Andreikin Gets Silver at Baku Open and Breaks 2700 |
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Monday, 15 August 2011 | ||||||||||||||||
Dmitry Andreikin, World Junior Chess Champion-2010 Baku Open is a traditional strong open in Azerbaijan that took place from August 5 to 15. This year's edition featured many strong grandmasters, including five 2700+ players - Mamedyarov (2765, Azerbaijan), Vallejo Pons (2724, Spain), Dominguez (2719, Cuba), Dreev (2711, Russia), Sutovsky (2700, Israel). After 9 rounds Sergei Zhigalko (2689) emerged as the winner of the tournament. Dmitry Andrekin (2696) and Emil Sutovsky (2700) shared 2-3. Moreover, after this event Dmitry Andreikin has surpassed the 2700 barrier for the first time in his life (currently at 2705 and #42 in the world), thus refuting the widely cited claim that marriage leads to a -50 points loss by a chess player. As of now there are 48 players in the world rated 2700+. 12 of them (25%) represent the Russian Chess Federation.
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