Six teams still on 100% in Ohrid
Three of the seven rounds have been played at the European Club Cup in Ohrid, Macedonia and in the open section there are six teams left with a perfect score. In the women section, Samaia Tbilisi is the sole leader with 5 board points.
The 25th European Club Cup and the 14th European Club Cup for Women take place October 3-11 in Ohrid, Macedonia. The time control is 90 min. for 40 moves + 30 min. & 30 sec. increment. The winning open team receives € 11,000; the best women team € 3,750. The best individual player gets € 700; the best female player € 250.
Round 3
The reigning European Champion Ural Svedrdlovskaya (Russia) dropped their first match point yesterday against the Ukrainians with the cryptic, and surely sponsored name A DAN DZO & PGMB. Four of the games in this match ended in a draw, but Ural's Alexei Shirov lost to Yuri Drozdovskij. It was Evgeny Bareev's experience that prevented a complete failure - he beat Yaroslav Zinchenko.
Eternal German champion OSC Baden-Baden, currently first on board points, crushed SK Slovan Bratislava but Ljubomir Ftacnik saved the Slovak honour with a fine win over Sergei Movsesian on board one. Peter Svidler's win with the black pieces against Vassily Ivanchuk (check that beautiful exchange sacrifice!) was crucial for SPbChFed Sankt-Peterburg's victory over the Israeli team Ashdod Illit Chess Club.
Today's top pairings: Economist-SGSEU-1 Saratov vs Beer Sheva Chess Club, OSG Baden-Baden vs Mika Yerevan and SPbChFed Sankt-Peterburg vs Alkaloid Skopje.
In the women section it's anyone's game. At the top boards, both Samaia Tbilisi vs Spartak Vidnoe and Cercle d'Echecs Monte Carlo vs Economist-SGSEU Saratov ended in a 2-2 tie. Mika Yerevan, in the open section one of the big favourites, is in last place here.
All results round 3
Selection of games round 3
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The laptops providing the live transmission of the top boards
Kiev (Ukraine; Onischuk, Miroshnichenko, Areshchenko, Beliavsky, Baklan and Vysochin) vs Yerevan (Armenia; Aronian, Akopian, Sargissian, Pashikian, Andriasian and Petrosian)
The Slovenian team from Bratislava (GM Ftacnik, IM Vavrak, FM Pacher, IM Banas, Havlicek and Komora) were far too weak for German champs Baden-Baden (Movsesian, Bacrot, Vallejo, Naiditsch, Adams and Nisipeanu)
Evgeny Alekseev, board 1 for Economist-SGSEU-1 Saratov (Russia)
Gata Kamsky, board 2 (after Mamedyarov) of Alkaloid Skopje (Macedonia)
Andrei Volokitin, board 3 of the same team
Boris Gelfand and Sergei Karjakin at the top boards of ShSM-64 Moscow (Russia)
Daniel Fridman, board 1 of HMC Calder (Netherlands)
Tomi Nybäck, board 2 (after Fressinet) of German team Werder Bremen
Normunds Miezis, board 1 of Moss Schakklubb (Norway)
Cercle d'Echecs Monte Carlo vs Economist-SGSEU Saratov
Former World Champions meet: Chiburdanidze-Stefanova, top board of the match Samaia Tbilisi - Spartak Vidnoe
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me
2 years 4 months ago
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Nah. It's just such a deep tactic behind it that we can't possibly understand it.
misja
2 years 4 months ago
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Must be something wrong with the game Bacrot - Vavrak or white could have taken black's queen on move 15/16/17.
Tarjei
2 years 4 months ago
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Small correction:
"Normunds Miezis, board 1 of Moss Schakklubb (Latvia)"
Miezis is indeed Latvian, but Moss is a Norwegian team :)
Peter Doggers
2 years 4 months ago
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Thx, corrected.
Peter
2 years 4 months ago
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Where's the beautiful exchange sacrifice in Ivanchuk-Svidler? There were two, but both incorrect. Seems to me that Ivanchuk mostly self-destructed, perhaps in time trouble. After 24.Bd5 white is better, and he could have kept an advantage with 26.Rf1 (and not sacrifice the exchange to return the favor). Besides all that, Ivanchuk missed 29.Bxf7 with a forced draw.
Sometimes Rybka takes all the beauty out of chess ;-)
Peter Doggers
2 years 4 months ago
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No, stop calling it beautiful only because Rybka refutes it, that's what's taking beauty out of chess. ;-)
Peter
2 years 4 months ago
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My apologies Peter, in Svidler's defense (there really are too many Peter's out there...) I can say that Ivanchuk had to find a lot of only moves... Perhaps this has cost him too much time, so that he messed up later on... So, under the clock, the sacrifice was correct :-)
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