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Wednesday, 05 October 2011

To commemorate the 80-year anniversary of the well-known among chess players SGSEU University, a super tournament called “The Governor’s Cup” will be staged in Saratov from October 7 to 20, 2011. Most of the participants are or were members of the SGSEU-Economist team (winner of the European Club Cup in 2009 & 2010), but other famous grandmasters were also invited:

Player	Federation	FIDE Rating	World Rank
Ruslan Ponomariov	UKR	2758	8
Alexander Morozevich	RUS	2737	17
Peter Leko	HUN	2728	20
Nikita Vitiugov	RUS	2726	21
Alexander Moiseenko	UKR	2726	22
Alexei Shirov	ESP	2713	31
Evgeny Tomashevsky	RUS	2710	36
Dmitry Andreikin	RUS	2705	44
Pavel Eljanov	UKR	2683	60
Ni Hua	CHN	2670	75
Michael Roiz	ISR	2668	78
Evgeny Alekseev	RUS	2662	85

Pogonina.com will be following this exciting round robin event, especially given the fact that Saratov is the city where Natalia Pogonina currently lives.

2005 edition of the tournament

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	1. Written by Àéçåê on 17:15 05 îêòÿáðÿ 2011 ã.
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