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Aerosvit 2008: Carlsen wins by a full point
19.06.2008 – Alexei Shirov and Andrei Volokitin scored final round victories, while Vassily Ivanchuk won another game, this time against Pavel Eljanov in a queen ending. Magnus Carlsen held Ukrainian co-prodigy Sergey Karjakin to a draw to take the category 19 tournament by a full point, with a 2877 performance. He will be number two in the next world rankings – if FIDE rates this event.

Aerosvit-2008 Tournament in Foros, Ukraine

The "Aerosvit-2008" tournament took place in a sanatorium complex in the settlement Foros of AR Crimea, Ukraine, from June 8th to June 19th, 2008. It was a 12-player round robin with invited participants. The average rating of the players was 2711.7, time controls 90 minutes for the first 40 moves and 30 minutes to the end of the game, with an addition of 30 sec. after every move. In case of equal points at the end of the tournament the tiebreak is based on the (1) the result of the direct encounter; (2) the Sonneborn-Berger system; (3) the number of won games.

Round eleven report (final)

White	Res.	Black	Moves
Ivanchuk, Vassily	1-0	Eljanov, Pavel	60
Karjakin, Sergey	½-½	Carlsen, Magnus	30
Volokitin, Andrei	1-0	Alekseev, Evgeny	45
Jakovenko, Dmitry	½-½	Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter	18
Svidler, Peter	½-½	Van Wely, Loek	37
Onischuk, Alexander	0-1	Shirov, Alexei	29

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Final standings (after eleven rounds)

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Magnus Carlsen's overall performance in this tournament is 2877, and his live rating is 2791.5. Which means that if the FIDE world rankings were published today he would be second in the world, seven points behind Anand and one point ahead of (can you guess?) Vassily Ivanchuk! Yes, the Ukrainian GM has overtaken Vladimir Kramnik, who is 2788 and now number four on the list. Alexander Morozevich is a point (actually a tenth of a point) behind Kramnik and Veselin Topalov is number six, eleven points behind Morozevich. Just twelve days left for the official list with the exact figures to be published.

But will Foros be rated? In the Executive Board Minutes of the 78th FIDE Congress, 14-16 November, 2007, in Antalya, Turkey, we read:

"Linares Tournament had been rated for April but some tournaments were not rated. The Qualification Commission decided to have a clear deadline, except for FIDE events listed in the FIDE Handbook. The 15th of the respective previous month is the deadline. A fine of 50 euros should be paid for the late registration."

On Thursday a member of the FIDE ratings commission announced that Foros would be included in the July 1st rating list, but then on Friday the same member retracted his statement, saying that he had been made aware of the above decision and that FIDE was determined to stick by this rule.

We can only repeat what we said a few days ago: FIDE has in the past made exceptions to include key tournaments in the ratings lists. In April 2007 it rated Morelia/Linares although the results could only be submitted after the original deadline. The consideration is that the accuracy of the ratings and their up-to-dateness should take precedence over burocratic guidelines. This applies especially in cases where chess history is in the making. The pressure from chess fans and the media will be enormous. In 2007 1.1 billion chess fans were ready to launch a protest if Anand were not ranked number one. Under worldwide pressure FIDE had to relent and corrected its April list one day later to include Morelia/Linares and put Anand on the top of the rankings.

Live ratings

Independent of what FIDE decides, for the time being we have Hans Arild Runde's Live Top List, which is updated minutes after tournaments are completed. The Live Top List cover all players with a current, live rating above 2700, who are now generally known as "Super-GMs".

Live Top List – June 19th, compiled at 18:57 CEST.

Rank	Player	Rating	Change	games	events	born	FIDE
01	Anand	2798,1	-4,9	2	1	1969	id-card
02	Carlsen	2791,5	+26,5	27	4	1990	id-card
03	Ivanchuk	2790,8	+50,8	36	4	1969	id-card
04	Kramnik	2788,0	0	0	0	1975	id-card
05	Morozevich	2787,9	+13,9	20	3	1977	id-card
06	Topalov	2777,0	+10	10	1	1975	id-card
07	Radjabov	2744,1	-6,9	31	3	1987	id-card
08	Mamedyarov	2742,1	-9,9	23	2	1985	id-card
09	Leko	2741,0	0	0	0	1979	id-card
10	Aronian	2737,1	-25,9	11	2	1982	id-card
11	Shirov	2736,7	-3,3	22	3	1972	id-card
12	Adams	2734,5	+5,5	20	2	1971	id-card
13	Karjakin	2728,9	-3,1	38	4	1990	id-card
14	Grischuk	2728,2	+12,2	21	2	1983	id-card
15	Svidler	2727,2	-18,8	43	4	1976	id-card
16	Eljanov	2724,9	+37,9	34	5	1983	id-card
17	Movsesian	2723,3	+28,3	53	7	1978	id-card
18	Kamsky	2722,7	-3,3	28	3	1974	id-card
19	Gelfand	2719,8	-3,2	10	2	1968	id-card
20	Ponomariov	2717,6	-1,4	10	1	1983	id-card
21	Gashimov	2716,9	+37,9	34	4	1986	id-card
22	Polgar	2710,6	+1,6	3	1	1976	id-card
23	Jakovenko	2709,5	-1,5	31	5	1983	id-card
24	Dominguez	2707,5	+12,5	19	2	1983	id-card
25	Ni	2705,0	+1	28	4	1983	id-card
26	Bu	2704,6	-3,4	25	4	1985	id-card
27	Milov	2704,6	+14,6	16	4	1972	id-card
28	Wang Yue	2704,1	+15,1	28	4	1987	id-card
29	Alekseev	2702,7	-8,3	23	3	1985	id-card