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	There is a new post on The Chess Mind.  You can read it at:

http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1186472143.shtml

It begins:

	Actually, there are many tournaments Vassily
	Ivanchuk fails to win, but that's because he hasn't
	entered in the first place. This past weekend, he
	was entered in the aforementioned tournament, a
	rapid event located "in the heart of the Spanish
	wine-growing area", as ChessBase's report puts it.
	Instead, the event was won by his 2001 nemesis and
	fellow Ukranian Ruslan Ponomariov, who won the
	event on tiebreak ahead of Alexey Dreev and Veselin
	Topalov. That trio scored 7.5/9, while Ivanchuk was
	in a group of 5 with 7/9 (Sokolov, Nikolic,
	Ivanchuk, Milov and Gofshtein). (A note to you
	rating-watchers: I...