Capablanca Memorial: the Rating Favourite of the Premier Group, Lazaro Bruzon, Withdraws From the Tournament For Personal Reasons
Время публикации: 03.05.2012 23:43 | Последнее обновление: 03.05.2012 23:50
The official website of the Capablanca Memorial, which will start tomorrow, informs that there's one, but a serious change in the participant list of the Premier group: the rating favourite Lazaro Bruzon withdraws the tournament for personal reasons and will be replaced by another Cuban player Almeida. After this change Russian Aleksandr Rakhmanov becomes the top-seed of the group. Among other paticipants are Russian Vasily Papin, Ivan Morovic of Chile, Emilio Cordova of Peru, Hernandez, Ortiz, Gonzalez and Alvarez, (all Cuba). The participants will play a 9 round Swiss in one cycle.
The "Premier" group is considered as the second most important event of the Capablanca Memorial. The main group is headed by Vassily Ivanchuk.
Organisers of the Capablanca Memorial have confirmed the final composition of this elite tournament to be held from 3 to 14 May this year. The following players will compete during the double round robin: Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukraine, 2764), Leinier Dominguez (Cuba 2730), Ian Nepomniachtchi (Russia, 2718), Victor Laznicka (Czech Republic, 2702), Vladimir Potkin (Russia, 2669) and Yuniesky Quesada (Cuba, 2625).
The 49th Capablanca Memorial takes place 7th-18th May in Havana, Cuba reports Chessdom. The festival consists of several tournaments. The elite group will gather six GMs who will compete in double round-robin. This is the strongest ever field in the history of the festival:
The 2nd round of the Capablanca Memorial has started several minutes ago in Havana. The leader of the Elite group Leinier Dominguez playes Black against the rating favourite Vassily Ivanchuk. You can follow the games live.
The penultimate round of the Capablanca Memorial, particularly of the Elite Group, has started at 23:00 MSK Time in Havana. In the key game Ian NEepomniachtchi plays against Vassily Ivanchuk, who is half a point ahead of him. You can follow this and other encounters live.
In Cuba, the memorial event for the great Jose Raoul Capablanca is taking place for the 50th time. As usual, in the main, "elite" tournament, we have a double-cycle all play all with six players - a solid group of 2700s, plus Lazaro Bruzon, who slightly lags behind on rating.
The games of the 8th round of Capablanca Memorial have started several minutes ago in Havana. The leader of the Elite Group Vassily Ivanchuk is White against the outsider Quesada; next to them play Laznicka - Nepomniachtchi and Potkin - Dominguez. You can follow the games live.
The elite group of the Capablanca Memorial has completed the last round in Havana today. Before the last playing day Zoltan Almasi was half a point ahead of Yuniesky Quesada and Leinier Dominguez. The Cuban players faced each other in the last round and agreed on a draw in 11 moves. Soon Almasi also finished his game against Andreikin in a draw making only 22 moves.
The games of Round 3 have started several minutes ago in Havana, which hosts Capablanca Memorial. After taking lead in the Elite group Vassily Ivanchuk plays against the outsider Quesada.The Ukrainian preferred to answer Scandinavian defence on 1. e4. The rivals who currently have 1 point are fighting on the neighbouring boards. You can follow the games LIVE.
The organizers of Capablanca Memorial reported that the next festival will take place in Havana, Cuba May 3-14. It consists of several tournaments; the main tournament gathers six participants competing in two circles. As you remember, Vassily Ivanchuk won last year's tournament leaving behind Le Quang Liem.