The leaders of the Men’s Cup of Russia Stage, Moscow Open 2015 Muscovites Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ernesto Inarkiev shared the board in the Round 7. Inarkiev was playing with the white and he was able to outplay his opponent. The victory in the game allowed Ernesto with 6,5 scored points to become a sole leader of the race again.
The second place now belongs to the namesake of the ninth World Champion Tigran Petrosian (Armenia), who beat Russian Sergey Volkov in today’s round and scored 6 points.
The places 3-7 are divided between the representative of the National Team of Azerbaijan Rauf Mamedov and three Russians Boris Grachev, Aleksei Pridorozhni and Vladislav Artemiev. Each of them scored 5,5 points.
A number of leaders is decreased to four in the Women’s Cup of Russia Stage. Two rounds before the finish the race is headed by Russians Aleksandra Goryachkina and Marina Guseva, Chinese Lei Tingjie and Aydan Hojjatova from Azerbaijan. All of them scored 6 points.
The representative of the National Team of Poland Karina Szczepkowska-Horowska and two Russians Elmira Mirzoeva and Polina Maslova have 5,5 points.
A brilliant result in the Women’s Student Grandmaster Tournament is shown by the player from Indonesia Irine Kharisma Sukandar. She lost just half a point in all seven rounds and is only one step far from the victory. Russian Alina Kashlinskaya has 5 points and is one and a half point behind the leader. Petra Papp (Hungary), Dinara Saduakassova (Kazakhstan) and Gunay Mammdzada (Azerbaijan) have 4 points.
The struggle is extremely tough in the Men’s Student Grandmaster Tournament. The first place is shared by three participants: Daniel Sadzikowski (Poland), Daniil Dubov (Russia) and Samvel Ter-Sahakyan (Armenia). The Round 7 turned to be not easy for the leaders.
adzikowski and Ter-Sahakyan suffered losses and Dubov had to stay satisfied with the draw. Evgeny Sveshnikov (Latvia) and Evgeni Dragomarezkij (Russia) continue competing for the victory in the Veterans’ Tournament. After seven rounds they have 6 points. Nine participants are half a point behind the leaders.
The chess player from Ukraine Sergey Galakhov, representing Russia in the FIDE rating list won for the seventh time in a row in the Amateurs’ Tournament. He almost secured a victory in the competitions. Five closest rivals scored one point less. Those are Russians Gleb Apryshko, Valentin Vlassow, Pavel Kolmakov, Roman Alkaev and the representative of Armenia Sargis Manukyan.
The next to the last Round 8 of the competitions will be held on Saturday, Feb 7.