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The 2nd Aerosvit tournament is taking place on June 18th-29th in Foros spa on Crimea, Ukraine. Similar to last year, the organizers have composed strong field with the average rating of 2695 elo. Rate of play is 120 minutes and 30 sec increment from move one, without time control.
Some of the players, like Alexei Shirov and Sergei Rublevsky, had one few days of rest after the exhausting candidate matches. While Shirov doesn't seem to suffer from fatigue, he beat Rublevsky and Dominguez and lost to Van Wely, Rublevsky is taking it slowly by drawing couple of games. At the same time, fresh Peter Svidler is not displaying any fighting attitude, having quickly agreed on draws in all four rounds.
Alexei Shirov and Lenier Dominguez
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu also arrived somewhat tired, after playing the Mtel Masters, he assisted Shirov in Elista matches. This costed him dropping equal position to Vassily Ivanchuk and succumbing against Pavel Eljanov. Another Mtel Masters participant, Krishnan Sasikiran is here. He started with a fine win against Ukranian-American Alexander Onischuk, but lost to Jakovenko in the next round.
Krishnan Sasikiran and Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu
Vassily Ivanchuk arrived after storming through Cuba to win his third consecutive Capablanca memorial. His counterpart from Havana, Lenier Dominguez, has been invited again to play in Foros. He has earned 16 rating points at the recently ended zonal championship and is only 5 points shy from joining the 2700 club. All Cuban eyes on him!
Vassily Ivanchuk and Sergey Karjakin
Fearless Dutch Loek Van Wely quickly recovered from two starting defeats and crushed Shirov and Jakovenko, both being beautiful games. Still, probably the best game so far was played by Sergey Karjakin, who sacrificed Knight out of clear sky to demolish Eljanov.
Round 4 standings:
1-3. Alexei Shirov (ESP 2699), Sergey Karjakin (UKR 2686) and Vassily Ivanchuk (UKR 2729) 2.5
4-10. Lenier Dominguez (CUB 2678), Peter Svidler (RUS 2736), Krishnan Sasikiran (IND 2690), Alexander Onischuk (USA 2663), Dmitry Jakovenko (RUS 2708), Pavel Eljanov (UKR 2686) and Loek Van Wely (NED 2674) 2.0
11. Sergei Rublevsky (RUS 2680) 1.5
12. Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu (ROM 2693) 1.0
Video interview with Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu at the Sofia airport
Topalov-Nisipeanu post mortem
Adams and Nisipeanu sharing autographs
Video interview with GM Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu after the Mtel Round 8
GM Lev Psakhis about Krishnan Sasikiran
Krishnan Sasikiran at the Mtel opening
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