ACP World Rapid Cup 2008

ACP World Rapid Cup 2008

The Pivdenny Bank is organizing the 2nd ACP World Rapid Cup in Odessa, Ukraine in January 4-7, 2008. The prize fund of the tournament is $136,000. The event will consist of 16 players.

ACP Tour 2006/07 Standings

Standings – # of tournaments played – Total points

1 Jakovenko, Dmitry 6 1682
2 Anand, Viswanathan 7 1670
3 Kramnik, Vladimir 4 1323
4 Ivanchuk, Vassily 6 1275
5 Morozevich, Alexander 6 1249
6 Leko, Peter 5 1224
7 Aronian, Levon 3 1047
8 Radjabov, Teimour 4 1009
9 Najer, Evgeniy 6 812
10 Karjakin, Sergey 3 744
11 Svidler, Peter 4 741
12 Shabalov, Alexander 4 721
13 Eljanov, Pavel 3 713
14 Inarkiev, Ernesto 2 619
15 Savchenko, Boris 4 604
16 Shirov, Alexei 5 579
17 Gelfand, Boris 4 569
18 Drozdovskij, Yuri 3 545

Here is the list of players who will actually be in the tournament through ACP tour standings:

Dmitry Jakovenko, Vassily Ivanchuk, Peter Leko, Teimour Radjabov, Evgeny Najer, Sergey Karjakin, Peter Svidler, Alexander Shabalov, Pavel Eljanov, Ernesto Inarkiev, Boris Savchenko, Alexei Shirov and Boris Gelfand.

Anatoly Karpov, Judit Polgar, and Yuri Drozdovskij received wild cards from the organizers.

More information can be found at http://chess-players.org/ and at http://www.chesstoday.net/