March 8th 2023

GM Anton Korobov (UKR, 2658) emerged as the sole leader of the event with 5/5 points, while four players tie for the second place scoring 4.5 points: IM Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis (GRE, 2520), GM Eltaj Safarli (AZE, 2608), GM Thai Dai Van Nguyen (CZE, 2651), and GM Giga Quparadze (GEO, 2483).

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Youngsters watch: GM Daniel Dardha, Volodar Murzin, and Aydin Suleymanli (all are U18), are just 1 point behind the leader. GM Frederik Svane and Vignir Vatnar Stefansson, U20, is with the same points
Top woman: Aleksandra Goryachkina and Olga Badelka are with 3,5/5
Today: Live games round 6

European Individual Chess Championship 2023 live games / European Individual Chess Championship participants

GM Antov Korobov (UKR, 2658) remained perfect at the European Individual Chess Championship 2023 after winning a masterpiece against his fellow countryman GM Ruslan Ponomariov (UKR, 2655) in today’s fifth round. Korobov first squeezed Ponomariov’s pieces, continuing with the fantastic positional pawn sacrifice. It was game over for the former FIDE World Champion after 26…Qh2? as Korobov found the impressive tactical motive. Everything was hanging, but Ponomariov couldn’t defend the weakened back rank.

GM Eltaj Safarli (AZE, 2608) drew against GM Boris Gelfand (ISR, 2674) to join the runner-up group. The game finished after only 14 moves of play, even though Gelfand had a slightly better position according to the engines.

IM Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis (GRE, 2520) defeated GM Rasmus Svane (GER, 2620) in a very interesting but drawish endgame. The German grandmaster made a terrible mistake with 58…Bb5?? and Stamatis used the opportunity to score the full point.

GM Thai Dai Van Nguyen (CZE, 2651) was convincing against GM Leon Livaic (CRO, 2569). The former has been improving the advantage through the game, eventually winning the pawn-up endgame.

In the meantime, GM Giga Quparadze (GEO, 2483) scored against GM Emre Can (TUR, 2600) having Black pieces. Quparadze came out of the opening with two pawns up, and the rest was a perfect technique.

The 6th round starts tomorrow at 15:00 CEST, with the clash between Thai Dai Van Nguyen and Anton Korobov on the first board. The top 10 pairings are:

Pairings round 6

1	GM	Nguyen Thai Dai Van	2651	4½	5	GM	Korobov Anton	2658
2	GM	Safarli Eltaj	2608	4½	4½	IM	Kourkoulos-Arditis Stamatis	2520
3	GM	Quparadze Giga	2483	4½	4	GM	Navara David	2685
4	GM	Sargissian Gabriel	2699	4	4	GM	Pechac Jergus	2598
5	GM	Moussard Jules	2684	4	4	GM	Mastrovasilis Dimitrios	2599
6	GM	Brkic Ante	2596	4	4	GM	Predke Alexandr	2684
7	GM	Asadli Vugar	2586	4	4	GM	Esipenko Andrey	2680
8	GM	Gelfand Boris	2674	4	4	GM	Kadric Denis	2583
9	GM	Svane Frederik	2577	4	4	GM	Saric Ivan	2674
10	GM	Sarana Alexey	2668	4	4	GM	Dragnev Valentin	2561
11	GM	Cheparinov Ivan	2661	4	4	GM	Murzin Volodar	2554
12	GM	Azarov Sergei	2559	4	4	GM	Bacrot Etienne	2659
13	GM	Grandelius Nils	2658	4	4	GM	Gumularz Szymon	2558
14	GM	Ponomariov Ruslan	2655	4	4	GM	Parligras Mircea-Emilian	2554
15	GM	Kozak Adam	2552	4	4	GM	Santos Latasa Jaime	2655
16	GM	Gledura Benjamin	2637	4	4	GM	Suleymanli Aydin	2552
17	GM	Petrosyan Manuel	2634	4	4	GM	Sychev Klementy	2549
18	GM	Abasov Nijat	2625	4	4	GM	Janik Igor	2527
19	GM	Nasuta Grzegorz	2535	4	4	GM	Kuzubov Yuriy	2616
20	IM	Kukhmazov Arsen	2495	4	4	GM	Bernadskiy Vitaliy	2611
21	GM	Dardha Daniel	2610	4	4	GM	Sadikhov Ulvi	2485
22	GM	Shevchenko Kirill	2668	3½	4	IM	Stefansson Vignir Vatnar	2461
23	GM	Halkias Stelios	2514	3½	3½	GM	Martirosyan Haik M.	2686
24	GM	Wojtaszek Radoslaw	2682	3½	3½	GM	Brunello Sabino	2512
25	IM	Beerdsen Thomas	2510	3½	3½	GM	Ivanchuk Vasyl	2664
26	IM	Druska Juraj	2505	3½	3½	GM	Indjic Aleksandar	2636
27	GM	Rakhmanov Aleksandr	2635	3½	3½	IM	Gorshtein Ido	2498
28	GM	Fernandez Daniel Howard	2498	3½	3½	GM	Sargsyan Shant	2630
29	IM	Subelj Jan	2496	3½	3½	GM	Kovalev Vladislav	2623
30	GM	Svane Rasmus	2620	3½	3½	IM	Gorodetzky David	2488
31	IM	Gokerkan Cem Kaan	2486	3½	3½	GM	Vocaturo Daniele	2619
32	GM	Zanan Evgeny	2485	3½	3½	GM	Ter-Sahakyan Samvel	2616
33	GM	Bjerre Jonas Buhl	2608	3½	3½	IM	Parkhov Yair	2485
34	IM	Kosakowski Jakub	2476	3½	3½	GM	Can Emre	2600
35	GM	Iskandarov Misratdin	2598	3½	3½	IM	Willow Jonah B	2459
36	GM	Hovhannisyan Robert	2597	3½	3½	IM	Saraci Nderim	2469
37	IM	Clarke Brandon G I	2475	3½	3½	GM	Paravyan David	2584
38	IM	Ioannidis Evgenios	2473	3½	3½	GM	Lupulescu Constantin	2580
39	IM	Kaasen Tor Fredrik	2464	3½	3½	GM	Kobalia Mikhail	2577
40	GM	Sanikidze Tornike	2459	3½	3½	GM	Goryachkina Aleksandra	2576
41	IM	Rozen Eytan	2458	3½	3½	GM	Laurusas Tomas	2571
42	GM	Nevednichy Vladislav	2457	3½	3½	GM	Livaic Leon	2569
43	GM	Nesterov Arseniy	2568	3½	3½	IM	Gurel Ediz	2454
44	IM	Teclaf Pawel	2568	3½	3½	IM	Stoyanov Tsvetan	2446
45	IM	Makarian Rudik	2557	3½	3½	IM	Badelka Olga	2428
46	FM	Seemann Jakub	2424	3½	3½	GM	Kobo Ori	2548
47	GM	Stremavicius Titas	2544	3½	3½	IM	Ohanyan Emin	2405
48	GM	Zajic Milan	2387	3½	3½	GM	Maurizzi Marc`andria	2535
49	IM	Gavrilescu David	2527	3½	3½	IM	Megalios Konstantinos	2382
50	FM	Pasztor Balazs	2387	3½	3½	GM	Petkov Momchil	2526
51	IM	Tadic Stefan	2353	3½	3½	GM	Yilmazyerli Mert	2525
52	FM	Manafov Vugar	2349	3½	3½	IM	Horvath Dominik	2521
53	GM	Anton Guijarro David	2685	3	3	IM	Wachinger Nikolas	2440
54	GM	Najer Evgeniy	2666	3	3	IM	Bulmaga Irina	2438
55	GM	Donchenko Alexander	2653	3	3	IM	Fataliyeva Ulviyya	2427
56	GM	Chigaev Maksim	2632	3	3	FM	Akbas Umut Ata	2419
57	FM	Fromm Marius	2428	3	3	GM	Motylev Alexander	2621
58	FM	Celik Hasan Huseyin	2420	3	3	GM	Socko Bartosz	2618
59	GM	Warmerdam Max	2614	3	3	IM	Baenziger Fabian	2413
60	IM	Baum Jonasz	2426	3	3	GM	Bartel Mateusz	2609
61	GM	Ivic Velimir	2606	3	3	FM	Kochavi Ori	2417
62	GM	Sanal Vahap	2590	3	3	IM	Tutisani Noe	2411
63	GM	Lagarde Maxime	2581	3	3	IM	David Alexandru-Vasile	2410
64	GM	Moroni Luca Jr	2578	3	3	FM	Peyrer Konstantin	2395
65	GM	Grigoriants Sergey	2572	3	3	GM	Pacher Milan	2392
66	GM	Mchedlishvili Mikheil	2569	3	3	WGM	Injac Teodora	2383
67	GM	Pultinevicius Paulius	2546	3	3	FM	Stremavicius Pijus	2383
68	FM	Agdelen Huseyin Can	2411	3	3	GM	Lobanov Sergei	2545
69	FM	Kalogeris Ioannis	2409	3	3	GM	Muradli Mahammad	2539
70	IM	Radovanovic Nikola	2407	3	3	GM	Boruchovsky Avital	2536
71	GM	Dvirnyy Danyyil	2531	3	3	FM	Pasti Aron	2378
72		Mitsis Georgios	2407	3	3	IM	Kacharava Nikolozi	2531
73	GM	Guliyev Namig	2528	3	3	FM	Uskov Artem	2373
74	GM	Kulaots Kaido	2525	3	3	IM	Suarez Uriel Adrian	2370
75	GM	Alsina Leal Daniel	2522	3	3	IM	Schekachikhin Maksim	2367
76	GM	Rasulov Vugar	2516	3	3	IM	Hnydiuk Aleksander	2364
77	FM	Ibadov Dashgyn	2398	3	3	GM	Djukic Nikola	2514
78	GM	Gadimbayli Abdulla	2507	3	3	FM	Costa Leonardo	2364
79	FM	Patrelakis Evaggelos	2387	3	3	GM	Petrov Martin	2505
80	GM	Valsecchi Alessio	2505	3	3	IM	Roebers Eline	2362
81	IM	Garrido Outon Alex	2380	3	3	GM	Wieczorek Oskar	2505
82	GM	Blohberger Felix	2493	3	3	FM	Szwed Jacek	2361
83	IM	Gharibyan Mamikon	2491	3	3	IM	Filip Lucian-Ioan	2349
84	IM	Leisch Lukas	2378	3	3	GM	Kovacevic Aleksandar	2489
85	FM	Secheres Adrian-Simion	2369	3	3	IM	Samunenkov Ihor	2488
86	IM	Ahmadzada Ahmad	2487	3	3	FM	Paszewski Mateusz	2270
87	IM	Kraus Tomas	2486	3	3	IM	Danielyan Vahe	2307
88	IM	Babazada Khazar	2481	3	3	FM	Petrovic Aleksa	2254
89	FM	Carbonell Sancho Marc	2364	3	3	GM	Velten Paul	2478
90	FM	Hagner Bennet	2361	3	3	IM	Sokolovsky Yahli	2476
91	IM	Milosevic Milos	2347	3	3	GM	Bryakin Mikhail	2474
92	IM	Janzelj Tim	2472	3	3		Ahmad Khagan	2220
93	FM	Averin Nikolay	2296	3	3	GM	Firat Burak	2471
94	FM	Samadov Read	2471	3	3	WIM	Gajcin Marina	2215
95	IM	Bronstein Or	2465	3	3	FM	Angun Batu	2206
96	FM	Eren Ataberk	2308	3	3	IM	Isik Alparslan	2462
97	GM	Soffer Ram	2456	3	3	WFM	Shvedova Alexandra	2083
98	FM	Palczert Matyas	2304	3	3	IM	Royal Shreyas	2452
99	FM	Shoshin Kirill	2278	3	3	IM	Shubin Kirill	2449
100	IM	Nigalidze Gaioz	2448	3	3		Cox Tristan A	1975