Aronian defeated Leko to clinch the Nalchik Grand Prix title by a full point.
Here are the final standings:
Final standings:
| 1. | Aronian, Levon | g | ARM | 2754 | 8½ | 2832 | ||||||||||||||
| 2. | Leko, Peter | g | HUN | 2751 | 7½ | 2780 | ||||||||||||||
| 3. | Akopian, Vladimir | g | ARM | 2696 | 7½ | 2784 | ||||||||||||||
| 4. | Grischuk, Alexander | g | RUS | 2748 | 7 | 2752 | ||||||||||||||
| 5. | Bacrot, Etienne | g | FRA | 2728 | 7 | 2753 | ||||||||||||||
| 6. | Alekseev, Evgeny | g | RUS | 2716 | 6½ | 2725 | ||||||||||||||
| 7. | Gelfand, Boris | g | ISR | 2733 | 6½ | 2724 | ||||||||||||||
| 8. | Kamsky, Gata | g | USA | 2720 | 6 | 2696 | ||||||||||||||
| 9. | Karjakin, Sergey | g | UKR | 2721 | 6 | 2696 | ||||||||||||||
| 10. | Svidler, Peter | g | RUS | 2726 | 6 | 2696 | ||||||||||||||
| 11. | Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar | g | AZE | 2725 | 6 | 2696 | ||||||||||||||
| 12. | Ivanchuk, Vassily | g | UKR | 2746 | 5½ | 2666 | ||||||||||||||
| 13. | Kasimdzhanov, Rustam | g | UZB | 2695 | 5½ | 2670 | ||||||||||||||
| 14. | Eljanov, Pavel | g | UKR | 2693 | 5½ | 2670 |
The US Championship will begin this Friday in St. Louis. All the big names such as Kamsky, Nakamura, Onischuk, Shulman, Akobian, Krush, Zatonskih, etc. are all expected to play.
It’s Saturday Open Forum. The forum is yours. What would you like to discuss?
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
When chessdiscussion.com will be online again?
It’s probably being hacked again by someone in the SF area.
Let us view the following website & have discussion of the overall Grand-Prix.I feel there is a wide scope.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDE_Grand_Prix_2008-2009#Nalchik.2C_April_2009
Will the US Championship force its winners to wear rediculous costumes such as Aronian’s Poptart suit?
If Naka wins, I would like to see him dress up as a good sportsman chess player.
I know that is too much to ask of him.
I know that is too much to ask of him.
I hope Akobian wins!
Mama needs a new pair of shoes!