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The Chigorin Memorial Open in St. Petersburg was won by GM Dmitry Bocharov with a clear first score of 7.5/9, half a point ahead of his clear of his nearest rivals (eight of them with 8.0/9 apiece). Here are the final top scores:
| # | Name | Pts | Fed. | Rtng | Perf | WWe | BH | BH2 |
| 1 | GM Bocharov, Dmitry | 7.5 | RUS | 2582 | 2724 | +1.51 | 51.5 | 39.5 |
| 2 | IM Onischuk, Vladimir | 7.0 | UKR | 2483 | 2746 | +3.10 | 53.0 | 42.5 |
| 3 | GM Lintchevski, Daniil | 7.0 | RUS | 2558 | 2703 | +1.71 | 53.0 | 41.5 |
| 4 | GM Khismatullin, Denis | 7.0 | RUS | 2635 | 2684 | +0.58 | 52.0 | 40.5 |
| 5 | GM Zvjaginsev, Vadim | 7.0 | RUS | 2666 | 2699 | +0.38 | 51.5 | 40.0 |
| 6 | GM Smirnov, Pavel | 7.0 | RUS | 2580 | 2678 | +1.12 | 51.5 | 40.0 |
| 7 | GM Azarov, Sergei | 7.0 | BLR | 2648 | 2728 | +0.90 | 50.0 | 40.0 |
| 8 | GM Gabrielian, Artur | 7.0 | RUS | 2531 | 2643 | +1.37 | 48.0 | 37.5 |
| 9 | GM Shomoev, Anton | 7.0 | RUS | 2577 | 2583 | +0.19 | 46.5 | 36.0 |
| 10 | GM Khalifman, Alexander | 6.5 | RUS | 2627 | 2662 | +0.49 | 54.5 | 43.5 |
| 11 | GM Maiorov, Nikita | 6.5 | BLR | 2558 | 2647 | +1.21 | 52.0 | 40.5 |
| 12 | IM Oparin, Grigoriy | 6.5 | RUS | 2413 | 2658 | +2.99 | 50.5 | 39.5 |
| 13 | GM Andriasian, Zaven | 6.5 | ARM | 2615 | 2604 | -0.02 | 50.5 | 39.0 |
| 14 | GM Ionov, Sergey | 6.5 | RUS | 2540 | 2595 | +0.86 | 50.0 | 39.0 |
| 15 | GM Vorobiov, Evgeny E. | 6.5 | RUS | 2581 | 2615 | +0.55 | 49.0 | 38.0 |
| 16 | GM Volkov, Sergey | 6.5 | RUS | 2614 | 2612 | +0.07 | 48.5 | 38.0 |
| 17 | GM Kovchan, Alexander | 6.5 | UKR | 2569 | 2595 | +0.43 | 48.5 | 38.0 |
| 18 | IM Demchenko, Anton | 6.5 | RUS | 2574 | 2541 | -0.23 | 47.5 | 37.0 |
| 19 | GM Burmakin, Vladimir | 6.5 | RUS | 2588 | 2589 | +0.09 | 47.0 | 37.5 |
| 20 | GM Popov, Valerij | 6.5 | RUS | 2545 | 2540 | +0.07 | 46.0 | 35.5 |
| 21 | GM Malakhatko, Vadim | 6.5 | BEL | 2543 | 2579 | +0.54 | 46.0 | 35.0 |
| 22 | GM Neverov, Valeriy | 6.5 | UKR | 2508 | 2563 | +0.81 | 44.0 | 34.0 |
| 23 | GM Maletin, Pavel | 6.5 | RUS | 2579 | 2515 | -0.50 | 41.0 | 32.5 |
The winner: GM Dmitry Bocharov with a 2724 performance
Second place for... oops, sorry, not Alexander Onischuk, the US grandmaster...
...but Ukrainian GM Vladimir Onischuk, rated 2483, with a 2746 performance
in this Open
Third place: GM Daniil Lintchevski of Russia, 2558, 7.0/9 points, 2703 performance
14-year-old FM Kirill Alekseenko performed at a 2658 level and achieved
a GM norm
Janna Karaseva of Russia, rated 2030
Maria Lysenko of Russia, rated 2019
There are a lot of new faces in this photo gallery, with most of the images clearly identified with a mouse-over caption. Such a relief – it is hard to understand the point of the usual photo dumps without any indication of who the players might be.
The PGN file contains a total of 1135 games, which we have not been able to scan for the most interesting overall examples. That will happen in then next issue of ChessBase Magazine, where you will find the best games annotated usually by the players themselves. Today we simply bring you three lessons which our endgame expert Dr Karsten Müller picked out from the event.
This theory is quite advanced and usually only occurs in its basic forms, when the concepts of opposition and triangulation are all you need to master. But sometimes the real deep theory is needed to really understand what is going on:
Do you like these lessons? There are plenty more by internationally renowned endgame expert Dr Karsten Müller in ChessBase Magazine, where you will also find openings articles and surveys, tactics, and of course annotations by the world's top grandmasters.
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Apart from his regular columns and video lectures in ChessBase Magazine there is a whole series of training DVDs by Karsten Müller, which are bestsellers in the ChessBase Shop.
