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  • Belarus championship
    January 23 , 2010

    Final Standings, top 3,
    PlayersRatingPoints
    1 Podolchenko, Eugene 2450 8
    2 Zhigalko, Sergey 2668 7,5
    3 Fedorov, Alexey 2619 7








  • Sevilla Chess Open
    January 8 - 16, 2010, Sevilla, Spain
    9 rounds swiss system
    Time control: 120 minutes for each player and 30 seconds per move
    216 players

    Top 15 participants according to their ELO

    1- Hicham Hamdouchi 2601 FRA
    2- Azer Mirzoev 2594 AZE
    3- Josep Manuel Lopez Martinez 2593 ESP
    4- Vladimir Burmakin 2590 RUS
    5- Kevin Spraggett 2586 CAN
    6- Ulf Andersson 2575 SWE
    7- Oleg Korneev 2573 RUS
    8- Joerg Hickl 2572 GER
    9- Renier Vazquez Igarza 2560 ESP
    10- Matamoros Franco Carlos S 2545 ECU
    11- Damian Lemos 2544 ARG
    12- Vinay S Bhat 2540 USA
    13- Zenon Franco Ocampos 2535 251 PAR
    14- Rizouk Aimen 2532 ALG
    15- Rivas Pastor Manuel 2531 ESP

    Final Standings, top 5,
    PlayersCountryPointstie-break
    1 Igarza, Renier Vazquez ESP 746 (prog 40 )
    2 Hamdouchi, Hicham FRA 746 (prog 37,5)
    3 Bhat, Vinay S USA 743
    4 Berbatov, KiprianBUL 742,5
    5 Spraggett, Kevin CAN 742

    Tie break: Buccholz



  • Balkan grand prix
    January 10 - 17, 2010
    Pleven, Bulgaria
    A round-robin tournament.
    Time control: 90 min + 30 sec per move for 40 moves,
    then 30 minutes + 30 sec per move.
    Average rating: 2543

    Vuckovic Bojan won the tournament with 6 points.

    Final round
    Vuckovic Bojan - Lupulescu Constantin : 0,5 - 0,5
    Drasko Milan - Krivokapic Marko: 1 - 0
    Iotov Valentin - Sedlak Nikola : 1 - 0
    Stojanovic Dalibor - Chatalbashev Boris : 0,5 - 0,5
    Nikolov Momchil - Szabo Gergely-Andras-Gyula: 1 - 0




  • World Team Chess Championship
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    January 3 - 14, 2010
    Bursa, Turkey
    10 teams, round robin tournament.

    Russia won the gold medal.

    Final round
    Egypt - Armenia: 1 - 3
    Israel - Russia : 1 - 3
    Brazil - India : 0,5 - 3,5
    Greece - Turkiye : 2,5 - 1,5
    United States - Azerbaijan : 2 - 2





  • Reggio Emilia chess tournament
    December 28 - January 5, 2010, Italy
    Round robin tournament

    Kamsky won the tournament with 6,5 pts.
    round 9
    Vocaturo Daniele - Safarli Eltaj : 0,5 - 0,5
    Kamsky Gata - Almasi Zoltan : 1 - 0
    Godena Michele - Bologan Viktor : 1 - 0
    Caruana Fabiano - Landa Konstantin : 1 - 0
    Jobava Baadur - Brunello Sabino : 0 - 1





  • Hastings Masters chess tournament
    December 28 - January 5, 2010, Hastings, USA

    Final Standings, top 4,
    PlayersCountryPointsRating
    1 Istratescu, Andrei ROU 6,52624
    2 Edouard, Romain FRA 6,52620
    3 Howell, David W LENG 6,52597
    4 Hebden, Mark LENG 6,52522





  • Rilton Cup
    December 27 - January 5, Stockholm, Sweden,

    Three groups: Rilton Cup, Rilton Elo and Rilton Open
    197 players in Rilton Cup
    9 rounds, swiss system
    Time control: 40 moves in two hours, then one hour for the rest of the game.

    Final Standings, top 5,

    PlayersCountryPointsTie-break
    1 Rozentalis Eduardas LTU 6,536,5
    2 Wojtaszek Radoslaw POL 6,534,5
    3 Ponkratov PavelRUS 6,533,5
    4 McShane LukeENG 6,533,5
    5 Lysyj IgorRUS 6,533




  • January 2010 rating lists
    Ratings of the top players & countries and top 100 players



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