Ivanchuk Wins Rapid Event

The European Chess Championship is the big event of the moment - at least until the Amber Tournament sucks all the oxygen away starting at the end of this week - but there was a rapid event this past weekend that deserves a mention as well. The XI Torneio Aberto Internacional de Xadrez (that's the short name of the event) in Brazil was won by Vassily Ivanchuk and Sandro Mareco with 8/9, half a point ahead of Gilberto Milos (who beat Ivanchuk), Krikor Mekhitarian and Giovanni Vescovi.

I haven't looked for the games yet, but if I find any especially nice wins by Ivanchuk I may post them later.

Comments

[Dennis Monokroussos]

TWIC didn't have any games, other than the aforementioned loss, so at least for now there's nothing to show!

[Disconzi]

The game Milos 1x0 Ivanchuk is on my blog http://rodrigodisconzi.blogspot.com/

and some photos

bye