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2009 Grandmaster Tournament Biel International Chess Festival Grandmaster Tournament The six Grandmasters starting the Tournament 2009 in Biel. From the left: Vassily Ivanchuk, Evgeny Alekseev, Boris Gelfand, Fabiano Caruana, Alexander Morozevich, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave Final Standings after Round 10 Points SoBerg 1. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (FRA, 2703) 6 2. Alexander Morozevich (RUS, 2751) 5.5 (26.25) 3. Vassily Ivanchuk (UKR, 2703) 5.5 (25.75) 4. Evgeny Alekseev (RUS, 2714) 5 5. Boris Gelfand (ISR, 2755) 4 (20.50) 6. Fabiano Caruana (ITA, 2670) 4 (20.25) 09.01.2010 1/2 2009 Grandmaster Tournament Biel International Chess Festival Pairings 1st round (July 19th): Alexander Morozevich - Evgeny Alekseev 1 - 0 (34) Boris Gelfand - Fabiano Caruana ½ ‐ ½ (33) Maxime Vachier-Lagrave - Vassily Ivanchuk ½ ‐ ½ (32) 2nd round (July 20th): Alexander Morozevich - Boris Gelfand 1 - 0 (31) Fabiano Caruana - Maxime Vachier-Lagrave ½ ‐ ½ (34) Evgeny Alekseev - Vassily Ivanchuk ½ ‐ ½ (22) 3rd round (July 21st): Maxime Vachier-Lagrave - Alexander Morozevich ½ ‐ ½ (41) Boris Gelfand - Evgeny Alekseev ½ ‐ ½ (27) Vassily Ivanchuk - Fabiano Caruana 1 - 0 (49) Rest day (July 22nd) 4th round (July 23rd): Fabiano Caruana - Alexander Morozevich 1 - 0 (59) Vassily Ivanchuk - Boris Gelfand ½ ‐ ½ (30) Maxime Vachier-Lagrave - Evgeny Alekseev ½ ‐ ½ (19) 5th round (July 24th): Alexander Morozevich - Vassily Ivanchuk ½ ‐ ½ (12) Boris Gelfand - Maxime Vachier-Lagrave ½ ‐ ½ (41) Evgeny Alekseev - Fabiano Caruana ½ ‐ ½ (52) 6th round (July 25th): Evgeny Alekseev - Alexander Morozevich 1 - 0 (55) Fabiano Caruana - Boris Gelfand ½ ‐ ½ (22) Vassily Ivanchuk - Maxime Vachier-Lagrave ½ ‐ ½ (41) Rest day (July 26th) 7th round (July 27th): Boris Gelfand - Alexander Morozevich 0 - 1 (48) Maxime Vachier-Lagrave - Fabiano Caruana 1 - 0 (38) Vassily Ivanchuk - Evgeny Alekseev ½ ‐ ½ (61) 8th round (July 28th): Alexander Morozevich - Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 0 - 1 (76) Evgeny Alekseev - Boris Gelfand ½ ‐ ½ (11) Fabiano Caruana - Vassily Ivanchuk 0 - 1 (41) 9th round (July 29th): Vassily Ivanchuk - Alexander Morozevich 0 - 1 (38) Maxime Vachier-Lagrave - Boris Gelfand ½ ‐ ½ (21) Fabiano Caruana - Evgeny Alekseev ½ ‐ ½ (73) 10th round (July 30st): Alexander Morozevich - Fabiano Caruana ½ ‐ ½ (18) Boris Gelfand - Vassily Ivanchuk ½ ‐ ½ (32) Evgeny Alekseev - Maxime Vachier-Lagrave ½ ‐ ½ (14) 09.01.2010 2/2 .

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Players Biel International Chess Festival
2009 Players Biel International Chess Festival Players Boris Gelfand Israel, 41 yo Elo: 2755 World ranking: 9 Date and place of birth: 24.6.1968, in Minsk (Belarus) Lives in: Rishon-le-Zion (Israel) Israel ranking: 1 Best world ranking: 3 (January 1991) In Biel GMT: winner in 1993 (Interzonal) and 2005. Other results: 3rd (1995, 1997, 2001), 4th (2000) Two Decades at the Top of Chess This is not a comeback, since Boris Gelfand never left the chess elite in the last twenty years. However, at the age of 41, the Israeli player has reached a new peak and is experiencing a a third wind. He is back in the world Top-10, officially as number 9 (in fact, a virtual number 5, if one takes into account his latest results that have not yet been recorded). He had not been ranked so high since 2006. Age does not seem to matter for this player who is unanimously appreciated in the field, both for his technical prowess and his personality. In Biel, he will not only be the senior player of the Grandmaster tournament, but also the top ranked and the Festival’s most loyal participant. Since his first appearance in 1993, he has come seven times to Biel; it is precisely at this Festival that he earned one of his greatest victories: in 1993, he finished first in the Interzonal Tournament (which, by then, was the only qualifying competition for the world championship), out of 73 participating grandmasters (including Anand and Kramnik). His victory in Biel against Anand is mentioned in his book, My Most Memorable Games.
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