MTel Masters 2008 - Ivanchuk beat them all...
Date 2008/5/12 | Topic: Chess news
| Ukrainian supergrand master Vassily Ivanchuk beat today the last of all his opponents. He won with black pieces against Armenian Levon Aronian in 44-moves Slav Defence game. Ivanchuk had two rooks and a bishop against a queen for Aronian and won esy in the end game. The second Sval deence game for the day was played between Bulgarian Veselin Topalov and Bu Xiangzhi from China, but instead of black this time white won the game for only 31 move (first finished game today). In very interesting King Indian game Ivan Cheparinov and Teimur Radjabov finished on a draw.
First tie standings (Round 5):
Rank | Name | IRtg | FED | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Pts | vict | Res. | SB. |
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1 | Ivanchuk Vassily | 2740 | UKR | * * | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5,0 | 5 | 0,0 | 10,00 | 2 | Topalov Veselin | 2767 | BUL | 0 | * * | 1 | ½ | 1 | 1 | 3,5 | 3 | 0,0 | 5,50 | 3 | Cheparinov Ivan | 2695 | BUL | 0 | 0 | * * | ½ | ½ | 1 | 2,0 | 1 | 0,0 | 2,75 | 4 | Radjabov Teimour | 2751 | AZE | 0 | ½ | ½ | * * | ½ | ½ | 2,0 | 0 | 0,0 | 4,00 | 5 | Aronian Levon | 2763 | ARM | 0 | 0 | ½ | ½ | * * | ½ | 1,5 | 0 | 0,0 | 2,50 | 6 | Bu Xiangzhi | 2708 | CHN | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | ½ | * * | 1,0 | 0 | 0,0 | 1,75 |
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