Ex-FIDE World Champion Ruslan Ponomariov has once again proved his elite status by winning the Dortmund super tournament with 6.5 points out of 10 and joined his countrymen (Eljanov and Ivanchuk) in the world's top-10 on the live chess rankings!


Aeroflot-2010 winner Quang Liem came second (5.5) and produced a lot of high-quality games. He will certainly break the 2700 mark soon. 


Ex-World Champion Vladimir Kramnik has been struggling to win Dortmund for the 10th time. Alas, something seemed wrong with both his chess shape and preparation. Luck wasn't on his side too. Only 50% - that is a failure for one of the best chess players ever.

World's #6  Shakhriar Mamedyarov has been playing rather inconsistently. Great attacking skills were accompanied by nervousness and inexplicable blunders. 50% is certainly not the result his fans were anticipating.


Strongest German player Arkady Naiditsch scored 4/10, a bit lower than expected according to his rating. Kramnik's all-in attempt in the Pirc with Black has contributed a lot to his performance though (Naiditsch won that game).


Ex-WC challenger Peter Leko seemed to be in especially poor shape for the event. The super GM from Hungary couldn't win a single game until Naiditsch blundered in a drawn endgame against him in R10. That's a nightmare for one of the world's greatest players of the past decade whose live rating is now as low as it hasn't been in 6 years.

Sparkassen Chess-Meeting 2010 15.07.-25.07.2010 1 Ponomariov,R 2734 +1.46 XX 0/½ 1/½ 1/½ ½/1 1/½ 6,5/10   2 Le Quang, L. 2681 +1.30 1/½ XX ½/½ 0/½ ½/½ 1/½ 5,5/10   3 Kramnik,V 2790 -0.98 0/½ ½/½ XX ½/1 1/0 ½/½ 5/10 24,25 4 Mamedyarov,S 2761 -0.52 0/½ 1/½ ½/0 XX 1/0 ½/1 5/10 24,00 5 Naiditsch,A 2681 -0.22 ½/0 ½/½ 0/1 0/1 XX ½/0 4/10 20,75 6 Leko,P 2734 -1.04 0/½ 0/½ ½/½ ½/0 ½/1 XX 4/10 19,50 Average Elo: 2731 Cat: 20 GM = 3.30 IM = 1.30

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