The 10. Zudov Memorial Chess Tournament was held on 10-19th September 2014 in Nizhny Tagil, a city of Russia, located 25 kilometers east of the virtual border between Europe and Asia.
The 9-round Swiss event welcomed 51 players from 3 different countries (Armenia, Italy and Russia).
GM Boris Savchenko (Russia) won a sharp game against his countryman GM Dmitry Bocharov in the last round to claim the tournament on 7 points. He took clear first place, leaving the nearest followers half point behind and grabbed the first prize of 75.000 RUB (nearly 1.520 €).
Second place was shared in a three-way tie by GM Anton Demchenko (Russia), GM Gevorg Harutjunyan (Armenia) and GM Anton Shomoev (Russia) on 6,5 points each.
Official website/ Replay the games with analysis
Top finishers
1 Savchenko, Boris 2608 RUS 7
2 Demchenko, Anton 2588 RUS 6,5
3 Harutjunyan, Gevorg 2444 ARM 6,5
4 Shomoev, Anton 2568 RUS 6,5
5 Goganov, Aleksey 2608 RUS 6
6 Maletin, Pavel 2570 RUS 6
7 Matsenko, Sergei 2485 RUS 6
8 Vokarev, Sergey 2437 RUS 6
9 Yuffa, Daniil 2449 RUS 6
10 Smirnov, Alexey 2466 RUS 6
11 Ovetchkin, Roman 2524 RUS 5,5
12 Andriasian, Zaven 2622 ARM 5,5
13 Bocharov, Dmitry 2575 RUS 5,5
14 Kryakvin, Dmitry 2562 RUS 5,5
15 Tsvetkov, Pavel 2181 RUS 5,5
16 Yudin, Sergei 2544 RUS 5,5
17 Solovjev, Nikolay 2311 RUS 5,5
18 Ginosyan, Razmik 2048 RUS 5,5
19 Dilmukhametov, Artur 2157 RUS 5
20 Drygalov, Sergey 2224 RUS 5
Very cool event.