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TOURNAMENT STANDINGS
41st Biel International Chess Festival Tournament

Leinier Dominguez Perez6.5/10(+4 -1 =5)[games]
Evgeny Alekseev6.5/10(+5 -2 =3)[games]
Magnus Carlsen6/10(+3 -1 =6)[games]
Etienne Bacrot5.5/10(+4 -3 =3)[games]
Alexander Onischuk4/10(+1 -3 =6)[games]
Yannick Pelletier1.5/10(+0 -7 =3)[games]

 page 2 of 2; games 26-30 of 30  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
26. Pelletier vs Bacrot  ½-½22200841st Biel International Chess FestivalD45 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav
27. Onischuk vs E Alekseev 0-152200841st Biel International Chess FestivalE15 Queen's Indian
28. Bacrot vs Dominguez Perez 1-036200841st Biel International Chess FestivalD27 Queen's Gambit Accepted, Classical
29. Carlsen vs Onischuk ½-½36200841st Biel International Chess FestivalC78 Ruy Lopez
30. E Alekseev vs Pelletier 1-043200841st Biel International Chess FestivalD81 Grunfeld, Russian Variation
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Jul-31-08  Microdot: By the way, I think 34.Qf3! was a very simple and solid move I find it in less than one second.
Jul-31-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  chancho: Dominguez blew a win against Carlsen, and today missed 36.Bxe3. Too bad for the Cuban. It could have all been so different.
Jul-31-08  malthrope: Well let me at the very least correct my previous error...

Congrats to <GM Evgeny Alekseev> the new Biel Chess Champion 2008!! :))

Jul-31-08  SanChess: Painful experience for LD: disaster struck on the very last day of what was virtually a won tournament.

Alekseev, wow! What a fighter. He is the player with most wins, including the ones over the two previous leaders. Amazing.

Jul-31-08  minasina: <e4ia: Hi Microdot ... here's best deal on new Ryb 3.0 free shipping too! http://www.wholesalechess.com/new?S... >

I think that ChessOk has at least as good deal as Wholesale Chess can offer. Anyway here's more options ("normal"/Deep with UCI, or "normal"/Deep with Aquarium; and you can also save something if you download those programs, not get CD or DVD): http://chessok.com/?p=501

Jul-31-08  messachess: to all my readers:--no time for rnd. 10 today, sorry ;-)
Jul-31-08  minasina: ...and of course if are interested in <Rybka> AND <Chess Assistant 10> (see my previous post)
Jul-31-08  Ezzy: Congrats to Alekseev and Dominguez. Alekseev will take home the trophy but it's difficult to accept that they are not joint winners of Biel.

What is more painful is that Dominguez beat Alekseev with black in their individual game. Probably more painful is that he couldn't draw his last game to win the tourney outright.

Anyway, it was an exciting tournment with some good games. I suppose everyone thought Magnus would walk away with the tournament, but these players are top notch players and will not crack easily. He still had a good tourney though, and plays such exciting chess. Still the player to be feared.

Amazing second half of the tourney by Bacrot. Pelletier was completely out of his depth this time.

I am sure Dominguez-Perez will get more chances in round robin events after this. It's good to have another name in our imagination.

I lost many chessbucks on this tourney. I had Carlsen to win with Bacrot second, and also Carlsen to score 7 points. I'm sure most people lost on this tourney.

Jul-31-08  shr0pshire: Congrats to Alekseev for not only winning the tournament, but also for his win against Carlsen.

I think Onischuk needs to take some time off and retool his game. He is getting beat up recently on the international scene.

Aug-01-08  Slaven MNE: Evgemy played really well true the whole tournament, and he deserved to win it.

I think Dominguez deserved second place becouse he played so passive in the 10th round against Bacrot. That cost him a first place.

Aug-01-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  jessicafischerqueen: It's the last round tonight?

Does <Leko> have a mathematical chance to win or share first still?

Aug-01-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  lostemperor: The winner of an exciting and surprising Biel 2008 final standings Prediction contest at my forum is User: Stonehenge. Runner-up is User: Aurora and Bronze goes to User: kolobok and User: whiteshark.

Here the golden predictions of <Stonehenge>:

1. Alekseev
2. Carlsen
3. Dominguez
4. Bacrot
5. Onischuk
6. Pelletier

Well done!

Aug-01-08  siamesedream: Real standings:

1. Alekseev 6.5
2. Dominguez 6.5
3. Carlsen 6.0
4. Bacrot 5.5
5. Onischuk 4.0
6. Pelletier 1.5

BTW. Does somebody know where I can watch live games of Mainz?

Aug-01-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  lostemperor: I see here chess960 games http://www.chesstigers.de/ccm8/live...
Aug-01-08  siamesedream: Thanks mate
Aug-01-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  lostemperor: Thanks for reminding that <Stonehenge> predictions is not the real standings. Might be slightly confusing ;)
Aug-01-08  wolfmaster: 1,147th!
Aug-03-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  lostemperor: The winner of the Biel summer chess question is <wolfmaster>! Which strong GM, world champion candidate, has the longest losing streak (10)?
Aug-03-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  moronovich: <lostemperor> My guess is Taimannov or Larsen.
Aug-03-08
Premium Chessgames Member
  lostemperor: No, it's not them! ;)
Aug-10-08  wolfmaster: Here's a hint; he's Icelandic!
Nov-23-08  Andrijadj: Sigurjonson or smth like that...
Apr-10-09  Dredge Rivers: Will Jessica Biel appear next year?
Nov-15-09
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: Biel 2008 final standings (Evgeny Alekseev won the play-off vs Leinier Dominguez-Perez):

http://www.chess-results.com/tnr146...

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