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2ND MILLENIUM'S LAST CITY BLITZ
KNOCK-OUT CHAMPIONSHIP
ST.PETERSBURG 2000
Participant of the World Championship Sakaev, Konstantin (g
RUS 2620), grandmasters Aseev, Konstantin ( g RUS 2581), Loginov,
Valery (g RUS 2502), Yemelin, Vasily (g RUS 2503), Lugovoi,
Aleksei (g RUS 2528), Popov, Valerij (g RUS 2555), and the
Champion 1999 Eliseev, A. (RUS 2421) struggled for the last
medals of the year. At first quarter-finalists were selected from
32 participants of the blitz championship. Aseev and Loginov
failed to qualify at this stage. Still, quarter-final pairs were
rather representative. Popov defeated Lugovoi, Alekseev, Evgeny
(RUS 2509) knocked out Yemelin, Sakaev beat the international
master Solovjov, Sergey (m RUS 2436). Yeliseev won in the match
against the annotator who had been winner of this traditional
event more than once. In the semi-final Alekseev, the young star
of St.Petersburg, defeated Yeliseev. Sakaev left no chance to
Popov. So the final pair Sakaev - Alekseev was half
sensational. Well, the boy is growing up, and his rating is
already the rating of a grandmaster. Nevertheless, his opponents
were strong professional players. The first game with him was
little pleasure for Sakaev: his young adversary arranged a
beautiful mate. After three games the score was even, 1.5-1.5.
Still the boy lost the fourth game, so Sakaev is the champion,
Alekseev took second place, and Popov was third. Women played in
the same hall with men. Two grandmasters met in women?s final
match, and Stjazhkina, Olga (wg RUS 2337), a participant of the
World Championship, was beaten by a non-participant Rubzova,
Tatiana (wg RUS 2284) who had won the title of the Women?s
Blitz Champion of St.Petersburg several times already. So chess
was over for that year. Everybody got bear, and winners got also
prizes.
Genrikh Chepukaitis
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