ChessBase 17 - Megapaket - Edition 2024
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The final month of the ACP Tour is on! Things will hardly change at the very top of the standings, since Vishy Anand seems to have secured his first place. But the race is still open for the 8th place. It is very likely that the upcoming European Individual Championship will bring the decision. Even lower ranked players can make it into the top-8 in case they perform well at one of the remaining tournaments. Will someone follow Viorel Bologan's example? By sharing first place in Sarajevo, the Moldavian top-player managed to jump from 9th to 4th! Looking back at his performances this year, we can only state that this place is well-deserved. An advantage of the ACP Tour compared to the rating system is that it quite objectively reflects the chess players' form over the whole season.
Sarajevo's other winner Ivan Sokolov has also gained 320 points to appear on 9th place of the standings. Here is how the top-10 looks like:
Top-10 list on June 15th:
1. Anand 1598 2. Leko 1196 3. Gelfand 916 4. Bologan 865 5. Kramnik 839 6. Morozevich 709 7. Bacrot 612 8. Amonatov 600 9. I.Sokolov 591 10. Grischuk 567
In others tournaments rated in the ACP Tour last month, most winners were non-ACP members. We would like to congratulate Zviad Izoria for his win at the HB Global Chess Challenge in Minneapolis, as well as Victor Mikhalevsky for his victory in the open in Lake George! At the third tournament held on American soil, the Chicago Open, four people finished first: Vadim Milov, Jaan Ehlvest, Igor Novikov and Petr Kiriakov.
As we mentionned already in our previous report, the organizers of Sofia declined our invitation to be part of the ACP Tour. In view of its very high level, this event has nevertheless been counted with a 0,5-rate. Congratulations to Veselin Topalov for his brilliant performance!
As mentionned earlier, the highlight of the final period will be the European Championship in Zegrze Poludniowe. But we'll obviously keep an eye on all other tournaments going on, such as The World Open in Philadelphia, the open in Voronezh and several rapid events.
The ACP Board
