Ivanchuk Wins Bazna
Easy go, easy come.
Vassily Ivanchuk's string of poor results in tournaments with a "classical" time control came to a convincing conclusion this past week when he won the King's Tournament in Bazna, Romania. Not only did he go undefeated (as did Boris Gelfand and Teimour Radjabov), he finished with an impressive 2874 TPR and his 7-3 score won the super-tournament by a full point. Alexei Shirov also bounced back from a (very) bad tournament by tying for third (at 5½, equal with Radjabov and half a point behind Gelfand), so the "old" guys aren't out of the picture yet by any means. (And that's a relief to those of us who aren't in our teens and twenties!)
Final Standings:
1. Ivanchuk 7
2. Gelfand 6
3-4. Radjabov, Shirov 5½
5-6. Kamsky, Nisipeanu 3
The next big event is Dortmund, which I'll cover more thoroughly in my next post.
Vassily Ivanchuk's string of poor results in tournaments with a "classical" time control came to a convincing conclusion this past week when he won the King's Tournament in Bazna, Romania. Not only did he go undefeated (as did Boris Gelfand and Teimour Radjabov), he finished with an impressive 2874 TPR and his 7-3 score won the super-tournament by a full point. Alexei Shirov also bounced back from a (very) bad tournament by tying for third (at 5½, equal with Radjabov and half a point behind Gelfand), so the "old" guys aren't out of the picture yet by any means. (And that's a relief to those of us who aren't in our teens and twenties!)
Final Standings:
1. Ivanchuk 7
2. Gelfand 6
3-4. Radjabov, Shirov 5½
5-6. Kamsky, Nisipeanu 3
The next big event is Dortmund, which I'll cover more thoroughly in my next post.
Posted by Dennis Monokroussos on
Saturday June 27, 2009 at 12:43am