[chessmind] Dennis Monokroussos: XXII Torneo Villarrobledo: Finally a tournament Ivanchuk didn't win

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Posted by Dennis Monokroussos:
XXII Torneo Villarrobledo: Finally a tournament Ivanchuk didn't win
http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1186472143.shtml


   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
   [1]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
   don't know what Ivanchuk's TPR was, but since it was a rapid event it
   won't count against his "real" rating.)
   Tournament website [2]here.

References

   1. http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4033
   2. http://www.villarrobledo.com/ajedrez/