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Press-release №16
February 7, 2009

Pogonina is a Moscow open 2009 single leader




The games of 7th round were played on Friday at International Moscow Open 2009 festival.

At female tournament “C” Natalia Pogonina, a member of Russia team, got leadership and moved into the top of the tournament table. She defeated Varvara Repina using Black chess. Pogonina scored 6.5 points afterwards. The main and strongest Natalia’s rival is Svetlana Matveeva. She has been also a part of Russia team. Matveeva defeated Elizabeth Petz (GER). The difference in score between Pogonina and Matveeva is 0.5 points. 9 players scored by 5.5 points.

At 8th round there will be held meetings between:

1

RUS

Pogonina Natalia

6S

-

6

RUS

Matveeva Svetlana

2

RUS

Gunina Valentina

5S

-

5S

SLO

Muzychuk Anna

3

UKR

Ushenina Anna

5S

-

5S

RUS

Girya Olga

4

RUS

Romanko Marina

5S

-

5S

RUS

Repina Varvara

5

RUS

Molchanova Tatjana

5S

-

5S

RUS

Kovalevskaya Ekaterina

6

RUS

Petrukhina Irina

5S

-

5

GER

Paehtz Elisabeth

 

The quintet of the leaders who scored by 6 points was formed in the main tournament “Open A”. In 7th round the games between Alexander Onischuk (USA) and Ian Nepomniachtchi (RUS), Artyom Timofeev (RUS) and Ernest Inarkiev (RUS) ended in a draw. Thanks to this, 2 more chess players were allowed to enter this lead group – Sergey Tiviakov (NED) and Viorel Iordachescu (ROM). They defeated Rafael Vaganian (ARM) and Alexander Riazantsev (RUS). Three Russian players scored by 5.5 points – Artyom Timofeev, Boris Savchenko and Alexey Korotylev.

At 8th round there will be held meetings between:

1

RUS

Inarkiev Ernesto

6

-

6

NED

Tiviakov Sergey

2

RUS

Nepomniachtchi Ian

6

-

6

ROM

Iordachescu Viorel

3

RUS

Savchenko Boris

5S

-

6

USA

Onischuk Alexander

4

RUS

Korotylev Alexey

5S

-

5S

RUS

Timofeev Artyom

5

RUS

Dreev Alexey

5

-

5

RUS

Khairullin Ildar

There are only 2 days left before the tournament’s end. 8th round is going to be at 7th of February.

 

 

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