Morozevich defeated Inarkiev while Grischuk drew Svidler. This gives the Russian Championship title to Morozevich by a full point. Here is the final victory to seal the deal.
GM Morozevich – GM Inarkiev [C78]
30.12.2007
Final round
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0–0 b5 6.Bb3 Be7 7.a4 b4 8.d4 d6 9.dxe5 Nxe5 10.Nxe5 dxe5 11.Qxd8+ Bxd8 12.f3 Be7 13.Be3 Bd6 14.Nd2 a5 15.Rfc1 Ke7 16.c3 bxc3 17.Rxc3 Bd7 18.Bc4 Rhb8 19.b3 Rb4 20.Kf2 Rab8 21.Ke2 Rd8 22.Nb1 Nh5 23.g3 g6 24.Rd3 Ng7 25.Nc3 Bc6 26.Nd5+ Bxd5 27.Rxd5 Ra8 28.Bc5 Ne6 29.Bxb4 Bxb4 30.Rd3 Nd4+ 31.Kf2 Bd6 32.h4 h6 33.Kg2 c5 34.Rf1 Rg8 35.f4 Rg7 36.Rc3 f6 37.Rf2 Kd8 38.Bd5 Rc7 39.Rc1 Ke8 40.Rcf1 Ke7 41.h5 gxh5 42.Rh1 Kd8 43.Rxh5 Rg7 44.Kh3 Rh7 45.Rh4 Ke7 46.Rg4 h5 47.Rg8 h4 48.f5 hxg3+ 49.Kxg3 Bc7 50.Rg2 c4 51.Bxc4 Rh1 52.Rg7+ Kd6 53.Rf7 Bd8 54.Kf2 Nc6 55.Rgg7 Rc1 56.Rd7+ Kc5 57.Rd5+ Kb4 58.Rb7+ White wins 1–0
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Great work by Morozevich! He used to have the reputation of only playing well against lesser players, well seems there’s not many who are not that anymore… Not as he’s consistently the next one in the ratings after Anand, Kramnik and Topalov, average-wise at least, too. Great that he plays everything, too, his style is among the most developed, he’ll yet make a great world champ.
What I wonder about in that picture though, does he use a talisman, is that a cross in his hand or is it only the light?
well done moro. god job grischuk, what happend to svidler , fell off?
why didnt kramnik play?
hi to all russian ladies.
jb.
happy new year!!!
why didn’t Kramnik play? well here are a few reasons I thought about:
1. With rating average of around 2650 and his rating of 2800 he needs a lot of wins not to loose rating (Moro with +5 hardly gained points and he is lower then Kramnik)
2. Why should he compete for Russian championship when he already has competition for the world title? what can he gain from it? but if he wouldn’t have won it, people would have said: he didn’t even won the Russian championship so he is obviously not a world champ..
3. The money prices there are low compared with tournaments like Corus and Linares and obviously compared with the WC with Anand, so no insentive from that part too.
4. Too close to Corus tournament that is much more important for him with Anand, Topa, Chucky, Shirov, etc. with mcuh higher av. rating and higher prices.
Are these enough reasons?
**Are these enough reasons?**
4) didn’t want to go to Moscow (awful city on new year day especially) and preferred to spend the holidays with his wife. sounds reasonable?
top prize was $50 000 (men) and $20 000 (women). in response to congrats with becoming #1 in ratings Kramnik responded he disn’t care
According to official sources Morozevich is suspected of having used electronic aid. Allegedly a forensic investigation is under way.
Have you got some news about the matter?
Are u serious about this?
where did u hear it?
what were his methods?
I must say I always suspected such a thing whenever he started his many wins in a row after loosing horribly (such as the cases in Bil and here in russian super final), it seems too strange to me…
A google search reveals nothing. Such an ambiguous post must thus be either an ill-conceived prank or simple malice. Also, the first two sentences could happen on anything. So, for the good of chess and humankind, I trust such rumours are discredited up and until something substantial evidence is offered for them. Spreading rumours can have many motives.