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