Ivanchuk confirmed for Capablanca Memorial

Vasyl Ivanchuk confirmed for Cuba's Capablanca Chess Memorial

The 46th Capablanca Chess Memorial will take place on May 9-21 at the Riviera Hotel in Havana, Cuba. A number of different tournaments will take place here - Elite Group, Premier Group, Open Group I, Open Group II, and Open Group Children.

The main competition is the Elite Group, traditionally a six-player double round robin. Four-time winner Vasyl Ivanchuk of Ukraine is back in attempt to add another Cuban trophy to his collection. Top local players, Leinier Dominguez (three times winner of Capablanca Memorial) and Lazaro Bruzon (with one Capablanca trophy), will also compete. P

articipating in the tournament will be also Czech champion David Navara, world youth champion Dmitry Andreikin of Russia, and Vietnamese Quan Liem Le, the highest-ranked player of this Asian nation. In addition, there will be FIDE Arbiters Seminar, Conference about Jose Raul Capablanca, exhibition of artwork, books and objects related to chess, and screening of chess-related movies.

Source: http://www.nrcu.gov.ua

Bazna Kings

Magnus Carlsen, Vassily Ivanchuk, Sergey Karjakin, Hikaru Nakamura, Teimour Radjabov, and local hero Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu.

Video interview with Ivanchuk and Caruana

Arriving for a big event

Ivanchuk arriving for Reggio Emilia

Drawing of lots at 11 am on Tuesday, December 28th

Ivanchuk heads strong Reggio Emilia

Starting on Dec 28th, the classic tournament “Torneo di Capodanno” in Reggio Emilia.

This year edition number 53! Category 18.
Free day on January 1st
Last round on January 6th
Games start at 2.30 pm (Italian time).

Live on www.ippogrifoscacchi.it

In the analysis room: GM Misho Cebalo.

The tournament will be played in Hotel Astoria.

The tournament started 53 years ago thanks an idea of GMhc Enrico Paoli (1908-2005)

Players

IVANCHUK VASSILI UKR ELO 2754
MOVSESIAN SERGEI SLO ELO 2723
NAVARA DAVID CZE ELO 2722
GASHIMOV VUGAR AZE ELO 2719
MOROZEVICH ALEXANDER RUS ELO 2715
CARUANA FABIANO ITA ELO 2702
VALLEJO PONS FRANCISCO SPA ELO 2697
SHORT NIGEL ENG ELO 2690
ONISCHUK ALEXANDER USA ELO 2688
GODENA MICHELE ITA ELO 2548

6 way tie for 1st at European Rapid Championship

6 players tied for 1st at the 2010 European Rapid Championship. I believe GM Almasi won on tiebreaks.

M-ce	Tyt.	Nazwisko Imię	Fed.	Elo	Pkt.
1	GM	Almasi, Zoltan	HUN	2721	10.5
2	GM	Ivanchuk, Vassily	UKR	2764	10.5
3	GM	Gashimov, Vugar	AZE	2733	10.5
4	GM	Korobov, Anton	UKR	2684	10.5
5	GM	Shirov, Alexei	ESP	2735	10.5
6	GM	Naiditsch, Arkadij	GER	2685	10.5
7	GM	Bartel, Mateusz	POL	2617	10.0
8	GM	Mchedlishvili, Mikheil	GEO	2637	10.0
9	GM	Rublevsky, Sergei	RUS	2678	10.0
10	GM	Lysyj, Igor	RUS	2627	10.0
11	GM	Jussupow, Artur	GER	2589	10.0
12	GM	Movsesian, Sergei	SVK	2721	10.0
13	GM	Romanov, Evgeny	RUS	2605	10.0
14	GM	Jobava, Baadur	GEO	2707	10.0
15	GM	Halkias, Stelios	GRE	2578	9.5
16	GM	Andriasian, Zaven	ARM	2585	9.5
17	GM	Fridman, Daniel	GER	2645	9.5
18	GM	Riazantsev, Alexander	RUS	2689	9.5
19	GM	Polgar, Judit	HUN	2686	9.5
20	GM	Ponomariov, Ruslan	UKR	2744	9.5
21	GM	Wojtaszek, Radoslaw	POL	2726	9.5
22	GM	Gajewski, Grzegorz	POL	2555	9.5
23	GM	Bologan, Viktor	MDA	2686	9.5
24	IM	Nyzhnyk, Illya	UKR	2535	9.5
25	GM	Popov, Valerij	RUS	2559	9.5
26	GM	Zhigalko, Andrey	BLR	2570	9.5
27	GM	Inarkiev, Ernesto	RUS	2667	9.5
28	IM	Stupak, Kirill	BLR	2530	9.5
29	GM	Tkachiev, Vladislav	FRA	2636	9.5
30	GM	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	FRA	2703	9.5
31	GM	Krasenkow, Michal	POL	2621	9.5
32	FM	Duda, Jan-Krzysztof	POL	2247	9.5
33	GM	Moranda, Wojciech	POL	2578	9.5
34	FM	Malakhov, Igor	RUS	2425	9.5
35	IM	Okhotnik, Vladimir	FRA	2428	9.5
36	GM	Maiorov, Nikita	BLR	2546	9.5
37	GM	Socko, Bartosz	POL	2660	9.5
38		Maevsky, Nikolay	RUS	2309	9.5

Full results here: http://www.poloniachess.pl/amplico2010/rapid/tournament_table_acc_places.html