Mighty Morozevich beats Svidler
The Moro magic continued into the 8th round of the Russian Superfinals of chess. Morozevich beat Svidler and with black and in 38 moves in a Sicilian Najdorf game. Morozevich's rating performance is a whopping 2900 now. The others seem to be tiring now with only one other game which saw a result when Timofeev beat Rychagov with the black pieces. Timofeev has salvaged a lot of points right at the end in what was otherwise a disastrous tournament for him. In the women's section, the competition is cut-throat. No moro-like performance from anyone. But there were 5 decisive games out of 6. The big upset of the round in this section was Stepovaia beating Tatiana Kosintseva. Results of the 8th round: Men Grischuk, Alexander - Sakaev, Konstantin ½-½ Dreev, Alexey - Tomashevsky, Evgeny ½-½ Amonatov, Farrukh - Vitiugov, Nikita ½-½ Svidler, Peter - Morozevich, Alexander 0-1 Rychagov, Andrey - Timofeev, Artyom 0-1 Inarkiev, Ernesto - Jakovenko, Dmitry ½-½ Women Tairova, Elena - Girya, O...