Ikaros Chess Festival heading into the final round
Grandmasters Robert Kempinski and Alexander Mista sharing first place with 7 points
After the 7th and 8th round of the Ikaros Chess Festival 2009 it seems that Robert Kempinski slowed down a bit, making two short draws. This allowed his adversaries coming closer. In the 8th round a very important victory was achieved by GM Alexander Mista over GM Robert Markus. Mista shares first place together with Kempinski and two friends will face each other in the ultimate 9th round.
Important point also for Andrey Rychagov who beat Vladimir Tukmakov. Russian grandmaster is in third place and is set to also meet a friend in the final round, Evgeny Vorobiov.
Among women, Inga Khurtsilava from Georgia who beat Dutch IM Dharma Tjiam and Helena Levushkina from Germany who beat the Indian IM Atanu Lahiri and drew against the Russian IM Oleg Spirin share the first place with 6 points each!
Among the Greek players, Giorgos Nikolaou continued to perfmom well achieving another draws against two International Masters, Dhrama Tjiam and Robert Ris in the 7th and 8th round respectively.
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