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The GM Group B is by no means less interesting. There are super Grand Masters, dangerous floaters, and teenagers looking to break through. Bacrot, Cheparinov, Short are very strong and will go all out. Humpy is riding on her successful year 2007. She needs to be watched. In fact Humpy - Yifan is a potential future rivalry. Yifan must have done some serious work the last few months. She's gained heavily in the January ratings list, so lets see if she can put up a fight, even though the opposition is pretty strong for her. Nepomniachtchi and Stellwagen need to be watched carefully. GM Group B GM Etienne Bacrot FRA 2695 GM Gabriel Sargissian ARM 2673 GM Ivan Cheparinov BUL 2670 GM Sergey Movsesian SLK 2670 GM Pentala Harikrishna IND 2668 GM Michal Krasenkow POL 2668 GM Nigel Short ENG 2649 GM Daniel Stellwagen NED 2639 GM Ian Nepomniachtchi RUS 2611 GM Koneru Humpy IND 2606 GM Erwin L’Ami NED 2577 GM Jan Smeets NED 2558 WGM Hou Yifan CHI 2502 IM Wouter Spoelman NED 2445

Francisco Vallejo Pons won the Cuidad de Pamplona chess event. In a rather short tournament, he edged ahead of Wang Yue and Jobava Baadur by half a point to win the title. Beliavsky and Movsesian were winners today over Rodshtein and Khamrakulov respectively. Vallejo Pons vs Wange Yue, the very strong pairing was drawn. Results of Round 7: GM BELIAVSKY, Alexander G 2646 1 - 0 GM RODSHTEIN, Maxim 2615 GM SARGISSIAN, Gabriel 2673 ½ - ½ GM JOBAVA, Baadur 2644 GM MOVSESIAN, Sergei 2670 1 - 0 GM KHAMRAKULOV, Ibragim S 2604 GM VALLEJO PONS, Francisco 2660 ½ - ½ GM WANG, Yue 2703 Final Standings after Round 7 Vallejo Pons - 4.5 Wang Yue, Jobava Baadur - 4 Beliavsky, Movsesian - 3.5 Rodshtein, Sargissian - 3 Khamrakulov - 2.5

Six rounds of the Pamplona chess tournament have been completed. The leaders are: 1. Vallejo Pons, Francisco 4 2. Jobava, Baadur 3½ 3. Wang Yue 3½ 4. Khamrakulov, Ibragim 3½ 5. Rodshtein, Maxim 3 6. Movsesian, Sergei 2½ 7. Beliavsky, Alexander 2½ 8. Sargissian, Gabriel 1½

Vallejo Pons continues to lead after the fourth round of the Pamplona chess tournament 2007. Standings after Round 4. 1. Vallejo Pons, Francisco g ESP 2660 3 2. Beliavsky, Alexander G g SLO 2646 2½ 3. Wang Yue g CHN 2703 2 4. Movsesian, Sergei g SVK 2670 2 5. Jobava, Baadur g GEO 2644 2 6. Rodshtein, Maxim m ISR 2615 2 7. Khamrakulov, Ibragim S g ESP 2604 1½ 8. Sargissian, Gabriel g ARM 2673 1

Francisco Vallejo Pons of Spain is in the lead after 3 rounds of the Ciudad de Pamplona chess tournament. He was held to a draw by the experienced Beliavsky. Khamrakulov was the lone winner today. He beat young Maxim Rodshtein. The other two games were drawn. Top seed Wang Yue was held to a draw, the third straight time. He has been fairly active this year and it remains to be seen if he can whip himself into action soon. The local players are stealing the thunder for now. Round 3 on 2007/12/24 GM KHAMRAKULOV, Ibragim S 2604 1 - 0 GM RODSHTEIN, Maxim 2615 GM JOBAVA, Baadur 2644 ½ - ½ GM WANG, Yue 2703 GM BELIAVSKY, Alexander G 2646 ½ - ½ GM VALLEJO PONS, Francisco 2660 GM SARGISSIAN, Gabriel 2673 ½ - ½ GM MOVSESIAN, Sergei 2670 Merry Christmas break on 2007 12/25 CIUDAD DE PAMPLONA - MAGISTRAL Ranking after round 3 1 GM VALLEJO PONS, Francisco 2660 ESP 2½ 2 GM BELIAVSKY, Alexander G 2646 SLO 2 3 GM KHAMRAKULOV, Ibragim S 2604 ESP 2 4 GM WANG, Yue 2703 CHN 1½ 5 GM MOVSESIAN, Serge...

The young but strong Maxim Rodshtein of Israel beat a very strong Gabriel Sargissian in the second round of the Ciudad de Pamplona tournament. Local hero Francisco Vallejo also won over Jobava Baadur. Vallejo Pons forced Baadur to resign after 69 moves when the Georgian was a clear piece down in a slightly complicated end game where Baadur made several seriuos mistakes to lose a knight for almost nothing. The Rodshtein vs Sargissian game was a roller coaster. Rodshtein capitalized on a faulty simplification effort by Sargissian and later won an exchange. But he could not capitalize on it. But Sargissian gave the young Israeli another chance by making inaccurate moves and resigned the game again an exchange down. The other two games were drawn fairly early out of the opening in 21 and 30 moves. Results of Round 2 on 2007/12/2 GM RODSHTEIN, Maxim 2615 1 - 0 GM SARGISSIAN, Gabriel 2673 GM MOVSESIAN, Sergei 2670 ½ - ½ GM BELIAVSKY, Alexander G 2646 GM VALLEJO PONS, Francisco 2660 1 - 0 GM ...

The first round of the CIUDAD DE PAMPLONA tournament started with a well-deserved win for veteran Alexander Beliavsky against Gabriel Sargissian. Beliavsky capitalized on an early advantage to prevail against Sargissian. The other winner was local favorite Francisco Vallejo Pons against the last seed, Ibragim Khamrakulov. Top seed Wang Yue of China was held to a draw by promising Maxim Rodshtein of Israel. CIUDAD DE PAMPLONA - MAGISTRAL Round 1 on 2007/12/22 SNo. Name Rtg Res. Name Rtg 1 GM WANG, Yue 2703 ½ - ½ GM RODSHTEIN, Maxim 2615 2 GM KHAMRAKULOV, Ibragim S 2604 0 - 1 GM VALLEJO PONS, Francisco 2660 3 GM JOBAVA, Baadur 2644 ½ - ½ GM MOVSESIAN, Sergei 2670 4 GM BELIAVSKY, Alexander G 2646 1 - 0 GM SARGISSIAN, Gabriel 2673 Round 2 Pairings 2007/12/23 GM RODSHTEIN, Maxim 2615 - GM SARGISSIAN, Gabriel 2673 GM MOVSESIAN, Sergei 2670 - GM BELIAVSKY, Alexander G 2646 GM VALLEJO PONS, Francisco 2660 - GM JOBAVA, Baadur GM WANG, Yue 2703 - GM KHAMRAKULOV, Ibragim S 2604

The games of the Seventeenth edition of the Internation Ciudad De Pamplona started on 22 December 2007. There are several strong grand masters participating in this event. The main players in order of their ratings are: 1 GM WANG Yue 2703 CHN 2 GM SARGISSIAN Gabriel 2673 ARM 3 GM MOVSESIAN Sergei 2670 SVK 4 GM VALLEJO PONS Francisco 2660 ESP 5 GM BELIAVSKY Alexander G 2646 SLO 6 GM JOBAVA Baadur 2644 GEO 7 GM RODSHTEIN Maxim 2615 ISR 8 GM KHAMRAKULOV Ibragim S 2604 ESP The previous top three of this popular event are: Year, First place, Second Place, Third Place 1990 Leonid Yudasin Viktor Korchnoi Zsuzsa Polgar 1991 Leonid Yudasin Miguel Illescas Zsuzsa Polgar 1992 Joel Lautier Miguel Illescas David García 1993 Jordi Magem Andrei Sokolov Felix Izeta 1994 Alexander Morozevich Vadim Zvjaginsev Jordi Magem 1995 Jordi Magem Julio Granda Miguel Illescas 1996 Zoltan Almasi Jonathan Speelman Zurab Azmaiparashvili 1997 Miguel Illescas Ulf Anderson Julio Granda 1998 Alexander Morozevich Michal ...