EICC finished, rest day in Norway

European Individual Chess Championship finished today.
Despite his lost in the last game, Grandmaster from Ukraine, Moiseenko Alexander won the title for 2013.
He was leading the field during whole tournament and his victory is well deserved.

In today´s game he was Black and he got some problems immediately after the opening.
Young Russian Grandmaster Nepomniachtchi Ian, converted his advantage without difficulties.
In the final table there are 26 players with 7,5 or 8 points, and I assume that all of them will play in World Cup, as some of them were already qualified (based on the last year result and so on).
In the last round most of the games were played, and there were a lot of decided games.
This competition is one of the best open tournaments in the calendar, not only by the level of participants, but also by whole organisation.
I played last year in Plovdiv, and I already seriously thinking to play again in 2014.

Here is a table with final standings:

Final Ranking after 11 Rounds

Rk.			Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4	Rp	K	rtg+/-
1		GM	MOISEENKO Alexander	UKR	2698	8.0	2643	71.5	72.0	6	2714	10	13.4
2		GM	ALEKSEEV Evgeny	RUS	2700	8.0	2639	72.0	76.0	5	2800	10	13.9
3		GM	ROMANOV Evgeny	RUS	2640	8.0	2637	73.0	78.5	6	2789	10	21.8
4		GM	BELIAVSKY Alexander G	SLO	2628	8.0	2629	68.5	73.5	5	2783	10	22.5
5		GM	LUPULESCU Constantin	ROU	2634	8.0	2624	69.5	74.5	5	2778	10	21.0
6		GM	VALLEJO PONS Francisco	ESP	2695	8.0	2613	68.0	73.5	5	2776	10	11.0
7		GM	MOVSESIAN Sergei	ARM	2693	8.0	2606	66.0	71.0	5	2769	10	10.3
8		GM	NEPOMNIACHTCHI Ian	RUS	2710	8.0	2596	65.0	70.0	5	2763	10	6.8
9		GM	DREEV Aleksey	RUS	2654	8.0	2594	68.0	73.0	5	2754	10	13.9
10		GM	MELKUMYAN Hrant	ARM	2622	8.0	2551	64.5	69.0	6	2709	10	12.5
11		GM	KOROBOV Anton	UKR	2705	7.5	2629	70.5	75.0	5	2750	10	6.9
12		GM	LYSYJ Igor	RUS	2641	7.5	2622	68.5	74.0	4	2736	10	14.5
13		GM	SHIMANOV Aleksandr	RUS	2639	7.5	2620	67.5	72.5	5	2734	10	14.6
14		GM	ARESHCHENKO Alexander	UKR	2709	7.5	2615	70.5	76.0	5	2738	10	4.7
15		GM	ELJANOV Pavel	UKR	2702	7.5	2615	69.0	74.5	5	2737	10	5.1
16		GM	KRAVTSIV Martyn	UKR	2595	7.5	2614	68.0	71.5	4	2712	10	19.3
17		GM	DUBOV Daniil	RUS	2622	7.5	2611	64.5	69.5	6	2723	10	15.5
18		GM	RAGGER Markus	AUT	2666	7.5	2606	67.0	72.0	5	2724	10	8.9
19		GM	HRACEK Zbynek	CZE	2628	7.5	2591	65.0	70.0	4	2705	10	12.3
20		GM	POPOV Ivan	RUS	2620	7.5	2583	65.5	69.5	4	2690	10	11.6
21		GM	BRUNELLO Sabino	ITA	2580	7.5	2575	60.5	63.5	6	2682	10	15.9
22		GM	FEDORCHUK Sergey A.	UKR	2660	7.5	2573	63.5	68.5	7	2686	10	4.7
23		GM	POSTNY Evgeny	ISR	2637	7.5	2568	65.0	70.0	7	2686	10	7.8
24		GM	ZVJAGINSEV Vadim	RUS	2655	7.5	2557	62.5	67.0	4	2679	10	4.2
25		GM	ISTRATESCU Andrei	FRA	2651	7.5	2552	63.5	68.5	4	2674	10	3.9
26		GM	SAFARLI Eltaj	AZE	2651	7.5	2549	62.0	66.5	4	2670	10	3.3

The questions for the readers are: 

1. Against how many of these players I played normal tournament game?
2. What is my score out of these games?

Answers comes at the end of the article.

Norway Chess 2013

In Norway, it is a race between Carlsen and Karjakin.

Both of them won their games yesterday, and today is a free day.

Carlsen was Black against Hammer, and he won as expected, while Karjakin won against Nakamura with white pieces, and kept his lead of 0,5 point.

It will be very interesting in the last two rounds. I can only say that both of them already made a good result not depended of their results in the last two rounds.

Still, both of them will try to win whole thing.

Here is the table:

Results / Standings

After round 7:

	Players		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	A	B	C
1	KARJAKIN Sergey	RUS		0	½	1	1			1	1	1	5,5	16	5	2
2	CARLSEN Magnus	NOR	1		½		½	½	½		1	1	5	16,5	3	2
3	ANAND Viswanathan	IND	½	½		½	0	½	1		1		4	14,5	2	1
4	ARONIAN Levon	ARM	0		½		1	½		½	½	1	4	11,25	2	0
5	NAKAMURA Hikaru	USA	0	½	1	0		½	½	1			3,5	12,25	2	1
6	SVIDLER Peter	RUS		½	½	½	½		½	0		1	3,5	11,25	1	0
7	TOPALOV Veselin	BUL		½	0		½	½		½	½	½	3	9,25	0	0
8	WANG Hao	CHN	0			½	0	1	½		½	0	2,5	8,25	1	0
9	RADJABOV Teimour	AZE	0	0	0	½			½	½		1	2,5	6,25	1	0
10	HAMMER Jon Ludvig	NOR	0	0		0		0	½	1	0		1,5	4	1	0

Answers to the questions:

I played against six of these players 

• Romanov Evgeny
• Dreev Aleksey
• Melkumian Hrant
• Fedorchuk Sergey
• Zvjaginsen Vadim
• Safarli Eltaj

I scored some victories against equaly strong players, such as Negi, Smeets, Markus, Kotronias, Grandelius, Yemelin, de Graeve but against these guys I scored 0 out of 6, not without interesting fights.