Hotel “Park” in St. Petersburg will once again be a host of a strong open tournament, and once again the event will be honoring a chess legend. The Chigorin Memorial will take place October 27 – November 4 as part of the Russian Cup competitions. It will be s Swiss tournament with time control 90 minutes for 40 moves, 30 seconds increment per move from move 1.
A total of 105 titiled players, 63 of them Grandmasters, and 4 over 2700 ELO will participate in the event. Top seeded is the Latvian GM Alexei Shirov, who will have as strongest opponent the winner of the previous SPB major event, the Botvinnik Memorial winner GM Alexander Areshchenko. The other two members of the 2700 club participating are the bronze medalist from ETCC 2011 GM Zoltan Almasi and the gold medalist from the Chess Olympiad in Istanbul GM Vladimir Akopian.
Other top players in the Chigorin Memorial 2012 are GM Nikita Vitiugov, GM Evgeny Alekseev, GM Pavel Eljanov, GM Krisnan Sasikiran, GM Vadim Zvjaginsev, GM Boris Grachev, GM Maxim Matlakov, GM Parimarjan Negi, GM Ildar Khairullin, GM Denis Khismatullin, GM Ilia Smirin, GM Viorel Iordachescu, GM Mateusz Bartel, etc. Scroll down for the full list of players.
All games will be live on Chessdom.com with computer analysis
Participants (top seeds)
1 | GM | Shirov Alexei | LAT | 2718 |
2 | GM | Areshchenko Alex | UKR | 2710 |
3 | GM | Almasi Zoltan | HUN | 2707 |
4 | GM | Akopian Vladimir | ARM | 2703 |
5 | GM | Vitiugov Nikita | RUS | 2691 |
6 | GM | Eljanov Pavel | UKR | 2681 |
7 | GM | Sasikiran Krishnan | IND | 2680 |
8 | GM | Zvjaginsev Vadim | RUS | 2678 |
9 | GM | Grachev Boris | RUS | 2672 |
10 | GM | Matlakov Maxim | RUS | 2665 |
11 | GM | Negi Parimarjan | IND | 2657 |
12 | GM | Khairullin Ildar | RUS | 2639 |
13 | GM | Khismatullin Denis | RUS | 2638 |
14 | GM | Smirin Ilia | ISR | 2638 |
15 | GM | Iordachescu Viorel | MDA | 2637 |
16 | GM | Bartel Mateusz | POL | 2635 |
17 | GM | Timofeev Artyom | RUS | 2631 |
18 | GM | Lysyj Igor | RUS | 2628 |
19 | GM | Socko Bartosz | POL | 2619 |
20 | GM | Lenderman Aleksandr | USA | 2614 |
21 | GM | Popov Ivan | RUS | 2614 |
22 | GM | Hovhannisyan Robert | ARM | 2610 |
23 | IM | Demchenko Anton | RUS | 2610 |
24 | GM | Swiercz Dariusz | POL | 2609 |
25 | GM | Andriasian Zaven | ARM | 2604 |
26 | GM | Shimanov Aleksandr | RUS | 2599 |
27 | GM | Vorobiov Evgeny E. | RUS | 2598 |
28 | GM | Kovalyov Anton | ARG | 2593 |
29 | GM | Gabrielian Artur | RUS | 2592 |
30 | GM | Ipatov Alexander | TUR | 2591 |
31 | GM | Solak Dragan | TUR | 2590 |
32 | GM | Durarbayli Vasif | AZE | 2584 |
33 | GM | Zhigalko Andrey | BLR | 2582 |
34 | GM | Halkias Stelios | GRE | 2581 |
35 | GM | Burmakin Vladimir | RUS | 2579 |
36 | GM | Grigoriants Sergey | RUS | 2578 |
37 | GM | Popov Valerij | RUS | 2577 |
38 | GM | Epishin Vladimir | RUS | 2574 |
39 | GM | Grigoryan Avetik | ARM | 2572 |
40 | GM | Shomoev Anton | RUS | 2571 |
41 | GM | Brodsky Michail | UKR | 2563 |
42 | GM | Lintchevski Daniil | RUS | 2562 |
43 | GM | Malakhatko Vadim | BEL | 2558 |
44 | GM | Onischuk Vladimir | UKR | 2558 |
45 | GM | Ionov Sergey | RUS | 2550 |
46 | GM | Jumabayev Rinat | KAZ | 2545 |
47 | GM | Yevseev Denis | RUS | 2545 |
48 | GM | Savchenko Boris | RUS | 2540 |
49 | GM | Vocaturo Daniele | ITA | 2534 |
50 | GM | Alsina Leal Daniel | ESP | 2528 |
51 | IM | Goganov Aleksey | RUS | 2526 |
52 | GM | Cori Jorge | PER | 2522 |
53 | GM | Stupak Kirill | BLR | 2520 |
54 | GM | Levin Evgeny A. | RUS | 2516 |
55 | GM | Makarov Marat | RUS | 2516 |
56 | GM | Al-Sayed Mohammed | QAT | 2511 |
57 | IM | Baryshpolets Andrey | UKR | 2510 |
58 | GM | Soffer Ram | ISR | 2506 |
59 | IM | Mozharov Mikhail | RUS | 2505 |
60 | GM | Ajrapetjan Yuriy | UKR | 2502 |
61 | IM | Rozum Ivan | RUS | 2498 |
62 | GM | Portisch Lajos | HUN | 2495 |
63 | GM | Neverov Valeriy | UKR | 2494 |
64 | IM | Stukopin Andrey | RUS | 2494 |
65 | IM | Eliseev Urii | RUS | 2486 |
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