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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

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 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 ...