15th North Sea cup, Esbjerg

07-07-2000 > 15-07-2000

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 Tot Perf
1 GM Gurevich, Mikhail Naumovich BEL 2667 – ½ 0 1 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 6½ 2754
2 GM Svidler, Pyotr Veniaminovich RUS 2689 ½ – ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 6½ 2752
3 GM Hansen, Curt DEN 2613 1 ½ – ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ 5 2637
4 IM Grischuk, Alexander Igorevich RUS 2606 0 ½ ½ – ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 5 2638
5 GM Nielsen, Peter Heine DEN 2578 0 ½ ½ ½ – ½ ½ 1 0 1 4½ 2598
6 GM Gulko, Boris Franzevich USA 2643 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ – ½ ½ 1 1 4½ 2591
7 GM Hansen, Lars Bo DEN 2562 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ – ½ 0 1 4 2557
8 GM de Firmian, Nicholas Ernest USA 2567 0 0 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ – 1 ½ 4 2556
9 GM Emms, John Michael ENG 2527 0 0 ½ ½ 1 0 1 0 – 0 3 2479
10 IM de Vreugt, Dennis NED 2511 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ 1 – 2 2385

Cat=XIV (2596), GM=5, IM=3½

This is one of the greatest performances ever by any Belgian, standing with O’Kelly’s successes in the Costa del Sol tournaments or Koltanowski’s Spanish victories from the thirties. Along the way to his victory, Gurevich managed to defeat young Russian star Grischuk as well as a bunch of experienced grandmaster and hold a draw with black against the great Svidler. He could have won outright, had he not lost on time against Hansen, in a position he might have been able to hold. I took the crosstable from [1] and the games from [2]. They seem to correspond with the official site [3].

Wanted

  • Not much.

Sources

  1. The Week In Chess Nos. 296 & 297
  2. ChessBase
  3. The official site [archived]
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