Moscow Open 2012

Such result to a chess forum passing during ten days was awarded at a closing ceremony of tournament by the president of Moscow chess federation, the rector of the Russian state social university the academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vasiliy Ivanovich Zhukov.

«Moscow became capital of the chess world for these ten days. People from a great number of the countries in this time learn each other better, find new friends. Chess does more richly and more strongly all our mankind», – convinced the head of Moscow chess.
Besides Zhukov, in the Award ceremony it took part Andjey Filipowicz, the international arbitrator, the honorary member of the International chess federation and Sergey Afanasiev, the President of the State fund of development of the Northwest.

Filipowicz congratulated the rector of one of the greatest universities of the world and all his team for the organization of such remarkable festival and has expressed hope that tradition of carrying out of RSSU Cup «Moscow Open 2012» will safe for a long years.

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Igor Lysyj and Marina Romanko became the winners of Cup of Russia stage

A dramatic final was open tournament of RSSU Cup «Moscow Open 2012» – National Cup stage among men.

Leading in the second part of the tournament Russian Dmitry Kokarev in the last round lost to his compatriot Igor Lysyj and let him the head the table. The winner scored 7,5 points, half-point more than his three competitors.

Three Russian chess-players shared 2-4 places: Dmitry Kokarev, Ernesto Inarkiev and 15 years old Urii Eliseev – due to tie-breaks.

10 chess-players scored 6,5 each.

190 participants from 15 countries including 62 international grandmasters took part in competition.

Russian Marina Romanko has win the stage of the Cup of Russia among women – «Moscow Open 2012». In last round chess player from Moscow had to win, unique among participants from the lead group, that allowed her to scores 7.5 points, and edge the rivals by half of point.

The 4-7 places were shared by the participants who have scored 7 points. On tie-breaks the second place was won by the Chinese Huang Qian, the third – Russian Daria Charochkina. Russians Kovanova Baira, Elmira Mirzoeva, Ekaterina Atalik from Turkey and Nazi Paikidze from Georgia did not enter into medal-winners.

The competition was spent by the Swiss system with 9 rounds. 154 chess players from 11 countries, including 14 grandmasters struggled for a victory.

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Suren Poghosyan won RSSU Amateur Chess Cup

Suren Poghosyan from Armenia, won the most numerous tournament of «Moscow Open 2012» – RSSU Amateur Chess Cup. During the nine rounds he lost one point only.

Six participants from Russia scored 7.5 points and are half-point behind the leader. Anatoliy Lopukhin from Penza became second due to tie-breaks, Muscovite Gleb Apryshko became third.

Alexander Zhurikhin from Penza, Muscovites Konstantin Kostin and Arsen Kukhmazov, Nariman Mustafin from Yakutiya are behind the medal-winners.

415 players whose rating was under 2300, from 16 countries participated in the competition.

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Vasily Papin won RSSU Student Cup

Granmaster Vasily Papin from Shakhty, Rostov region was out of competition at RSSU Cup "Moscow Open 2012" among students. Without loses he scored 7 points.

Sergey Matsenko from Chelyabinsk scored 6,5 points and became second but due to tie-breaks he outrun Muscovite Alexander Kharitonov who had the same result.

Valeriya Ryanova from Saratov, Yulia Gorozhankina from Zelenodolsk and Muscovite Anastasia Zaryvkina scored 5.5 points each – best result among women. Due to tie-breaks «gold» was given to Ryanova, «silver» – Gorozhankina, «bronze» – Zaryvkina.
46 chess-players from 5 countries participated in the competition.

Moreover in the tournament among school graduates succeeded Ruslan Avdeev from Rybinsk and Sergei Savitskiy from Salekhard, in the round tournament they scored 7.5 points out of 9. Due to tie-breaks the victory was given to Avdeev. «Bronze» was taken by Gennady Pranizin from Salekhard, he scored 6 points.

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Yaroslav Zherebukh and Nino Batsiashvili was victorious in RSSU Student Grandmaster Cup

Being victorious in his last six games in a row, Ukrainian grandmaster Yaroslav Zherebukh won RSSU Student Grandmaster Cup among men within the program of International RSSU Chess Cup «Moscow Open 2012». Ukrainian chess-player scored 7 points out of 9. Russian Maxim Matlakov scored 6 points and became second.

In the final round Zherebukh overplayed Russian Alexei Reshetnikov, Matlakov had a draw with American Ray Robson, who scored 5,5 points and became third.

Avetik Grigoryan from Armenia scored 5 points and became fourth.

Georgian Nino Batsiashvili won RSSU Student Grandmaster Cup among women. One round before finish she scored half-point more than her main competitor Nastassia Ziaziulkina from Belarus and held her leadership till the end.

In the end Batsiashvili scored 7 points which is half-point more than silver medalist Nastassia Ziaziulkina. In the final round Georgian chess-player defeated Russian Dina Drozdova. Ziaziulkina overplayed Russian Alina Kashlinskaya.

Karina Szczepkowska-Horowska from Poland won bronze medal, having a draw in the game with Russian Alexandra Goryachkina in the final round, and scored 6 points.

Alexandra Goryachkina scored 5,5 points – half-point less than bronze winner, - the best result among Russians.

Moreover, Ziaziulkina and Goryachkina fulfilled the grandmaster norm.

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Five chess players apply for a victory in a National Cup stage

Absolutely uneasy to predict, who becomes the winner in the stage of the Cup of Russia among women, which passing in the frameworks of RSSU Cup «Moscow Open 2012». Five participants scored on 6,5 points from 8 at once till a round to the end of competitions, they are Russians Marina Romanko and Maria Fominyh, Georgian Paikidze Nazi, Chinese Huang Qian and Ekaterina Atalik from Turkey.

Romanko and Huang in the eighth round played with draw in internal games, also like Atalik and Fominyh. Paikidze became stronger than Russian Mirzoeva Elmira.

At once 10 chess players on a half of point are lagged behind the leaders: Russians Daria Charochkina, Baira Kovanova, Elmira Mirzoeva, Elmira Karnaukhova, Anastasia Savina, the representative of Serbia, Maria Manakova, and also Lilit Galojan and Evgeniya Doluhanova from Armenia.

In the ninth round it will take the following games: Huang Qian – Paikidze, Fominyh – Romanko, Bodnaruk – Atalik.

Russian Dmitry Kokarev still keeps a leadership in a stage of the Cup of Russia among men. After eight rounds he has 7 points. Two more Russian grandmasters have on a half of point less – Ernesto Inarkiev and Igor Lysyj. Pole Bartosz Socko, Russians Alexander Lastin, Urii Eliseev, and Pavel Maletin scored on 6 points.

In the ninth round it will take the following games: Lysyj – Kokarev, Inarkiev – Socko, Lastin – Maletin, Bartel Mateusz (Poland) – Eliseev. The games will take place at 11 o'clock.

Let's add that in case of a sharing the order of the occupied places will be defined on the following additional factors (in decreasing order): Buhgolts’ coefficient, quantity of victories, coefficient “progress”, result of internal meeting.

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Zherebukh and Batsiashvili are the sole leaders of the young grandmasters tournaments

Ukrainian Yaroslav Zherebukh and Georgian Batsiashvili Nino became the sole leaders in the tournaments of young grandmasters till one round to finish, among young men and women accordingly.

In penultimate round Zherebukh has won against Alexander Ipatov from Spain and on a half of point has outscore other applicant for a victory – Russian Maxim Matlakov, who has finished the game with Pole Dariusz Sviercz with draw. American Ray Robson takes the third position in the table; in 9th round he became stronger than Russian Andrey Stukopin and makes up ground from Matlakov with half of point.

Today Russian Vladimir Belous and Avetik Grigoryan from Armenia played with draw, also like Russian Alexey Reshetnikov and Yilmaz Mustafa from Turkey.

On Sunday, in final 9th round it will take place the following games: Zherebukh – Reshetnikov, Matlakov – Robson, Grigoryan – Sviercz, Stukopin – Ipatov, Yilmaz – Belous.

Standings after 8 rounds: 1. Zherebukh – 6 points; 2. Matlakov – 5,5; 3. Robson – 5; 4. Grigoryan – 4; 5-7. Reshetnikov, Belous, Stukopin – 3,5; 8-10. Ipatov, Sviercz, Yilmaz – 3.

Batsiashvili Nino became a sole leader in the women tournament, having won Russian Maria Severina in the eighth round. The second and third places, lagging behind the leader on a half of point, share Nastassia Ziaziulkina from Belarus and Karina Szczepkowska-Horowska from Poland, both of them in this round played with draw. Ziaziulkina shared points with Irina Bulmaga from Romania, Szczepkowska-Horowska – with Russian Daria Pustovoitova.

There is not any winner in a game between Russians Alina Kashlinskaya and Aleksandra Goryachkina, Rout but Padmini from India has achieved a victory in a game against Russian Dina Drozdova.

Standings after 8 rounds: 1. Batsiashvili – 6 points; 2-3. Ziaziulkina, Szczepkowska-Horowska – 5,5; 4. Goryachkina – 5; 5-6. Kashlinskaya, Padmini – 4,5; 7. Pustovoitova – 3,5; 8. Bulmaga – 2; 9-10. Drozdova, Severina – 1,5.

Final games of 9th rounds of competitions will take place on Sunday, February, 5th at 11 o'clock.

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Tickets to the European and World school championships has found their owners

Award ceremony of the winners and prizewinners of the RSSU School Champions cup took place in the assembly hall of the Russian State Social University on Saturday’s afternoon. Winners of the first and second place in each age group will go to the school World championships in Romania. The winner of the third place will go to the European school championship in Greece.

International arbiter, FIDE honorable member Andrzej Filipowicz, the president of the International school chess union Alexander Kostiev and tournament’s chief arbiter, grand master Aleksander Hruschev, bestowed the awards.

Daniil Osipov from Izhevsk got the cup in the youngest group – before 9 years old, he earned 8,5 points in 9 games. The silver was won by Ruslan Murtazin from Kazan – 7,5 point and Vyacheslav Yun from Saint Petersburg – 7,5.

In the girls competition in the same age group Maria Girshgon from Moscow took the first place with 8 point from 9 possible. Kamalia Bulatova from Zelinogorsk is the second with 7,5 points and Kristina Avitesyan from Tula region is the third with 7 points.

Zakhar Aleksandrov from Tomsk got 8 point and the “gold” in the boys before 11 tournament. Ivan Selivanov from Moscow got “silver” – 7,5 points, and Andrey Esipenko from Novocherkask won the “bronze” – 7 points.

Tournament of girls before 11 was won by Alina Bychkova from Novosibirsk – 7,5 point, Anna Kochukova is the second – 7,5 point and Anastasia Tokareva is the third – 7 points.

Sergey Drygalov from Kurgan won the tournament of boys befor 13 with 7,5 pointsm followed by Denis Shagdurov from Saint Petersburg with 7,5 point and Radg Polyantsev from Barnaul with 7 points.

Irina Drogovoz from khanty-Mansiysk is the only tournament participant who won all games, she won the tournament of the girls before 13. Zhanna Nagapetian is the second with 7 points and Tatiana Antonovich from Belarus is the third with 6,5 points.

And in the eldest group – among the boys before 15 – was won by Maksim Samusenko from Naberezhnye Chelny, he earned 8 points. “Silver” is won by Anatoly Vinogradov from Bratsk with 7,5 points and the Aysh Arshaev from Elista won the “bronze” with 7 points.

Elena Orshonova from Ust-Ordinsk won the competition of the girls before 15, she earned 7 points. Violetta Shnayder from Chelyabinsk is the second with 6,5 points, and Elvira Safina from Kazan is the third with 6,5 points.

We would like to mention that 665 chess players from 7 countries and 49 Russian regions took part in the competition.

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Dmitry Kokarev holds leadership in National Cup stage

Two rounds left before the end of National Cup stage, and grandmaster from Penza Dmitry Kokarev still occupies the top line of standings table. In seventh round he defeated grandmaster from China Ni Hua and scored 6.5 points.

Half point less than current leader scored two Russians – Ernesto Inarkiev and Igor Lysyj. They were both victorious. Inarkiev overplayed Ukrainian Alexander Kovchan, Lysyj – his compatriot Dmitry Andreikin.

Socko Bartosz from Poland, Russians Yuri Eliseev and Alexander Lastin scored 5,5 points each.

On Saturday in eighth round in the group of leaders will meet: Kokarev – Inarkiev, Socko – Lysyj, Eliseev – Lastin.

At the National Cup stage among women leadership is divided among five chess-players. Russians Marina Romanko, Maria Fominykh, Elmira Mirzoeva, Chinese Huang Qian and Turkish Ekaterina Atalik, score 6 points each after seven games.

Three participants are half-step behind leaders: Georgian Paikidze Nazi, Russians Baira Kovanova and Daria Charochkina. 17 chess-players scored 5 points.

The game between Huang Qian and Ekaterina Atalik finished in a draw, Romanko also finished her game with Baira Kovanova with a draw score, Mirzoeva defeated Russian Inna Ivakhinova, Fominykh overplayed Chinese Zhai Mo.

On Saturday in eighth round in the group of leaders will be the next games: Atalik – Fominykh, Romanko – Huang Qian, Paikidze – Mirzoeva, Charochkina – Kovanova. Games begin at 16 o’clock.

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Matlakov and Zherebukh shared the leadership in the young grandmasters tournament

For two rounds of the end of the young grandmasters competitions, remain two leaders, Russian Maxim Matlakov and Ukrainian Yaroslav Zherebukh. Both of them in the 7th round have achieved victories. Matlakov won his compatriot Vladimir Belous, Zherebukh was stronger than Ray Robson. It is the second defeat of the American grandmaster who took the lead on start of tournament. Robson has one point disadvantage and hold the third place.

In other games of the 7th round Russian Andrey Stukopin won Pole Sviercz Dariusz, Alexander Ipatov from Spain became stronger than Russian Alexey Reshetnikov, Avetik Grigoryan from Armenia and Yilmaz Mustafa from Turkey played with draw.

In penultimate, 8th round it will take place the following games: Sviercz – Matlakov, Ipatov – Zherebukh, Robson – Stukopin, Reshetnikov – Yilmaz, Belous – Grigoryan.

Standings after 7 rounds: 1-2. Matlakov, Zherebukh – have 5 points; 3. Robson – 4; 4-5. Grigoryan, Stukopin – 3,5; 6-8. Reshetnikov, Belous, Ipatov – 3; 9-10. Sviercz, Yilmaz – 2,5.

In female tournament of young grandmasters leaders in the 7th round have shown peaceful mood that has allowed them to keep the positions. Ziaziulkina Nastassia from Belarus and Batsiashvili Nino played with draw in internal game, also like Karina Szczepkowska-Horowska from Poland and Alina Kashlinskaya from Russia.

Thus, Ziaziulkina, Batsiashvili and Szczepkowska-Horowska still share 1-3 places.

In other games Russian Goryachkina Aleksandra has won against Irina Bulmaga from Romania, one more Russian chess player Darya Pustovoitova became stronger than Dina compatriot Drozdova, Padmini Rout from India – than Russian Maria Severina.

On Saturday in 8th round will meet: Bulmaga – Ziaziulkina, Szczepkowska-Horowska – Pustovoitova, Batsiashvili – Severina, Kashliinskaya – Goryachkina, Padmini – Drozdova.

Position after 7th rounds: 1-3. Ziaziulkina, Batsiashvili, Szczepkowska-Horowska have on 5 points; 4. Goryachkina – 4.5; 5. Kashlinskaya – 4; 6-7. Pustovoitova, Padmini – 3.5; 8-10. Drozdoova, Severina, Bulmaga – 1.5.

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Kharitonov and Papin are claimants for the victory in RSSU Student Cup

Two Russian grandmasters show best results after 6 rounds of RSSU Student Cup «Moscow Open 2012». Muscovite Alexander Kharitonov and Vasily Papin from Shakhty, Rostov region - scored 5 points each.

Half-step behind two leaders are Ukrainian Sergey Pavlov and three Russian chess-players: Sergei Matsenko, Alexander Gutenev (both from Chelyabinsk); and Valeriya Rjanova from Saratov – showing best result among women.

Generally 46 chess-players from Russia, Ukraine, Kirghizia and Bulgaria take part in competition. The tournament consists of Swiss system 9 rounds.

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Dmitry Kokarev became the sole leader of the National Cup stage

After six rounds of International RSSU Cup «Moscow Open 2012» - National Cup stage, an individual leader was determined. Dmitry Kokarev defeated Viorel Iordachescu from Moldavia and heads the list.

Six participants are half point behind the leader: Russian Ernesto Inarkiev, Igor Lysyj and Alexander Lastin, Bartosz Socko from Poland, Ukrainian Alexander Kovchan and Chinese Bu Xiangzhi.

On Friday, February 3rd in the seventh round of National Cup stage among men will compete: Kokarev – Ni Hua, Inarkiev – Kovchan, Lastin – Socko, Andreikin – Lysyj.

Uncompromised struggle is in National Cup stage among women. The games at the first ten tables ended successfully. There are three leaders after 6 rounds: Russian Marina Romanko, Chinese Huang Qian and Turkish Ekaterina Atalik. They scored 5.5 points each.

In sixth round Romanko won Georgian Nazi Paikidze , Atalik defeated Russian Karina Ambartsumova, Qian – overplayed another Russian chess-player – Daria Charochkina.

Five participants are half point behind the leaders: Russian Elmira Mirzoeva, Maria Fominykh, Baira Kovanova, Inna Ivakhinova, and Chinese Zhai Mo.

In seventh round will compete: Huang Qian – Ekaterina Atalik, Kovanova – Romanko, Mirzoeva – Ivakhinova, Zhai Mo – Fominykh.

The games of seventh round will be held on Friday, February 3rd.

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