Special feature: 12th Poikovsky tournament
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The small town of Poikovsky in Siberia, Russia has organized an event in honneur of former World champion Anatoly Karpov since 2000. This year the ten player round robin runs from the 4th to the 13th of October and is headed by Sergey Karjakin.
See further details (in Russian!) from the official site:
http://admoil.ru/chess_2011.html where live games can be viewed from
3pm local time.
=1pm Moscow
=11am Paris, Madrid
=10am London
=5am New York
=2am Los Angeles
The 2011 Participants:
| Seed | Name | Age | Country | Rating | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sergey Karjakin | 21 | RUS | 2772 | 5 |
| 2 | Dmitry Jakovenko | 28 | RUS | 2716 | 27 |
| 3 | Fabiano Caruana | 19 | ITA | 2712 | 32 |
| 4 | Etienne Bacrot | 28 | FRA | 2705 | 43 |
| 5 | Zahar Efimenko | 26 | UKR | 2703 | 46 |
| 6 | Viktor Laznicka | 23 | CZE | 2701 | 47 |
| 7 | Alexander Motylev | 32 | RUS | 2690 | 54 |
| 8 | Lazaro Bruzon | 29 | CUB | 2682 | 62 |
| 9 | Sergei Rublevsky | 36 | RUS | 2681 | 63 |
| 10 | Alexander Onischuk | 36 | USA | 2669 | 76 |
The playing schedule:
4th-8th of october: rounds 1 to 5
9th of october: rest day
10th to 13th of october: rounds 6 to 9
All the rounds are at 3 pm local time.
04/10/2011 21:02
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