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Thursday, 25 April 2013

By GM Pavel Maletin exclusively for ChessGlum.com & Pogonina.com

GM Pavel Maletin won the 7th Georgy Agzamov Memorial, which was held in Tashkent (Uzbekistan) from April 13 to 23, ahead of 12 fellow grandmasters and many other strong chess players. His performance was quite impressive - 2753.

Top-10:

1	GM Maletin, Pavel	RUS	2592	7.5
2	GM Korneev, Oleg	ESP	2609	7.0
3	GM Ismagambetov, Anuar	KAZ	2477	7.0
4	GM Kazhgaleyev, Murtas	KAZ	2594	7.0
5	GM Fedorchuk, Sergey A.	UKR	2652	6.5
6	GM Turov, Maxim	RUS	2597	6.5
7	GM Filippov, Anton	UZB	2652	6.0
8	GM Khenkin, Igor	GER	2638	6.0
9	IM Vakhidov, Jahongir	UZB	2386	6.0
10	GM Zubarev, Alexander	UKR	2568	6.0

The penultimate round game annotated by GM Pavel Maletin:

I think that the following quote from Men's Health (Russia) magazine can serve as an epigraph for the decisive game of the event:

What the hell do you, a grown-up map, need all this for?

This is almost impossible to explain. I will try though. You know, when you walk out on stage everything is no longer relevant: bad sex, money problems, progressing alcoholism, veneric diseases, terrible everyday conditions, general exhaustedness from continuous travels. You are feeling like you are on the top of the world, as a centre of the Universe, through which its energy is flowing into the hall to the few fans of yours out there. You are becoming that 10-year old kid who has once made an exalted decision to be an artist. This is absolute happiness. These moments are probably worth all the shit you have to go through, dude.

Khenkin (2638) - Maletin (2592), 0-1, annotated by GM Maletin

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