5th Kesarovski - Georgiev Memorial

The 5th Kesarovski - Georgiev Memorial was held on September 2nd-10th in Sunny Beach, Bulgaria. Strong untitled player Pavel Dimitrov won the tournament with 7.5/9 in front of a bunch of GMs and IMs. After GM Boris Chatalbashev and GM Evgenij Ermenkov drew their last round game in 8 moves only, Pavel continued to press against GM Gerhard Schebler to win the game and well deserved 1st place in front of calculative GMs.


Final standings:
1. Pavel Dimitrov (BUL 2293) 7.5
2-3. GM Boris Chatalbashev (BUL 2507) and IM Marijan Petrov (BUL 2430) 7.0
4-12. IM Kalin Karakehajov (BUL 2451), GM Evgenij ERmenkov (PLE 2462), GM Krum Georgiev (BUL 2485), Marian Bojchev (BUL 2325), Hristo Velchev (BUL 2302), IM Sasho Nikolov (BUL 2358), Krasimir Rusev (BUL 2455), Jon Arni Halldorsson (ISL 2142) and Luboslav Katov (BUL 2226) 6.5 etc

There were 90 participants


WGM Suzana Maksimovic 2266 - GM Krum Georgiev 2485
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. f3 O-O 6. Nge2 a6 7. Be3 Nc6 8. Qd2 Bd7 9. Nc1 Qb8 10. Nb3 Re8 11. Rc1 b5 12. c5 e6 13. Be2 b4 14. Nd1 a5 15. cxd6 cxd6 16. Bf4 a4 17. Nc5 Nxd4


18. Qxd4 dxc5 19. Qd2 Qa7 20. Ne3 Red8 21. Qc2 Nh5 22. Bd6 c4 23. Nxc4 Bb5 24. Bxb4 Nf4 25. g3 Ng2+ 26. Kf1 Ne3+ 27. Nxe3 Qxe3 0-1


IM Marijan Petrov 2430 - Kiril Badev 2340
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 g6 5. c4 Bg7 6. Be3 Nf6 7. Nc3 O-O 8. Be2 e6 9. O-O d6 10. Ndb5 Ne8 11. c5 d5 12. exd5 exd5 13. Bf3 a6 14. Nd4 Nc7 15. Rc1 Ne6 16. Nxc6 bxc6 17. Na4 Rb8 18. Qd2 Qh4 19. Qc2 d4 20. Bd2 Ng5 21. Bxc6 Bf5 22. Bxg5 Qxg5 23. Be4 Bd7 24. Nb6 Bb5 25. Bd3 Bc6 26. f4 Qg4 27. Be4 d3 28. Qxd3 Rfd8 29. Qf3 Qxf3 30. gxf3 Bb5 31. b4 Bxf1 32. Kxf1 Rd2 33. c6 Rxh2 34. c7 1-0


GM Evgenij Ermenkov 2462 - IM Kosta Angelov 2191
1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. c4 Bg7 4. Nc3 O-O 5. e4 d6 6. Be2 Na6 7. O-O e5 8. Be3 Qe8 9. dxe5 dxe5 10. c5 Ng4 11. Bg5 Nxc5 12. Nd5 Qd7 13. Rc1 Nxe4 14. Rxc7 Qe6 15. Be7 Ngxf2 16. Rxf2 Nxf2 17. Kxf2 e4 18. Bc4 Qf5 19. Bxf8 Bxf8 20. Ne3 Bc5 21. Qd8+ 1-0


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