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31 Temmuz 2008
GM Suat Atalık after his brilliant performance in Greek League went on to win the seventh edition of Istanbul International Chess Festival after drawing against his compatriot and Turkish Champion GM Mikhail Gurevich. Atalık scored 8 points and shared the first place with the Armenian IM Levon Babuijan who defeated GM Levan Panstulaia in the last round but Atalık won the event on tie-breaks. 3-9.places were shared by GM Mikhail Gurevich, GM Arman Pashikian, GM Merab Gagunashvili, GM Gadir Guseinov, GM Giorgi Bagaturov, GM Valeriy Aveskulov and GM Evgenij Ermenkov.
Former News
GM Suat Atalık won against GM Levan Pantsula,a to take the lead again before the final round with 7.5 points while he is followed by GM Mikhail Gurevich who defeated GM Armen Pashikian and IM Levon Babuijan who defeated GM Sergey Grigoriants. In the final round the Turkish Grandmasters GM Suat Atalık and GM Mikhail Gurevich are facing each other.
Apart from the Turkish Grandmasters Mikhail Gurevich(2631) and Suat Atalık(2585), Gadir Guseinov(2643), Levan Pantsulaia (2607), Sergey Grigoriants(2577) , Merab Gagunashvili(2566) and total of 13 GMs, 6 WGMs, 6 IMs, 5 WIMs and 10 FMs are participating. There are 386 players in the Istanbul Chess Festival from 11 countries. You can check the results from the tournament page.
