion.
I think some World Cup spots are also given away based on ELO rating, don’t know the exact rules, minimum required rating, … .
You have a point with question #2, indeed it seems to be at odds with the written rules. Yet IMO there is some justice in directly seeding players with better (tournament) tiebreaks. Georg Meier was permanently on the top boards until his 9th round loss against Sokolov; he was the only one of the entire 7.5 point bunch playing four of the eventual top 10. Wait, maybe I am biased being German … next examples: Nijboer and Sjugirov faced ten players rated 2600 or higher. Not sure how this happened – apparently due to their relatively low ratings (2559 and 2562) they consistently got tougher drawings than Meier (rated 2608).
I agree though that it would have been preferable to specify such a rule in the written regulations before the tournament. While it is impossible to anticipate ALL possible situations, the one which actually occurred can hardly be called unexpected.
Plovdiv 2008 explains also why there were seemingly 25 qualifiers instead of 23. Nyb?§ck and Grachev had alredy qualified, and were not counted here.
Maybe there could – instead – be a bonus for those players who qualified twice … automatic seeding into the second round of the World Cup (virtually playing against yourself in the first round)?
I am only half kidding, and maybe it is not all that ridiculous. Jumping over the hurdle twice is an achievement, just look at the result of last year’s champion Tiviakov in Budva … .