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Is Tiviakov’s Scandinavian refuted?

8 January 2008 15:24 PM | Last modified: 17:54

With a score of 6 / 9, Hungarian GM Zoltan Almasi has won the 50e Torneo Capodanno in Reggio Emilia. Second was Vugar Gashimov of Azerbaijan, who won the brilliancy prize for his win against Tiviakov. (Good to see that some tournamenst still give brilliancy prizes.) We’re going to look at this game in detail - a must for 1.e4 mainline players!

50th Reggio Emilia Final Standings

Place Name Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 Pts
1 Almasi,Z 2691 * ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 6.0
2 Gashimov,V 2664 ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 5.5
3 Ni Hua 2641 ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 5.5
4 Harikrishna,P 2668 0 ½ ½ * 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 5.5
5 Landa,K 2678 ½ ½ ½ 0 * ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 4.5
6 Korchnoi,V 2611 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ * 0 ½ ½ ½ 4.0
7 Navara,D 2656 0 0 ½ 0 ½ 1 * ½ ½ 1 4.0
8 Tiviakov,S 2643 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ * 0 1 3.5
9 Marin,Mi 2551 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 * ½ 3.5
10 Godena,M 2535 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ * 3.0

Here the best game of the tournament:

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gashimov tiviakov
The prize winning game

navara comment
Post-game explanation by the players was common in Reggio too. Here Navara.

marin godena
Marin and Godena

korchnoi tiviakov landa analysing
Korchnoi and Tiviakov analysing

trophy
The winner!

group
Everyone smile - the players and the organizers

almasi
What do you do as the Reggio winner? You give a thirty-board simul, as was agreed beforehand…

5 gms
…but THIS we had not agreed! (After a big applause and lots of smiles, the five GMs gave their places to five amateurs.)

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Written by peter | Filed under Coverstory, Opening theory, Tournaments 

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3 Responses to “Is Tiviakov’s Scandinavian refuted?”

  1. Yuri Garrett on 8 January 2008 16:21 PM

    Great report, Peter! I will just add another touch of colour. Upon seeing the 5 GMs, Almasi wore his best and most surprised smile. Then he simply added with a grin: “OK now, all you other guys can go home and I will play with these five!”. Champions are born… :-)

  2. Bootvis on 8 January 2008 18:30 PM

    Hmmm Scandiviestampot ;)

  3. Lajos Arpad on 9 January 2008 14:10 PM

    Finally a success for Almási. He is such a good player, but he seemed to be a little bit short of luck. Now i’m happy to see him at first place in this strong tournament.


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