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2nd ACP World Rapid Cup started

4 January 2008 21:15 PM | Last modified: 21:18

Today the 2nd ACP World Rapid Cup began in Odessa (Ukraine). Sixteen players, who had qualified from the ACP Tour 2006-2007, are fighting in a short knockout event (rapid) for a first prize of 40.000 dollars. (Last year, Leko won the cup). On the first day, Jakovenko beat Savchenko 2-0, Radjabov defeated Drozdovsky 1.5-0.5 and with the same figures Ivanchuk beat his compatriot Eljanov and Shirov was… yes, eliminated, by Inarkiev. Tomorrow Leko, Najer, Karjakin, Svidler, Shabalov, Gelfand, Karpov (!) and Judit Polgar play.

Participants 2nd ACP World Rapid Cup

Seed Name Country Rating
1. Peter Svidler RUS 2763
2. Alexei Shirov SPA 2755
3. Vassily Ivanchuk UKR 2751
4. Boris Gelfand ISR 2737
5. Teimour Radjabov AZE 2735
6. Sergei Karjakin UKR 2732
7. Dmitry Jakovenko RUS 2720
8. Alexander Grischuk RUS 2711
9. Judit Polgar HUN 2707
10. Pavel Eljanov UKR 2692
11. Ernesto Inarkiev RUS 2681
12. Anatoly Karpov RUS 2655
13. Evgeniy Najer RUS 2634
14. Alexander Shabalov USA 2622
15. Boris Savchenko RUS 2589
16. Yuri Drozdovsky UKR 2574

During the last rapid game Inarkiev-Shirov the tournament website got overloaded but we’ve managed to trace the moves. Here you can replay all games of day 1:

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Written by peter | Filed under ACP, Rapid chess, Tournaments 

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4 Responses to “2nd ACP World Rapid Cup started”

  1. Vosuram on 4 January 2008 22:43 PM

    Dear Peter,

    8th seed is Leko (as in the article text) or Grischuk (as in the tournament table)?

  2. peter on 4 January 2008 22:45 PM

    In the table I’ve used the January ratings. I think the tournament is using the October ratings.

  3. Ron on 6 January 2008 17:04 PM

    Not the strongest, this tournament. Where are Anand, Kramnik, Topalov, Carlsen? Preparing for Corus?

  4. Xtra on 7 January 2008 16:00 PM

    or maybe they weren’t invited. everyone can’t play, that wouldn’t leave room for e.g. the below 2600-rated ukranian.


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