Alexander Areshchenko won the 2012 edition of the Botvinnik Memorial in St. Petersburg, Russia. Areshchenko finished with 7,0/9, the same points as seven other chess players – Valerij Popov, Vadim Zvjaginsev, Evgeny Romanov, Ernesto Inarkiev, Ildar Khairullin, Boris Kharchenko, and Maxim Matlakov, but the Ukranian Grandmaster won the golden medal on better tiebreak.

This is yet another success for GM Areshchenko, who recently got the silver medal in the strong Ukranian Championship and before that won the Prasvanath Open in 2011. The succes at the Botvinnik Memorial is especially valid as the field contained a total of 223 players, many of which titled GMs, IMs, FMs. See the full standings below.

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The International Chess festival “M. Botvinnik Memorial 2012″ was organized by the St. Petersburg Chess Federation, which will also hold the “M. Chigorin Memorial 2012″ October 25 to November 4 at the Park Hotel in St. Petersburg.

Visit the official website of Botvinnik Memorial and Chigorin Memorial

Final standings (top 35)

1 GM Areshchenko, Alexander
UKR 7
2 GM Popov, Valerij
RUS 7
3 GM Zvjaginsev, Vadim
RUS 7
4 GM Romanov, Evgeny
RUS 7
5 GM Inarkiev, Ernesto
RUS 7
6 GM Khairullin, Ildar
RUS 7
7 IM Kharchenko, Boris
UKR 7
8 GM Matlakov, Maxim
RUS 7
9 GM Aleksandrov, Aleksej
BLR 6.5
10 GM Alekseev, Evgeny
RUS 6.5
11 GM Lintchevski, Daniil
RUS 6.5
12 GM Lysyj, Igor
RUS 6.5
13 GM Bukavshin, Ivan
RUS 6.5
14 IM Demchenko, Anton
RUS 6.5
15 GM Onischuk, Vladimir
UKR 6.5
16 GM Khismatullin, Denis
RUS 6.5
17 GM Khalifman, Alexander
RUS 6.5
18 GM Grigoryan, Avetik
ARM 6.5
19 GM Pridorozhni, Aleksei
RUS 6.5
20 GM Andriasian, Zaven
ARM 6.5
21 GM Yevseev, Denis
RUS 6
22 GM Ovetchkin, Roman
RUS 6
23 GM Fedorov, Alexei
BLR 6
24 GM Hovhannisyan, Robert
ARM 6
25 IM Pakhomov, Egor
RUS 6
26 IM Lovkov, Roman
RUS 6
27 GM Dvoirys, Semen I.
RUS 6
28 GM Levin, Evgeny A.
RUS 6
29 GM Yemelin, Vasily
RUS 6
30 IM Kalegin, Evgenij
RUS 6
31 GM Ponkratov, Pavel
RUS 6
32 GM Fedoseev, Vladimir
RUS 6
33 GM Tiviakov, Sergei
NED 6
34 IM Goganov, Aleksey
RUS 6
35 GM Timofeev, Artyom
RUS 6
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Susan Polgar September 3, 2012 Daily News, General News 1 Comment
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