After winning Mtel ahead of Topalov and Carlsen, Shirov is off to an 0-4 start at the Poikovsky Karpov tournament.
| Inarkiev, Ernesto | – Naiditsch, Arkadij | 1-0 | |||
| Sutovsky, Emil | – Motylev, Alexander | 0-1 | |||
| Efimenko, Zahar | – Rublevsky, Sergei | 1-0 | |||
| Onischuk, Alexander | – Bologan, Viktor | ½-½ | |||
| Shirov, Alexei | – Gashimov, Vugar | 0-1 |
| 10th Karpov Poikovsky (RUS), 3-12 vi 2009 | cat. XVIII (2695) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 0 | ||||||||||||
| 1. | Gashimov, Vugar | g | AZE | 2730 | * | . | . | . | . | 1 | . | 1 | ½ | 1 | 3½ | 3041 | |||||
| 2. | Motylev, Alexander | g | RUS | 2677 | . | * | . | . | 1 | . | . | ½ | 1 | 1 | 3½ | 3033 | |||||
| 3. | Inarkiev, Ernesto | g | RUS | 2676 | . | . | * | 1 | 0 | . | 1 | . | . | 1 | 3 | 2889 | |||||
| 4. | Naiditsch, Arkadij | g | GER | 2700 | . | . | 0 | * | ½ | . | . | 1 | . | 1 | 2½ | 2786 | |||||
| 5. | Sutovsky, Emil | g | ISR | 2660 | . | 0 | 1 | ½ | * | . | ½ | . | . | . | 2 | 2683 | |||||
| 6. | Bologan, Viktor | g | MDA | 2690 | 0 | . | . | . | . | * | 1 | ½ | ½ | . | 2 | 2699 | |||||
| 7. | Efimenko, Zahar | g | UKR | 2682 | . | . | 0 | . | ½ | 0 | * | . | 1 | . | 1½ | 2595 | |||||
| 8. | Onischuk, Alexander | g | USA | 2684 | 0 | ½ | . | 0 | . | ½ | . | * | . | . | 1 | 2506 | |||||
| 9. | Rublevsky, Sergei | g | RUS | 2702 | ½ | 0 | . | . | . | ½ | 0 | . | * | . | 1 | 2501 | |||||
| 10. | Shirov, Alexei | g | ESP | 2745 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | * | 0 | ||||||
Official site: http://www.admoil.ru/chess2009/index_chess_2009.htm
Source: TWIC
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Gashimov won the GP before.
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