Ivanchuk won clear first at Foros with the score of 7.5 points, followed by the young phenom Karjakin with 7. Four players tie for 3rd with 6 points including Svidler, Shirov, Van Wely and former US Champion Alex Onischuk. Alex has done a great job with a + 1 score being the lowest rated player. He started out with a -1 then scored +2 the rest of the way against 2700+ competition.
Ivanchuk, Vassily – Svidler, Peter 1/2
Onischuk, Alexander – Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter 1-0
Sasikiran, Krishnan – Van Wely, Loek 0-1
Jakovenko, Dmitry – Karjakin, Sergey 1/2
Rublevsky, Sergei – Dominguez Perez, Lenier 1/2
Eljanov, Pavel – Shirov, Alexei 1/2
Final Standings:
1. Ivanchuk, Vassily g UKR 2729 7.5
2. Karjakin, Sergey g UKR 2686 7.0
3-6. Onischuk, Alexander g USA 2663, Svidler, Peter g RUS 2736, Van Wely, Loek g NED 2674, Shirov, Alexei g ESP 2699 6.0
7. Dominguez Perez, Lenier g CUB 2678 5.5
8. Rublevsky, Sergei g RUS 2680 5.0
9-10. Jakovenko, Dmitry g RUS 2708, Eljanov, Pavel g UKR 2686 4.5
11-12. Sasikiran, Krishnan g IND 2690, Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter g ROM 2693 4.0
Official website: www.ukrchess.org.ua/aerosvit2007/index_e.htm
Felicitations to all! I am so glad Chucky is back and Karjakin did great and our very own Onischuk did us proud! My favourite game of whole tournament was Chuky’s win over the great tactictian Shirov!
Oops. that’s should be Paul’s.
Congrats also to Van Wely who made the dutch proud with his ever fighting spirits. Most(!) wins of the tournament made up for his inevitable losses in this field.
After 0 from his first 2 rounds he outscored most of the field in the last 9 rounds.