Wednesday, December 18, 2013

SportAccord Mind Games 2013 : Basque Games (Men): Final Ranking: Back to back title for Sergey Karjakin

Basque system is an interesting idea, opponents are playing on two boards simultaneously, one with white pieces and one with black. It makes the matches really exciting. One of the most important parts is the time management.
Sergey Karjakin already in the first round appeared to has a good strategy, he won his match vs rapid silver medalist Peter Leko 2-0. Hungarian has an equal position on both boards, but he get into time trouble and made few small mistakes, which was enough to lose both games.
It was a good example how easy it is to lose control totaly when something is going wrong on one of the boards.

Rank Name 1.Rd. 2.Rd. 3.Rd. 4.Rd. 5.Rd. Pts
1 Karjakin Sergey 16 b 1 1 11 w ½ 1 3 b 1 ½ 8 w 1 1 6 w ½ 1 8.5
2 Mamedyarov Shakhriyar 8 w 1 0 14 b ½ ½ 10 b 1 0 12 w 1 ½ 11 b 1 1 6.5
3 Ponomariov Ruslan 15 b 1 ½ 5 w 1 1 1 w 0 ½ 11 b ½ ½ 4 b 1 0 6.0
4 Ivanchuk Vassily 10 b 0 1 8 w ½ 0 15 b ½ 1 5 w ½ 1 3 w 0 1 5.5
5 Kamsky Gata 7 b ½ 1 3 w 0 0 13 b ½ 1 4 w ½ 0 14 w 1 1 5.5
6 Grischuk Alexander 12 w 0 ½ 9 b 1 1 11 w ½ ½ 14 b ½ 1 1 b ½ 0 5.5
7 Wang Yue 5 w ½ 0 15 b ½ 1 14 w ½ ½ 10 b 1 ½ 8 b 0 1 5.5
8 Le Quang Liem 2 b 0 1 4 w ½ 1 12 w ½ 1 1 b 0 0 7 b 1 0 5.0
9 Wang Hao 14 w 1 0 6 b 0 0 16 b 1 ½ 13 w 1 0 10 w 0 1 4.5
10 Nepomniachtchi Ian 4 w 1 0 12 b ½ ½ 2 b 0 1 7 w 0 ½ 9 w 1 0 4.5
11 Aronian Levon 13 b 1 1 1 w ½ 0 6 w ½ ½ 3 b ½ ½ 2 w 0 0 4.5
12 Dominguez Perez Leinier 6 b 1 ½ 10 w ½ ½ 8 w ½ 0 2 b 0 ½ 16 w ½ ½ 4.5
13 Giri Anish 11 w 0 0 16 b ½ 1 5 b ½ 0 9 w 0 1 15 b 1 0 4.0
14 Radjabov Teimour 9 b 0 1 2 w ½ ½ 7 w ½ ½ 6 b ½ 0 5 w 0 0 3.5
15 Vachier-Lagrave Maxime 3 w 0 ½ 7 b ½ 0 4 b ½ 0 16 w ½ ½ 13 b 0 1 3.5
16 Leko Peter 1 w 0 0 13 b ½ 0 9 w 0 ½ 15 b ½ ½ 12 b ½ ½ 3.0

Rank
Name Rtg Federation Pts Res. vict MBl RtgØ
1 GM Karjakin Sergey 2787 Russia 5.0 0.0 4 3 2758
2 GM Ponomariov Ruslan 2748 Ukraine 4.0 0.0 3 3 2761

GM Le Quang Liem 2756 Vietnam 4.0 0.0 3 3 2761
4 GM Aronian Levon 2797 Armenia 3.5 1.0 2 3 2776
5 GM Grischuk Alexander 2828 Russia 3.5 1.0 2 3 2751
6 GM Ivanchuk Vassily 2732 Ukraine 3.0 0.0 2 3 2769
7 GM Mamedyarov Shakhriyar 2795 Azerbaijan 3.0 0.0 2 3 2765
8 GM Nepomniachtchi Ian 2799 Russia 3.0 0.0 2 3 2761
9 GM Kamsky Gata 2734 USA 3.0 0.0 2 3 2727
10 GM Dominguez Perez Leinier 2758 Cuba 3.0 0.0 1 3 2796
11 GM Wang Yue 2729 China 3.0 0.0 1 3 2748
12 GM Radjabov Teimour 2749 Azerbaijan 3.0 0.0 1 3 2736
13 GM Wang Hao 2690 China 2.5 0.0 2 3 2766
14 GM Giri Anish 2700 Netherlands 2.0 0.0 1 3 2752
15 GM Vachier-Lagrave Maxime 2761 France 1.5 0.0 0 3 2735
16 GM Leko Peter 2738 Hungary 1.0 0.0 0 3 2719

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