FIDE 2-nd memorial GM Nino Kirov (BUL) PGN chess games notation

PGN Chess Game 2-nd memorial GM Nino Kirov (BUL)
[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.11"]
[Round "1.1"]
[White "Georgiev, Kiril"]
[Black "Daels, Marc"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A70"]
[WhiteElo "2672"]
[BlackElo "2207"]
[PlyCount "45"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 e6 4. Nc3 exd5 5. cxd5 d6 6. e4 g6 7. Bd3 Bg7 8. h3
O-O 9. Nf3 Nbd7 10. O-O Nh5 11. Bg5 Qb6 12. Rb1 a6 13. a4 h6 14. Be3 Qd8 15.
Qd2 g5 16. b4 b6 17. Ne2 Re8 18. Rfc1 Ne5 19. Nxe5 Bxe5 20. a5 bxa5 21. bxc5
Qf6 22. cxd6 a4 23. Rb6 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.11"]
[Round "1.2"]
[White "Stanoev, Atanas"]
[Black "Radulski, Julian"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D60"]
[WhiteElo "2202"]
[BlackElo "2577"]
[PlyCount "79"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 e6 3. c4 Nf6 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bg5 Nbd7 6. e3 h6 7. Bh4 O-O 8. Be2
dxc4 9. Bxc4 a6 10. a4 c5 11. O-O Qa5 12. Qe2 cxd4 13. Nxd4 Ne5 14. Ba2 Ng6 15.
Bg3 e5 16. Nc2 Qb6 17. Nd5 Nxd5 18. Bxd5 Qxb2 19. e4 Nf4 20. Bxf4 exf4 21. Rab1
Qe5 22. Bxb7 Rb8 23. Bxc8 Rfxc8 24. Rxb8 Rxb8 25. Qxa6 Qxe4 26. Ne1 Ra8 27. Qb5
Qxa4 28. Qf5 Qc4 29. Nf3 Bc5 30. Qd7 g6 31. h3 Ra7 32. Qd8+ Kg7 33. Qb8 Re7 34.
Qb2+ Kh7 35. Ne5 Qa6 36. Nf3 Re2 37. Qc1 {Diagram #} Bxf2+ $4 38. Rxf2 Qa7 39.
Qf1 {Diagram #} Qe3 $4 40. Qxe2 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.11"]
[Round "1.3"]
[White "Rusev, Krasimir"]
[Black "Kostadinov, Rumen"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E90"]
[WhiteElo "2547"]
[BlackElo "2200"]
[PlyCount "49"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 g6 2. c4 Bg7 3. Nc3 d6 4. e4 c6 5. Be3 Nf6 6. h3 a6 7. c5 O-O 8. Nf3 b5
9. cxb6 Qxb6 10. Qd2 Nbd7 11. Rc1 Rb8 12. b3 c5 13. e5 Ne8 14. exd6 exd6 15.
Na4 Qb4 16. dxc5 Qxd2+ 17. Nxd2 dxc5 18. Nxc5 Nef6 19. Nxa6 Bxa6 20. Bxa6 Ra8
21. Bc4 Rxa2 22. Nf3 Ne4 23. O-O Nc3 24. Rfe1 Rc8 25. Bd2 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.11"]
[Round "1.4"]
[White "Vachev, Vladimir"]
[Black "Grigorov, Grigor"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B85"]
[WhiteElo "2145"]
[BlackElo "2508"]
[PlyCount "75"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be2 e6 7. O-O Nc6 8. Be3
Be7 9. a4 O-O 10. f4 Qc7 11. Kh1 Re8 12. Nb3 b6 13. Bf3 Rb8 14. Qe2 Na5 15.
Rad1 Nc4 16. Bc1 Bf8 17. g4 Bb7 18. g5 Nd7 19. Bg2 g6 20. Rd3 Bg7 21. Rh3 f5
22. gxf6 Nxf6 23. Rd3 Rbc8 24. Nd2 Nxd2 25. Bxd2 d5 26. e5 Nd7 27. h4 Nc5 28.
Rd4 Rf8 29. Bh3 Kh8 30. Be3 Qe7 31. Qe1 Rf7 32. Rg1 Rcf8 33. Kh2 Nd7 34. Rg5
Bh6 35. Nd1 Nc5 36. Nf2 Bxg5 37. hxg5 Nd7 38. Ng4 {....} 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.11"]
[Round "1.5"]
[White "Petrov, Marijan"]
[Black "Ivanov, Borislav"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B19"]
[WhiteElo "2500"]
[BlackElo "2128"]
[PlyCount "93"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bf5 5. Ng3 Bg6 6. h4 h6 7. Nf3 Nd7 8. Bd3
Bxd3 9. Qxd3 e6 10. Bf4 Qa5+ 11. Bd2 Qc7 12. O-O-O Ngf6 13. Qe2 c5 14. Rhe1
cxd4 15. Nxd4 Bc5 16. Nb3 Bb6 17. Nf5 O-O 18. Ne3 a5 19. Kb1 a4 20. Nc1 a3 21.
b3 Ne4 22. Nc4 Ndf6 23. Nxb6 Nxd2+ 24. Rxd2 Qxb6 25. c4 Rfd8 26. Red1 Rxd2 27.
Rxd2 Rd8 28. Qe3 Qa5 29. Rxd8+ Qxd8 30. b4 Qd1 31. Qxa3 Ne4 32. Qd3 Qe1 33. a3
Nxf2 34. Qe2 Qg1 35. Qf3 g6 36. Kb2 Qe1 37. c5 Qd2+ 38. Kb3 Nd1 39. Ne2 Qb2+
40. Kc4 Qd2 {Diagram #} 41. Kb5 $5 Qxe2+ 42. Qxe2 Nc3+ 43. Kb6 Nxe2 44. Kxb7
Nc3 45. c6 Nd5 46. c7 Ne7 47. a4 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.11"]
[Round "1.6"]
[White "Ljangov, Petar"]
[Black "Petkov, Vladimir"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A28"]
[WhiteElo "2107"]
[BlackElo "2490"]
[PlyCount "76"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e5 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. a3 a5 5. d4 exd4 6. Nxd4 Bc5 7. Nxc6 bxc6 8.
e3 O-O 9. Be2 Rb8 10. O-O d5 11. Na4 Be7 12. Bd2 dxc4 13. Bxc4 Bd6 14. h3 Ne4
15. Be1 Qe7 16. Qh5 Nf6 17. Qh4 Qe5 18. g3 Qf5 19. Bc3 Ne4 20. Bd3 Re8 21. Bxe4
Qxe4 22. Qg5 f6 23. Bxf6 Bf8 24. Bd4 Bxh3 25. f3 Qc2 26. Rf2 Qxa4 27. g4 Re6
28. Rh2 Rh6 29. Kf2 Rb5 30. Qd8 Rd5 31. Qe8 Rxd4 32. exd4 Qxd4+ 33. Kg3 Qd6+
34. f4 Qd3+ 35. Kf2 Rf6 36. Qe3 {Diagram #} Bc5 37. Qxc5 Rxf4+ 38. Kg1 Rf1+ 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.11"]
[Round "1.7"]
[White "Vasilev, Milen"]
[Black "Gavrilidis, Georgios"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A45"]
[WhiteElo "2466"]
[BlackElo "2100"]
[PlyCount "51"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 b6 3. Nc3 Bb7 4. d5 e5 5. e4 Bb4 6. Bd3 c6 7. dxc6 dxc6 8. Nf3
Nbd7 9. O-O Bxc3 10. bxc3 Qe7 11. a4 O-O 12. Nh4 Qe6 13. Nf5 h6 14. Be3 c5 15.
f3 Rad8 16. Qe2 Nh5 17. Bc4 Qf6 18. g3 Kh7 19. Qg2 Rfe8 20. a5 Nb8 21. axb6
axb6 22. Ra7 Rd7 23. Qh3 Qg6 24. Nh4 Qc6 25. Bd5 Rxd5 26. Qf5+ 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.11"]
[Round "1.8"]
[White "Bednikova, Stefi"]
[Black "Bratanov, Zsivko"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B49"]
[WhiteElo "2094"]
[BlackElo "2463"]
[PlyCount "46"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Qc7 5. Nc3 e6 6. Be3 a6 7. Be2 Nf6 8.
O-O Bb4 9. Ndb5 axb5 10. Nxb5 Qe5 11. Bb6 O-O 12. Bc7 Qxe4 13. Bd3 Qg4 14. Be2
Qg5 15. h4 Qxh4 16. Bg3 Qg5 17. Nc7 Ne4 18. Bh2 Ra5 19. Bd3 f5 20. c3 Bd6 21.
Bxd6 Nxd6 22. b4 Ra3 23. f4 Qf6 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.11"]
[Round "1.9"]
[White "Janev, Evgeni"]
[Black "Karadimov, Marin"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C94"]
[WhiteElo "2461"]
[BlackElo "2081"]
[PlyCount "79"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 O-O 8. h3
d6 9. c3 Nb8 10. d3 Nbd7 11. Nbd2 Nc5 12. Bc2 Re8 13. d4 Ncd7 14. d5 Bb7 15.
Nf1 c6 16. dxc6 Bxc6 17. Ng3 Qc7 18. Nf5 Bf8 19. Ng5 h6 20. Nf3 Nc5 21. Nd2 g6
22. Ne3 Qb7 23. Ng4 Nh5 24. b4 Ne6 25. Nb3 Kh7 26. Na5 Qc7 27. Qf3 Ra7 28. Be3
Ng5 29. Bxg5 hxg5 30. Qe3 Bd7 31. Bb3 Bxg4 32. hxg4 Nf6 33. Qxg5 Kg7 34. Rac1
Be7 35. c4 Qb6 36. cxb5 Qxb5 37. Nc6 Rc7 {Diagram #} 38. Nd4 $1 Rxc1 39. Nf5+
Kg8 {Diagram #} 40. Qxg6+ $1 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.11"]
[Round "1.10"]
[White "Gantar, Jan"]
[Black "Velikov, Petar"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B43"]
[WhiteElo "2077"]
[BlackElo "2433"]
[PlyCount "100"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. Nc3 a6 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 b5 6. g3 Bb7 7. Bg2 Nf6 8. Qe2
Qb6 9. Nb3 Qc7 10. O-O d6 11. Bf4 Nbd7 12. Rfe1 Ne5 13. Nd1 Be7 14. c3 O-O 15.
Nd4 Rfc8 16. Nf3 Ng6 17. Nd2 Nxf4 18. gxf4 g6 19. Bf3 Bf8 20. Ne3 Bh6 21. f5
Re8 22. fxg6 hxg6 23. Ng4 Nxg4 24. Bxg4 Bf4 25. Nf1 Kg7 26. Red1 Rh8 27. Rd3
Qc5 28. Qf3 Qe5 29. Qg2 Rh4 30. Rh3 Rah8 31. Rxh4 Rxh4 32. Bf3 b4 33. Rb1 a5
34. Ng3 Ba6 35. cxb4 axb4 36. Rd1 Kf8 37. b3 Qb2 38. e5 Qxe5 39. Bb7 Bxb7 40.
Qxb7 Kg7 41. Qa8 Qb2 42. Qa7 Be5 43. Rf1 Rd4 44. Kh1 Qc2 45. Qb7 Qxa2 46. Qf3
Qc2 47. Rg1 Bxg3 48. Qxg3 Qe4+ 49. f3 Qf4 50. Qh3 Rd3 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.11"]
[Round "1.11"]
[White "Arnaudov, G  Petar"]
[Black "Petrovski, Igor"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B38"]
[WhiteElo "2413"]
[BlackElo "2032"]
[PlyCount "65"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 c5 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 Bg7 6. e4 d6 7. Be2 O-O 8. Be3
Nc6 9. Qd2 Ng4 10. Bxg4 Bxg4 11. O-O Bd7 12. Rfd1 Nxd4 13. Bxd4 Bc6 14. b4 a6
15. b5 Bd7 16. Bxg7 Kxg7 17. e5 Bg4 18. f3 Qb6+ 19. Kh1 Be6 20. exd6 Qxd6 21.
Qb2 Qe5 22. Re1 Qf6 23. Qb4 a5 24. Qa3 Qd4 25. Re4 Qf2 26. Rae1 Bxc4 27. Nd1
Qxa2 28. Qc3+ Kg8 29. Rxc4 a4 30. Ne3 a3 31. Nd5 Rfe8 32. Nc7 Rec8 33. Ne6 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.11"]
[Round "1.12"]
[White "Lalev, Ivan"]
[Black "Nikolov, Sasho"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A10"]
[WhiteElo "2026"]
[BlackElo "2403"]
[PlyCount "60"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. c4 g6 2. Nc3 Bg7 3. e4 Nc6 4. g3 d6 5. Bg2 h5 6. h3 e5 7. Nge2 h4 8. g4 f5
9. exf5 gxf5 10. gxf5 Bxf5 11. d3 Nf6 12. Be3 Qd7 13. Qd2 O-O-O 14. Nd5 Nxd5
15. cxd5 Nd4 16. O-O-O Rdg8 17. Nc3 Bh6 18. f4 exf4 19. Bxf4 {Diagram #} Rxg2
20. Qxg2 Bxf4+ 21. Kb1 Qh7 22. Ne4 Rg8 23. Qf2 Bxe4 24. Qxd4 Bxh1 25. Rxh1 Be5
26. Qxa7 Qxd3+ 27. Ka1 Bxb2+ 28. Kxb2 Rg2+ 29. Ka1 Qc3+ 30. Kb1 Qb2# 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.11"]
[Round "1.13"]
[White "Dimitrov, Radoslav"]
[Black "Vrban, Rok"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A26"]
[WhiteElo "2394"]
[BlackElo "2005"]
[PlyCount "102"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 d6 3. g3 Nc6 4. Bg2 e5 5. Nf3 g6 6. O-O Bg7 7. d3 O-O 8. Bd2
Nd7 9. a3 a5 10. Rb1 Nc5 11. b4 axb4 12. axb4 Ne6 13. e3 f5 14. Qc2 g5 15. Nd5
Ne7 16. b5 Ng6 17. Bc3 g4 18. Nd2 Bh6 19. f4 gxf3 20. Rxf3 Ng5 21. Rf2 f4 22.
exf4 exf4 23. Qb2 Rf7 24. Nf6+ Kf8 25. Re1 Ne5 26. Rxe5 dxe5 27. Bxe5 Nh3+ 28.
Bxh3 Bxh3 29. Nd5 fxg3 30. Rxf7+ Kxf7 31. hxg3 Be6 32. Bxc7 Qg5 33. Bf4 Qg6 34.
Qe5 Bxf4 35. Qxf4+ Qf5 36. Nf3 Qxf4 37. Nxf4 Bf5 38. Kf2 Ke7 39. Ke3 Rg8 40.
Kf2 Kd6 41. d4 b6 42. Nd5 Rf8 43. Ke3 Rg8 44. Nxb6 Rxg3 45. Kf4 Rh3 46. c5+ Kc7
47. Ng5 Rb3 48. Kxf5 Rxb5 49. Nxh7 Kc6 50. Ke6 Rxc5 51. dxc5 Kxc5 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.11"]
[Round "1.14"]
[White "Savov, Zheljazko"]
[Black "Badev, Kiril"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B40"]
[WhiteElo "1989"]
[BlackElo "2369"]
[PlyCount "56"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Bd3 Nc6 6. Nb3 d5 7. exd5 exd5 8.
O-O Bd6 9. Re1+ Be6 10. Nc3 O-O 11. h3 Rc8 12. Nb5 Bb8 13. N5d4 Qc7 14. Nf3 d4
15. Bg5 Nh5 16. Nc5 Bd5 17. Be4 Bxe4 18. Nxe4 h6 19. Bh4 Qb6 20. Nfd2 Nf4 21.
Bg3 Nb4 22. Qf3 f5 23. Bxf4 Bxf4 24. Qxf4 fxe4 25. Qxe4 Nxc2 26. Qd5+ Kh8 27.
Re6 Rc6 28. Nc4 Qc5 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.11"]
[Round "1.15"]
[White "Kukov, Velislav"]
[Black "Georgieva, Emilia"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D13"]
[WhiteElo "2367"]
[BlackElo "1934"]
[PlyCount "57"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. d4 c6 3. c4 Nf6 4. cxd5 cxd5 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Bf4 a6 7. Rc1 e6 8. e3
Bd6 9. Bg3 Bxg3 10. hxg3 Qa5 11. Bd3 Bd7 12. Ne5 Nxe5 13. dxe5 Ne4 14. Qg4 Nxc3
15. Rxc3 g6 16. Qf4 Rc8 17. b4 Rxc3 18. bxa5 Rc1+ 19. Kd2 Rxh1 20. Qb4 Bc6 21.
Qd6 Rf8 {Diagram #} 22. Bxa6 Ra1 23. Bxb7 Rxa2+ 24. Kc3 Bxb7 25. Qb8+ Ke7 26.
Qxb7+ Ke8 27. a6 f6 28. Kb3 Ra1 29. Kb2 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.11"]
[Round "1.16"]
[White "Krastev, Krasimir Naidenov"]
[Black "Dimitrov, Pavel"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A07"]
[WhiteElo "1825"]
[BlackElo "2361"]
[PlyCount "104"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 c6 4. O-O Bf5 5. d3 Nbd7 6. Nh4 Bg6 7. Nxg6 hxg6 8.
e4 e6 9. Be3 dxe4 10. dxe4 Ne5 11. Qxd8+ Kxd8 12. h3 Ke8 13. Nd2 Rd8 14. Rad1
c5 15. f4 Nc6 16. Nb3 b6 17. Rxd8+ Kxd8 18. c4 e5 19. Rd1+ Kc7 20. Nc1 Be7 21.
Ne2 Rd8 22. Rxd8 Kxd8 23. Nc3 Nh5 24. Kf2 Nb4 25. Bf1 Nc2 26. Bc1 exf4 27. gxf4
Bh4+ 28. Kf3 f5 29. Bd2 Nd4+ 30. Kg2 Bg3 31. Ne2 Nxe2 32. Bxe2 Nf6 33. e5 Ne4
34. Bc1 Bh4 35. Kf3 Kd7 36. Be3 Be1 37. Bd3 Ng3 38. Bf2 Bxf2 39. Kxf2 Nh5 40.
Kf3 Ke6 41. h4 Ke7 42. Bc2 Ke8 43. a3 Ke7 44. b4 Kd7 45. Ba4+ Ke7 46. Bc6 g5
47. hxg5 g6 48. Ke3 Ng7 49. Bd5 Ne8 50. Kd3 Ng7 51. Ke3 Nh5 52. Bf3 Ng7 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.11"]
[Round "1.17"]
[White "Panbukchian, Valentin"]
[Black "Davidov, Stefan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A03"]
[WhiteElo "2361"]
[PlyCount "65"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. f4 d5 2. Nf3 c6 3. b3 Nf6 4. Bb2 Bg4 5. e3 e6 6. Be2 Nbd7 7. O-O Bd6 8. c4
O-O 9. Nc3 a6 10. Kh1 b5 11. a3 Nb6 12. cxd5 exd5 13. h3 Bf5 14. Nd4 Bd7 15.
Bf3 Rc8 16. d3 c5 17. Nde2 Bc6 18. e4 dxe4 19. dxe4 Bb8 20. Qc2 b4 21. Nd1 Bb5
22. Nf2 Bxe2 23. Qxe2 Bxf4 24. Qxa6 Nfd7 25. Nd3 Bd6 26. axb4 cxb4 27. Qb5 Nc5
28. Nxb4 Nxb3 29. Rad1 Qc7 30. Na6 Qc4 31. Qxb6 Rc6 32. Qe3 Qxa6 33. e5 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.11"]
[Round "1.18"]
[White "Lichkov, Ivan"]
[Black "Menkinoski, Riste"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E27"]
[BlackElo "2355"]
[PlyCount "62"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. f3 d5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 O-O 7. cxd5 exd5 8.
e3 Nh5 9. Qc2 c5 10. Bd3 g6 11. g4 Ng7 12. Qf2 f5 13. gxf5 Bxf5 14. Bxf5 Nxf5
15. h4 Qe7 16. Ne2 Nc6 17. Rb1 Rae8 18. Rh3 cxd4 19. cxd4 Qd7 20. Rh2 Nd6 21.
Qg3 Qf5 22. Qxd6 Qxb1 23. Qxd5+ Kh8 24. Kf2 Rf5 25. Qc4 Qe4 26. Rh3 Ne5 27. Qc3
Rxf3+ 28. Rxf3 Qxf3+ 29. Kg1 Ng4 30. d5+ Kg8 31. Qb3 Qf2+ 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.11"]
[Round "1.19"]
[White "Nikolova, Adriana"]
[Black "Simeonov, Ventsislav"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B98"]
[WhiteElo "2336"]
[PlyCount "81"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bg5 e6 7. f4 Be7 8. Qf3
Qc7 9. O-O-O Nc6 10. Nxc6 bxc6 11. e5 Nd5 12. Bxe7 Qxe7 13. Ne4 dxe5 14. fxe5
O-O 15. Bd3 Qh4 16. g4 Rb8 17. Rhg1 Ne7 18. g5 Ng6 19. Rg4 Nxe5 20. Qxf7+ Rxf7
21. Rxh4 Nxd3+ 22. Rxd3 Rf1+ 23. Kd2 e5 24. g6 Bf5 25. gxh7+ Bxh7 26. Rdh3 Bxe4
27. Rh8+ Kf7 28. Rxb8 c5 29. Re3 Rf4 30. Rc8 Rf2+ 31. Re2 Rxe2+ 32. Kxe2 Bxc2
33. Rxc5 Bb1 34. Ra5 e4 35. Ke3 Bd3 36. Rg5 Kf6 37. h4 Bb1 38. a3 Bd3 39. b4
Bc2 40. Rc5 Bd3 41. a4 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.11"]
[Round "1.20"]
[White "Mandzhukov, Stoyan"]
[Black "Todorov, Ognjan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A22"]
[BlackElo "2309"]
[PlyCount "49"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e5 3. g3 Bc5 4. e3 O-O 5. Bg2 Re8 6. Nge2 c6 7. O-O d6 8. d4
Bb6 9. b4 e4 10. c5 Bc7 11. d5 dxc5 12. dxc6 Qxd1 13. Rxd1 cxb4 14. cxb7 Bxb7
15. Rb1 a5 16. Nb5 Be5 17. Bb2 Nbd7 18. Nd6 Reb8 19. a3 Ba6 20. Bf1 Bd3 21.
Bxe5 Nxe5 22. Ra1 b3 23. Nc3 b2 24. Rab1 Bxb1 25. Rxb1 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.11"]
[Round "1.21"]
[White "Andonov, Bogomil"]
[Black "Stankov, Stanimir"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B37"]
[WhiteElo "2302"]
[PlyCount "44"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. Nc3 g6 4. e4 d6 5. d4 cxd4 6. Nxd4 Bg7 7. Be2 O-O 8. O-O
Nc6 9. Nc2 b6 10. Be3 Bb7 11. Qd2 Rc8 12. f3 Ne5 13. b3 Ned7 14. Rac1 a6 15.
Rfd1 Ne8 16. Nd4 e5 17. Nc2 f5 18. exf5 Rxf5 19. Bd3 Rf8 20. Be4 Bc6 21. Bxc6
Rxc6 22. Qd5+ Kh8 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.11"]
[Round "1.22"]
[White "Vakavchiev, Ivan"]
[Black "Nikolaou, Georgios"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E94"]
[BlackElo "2292"]
[PlyCount "47"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. c4 Bg7 4. Nc3 O-O 5. e4 d6 6. Be2 Na6 7. O-O e5 8. Bg5
h6 9. Bh4 Qe8 10. Bxf6 Bxf6 11. d5 Bg7 12. Nd2 c5 13. Bg4 f5 14. exf5 gxf5 15.
Bh3 Qg6 16. a3 Rf7 17. Nb5 Bd7 18. a4 Kh7 19. Ra3 Re8 20. Rg3 Qf6 21. Qh5 e4
22. Nxd6 Rff8 23. Bxf5+ Bxf5 24. Nxe8 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.11"]
[Round "1.23"]
[White "Veleski, Robert"]
[Black "Dimitrov, Ivan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D93"]
[WhiteElo "2289"]
[PlyCount "102"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. Bf4 Bg7 4. e3 d5 5. c4 O-O 6. Nc3 c6 7. Qb3 dxc4 8. Bxc4
Qb6 9. O-O Qxb3 10. Bxb3 Nh5 11. Bg5 Bf6 12. Ne4 Bxg5 13. Nexg5 Nf6 14. Ne5 e6
15. Rac1 h6 16. Ngf3 Nbd7 17. Rfd1 Nb6 18. h3 Kg7 19. g3 Bd7 20. Kg2 Rad8 21.
a4 a6 22. Nd2 Bc8 23. a5 Na8 24. Ndc4 Nc7 25. Nd3 Nb5 26. Ba4 Nc7 27. Nc5 Na8
28. Bb3 Ne8 29. Ba2 Nd6 30. Ne5 Rfe8 31. Rc3 f6 32. Nf3 Nb5 33. Rcc1 Nac7 34.
Bc4 Nd6 35. Be2 Nf7 36. Rc3 Nd6 37. Rb3 Ndb5 38. Rd2 Kf7 39. Bc4 h5 40. g4 hxg4
41. hxg4 g5 42. Rd1 Nd6 43. Be2 Nd5 44. Nd2 e5 45. dxe5 Rxe5 46. Nc4 Re7 47.
Nxd6+ Rxd6 48. Bf3 Ke8 49. Kg3 Rd8 50. Rbd3 Rdd7 51. Nxd7 Rxd7 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.11"]
[Round "1.24"]
[White "Chorapinov, Marian"]
[Black "Argiroudis, Stamatis"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D00"]
[BlackElo "2284"]
[PlyCount "58"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. d4 c5 3. Nc3 d5 4. e3 g6 5. Bd2 Bg7 6. g3 O-O 7. Bg2 Nc6 8. O-O
Bg4 9. h3 Bxf3 10. Qxf3 cxd4 11. Nxd5 Nxd5 12. Qxd5 Qb6 13. Rab1 Rfd8 14. Qb3
Qxb3 15. axb3 Rac8 16. Rfd1 b6 17. c3 dxe3 18. Bxe3 Na5 19. Rxd8+ Rxd8 20. Ra1
Rd7 21. b4 Nc4 22. Rb1 Nxe3 23. fxe3 Rd2 24. Ra1 Rxb2 25. Rxa7 Bxc3 26. Rxe7
Bxb4 27. Re5 Bc5 28. Kh2 Rb3 29. e4 Bd6 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.11"]
[Round "1.25"]
[White "Stoinev, Metodi"]
[Black "Vezenkov, Stoyan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C40"]
[WhiteElo "2268"]
[PlyCount "71"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 f5 3. Nxe5 Qf6 4. d4 d6 5. Nc4 fxe4 6. d5 Qf7 7. Nc3 Nf6 8. Be2
Be7 9. O-O O-O 10. f3 exf3 11. Bxf3 Qg6 12. Nb5 Na6 13. Be3 Bf5 14. Nd4 Be4 15.
Ne6 Nxd5 16. Nxf8 Rxf8 17. Bxe4 Qxe4 18. Rxf8+ Bxf8 19. Qd4 Nc5 20. Rd1 Nf6 21.
Qxe4 Ncxe4 22. Na5 b6 23. Nc6 a5 24. c4 Kf7 25. h3 Ke6 26. g4 Kd7 27. Nd4 h5
28. g5 Ne8 29. Rf1 Be7 30. Rf7 d5 31. Nf5 N8d6 32. Rxe7+ Kd8 33. Nxd6 Kxe7 34.
Nxe4 dxe4 35. Bf4 c6 36. Bc7 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.11"]
[Round "1.26"]
[White "Ismail, Tamer"]
[Black "Angelov, Georgi"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B90"]
[BlackElo "2257"]
[PlyCount "76"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 Nf6 4. Nc3 cxd4 5. Nxd4 a6 6. Be3 e5 7. Nb3 Be6 8. Bd3
b5 9. Bg5 Nbd7 10. Qf3 Be7 11. h3 b4 12. Ne2 O-O 13. Ng3 h6 14. Bxf6 Nxf6 15.
O-O a5 16. Rad1 Qb6 17. Nd2 Rac8 18. b3 Rc3 19. Qe2 Rfc8 20. Nf3 a4 21. Nh4 g6
22. Nf3 Nd7 23. Qd2 Kg7 24. Ne2 R3c7 25. bxa4 Nc5 26. Qe3 Qa5 27. Nh2 Nxa4 28.
Ra1 Nc3 29. f4 Nxe2+ 30. Qxe2 exf4 31. Rxf4 Bf6 32. Raf1 Be5 33. R4f3 Qxa2 34.
Qf2 Rxc2 35. Bxc2 Rxc2 36. Rxf7+ Bxf7 37. Qf3 Qb3 38. Qg4 Qe6 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.11"]
[Round "1.27"]
[White "Gochev, Mladen"]
[Black "Alexiou, Andomahi"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B70"]
[WhiteElo "2248"]
[PlyCount "41"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Bc4 Bg7 7. O-O a6 8. Re1
b5 9. Bb3 Bb7 10. Bg5 Nbd7 11. Nd5 h6 12. Bh4 g5 13. Bg3 e6 14. Bxd6 Nxd5 15.
exd5 Qb6 16. Nxe6 Qxd6 17. Nxg7+ Kf8 18. Nh5 Nc5 19. Qd4 Rg8 20. Nf6 Nxb3 21.
Nh7# 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "2.1"]
[White "Kukov, Velislav"]
[Black "Georgiev, Kiril"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A09"]
[WhiteElo "2367"]
[BlackElo "2672"]
[PlyCount "52"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. c4 d4 3. g3 c5 4. Bg2 Nc6 5. O-O Nf6 6. d3 Bf5 7. Nbd2 e5 8. b4
cxb4 9. a3 a5 10. Qa4 Bd7 11. Bb2 Bd6 12. axb4 Nxb4 13. Qd1 O-O 14. c5 Bc7 15.
Nc4 Re8 16. e3 dxe3 17. fxe3 Bg4 18. Ra3 Nd7 19. Qb1 e4 20. dxe4 Nxc5 21. Nd4
Ra6 22. Bc3 Qe7 23. Nb5 Be2 24. Rc1 Bxc4 25. Bxb4 axb4 26. Rxa6 Bxb5 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "2.2"]
[White "Panbukchian, Valentin"]
[Black "Rusev, Krasimir"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A02"]
[WhiteElo "2361"]
[BlackElo "2547"]
[PlyCount "84"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. f4 g6 2. Nf3 Bg7 3. g3 c5 4. Bg2 Nc6 5. d3 d6 6. O-O e5 7. c3 Nge7 8. Kh1
O-O 9. Na3 h6 10. fxe5 dxe5 11. Be3 b6 12. Nc4 Be6 13. Qa4 Rc8 14. Rad1 Qc7 15.
Na3 Qd7 16. Nb5 f5 17. a3 a6 18. c4 axb5 19. Qxb5 Qc7 20. Qb3 g5 21. Qc2 f4 22.
Bf2 g4 23. Nh4 Bf6 24. Be4 Bxh4 25. gxh4 Nf5 26. Qd2 Qe7 27. Rg1 h5 28. e3 Nd6
29. Bxc6 Rxc6 30. e4 Rd8 31. Qc3 Bf7 32. b4 Qe6 33. bxc5 bxc5 34. Qa5 Rdc8 35.
a4 Bg6 36. Qe1 Kh7 37. Rg2 Rb6 38. Bg1 Rb3 39. Re2 Ra3 40. a5 Qe7 41. Bf2 Qa7
42. Rb1 Rxd3 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "2.3"]
[White "Grigorov, Grigor"]
[Black "Nikolova, Adriana"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D37"]
[WhiteElo "2508"]
[BlackElo "2336"]
[PlyCount "44"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. d4 Nf6 3. c4 e6 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bf4 O-O 6. e3 c5 7. dxc5 Bxc5 8.
cxd5 exd5 9. Be2 Nc6 10. O-O Be6 11. Rc1 Rc8 12. Ne5 Bd6 13. Nxc6 bxc6 14. Qa4
Bxf4 15. Qxf4 c5 16. Rfd1 Qb6 17. Na4 Qa5 18. Nc3 Rfd8 19. Bf3 Rb8 20. b3 Rb4
21. Qe5 Nd7 22. Qg3 Nf6 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "2.4"]
[White "Menkinoski, Riste"]
[Black "Petrov, Marijan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B14"]
[WhiteElo "2355"]
[BlackElo "2500"]
[PlyCount "72"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. c3 g6 3. d4 cxd4 4. cxd4 d5 5. exd5 Nf6 6. Nc3 Bg7 7. Be2 Nxd5 8.
Bf3 Nb6 9. d5 N8d7 10. Nge2 Ne5 11. Be4 e6 12. Nf4 exd5 13. Nfxd5 O-O 14. O-O
Bg4 15. f3 Be6 16. f4 Nc6 17. Be3 Nxd5 18. Nxd5 Re8 19. Bf2 Bxb2 20. Rb1 Bd4
21. Bxd4 Bxd5 22. Bxd5 Qxd5 23. Bf6 Qxa2 24. Qg4 Qe6 25. Qh4 b6 26. Rb3 Qf5 27.
Rb5 Qxb5 28. Qh6 Qc5+ 29. Kh1 Qf8 30. Qg5 Re6 31. Bc3 f6 32. Qh4 Ne7 33. g4 f5
34. g5 Rc8 35. Ba1 Rc2 36. Re1 Qa8+ 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "2.5"]
[White "Petkov, Vladimir"]
[Black "Andonov, Bogomil"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D26"]
[WhiteElo "2490"]
[BlackElo "2302"]
[PlyCount "113"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. c4 dxc4 4. e3 e6 5. Bxc4 c5 6. O-O cxd4 7. exd4 Nc6 8.
Nc3 Be7 9. d5 exd5 10. Nxd5 Nxd5 11. Bxd5 O-O 12. Bf4 Bf6 13. Bxc6 bxc6 14. Qc2
Be6 15. Rfd1 Bd5 16. Nd4 Qb6 17. Be3 Rfe8 18. Rd2 Qb7 19. Nf5 Be4 20. Nd6 Bxc2
21. Nxb7 Bxb2 22. Rf1 Reb8 23. Rxc2 Rxb7 24. Rb1 Rab8 25. Rxc6 h6 26. g4 Be5
27. Rxb7 Rxb7 28. Ra6 Bb8 29. Kg2 Kf8 30. h4 Ke8 31. h5 Kd8 32. Kf3 Rd7 33. Ra4
Kc8 34. Rd4 Rc7 35. Rd5 Re7 36. Bd4 f6 37. Bc5 Re8 38. Rd4 f5 39. Rc4 fxg4+ 40.
Kxg4 Kb7 41. Rb4+ Kc6 42. Be3 a5 43. Rb6+ Kd5 44. Rb5+ Ke4 45. Rxa5 Be5 46.
Ra4+ Kd5 47. Ra7 Kc4 48. Kf5 Ba1 49. a4 Re5+ 50. Kg4 Re4+ 51. Kf3 Re5 52. a5
Kb5 53. a6 Rxh5 54. Rb7+ Kc6 55. Rb6+ Kc7 56. Rb1 Be5 57. a7 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "2.6"]
[White "Todorov, Ognjan"]
[Black "Vasilev, Milen"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D37"]
[WhiteElo "2309"]
[BlackElo "2466"]
[PlyCount "80"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bf4 O-O 6. e3 c6 7. Qc2 Nbd7 8. Rd1
Nh5 9. Be5 Nhf6 10. Bg3 Qa5 11. cxd5 exd5 12. Bd3 Re8 13. O-O Nf8 14. h3 Be6
15. a3 Rac8 16. b4 Qd8 17. Na4 Bd6 18. Bxd6 Qxd6 19. Nc5 b6 20. Nxe6 Nxe6 21.
Rc1 c5 22. bxc5 bxc5 23. dxc5 Rxc5 24. Qa4 Rec8 25. Rxc5 Nxc5 26. Qc2 Rc7 27.
Rb1 g6 28. Bf1 Nce4 29. Rb8+ Kg7 30. Qb2 Rc3 31. Rb3 Rxb3 32. Qxb3 Qc5 33. Qb2
a5 34. Bd3 Qc3 35. Qxc3 Nxc3 36. Nd4 Nfe4 37. Bxe4 dxe4 38. a4 Kf6 39. Nc6 Ke6
40. Nxa5 Kd5 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "2.7"]
[White "Bratanov, Zsivko"]
[Black "Veleski, Robert"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A65"]
[WhiteElo "2463"]
[BlackElo "2289"]
[PlyCount "69"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Bd3 O-O 6. Nge2 c5 7. d5 e6 8. O-O
exd5 9. cxd5 a6 10. a4 Ng4 11. h3 Ne5 12. Bc2 f6 13. Rb1 a5 14. f4 Nf7 15. g4
Na6 16. Bd3 Nb4 17. Bc4 Bd7 18. Kg2 Qe7 19. Ng3 Rae8 20. Bb5 Bxb5 21. Nxb5 f5
22. exf5 gxf5 23. g5 Qd7 24. h4 Ne5 25. fxe5 dxe5 26. Nc3 e4 27. Nh5 Nd3 28.
Nxg7 Kxg7 29. Bf4 Kg8 30. Kg3 Qg7 31. Qd2 Qd4 32. Qe3 Qg7 33. Nb5 Rc8 34. Nc7
Qf7 35. Ne6 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "2.8"]
[White "Argiroudis, Stamatis"]
[Black "Janev, Evgeni"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E61"]
[WhiteElo "2284"]
[BlackElo "2461"]
[PlyCount "140"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 d6 2. c4 Nf6 3. Nc3 g6 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. Bf4 O-O 6. e3 Nbd7 7. h3 c6 8. Be2
a6 9. O-O b5 10. a3 bxc4 11. Bxc4 Nb6 12. Ba2 Nbd5 13. Nxd5 cxd5 14. Bg5 Rb8
15. Bxf6 Bxf6 16. Qd2 Qb6 17. Bxd5 Qxb2 18. Qxb2 Rxb2 19. Rab1 Rxb1 20. Rxb1
Bd7 21. Rb6 Bb5 22. Bc6 Be2 23. Nd2 Rc8 24. Ne4 Bg7 25. Nc3 Bc4 26. Nd5 Bf8 27.
Bb7 Rd8 28. Nb4 d5 29. Bxa6 e6 30. Bxc4 dxc4 31. Rc6 Ra8 32. Rxc4 Rxa3 33. Nc2
Rb3 34. g3 Kg7 35. Kg2 h6 36. h4 Rb5 37. Ne1 e5 38. dxe5 Rxe5 39. e4 f5 40. Nf3
Rxe4 41. Rxe4 fxe4 42. Nd2 Kf6 43. Nxe4+ Kf5 44. Kf3 h5 45. Nc3 g5 46. hxg5
Kxg5 47. Nd5 Bd6 48. Ne3 Bb8 49. Ng2 Kf5 50. Nh4+ Ke5 51. Kg2 Ba7 52. f3 Bb6
53. Kh3 Bd8 54. Ng2 Kf5 55. Ne3+ Ke5 56. Nc4+ Kd5 57. Nd2 Kd4 58. Kg2 Ke3 59.
Nc4+ Ke2 60. f4 Kd3 61. Ne5+ Ke4 62. Nf7 Be7 63. Kh3 Kf5 64. Ne5 Bd6 65. Kh4
Bc5 66. Nd3 Be3 67. Kxh5 Ke4 68. Kg6 Kxd3 69. f5 Ke4 70. f6 Kf3 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "2.9"]
[White "Velikov, Petar"]
[Black "Stoinev, Metodi"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A11"]
[WhiteElo "2433"]
[BlackElo "2268"]
[PlyCount "150"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 g6 4. c4 c6 5. b3 Bg7 6. Bb2 O-O 7. O-O b6 8. d3 Bb7
9. Nbd2 Nbd7 10. Rc1 c5 11. cxd5 Bxd5 12. Qc2 Rc8 13. Qb1 e6 14. a3 Qe7 15. Bc3
Rfd8 16. Qb2 Ne8 17. Bxg7 Nxg7 18. Rc2 Rc7 19. Rfc1 Rdc8 20. Nc4 Ne8 21. h4 h5
22. Ng5 Bxg2 23. Kxg2 Nd6 24. Nxd6 Qxd6 25. Ne4 Qd5 26. f3 e5 27. b4 Rc6 28.
Qa2 Qxa2 29. Rxa2 Kf8 30. Rac2 Ke7 31. Kf2 f5 32. Ng5 Rd6 33. f4 exf4 34. gxf4
Rd4 35. Kg3 Re8 36. Nf3 Rd5 37. bxc5 Rxc5 38. Rxc5 bxc5 39. Rb1 Kd6 40. Rb2 Kc6
41. Kf2 Re6 42. Rb1 Kc7 43. Rb5 Ra6 44. Rb3 Ra4 45. e3 Kd6 46. Rc3 Kd5 47. Ke2
Ra6 48. Nd2 Rb6 49. e4+ fxe4 50. dxe4+ Ke6 51. Rg3 Kf7 52. Nc4 Rf6 53. Rd3 Ke7
54. Ke3 Ra6 55. Rb3 Ra4 56. Kd3 Nb6 57. Nxb6 axb6 58. Rxb6 Rxa3+ 59. Kc4 Rf3
60. Kd5 Rxf4 61. Rxg6 Rxh4 62. Rg7+ Kf8 63. Rc7 Rh1 64. Rxc5 Kf7 65. Rc7+ Kg6
66. Ke6 h4 67. Rc8 Kg7 68. e5 h3 69. Rc3 h2 70. Rc2 Kg6 71. Rg2+ Kh5 72. Ke7
Kh4 73. e6 Kh3 74. Rg8 Re1 75. Rh8+ Kg2 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "2.10"]
[White "Angelov, Georgi"]
[Black "Arnaudov, G  Petar"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B47"]
[WhiteElo "2257"]
[BlackElo "2413"]
[PlyCount "64"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Nf3 e6 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 Qc7 6. Bg5 a6 7. Qd2 Nf6 8.
O-O-O Be7 9. f4 Nxd4 10. Qxd4 h6 11. Bxf6 Qxf4+ 12. Kb1 Bxf6 13. Qb4 Qc7 14.
Be2 Be5 15. Rd3 d6 16. Nd1 Bd7 17. a4 Qc5 18. Qxc5 dxc5 19. Ra3 Bc6 20. Bf3 b5
21. axb5 axb5 22. Rxa8+ Bxa8 23. Nf2 c4 24. Ng4 Bc7 25. c3 h5 26. Ne3 Ke7 27.
Nc2 Be5 28. Nd4 b4 29. Ne2 g5 30. h3 g4 31. hxg4 hxg4 32. Rxh8 gxf3 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "2.11"]
[White "Nikolov, Sasho"]
[Black "Gochev, Mladen"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E90"]
[WhiteElo "2403"]
[BlackElo "2248"]
[PlyCount "85"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Nf3 O-O 6. h3 c5 7. d5 b5 8. cxb5 a6
9. a4 Nbd7 10. Bg5 Qa5 11. Nd2 axb5 12. Bxb5 Nb6 13. O-O h6 14. Bh4 Ba6 15. f4
Bxb5 16. axb5 Qb4 17. Qc2 g5 18. fxg5 Nfxd5 19. Nxd5 Nxd5 20. Rxa8 Rxa8 21. Nc4
hxg5 22. Be1 Nc3 23. Qd3 Ra4 24. Bxc3 Bxc3 25. bxc3 Qxb5 26. Ne5 Qxd3 27. Nxd3
Rxe4 28. Re1 Rc4 29. Rxe7 Rxc3 30. Ne1 Kg7 31. Rd7 Rc1 32. Kf2 Rd1 33. Ke2 Rd5
34. Nc2 Kg6 35. g4 Kf6 36. Ne3 Rd4 37. Nf5 Ke6 38. Re7+ Kf6 39. Re8 Rd5 40. Ng3
Re5+ 41. Ne4+ Kg6 42. Rxe5 dxe5 43. Nxc5 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "2.12"]
[White "Badev, Kiril"]
[Black "Stanoev, Atanas"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B06"]
[WhiteElo "2369"]
[BlackElo "2202"]
[PlyCount "71"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 d6 2. d4 g6 3. c3 Bg7 4. f4 e5 5. dxe5 dxe5 6. Qxd8+ Kxd8 7. Nf3 Nd7 8.
Bc4 Ke7 9. O-O f6 10. Na3 exf4 11. Bxf4 Ne5 12. Nxe5 fxe5 13. Be3 Nf6 14. Bc5+
Kd8 15. Rad1+ Bd7 16. Be6 Kc8 17. Rxf6 Bxf6 18. Rxd7 Kb8 19. Nb5 Bd8 20. Be7
Bxe7 21. Rxe7 a6 22. Nxc7 Ra7 23. Nd5 b6 24. Rxa7 Kxa7 25. Nb4 b5 26. Bd5 Kb6
27. Nd3 Re8 28. Kf2 a5 29. b3 Rc8 30. c4 bxc4 31. bxc4 Re8 32. c5+ Kb5 33. a4+
Ka6 34. Ke3 Re7 35. Kd2 Re8 36. Kc3 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "2.13"]
[White "Dimitrov, Pavel"]
[Black "Vakavchiev, Ivan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C01"]
[WhiteElo "2361"]
[PlyCount "69"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 exd5 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. Bd3 Be7 6. O-O O-O 7. c3 Bg4 8. h3
Bh5 9. Bf4 Bd6 10. Bxd6 Qxd6 11. Nbd2 Nbd7 12. Re1 Rfe8 13. Qc2 Bg6 14. Bxg6
hxg6 15. c4 c5 16. cxd5 cxd4 17. Qa4 Rxe1+ 18. Rxe1 d3 19. Re3 Qxd5 20. Qa3 Qc5
21. Rxd3 Qxa3 22. Rxa3 Nc5 23. Nc4 b5 24. Nd6 b4 25. Ra5 Nce4 26. Nxe4 Nxe4 27.
Re5 Nd6 28. Rd5 Ne4 29. Rd4 Nc5 30. Rxb4 Rd8 31. Rc4 Rd1+ 32. Kh2 Nd3 33. Rc8+
Kh7 34. Ng5+ Kh6 35. Nxf7+ 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "2.14"]
[White "Vrban, Rok"]
[Black "Krastev, Krasimir Naidenov"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E67"]
[WhiteElo "2005"]
[BlackElo "1825"]
[PlyCount "87"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. g3 Bg7 4. Bg2 O-O 5. O-O c6 6. d4 d6 7. Nc3 Re8 8. Qc2
Nbd7 9. b3 e5 10. dxe5 dxe5 11. Rd1 Qc7 12. Ba3 Qa5 13. Bd6 e4 14. b4 Qa6 15.
b5 Qa5 16. Nd4 Ng4 17. Nxe4 f5 18. bxc6 fxe4 19. cxd7 Bxd7 20. Bxe4 Ba4 21. Qd2
Qxd2 22. Bd5+ Kh8 23. Rxd2 Rad8 24. Bf4 b5 25. e3 bxc4 26. Bxc4 Ne5 27. Bxe5
Bxe5 28. Rb1 Bc6 29. Rbd1 Ba8 30. Bb5 Re7 31. Bc6 Bxd4 32. Bxa8 Rxa8 33. Rxd4
Kg7 34. Rd8 Rxd8 35. Rxd8 Rb7 36. Ra8 Kf6 37. Kg2 Ke5 38. Kf3 Rf7+ 39. Ke2 Rd7
40. f4+ Kf5 41. Kf3 h5 42. h3 Rf7 43. Re8 Rc7 44. Re5+ 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "2.15"]
[White "Radulski, Julian"]
[Black "Dimitrov, Radoslav"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B97"]
[WhiteElo "2577"]
[BlackElo "2394"]
[PlyCount "114"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 Nf6 4. Nc3 cxd4 5. Nxd4 a6 6. Bg5 e6 7. f4 Qb6 8. Qd2
Qxb2 9. Rb1 Qa3 10. e5 dxe5 11. fxe5 Nfd7 12. Ne4 Qxa2 13. Rd1 Qd5 14. Qe3 Qxe5
15. Be2 Bc5 16. Bf4 Bxd4 17. Rxd4 Qa5+ 18. Rd2 O-O 19. Bd6 Nc6 20. Bxf8 Nxf8
21. O-O Qe5 22. Qf2 f6 23. Nd6 Qc3 24. Rfd1 e5 25. Bc4+ Be6 26. Rd3 Qb4 27. c3
Qa3 28. Qb6 Bxc4 29. Nxc4 Qe7 30. Nd6 Rb8 31. R3d2 g6 32. Ne4 f5 33. Nc5 e4 34.
Nxa6 Rc8 35. Nb4 Ne5 36. Rd8 Rxc3 37. Nd5 Qc5+ 38. Qxc5 Rxc5 39. Re8 Nd3 40.
Nb6 Kf7 41. Rb8 Rc2 42. Rxb7+ Ke6 43. Rb8 Kf7 44. Nd5 Nd7 45. Rd8 N7c5 46. Rd6
Nb3 47. Rb1 Ndc1 48. Rf6+ Kg7 49. Rb6 Rd2 50. Rb7+ Kh6 51. Ne3 Rd3 52. Kf2 f4
53. Ng4+ Kg5 54. Ne5 Rd2+ 55. Kf1 Rd1+ 56. Kf2 e3+ 57. Kf3 Nd2# 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "2.16"]
[White "Georgieva, Emilia"]
[Black "Drenchev, Petar"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A48"]
[WhiteElo "1934"]
[BlackElo "2477"]
[PlyCount "50"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. c3 Bg7 4. Bf4 O-O 5. e3 d6 6. Nbd2 Nc6 7. Be2 Nd7 8. h4
e5 9. Bg3 h6 10. a3 Qe7 11. Qc2 Nb6 12. dxe5 dxe5 13. e4 Be6 14. O-O f5 15. Bd3
f4 16. Bh2 g5 17. hxg5 hxg5 18. b4 g4 19. Ne1 Qf7 20. b5 Na5 21. a4 Qh5 22. c4
Rf6 23. c5 Rh6 24. Nef3 Nbc4 25. Bxc4 Nxc4 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "2.17"]
[White "Nikolaou, Georgios"]
[Black "Lalev, Ivan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A14"]
[WhiteElo "2292"]
[BlackElo "2026"]
[PlyCount "83"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. g3 e6 3. Bg2 Nf6 4. O-O Be7 5. b3 O-O 6. Bb2 c5 7. e3 Nc6 8. d4 b6
9. c4 Bb7 10. Nc3 dxc4 11. Ne5 Qc8 12. Nxc4 cxd4 13. Nb5 Rd8 14. exd4 Nb4 15.
Ne5 Bxg2 16. Kxg2 Qb7+ 17. Qf3 Nbd5 18. Ba3 Bxa3 19. Nxa3 Rac8 20. Rac1 Qa6 21.
Nac4 Rc7 22. Ne3 Rdc8 23. Nxd5 Nxd5 24. Rxc7 Rxc7 25. Rc1 Qc8 26. Qxf7+ Kh8 27.
Rxc7 Nxc7 28. h4 Nb5 29. Nf3 Qa8 30. Qd7 Nc3 31. Qxe6 h6 32. a4 Kh7 33. Qe3 Qc6
34. Kh2 Ne4 35. Qd3 g6 36. d5 Qc5 37. Qxe4 Qxf2+ 38. Kh3 Qf1+ 39. Kg4 h5+ 40.
Kg5 Qc1+ 41. Kf6 Qc3+ 42. Ne5 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "2.18"]
[White "Daels, Marc"]
[Black "Savov, Zheljazko"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B22"]
[WhiteElo "2207"]
[BlackElo "1989"]
[PlyCount "94"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. c3 d5 3. exd5 Qxd5 4. d4 Nc6 5. dxc5 Qxd1+ 6. Kxd1 Bg4+ 7. Ke1 e6
8. Be3 Nf6 9. f3 Bf5 10. Bb5 Nd5 11. Bf2 Be7 12. Ne2 O-O 13. Nd2 Ne5 14. Bd4
Nd3+ 15. Bxd3 Bxd3 16. Rd1 Bxe2 17. Kxe2 Nf4+ 18. Ke3 Nxg2+ 19. Kf2 Nf4 20. Ne4
Rfd8 21. Ke3 Nd5+ 22. Kf2 Rac8 23. Rhg1 g6 24. c4 Nb4 25. a3 Nc6 26. Bc3 e5 27.
b4 Nd4 28. Bxd4 exd4 29. Rd3 b6 30. Rgd1 bxc5 31. Nxc5 Bf6 32. f4 Kg7 33. Kf3
h6 34. Rc1 g5 35. Ne4 Kg6 36. c5 Be7 37. Rc4 f5 38. Nd2 Bf6 39. c6 g4+ 40. Kg2
Re8 41. Kf1 Re6 42. b5 Rce8 43. Rc1 Bd8 44. Nc4 Bc7 45. Ne5+ Bxe5 46. fxe5 Rxe5
47. Rxd4 R5e7 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "2.19"]
[White "Kostadinov, Rumen"]
[Black "Davidov, Stefan"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E04"]
[WhiteElo "2200"]
[PlyCount "76"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. g3 e6 4. Bg2 c5 5. O-O Nc6 6. c4 dxc4 7. Qa4 cxd4 8.
Nxd4 Qxd4 9. Bxc6+ Bd7 10. Bxd7+ Qxd7 11. Qxc4 Be7 12. Nc3 O-O 13. Rd1 Qc8 14.
Qb3 a6 15. Bf4 b5 16. Rac1 Qb7 17. a4 b4 18. a5 Rac8 19. Bd6 Bxd6 20. Rxd6 Nd5
21. e4 Qb8 22. Rxa6 bxc3 23. Qxb8 Rxb8 24. exd5 cxb2 25. Rb1 Rfc8 26. Kg2 exd5
27. Rb6 Rxb6 28. axb6 Kf8 29. Rxb2 Ke7 30. Kf3 Kd6 31. Ke3 Re8+ 32. Kd4 Kc6 33.
b7 Rb8 34. Rc2+ Kd6 35. Rb2 Kc6 36. h4 Rxb7 37. Rxb7 Kxb7 38. Kxd5 Kc7 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "2.20"]
[White "Simeonov, Ventsislav"]
[Black "Vachev, Vladimir"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A31"]
[BlackElo "2145"]
[PlyCount "58"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 c5 2. c4 Nf6 3. Nc3 b6 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 Bb7 6. f3 a6 7. e4 d6 8. Be3
e6 9. Be2 Be7 10. O-O O-O 11. Qb3 Nbd7 12. Rfd1 Qc7 13. Rac1 Rac8 14. Qc2 Qb8
15. b4 Rfe8 16. Qb3 Bd8 17. a3 Bc7 18. g3 Qa8 19. Rd2 d5 20. cxd5 exd5 21. Nxd5
Nxd5 22. exd5 Bxd5 23. Qd3 b5 24. Nxb5 axb5 25. Qxd5 Bb6 26. Bc5 Qxd5 27. Rxd5
Nxc5 28. Kf1 Ne6 29. Rxc8 Rxc8 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "2.21"]
[White "Ivanov, Borislav"]
[Black "Lichkov, Ivan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E09"]
[WhiteElo "2128"]
[PlyCount "49"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 e6 4. Qc2 Nd7 5. g3 Ngf6 6. Nbd2 Be7 7. Bg2 O-O 8. O-O
b6 9. e4 dxe4 10. Nxe4 Nxe4 11. Qxe4 Nf6 12. Qe2 Bd6 13. Ne5 Qe7 14. Bg5 h6 15.
Bxf6 gxf6 16. Ng4 Kg7 17. Qe3 Rh8 18. Qf3 h5 19. Ne3 h4 20. Rfe1 Qc7 21. Rad1
hxg3 22. hxg3 Rh6 23. d5 cxd5 24. cxd5 Bb4 25. Qg4+ 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "2.22"]
[White "Stankov, Stanimir"]
[Black "Ljangov, Petar"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B55"]
[BlackElo "2107"]
[PlyCount "114"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 Nf6 4. Bd3 cxd4 5. Nxd4 e5 6. Nf3 Nbd7 7. O-O Be7 8.
c4 Nc5 9. Nc3 Nxd3 10. Qxd3 h6 11. b3 O-O 12. h3 Bd7 13. Be3 Bc6 14. Nd2 a6 15.
Nd5 Nxd5 16. exd5 Bd7 17. a4 f5 18. f4 e4 19. Qe2 Bf6 20. Rac1 Rc8 21. Rfd1 Qa5
22. Kh1 Rf7 23. Qf2 Qd8 24. Bd4 Bh4 25. g3 Be7 26. Nf1 Rf8 27. Kh2 Qe8 28. c5
dxc5 29. Bxc5 Bxc5 30. Rxc5 Rxc5 31. Qxc5 Qh5 32. Rd2 Rc8 33. Qf2 Rc3 34. Qb6
e3 35. Nxe3 Qf3 36. Qd8+ Kh7 37. Qxd7 Rxe3 38. Qxf5+ Kg8 39. Qg4 Qe4 40. Qe6+
Qxe6 41. dxe6 Rxe6 42. Kg2 Re3 43. Rb2 Kf7 44. Kf2 Rc3 45. b4 Ra3 46. a5 Ke7
47. Rd2 Rb3 48. Rd4 g6 49. h4 h5 50. Rc4 Kd7 51. Re4 Rb2+ 52. Ke3 Rb3+ 53. Kf2
Rb2+ 54. Kf3 Rb3+ 55. Kf2 Rb2+ 56. Kf3 Rb1 57. Rd4+ Ke6 $138 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "2.23"]
[White "Gavrilidis, Georgios"]
[Black "Mandzhukov, Stoyan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E76"]
[WhiteElo "2100"]
[PlyCount "71"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. f4 Bg4 6. Be2 Bxe2 7. Ngxe2 Nbd7 8.
O-O O-O 9. h3 c5 10. d5 a6 11. a4 Ne8 12. Be3 Nc7 13. Rb1 Nb6 14. b3 a5 15. Qd2
Nd7 16. Kh1 Ra6 17. Bg1 f5 18. Ng3 fxe4 19. Ngxe4 Nf6 20. Rbe1 Qd7 21. Ng5 Nh5
22. Bh2 Nf6 23. Nb5 Nfe8 24. Qf2 h6 25. Nf3 Nxb5 26. axb5 Ra8 27. Re6 Rf6 28.
Rfe1 Rxe6 29. Rxe6 Nf6 30. Nh4 Kh7 31. f5 g5 32. Ng6 Ng8 33. Qc2 Bf6 34. Nxe7
Bxe7 35. f6+ Kh8 36. fxe7 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "2.24"]
[White "Dimitrov, Ivan"]
[Black "Bednikova, Stefi"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B21"]
[BlackElo "2094"]
[PlyCount "57"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. c3 dxc3 5. Nxc3 Nc6 6. Bc4 e6 7. O-O Nge7 8.
Be3 Ng6 9. Rc1 Be7 10. Qe2 O-O 11. Rfd1 Bd7 12. Nb5 Qb8 13. a3 a6 14. Nbd4 Nxd4
15. Bxd4 b5 16. Ba2 Rc8 17. Qd2 Qb7 18. Bb1 Rxc1 19. Rxc1 Rc8 20. Rxc8+ Qxc8
21. Qc3 e5 22. Qxc8+ Bxc8 23. Be3 Bb7 24. b4 Kf8 25. g3 d5 26. exd5 Bxd5 27.
Ng5 Bxg5 28. Bxg5 Ne7 29. Bf5 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "2.25"]
[White "Karadimov, Marin"]
[Black "Chorapinov, Marian"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B54"]
[WhiteElo "2081"]
[PlyCount "75"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 e6 5. Nc3 Ne7 6. Bg5 Qb6 7. Qd2 Ng6 8.
O-O-O h6 9. Be3 Qc7 10. Ndb5 Qd8 11. Nxd6+ Bxd6 12. Qxd6 Qxd6 13. Rxd6 a6 14.
Na4 O-O 15. Nb6 Ra7 16. Nxc8 Rxc8 17. Bxa7 Nc6 18. Bb6 Nce5 19. a3 Kh7 20. Be2
Ne7 21. f4 N5c6 22. Rhd1 Ng6 23. g3 Nce7 24. Rd8 Rc6 25. R1d6 Rxd6 26. Rxd6 Nc6
27. Bxa6 bxa6 28. Rxc6 Ne7 29. Rc7 Ng6 30. Rxf7 e5 31. f5 Nh8 32. Ra7 a5 33.
Bxa5 Kg8 34. Bc3 Nf7 35. Rxf7 Kxf7 36. Bxe5 Ke7 37. Bxg7 h5 38. h3 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "2.26"]
[White "Vezenkov, Stoyan"]
[Black "Gantar, Jan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C21"]
[BlackElo "2077"]
[PlyCount "29"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. c3 Nf6 4. e5 Ne4 5. Qxd4 d5 6. exd6 Nxd6 7. Nf3 Nc6 8.
Qa4 Be7 9. Be2 O-O 10. O-O Re8 11. Re1 Bd7 12. Qc2 Bf6 13. Bf4 Bf5 14. Qa4 Re4
15. Bc4 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "2.27"]
[White "Petrovski, Igor"]
[Black "Ismail, Tamer"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B52"]
[WhiteElo "2032"]
[PlyCount "76"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bb5+ Bd7 4. Bxd7+ Qxd7 5. c4 Nc6 6. O-O Nf6 7. Nc3 e5 8.
d3 h6 9. a3 Be7 10. Bd2 O-O 11. Nd5 Nxd5 12. cxd5 Nd4 13. Nxd4 cxd4 14. Qb3 b6
15. Rac1 Rac8 16. f3 Rc5 17. Bb4 Rxc1 18. Rxc1 Bg5 19. Rc6 Be7 20. Qc2 a6 21.
Bd2 Qd8 22. Qb3 f5 23. exf5 Rxf5 24. Qxb6 Qf8 25. Qb7 Kh7 26. Rc8 Qf6 27. Qb8
Bf8 28. Ba5 Qg5 29. Rxf8 Qe3+ 30. Kf1 Qxd3+ 31. Ke1 Qe3+ 32. Kd1 Qd3+ 33. Bd2
Qb1+ 34. Ke2 d3+ 35. Kf2 Qd1 36. Rxf5 Qxd2+ 37. Kg3 e4 38. Kh3 e3 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "3.27"]
[White "Ismail, Tamer"]
[Black "Simeonov, Ventsislav"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C11"]
[PlyCount "143"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. Nf3 c5 6. Be3 Nc6 7. Bf4 cxd4 8.
Nxd4 Ndxe5 9. Bb5 Bd7 10. O-O Bc5 11. Nxc6 Nxc6 12. Re1 O-O 13. Qf3 Nd4 14. Qd3
Nxb5 15. Nxb5 Qb6 16. a4 Bxf2+ 17. Kh1 Bxe1 18. Rxe1 Bxb5 19. axb5 Rac8 20. Re3
Rc4 21. Rh3 Re4 22. Be3 Qa5 23. Bg1 f5 24. c3 Rf6 25. Rf3 Qa1 26. b4 Re1 27.
Qd4 Rg6 28. Qc5 h6 29. Qf2 Rg4 30. Re3 Rf4 31. Qxe1 Qa2 32. Rxe6 Rg4 33. Re8+
Kh7 34. Qe2 Qb1 35. Qe6 Qd3 36. Qe3 Qxb5 37. Re5 Rg5 38. Qf3 f4 39. Qxf4 Rxe5
40. Qxe5 a6 41. Qf5+ Kg8 42. Qc8+ Kh7 43. Qc5 Qd3 44. h3 Qf5 45. c4 Qd7 46.
Qxd5 Qe7 47. c5 Qc7 48. Qd6 Qf7 49. c6 bxc6 50. Qxc6 Qf1 51. Qe4+ Kg8 52. Kh2
Qb5 53. Bc5 Qb8+ 54. Kg1 Qc8 55. Qd5+ Kh7 56. g4 Qe8 57. Qd3+ Kh8 58. Qxa6 Qe1+
59. Qf1 Qg3+ 60. Kh1 Qc3 61. Qf8+ Kh7 62. b5 Qxh3+ 63. Kg1 Qxg4+ 64. Kf2 Qh4+
65. Ke3 Qe1+ 66. Kd4 Qd2+ 67. Ke5 Qb2+ 68. Kd6 Qxb5 69. Qf5+ Kg8 70. Qe6+ Kh8
71. Qc8+ Kh7 72. Qf5+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "3.6"]
[White "Vasilev, Milen"]
[Black "Dimitrov, Pavel"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A46"]
[WhiteElo "2466"]
[BlackElo "2361"]
[PlyCount "136"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. Bg5 c5 4. c3 h6 5. Bh4 b6 6. Nbd2 Bb7 7. e3 Be7 8. h3
O-O 9. Bd3 cxd4 10. exd4 Ba6 11. Bxa6 Nxa6 12. O-O d6 13. Qe2 Nc7 14. Ne1 Qd7
15. Nd3 Rfe8 16. f4 b5 17. Rae1 a5 18. Qf3 Rac8 19. f5 exf5 20. Qxf5 Qxf5 21.
Rxf5 Nfd5 22. Bxe7 Nxe7 23. Rff1 Ned5 24. Rxe8+ Rxe8 25. Re1 Rxe1+ 26. Nxe1 f5
27. Nd3 Kf7 28. Kf2 Ke7 29. c4 Nf6 30. b3 d5 31. c5 b4 32. Ke3 Nb5 33. Ne5 Nc3
34. Nc6+ Kd7 35. Nxa5 g5 36. Nf3 Kc7 37. Ne5 Nxa2 38. Nf7 Ng8 39. h4 gxh4 40.
Kf4 Ne7 41. Nxh6 Nc3 42. Ke5 Ne2 43. Nf7 f4 44. Ng5 Kd7 45. Nf3 Nc1 46. Kxf4
Nc6 47. Ne5+ Nxe5 48. Kxe5 Nd3+ 49. Kxd5 Nf4+ 50. Ke4 Nxg2 51. Nc4 h3 52. Ne5+
Kc7 53. Ng4 Kc6 54. Ne5+ Kc7 55. Ng4 Kc6 56. Kf3 Nh4+ 57. Kf2 Kd5 58. Nh2 Kxd4
59. c6 Nf5 60. Nf3+ Kc3 61. c7 Nd6 62. Ne5 Kxb3 63. Nc6 Kc3 64. Nxb4 Kxb4 65.
Kg3 Nc8 66. Kxh3 Kc5 67. Kg2 Kd6 68. Kf2 Kxc7 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "3.16"]
[White "Veleski, Robert"]
[Black "Gavrilidis, Georgios"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E61"]
[WhiteElo "2289"]
[BlackElo "2100"]
[PlyCount "98"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 g6 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Bf4 Bg7 4. e3 O-O 5. c4 c5 6. Nc3 d6 7. Be2 Qb6 8. Qb3
Qxb3 9. axb3 Nc6 10. dxc5 dxc5 11. Na4 Nd7 12. Bc7 a6 13. O-O Ra7 14. Nb6 Bxb2
15. Ra2 Bc3 16. Rd1 Nxb6 17. Bxb6 Ra8 18. Bxc5 Bb4 19. Bb6 e5 20. Ne1 Re8 21.
Nd3 Be7 22. Bf3 Nb4 23. Rad2 Nxd3 24. Rxd3 Bf5 25. e4 Be6 26. c5 a5 27. h3 Rec8
28. Rc3 Ra6 29. Rdc1 Bg5 30. R1c2 Bd2 31. Rxd2 Rxb6 32. cxb6 Rxc3 33. Rd8+ Kg7
34. Rb8 Rxb3 35. Rxb7 a4 36. Bg4 Bc4 37. Ra7 a3 38. Kh2 h5 39. Bc8 Rxb6 40.
Rxa3 h4 41. Rc3 Ba2 42. g3 Rb2 43. Kg2 hxg3 44. Kxg3 Rb4 45. f3 Rb1 46. Rc2 Bb3
47. Rc5 Kf6 48. Rb5 Bc2 49. Rxb1 Bxb1 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "3.20"]
[White "Stanoev, Atanas"]
[Black "Petrovski, Igor"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E15"]
[WhiteElo "2202"]
[BlackElo "2032"]
[PlyCount "96"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. g3 Ba6 5. b3 b5 6. cxb5 Bxb5 7. Bg2 Bb4+ 8.
Nbd2 Bc6 9. O-O O-O 10. Qc2 Qc8 11. a3 Bxd2 12. Nxd2 Bxg2 13. Kxg2 Qb7+ 14. Kg1
a5 15. Rb1 Na6 16. Bb2 Qb5 17. Qc4 Qh5 18. Kg2 d5 19. Qd3 c5 20. Rbc1 cxd4 21.
Bxd4 e5 22. Bb6 e4 23. Qb5 Nb8 24. e3 Nbd7 25. Bd4 Rfb8 26. Qc6 Qe2 27. Qc2 Rc8
28. Qb2 h6 29. Nxe4 Qxb2 30. Nxf6+ Nxf6 31. Bxb2 Ne4 32. Rcd1 Rc2 33. Be5 f6
34. Bd4 Nd2 35. Rfe1 Nxb3 36. Rd3 a4 37. Red1 Rac8 38. Bb6 R8c6 39. Ba7 Rc7 40.
Bb8 Rc8 41. Bd6 Nc5 42. Bxc5 R8xc5 43. Rd4 R2c4 44. Kf3 Rb5 45. R1d3 Kf7 46.
Rxd5 Rxd5 47. Rxd5 Rc3 48. Rd7+ Kg6 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "3.15"]
[White "Gantar, Jan"]
[Black "Nikolaou, Georgios"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B70"]
[WhiteElo "2077"]
[BlackElo "2292"]
[PlyCount "86"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. g3 Bg7 7. Bg2 O-O 8. O-O
Qb6 9. Nb3 Nc6 10. Be3 Qc7 11. h3 Ne5 12. Bd4 Be6 13. Nd5 Bxd5 14. exd5 Rac8
15. Rc1 Nc4 16. Nd2 Nd7 17. Bxg7 Kxg7 18. Nxc4 Qxc4 19. b3 Qc3 20. Re1 Rfe8 21.
Re3 Qf6 22. c4 Rc7 23. a4 a5 24. Qe2 Nc5 25. Re1 Kf8 26. h4 b6 27. Bh3 h5 28.
Rf3 Qg7 29. Be6 Nxe6 30. Qxe6 Kg8 31. Qe3 Rc5 32. Qc3 Qxc3 33. Rxc3 Kf8 34.
Rce3 Rc7 35. Kg2 Kg7 36. Kh3 Kf6 37. g4 hxg4+ 38. Kxg4 e5 39. dxe6 Rxe6 40.
Rf3+ Ke7 41. Rxe6+ Kxe6 42. Re3+ Kd7 43. Rf3 Ke6 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "3.28"]
[White "Mandzhukov, Stoyan"]
[Black "Vezenkov, Stoyan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A39"]
[PlyCount "83"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. c4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. g3 Nf6 4. Bg2 g6 5. Nf3 Bg7 6. O-O O-O 7. d4 cxd4 8.
Nxd4 a6 9. h3 e5 10. Nxc6 dxc6 11. Bg5 h6 12. Be3 Qc7 13. Na4 b5 14. cxb5 axb5
15. Nb6 Ra6 16. Nxc8 Rxc8 17. Qc1 Kh7 18. Rd1 c5 19. Qc2 c4 20. Bd2 e4 21. Bc3
e3 22. f4 Re8 23. Kh2 Nh5 24. Bxg7 Nxg7 25. Rd5 Nf5 26. Rad1 Rd6 27. Be4 Rxd5
28. Rxd5 Nd6 29. Bf3 Nf5 30. Qd1 Qb6 31. Bg4 Ne7 32. Rd7 h5 33. Bf3 Kg7 34. Rb7
Qc5 35. Qd7 Kf8 36. Rc7 Qb4 37. Bc6 Rb8 38. a3 Qc5 39. Bf3 Qf5 40. Qxe7+ Kg7
41. Rc5 Qc2 42. Qe5+ 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "3.19"]
[White "Alexiou, Andomahi"]
[Black "Daels, Marc"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A05"]
[BlackElo "2207"]
[PlyCount "81"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 b5 3. Bg2 Bb7 4. O-O e6 5. d3 d5 6. Nbd2 c5 7. c3 Nc6 8. e4
Be7 9. h3 Qb6 10. e5 Nd7 11. Re1 h6 12. Nf1 O-O-O 13. d4 cxd4 14. cxd4 Kb8 15.
Ne3 g5 16. b3 Rc8 17. Bb2 Qa5 18. Re2 a6 19. Ne1 Na7 20. Bf1 b4 21. Rc2 Nb5 22.
Rxc8+ Bxc8 23. Qh5 f6 24. Qf7 Qd8 25. Qxe6 Nc7 26. Qc6 Bb7 27. Qc2 fxe5 28.
dxe5 Re8 29. Nd3 Ne6 30. Rc1 Qa5 31. Nf5 Bf8 32. Nd4 Rc8 33. Qd1 Nxd4 34. Rxc8+
Kxc8 35. Bxd4 Qxa2 36. e6 Nb8 37. Bf6 Bc6 38. Qh5 Qxb3 39. Qf7 Bd6 40. e7 Qa4
41. Qe6+ 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "3.26"]
[White "Lichkov, Ivan"]
[Black "Manov, Jordan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D53"]
[PlyCount "75"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e3 O-O 6. cxd5 Nxd5 7. Bxe7 Qxe7 8.
Rc1 c6 9. Nf3 Nd7 10. Bd3 Nb4 11. Bb1 b6 12. a3 Na6 13. b4 Bb7 14. O-O Nc7 15.
Qc2 f5 16. e4 c5 17. dxc5 bxc5 18. b5 Rac8 19. Rfe1 c4 20. Qe2 f4 21. a4 Ne8
22. Ba2 Nef6 23. Bxc4 Rc5 24. Nd4 Rfc8 25. Nf5 Qf8 26. Bxe6+ Kh8 27. Rcd1 Rxc3
28. Bxd7 R8c4 29. f3 Rc2 30. Qf1 Qc5+ 31. Kh1 Rf2 32. Qg1 Rcc2 33. Bc6 Bxc6 34.
bxc6 Qxc6 35. Rd8+ Ng8 36. Rxg8+ Kxg8 37. Ne7+ Kf7 38. Nxc6 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "3.25"]
[White "Savov, Zheljazko"]
[Black "Dimitrov, Ivan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C55"]
[WhiteElo "1989"]
[PlyCount "69"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. O-O Nxe4 5. Re1 d5 6. Bb5 Bd6 7. d3 Nf6 8.
Nxe5 Bxe5 9. Rxe5+ Be6 10. Nc3 O-O 11. Bxc6 bxc6 12. Bg5 h6 13. Bh4 g5 14. Bg3
Bg4 15. Qd2 Nh5 16. Rae1 Nxg3 17. hxg3 Qd6 18. d4 Bd7 19. f4 f6 20. Re7 Rf7 21.
Rxf7 Kxf7 22. Qe2 g4 23. Qd3 f5 24. Re5 a5 25. Na4 Kf6 26. Nc5 h5 27. Qb3 Bc8
28. Re8 h4 29. Qe3 hxg3 30. Qxg3 Kf7 31. Qe3 Qf6 32. g3 Bb7 33. Rxa8 Bxa8 34.
Qe5 Qxe5 35. fxe5 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "3.23"]
[White "Chorapinov, Marian"]
[Black "Radulski, Julian"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A90"]
[BlackElo "2577"]
[PlyCount "60"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. d4 e6 3. c4 c6 4. g3 f5 5. Bg2 Nf6 6. O-O Bd6 7. Qc2 O-O 8. b3 Qe7
9. Nbd2 b6 10. e3 Bb7 11. Bb2 Nbd7 12. Rad1 Rac8 13. Rfe1 c5 14. Ba3 Ne4 15.
Rc1 Ndf6 16. Qd1 Rfd8 17. Nb1 Ng4 18. Nc3 Ngxf2 19. Qc2 Nxc3 20. Qxc3 Ne4 21.
Qc2 dxc4 22. bxc4 cxd4 23. Bxd6 Nxd6 24. exd4 Rxc4 25. Qb2 Rxc1 26. Rxc1 Ne4
27. Ne5 Qd6 28. Rd1 Qxe5 29. Bxe4 Qxe4 30. Rc1 Qh1+ 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "3.8"]
[White "Nikolova, Adriana"]
[Black "Velikov, Petar"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B22"]
[WhiteElo "2336"]
[BlackElo "2433"]
[PlyCount "54"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. c3 Nf6 4. e5 Nd5 5. d4 cxd4 6. cxd4 d6 7. Bc4 Nc6 8. O-O
Nb6 9. Bd3 dxe5 10. dxe5 Nb4 11. Be4 Qxd1 12. Rxd1 N4d5 13. a4 a5 14. Nc3 Nxc3
15. bxc3 Bc5 16. Ba3 Bxa3 17. Rxa3 Nd7 18. Bd3 Ke7 19. Bb5 Nc5 20. Rd4 Bd7 21.
Nd2 Bxb5 22. axb5 b6 23. f4 Ra7 24. Kf2 Rc7 25. Ke3 Rb8 26. Nc4 Nd7 27. Nd6 Nc5
1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "3.5"]
[White "Stoinev, Metodi"]
[Black "Grigorov, Grigor"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B90"]
[WhiteElo "2268"]
[BlackElo "2508"]
[PlyCount "50"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. h3 e5 7. Nde2 h5 8. Bg5
Be6 9. Bxf6 Qxf6 10. Nd5 Qd8 11. Nec3 Nd7 12. Be2 g6 13. O-O Bh6 14. Kh1 O-O
15. f4 exf4 16. Nxf4 Bxf4 17. Rxf4 Ne5 18. Qd4 Qg5 19. Raf1 Rad8 20. Nd5 Bxd5
21. Qxd5 Qe7 22. Bc4 Kg7 23. Bb3 Rd7 24. Qd4 f6 25. Bd5 Rc7 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "3.10"]
[White "Drenchev, Petar"]
[Black "Vrban, Rok"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A30"]
[WhiteElo "2477"]
[BlackElo "2005"]
[PlyCount "49"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 b6 3. g3 e6 4. Bg2 Bb7 5. O-O c5 6. Nc3 Be7 7. Re1 d6 8. e4
Nbd7 9. d4 cxd4 10. Nxd4 a6 11. e5 dxe5 {Diagram #} 12. Nxe6 fxe6 13. Bxb7 Ra7
14. Bg2 O-O 15. Bh3 Bc5 16. Bxe6+ Kh8 17. Be3 Qe7 18. Bd5 Bxe3 19. Rxe3 Qb4 20.
a3 Qc5 21. Qe2 Rc7 22. Rd1 g6 23. b4 Qd6 24. f4 Nxd5 25. Nxd5 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "3.4"]
[White "Arnaudov, G  Petar"]
[Black "Petkov, Vladimir"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E04"]
[WhiteElo "2413"]
[BlackElo "2490"]
[PlyCount "48"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. g3 d5 4. d4 dxc4 5. Bg2 c6 6. Ne5 Bb4+ 7. Bd2 Qxd4 8.
Bxb4 Qxe5 9. Na3 b5 10. Bd6 Qxb2 11. O-O Nd5 12. Rb1 Qf6 13. Nxb5 cxb5 14. Bxd5
exd5 15. Qxd5 Bd7 16. Qxa8 Qxd6 17. Rfd1 Qc7 18. Rxd7 Kxd7 19. Rxb5 Rd8 20. Qe4
Kc8 21. Rb4 Nc6 22. Rxc4 Rd6 23. Rc1 Qd7 24. Kg2 h5 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "3.11"]
[White "Vachev, Vladimir"]
[Black "Kukov, Velislav"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B04"]
[WhiteElo "2145"]
[BlackElo "2367"]
[PlyCount "42"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 Nf6 2. e5 Nd5 3. d4 d6 4. Nf3 dxe5 5. Nxe5 c6 6. Bd3 Nd7 7. Nxd7 Bxd7 8.
O-O g6 9. c3 Bg7 10. Re1 O-O 11. Nd2 Re8 12. Nc4 Qc7 13. Ne5 Rad8 14. Qf3 Be6
15. h4 Qc8 16. h5 f6 17. Nxg6 hxg6 18. Bxg6 Bf7 19. Qg3 Qc7 20. f4 e6 21. h6
Bxh6 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "3.2"]
[White "Rusev, Krasimir"]
[Black "Nikolov, Sasho"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D37"]
[WhiteElo "2547"]
[BlackElo "2403"]
[PlyCount "31"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bf4 O-O 6. e3 c5 7. dxc5 Bxc5 8.
cxd5 Nxd5 9. Nxd5 exd5 10. a3 Nc6 11. Ne5 d4 12. Nxc6 bxc6 13. Rc1 Qe7 14. Qh5
Bb6 15. Bd3 g6 16. Qg5 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "3.13"]
[White "Bednikova, Stefi"]
[Black "Menkinoski, Riste"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B77"]
[WhiteElo "2094"]
[BlackElo "2355"]
[PlyCount "127"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Bc4 Bg7 7. f3 O-O 8. Be3
Nc6 9. Qd2 Nd7 10. O-O-O Nb6 11. Bb3 Na5 12. Qe2 Nxb3+ 13. axb3 a5 14. Ndb5 Bd7
15. Qf2 Ra6 16. h4 a4 17. h5 axb3 18. cxb3 Bxb5 19. Nxb5 Nd7 20. Bd4 Bxd4 21.
Qxd4 Ra1+ 22. Kc2 Qc8+ 23. Nc3 Rxd1 24. Rxd1 Qc5 25. hxg6 fxg6 26. Qc4+ Kg7 27.
Qe6 Ne5 28. Qxe7+ Nf7 29. Qxb7 Rc8 30. Rd5 Qf2+ 31. Rd2 Qc5 32. Qd5 Qc7 33. f4
Qe7 34. g3 Rc5 35. Qd4+ Kg8 36. b4 Rc8 37. Kb1 Qc7 38. f5 gxf5 39. exf5 Qc6 40.
Qg4+ Kh8 41. Qd4+ Kg8 42. f6 Qf3 43. Nd5 Ra8 44. Rd3 Qh5 45. Ne7+ Kf8 46. Qd5
Qxd5 47. Rxd5 Rb8 48. b5 Ke8 49. Nc6 Rb6 50. Rh5 h6 51. Kc2 Kd7 52. Nd4 Rb8 53.
Kb3 Rg8 54. Nf5 Rg6 55. Rh1 Rxf6 56. g4 Kc7 57. Kb4 Rg6 58. Ne3 Ne5 59. Ka5 Kb7
60. Rc1 Nxg4 61. Nd5 Rg7 62. Rc6 Ne5 63. Rb6+ Ka7 64. Rxd6 {...} 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "3.22"]
[White "Davidov, Stefan"]
[Black "Georgieva, Emilia"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D13"]
[BlackElo "1934"]
[PlyCount "97"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 c6 2. c4 d5 3. cxd5 cxd5 4. Nc3 Nf6 5. Bf4 a6 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. e3 e6 8. a3
b5 9. b4 Bb7 10. Bd3 Rc8 11. Rc1 Be7 12. O-O O-O 13. h3 h6 14. Ne5 Nxe5 15.
Bxe5 Bd6 16. f4 Ne4 17. Bxe4 dxe4 18. Qg4 Bxe5 19. fxe5 Qg5 20. Qxg5 hxg5 21.
Ne2 Rxc1 22. Rxc1 Rc8 23. Rxc8+ Bxc8 24. g4 f6 25. Kf2 Kf7 26. Kg3 Bb7 27. Nc1
Bd5 28. Ne2 Bb7 29. Nc3 Bc6 30. Kf2 Bb7 31. Nb1 Bd5 32. Kg3 Bb7 33. Nc3 Bc6 34.
h4 gxh4+ 35. Kxh4 g5+ 36. Kh5 Kg7 37. exf6+ Kxf6 38. Kh6 Bb7 39. Ne2 Bc6 40.
Ng3 e5 41. dxe5+ Kxe5 42. Kxg5 Kd5 43. Kf6 Kc4 44. Nf5 Kc3 45. g5 Kb2 46. g6
Bd5 47. Ne7 Bc4 48. Ke5 Kxa3 49. Nd5 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "3.7"]
[White "Janev, Evgeni"]
[Black "Todorov, Ognjan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C00"]
[WhiteElo "2461"]
[BlackElo "2309"]
[PlyCount "90"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. Qe2 Nc6 4. g3 g6 5. Bg2 Bg7 6. c3 Nge7 7. O-O O-O 8. d3
e5 9. a3 d6 10. b4 h6 11. Nbd2 Be6 12. b5 Na5 13. Bb2 Nb3 14. Nxb3 Bxb3 15. a4
Be6 16. d4 a6 17. dxe5 dxe5 18. c4 Qc7 19. Rfd1 Rfd8 20. Rxd8+ Rxd8 21. Bc3 Nc8
22. Bf1 f6 23. a5 Nd6 24. Nd2 Qf7 25. bxa6 bxa6 26. Rb1 Nc8 27. Qd1 Nd6 28. Qe2
Nc8 29. Rb2 Bf8 30. Qf3 h5 31. h3 Bh6 32. Kh2 Kg7 33. Qe2 h4 34. Nf3 hxg3+ 35.
fxg3 Nd6 36. Qe1 Nxc4 37. Rf2 Qe7 38. Qa1 Kh7 39. Qa4 Ne3 40. Bxa6 Bxh3 41.
Kxh3 Qe6+ 42. Kh2 Qxa6 43. Qa2 Ng4+ 44. Kg2 Nxf2 45. Qxf2 Qd3 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "3.24"]
[White "Lalev, Ivan"]
[Black "Stankov, Stanimir"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A34"]
[WhiteElo "2026"]
[PlyCount "80"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 c5 3. g3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. Bg2 Nxc3 6. bxc3 Qc7 7. Nf3 g6 8.
O-O Bg7 9. d4 O-O 10. Bf4 Qa5 11. Qd3 Nd7 12. e4 b6 13. Rfe1 Ba6 14. Qe3 cxd4
15. cxd4 e5 16. Bh6 exd4 17. Nxd4 Ne5 18. Bxg7 Kxg7 19. Nb3 Ng4 20. Nxa5 Nxe3
21. Rxe3 bxa5 22. Ra3 Rab8 23. Rxa5 Rb6 24. Bf1 Bxf1 25. Kxf1 a6 26. Re1 Rfb8
27. Re2 Rb1+ 28. Kg2 R8b6 29. h4 h5 30. e5 Kf8 31. Re3 Rc6 32. f4 Ke7 33. Kf3
f5 34. exf6+ Kxf6 35. g4 Rf1+ 36. Kg2 Rxf4 37. gxh5 Rxh4 38. hxg6 Rg4+ 39. Kf3
Rxg6 40. Ke2 Rg2+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "3.21"]
[White "Krastev, Krasimir Naidenov"]
[Black "Kostadinov, Rumen"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B06"]
[WhiteElo "1825"]
[BlackElo "2200"]
[PlyCount "76"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 g6 2. d4 c6 3. g3 Bg7 4. Bg2 d6 5. Ne2 Nf6 6. O-O O-O 7. c4 e5 8. d5 a5
9. Nbc3 Na6 10. Rb1 cxd5 11. cxd5 Nc5 12. Be3 b6 13. b4 axb4 14. Rxb4 Ba6 15.
f3 Nfd7 16. Qd2 f5 17. Rf2 Nd3 18. Rb1 Nxf2 19. Kxf2 Nc5 20. exf5 Bd3 21. Rd1
Bxf5 22. Kg1 Rf7 23. f4 Qd7 24. fxe5 Bxe5 25. Nd4 Re8 26. Bf1 Qb7 27. Nc6 Bg7
28. Nb5 Ne4 29. Qc1 Bf8 30. Nbd4 Bg4 31. Re1 Nc5 32. h3 Bd7 33. Bg2 Nd3 34. Qb1
Nxe1 35. Qxe1 Qc8 36. Kh2 Bh6 37. Ne6 Bxe3 38. Qxe3 Bxc6 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "3.9"]
[White "Dimitrov, Radoslav"]
[Black "Argiroudis, Stamatis"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A36"]
[WhiteElo "2394"]
[BlackElo "2284"]
[PlyCount "74"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. c4 g6 2. Nc3 Bg7 3. g3 c5 4. Bg2 Nc6 5. e3 d6 6. Nge2 e6 7. d4 cxd4 8. exd4
Nge7 9. O-O O-O 10. Bf4 Nf5 11. d5 Ncd4 12. Nxd4 Nxd4 13. Ne4 e5 14. Bg5 f6 15.
Be3 f5 16. Nd2 f4 17. Bxd4 exd4 18. Qb3 b6 19. Qd3 Bf5 20. Be4 Bd7 21. Rfe1 Qf6
22. Re2 Rae8 23. Rae1 fxg3 24. hxg3 Bg4 25. f3 Bd7 26. f4 Bg4 27. Rh2 Re7 28.
Kf2 Rfe8 29. Nf3 h6 30. Rh4 Bf5 31. Bxf5 Rxe1 32. Nxe1 gxf5 33. Nf3 Re3 34. Qd2
Qe7 35. Nxd4 Qe4 36. Nc2 Qf3+ 37. Kg1 Re2 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "3.17"]
[White "Vakavchiev, Ivan"]
[Black "Angelov, Georgi"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D30"]
[BlackElo "2257"]
[PlyCount "71"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Nd7 4. Nc3 Bb4 5. cxd5 exd5 6. Qb3 c5 7. a3 Bxc3+ 8.
Qxc3 c4 9. Bf4 Ne7 10. g3 O-O 11. Bg2 Nb6 12. O-O Bf5 13. a4 Be4 14. a5 Nd7 15.
Qb4 b6 16. axb6 Nxb6 17. Nd2 Bxg2 18. Kxg2 Ng6 19. Bd6 Re8 20. e3 a5 21. Qa3 a4
22. Bc5 h5 23. Qb4 Re6 24. e4 dxe4 25. Nxc4 Nd5 26. Qd2 f5 27. Ne3 f4 28. Nxd5
Qxd5 29. f3 exf3+ 30. Rxf3 Rae8 31. Kf2 Ne5 32. Raa3 Ng4+ 33. Kf1 Nxh2+ 34. Kf2
Re1 35. Qd3 Ng4+ 36. Kg2 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "3.12"]
[White "Ljangov, Petar"]
[Black "Panbukchian, Valentin"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A26"]
[WhiteElo "2107"]
[BlackElo "2361"]
[PlyCount "72"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. c4 e5 2. d3 Nc6 3. Nf3 g6 4. Nc3 Bg7 5. g3 d6 6. Bg2 h6 7. Bd2 Be6 8. O-O
Qd7 9. Rb1 Nf6 10. Qc1 Bh3 11. b4 Ne7 12. Rb3 g5 13. Rd1 Bxg2 14. Kxg2 Ng6 15.
Ne4 Nh5 16. Nc3 f5 17. h3 O-O 18. Rf1 Rae8 19. Kh2 e4 20. dxe4 fxe4 21. Ng1 Qf7
22. Nd5 c6 23. Ne3 d5 24. cxd5 cxd5 25. Ng4 d4 26. Rb1 Rc8 27. Qd1 Kh7 28. Qa4
b6 29. Rbc1 Rxc1 30. Rxc1 Ne5 31. Be1 Nxg4+ 32. hxg4 Nf6 33. f3 d3 34. Qd1 Qxa2
35. fxe4 Nxg4+ 36. Kh1 Qf7 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "3.1"]
[White "Georgiev, Kiril"]
[Black "Bratanov, Zsivko"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E16"]
[WhiteElo "2672"]
[BlackElo "2463"]
[PlyCount "69"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 b6 3. d4 e6 4. g3 Bb7 5. Bg2 g6 6. O-O Bg7 7. Bg5 h6 8. Bf4 d6
9. Qc2 Nc6 10. Rd1 g5 11. Bc1 Ne7 12. Nc3 O-O 13. e4 Ng6 14. h3 Nd7 15. Be3 Qe7
16. Re1 c5 17. Rad1 cxd4 18. Nxd4 Nde5 19. Qe2 a6 20. b3 Rfc8 21. Na4 Nd7 22.
Kh2 Rab8 23. Rc1 Qf6 24. Red1 Ba8 25. Nc3 Qe7 26. Bh1 Be5 27. Qd2 Qf6 28. Nde2
b5 29. cxb5 axb5 30. Nxb5 Rxc1 31. Rxc1 Nc5 32. Nxd6 Rd8 33. Rxc5 Bxd6 34. Qc3
Ne5 35. Rc8 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "3.18"]
[White "Gochev, Mladen"]
[Black "Karadimov, Marin"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C56"]
[WhiteElo "2248"]
[BlackElo "2081"]
[PlyCount "66"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. Bc4 Nf6 5. e5 d5 6. Bb5 Ne4 7. Nxd4 Bd7 8.
Bxc6 bxc6 9. Be3 Bc5 10. Nd2 Nxd2 11. Qxd2 Qe7 12. Nb3 Bb6 13. Qc3 O-O 14. O-O
Rfe8 15. Nc5 Bxc5 16. Bxc5 Qxe5 17. Qxe5 Rxe5 18. Rfe1 Rae8 19. Rxe5 Rxe5 20.
Bxa7 Re2 21. Rc1 Bf5 22. Kf1 Rxc2 23. Rxc2 Bxc2 24. Ke2 Kf8 25. Kd2 Bb1 26. a4
Ke8 27. Kc3 Bf5 28. Bd4 f6 29. Kb4 Bd3 30. Kc5 Kd7 31. a5 Bb5 32. b4 Be2 33. f4
h5 {....} 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "3.3"]
[White "Petrov, Marijan"]
[Black "Badev, Kiril"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B93"]
[WhiteElo "2500"]
[BlackElo "2369"]
[PlyCount "57"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 Nf6 4. Nc3 cxd4 5. Nxd4 a6 6. f4 e5 7. Nf3 Nbd7 8. a4
Be7 9. Bd3 Qa5 10. O-O b5 11. Nd5 Nxd5 12. exd5 bxa4 13. c4 O-O 14. Kh1 f5 15.
fxe5 Nxe5 16. Rxa4 Qc7 17. b3 Bf6 18. Ra2 Rb8 19. Nxe5 Bxe5 20. Raf2 Qb6 21.
Bc2 Bd7 22. g4 Qd8 23. gxf5 Qh4 24. Rg2 Rf7 25. Bg5 Qh3 26. Rf3 Qh5 27. Qd3 Re8
28. Bd1 Bxh2 29. Rf1 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.12"]
[Round "3.14"]
[White "Andonov, Bogomil"]
[Black "Ivanov, Borislav"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D14"]
[WhiteElo "2302"]
[BlackElo "2128"]
[PlyCount "54"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 c6 3. d4 d5 4. cxd5 cxd5 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Bf4 Bf5 7. e3 e6 8. Qb3
Bb4 9. Bb5 O-O 10. Bxc6 Bxc3+ 11. Qxc3 Rc8 12. Ne5 Ng4 13. Nxg4 Bxg4 14. Qa3
Rxc6 15. Qxa7 Qa8 16. Qxa8 Rxa8 17. Kd2 Rac8 18. Rhc1 Rxc1 19. Rxc1 Rxc1 20.
Kxc1 Kf8 21. Bd6+ Ke8 22. Kd2 Bf5 23. Kc3 Kd7 24. Bc5 g6 25. a4 Bb1 26. b4 Ba2
27. b5 Bc4 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.13"]
[Round "4.1"]
[White "Petkov, Vladimir"]
[Black "Georgiev, Kiril"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D27"]
[WhiteElo "2490"]
[BlackElo "2672"]
[PlyCount "83"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. d4 e6 3. c4 d5 4. Nc3 dxc4 5. e3 a6 6. a4 c5 7. Bxc4 Nc6 8. O-O
Be7 9. dxc5 Qxd1 10. Rxd1 Bxc5 11. Nd2 Ke7 12. Nb3 Bb4 13. Be2 e5 14. e4 Bxc3
15. bxc3 Nxe4 16. Ba3+ Kf6 17. Rd3 g6 18. Bf3 Ng5 19. Rd6+ Kg7 20. Bxc6 bxc6
21. Nc5 Bf5 22. Re1 f6 23. Rxc6 Rhc8 24. Rb6 Ra7 25. h4 Nf7 26. Rd1 Rac7 27.
Rd5 Rc6 28. a5 g5 29. hxg5 Nxg5 30. Bb4 Ne4 31. Nxe4 Bxe4 32. Rd7+ Kg6 33. f3
Bc2 34. Rd6 Rxd6 35. Bxd6 Kf7 36. Rxa6 Rxc3 37. Ra7+ Ke6 38. Rc7 Rxc7 39. Bxc7
Bd3 40. Kf2 h5 41. Ke3 Ba6 42. g3 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.13"]
[Round "4.2"]
[White "Nikolov, Sasho"]
[Black "Petrov, Marijan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A70"]
[WhiteElo "2403"]
[BlackElo "2500"]
[PlyCount "75"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 g6 2. e4 Bg7 3. c4 c5 4. d5 d6 5. Nf3 e6 6. Nc3 exd5 7. cxd5 a6 8. h3 b5
9. Bd3 Nf6 10. O-O O-O 11. Re1 Re8 12. Bf4 Qb6 13. a4 c4 14. Bf1 Bb7 15. axb5
axb5 16. Rxa8 Bxa8 17. Nd4 b4 18. Na4 Qa6 19. b3 Nxe4 20. Bxc4 Qa7 21. Be3 Qa5
22. Nf5 Nd7 23. Nxg7 Kxg7 24. Bd4+ Kg8 25. Bb2 Qa7 26. Re3 Kf8 27. Qe1 Nef6 28.
Rxe8+ Nxe8 29. Qxb4 Qb8 30. Qa5 Ke7 31. Bb5 Qd8 32. Qd2 Nc7 33. Qe3+ Kf8 34.
Qh6+ Ke7 35. Qh4+ Ke8 36. Bf6 Qb8 37. Qe4+ Ne6 38. dxe6 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.13"]
[Round "4.3"]
[White "Todorov, Ognjan"]
[Black "Rusev, Krasimir"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D16"]
[WhiteElo "2309"]
[BlackElo "2547"]
[PlyCount "62"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 dxc4 5. a4 e6 6. e3 c5 7. Bxc4 cxd4 8. exd4
Nc6 9. O-O Be7 10. Re1 O-O 11. Bf4 Nb4 12. Ne5 Nfd5 13. Bg3 Bd7 14. Ne4 Rc8 15.
Qb3 Bc6 16. Nxc6 Nxc6 17. Bxd5 exd5 18. Nc3 Bb4 19. Red1 Bxc3 20. Qxc3 Qd7 21.
Qc5 Rfe8 22. Re1 Re6 23. Re3 Rxe3 24. fxe3 Qe8 25. Qa3 Ne7 26. Qd3 h6 27. Qd2
Nf5 28. Bf2 Qc6 29. Qa5 b6 30. Qb5 Qxb5 31. axb5 Nd6 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.13"]
[Round "4.4"]
[White "Argiroudis, Stamatis"]
[Black "Vasilev, Milen"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D11"]
[WhiteElo "2284"]
[BlackElo "2466"]
[PlyCount "116"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 dxc4 4. e3 Be6 5. Qc2 Nf6 6. Bxc4 Bxc4 7. Qxc4 e6 8.
O-O Be7 9. Nc3 O-O 10. e4 Nbd7 11. Rd1 Qa5 12. Qe2 Rfe8 13. Bf4 Nf8 14. h3 Ng6
15. Bh2 Rad8 16. a3 Qh5 17. Qc2 Nh4 18. Nxh4 Qxh4 19. Bg3 Qg5 20. Qb3 Rd7 21.
Qa4 a6 22. Rd3 Red8 23. Rad1 Qg6 24. Re3 h6 25. Qc4 Bf8 26. Bh4 Be7 27. Bg3 Qh5
28. Red3 Qg5 29. Bh2 Qg6 30. Rg3 Qh7 31. Re3 c5 32. d5 exd5 33. exd5 b5 34. Qe2
Bd6 35. Bxd6 Rxd6 36. Re5 Qg6 37. b4 c4 38. Rd2 Nd7 39. Re8+ Nf8 40. Rxd8 Rxd8
41. Qe3 Qf5 42. Kh2 Ng6 43. d6 Qf4+ 44. Qxf4 Nxf4 45. Rd4 Ne6 46. Rd5 f5 47. a4
bxa4 48. Nxa4 g6 49. Nc5 Kf7 50. Nxa6 c3 51. Nc5 c2 52. Nxe6 c1=Q 53. Nxd8+ Kf6
54. Nb7 Qf4+ 55. Kg1 Qc1+ 56. Kh2 Qf4+ 57. Kg1 Qc1+ 58. Kh2 Qf4+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.13"]
[Round "4.5"]
[White "Grigorov, Grigor"]
[Black "Kukov, Velislav"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E33"]
[WhiteElo "2508"]
[BlackElo "2367"]
[PlyCount "50"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 Nc6 3. Nf3 e6 4. Nc3 Bb4 5. Qc2 d6 6. Bg5 h6 7. Bd2 O-O 8. a3
Bxc3 9. Bxc3 Qe7 10. e3 e5 11. d5 Nb8 12. Nd2 a5 13. b3 Nbd7 14. Be2 b5 15. e4
bxc4 16. Nxc4 Nc5 17. Nd2 Ba6 18. Bxa6 Rxa6 19. O-O Rfa8 20. Rfe1 c6 21. b4
axb4 22. axb4 Na4 23. dxc6 Rxc6 24. Rxa4 Rxa4 25. Qxa4 Rxc3 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.13"]
[Round "4.6"]
[White "Angelov, Georgi"]
[Black "Drenchev, Petar"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B23"]
[WhiteElo "2257"]
[BlackElo "2477"]
[PlyCount "38"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Qxd4 Nc6 5. Qe3 Nf6 6. Bd2 Be7 7. O-O-O O-O 8.
f4 d5 9. exd5 exd5 10. Qe1 d4 11. Ne4 Qd5 12. Nxf6+ Bxf6 13. c4 dxc3 14. Bxc3
Bxc3 15. Qxc3 Qxa2 16. Bc4 Qa1+ 17. Kc2 Bf5+ 18. Bd3 Qa4+ 19. Kc1 Nb4 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.13"]
[Round "4.7"]
[White "Bratanov, Zsivko"]
[Black "Panbukchian, Valentin"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A80"]
[WhiteElo "2463"]
[BlackElo "2361"]
[PlyCount "93"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 f5 2. Nc3 d5 3. Bf4 e6 4. e3 Nf6 5. Nf3 a6 6. Ne5 Nbd7 7. g4 g6 8. gxf5
exf5 9. h4 Rg8 10. Bg5 c6 11. h5 Be7 12. hxg6 hxg6 13. Bxf6 Bxf6 14. f4 Nxe5
15. fxe5 Bh4+ 16. Kd2 Be6 17. Ne2 Bg5 18. Qe1 Qb6 19. Qg3 Be7 20. Nf4 c5 21.
Rh7 cxd4 22. exd4 Qxd4+ 23. Bd3 Qb6 24. Rah1 O-O-O 25. R1h6 Bc5 26. Kd1 Bd7 27.
Rxg6 Rxg6 28. Qxg6 Qxb2 29. Qg7 Bf8 30. Qf6 Qa1+ 31. Ke2 Bb4 32. Rxd7 Qe1+ 33.
Kf3 Qd1+ 34. Ne2 Qf1+ 35. Ke3 Rxd7 36. e6 Re7 37. Bxf5 Qe1 38. Qh8+ Kc7 39.
Qe5+ Bd6 40. Qxd5 Rg7 41. Be4 Qb4 42. Nd4 Rg3+ 43. Bf3 Qe1+ 44. Ne2 Rxf3+ 45.
Qxf3 Bc5+ 46. Ke4 Bd6 {......} 47. Qc3+ 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.13"]
[Round "4.8"]
[White "Velikov, Petar"]
[Black "Alexiou, Andomahi"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A16"]
[WhiteElo "2433"]
[PlyCount "61"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. c4 Nf6 2. g3 g6 3. Bg2 Bg7 4. Nc3 O-O 5. e4 d6 6. Nge2 c6 7. O-O Qc7 8. h3
Nbd7 9. f4 e5 10. d3 a5 11. f5 Nc5 12. g4 a4 13. Be3 a3 14. b4 Na6 15. Rb1 Rd8
16. Qd2 Bh8 17. Ng3 Qe7 18. Bg5 Nc7 19. Rf2 h6 20. Bxh6 d5 21. exd5 cxd5 22.
cxd5 Nfxd5 23. Nxd5 Nxd5 24. fxg6 f6 25. Nh5 Ra6 26. g7 Bxg7 27. Bxd5+ Rxd5 28.
Bxg7 f5 29. Rc1 Bd7 30. Bf6 Rxf6 31. Qg5+ 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.13"]
[Round "4.9"]
[White "Dimitrov, Pavel"]
[Black "Arnaudov, G  Petar"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B01"]
[WhiteElo "2361"]
[BlackElo "2413"]
[PlyCount "73"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. d4 Nf6 4. Nf3 Bg4 5. Be2 Nc6 6. c4 Qa5+ 7. Bd2 Qf5 8.
Bc3 O-O-O 9. Nbd2 Bxf3 10. Nxf3 e5 11. d5 Bc5 12. O-O Rhe8 13. Qa4 Nd4 14. Bxd4
Bxd4 15. Nxd4 exd4 16. Bf3 Kb8 17. Rad1 Qe5 18. Qb4 Ne4 19. Bxe4 Qxe4 20. Qd2
c5 21. b4 cxb4 22. Qxb4 d3 23. Rb1 b6 24. a4 d2 25. a5 Qd4 26. axb6 axb6 27.
Qa4 Re7 28. Ra1 Rb7 29. h3 Rc8 30. Qa3 Rd8 31. Qg3+ Rc7 32. Rfd1 Kc8 33. Ra2
Rxd5 34. cxd5 Rc1 35. Kh2 Rxd1 36. Ra8+ Kd7 37. Ra7+ 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.13"]
[Round "4.10"]
[White "Badev, Kiril"]
[Black "Nikolova, Adriana"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B51"]
[WhiteElo "2369"]
[BlackElo "2336"]
[PlyCount "105"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 d6 4. O-O Bd7 5. Re1 Nf6 6. c3 a6 7. Bf1 Bg4 8. d4
cxd4 9. cxd4 Bxf3 10. gxf3 d5 11. e5 Nd7 12. e6 fxe6 13. Bh3 Qb6 14. Bxe6 Nxd4
15. Nc3 Nxe6 16. Nxd5 Qd4 17. Nc7+ Kf7 18. Nxa8 g5 19. Nc7 Qxd1 20. Rxd1 Ne5
21. Nxe6 Kxe6 22. Kg2 Nc6 23. Be3 Bg7 24. Rd2 Be5 25. Re1 Kf5 26. Bc5 Bf6 27.
Rd5+ Kg6 28. b3 h5 29. Re4 Kf7 30. h3 Rc8 31. Be3 Rg8 32. Kf1 Kg6 33. f4 g4 34.
hxg4 hxg4 35. f5+ Kf7 36. Kg2 Bh4 37. a4 Re8 38. b4 a5 39. bxa5 Bf6 40. Bb6 Rh8
41. Rxg4 Ne5 42. Rg3 e6 43. fxe6+ Kxe6 44. Rb5 Rh4 45. Bc7 Nc6 46. Rxb7 Rxa4
47. Re3+ Kd5 48. Rb5+ Kc4 49. Rb6 Kd5 50. Rh3 Rg4+ 51. Kf3 Rg1 52. Rh5+ Bg5 53.
Rxg5+ 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.13"]
[Round "4.11"]
[White "Menkinoski, Riste"]
[Black "Stoinev, Metodi"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C73"]
[WhiteElo "2355"]
[BlackElo "2268"]
[PlyCount "86"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 d6 5. Bxc6+ bxc6 6. d4 Nf6 7. Nc3 Nd7 8.
dxe5 dxe5 9. Bg5 f6 10. Be3 a5 11. Nh4 g6 12. O-O Ba6 13. Re1 Nc5 14. Qg4 Qd7
15. Qf3 Qf7 16. Rad1 Ne6 17. Rd2 Bd6 18. Ne2 O-O 19. Ng3 Rab8 20. Bh6 Rfd8 21.
c3 a4 22. Nf1 Nc5 23. Red1 Be7 24. Be3 Ne6 25. Rxd8+ Nxd8 26. Ng3 Ne6 27. Bc1
Bd6 28. Qg4 Kh8 29. Nf1 Nf4 30. Ng3 Nd3 31. Qe2 Qc4 32. Qf3 Nf4 33. h3 Rf8 34.
Kh2 Qxa2 35. Qe3 Qb3 36. Re1 Kg8 37. Qa7 Qb6 38. Qxb6 cxb6 39. Rd1 Nd3 40. Be3
Bc7 41. Ra1 b5 42. Rd1 Nxb2 43. Rd7 Rf7 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.13"]
[Round "4.12"]
[White "Ivanov, Borislav"]
[Black "Janev, Evgeni"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E91"]
[WhiteElo "2128"]
[BlackElo "2461"]
[PlyCount "94"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 d6 2. Nf3 g6 3. c4 Bg7 4. Nc3 Na6 5. e4 c5 6. d5 Nf6 7. Be2 O-O 8. O-O
Nc7 9. h3 a6 10. a4 e5 11. dxe6 Nxe6 12. Qc2 Nd7 13. Be3 Nd4 14. Bxd4 cxd4 15.
Nd5 Re8 16. Rad1 Nc5 17. Nxd4 Rxe4 18. Nb3 Rxe2 19. Qxe2 Nxb3 20. Qe3 Nc5 21.
b4 Nxa4 22. c5 Be6 23. cxd6 Bxd5 24. Rxd5 Nb6 25. Rd3 Nc4 26. Qe7 b5 27. Re1
Bf6 28. Qb7 Rb8 29. Qxa6 Rb6 30. Qa7 Rxd6 31. Rxd6 Qxd6 32. Qc5 Qd7 33. g3 Kg7
34. h4 h5 35. Kg2 Qb7+ 36. Kg1 Qd7 37. Kg2 Nd2 38. Rd1 Qb7+ 39. Kg1 Nf3+ 40.
Kf1 Ne5 41. Qd5 Qa6 42. Re1 Ng4 43. Rc1 Be5 44. Re1 Qf6 45. f4 {Diagram #} Bxf4
46. gxf4 Qxf4+ 47. Ke2 Qe3+ 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.13"]
[Round "4.13"]
[White "Gavrilidis, Georgios"]
[Black "Dimitrov, Radoslav"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A05"]
[WhiteElo "2100"]
[BlackElo "2394"]
[PlyCount "106"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 b6 3. Bg2 Bb7 4. d3 e6 5. O-O Be7 6. Nbd2 O-O 7. e4 d6 8. c3
Nbd7 9. Re1 c5 10. d4 cxd4 11. cxd4 Qc7 12. b3 d5 13. e5 Ne8 14. Bb2 Rd8 15. h4
Qb8 16. Rc1 Nc7 17. Ng5 g6 18. Qg4 h5 19. Qd1 Ne8 20. Nh3 Ng7 21. Nf4 Rc8 22.
Qe2 Rxc1 23. Rxc1 Rc8 24. Qd1 Ba6 25. Bh3 Qb7 26. Rc2 Rxc2 27. Qxc2 Nb8 {
Diagram #} 28. Bxe6 fxe6 29. Qxg6 Bd8 30. Nxe6 Qf7 31. Qxf7+ Kxf7 32. Nf4 Bb7
33. Nf1 Ne6 34. Nxe6 Kxe6 35. Ne3 Nc6 36. Ng2 Kf5 37. f3 Nb4 38. a4 Nc2 39. Kf2
Ba6 40. Nf4 Bxh4 41. Nxh5 Bg5 42. g4+ Kg6 43. f4 Bh4+ 44. Kf3 Bd3 45. f5+ Kf7
46. Kf4 Be2 47. e6+ Ke7 48. Ke5 Bxg4 49. f6+ Bxf6+ 50. Nxf6 Bxe6 51. Bc1 Nxd4
52. Ba3+ Kf7 53. Kxd4 Kxf6 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.13"]
[Round "4.14"]
[White "Karadimov, Marin"]
[Black "Andonov, Bogomil"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A47"]
[WhiteElo "2081"]
[BlackElo "2302"]
[PlyCount "46"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 c5 3. e3 e6 4. Bd3 b6 5. O-O Bb7 6. Nbd2 d6 7. b3 Nbd7 8. Bb2
a6 9. Qe2 Qc7 10. c4 Be7 11. Rac1 O-O 12. Rfe1 Rac8 13. e4 cxd4 14. Bxd4 Rfd8
15. e5 dxe5 16. Nxe5 Nc5 17. Bxc5 Bxc5 18. Ndf3 h6 19. Rcd1 Rd6 20. Bc2 Rxd1
21. Rxd1 Rd8 22. Rxd8+ Qxd8 23. h3 {......} Kf8 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.13"]
[Round "4.15"]
[White "Nikolaou, Georgios"]
[Black "Bednikova, Stefi"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E61"]
[WhiteElo "2292"]
[BlackElo "2094"]
[PlyCount "64"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. c4 Bg7 4. Nc3 O-O 5. Bf4 d6 6. e3 Nfd7 7. Be2 Nc6 8. O-O
a6 9. Qd2 e5 10. Bg3 Re8 11. dxe5 Ncxe5 12. Nd4 Nc5 13. Rac1 h5 14. h3 Qg5 15.
Kh1 Nc6 16. Nf3 Qd8 17. Bh4 Bf6 18. Bxf6 Qxf6 19. Nd5 Qd8 20. b4 Ne4 21. Qb2
Ne5 22. Nxe5 Rxe5 23. Bd3 Bf5 24. Bxe4 Bxe4 25. f4 Re6 26. Qd4 c6 27. Nc3 Qe7
28. Rfe1 Re8 29. Re2 f5 30. Kh2 Kf7 31. Rd1 Qc7 32. a3 c5 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.13"]
[Round "4.16"]
[White "Petrovski, Igor"]
[Black "Veleski, Robert"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C68"]
[WhiteElo "2032"]
[BlackElo "2289"]
[PlyCount "92"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Bxc6 dxc6 5. d4 exd4 6. Qxd4 Qxd4 7. Nxd4 Bd7
8. Be3 O-O-O 9. Nc3 f6 10. O-O-O Ne7 11. Nce2 c5 12. Nb3 b6 13. Nf4 Ng6 14.
Nxg6 hxg6 15. Bf4 Rh4 16. g3 Rh3 17. Be3 Re8 18. Nd2 Bc6 19. f3 Be7 20. Rde1
Reh8 21. Re2 Rxg3 22. Bf4 Rgh3 23. Rg1 g5 24. Bg3 Bd6 25. e5 Re8 26. e6 Bd5 27.
Bxd6 cxd6 28. e7 Kd7 29. c4 Bxf3 30. Nxf3 Rxf3 31. h4 Rxe7 32. Rxe7+ Kxe7 33.
hxg5 f5 34. Re1+ Kd7 35. Rh1 Rg3 36. Rh5 g6 37. Rh7+ Kc6 38. Kd2 Rxg5 39. Ke3
Rg2 40. Rg7 Rxb2 41. Rxg6 Rxa2 42. Rf6 b5 43. cxb5+ axb5 44. Rxf5 b4 45. Kd3
Ra3+ 46. Kc2 Rh3 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.13"]
[Round "4.17"]
[White "Vrban, Rok"]
[Black "Gochev, Mladen"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E63"]
[WhiteElo "2005"]
[BlackElo "2248"]
[PlyCount "75"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. g3 Bg7 4. Bg2 O-O 5. O-O d6 6. d4 Nc6 7. Nc3 a6 8. h3
Rb8 9. Be3 Bd7 10. Rc1 b6 11. Qd2 b5 12. cxb5 axb5 13. Bh6 b4 14. Bxg7 Kxg7 15.
Nb1 Qc8 16. Kh2 Qa6 17. d5 Na7 18. Rxc7 Qxa2 19. Nd4 Qa5 20. Rfc1 Rfc8 21. Rxc8
Rxc8 22. Rxc8 Bxc8 23. e4 Qc5 24. Nc2 b3 25. Nd4 Qc4 26. Na3 Qa4 27. Qe3 Ba6
28. Nxb3 Nb5 29. Nxb5 Qxb5 30. Qc3 Qe2 31. Qd2 Qc4 32. Nd4 Nd7 33. Nc6 Nc5 34.
e5 Nd3 35. f4 Kf8 36. Qe3 Qc1 37. Qa7 Bc4 38. Qxe7+ 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.13"]
[Round "4.18"]
[White "Davidov, Stefan"]
[Black "Stanoev, Atanas"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E90"]
[BlackElo "2202"]
[PlyCount "76"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Nf3 O-O 6. h3 Qe8 7. Be3 Na6 8. Be2
e5 9. d5 Nh5 10. Qd2 Nf4 11. Bxf4 exf4 12. O-O Nc5 13. Bd3 Qe7 14. Bc2 g5 15.
Rfe1 a5 16. a3 a4 17. Nd4 Be5 18. Nf5 Qf6 19. Qe2 Bd7 20. Qh5 Kh8 21. Rac1 Rae8
22. Qh6 Qg6 23. Qxg6 hxg6 24. Nh6 f5 25. exf5 gxf5 26. Nb5 Na6 27. Bd1 Bxb2 28.
Rxe8 Bxe8 29. Rb1 Bg7 30. Nxf5 Rxf5 31. Bxa4 Bxb5 32. Bxb5 Nc5 33. Be8 Re5 34.
Bh5 Re4 35. Bg6 Rxc4 36. Re1 Be5 37. g3 fxg3 38. fxg3 Rc3 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.13"]
[Round "4.19"]
[White "Kostadinov, Rumen"]
[Black "Gantar, Jan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A46"]
[WhiteElo "2200"]
[BlackElo "2077"]
[PlyCount "131"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. Bg5 h6 4. Bh4 b6 5. Nbd2 Bb7 6. e3 Be7 7. Be2 O-O 8. O-O
c5 9. c3 d6 10. Qb1 Nc6 11. Rc1 Rc8 12. b4 cxb4 13. cxb4 Nb8 14. b5 Rxc1+ 15.
Qxc1 Ne4 16. Bxe7 Qxe7 17. Qa3 Nxd2 18. Nxd2 Rc8 19. Qxa7 Qc7 20. Nb3 Bd5 21.
Qxc7 Rxc7 22. Rc1 Rb7 23. Rc8+ Kh7 24. Bd3+ g6 25. Bc2 Nd7 26. e4 Bxb3 27. Bxb3
Kg7 28. Rc6 Nf6 29. f3 d5 30. e5 Nd7 31. Kf2 Kf8 32. g4 Ke7 33. f4 Rb8 34. Rc3
Rh8 35. f5 h5 36. Rh3 h4 37. fxg6 fxg6 38. g5 Rh5 39. Bd1 Rxg5 40. Rxh4 Rf5+
41. Ke3 Nf8 42. Rg4 Rf1 43. Ke2 Rh1 44. Rg2 Kf7 45. a4 Nd7 46. Bc2 g5 47. Kd2
Rf1 48. Kc3 Rf3+ 49. Bd3 Rh3 50. Rxg5 Rxh2 51. Rg1 Rh8 52. Ra1 Ra8 53. Kb4 Ra5
54. Rh1 Nf8 55. Rc1 Nd7 56. Be2 Ra8 57. Ra1 Ra5 58. Rh1 Nf8 59. Bh5+ Ke7 60.
Rf1 Nd7 61. Rf7+ Ke8 62. Rh7+ Kd8 63. Bg4 Nf8 64. Rb7 Nd7 65. Bxe6 Ke8 66. Rxd7
1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.13"]
[Round "4.20"]
[White "Radulski, Julian"]
[Black "Savov, Zheljazko"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B21"]
[WhiteElo "2577"]
[BlackElo "1989"]
[PlyCount "65"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. d4 cxd4 3. c3 d3 4. Bxd3 Nc6 5. Nf3 d6 6. O-O Nf6 7. Qe2 e5 8. h3
Be7 9. c4 O-O 10. Nc3 Be6 11. Nd5 h6 12. Be3 Nd7 13. Rfd1 Bxd5 14. cxd5 Nb4 15.
Bb5 a5 16. a3 Na6 17. Rac1 Ndc5 18. Bxc5 Nxc5 19. Rxc5 dxc5 20. Nxe5 Bd6 21.
Nd7 f6 22. Nxf8 Qxf8 23. Bd7 Qe7 24. Be6+ Kh7 25. g3 g5 26. Kg2 Qe8 27. h4 gxh4
28. Rh1 Bf8 29. Rxh4 Bg7 30. Qc2 Ra6 31. e5+ Kh8 32. exf6 Bf8 33. f7 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.13"]
[Round "4.21"]
[White "Daels, Marc"]
[Black "Lichkov, Ivan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B22"]
[WhiteElo "2207"]
[PlyCount "53"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. c3 d5 3. exd5 Qxd5 4. d4 Nf6 5. Nf3 Bg4 6. dxc5 Qxc5 7. Na3 a6 8.
Be3 Qc7 9. Qa4+ Nbd7 10. O-O-O e6 11. Rxd7 Nxd7 12. Qxg4 Bxa3 13. Qxg7 O-O-O
14. bxa3 f6 15. Kb2 Qd6 16. Be2 Rhg8 17. Qxh7 Nc5 18. Rd1 Qb6+ 19. Kc2 Qa5 20.
Rxd8+ Rxd8 21. Qe7 Na4 22. Qxf6 Qd5 23. c4 Qe4+ 24. Kc1 Nc5 25. Ne5 Nd7 26.
Nxd7 Rxd7 27. Bb6 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.13"]
[Round "4.22"]
[White "Mandzhukov, Stoyan"]
[Black "Vachev, Vladimir"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A26"]
[BlackElo "2145"]
[PlyCount "78"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. g3 g6 4. Bg2 Bg7 5. Nf3 Nge7 6. O-O d6 7. d3 O-O 8. a3
f5 9. e3 h6 10. Qc2 Be6 11. Rb1 Qd7 12. b4 g5 13. b5 Nd8 14. Ne2 Ng6 15. d4 f4
16. dxe5 dxe5 17. exf4 Bf5 18. Qb3 gxf4 19. gxf4 Bxb1 20. Qxb1 Nxf4 21. Nxf4
exf4 22. Bb2 Bxb2 23. Qxb2 Qg7 24. Qb3 Kh8 25. Kh1 Ne6 26. h4 Nc5 27. Qc2 Rad8
28. Bh3 Rd3 29. Qe2 Qf6 30. Kh2 Rxa3 31. Rg1 Rg8 32. Rxg8+ Kxg8 33. h5 Kg7 34.
Qd1 Rd3 35. Qg1+ Kf7 36. Qg4 Ne4 37. Kg2 Ng5 38. Ng1 f3+ 39. Kg3 Qe5+ 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.13"]
[Round "4.23"]
[White "Vakavchiev, Ivan"]
[Black "Ljangov, Petar"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E11"]
[BlackElo "2107"]
[PlyCount "74"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. c4 Bb4+ 4. Bd2 Qe7 5. a3 Bxd2+ 6. Nbxd2 d6 7. e3 e5 8.
dxe5 dxe5 9. e4 O-O 10. Be2 Nc6 11. O-O Bg4 12. Re1 Rad8 13. Qc2 Bxf3 14. Nxf3
Nd4 15. Nxd4 Rxd4 16. Red1 Nxe4 17. Bf3 f5 18. Bxe4 fxe4 19. Rxd4 exd4 20. Re1
d3 21. Qd2 Qe5 22. h3 Qd4 23. c5 a5 24. Rc1 Rf5 25. b4 axb4 26. axb4 h6 27. Re1
Kh7 28. Re3 Rf8 29. Re1 c6 30. Rb1 g5 31. Rb2 Re8 32. Rb3 e3 33. fxe3 Rxe3 34.
Kh1 Qe4 35. Qf2 Re1+ 36. Kh2 Qe5+ 37. Qg3 Rh1+ 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.13"]
[Round "4.24"]
[White "Simeonov, Ventsislav"]
[Black "Lalev, Ivan"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D03"]
[BlackElo "2026"]
[PlyCount "93"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. d4 Nf6 3. Bg5 Nbd7 4. e3 e6 5. Bd3 c6 6. Nbd2 Qa5 7. O-O Bd6 8.
Re1 O-O 9. c4 c5 10. dxc5 Qxc5 11. Rc1 Qb6 12. cxd5 exd5 13. Nb3 Bb4 14. Re2
Re8 15. Bb1 Bf8 16. Qd3 g6 17. Bf4 Bg7 18. a3 Nf8 19. Bc7 Qe6 20. h3 Qe7 21.
Nbd4 Ne4 22. Bh2 Nd6 23. Nb5 Nxb5 24. Qxb5 Ne6 25. Qxd5 Rd8 26. Qb3 b6 27. Rd1
Bb7 28. Red2 Rxd2 29. Rxd2 Nc5 30. Qd1 Rc8 31. Bd6 Bxf3 32. Qxf3 Qd7 33. Ba2
Ne6 34. Bb4 Rc1+ 35. Kh2 Be5+ 36. g3 Qc8 37. Qd5 Bf6 38. a4 h5 39. h4 Ra1 40.
Bb3 Qc1 41. Rd1 Qxb2 42. Rxa1 Qxf2+ 43. Kh1 Bxa1 44. Qa8+ Kg7 45. Bxe6 Qf1+ 46.
Kh2 Qf2+ 47. Kh1 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.13"]
[Round "4.25"]
[White "Stankov, Stanimir"]
[Black "Krastev, Krasimir Naidenov"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B03"]
[BlackElo "1825"]
[PlyCount "51"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 Nf6 2. e5 Nd5 3. c4 Nb6 4. d4 d6 5. f4 dxe5 6. fxe5 Nc6 7. Be3 Bf5 8. a3
a5 9. Nf3 e6 10. Nc3 Be7 11. d5 exd5 12. cxd5 Nb8 13. Bxb6 cxb6 14. Bb5+ Kf8
15. O-O Bc5+ 16. Kh1 g6 17. Nd4 Bc8 18. Ne6+ Bxe6 19. dxe6 Nc6 20. Rxf7+ Kg8
21. Ne4 Be7 22. Nf6+ Bxf6 23. exf6 Qc8 24. Rg7+ Kf8 25. Qd6+ Ke8 26. f7# 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.13"]
[Round "4.26"]
[White "Dimitrov, Ivan"]
[Black "Ismail, Tamer"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B21"]
[PlyCount "101"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. c3 Nf6 5. e5 dxe5 6. Nxe5 e6 7. Qa4+ Bd7 8.
Qxd4 Nc6 9. Nxc6 Bxc6 10. Qxd8+ Rxd8 11. Bg5 Be7 12. Nd2 O-O 13. f3 Nd5 14.
Bxe7 Nxe7 15. Ne4 Nf5 16. Ke2 Bb5+ 17. Kf2 Bxf1 18. Rhxf1 Nd6 19. Nxd6 Rxd6 20.
Rfd1 Rfd8 21. Rxd6 Rxd6 22. Ke3 Kf8 23. c4 b6 24. b4 Ke7 25. Rc1 Kd7 26. Rc3
Rc6 27. Rd3+ Kc7 28. Rc3 f6 29. f4 a6 30. Ke4 g6 31. c5 Kd7 32. Rd3+ Ke7 33.
cxb6 Rxb6 34. a3 Rb5 35. Rh3 h5 36. Rg3 f5+ 37. Kd4 Kf6 38. Kc4 Rb8 39. Re3
Rc8+ 40. Kb3 Rc1 41. g3 Rb1+ 42. Ka4 Rd1 43. Ka5 Rd6 44. a4 Ke7 45. b5 axb5 46.
axb5 Kd7 47. Rc3 Rd2 48. h4 Ra2+ 49. Kb6 Ra8 50. Kb7 Rd8 51. Rd3+ 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.13"]
[Round "4.27"]
[White "Georgieva, Emilia"]
[Black "Chorapinov, Marian"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D02"]
[WhiteElo "1934"]
[PlyCount "39"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. c3 Nf6 4. Bg5 e6 5. e3 a6 6. Nbd2 Be7 7. Bd3 O-O 8. Qa4
Bd7 9. Qc2 h6 10. h4 Ng4 11. Bxe7 Qxe7 12. Be2 Rfe8 13. Ng1 e5 14. dxe5 Qxe5
15. Ngf3 Qf6 16. O-O Bf5 17. Bd3 Bxd3 18. Qxd3 Rad8 19. Rad1 Ne7 20. Qd4
1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.13"]
[Round "4.28"]
[White "Manov, Jordan"]
[Black "Vezenkov, Stoyan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D85"]
[PlyCount "57"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. c4 Bg7 4. Nc3 d5 5. cxd5 Nxd5 6. e4 Nb6 7. Be3 O-O 8.
Be2 Nc6 9. O-O e5 10. d5 Ne7 11. Qb3 Kh8 12. Rac1 f5 13. Rfd1 fxe4 14. Ng5 Bd7
15. d6 Nf5 16. dxc7 Qe7 17. Ncxe4 Ba4 18. Nf7+ Rxf7 19. Qxf7 Bxd1 20. Qxe7 Nxe7
21. Rxd1 Nbd5 22. Bg5 Nxc7 23. Bxe7 Ne6 24. Rd7 Rc8 25. Rxb7 Nf4 26. Nc3 e4 27.
Bd6 Nxe2+ 28. Nxe2 Rd8 29. Rb8 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "5.1"]
[White "Georgiev, Kiril"]
[Black "Nikolov, Sasho"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D17"]
[WhiteElo "2672"]
[BlackElo "2403"]
[PlyCount "51"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 dxc4 5. a4 Bf5 6. Ne5 e6 7. f3 Bb4 8. e4
Bxe4 9. fxe4 Nxe4 10. Bd2 Qxd4 11. Nxe4 Qxe4+ 12. Qe2 Bxd2+ 13. Kxd2 Qd5+ 14.
Kc2 Na6 15. Nxc4 O-O 16. Qe5 Rab8 17. a5 f6 18. Qxd5 cxd5 19. Nd2 Rfc8+ 20. Kb1
Nc5 21. Bb5 a6 22. Be2 f5 23. Ra3 Rc7 24. Rc1 Rbc8 25. Rac3 e5 26. Nb3 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "5.2"]
[White "Rusev, Krasimir"]
[Black "Petkov, Vladimir"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A12"]
[WhiteElo "2547"]
[BlackElo "2490"]
[PlyCount "23"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 c6 3. e3 d5 4. b3 Bg4 5. Bb2 e6 6. d3 Nbd7 7. Be2 Bd6 8. Nbd2
O-O 9. cxd5 exd5 10. O-O Re8 11. h3 Bh5 12. Re1 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "5.3"]
[White "Petrov, Marijan"]
[Black "Dimitrov, Pavel"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C41"]
[WhiteElo "2500"]
[BlackElo "2361"]
[PlyCount "70"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bc4 Be7 4. O-O Nf6 5. Re1 c6 6. c3 Bg4 7. d4 Qc7 8. h3
Bh5 9. Nbd2 Nbd7 10. Nf1 Nxe4 11. Rxe4 d5 12. Ng3 Bg6 13. Re1 dxc4 14. Nxe5
Nxe5 15. dxe5 Qd7 16. Qg4 Qe6 17. Nh5 Qxg4 18. hxg4 Bxh5 19. gxh5 O-O-O 20. Be3
a6 21. Rad1 Rxd1 22. Rxd1 Rd8 23. Rxd8+ Bxd8 24. f4 Kd7 25. f5 Bc7 26. Bf4 Ke8
27. Kf2 g6 28. hxg6 hxg6 29. fxg6 fxg6 30. Kf3 Bd8 31. Ke4 Kd7 32. Kd4 Ke6 33.
Kxc4 Be7 34. g4 Bf8 35. b4 {.....} Be7 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "5.4"]
[White "Drenchev, Petar"]
[Black "Badev, Kiril"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D45"]
[WhiteElo "2477"]
[BlackElo "2369"]
[PlyCount "53"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 e6 5. e3 Be7 6. Bd3 dxc4 7. Bxc4 b5 8. Bd3
Bb7 9. e4 a6 10. e5 Nfd7 11. Ne4 c5 12. O-O cxd4 13. a4 O-O 14. Bf4 Nc6 15. Qe2
Nb4 16. axb5 axb5 17. Bxb5 Nc5 18. Nxc5 Bxc5 19. Nd2 Rxa1 20. Rxa1 d3 21. Qg4
Qd4 (21... h5 $142 $1 $19) 22. Qg3 Rc8 23. Rb1 {Diagram #} Bd5 $4 (23... Be7
$19) 24. Be3 Qxe3 25. fxe3 Nc2 26. Nf1 d2 27. Rd1 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "5.5"]
[White "Stoinev, Metodi"]
[Black "Bratanov, Zsivko"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B48"]
[WhiteElo "2268"]
[BlackElo "2463"]
[PlyCount "132"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 e6 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 Qc7 6. Be3 a6 7. Qd2 Nf6 8. f3
h5 9. O-O-O Be7 10. Nb3 d6 11. Bg5 Bd7 12. Bxf6 gxf6 13. f4 b5 14. Kb1 Rb8 15.
Bd3 b4 16. Ne2 a5 17. Nbd4 Nxd4 18. Nxd4 a4 19. Rhe1 Qc5 20. Be2 Bd8 21. Rc1
Bb6 22. Red1 Ba5 23. Qd3 Ke7 24. b3 a3 25. Qd2 h4 26. Bc4 Rhg8 27. Re1 Rxg2 28.
Nf5+ Qxf5 29. Qxg2 Qxf4 30. c3 bxc3 31. Rc2 Rc8 32. Bd3 Rc5 33. Rf1 Qe5 34. Qf2
Bb5 35. Bxb5 Rxb5 36. Qxh4 Rb4 37. Rcf2 Kd7 38. Qxf6 Qxf6 39. Rxf6 Rxe4 40.
Rxf7+ Kc6 41. R7f4 Re2 42. R1f2 Re1+ 43. Kc2 Ra1 44. Kd3 e5 45. Ra4 Kb5 46.
Rxa3 Bb4 47. Ra8 d5 48. a4+ Kc5 49. Rc8+ Kd6 50. Rf6+ Ke7 51. Rb6 Rd1+ 52. Ke3
Kd7 53. Rbb8 Bd6 54. Rd8+ Ke7 55. Re8+ Kf7 56. Rbc8 c2 57. Red8 d4+ 58. Ke4 Be7
59. Rd7 c1=Q 60. Rxc1 Rxc1 61. Kxe5 Re1+ 62. Kf4 Rd1 63. Ke4 Re1+ 64. Kf4 Rb1
65. Rxd4 Rxb3 66. Kg4 Rb1 {....} 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "5.6"]
[White "Argiroudis, Stamatis"]
[Black "Velikov, Petar"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A32"]
[WhiteElo "2284"]
[BlackElo "2433"]
[PlyCount "104"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. c4 Nf6 2. Nf3 c5 3. Nc3 e6 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 a6 6. g3 Qc7 7. e4 Bb4 8. Qd3
d6 9. Bd2 Nbd7 10. Nb3 O-O 11. a3 Bc5 12. Nxc5 Nxc5 13. Qc2 b5 14. cxb5 Ncxe4
15. Bg2 d5 16. Rc1 Nxd2 17. Qxd2 Qb6 18. bxa6 Bxa6 19. Ne2 Ng4 20. O-O Ne5 21.
Rc2 Rab8 22. b4 Bc4 23. Qc3 d4 24. Qxd4 Qxd4 25. Nxd4 Bxf1 26. Kxf1 Rfd8 27.
Nc6 Nxc6 28. Bxc6 Rdc8 29. Rc5 Kf8 30. b5 Ra8 31. Rh5 Rxa3 32. Rxh7 Kg8 33. Rh4
Rb3 34. Rd4 Rb2 35. h4 g6 36. Kg2 Rc7 37. Rd8+ Kg7 38. Ra8 Kf6 39. Kf3 Ke5 40.
Ra3 f5 41. Ra8 Kf6 42. Rf8+ Kg7 43. Re8 Kf7 44. Rh8 Re7 45. Ke3 Kf6 46. Ra8 e5
47. f3 Rb3+ 48. Kf2 e4 49. fxe4 fxe4 50. Ke2 Rb4 51. Ke3 Rb1 52. Ra2 Ke5 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "5.7"]
[White "Andonov, Bogomil"]
[Black "Grigorov, Grigor"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B23"]
[WhiteElo "2302"]
[BlackElo "2508"]
[PlyCount "57"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 d6 3. Nge2 Nf6 4. g3 b5 5. Nxb5 Nxe4 6. Bg2 Bb7 7. O-O Qd7 8.
c4 a6 9. Na3 e5 10. Nc2 Be7 11. Ne3 O-O 12. d3 Nf6 13. Nc3 Nc6 14. Ned5 Nxd5
15. Nxd5 Bd8 16. f4 f5 17. Be3 Rb8 18. b3 exf4 19. Bxf4 Bf6 20. Nxf6+ Rxf6 21.
Qd2 Nd4 22. Be3 Ne6 23. Rae1 d5 24. Bf4 Rd8 25. Be5 Rf7 26. Qc2 h6 27. Bb2 Ng5
28. Re5 dxc4 {..........39} 29. dxc4 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "5.8"]
[White "Vasilev, Milen"]
[Black "Veleski, Robert"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E62"]
[WhiteElo "2466"]
[BlackElo "2289"]
[PlyCount "93"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nf3 Bg7 4. g3 O-O 5. Bg2 d6 6. O-O Nc6 7. Nc3 e5 8. d5
Ne7 9. h3 Nh5 10. e4 a6 11. Ne1 Qe8 12. Nd3 f5 13. c5 Qf7 14. cxd6 cxd6 15. Bg5
f4 16. g4 f3 17. Bh1 h6 18. Be3 Qf6 19. Ne1 Qh4 20. gxh5 Bxh3 21. Bxf3 Bxf1 22.
Kxf1 Rf6 23. Kg1 Rf7 24. Ng2 Qf6 25. Bg4 Kh8 26. Be6 Rff8 27. Rc1 gxh5 28. Qxh5
Qg6 29. Qxg6 Nxg6 30. Ne2 Rf6 31. Rc7 b5 32. Ng3 Nf4 33. Bxf4 exf4 34. Nh5 Rg6
35. Rxg7 Rxg7 36. Nxg7 Kxg7 37. Nxf4 Ra7 38. Nd3 Rc7 39. f4 Kf6 40. e5+ Ke7 41.
f5 dxe5 42. Nxe5 Rc2 43. Nd7 Rc8 44. f6+ Kd6 45. f7 Ke7 46. f8=Q+ Rxf8 47. Nxf8
1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "5.9"]
[White "Janev, Evgeni"]
[Black "Kostadinov, Rumen"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B08"]
[WhiteElo "2461"]
[BlackElo "2200"]
[PlyCount "78"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 g6 2. d4 c6 3. Nf3 Bg7 4. Nc3 d6 5. h3 Nf6 6. Be3 O-O 7. Be2 Qc7 8. Qd2
b5 9. a3 a6 10. Nh2 Bb7 11. Ng4 Nbd7 12. Bh6 Rfe8 13. Bxg7 Kxg7 14. Rd1 e5 15.
dxe5 dxe5 16. Qh6+ Kh8 17. Qe3 a5 18. Nh6 Nf8 19. a4 b4 20. Bc4 Ne6 21. Ne2 Ba6
22. Bxa6 Rxa6 23. O-O Ng8 24. Ng4 h5 25. Nh2 Nf6 26. Nf3 c5 27. c3 Rd6 28. Rxd6
Qxd6 29. Nd2 Nf4 30. Re1 Nxe2+ 31. Qxe2 Rd8 32. Nc4 Qc7 33. Qe3 Kg7 34. Qg5
bxc3 35. bxc3 Rd3 36. Ne3 Nh7 37. Qg3 Kg8 38. f3 c4 39. Nd5 Qd6 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "5.10"]
[White "Kukov, Velislav"]
[Black "Vrban, Rok"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A47"]
[WhiteElo "2367"]
[BlackElo "2005"]
[PlyCount "49"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. d4 e6 3. e3 b6 4. Bd3 c5 5. O-O Ba6 6. c4 Nc6 7. Nc3 cxd4 8. exd4
Bb4 9. Qa4 Qc8 10. Nb5 O-O 11. Bf4 Nh5 12. Be3 Be7 13. Rac1 Qb7 14. a3 Rfc8 15.
d5 Bxb5 16. Qxb5 Na5 17. d6 Bxd6 18. Qxh5 g6 19. Qh4 Bf8 20. Ng5 h6 21. Ne4 f5
22. Qf6 fxe4 23. Qxg6+ Bg7 24. Bxe4 d5 25. Qxe6+ 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "5.11"]
[White "Stanoev, Atanas"]
[Black "Todorov, Ognjan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D25"]
[WhiteElo "2202"]
[BlackElo "2309"]
[PlyCount "68"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. c4 dxc4 4. e3 Bg4 5. Bxc4 e6 6. O-O Nbd7 7. h3 Bh5 8.
Nc3 Bb4 9. Be2 O-O 10. Qb3 c5 11. dxc5 Qa5 12. Na4 b5 13. a3 Bxc5 14. Qxb5 Qxb5
15. Bxb5 Rab8 16. Ba6 Be7 17. b4 Bg6 18. Nd4 Be4 19. Bb2 e5 20. Nf3 Bc2 21. Nc3
Nc5 22. Bc4 e4 23. Nd4 Nd3 24. Bxd3 Bxd3 25. Nc6 Rb7 26. Rfc1 Bd6 27. Na4 Bb5
28. Na5 Rc7 29. Bxf6 gxf6 30. Nc3 Bd3 31. Nd5 Rxc1+ 32. Rxc1 Be5 33. Nc6 Bb2
34. Rc5 {......} Bxa3 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "5.12"]
[White "Vachev, Vladimir"]
[Black "Radulski, Julian"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C56"]
[WhiteElo "2145"]
[BlackElo "2577"]
[PlyCount "76"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Bc4 Nf6 5. O-O Nxe4 6. Re1 d5 7. Bxd5 Qxd5 8.
Nc3 Qd8 9. Nxe4 Be7 10. Bg5 O-O 11. Bxe7 Qxe7 12. Nxd4 Bd7 13. Qh5 Rae8 14. Nf3
Qb4 15. c3 Qxb2 16. Rad1 Qc2 17. Rd2 Qa4 18. Nf6+ gxf6 19. Rxd7 Rxe1+ 20. Nxe1
Qe4 21. Qd1 Re8 22. Nf3 Ne5 23. Rd4 Nxf3+ 24. gxf3 Qe1+ 25. Qxe1 Rxe1+ 26. Kg2
Rc1 27. Rd8+ Kg7 28. Ra8 a6 29. Ra7 Rb1 30. Kg3 f5 31. c4 Kf6 32. c5 c6 33. Ra8
Rb5 34. Rb8 a5 35. a4 Rb4 36. h4 h5 37. f4 Rxa4 38. Rxb7 Rc4 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "5.13"]
[White "Arnaudov, G  Petar"]
[Black "Daels, Marc"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A34"]
[WhiteElo "2413"]
[BlackElo "2207"]
[PlyCount "114"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. d4 cxd4 6. Qxd4 Nxc3 7. Qxc3 Nc6
8. e4 e6 9. a3 Bd7 10. Bb5 Qb6 11. Ba4 Qc5 12. Qb3 Rb8 13. Be3 Qa5+ 14. Bd2 Qc7
15. Qd3 Be7 16. Bc3 O-O 17. Bxc6 Bxc6 18. Be5 Qa5+ 19. b4 Rbd8 20. Qc3 Qa6 21.
Bxg7 Rfe8 22. Bh6 e5 23. Nd2 Bxe4 24. Nxe4 Qxh6 25. O-O Rd4 26. Rfe1 Qe6 27.
Qf3 b6 28. Qh5 Red8 29. Ng3 R8d5 30. Nf5 Rf4 31. Nh6+ Kf8 32. g3 e4 33. Qe2 Rg5
34. Qe3 Rh4 35. f4 exf3 36. Qxg5 f2+ 37. Kxf2 Rxh2+ 38. Kg1 {Diagram #} Rh1+
39. Kg2 Rh2+ 40. Kg1 Rh1+ 41. Kf2 Bxg5 42. Rxe6 Rxa1 43. Rc6 Bxh6 44. Rxh6 Kg7
45. Rc6 Rxa3 46. Rc7 a5 47. bxa5 bxa5 48. Rc5 a4 49. Ra5 Ra1 50. Kf3 a3 51. Kg2
a2 52. g4 f6 53. Kh2 h5 54. gxh5 f5 55. Ra6 f4 56. Rg6+ Kh7 57. Rg2 Rh1+ 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "5.14"]
[White "Dimitrov, Radoslav"]
[Black "Angelov, Georgi"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A34"]
[WhiteElo "2394"]
[BlackElo "2257"]
[PlyCount "67"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. c4 c5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. g3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. Bg2 Nc7 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. O-O e5 8. d3
Be7 9. Nd2 Bd7 10. Nc4 O-O 11. Bxc6 Bxc6 12. Nxe5 Be8 13. Be3 Nd5 14. Qb3 Nxe3
15. fxe3 b6 16. Qd5 Bd6 17. Rf5 g6 18. Rf3 Bxe5 19. Qxe5 Bc6 20. Rf6 Rc8 21.
Raf1 Qc7 22. Qg5 Rfe8 23. Rxf7 Qxf7 24. Rxf7 Kxf7 25. Nd1 Re6 26. Nf2 Rce8 27.
Ng4 R8e7 28. e4 h5 29. Ne3 Re5 30. Qh6 R5e6 31. Ng2 Rf6 32. Nf4 Ke8 33. Nxg6
Ref7 34. Qh8+ 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "5.15"]
[White "Panbukchian, Valentin"]
[Black "Gavrilidis, Georgios"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B20"]
[WhiteElo "2361"]
[BlackElo "2100"]
[PlyCount "85"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. f4 g6 2. Nf3 c5 3. g3 Bg7 4. Bg2 Nc6 5. d3 e6 6. O-O Nge7 7. e4 O-O 8. c3 b6
9. Re1 Ba6 10. a4 d5 11. e5 Qd7 12. Na3 Rab8 13. Nb5 Na5 14. b4 Bxb5 15. axb5
Nb7 16. Qa4 d4 17. cxd4 cxb4 18. Qxb4 Nd5 19. Qb2 Na5 20. Bd2 Rfc8 21. Ng5 Bf8
22. Ne4 Be7 23. Rec1 Rxc1+ 24. Rxc1 Rd8 25. Ra1 Rb8 26. Rb1 Rd8 27. Be1 Ne3 28.
Bb4 Nf5 29. Bxe7 Qxe7 30. d5 exd5 31. Nf6+ Kg7 32. Rc1 Ne3 33. Qc3 Nxg2 34.
Kxg2 d4 35. Qc7 Qxc7 36. Rxc7 Nb3 37. Ne4 Kg8 38. g4 h6 39. Kf3 g5 40. f5 Kf8
41. e6 fxe6 42. fxe6 Re8 43. Rf7+ 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "5.16"]
[White "Nikolova, Adriana"]
[Black "Ljangov, Petar"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B99"]
[WhiteElo "2336"]
[BlackElo "2107"]
[PlyCount "85"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 Nf6 4. Nc3 cxd4 5. Nxd4 a6 6. Bg5 e6 7. f4 Nbd7 8. Qf3
Qc7 9. O-O-O Be7 10. g4 b5 11. Bxf6 Nxf6 12. g5 Nd7 13. f5 Bxg5+ 14. Kb1 O-O
15. fxe6 Nb6 16. Nd5 Nxd5 17. exd5 fxe6 18. Qh5 Bf6 19. Nxe6 Qf7 20. Qe2 Re8
21. Bh3 Kh8 22. Qd3 Bxe6 23. dxe6 Qh5 24. Rhe1 Be5 25. Bg2 Rab8 26. Re3 Qg5 27.
Bd5 Re7 28. Rh3 g6 29. Rf1 Bg7 30. Bb3 Rf8 31. Rxf8+ Bxf8 32. a3 Rc7 33. Rf3
Kg7 34. Qf1 Be7 35. Rf7+ Kh6 36. Qf2 Qc5 37. Qf3 Qh5 38. Qa8 Qd1+ 39. Ka2 Rxc2
40. Bxc2 Qxc2 41. Qd5 Qc7 42. Qd2+ g5 43. Qd3 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "5.17"]
[White "Alexiou, Andomahi"]
[Black "Nikolaou, Georgios"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A05"]
[BlackElo "2292"]
[PlyCount "62"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 c5 3. Bg2 Nc6 4. O-O g6 5. d3 Bg7 6. c3 O-O 7. Qc2 d5 8. Nbd2
e5 9. e4 h6 10. Re1 Re8 11. h3 Rb8 12. a4 b6 13. Rb1 Be6 14. Bf1 Qd7 15. Kh2
Rbc8 16. exd5 Bxd5 17. Ne4 Nh7 18. h4 f5 19. Bh3 Be6 20. Ned2 Rcd8 21. Nc4 e4
22. dxe4 Bxc4 23. exf5 Bd3 24. fxg6 Bxc2 25. gxh7+ Kxh7 26. Bxd7 Rxe1 27. Ra1
Rh1+ 28. Kxh1 Rxd7 29. Kh2 Rd1 30. Nd2 Ne5 31. b4 cxb4 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "5.18"]
[White "Bednikova, Stefi"]
[Black "Ivanov, Borislav"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B12"]
[WhiteElo "2094"]
[BlackElo "2128"]
[PlyCount "77"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Nf3 e6 5. Be2 c5 6. Be3 cxd4 7. Nxd4 Ne7 8. O-O
Nbc6 9. f4 Nxd4 10. Bxd4 Nc6 11. Bf2 Be7 12. c3 O-O 13. Nd2 d4 14. Bf3 dxc3 15.
bxc3 Qa5 16. Qb3 Qa6 17. Ne4 Na5 18. Qb2 Nc4 19. Qc2 Rfd8 20. Rfd1 Qa5 21. Qb3
Qc7 22. Rxd8+ Rxd8 23. Rd1 Na5 24. Rxd8+ Qxd8 25. Qa4 b6 26. Bd4 a6 27. g4 b5
28. Qc2 Bg6 29. f5 exf5 30. gxf5 Bxf5 31. Nf6+ Bxf6 32. Qxf5 Be7 33. e6 f6 34.
Be4 g6 35. Qg4 Qf8 36. Bd5 Nc4 37. Qf4 Nd6 38. Qxd6 Bxd6 39. e7+ 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "5.19"]
[White "Gantar, Jan"]
[Black "Menkinoski, Riste"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C41"]
[WhiteElo "2077"]
[BlackElo "2355"]
[PlyCount "59"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 e5 4. Nf3 Nbd7 5. Bc4 Be7 6. O-O O-O 7. Re1 c6 8. a4
b6 9. d5 Bb7 10. b3 Nc5 11. Ba3 cxd5 12. Bxd5 Bxd5 13. exd5 Rc8 14. Nb5 Qd7 15.
c4 g6 16. Bb2 a6 17. Nc3 Nh5 18. a5 bxa5 19. Rxa5 Rb8 {Diagram #} 20. Rxc5 dxc5
21. Nxe5 Qb7 22. Nc6 Rbe8 23. Ne4 f5 24. Nxe7+ Rxe7 25. Nxc5 Rxe1+ 26. Qxe1 Qc8
27. Ne6 Rf7 28. Qe5 Nf6 29. Ng5 Rf8 30. Qe7 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "5.20"]
[White "Gochev, Mladen"]
[Black "Petrovski, Igor"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A46"]
[WhiteElo "2248"]
[BlackElo "2032"]
[PlyCount "47"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. d4 e6 3. Bg5 c5 4. e3 Nc6 5. Nbd2 cxd4 6. exd4 Be7 7. c3 O-O 8.
Bd3 d6 9. O-O a6 10. Re1 h6 11. Bh4 b5 12. Qe2 Bb7 13. Rad1 Na5 14. Bb1 Rc8 {
...} 15. Nf1 Nc4 16. h3 Bxf3 17. gxf3 Nh5 18. Bg3 Bg5 19. h4 Bf6 20. f4 g6 21.
d5 Re8 22. dxe6 Rxe6 23. Be4 Ng7 24. h5 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "5.21"]
[White "Karadimov, Marin"]
[Black "Davidov, Stefan"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C14"]
[WhiteElo "2081"]
[PlyCount "24"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e5 Nfd7 6. h4 c5 7. Nb5 O-O 8. Qg4
f5 9. Qg3 Nc6 10. Nf3 cxd4 11. Nbxd4 Nxd4 12. Nxd4 Nc5 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "5.22"]
[White "Savov, Zheljazko"]
[Black "Stankov, Stanimir"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B35"]
[WhiteElo "1989"]
[PlyCount "97"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 g6 5. Nc3 Bg7 6. Be3 Nf6 7. Bc4 O-O 8.
O-O Nxe4 9. Nxe4 d5 10. Nxc6 bxc6 11. Bd3 dxe4 12. Bxe4 Qc7 13. c3 f5 14. Bf3
Be6 15. Qa4 Bd5 16. Bxd5+ cxd5 17. Rad1 f4 18. Bc1 Rf5 19. Rfe1 Rd8 20. Re6 Qd7
21. Qxd7 Rxd7 22. g4 Re5 23. Rxe5 Bxe5 24. Re1 Bd6 25. b3 e5 26. Rd1 Bc7 27. c4
d4 28. f3 d3 29. Bb2 Kf7 30. b4 Kf6 31. a4 h5 32. h3 hxg4 33. hxg4 Kg5 34. Bc3
e4 35. fxe4 Kxg4 36. Kf2 Bd8 37. Rg1+ Kh5 38. Rd1 Bh4+ 39. Kf3 g5 40. e5 g4+
41. Kxf4 Bg5+ 42. Ke4 d2 43. e6 Rd6 44. Kf5 Rd3 45. Bxd2 Rf3+ 46. Ke4 Be7 47.
c5 Rb3 48. c6 g3 49. c7 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "5.23"]
[White "Lalev, Ivan"]
[Black "Mandzhukov, Stoyan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A17"]
[WhiteElo "2026"]
[PlyCount "71"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Nf3 e6 4. g3 Bb4 5. Bg2 O-O 6. O-O d5 7. d4 a6 8. Qb3
Bxc3 9. Qxc3 dxc4 10. Qxc4 Na5 11. Qc2 b5 12. Bg5 Bb7 13. Bxf6 gxf6 14. Rfd1 f5
15. Qd2 c6 16. b3 Rc8 17. Rac1 Ba8 18. Ne5 f6 19. Nd3 Qb6 20. Nc5 Rfe8 21. Qh6
Qd8 22. e4 Nb7 23. exf5 exf5 24. d5 Nxc5 25. Rxc5 cxd5 26. Rxc8 Qxc8 27. Qxf6
Qe6 28. Qxe6+ Rxe6 29. Bxd5 Bxd5 30. Rxd5 Rf6 31. Kg2 Kf7 32. Rd7+ Kg6 33. Kf3
Re6 34. a4 bxa4 35. bxa4 a5 36. Rd5 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "5.24"]
[White "Lichkov, Ivan"]
[Black "Vakavchiev, Ivan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A57"]
[PlyCount "115"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5 4. Nf3 d6 5. Qc2 bxc4 6. e4 Nbd7 7. Bxc4 g6 8. Nc3
Bg7 9. O-O O-O 10. Bf4 Ng4 11. Be2 Qb6 12. Nd2 Nge5 13. Be3 Ba6 14. Nb3 Bxe2
15. Qxe2 Qb4 16. Bg5 c4 17. Nd4 Rfe8 18. Ncb5 Nd3 19. a4 a6 20. Nc6 Qxb2 21.
Qxb2 Bxb2 22. Nc7 Bxa1 23. Nxa8 Rxa8 24. Rxa1 f6 25. Be3 Kf7 26. Kf1 N7e5 27.
Nxe5+ fxe5 28. Rb1 c3 29. Ke2 Nb2 30. a5 Rc8 31. Bc1 Rc4 32. f3 Ra4 33. Bxb2
Ra2 34. Kd3 cxb2 35. Kc2 Rxa5 36. Rxb2 Kf6 37. Kd2 Ra1 38. Ke2 a5 39. h4 h5 40.
g4 g5 41. hxg5+ Kxg5 42. gxh5 Kxh5 43. Rb7 Kg5 44. Rxe7 Ra2+ 45. Ke3 Ra3+ 46.
Kf2 Ra2+ 47. Kg3 Rb2 48. Ra7 Ra2 49. Ra6 Ra1 50. Rxd6 Rg1+ 51. Kf2 Ra1 52. Re6
a4 53. Rxe5+ Kf6 54. Re6+ Kf7 55. Ra6 a3 56. Ke3 a2 57. Kf4 Ke7 58. Ke5 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "5.25"]
[White "Dimitrov, Ivan"]
[Black "Simeonov, Ventsislav"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B21"]
[PlyCount "53"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. c3 dxc3 5. Nxc3 Nf6 6. Bc4 e6 7. e5 Ng8 8.
exd6 Nd7 9. Nb5 Qb6 10. Nc7+ Kd8 11. Bg5+ Ngf6 12. Nxa8 Qb4+ 13. Nd2 Qxd6 14.
Bxf6+ gxf6 15. O-O Rg8 16. Be2 Qb8 17. Ne4 Be7 18. Rc1 Qxa8 19. Nd6 Bxd6 20.
Qxd6 b6 21. f3 Qb7 22. Rc2 Qb8 23. Qxb8 Nxb8 24. Rd2+ Bd7 25. Bb5 Re8 26. Bxd7
Nxd7 {.....} 27. Rc1 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "5.26"]
[White "Krastev, Krasimir Naidenov"]
[Black "Manov, Jordan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B07"]
[WhiteElo "1825"]
[PlyCount "99"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 g6 4. Bg5 Bg7 5. Qd2 Nbd7 6. f4 h6 7. Bh4 c5 8. e5
dxe5 9. fxe5 cxd4 10. exf6 dxc3 11. Qxc3 Bxf6 12. Bxf6 Nxf6 13. Bb5+ Bd7 14.
O-O-O O-O 15. Nf3 Rc8 16. Qe3 Qc7 17. Bd3 Ng4 18. Qd2 Rfd8 19. Kb1 Bf5 20. Rhe1
Bxd3 21. cxd3 Kg7 22. h3 Nf6 23. g4 e6 24. g5 hxg5 25. Nxg5 Rd5 26. Ne4 Nxe4
27. Rxe4 Rh5 28. h4 Rc5 29. Re2 Qg3 30. d4 Rd5 31. Rg2 Qxh4 32. Rh2 Qe4+ 33.
Ka1 Rh5 34. Rxh5 gxh5 35. Rg1+ Kh7 36. Qh2 Qf5 37. Qg2 Qg6 38. Qf2 Qf5 39. Qg2
Qf6 40. Rf1 Qg6 41. Qxb7 Qf5 42. Qh1 Qg6 43. Rg1 Qh6 44. Qe4+ Kh8 45. Qe5+ f6
46. Qe1 h4 47. a4 Re8 48. Rh1 Qg5 49. Rxh4+ Kg7 50. Rh1 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "5.27"]
[White "Ismail, Tamer"]
[Black "Georgieva, Emilia"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B13"]
[BlackElo "1934"]
[PlyCount "74"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. Bb5 Bd7 6. O-O e6 7. Re1 a6 8. Ba4
b5 9. Bb3 Be7 10. Nc3 Nf6 11. Bg5 O-O 12. Qd2 Na5 13. Ne5 Nxb3 14. axb3 b4 15.
Ne2 Ne4 16. Bxe7 Qxe7 17. Qe3 Bb5 18. Ng3 f5 19. f4 Rac8 20. Rac1 Rc7 21. Nxe4
fxe4 22. c3 bxc3 23. bxc3 Qf6 24. g3 Rb8 25. c4 Be8 26. c5 Bb5 27. Rc3 h6 28.
Rec1 g5 29. fxg5 hxg5 30. R3c2 Rf8 31. c6 Qh6 32. Ng4 Qh5 33. Ne5 Qh3 34. Rf2
Rxf2 35. Qxf2 Qf5 36. Qe3 Kg7 37. b4 Kg8 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "5.28"]
[White "Vezenkov, Stoyan"]
[Black "Chorapinov, Marian"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C21"]
[PlyCount "47"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. c3 dxc3 4. Nf3 cxb2 5. Bxb2 d6 6. Bc4 Bg4 7. Qb3 Be6 8.
Bxe6 fxe6 9. O-O e5 10. Nc3 Nf6 11. Ng5 Qe7 12. Qxb7 Nfd7 13. Nd5 Qxg5 14.
Nxc7+ Kf7 15. Nxa8 Qg4 16. Nc7 Be7 17. Qd5+ Kg6 18. Rae1 Nc5 19. Re3 Qd7 20.
Rg3+ Kf6 21. Rf3+ Kg6 22. Qf7+ Kh6 23. Bc1+ g5 24. Rh3+ 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "6.1"]
[White "Velikov, Petar"]
[Black "Georgiev, Kiril"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A26"]
[WhiteElo "2433"]
[BlackElo "2672"]
[PlyCount "103"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

{A26: English Opening vs King's Indian with ...Nc6 and d3} 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 g6
3. g3 Bg7 4. Bg2 O-O 5. O-O d6 6. Nc3 e5 7. d3 Nc6 8. Bg5 h6 9. Bxf6 Bxf6 10.
Rb1 a5 11. a3 Bg7 12. b4 axb4 13. axb4 Be6 14. Nd5 $146 (14. b5 Ne7 15. Nd2 Rb8
(15... c6 16. bxc6 bxc6 17. Qb3 d5 18. cxd5 cxd5 19. Qb2 f5 20. Rfc1 Rb8 21.
Nb5 Qd7 22. Rc7 Rxb5 23. Rxd7 Rxb2 24. Rxe7 Rxb1+ 25. Nxb1 Bf7 26. e3 Rb8 27.
Nc3 e4 28. d4 Rc8 29. Nb5 Rc1+ 30. Bf1 {
Bukhalaf,K (1866)-Bakr,J (2338)/Al Ain UAE 2008/0-1 (71)}) 16. Qb3 (16. Qc2 Qd7
17. Nd5 Rfe8 18. Rfc1 f5 19. Nb3 g5 20. Nxe7+ Qxe7 21. Na5 Bc8 22. c5 dxc5 23.
Qxc5 Qxc5 24. Rxc5 b6 25. Nc6 bxc5 26. Nxb8 e4 27. dxe4 fxe4 28. e3 c4 29. Na6
Re7 30. Rc1 c3 {Bidkova,V (2028)-Kovalenko,V (2185)/Kyiv UKR 2008/1/2 (48)})
16... c6 17. e4 f5 18. f4 Qb6+ 19. Kh1 Qe3 20. Qc2 fxe4 21. Ncxe4 d5 22. Rfe1
Qb6 23. c5 Qc7 24. Nd6 cxb5 25. fxe5 Qd7 26. Rxb5 Rf2 27. d4 Bh3 28. Rg1 Rbf8 {
Golwankar,D-Shiva,M (1988)/Mumbai IND 2008/0-1 (31)}) (14. Qd2 Ne7 $15) 14...
Ne7 {Black threatens to win material: Ne7xd5} 15. Nd2 c6 16. Nxe7+ Qxe7 17. Qc2
d5 18. b5 {White gains space} Rfd8 19. bxc6 bxc6 20. cxd5 cxd5 21. Rb5 Rac8 22.
Qb1 Qc7 (22... Rc3 23. Rc1 Rxc1+ 24. Qxc1 $17) 23. Rd1 (23. Nb3 Qd6 $17) 23...
Kh7 (23... Rb8 24. e4 Bg4 25. Rxb8 Rxb8 26. Qc1 $17) 24. Nf1 f5 {Black plans e4
} (24... Rb8 25. Ne3 Rxb5 26. Qxb5 $17) 25. Ne3 $15 {
Pawn d5, live or die!. White threatens to win material: Ne3xd5} Qf7 26. Rb7 (
26. Qb3 e4 27. Rb6 Rc3 $15) 26... Rd7 $17 27. Rxd7 Qxd7 28. Rc1 (28. Qb4 Bf6
$17) 28... e4 29. Rxc8 Qxc8 30. Nf1 (30. Qb5 Qc1+ 31. Bf1 Qc7 $15) 30... Qc3
31. dxe4 dxe4 32. e3 {Controls d4.} (32. g4 Qb2 33. Qxb2 Bxb2 $15) 32... Bc4 (
32... Qd3 33. Qb6 Bd5 34. h4 $17) 33. h4 (33. g4 Qd3 34. Qb4 fxg4 $15) 33...
Be2 (33... h5 34. Qd1 $17) 34. Nh2 Bd3 35. Qb7 h5 36. Nf1 (36. Bf1 Kh6 $17)
36... Qa1 37. Bh3 Qe1 38. Qf7 Qd1 39. Bg2 Kh6 40. Qe7 Be2 41. Qg5+ Kh7 42. Qe7
Qc1 43. Qf7 Qb1 44. Qe7 Bc4 45. Bh3 Qa1 46. Bg2 Be2 47. Qf7 Bg4 (47... Qc1 48.
Qd7 $17) 48. Qe7 (48. Qd5 Kh6 $17) 48... Qd1 49. Qf7 Kh6 50. Qe7 Kh7 {
Twofold repetition} 51. Qf7 Be2 52. Bh3 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "6.2"]
[White "Bratanov, Zsivko"]
[Black "Rusev, Krasimir"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D16"]
[WhiteElo "2463"]
[BlackElo "2547"]
[PlyCount "11"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 dxc4 5. a4 e6 6. e3 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "6.3"]
[White "Petkov, Vladimir"]
[Black "Drenchev, Petar"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D90"]
[WhiteElo "2490"]
[BlackElo "2477"]
[PlyCount "25"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Qa4+ Bd7 5. Qb3 dxc4 6. Qxc4 Bg7 7. d4 O-O 8.
e4 Nc6 9. Bf4 Nh5 10. Be3 Bg4 11. Rd1 Bxf3 12. gxf3 e5 13. d5 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "6.4"]
[White "Kostadinov, Rumen"]
[Black "Petrov, Marijan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D04"]
[WhiteElo "2200"]
[BlackElo "2500"]
[PlyCount "78"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 c5 2. e3 Nf6 3. Nf3 g6 4. Bd3 Bg7 5. O-O O-O 6. Nbd2 d5 7. c3 Qc7 8. Rb1
Nbd7 9. b4 e5 10. dxe5 Ng4 11. Bb2 Ndxe5 12. Bc2 b6 13. h3 Nxf3+ 14. Nxf3 Nf6
15. bxc5 bxc5 16. c4 dxc4 17. Bxf6 Bxf6 18. Qd5 Be6 19. Qb7 Qxb7 20. Rxb7 c3
21. a4 Bd5 22. Rc7 Rfc8 23. Rxc8+ Rxc8 24. Rb1 Rc6 25. e4 Ba2 26. Rb8+ Kg7 27.
e5 Be7 28. Rb7 Bd8 29. Rd7 Rc8 30. h4 Rb8 31. g3 Be6 32. Rxa7 Bf5 33. Ne1 Bxc2
34. Nxc2 Rb2 35. Ne3 Bb6 36. Rb7 c4 37. e6 Bxe3 38. Rxf7+ Kg8 39. fxe3 c2 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "6.5"]
[White "Nikolov, Sasho"]
[Black "Vasilev, Milen"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D11"]
[WhiteElo "2403"]
[BlackElo "2466"]
[PlyCount "54"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 dxc4 4. e3 Be6 5. a4 Nf6 6. Na3 Bd5 7. Nxc4 e6 8. Bd3
c5 9. O-O Nc6 10. dxc5 Bxc5 11. b3 Nb4 12. Be2 O-O 13. Bb2 Be4 14. Nd4 Qd5 15.
f3 Bg6 16. Kh1 Rfd8 17. Rc1 b6 18. e4 Qg5 19. Qe1 Nh5 20. g3 Rxd4 21. Bxd4 Bxd4
22. Qxb4 Nxg3+ 23. hxg3 Qxg3 24. Qd6 e5 25. Qd7 h5 26. Rcd1 f5 27. Rxd4 Qh3+
1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "6.6"]
[White "Dimitrov, Pavel"]
[Black "Kukov, Velislav"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B04"]
[WhiteElo "2361"]
[BlackElo "2367"]
[PlyCount "131"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 Nf6 2. e5 Nd5 3. d4 d6 4. Nf3 dxe5 5. Nxe5 c6 6. Be2 Nd7 7. Nd3 g6 8. O-O
Bg7 9. c3 O-O 10. Bf3 e5 11. dxe5 Nxe5 12. Nxe5 Bxe5 13. Re1 Bg7 14. Nd2 Be6
15. Ne4 Nf6 16. Qxd8 Raxd8 17. Bg5 Nxe4 18. Bxe4 Rd7 19. Rad1 Rxd1 20. Rxd1
Bxa2 21. Rd7 Re8 22. f3 h6 23. Bf4 f5 24. Bd3 g5 25. Bd6 b5 26. Bxf5 Be6 27.
Bxe6+ Rxe6 28. Kf2 a5 29. g3 b4 30. cxb4 Bd4+ 31. Kg2 axb4 32. Bxb4 Bxb2 33.
Kh3 h5 34. Bd2 Bf6 35. Rc7 Be7 36. Bc3 Kf8 37. Rc8+ Kf7 38. Rh8 Re3 39. Rh7+
Ke8 40. Bd4 Rd3 41. Be5 Rxf3 42. Rxh5 Re3 43. Bb2 Kf7 44. Rh7+ Ke6 45. Kg4 Re4+
46. Kh5 Re2 47. Rh6+ Kd5 48. Bc1 Rxh2+ 49. Kg6 Rxh6+ 50. Kxh6 c5 51. Kg6 Ke6
52. g4 c4 53. Bd2 Ke5 54. Kf7 Bd8 55. Ke8 Bf6 56. Kf7 Bd8 57. Ke8 Bb6 58. Bxg5
Ke4 59. Bf6 Bd4 60. g5 c3 61. Bxd4 Kxd4 62. g6 c2 63. g7 c1=Q 64. g8=Q Qc8+ 65.
Kf7 Qxg8+ 66. Kxg8 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "6.7"]
[White "Grigorov, Grigor"]
[Black "Stanoev, Atanas"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D37"]
[WhiteElo "2508"]
[BlackElo "2202"]
[PlyCount "39"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. c4 e6 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bf4 O-O 6. e3 c5 7. dxc5 Bxc5 8.
cxd5 exd5 9. Be2 Nc6 10. O-O Be6 11. Rc1 Be7 12. h3 Ne4 13. Nd4 Nxc3 14. Rxc3
Bf6 15. Nxc6 bxc6 16. Rxc6 Bxb2 17. Qd2 Bf6 18. Bf3 d4 19. Rd6 dxe3 $4 (19...
Qe7 $142 $16) 20. Rxd8 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "6.8"]
[White "Radulski, Julian"]
[Black "Argiroudis, Stamatis"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B17"]
[WhiteElo "2577"]
[BlackElo "2284"]
[PlyCount "59"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nd7 5. Nf3 Ndf6 6. Ned2 Bg4 7. c3 e6 8.
Qb3 Qc7 9. Ne5 Ne7 10. Ndc4 Ned5 11. Nxg4 Nxg4 12. Be2 Ngf6 13. O-O Nb6 14. Ne5
Bd6 15. Nf3 O-O 16. Bg5 c5 17. Rad1 Nbd7 18. dxc5 Nxc5 19. Qc2 Be7 20. c4 Nce4
21. Be3 Rfd8 22. Ng5 Nxg5 23. Bxg5 Ng4 24. Bxg4 Bxg5 25. Bf3 Rxd1 26. Rxd1 Rc8
27. Qa4 b6 28. g3 a5 29. Rd7 {Diagram #} Qxc4 30. Rd8+ 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "6.9"]
[White "Nikolaou, Georgios"]
[Black "Dimitrov, Radoslav"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A33"]
[WhiteElo "2292"]
[BlackElo "2394"]
[PlyCount "66"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. g3 Nf6 2. Bg2 e6 3. c4 c5 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. O-O Be7 6. Nc3 O-O 7. d4 cxd4 8.
Nxd4 a6 9. h3 Qc7 10. b3 b6 11. Bf4 e5 12. Nf5 Bb4 13. Bd2 d5 14. Nxd5 Nxd5 15.
cxd5 Bxf5 16. Rc1 Bc5 17. e4 Bd7 18. b4 Nxb4 19. Bxb4 Qd6 20. Bxc5 bxc5 21. Rc3
Rfc8 22. Qc2 Rc7 23. Rc1 Rac8 24. Qb3 Qh6 25. h4 Qd2 26. Qc2 Qh6 27. Qb2 Bb5
28. Bf1 Bxf1 29. Kxf1 Qd6 30. Rb1 Qg6 31. Rc4 Qh5 32. Qe2 Qg6 33. Qb2 {.....}
Qh5 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "6.10"]
[White "Badev, Kiril"]
[Black "Stoinev, Metodi"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D13"]
[WhiteElo "2369"]
[BlackElo "2268"]
[PlyCount "118"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. c4 c6 4. cxd5 cxd5 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Bf4 e6 7. e3 Nh5 8. Bg3
Bd7 9. Bd3 Be7 10. Rc1 a6 11. e4 dxe4 12. Bxe4 Nxg3 13. hxg3 h6 14. O-O O-O 15.
Bb1 Nb4 16. a3 Nd5 17. Nxd5 exd5 18. Qb3 Bb5 19. Rfe1 Bf6 20. a4 Bc6 21. Qd3 g6
22. Ne5 Be8 23. Qb3 Rb8 24. Rc5 Bc6 25. Qc2 Bg7 26. Ba2 a5 27. Qc3 Kh7 28. Rxa5
Rc8 29. Rc5 Bxa4 30. Rxc8 Qxc8 31. Bxd5 f6 32. Nd3 Qd7 33. Bf3 b6 34. Qb4 Qb5
35. Qxb5 Bxb5 36. Nf4 f5 37. Re7 Re8 38. Rb7 Bc4 39. Bd5 Re1+ 40. Kh2 Bxd5 41.
Nxd5 Kh8 42. Rxb6 Bxd4 43. Rxg6 Kh7 44. Rd6 Bxf2 45. Nf6+ Kg7 46. Nh5+ Kh7 47.
Rd7+ Kg8 48. g4 fxg4 49. Nf6+ Kf8 50. Nxg4 Bg1+ 51. Kh3 h5 52. Nf6 Re3+ 53. Kh4
Bf2+ 54. Kxh5 Rg3 55. Nh7+ Ke8 56. Nf6+ Kf8 57. Ng4 Be1 58. Rd1 Rxg2 59. Rxe1
Rxb2 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "6.11"]
[White "Daels, Marc"]
[Black "Panbukchian, Valentin"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B01"]
[WhiteElo "2207"]
[BlackElo "2361"]
[PlyCount "77"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qd6 4. d4 Nf6 5. Nf3 a6 6. g3 Bg4 7. h3 Bh5 8. g4
Bg6 9. Ne5 Nc6 10. Nxg6 hxg6 11. d5 O-O-O 12. Bg2 Nb4 13. O-O Nbxd5 14. Nxd5
Nxd5 15. Qf3 Qf6 16. Qb3 e6 17. c4 Nb4 18. Be3 Qe5 19. Rfd1 Be7 20. f4 Qa5 21.
a3 Nc6 22. Bxc6 bxc6 23. Rxd8+ Rxd8 24. Rd1 Rxd1+ 25. Qxd1 Bc5 26. Qc1 Qb6 27.
Bxc5 Qxc5+ 28. Kg2 Qd4 29. c5 a5 30. Kf3 Qd5+ 31. Kf2 Qd3 32. Qc3 Qd5 33. Qxg7
Qxc5+ 34. Kf3 Qe7 35. Kg3 Kd7 36. h4 Ke8 37. h5 gxh5 38. gxh5 Qc5 39. h6
1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "6.12"]
[White "Bednikova, Stefi"]
[Black "Nikolova, Adriana"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B57"]
[WhiteElo "2094"]
[BlackElo "2336"]
[PlyCount "147"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. Bc4 Qb6 7. Nb3 e6 8.
Be3 Qc7 9. Be2 Be7 10. a4 O-O 11. f4 Nb4 12. Bf3 d5 13. e5 Ne4 14. Bxe4 dxe4
15. O-O b6 16. Rf2 Rd8 17. Qg4 Bb7 18. Rd1 Rxd1+ 19. Qxd1 Rd8 20. Rd2 Nd5 21.
Nxd5 Bxd5 22. Nd4 Bb4 23. c3 Bc5 24. b3 Bb7 25. b4 Bxd4 26. Rxd4 Rxd4 27. Qxd4
Bd5 28. a5 bxa5 29. bxa5 Qxa5 30. Qxa7 Qd8 31. Qb6 Qa8 32. Qa7 Qe8 33. Qa6 h5
34. h3 Qd7 35. Qd6 Qa4 36. Kh2 Qc2 37. Qd8+ Kh7 38. Qh4 Qe2 39. Qf2 Qd3 40. Qd2
Qb5 41. Qd1 g6 42. Qe1 Bc4 43. Qh4 Qd7 44. Qf6 Be2 45. Bc5 Kg8 46. Bd4 {
Diagram #} Qb7 $4 47. f5 gxf5 48. Be3 f4 49. Bxf4 Kf8 50. Qd8+ Kg7 51. Bg5 f6
52. Bxf6+ Kf7 53. Qh8 Ba6 54. Qxh5+ Kf8 55. Qh8+ Kf7 56. Qg7+ Ke8 57. Qg8+ Kd7
58. Qd8+ Kc6 59. Qd6+ Kb5 60. Qb4+ Kc6 61. Qxe4+ Kc7 62. Qh7+ Kc6 63. Qxb7+
Bxb7 64. h4 Kd5 65. h5 Kc4 66. Kg3 Be4 67. Kf4 Bc2 68. g4 Kxc3 69. g5 Kd2 70.
g6 Ke2 71. Kg5 Kf3 72. h6 Kg3 73. h7 Bf5 74. h8=Q 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "6.13"]
[White "Todorov, Ognjan"]
[Black "Andonov, Bogomil"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A38"]
[WhiteElo "2309"]
[BlackElo "2302"]
[PlyCount "27"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 g6 3. Bg2 Bg7 4. c4 c5 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. d3 d6 7. Qb3 Na5 8. Qc2
O-O 9. O-O Bg4 10. Bg5 Re8 11. h3 Be6 12. e3 Qc8 13. Kh2 Qd8 14. Kg1 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "6.14"]
[White "Vrban, Rok"]
[Black "Janev, Evgeni"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B04"]
[WhiteElo "2005"]
[BlackElo "2461"]
[PlyCount "100"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 Nf6 2. e5 Nd5 3. d4 d6 4. Nf3 g6 5. Bc4 Nb6 6. Bb3 Bg7 7. Ng5 e6 8. f4
dxe5 9. fxe5 c5 10. c3 cxd4 11. O-O O-O 12. cxd4 Nc6 13. Nf3 f6 14. Nc3 fxe5
15. Bg5 Qc7 16. Nb5 Qd7 17. dxe5 Nxe5 18. Nxe5 Qxb5 19. Qd6 Nd5 20. Nc4 Bd7 21.
Rad1 Rxf1+ 22. Rxf1 Rf8 23. Rxf8+ Bxf8 24. Qb8 Qc5+ 25. Kh1 Bc8 26. h3 b5 27.
Ne5 Nb6 28. Bf4 Nc4 29. Nd3 Qc6 30. Ne5 Nxe5 31. Qxe5 Kf7 32. Bg5 Bg7 33. Qf4+
Kg8 34. Qc1 Qd7 35. a4 a6 36. axb5 axb5 37. Bd2 Bb7 38. Bc3 Bd5 39. Qd1 Bxc3
40. bxc3 Qc6 41. Kh2 Kf7 42. Qc2 Ke7 43. h4 Bxb3 44. Qxb3 Qc5 45. g3 Kd6 46.
Qd1+ Qd5 47. Qc1 Kc5 48. Kh3 Kc4 49. Qh6 Qh1+ 50. Kg4 Qf1 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "6.15"]
[White "Veleski, Robert"]
[Black "Gochev, Mladen"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A45"]
[WhiteElo "2289"]
[BlackElo "2248"]
[PlyCount "67"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 Ne4 3. Bf4 c5 4. Nd2 Nxd2 5. Qxd2 cxd4 6. Qxd4 Nc6 7. Qe3 Qa5+
8. c3 e5 9. Bg3 Be7 10. Nf3 d6 11. Qd2 O-O 12. e4 Be6 13. Bd3 f6 14. O-O Qb6
15. Rfd1 a5 16. Qe2 Qc5 17. Nd2 a4 18. Nc4 g6 19. Kh1 b5 20. Ne3 Rab8 21. f3
Na5 22. Bf2 Qc6 23. Nd5 Bxd5 24. exd5 Qd7 25. f4 exf4 26. Re1 Rfe8 27. Qf3 Nc4
28. Bxc4 bxc4 29. Re4 Rxb2 30. Rae1 f5 31. Re6 Rxa2 32. Bd4 Qb7 33. Qh3 Qxd5
34. Rxg6+ 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "6.16"]
[White "Arnaudov, G  Petar"]
[Black "Gantar, Jan"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A33"]
[WhiteElo "2413"]
[BlackElo "2077"]
[PlyCount "137"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. Nc3 Nc6 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 e6 6. a3 a6 7. e4 d6 8. Be2
Be7 9. O-O O-O 10. Be3 Qc7 11. Rc1 Nxd4 12. Qxd4 Nd7 13. b4 b6 14. Rfd1 Bb7 15.
f3 Rab8 16. Kh1 Rfd8 17. Bf1 Ba8 18. Qd2 Bf8 19. Bg5 Rdc8 20. c5 bxc5 21. Bxa6
Bb7 22. Nb5 Qb6 23. Bxb7 Rxb7 24. Nxd6 Bxd6 25. Qxd6 Qxd6 26. Rxd6 c4 27. Rcd1
Nf8 28. Rd8 Rxd8 29. Rxd8 f6 30. Be3 Kf7 31. Rc8 Rd7 32. Rxc4 Rd3 33. Rc7+ Kg6
34. Bg1 Rxa3 35. h3 e5 36. Re7 Kh6 37. b5 Ng6 38. Ra7 Rb3 39. b6 Nf4 40. Re7
Rb1 41. Kh2 Ne2 42. Bc5 Nd4 43. Rd7 Ne6 44. Be3+ Kg6 45. b7 Nd4 46. Bxd4 exd4
47. Kg3 d3 48. f4 d2 49. f5+ Kh6 50. Rxd2 Rxb7 51. Rd6 Kh5 52. Kf4 Rb2 53. g4+
Kh4 54. Rd7 Kxh3 55. Rxg7 Rf2+ 56. Ke3 Kg3 57. g5 Rf3+ 58. Ke2 fxg5 59. Rxh7
Kf4 60. f6 Re3+ 61. Kf2 g4 62. Rg7 Rf3+ 63. Kg2 Ke5 64. f7 Ke6 65. Rxg4 Rxf7
66. Rg5 Rf4 67. e5 Re4 68. Kf3 Rxe5 69. Rxe5+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "6.17"]
[White "Angelov, Georgi"]
[Black "Lalev, Ivan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B70"]
[WhiteElo "2257"]
[BlackElo "2026"]
[PlyCount "117"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Nf3 g6 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 Nf6 6. Nde2 d6 7. g3 h5 8. h4
Bg4 9. Bg2 Qc8 10. f3 Bd7 11. O-O Bg7 12. a4 O-O 13. Be3 Rd8 14. Qd2 Ne5 15. b3
Kh7 16. Rad1 Qc7 17. Nb5 Qb8 18. c4 a6 19. Nbc3 b5 20. axb5 axb5 21. Nxb5 Bxb5
22. cxb5 Qxb5 23. Nd4 Qb7 24. Kh1 Ra3 25. Bg1 Nfd7 26. f4 Ng4 27. e5 Qa6 28.
Nc6 Re8 29. exd6 exd6 30. Qxd6 Ndf6 31. Ne5 Qxd6 32. Rxd6 Kg8 33. Nxg4 Nxg4 34.
f5 Rf8 35. fxg6 Rxb3 36. gxf7+ Kh8 37. Rd5 Nf6 38. Rdf5 Rxf7 39. Bd4 Ng4 40.
Rxf7 Bxd4 41. Bd5 Rxg3 42. R7f3 Rxf3 43. Rxf3 Kg7 44. Be6 Be5 45. Kg2 Bd6 46.
Bxg4 hxg4 47. Rf5 g3 48. h5 Bb8 49. Kf3 Bd6 50. Rd5 Bb8 51. Kg2 Kh7 52. Kh3 Kh6
53. Kh4 g2 54. Rg5 Bf4 55. Rg6+ Kh7 56. Rxg2 Be3 57. Rg6 Bd2 58. Kg4 Bc1 59.
Kf5 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "6.18"]
[White "Davidov, Stefan"]
[Black "Vachev, Vladimir"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E38"]
[BlackElo "2145"]
[PlyCount "86"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 c5 5. dxc5 Bxc5 6. Nf3 a6 7. Bg5 Be7 8. g3
Qc7 9. e4 d6 10. b3 Nbd7 11. Bg2 Rb8 12. a4 b6 13. Rc1 O-O 14. O-O Bb7 15. h3
Rbc8 16. Nd4 Rfe8 17. f4 Bf8 18. f5 e5 19. Nde2 Qb8 20. Be3 Bc6 21. Qb1 b5 22.
cxb5 axb5 23. axb5 Bxb5 24. Nxb5 Qxb5 25. Nc3 Qb4 26. Na2 Qa3 27. Rxc8 Rxc8 28.
Rc1 Rb8 29. Rc3 Nc5 30. b4 Qa4 31. Rc4 Na6 32. Bf1 d5 33. exd5 Nxd5 34. Re4
Nxe3 35. Rxe3 Bc5 36. Kf2 Nxb4 37. Kf3 Bxe3 38. Nc3 Qc6+ 39. Ne4 Bd4 40. Kg4
Qc2 41. Qe1 Nd5 42. Kf3 Rb3+ 43. Kg4 Ne3+ 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "6.19"]
[White "Ljangov, Petar"]
[Black "Savov, Zheljazko"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B30"]
[WhiteElo "2107"]
[BlackElo "1989"]
[PlyCount "73"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Qa5 4. Bxc6 bxc6 5. O-O g6 6. d3 Bg7 7. Nbd2 d5 8.
Nb3 Qb6 9. Be3 d4 10. Bf4 Nf6 11. Qc1 O-O 12. Bh6 Re8 13. Bxg7 Kxg7 14. Ne5 Be6
15. Nd2 Qc7 16. f4 Nd7 17. Nxd7 Bxd7 18. Nb3 Qb6 19. Nd2 f6 20. b3 Be6 21. Qe1
Qc7 22. Rf2 Bg8 23. Nf1 e5 24. fxe5 fxe5 25. Nd2 Rf8 26. Rxf8 Rxf8 27. Qg3 Qe7
28. Rf1 Rxf1+ 29. Kxf1 h6 30. Nf3 Bf7 31. Qxe5+ Qxe5 32. Nxe5 Be8 33. Nc4 Kf6
34. Nd6 Ke7 35. Nxe8 Kxe8 36. Ke2 Ke7 37. Kd2 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "6.20"]
[White "Gavrilidis, Georgios"]
[Black "Lichkov, Ivan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E01"]
[WhiteElo "2100"]
[PlyCount "86"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 c6 3. c4 Nf6 4. Nc3 e6 5. g3 Nbd7 6. Bg2 Bd6 7. O-O O-O 8. Qd3
Qe7 9. e4 dxc4 10. Qxc4 e5 11. dxe5 Nxe5 12. Nxe5 Bxe5 13. f4 Be6 14. Qe2 Bd4+
15. Kh1 Qc5 16. Na4 Qa5 17. Qc2 b5 18. Nc5 Bc4 19. Nb3 Bxb3 20. Qxb3 Rae8 21.
h3 c5 22. a4 a6 23. Qc2 b4 24. Bd2 Nd7 25. Rab1 Rc8 26. b3 Qc7 27. Rbc1 a5 28.
Rfd1 Nb6 29. Bf1 h5 30. Bxb4 axb4 31. Rxd4 Qb7 32. Rd6 c4 33. bxc4 Nd7 34. Bg2
Nc5 35. e5 Qa7 36. Bc6 Ne6 37. c5 h4 38. f5 Ng5 39. gxh4 Nxh3 40. f6 Nf4 41.
Rg1 g6 42. Qe4 Qxc5 43. Qxf4 Rxc6 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "6.21"]
[White "Alexiou, Andomahi"]
[Black "Karadimov, Marin"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A05"]
[BlackElo "2081"]
[PlyCount "38"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 d6 3. Bg2 e5 4. d3 Be7 5. O-O Nbd7 6. c3 O-O 7. e4 c6 8. Re1
Qc7 9. Qc2 Re8 10. Nh4 Nf8 11. b3 Be6 12. Nf3 h6 13. d4 Ng6 14. Nbd2 Rad8 15.
dxe5 dxe5 16. Nf1 Bg4 17. Ne3 Bxf3 18. Bxf3 Rd7 19. Nf5 Red8 {....} 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "6.23"]
[White "Menkinoski, Riste"]
[Black "Krastev, Krasimir Naidenov"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B22"]
[WhiteElo "2355"]
[BlackElo "1825"]
[PlyCount "51"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. c3 Nf6 3. e5 Nd5 4. d4 e6 5. Nf3 Nc6 6. c4 Ndb4 7. d5 exd5 8. cxd5
Nd4 9. Nxd4 cxd4 10. a3 Qa5 11. Bd2 d3 12. axb4 Qxa1 13. Bxd3 Qxb2 14. O-O Bxb4
15. Qg4 Bxd2 16. Qxg7 Rf8 17. Nxd2 Qxd2 18. d6 Qa5 19. Bb5 Qb6 20. Rb1 Qd8 21.
Re1 Qb6 22. Qf6 Qd8 {Diagram #} 23. e6 $3 Qxf6 24. exd7+ Kd8 25. Re8+ Rxe8 26.
dxe8=R# 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "6.24"]
[White "Ivanov, Borislav"]
[Black "Stankov, Stanimir"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A62"]
[WhiteElo "2128"]
[PlyCount "78"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. g3 c5 4. d5 exd5 5. cxd5 d6 6. Nc3 g6 7. Bg2 Bg7 8. Nf3
O-O 9. O-O Re8 10. Nd2 a6 11. a4 b6 12. Nc4 Ng4 13. Ne4 Bf8 14. Bf4 Ne5 15.
Nxe5 dxe5 16. Bg5 Be7 17. Bxe7 Rxe7 18. Nf6+ Kg7 19. d6 Rea7 20. Bxa8 Qxf6 21.
Bg2 Rd7 22. Qb3 Rxd6 23. Rfd1 Be6 24. Rxd6 Bxb3 25. Rxf6 Kxf6 26. a5 b5 27. Rc1
c4 28. Bb7 Ke6 29. e4 Kd6 30. f4 exf4 31. gxf4 Kc5 32. Kf2 b4 33. Ke3 f5 34. e5
Ba4 35. h4 Bc6 36. Bxc6 Nxc6 37. Rd1 Nxa5 38. e6 Nc6 39. Rd7 h5 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "6.25"]
[White "Georgieva, Emilia"]
[Black "Vakavchiev, Ivan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D03"]
[WhiteElo "1934"]
[PlyCount "67"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. Bg5 d5 4. e3 c5 5. c3 Nbd7 6. Bd3 Qb6 7. Qc2 c4 8. Be2
Bd6 9. Nbd2 Qc7 10. Bxf6 Nxf6 11. e4 dxe4 12. Nxe4 Nd5 13. Nxd6+ Qxd6 14. Bxc4
Bd7 15. O-O Rc8 16. Bxd5 Qxd5 17. Rfe1 O-O 18. Re5 Qd6 19. Rh5 g6 20. Rh4 Qe7
21. Qd2 h5 22. Qh6 Qf6 23. Rxh5 Qg7 24. Qxg7+ Kxg7 25. Ra5 a6 26. Ne5 Bc6 27.
Nxc6 Rxc6 28. Re5 Rd8 29. h4 Rb6 30. b4 Rbd6 31. f4 b6 32. Rd1 Rc8 33. Rd3 Rc4
34. g4 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "6.26"]
[White "Manov, Jordan"]
[Black "Mandzhukov, Stoyan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E94"]
[PlyCount "120"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. c4 Bg7 4. Nc3 O-O 5. e4 d6 6. Be2 Nbd7 7. O-O e5 8. d5
a5 9. Be3 Ng4 10. h3 Nxe3 11. fxe3 Nc5 12. Nd2 Qg5 13. Rf3 f5 14. Qf1 Bd7 15.
Qf2 Rf7 16. Rf1 Raf8 17. exf5 gxf5 18. Nde4 Nxe4 19. Nxe4 Qe7 20. Ng3 e4 21.
Rf4 Be5 22. Bh5 Rf6 23. Ne2 Bxf4 24. Nxf4 Rh6 25. Qg3+ Qg7 26. Qxg7+ Kxg7 27.
g4 Rxh5 28. Nxh5+ Kh6 29. h4 Be8 30. Ng3 Bd7 31. Kg2 Kg6 32. Rf4 Rf7 33. h5+
Kg5 34. Nxe4+ Kh4 35. Nd2 Kg5 36. Nf3+ Kh6 37. g5+ Kxh5 38. Rh4+ Kg6 39. Rh6+
Kg7 40. Kg3 Re7 41. Kf2 Re4 42. Nd4 Rg4 43. Ne6+ Bxe6 44. dxe6 Rxc4 45. Rf6 Re4
46. Rf7+ Kg6 47. Rxc7 b5 48. e7 Kxg5 49. e8=Q Rxe8 50. Rxh7 Rc8 51. Kf3 Rc2 52.
Rg7+ Kf6 53. Rg2 Rxg2 54. Kxg2 Ke5 55. Kf3 d5 56. b3 b4 57. Kf2 Ke4 58. Ke2 d4
59. exd4 Kxd4 60. Kd2 f4 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "6.27"]
[White "Vezenkov, Stoyan"]
[Black "Ismail, Tamer"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B22"]
[PlyCount "86"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. c3 Nf6 3. e5 Nd5 4. Bc4 e6 5. Bxd5 exd5 6. d4 c4 7. Ne2 d6 8. f4
Be7 9. O-O O-O 10. Nd2 f5 11. exf6 Bxf6 12. Nf3 Bg4 13. b4 Re8 14. Bd2 Qe7 15.
Ng3 Nd7 16. Qc2 Rad8 17. Rae1 Qf8 18. Ng5 g6 19. f5 Bxg5 20. Bxg5 Rxe1 21. Rxe1
Re8 22. Rf1 Qg7 23. Bf4 Qf6 24. fxg6 hxg6 25. Be5 Qe6 26. Bf4 Rf8 27. h3 Bf5
28. Nxf5 Rxf5 29. Qf2 g5 30. Qg3 Qf6 31. h4 Rxf4 32. Rxf4 Qxf4 33. Qxf4 gxf4
34. Kf2 Nf6 35. Kf3 Nh5 36. Kg4 Nf6+ 37. Kxf4 Ne4 38. Ke3 Nxc3 39. a3 Kg7 40.
g4 Kg6 41. Kf3 Nb5 42. a4 Nxd4+ 43. Ke3 Nc2+ 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.14"]
[Round "6.28"]
[White "Chorapinov, Marian"]
[Black "Simeonov, Ventsislav"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C13"]
[PlyCount "56"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 dxe4 5. Nxe4 Be7 6. Nxf6+ Bxf6 7. Bxf6 Qxf6
8. Nf3 O-O 9. c3 b6 10. Be2 Bb7 11. O-O Nd7 12. Qa4 Rfd8 13. Rad1 a6 14. Qc2
Rac8 15. Qa4 b5 16. Qb3 c5 17. a4 Bd5 18. Qc2 Bxf3 19. Bxf3 cxd4 20. Rxd4 Qxd4
21. cxd4 Rxc2 22. axb5 axb5 23. d5 exd5 24. Bxd5 Nf6 25. Bf3 Rdd2 26. Ra1 g6
27. Rf1 Rxb2 28. Bc6 b4 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.15"]
[Round "7.1"]
[White "Georgiev, Kiril"]
[Black "Rusev, Krasimir"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D12"]
[WhiteElo "2672"]
[BlackElo "2547"]
[PlyCount "116"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 Bf5 5. Nc3 e6 6. Nh4 Be4 7. f3 Bg6 8. Qb3
Qc7 9. Bd2 Be7 10. O-O-O dxc4 11. Bxc4 b5 12. Be2 a6 13. Nxg6 hxg6 14. e4 c5
15. d5 c4 16. Qc2 e5 17. g4 Bd6 18. h4 Nbd7 19. Kb1 Rb8 20. Rdg1 Ke7 21. Nd1
Nc5 22. Ne3 a5 23. h5 a4 24. hxg6 fxg6 25. g5 Nh5 26. Ng4 Nd7 27. f4 Nxf4 28.
Bxf4 exf4 29. e5 Nxe5 30. Qe4 Rxh1 31. Rxh1 Re8 32. Bf3 b4 33. Nxe5 Bxe5 34.
d6+ Kxd6 35. Rd1+ Ke7 36. Bg4 Rd8 37. Re1 Rd2 38. Qxe5+ Qxe5 39. Rxe5+ Kd6 40.
Re4 Rg2 41. Rxf4 Kc5 42. Be6 Rg1+ 43. Kc2 b3+ 44. axb3 cxb3+ 45. Kc3 Rg3+ 46.
Kd2 Rg2+ 47. Kd3 Rg3+ 48. Kd2 Rg2+ 49. Ke3 Rxb2 50. Rxa4 Rg2 51. Kf4 b2 52. Ba2
Rg1 53. Rc4+ Kb5 54. Rc8 Kb4 55. Rb8+ Ka3 56. Ra8+ Kb4 57. Rb8+ Ka3 58. Ra8+
Kb4 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.15"]
[Round "7.2"]
[White "Petrov, Marijan"]
[Black "Petkov, Vladimir"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C26"]
[WhiteElo "2500"]
[BlackElo "2490"]
[PlyCount "111"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. g3 Bc5 5. Bg2 d6 6. d3 a6 7. O-O O-O 8. Bg5
h6 9. Bxf6 Qxf6 10. Nd5 Qd8 11. c3 Ba7 12. d4 Bg4 13. Qb3 Rb8 14. dxe5 Bxf3 15.
exd6 Qxd6 16. Bxf3 Ne5 17. Be2 c6 18. Nf4 Rfe8 19. Rad1 Qf6 20. Kg2 b5 21. Qc2
Re7 22. Nh3 Qe6 23. b3 Ng6 24. Bd3 {Diagram #} Nh4+ 25. gxh4 Qg4+ 26. Kh1 Qf3+
27. Kg1 Qxh3 28. Qe2 Rd8 29. Bc2 Rxd1 30. Qxd1 Rd7 31. Qe2 Bb8 32. e5 Rd5 33.
Rd1 Bxe5 34. Qxe5 Qg4+ 35. Qg3 Rxd1+ 36. Bxd1 Qxd1+ 37. Kg2 Qd5+ 38. Qf3 Qc5
39. h5 a5 40. Qg4 Qd5+ 41. Kg3 c5 42. Qf3 Qg5+ 43. Kh3 b4 44. cxb4 axb4 45.
Qa8+ Kh7 46. Qe4+ f5 47. Qh4 Kg8 48. Qc4+ Kh8 49. Qh4 Qd2 50. Qe7 Qg5 51. Qe8+
Kh7 52. f3 Qg1 53. Qe6 Qg5 54. Qf7 Kh8 55. Qf8+ Kh7 56. Qf7 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.15"]
[Round "7.3"]
[White "Drenchev, Petar"]
[Black "Bratanov, Zsivko"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D17"]
[WhiteElo "2477"]
[BlackElo "2463"]
[PlyCount "26"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. c4 Nf6 2. Nf3 c6 3. d4 d5 4. Nc3 dxc4 5. a4 Bf5 6. Ne5 Nbd7 7. Nxc4 Qc7 8.
g3 e5 9. Bg2 Be6 10. dxe5 Nxe5 11. Nxe5 Qxe5 12. a5 Rd8 13. Qc2 a6 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.15"]
[Round "7.4"]
[White "Radulski, Julian"]
[Black "Velikov, Petar"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B42"]
[WhiteElo "2577"]
[BlackElo "2433"]
[PlyCount "99"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. Bd3 Bc5 6. Be3 d6 7. Nc3 Nf6 8. Qf3
Nbd7 9. O-O-O Ne5 10. Qg3 Neg4 11. Kb1 Nxe3 12. fxe3 Qe7 13. Rhf1 O-O 14. Rf2
Bb4 15. Nce2 e5 16. Nf5 Bxf5 17. Rxf5 Rac8 18. Rdf1 Nd7 19. Qh3 g6 20. R5f2 Ba5
21. Qh6 Bd8 22. Qh3 Ba5 23. c3 Qe6 24. Qh6 Bd8 25. Bc2 Nb6 26. Ng1 Nc4 27. Nf3
Qe7 28. Bb3 b5 29. g4 Bb6 30. Bxc4 Rxc4 31. Nd2 Rcc8 32. Rf6 Qd7 33. Rg1 Qe7
34. g5 Kh8 35. Rgf1 Rc7 36. Re6 Qd8 37. Rxg6 Rg8 38. Rxd6 Rd7 39. Rxf7 Rxf7 40.
Rxd8 Bxd8 41. Qe6 Re7 42. Qd6 Ree8 43. h4 Rg6 44. Qd7 Rge6 45. a4 Bb6 46. axb5
R6e7 47. Qc6 Re6 48. Qd5 Bxe3 49. Nc4 Bf4 50. Nd6 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.15"]
[Round "7.5"]
[White "Dimitrov, Pavel"]
[Black "Grigorov, Grigor"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B90"]
[WhiteElo "2361"]
[BlackElo "2508"]
[PlyCount "106"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. a4 Nc6 7. g3 Bg4 8. Nxc6
bxc6 9. f3 Be6 10. Bg2 g6 11. Be3 a5 12. Qd2 Bg7 13. O-O O-O 14. Ne2 Bc4 15. b3
Ba6 16. Rad1 Qc7 17. Rfe1 Rfd8 18. Qc1 e5 19. Bg5 d5 20. Nc3 d4 21. Nb1 Rdb8
22. Bf1 Ne8 23. Bxa6 Rxa6 24. Qd2 c5 25. Na3 Nd6 26. Qd3 Rc6 27. Rb1 c4 28.
bxc4 Rc8 29. c3 Nxc4 30. cxd4 Nxa3 31. Qxa3 exd4 32. Bf4 Qd7 33. Qd3 Rc3 34.
Qb5 Qh3 35. Qf1 Qe6 36. Rec1 h6 37. Bd2 Rxc1 38. Rxc1 Rxc1 39. Qxc1 Qb3 40. Kg2
Qxa4 41. f4 Qb5 42. e5 a4 43. Kf2 Qb3 44. Qc8+ Kh7 45. f5 Qd3 46. fxg6+ Kxg6
47. Qc6+ Kh7 48. Bf4 a3 49. Qa4 Qc3 50. Kg1 Qa1+ 51. Kg2 Qb2+ 52. Kh3 a2 53.
Qc4 a1=Q 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.15"]
[Round "7.6"]
[White "Vasilev, Milen"]
[Black "Bednikova, Stefi"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E60"]
[WhiteElo "2466"]
[BlackElo "2094"]
[PlyCount "61"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 g6 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. g3 Bg7 4. Bg2 O-O 5. O-O d6 6. c4 Nc6 7. b3 a6 8. Bb2
Rb8 9. d5 Na5 10. Bc3 c5 11. Qe1 b6 12. e4 Nd7 13. Bxg7 Kxg7 14. e5 f6 15. e6
Ne5 16. Qc3 Nxf3+ 17. Bxf3 b5 18. Nd2 Qc7 19. g4 Kg8 20. h4 Bb7 21. Kg2 Ba8 22.
h5 bxc4 23. hxg6 cxb3 24. axb3 Rb4 25. Qe3 Bxd5 26. Bxd5 Rxg4+ 27. Kf3 Rg5 28.
Rg1 Rf5+ 29. Ke2 Re5 30. Be4 Nc6 31. gxh7+ 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.15"]
[Round "7.7"]
[White "Kukov, Velislav"]
[Black "Nikolov, Sasho"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A41"]
[WhiteElo "2367"]
[BlackElo "2403"]
[PlyCount "82"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. c4 d6 4. e4 Bg4 5. Be2 Nc6 6. Be3 e5 7. d5 Bxf3 8. Bxf3
Nd4 9. Nc3 Ne7 10. Qa4+ c6 11. Bxd4 exd4 12. Ne2 O-O 13. O-O a6 14. Nc1 b5 15.
cxb5 axb5 16. Qb3 Qb6 17. dxc6 Nxc6 18. Nd3 Na5 19. Qb4 Nb7 20. Qd2 Rac8 21.
Nb4 Qa5 22. Rad1 Rc4 23. a3 Nc5 24. Be2 Nxe4 25. Qf4 d3 26. Bxd3 Nxf2 27. Bxc4
Nxd1 28. Bxf7+ Kh8 29. Rxd1 Qa7+ 30. Kh1 Rxf7 31. Qxd6 Bxb2 32. Qd3 Qc5 33. h3
Kg7 34. Qc2 Qxc2 35. Nxc2 Rc7 36. Rd2 Rc4 37. Kg1 Kf6 38. Kf1 Ke5 39. Ke2 Bc1
40. Ne3 Re4 41. Rd3 Kf4 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.15"]
[Round "7.8"]
[White "Janev, Evgeni"]
[Black "Veleski, Robert"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C95"]
[WhiteElo "2461"]
[BlackElo "2289"]
[PlyCount "93"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8. c3
O-O 9. h3 Nb8 10. d4 Nbd7 11. Nbd2 Bb7 12. Bc2 Re8 13. Nf1 Bf8 14. Ng3 g6 15.
a4 Bg7 16. d5 Qe7 17. Bg5 h6 18. Be3 c6 19. dxc6 Bxc6 20. axb5 axb5 21. Qd2 Kh7
22. b4 d5 23. exd5 Nxd5 24. Rxa8 Rxa8 25. h4 Ra3 26. h5 Rxc3 27. hxg6+ fxg6 28.
Be4 N7f6 29. Bc5 Qc7 30. Bb1 e4 31. Nxe4 Nxe4 32. Bxe4 Rxf3 33. Bxf3 Bc3 34.
Qd1 Bxe1 35. Qxe1 Nf6 36. Bxc6 Qxc6 37. Qe7+ Kg8 38. Qf8+ Kh7 39. Qf7+ Kh8 40.
Qxg6 h5 41. Qh6+ Kg8 42. Bd4 Kf7 43. Bxf6 Qxf6 44. Qxh5+ Ke7 45. Qxb5 Qa1+ 46.
Qf1 Qb2 47. Qe1+ 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.15"]
[Round "7.9"]
[White "Dimitrov, Radoslav"]
[Black "Daels, Marc"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A45"]
[WhiteElo "2394"]
[BlackElo "2207"]
[PlyCount "87"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 Ne4 3. Bh4 g5 4. f3 gxh4 5. fxe4 c5 6. Nf3 cxd4 7. Qxd4 Rg8 8.
Nc3 Nc6 9. Qd2 h3 10. g3 d6 11. O-O-O Bd7 12. Kb1 Bg7 13. Nd5 Rc8 14. e3 Ne5
15. Nd4 a6 16. Nf5 Bf8 17. Bxh3 e6 18. Rhf1 exd5 19. Qxd5 Bxf5 20. Rxf5 Bg7 21.
Qxb7 Rb8 22. Qxa6 Qc7 23. Rxd6 Ke7 24. Rd4 Rgc8 25. Qa3+ Ke8 26. c3 Qxc3 27.
Rxe5+ Bxe5 28. Bd7+ Kd8 29. Bxc8+ Bxd4 30. Qf8+ Kc7 31. Qe7+ Kxc8 32. Qe8+ Kb7
33. Qxb8+ Kxb8 34. bxc3 Bxc3 35. Kc2 Ba5 36. Kd3 Kc7 37. e5 Kd7 38. Ke4 Ke6 39.
Kf4 h6 40. a4 Bd2 41. h3 Bc3 42. Kg4 Bd2 43. Kf4 Bc3 44. Kg4 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.15"]
[Round "7.10"]
[White "Andonov, Bogomil"]
[Black "Badev, Kiril"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D02"]
[WhiteElo "2302"]
[BlackElo "2369"]
[PlyCount "11"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. d4 e6 3. Bf4 c5 4. dxc5 (4. c3 Nc6 5. e3 Nf6 6. Nbd2 Bd6 7. Bg3
O-O 8. Bd3 Qe7 9. Ne5 Nd7 10. Nxd7 Bxd7 11. Bxd6 Qxd6 12. f4 cxd4 13. cxd4 Nb4
14. Bb1 Bb5 15. Nf3 Qa6) 4... Bxc5 5. Nbd2 Nc6 6. Nb3 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.15"]
[Round "7.11"]
[White "Panbukchian, Valentin"]
[Black "Kostadinov, Rumen"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C68"]
[WhiteElo "2361"]
[BlackElo "2200"]
[PlyCount "22"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Bxc6 dxc6 5. O-O Bd6 6. d4 Bg4 7. dxe5 Bxf3 8.
Qxf3 Bxe5 9. Nc3 Qf6 10. Qxf6 Nxf6 11. f3 O-O-O 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.15"]
[Round "7.12"]
[White "Stanoev, Atanas"]
[Black "Nikolaou, Georgios"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E90"]
[WhiteElo "2202"]
[BlackElo "2292"]
[PlyCount "32"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 d6 4. Nc3 g6 5. Nf3 Bg7 6. h3 O-O 7. e4 a6 8. Bd3 e5
9. g4 b5 10. Bg5 bxc4 11. Bxc4 Nbd7 12. Qd2 Rb8 13. Rb1 Rb4 14. b3 Nb6 15. Be2
c4 16. Bxf6 Bxf6 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.15"]
[Round "7.13"]
[White "Stoinev, Metodi"]
[Black "Nikolova, Adriana"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B90"]
[WhiteElo "2268"]
[BlackElo "2336"]
[PlyCount "94"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. h3 e5 7. Nde2 Be7 8. g4
Nbd7 9. Bg2 b5 10. Ng3 b4 11. Nd5 Nxd5 12. exd5 g6 13. a3 Rb8 14. O-O a5 15.
axb4 axb4 16. Be3 O-O 17. Bh6 Re8 18. Qd2 Nc5 19. Kh2 Bh4 {Diagram #} 20. Ne4
$2 Nxe4 21. Bxe4 g5 22. Rfe1 Qf6 23. Re3 Qxh6 24. Rf3 Re7 25. Qd3 Rc7 26. Ra5
Bd7 27. Qe3 Rcb7 28. Kg2 Bb5 29. Qd2 Qg7 30. Qe3 h5 31. Ra1 Re8 32. Rg1 hxg4
33. hxg4 Bd7 34. Rh3 Kf8 35. Qf3 Ra8 36. Rhh1 Rba7 37. b3 Ke7 38. Re1 Qf6 39.
Qxf6+ Kxf6 40. Kf3 Rc7 41. Rhg1 Rc3+ 42. Ke2 Bb5+ 43. Kd2 Ke7 44. Rg2 Ra2 45.
Rb1 Bd7 46. f3 f5 47. gxf5 Kf6 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.15"]
[Round "7.14"]
[White "Karadimov, Marin"]
[Black "Todorov, Ognjan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B42"]
[WhiteElo "2081"]
[BlackElo "2309"]
[PlyCount "40"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. Bd3 Nf6 6. O-O Qc7 7. Qe2 d6 8. Kh1
Be7 9. f4 Nbd7 10. Nc3 O-O 11. Nf3 g6 12. f5 exf5 13. exf5 Re8 14. fxg6 hxg6
15. Bg5 b5 16. Qf2 Bd8 17. Qh4 Bb7 18. Nd4 Nh7 19. Rxf7 Kxf7 20. Rf1+ Ndf6 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.15"]
[Round "7.15"]
[White "Argiroudis, Stamatis"]
[Black "Ljangov, Petar"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A54"]
[WhiteElo "2284"]
[BlackElo "2107"]
[PlyCount "95"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. g3 Be7 4. Bg2 O-O 5. O-O d6 6. c4 Nc6 7. Nc3 e5 8. h3
Re8 9. d5 Nb8 10. e4 Nbd7 11. Be3 Bf8 12. Ne1 g6 13. Nd3 c5 14. f4 Bg7 15. Qf3
Qe7 16. Rae1 Rf8 17. Bd2 Ne8 18. f5 a6 19. a4 a5 20. h4 b6 21. Bh3 Bf6 22. fxg6
fxg6 23. Qe3 Nc7 24. Nf2 Ba6 25. b3 Bg7 26. Qe2 Rae8 27. h5 gxh5 28. Qxh5 Nf6
29. Qh4 Bc8 30. Bf5 Bxf5 31. exf5 Nd7 32. Qxe7 Rxe7 33. Nfe4 Ne8 34. Nb5 Ref7
35. g4 Ndf6 36. Ng5 Rd7 37. Ne6 Nxg4 38. Nxf8 Bxf8 39. Kg2 Rf7 40. Kh3 h5 41.
Rf3 Be7 42. Nc3 Nef6 43. Bg5 Rg7 44. Bh4 Kf7 45. Re2 Rg8 46. Rg2 Bd8 47. Bxf6
Nxf6 48. Rg6 {...} 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.15"]
[Round "7.16"]
[White "Gantar, Jan"]
[Black "Angelov, Georgi"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B91"]
[WhiteElo "2077"]
[BlackElo "2257"]
[PlyCount "89"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 Nf6 4. Nc3 cxd4 5. Nxd4 a6 6. g3 e5 7. Nb3 Be6 8. Bg2
Be7 9. a4 O-O 10. O-O b6 11. Re1 Nc6 12. Bg5 Rc8 13. Nd2 Nb4 14. Nf1 h6 15.
Bxf6 Bxf6 16. h4 Rc5 17. Ne3 Qc7 18. Re2 Rc8 19. Ra3 Be7 20. Kh2 g5 21. h5 g4
22. Rd2 Bg5 23. Rxd6 Bxe3 24. fxe3 Nxc2 25. Rxe6 fxe6 26. Qxc2 b5 27. axb5 axb5
28. Qb3 Qf7 29. Ra6 Qxh5+ 30. Kg1 Qf7 31. Qxe6 Qxe6 32. Rxe6 Kf7 33. Rb6 Ra8
34. Rxb5 Ra1+ 35. Bf1 Rxb5 36. Nxb5 Rd1 37. Na3 Rd2 38. Nc4 Rc2 39. Nxe5+ Ke6
40. Nc4 h5 41. b4 Kf6 42. b5 h4 43. gxh4 g3 44. b6 Rc3 45. Kg2 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.15"]
[Round "7.17"]
[White "Vachev, Vladimir"]
[Black "Gavrilidis, Georgios"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E63"]
[WhiteElo "2145"]
[BlackElo "2100"]
[PlyCount "155"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. g3 Bg7 4. Bg2 O-O 5. O-O d6 6. d4 Nc6 7. Nc3 a6 8. h3
Bd7 9. d5 Na5 10. Nd2 c5 11. Rb1 Qc8 12. Kh2 b5 13. b3 Rb8 14. Qc2 e5 15. Bb2
bxc4 16. bxc4 Qc7 17. Ba1 Rb4 18. a3 Rxb1 19. Rxb1 Rb8 20. Nd1 Bh6 21. Rxb8+
Qxb8 22. e3 Qb6 23. f4 Bg7 24. fxe5 dxe5 25. Bc3 Ne8 26. Qb2 Qxb2 27. Nxb2 Nb7
28. Nd3 f6 29. Kg1 Ba4 30. Kf2 Nbd6 31. Bf1 Bc2 32. g4 Nf7 33. Ne1 Bd1 34. Be2
Ba4 35. Bd3 Bd7 36. e4 Bh6 37. Nef3 Bf4 38. Ng1 Ba4 39. Ne2 Bg5 40. Nf3 Ned6
41. h4 Bh6 42. g5 Bg7 43. gxf6 Bxf6 44. Nc1 Bg7 45. Bd2 Ne8 46. Be3 Bf8 47. Nd2
Nf6 48. Kf3 Nd7 49. Ncb3 Bh6 50. Bf2 Bf4 51. Ke2 Bxd2 52. Nxd2 Kg7 53. Ke1 h5
54. Ke2 g5 55. hxg5 Nxg5 56. Nf3 Nh3 57. Bg3 Nf4+ 58. Ke3 Ng6 59. Nh4 Nf6 60.
Be2 Nxh4 61. Bxh4 Be8 62. Bg3 Nd7 63. Bf1 Kf6 64. Bh4+ Kg6 65. Bh3 Nf6 66. Bf5+
Kf7 67. Bg3 Ng4+ 68. Bxg4 hxg4 69. Bxe5 Ke7 70. Bg3 Bd7 71. Kf4 Ba4 72. Bf2 Kd6
73. e5+ Kd7 74. Ke3 Kc7 75. Kd3 Kb6 76. e6 g3 77. Bxg3 Bd1 78. d6 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.15"]
[Round "7.18"]
[White "Vrban, Rok"]
[Black "Arnaudov, G  Petar"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A46"]
[WhiteElo "2005"]
[BlackElo "2413"]
[PlyCount "98"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. d4 e6 3. g3 d5 4. Bg2 b5 5. O-O c5 6. a4 b4 7. c4 bxc3 8. Nxc3
Nc6 9. Bg5 Rb8 10. Bf4 Rb7 11. Rc1 c4 12. Ne5 Na5 13. e4 Nb3 14. exd5 exd5 15.
Nc6 Qb6 16. Re1+ Be7 17. Nxe7 Rxe7 18. Rxe7+ Kxe7 19. Qe2+ Be6 20. Re1 Rd8 21.
Qe5 Kf8 22. Nb5 Ng4 23. Qc7 Qxc7 24. Bxc7 Ra8 25. Bd6+ Kg8 26. Bc5 Nxc5 27.
dxc5 Rc8 28. Bh3 Kf8 29. Nd4 Nf6 30. Bxe6 fxe6 31. Rxe6 Ne4 32. c6 Nc5 33. Rd6
Nxa4 34. Rxd5 Ke7 35. Rd7+ Kf6 36. Rxa7 Nxb2 37. f4 c3 38. Ra5 Nd3 39. Ra3 Rxc6
40. Nxc6 c2 41. Rc3 c1=Q+ 42. Rxc1 Nxc1 43. Ne5 g5 44. Kf2 gxf4 45. gxf4 Kf5
46. Ke3 Nb3 47. h3 Na5 48. Kf3 Nb3 49. Ng4 Nd4+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.15"]
[Round "7.19"]
[White "Petrovski, Igor"]
[Black "Menkinoski, Riste"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B07"]
[WhiteElo "2032"]
[BlackElo "2355"]
[PlyCount "80"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 g6 4. g3 Bg7 5. Bg2 O-O 6. Nge2 c5 7. d5 Nbd7 8. O-O
Rb8 9. a4 b6 10. h3 a6 11. Be3 b5 12. axb5 axb5 13. f4 Qc7 14. b3 b4 15. Na4
Re8 16. Ra2 e6 17. dxe6 Rxe6 18. e5 dxe5 19. fxe5 Nxe5 20. Bxc5 Bd7 21. Nf4 Ra6
22. Bd4 Bb5 23. Qa1 Nfd7 24. Rf2 Bc6 25. Bf1 Raa8 26. Be2 Qd6 27. Bb2 Bb7 28.
Kh2 Re8 29. Qf1 Rac8 30. c4 Nf6 31. c5 Qc7 32. Ra1 Ne4 33. Rg2 Nd2 34. Qd1 Rcd8
35. Qc2 Be4 36. Bd3 Ndf3+ 37. Kh1 Nxd3 38. Nxd3 Bxd3 39. Qf2 Bxb2 40. Nxb2 Be4
0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.15"]
[Round "7.20"]
[White "Gochev, Mladen"]
[Black "Ivanov, Borislav"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B10"]
[WhiteElo "2248"]
[BlackElo "2128"]
[PlyCount "37"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c6 2. c4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. cxd5 Nf6 5. Bb5+ Nbd7 6. Nc3 a6 7. Be2 Nb6 8.
Nf3 Nbxd5 9. O-O e6 10. d4 Be7 11. Ne5 O-O 12. Bf3 Bd7 13. Qb3 Bc6 14. Nxc6
bxc6 15. Qc4 Qb6 16. Na4 Qb8 17. b3 Qd6 18. Bb2 Rfc8 19. Rac1 {...} 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.15"]
[Round "7.21"]
[White "Lalev, Ivan"]
[Black "Dimitrov, Ivan"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A16"]
[WhiteElo "2026"]
[PlyCount "165"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 d5 3. cxd5 Nxd5 4. Nf3 Nxc3 5. bxc3 g6 6. e4 Bg7 7. Bc4 O-O 8.
O-O a6 9. a4 Nc6 10. d4 Na5 11. Ba2 c5 12. Be3 cxd4 13. cxd4 Bg4 14. Rc1 Nc6
15. e5 Nb4 16. Bc4 Nd5 17. Bg5 Nb6 18. Bb3 h6 19. Be3 Nd5 20. Qd3 Bf5 21. Qc4
Be6 22. Qe2 Nf4 23. Bxf4 Bxb3 24. Qe3 Bd5 25. Bxh6 Bxh6 26. Qxh6 Bxf3 27. gxf3
Qxd4 28. f4 Rac8 29. Rcd1 Qe4 30. Rde1 Qf5 31. Re3 Qh5 32. Qxh5 gxh5 33. Re4 b5
34. Kg2 Kh7 35. f5 Rc5 36. axb5 axb5 37. Rd1 Rc7 38. Rd5 Rb7 39. Rb4 Rfb8 40.
Kf3 e6 41. fxe6 fxe6 42. Rd6 Rb6 43. Ke4 Kg6 44. Kd4 Kf5 45. Kc5 R6b7 46. f4
Rc7+ 47. Kd4 Rc1 48. Kd3 Rh1 49. Rb2 b4 50. Ke3 b3 51. Rd4 Re1+ 52. Kf3 Rc1 53.
Ke3 Rc3+ 54. Ke2 Rbc8 55. Rdd2 Kxf4 56. Rb1 Kxe5 57. Rg1 Rh3 58. Kd1 Rc2 59.
Re1+ Kf6 60. Rf1+ Ke7 61. Rxc2 bxc2+ 62. Kxc2 Rxh2+ 63. Kd3 h4 64. Ke4 h3 65.
Rf3 Rh1 66. Rf2 h2 67. Kf3 e5 68. Kg2 Rg1+ 69. Kxh2 Rg7 70. Rg2 Rf7 71. Rg6 Kd7
72. Kg2 Ke7 73. Ra6 Rf4 74. Kg3 Rf8 75. Kg2 Kd7 76. Kg3 e4 77. Kg2 Rf5 78. Rb6
e3 79. Rb3 Re5 80. Kf1 e2+ 81. Ke1 Kd6 82. Rd3+ Kc5 83. Rd2 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.15"]
[Round "7.22"]
[White "Simeonov, Ventsislav"]
[Black "Savov, Zheljazko"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D75"]
[BlackElo "1989"]
[PlyCount "85"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. g3 Bg7 6. Bg2 O-O 7. d4 Nxc3 8.
bxc3 c5 9. O-O Nc6 10. Bb2 Qb6 11. Rb1 Bf5 12. dxc5 Qxc5 13. Rc1 Rfd8 14. Qa4
Qa5 15. Qxa5 Nxa5 16. Nd4 Nc4 17. Nxf5 gxf5 18. Ba1 Rab8 19. Rfd1 b5 20. h4 e6
21. Bc6 a6 22. a4 Rdc8 23. axb5 axb5 24. Bg2 Na5 25. e4 Nb3 26. Rb1 Nxa1 27.
Rxa1 Bxc3 28. Rab1 fxe4 29. Bxe4 b4 30. Rd7 Rd8 31. Rc7 Rbc8 32. Rxc8 Rxc8 33.
Kf1 Rd8 34. Ke2 f5 35. Bc6 Kg7 36. Ba4 Kf6 37. Rd1 Rxd1 38. Bxd1 e5 39. Bb3 e4
40. Ke3 Ke5 41. f3 Bd4+ 42. Ke2 e3 43. Kd3 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.15"]
[Round "7.23"]
[White "Mandzhukov, Stoyan"]
[Black "Georgieva, Emilia"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A16"]
[BlackElo "1934"]
[PlyCount "109"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. c4 c6 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. g3 d5 4. cxd5 cxd5 5. d3 e6 6. Bg2 Nc6 7. Nf3 a6 8. O-O
Be7 9. Bg5 h6 10. Bd2 b5 11. Rc1 Bb7 12. e3 O-O 13. a3 Rc8 14. Ne2 Qb6 15. Nfd4
Nxd4 16. Nxd4 b4 17. Qb3 a5 18. axb4 Bxb4 19. Bxb4 Qxb4 20. Qxb4 axb4 21. Nb3
Ba6 22. Rxc8 Rxc8 23. Rc1 Rb8 24. Bf1 Nd7 25. Nc5 Rc8 26. d4 Bxf1 27. Kxf1 Nxc5
28. Ke2 Kf8 29. dxc5 Ke7 30. Kd3 Kd7 31. Kd4 Ra8 32. c6+ Kc7 33. Kc5 Ra2 34.
Rc2 b3 35. Rd2 Ra6 36. Kb4 Rb6+ 37. Ka4 Kxc6 38. Rd3 Kc5 39. Rc3+ Kd6 40. Rxb3
Ra6+ 41. Kb5 Ra1 42. Rc3 Ra2 43. Rc2 f6 44. Kb4 Ke5 45. Kc3 Ke4 46. b4 Ra3+ 47.
Kb2 Ra7 48. h4 e5 49. Kb3 d4 50. exd4 exd4 51. b5 d3 52. Rd2 Kd4 53. Kb4 Ra1
54. b6 Rb1+ 55. Ka5 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.15"]
[Round "7.24"]
[White "Ismail, Tamer"]
[Black "Davidov, Stefan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E46"]
[PlyCount "80"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e3 Bb4 5. Bd2 O-O 6. Bd3 dxc4 7. Bxc4 c5 8. a3
Bxc3 9. Bxc3 cxd4 10. Bxd4 Nc6 11. Bc3 Qxd1+ 12. Rxd1 Ne4 13. Nf3 Nxc3 14. bxc3
b6 15. O-O Bb7 16. Rd7 Na5 17. Ba2 Bxf3 18. gxf3 Rfc8 19. Rfd1 Kf8 20. R1d3 Ke8
21. R7d4 Nc6 22. Rh4 Ne5 23. Rhd4 Nxf3+ 24. Kg2 Nxd4 25. exd4 Rc7 26. c4 Rac8
27. Rh3 h6 28. Re3 Kd7 29. Rg3 g6 30. Rf3 Kd6 31. Rh3 h5 32. Rd3 Rxc4 33. Bxc4
Rxc4 34. Kf3 Kd5 35. Ke3 g5 36. Rb3 a6 37. Rxb6 Rc3+ 38. Ke2 Rxa3 39. Rb7 f5
40. Rh7 Rh3 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.15"]
[Round "7.25"]
[White "Lichkov, Ivan"]
[Black "Alexiou, Andomahi"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D50"]
[PlyCount "77"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Bg5 Bb4 5. e3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 O-O 7. Nf3 c5 8.
cxd5 exd5 9. Be2 Nbd7 10. O-O Qa5 11. dxc5 Ne4 12. Qxd5 Nxc3 13. Qd2 Nxe2+ 14.
Qxe2 Nxc5 15. Be7 Re8 16. Bxc5 Qxc5 17. Rfc1 Qa5 18. Rab1 b6 19. Nd4 Ba6 20.
Qg4 Bd3 21. Rb3 f5 22. Qd1 Be4 23. Rbc3 Rad8 24. Rc7 Ba8 25. Qh5 Qd5 26. Qg5 g6
27. f3 Qe5 28. Rxa7 Rc8 29. Rxc8 Rxc8 30. Re7 Qd6 31. Qh4 Rc1+ 32. Kf2 h6 33.
Re8+ Kf7 34. Rxa8 Rb1 35. Ra7+ Kg8 36. Qe7 Rb2+ 37. Ne2 Qxe7 38. Rxe7 b5 39.
Rb7 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.15"]
[Round "7.26"]
[White "Krastev, Krasimir Naidenov"]
[Black "Vezenkov, Stoyan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D85"]
[WhiteElo "1825"]
[PlyCount "64"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e4 Nb6 6. Bf4 Bg7 7. Rc1 c6 8. Nf3
O-O 9. h3 Be6 10. b3 f6 11. Be2 Bf7 12. O-O Re8 13. e5 Nd5 14. Bh2 Nd7 15. Bc4
N7b6 16. Re1 e6 17. Ne4 fxe5 18. Bxe5 Re7 19. Bxg7 Kxg7 20. Nfg5 h6 21. Nxf7
Kxf7 22. Qf3+ Kg7 23. Nc5 Qd6 24. Qg4 e5 25. dxe5 Qxc5 26. Bd3 Qb4 27. Qxg6+
Kf8 28. Qxh6+ Ke8 29. Re4 Qa3 30. Rg4 Kd7 31. Bf5+ Kc7 32. b4 Rh8 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.15"]
[Round "7.27"]
[White "Stankov, Stanimir"]
[Black "Manov, Jordan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B07"]
[PlyCount "97"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 d6 2. b3 Nf6 3. Nc3 g6 4. Bb2 c6 5. Nf3 Bg7 6. Ne2 O-O 7. Ng3 e5 8. c4
Re8 9. Be2 Nbd7 10. O-O Nc5 11. Qc2 Be6 12. Rad1 Qb6 13. d4 Ncd7 14. dxe5 Nxe5
15. Rxd6 Nxf3+ 16. Bxf3 Rad8 17. Rfd1 Rxd6 18. Rxd6 Qc5 19. Qd2 Ng4 20. Bxg7
Kxg7 21. Bxg4 Bxg4 22. h3 Be6 23. Qc3+ Kg8 24. e5 b5 25. Ne4 b4 26. Qb2 Qb6 27.
Nf6+ Kf8 28. Nxe8 Kxe8 29. Qd2 Qa5 30. Qg5 Bd7 31. Qd2 Qc7 32. Qxb4 c5 33. Qd2
h5 34. Qh6 Bf5 35. Qh8+ Ke7 36. Qf6+ Ke8 37. Rc6 Qa5 38. Rd6 Bd7 39. Rxd7 Kxd7
40. Qxf7+ Kd8 41. e6 Qe1+ 42. Kh2 Qe5+ 43. g3 Qd6 44. Qxg6 h4 45. Qf6+ Kc7 46.
Qxh4 Qd2 47. Qf6 Qxa2 48. Qf8 Kb7 49. e7 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.15"]
[Round "7.28"]
[White "Vakavchiev, Ivan"]
[Black "Chorapinov, Marian"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D60"]
[PlyCount "63"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e3 O-O 6. Bd3 dxc4 7. Bxc4 h6 8. Bh4
c6 9. O-O Nbd7 10. Nc3 Nb6 11. Bd3 Nfd5 12. Bxe7 Qxe7 13. Rc1 Bd7 14. Bb1 Rac8
15. Ne5 Qf6 16. Qc2 g6 17. Ne4 Qe7 18. Nc5 Be8 19. a3 Rc7 20. b4 a6 21. Qd2 Nd7
22. Ncxd7 Bxd7 23. e4 Nf6 24. Qxh6 Nh7 25. Rc3 Qg5 26. Qh3 Qd2 27. Rd3 Qg5 28.
f4 Qe7 29. Qh6 Nf6 30. Rg3 Nh5 31. Nxg6 fxg6 32. Qxh5 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.16"]
[Round "8.1"]
[White "Grigorov, Grigor"]
[Black "Georgiev, Kiril"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D24"]
[WhiteElo "2508"]
[BlackElo "2672"]
[PlyCount "145"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

{D24: Queen's Gambit Accepted: 3 Nf3 Nf6 4 Nc3} 1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. c4 e6 4.
Nc3 dxc4 5. e3 a6 6. a4 b6 7. Bxc4 Bb7 8. O-O Bb4 9. Qe2 O-O 10. Rd1 Qe7 (10...
Nbd7 11. Na2 Bd6 12. Nc3 Ne4 13. Nxe4 Bxe4 14. b3 Qb8 15. Bxa6 Bxf3 16. gxf3
Qd8 17. f4 Qh4 18. Bb5 Nf6 19. Qf3 Rad8 20. Bd2 Kh8 21. e4 Nh5 22. e5 Be7 23.
Be2 g6 24. Be3 c5 25. Qg4 {Teske,H (2536)-San Segundo Carrillo,P (2570)/
Collado Villalba ESP 2009/The Week in Chess 773/1-0 (37)}) 11. Bd3 c5 12. dxc5
Bxc5 13. h3 $146 {Secures g4} (13. e4 Ng4 14. Bg5 f6 15. Bh4 Nd7 16. Bc4 Nge5
17. Bb3 Rfd8 18. Bg3 Kh8 19. Kh1 Nxf3 20. Qxf3 Ne5 21. Qh5 Nc6 22. e5 Nxe5 23.
Bxe5 fxe5 24. Bc2 g6 25. Bxg6 Bxg2+ 26. Kxg2 Qg7 27. Qxh7+ Qxh7 {
Pantev,V-Nikolov,M/Plovdiv 2008/1/2 (42)}) 13... Nc6 14. e4 e5 15. Bg5 Nb4 16.
Bc4 h6 17. Bh4 Rad8 18. Rxd8 Rxd8 19. Rd1 Rxd1+ 20. Qxd1 g5 {
Black threatens to win material: g5xh4} 21. Bg3 Bd6 ({Worse is} 21... Nxe4 22.
Nxe4 Bxe4 23. Nxe5 $18) 22. Nd2 Kg7 23. Bb3 Bc5 (23... Bc7 24. Bc4 $11) 24. Nc4
(24. Qe2 Bc6 $14) 24... Bd4 25. Ne2 {White threatens to win material: Ne2xd4}
Nxe4 $2 (25... Bc5 $142 $5 {is an interesting alternative} 26. Nxe5 Nxe4 27.
Nxf7 Nc6 $11) 26. Nxd4 $18 Nxg3 27. Nd6 (27. fxg3 $6 exd4 28. Qxd4+ Qf6 29.
Qxf6+ Kxf6 $14) 27... exd4 (27... Qxd6 $4 {Black should leave the knight alone}
28. Ne6+ $1 {Discovered attack: d4, d1-d6} Qxe6 29. Bxe6 fxe6 30. Qd7+ Kf6 31.
Qxb7 Ne2+ 32. Kf1 $18) 28. Qxd4+ f6 $4 {
the pressure is too much, Black crumbles} (28... Kh7 $142 29. fxg3 Bc6 $18) 29.
fxg3 (29. Qxb4 $6 {is not possible} a5 30. Qd2 Qe2 $14) 29... Qe1+ 30. Kh2 Bxg2
(30... Bd5 {doesn't get the bull off the ice} 31. Bxd5 Qe5 32. Qxb4 Qxd5 33.
Qxb6 a5 34. Qb7+ Qxb7 35. Nxb7 h5 $18) 31. Kxg2 (31. Nf5+ Kg6 32. Nh4+ Kg7 33.
Qd7+ Qe7 34. Qxe7+ Kh8 35. Ng6#) 31... Qe2+ $18 32. Qf2 Qe5 33. Qd2 Nc6 34. Ba2
Kf8 35. Bb1 (35. Nf5 $1 {might be the shorter path} h5 (35... Qxf5 $4 36. Qd6+
Ke8 37. Qxc6+ Ke7 38. Qb7+ Ke8 39. Bf7+ Kf8 40. Bb3 $18) 36. Bd5 Qxf5 37. Bxc6
Kf7 $18) 35... Nd4 36. Ne4 a5 (36... f5 37. Qb4+ Kg7 38. Qd6 Qxd6 39. Nxd6 $18)
37. g4 Ke7 38. Ng3 Ne6 (38... Nb3 {cannot change what is in store for ?} 39.
Qc2 Qd5+ 40. Kf2 Qd4+ 41. Kf1 Qf4+ 42. Kg2 $18) 39. Be4 (39. Nf5+ {
keeps an even firmer grip} Kf8 $18) 39... Nf4+ 40. Kf3 Nxh3 41. Nf5+ Ke6 42.
Qc1 (42. Qe3 {and White can already relax} Qf4+ 43. Ke2 Qxe3+ 44. Kxe3 Ke5 $18)
42... Qf4+ (42... Ng1+ 43. Qxg1 Qf4+ 44. Ke2 Qxe4+ 45. Qe3 $18) 43. Qxf4 Nxf4
44. Nxh6 Ke5 (44... Nd5 {is not the saving move} 45. Bxd5+ Kxd5 46. Ng8 $18)
45. Ke3 Kd6 (45... Nh3 {cannot undo what has already been done} 46. Nf7+ Ke6
47. Nh8 $18) 46. Kd4 Ne6+ 47. Kc4 Nc7 48. Nf5+ Ke5 49. Bd3 Kf4 50. Be2 Ke5 51.
Nd4 (51. Ne7 {and White can already relax} Ne6 $18) 51... Ke4 (51... Kf4 {
hardly improves anything} 52. Bd1 $18) 52. Bd3+ (52. Nb5 {
might be the shorter path} Ne6 53. Nc3+ Ke3 $18) 52... Ke5 53. Bf5 (53. Bg6 {
seems even better} Kf4 54. Bf5 Ke5 $18) 53... Ne8 54. Nc6+ Kd6 (54... Kf4 {
is not much help} 55. Bd7 Nd6+ 56. Kd4 $18) 55. Kb5 Kc7 56. Ne7 Nd6+ 57. Ka6
Nc4 (57... Kd8 {doesn't do any good} 58. Nd5 Nxf5 59. gxf5 $18) 58. b3 Ne3 59.
Kb5 (59. Be6 {keeps an even firmer grip} Nc2 60. Bc4 Kd6 $18) 59... Kd6 (59...
Kd8 {is no salvation} 60. Nc6+ Kc7 61. Nd4 $18) 60. Nc8+ Ke5 61. Bd7 f5 62.
gxf5 g4 63. f6 Kxf6 64. Nxb6 g3 65. Bc6 Nc2 (65... g2 {does not save the day}
66. Bxg2 $1 {a fitting end to a beautiful game} Nxg2 67. Kxa5 $18) 66. Kc4 (66.
Kxa5 $142 $5 {makes it even easier for White} Ke5 $18) 66... Ke6 67. Be4 Ke5
68. Bb7 (68. Bxc2 $2 {looks very interesting, but} g2 69. b4 g1=Q 70. bxa5 Qd4+
71. Kb3 Kd6 72. Nc4+ Kc5 $19) 68... Kd6 69. Bf3 Ne1 70. Bh1 Nc2 (70... g2 {
desperation} 71. Bxg2 $1 {the decision} Nxg2 $18) 71. Kc3 Ne1 (71... Nb4 $18 {
what else?}) 72. Nc4+ Kc5 73. Ne3 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.16"]
[Round "8.2"]
[White "Nikolov, Sasho"]
[Black "Radulski, Julian"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C44"]
[WhiteElo "2403"]
[BlackElo "2577"]
[PlyCount "28"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

{C44: Ponziani Opening and Scotch Gambit} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. c3 d5 4. Bb5
dxe4 5. Nxe5 Qg5 6. Qa4 Qxg2 7. Rf1 Bh3 8. Kd1 $2 $146 (8. Bxc6+ bxc6 9. Qxc6+
Kd8 10. Qxa8+ Ke7 11. Kd1 Qxf1+ 12. Kc2 Bf5 13. Na3 (13. b3 e3+ 14. Kb2 e2 15.
Nc6+ Kf6 16. Qxf8 e1=Q 17. Na3 Qe4 18. Nd4 Qxf2 19. Qd8+ Kg6 20. Nc4 h6 21.
Qxc7 Qfxd4 22. Qg3+ Kh7 23. cxd4 Qxd4+ 24. Qc3 Qd7 25. Ne5 Qe6 26. d4 Nf6 27.
Qc4 Nd5 {
Garcia Molina,P (2022)-Serra Olives,T (2143)/Sabadell ESP 2009/0-1 (50)}) 13...
f6 14. Nc6+ Kf7 15. Nd4 Qd3+ 16. Kb3 Bg4 17. Nac2 Bd1 18. Qd5+ Kg6 19. Qf5+ Kh6
20. f3 Bxc2+ 21. Nxc2 Bd6 22. Ne1 Qe2 {
Konstantinov ,V-Jnev ,V/korespondentna 1993/1-0}) (8. Bc4 $142 $5 Rb8 9. Bxf7+
Kd8 10. Nxc6+ bxc6 11. Bc4 $19) 8... Bd6 $19 9. Re1 $2 (9. Nxc6 bxc6 10. Bxc6+
Kd8 $19) 9... Nf6 (9... Bxe5 $142 {makes sure everything is clear} 10. Bxc6+
bxc6 11. Qxc6+ Ke7 $19) 10. Nxc6 O-O 11. Nd4 (11. Na5 Bc5 12. Kc2 Bf5 $19)
11... c5 (11... Qxf2 $142 $5 {seems even better} 12. Na3 c5 13. Nb3 $19) 12.
Bf1 Bg4+ $4 {releasing the pressure on the opponent} (12... Qxh2 $142 13. Bxh3
Qxh3 $19) 13. Ne2 $4 {White is behind in development.} (13. f3 $142 {
saving the game} Qxh2 14. fxg4 cxd4 15. g5 $17) 13... Qxf2 $19 14. h3 (14. Na3
{praying for a miracle} Bxh2 15. Qb3 $19) 14... Bg3 (14... Bg3 15. hxg4 Qxe1+
16. Kc2 Qxf1 17. Nxg3 Qd3+ 18. Kb3 a5 $19) 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.16"]
[Round "8.3"]
[White "Rusev, Krasimir"]
[Black "Drenchev, Petar"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D97"]
[WhiteElo "2547"]
[BlackElo "2477"]
[PlyCount "120"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

{D97: Gr�nfeld: Russian System: 7 e4, replies other than 7...Bg4} 1. d4 Nf6 2.
c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. Qb3 dxc4 6. Qxc4 O-O 7. e4 Na6 8. Be2 c5 9. d5 e6
10. O-O exd5 11. exd5 Re8 12. Rd1 Bf5 13. d6 h6 $146 {Prevents intrusion on g5}
(13... Nb4 14. Bg5 h6 15. Bh4 b6 16. Qf4 Bc2 17. Rd2 Nh5 18. Qc4 g5 19. Nxg5
hxg5 20. Bxh5 Re6 21. Bg3 Qe8 22. Rf1 Bf5 23. d7 Qe7 24. Bc7 Bd4 25. Bf3 Rf8
26. Rxd4 cxd4 27. Qxd4 Bd3 28. d8=Q {
Zhao Xue (2531)-Zhang Jilin (2335)/Xinghua Jiangsu CHN 2009/1-0 (40)}) 14. Bf4
Nd7 {In the style of Nimzovich} 15. Rd2 Nb4 16. Qb3 Be6 {
Black threatens to win material: Be6xb3} 17. Bc4 Nb6 18. Bxe6 Rxe6 19. Rad1 (
19. Re1 $5 {is worth consideration} Qd7 20. Rxe6 Qxe6 21. Be3 $11) 19... Nd3
20. Qxe6 (20. Rxd3 $142 $5 {is an interesting idea} c4 21. Qc2 cxd3 22. Qxd3
$11) 20... fxe6 $17 21. Rxd3 Nc4 22. Bc1 Qa5 (22... g5 23. d7 g4 24. Nd2 $17)
23. Nd2 (23. Re1 $5 $15 {has some apparent merit}) 23... Ne5 24. Rg3 c4 25.
Nde4 Kf7 {Black king safety dropped} (25... Rd8 26. h4 $17) 26. Be3 $2 (26. d7
$142 $5 {and White has air to breath} Ke7 27. Nd6 $15) 26... Nd3 $17 27. Rd2 (
27. Bd2 $5 $17) 27... Rd8 28. Rf3+ Kg8 29. h3 (29. Rg3 b5 30. Rxg6 Kf7 $19)
29... g5 30. a3 b6 31. Re2 Qe5 $4 {
not a good decision, because now the opponent is right back in the game} (31...
Nxb2 $142 {keeps an even firmer grip} 32. Rxb2 Bxc3 $19) 32. Bd2 Nxb2 (32...
Nf4 33. Bxf4 gxf4 34. g3 fxg3 35. fxg3 $17) 33. Nxg5 $17 Qxe2 (33... Qxd6 34.
Nxe6 Re8 35. Nb5 $17) 34. Nxe2 hxg5 35. Bxg5 Rxd6 36. Re3 Kf7 37. h4 Rd3 38.
Re4 (38. h5 c3 $17) 38... c3 39. h5 (39. Rf4+ Kg6 40. Rg4 Kh7 $17) 39... Rd1+
40. Kh2 Rd5 41. Rf4+ Ke8 (41... Kg8 42. Rg4 Kh7 43. Kg3 $19) 42. Rg4 (42. h6 $5
{might be a viable alternative} Be5 43. Bf6 $11) 42... c2 $17 43. h6 (43. Kg3
$142 $17) 43... Rxg5 44. Rxg5 (44. Rxg5 Bxh6 {Combination}) (44. -- $140 Rxg4 {
Wins material}) 44... Bxh6 {White wins the exchange.} 45. Rg6 {
White threatens to win material: Rg6xh6} Bf4+ 46. Kh3 $2 (46. Nxf4 c1=Q {
Promotion}) 46... Kf7 47. Rg4 Nd3 {Black prepares the advance c1} 48. Kh4 c1=Q
(48... e5 $142 {Black missed this excellent chance} 49. g3 c1=Q 50. Nxc1 Bxc1
$19) 49. Nxc1 $17 Bxc1 50. Rc4 $2 (50. Rg3 $142 Nc5 51. Rc3 Bg5+ 52. Kg4 $17)
50... Bxa3 $19 51. Kh5 (51. Rd4 Nc5 52. Rf4+ Kg6 53. Rg4+ Kf5 54. Rg5+ Ke4 55.
Rg4+ Kd5 56. Rg5+ Kd6 $19) 51... Bc5 52. g4 (52. f3 {does not win a prize} a5
$19) 52... Nxf2 53. g5 Kg7 54. Rc1 (54. Rf4 {does not solve anything} e5 55.
Rf6 e4 $19) 54... Nd3 (54... a5 {makes it even easier for Black} 55. Ra1 $19)
55. Rd1 (55. Rf1 {doesn't improve anything} e5 56. Rf6 e4 57. Rg6+ Kf7 58. Rf6+
Ke7 $19) 55... Nf4+ 56. Kg4 Nd5 57. Re1 (57. Ra1 {does not improve anything} a5
$19) 57... Ne3+ 58. Kh5 a5 59. Re2 (59. Ra1 $19 {there is nothing else anyway})
59... a4 60. g6 (60. Rd2 {does not help much} Nd5 $19) 60... Nd5 (60... Nd5 61.
Ra2 a3 $19) 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.16"]
[Round "8.4"]
[White "Bratanov, Zsivko"]
[Black "Petrov, Marijan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A65"]
[WhiteElo "2463"]
[BlackElo "2500"]
[PlyCount "106"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

{A65: Modern Benoni: 6 e4} 1. d4 c5 2. d5 g6 3. c4 Bg7 4. Nc3 d6 5. e4 e6 6.
Nge2 Nf6 7. Ng3 O-O 8. Be2 a6 9. a4 exd5 10. cxd5 Nbd7 11. O-O Re8 12. Bg5 h6
13. Be3 Rb8 14. Qd2 h5 (14... Kh7 15. f3 Qc7 16. Rfc1 b6 17. Rab1 Bb7 18. b4
Qd8 19. b5 a5 20. Bf1 Re7 21. Re1 Qc7 22. Rbc1 Rbe8 23. Bf2 Bc8 24. Nb1 Ne5 25.
Na3 Kg8 26. Be3 Kh7 27. Bf2 Kg8 28. Be3 Kh7 {
1/2 Lou,M (2224)-Gao Rui (2500)/Subic PHI 2009}) 15. f3 $146 {
Black's piece can't move: c8} (15. Bg5 Nf8 16. f3 N8h7 17. Bh6 h4 18. Nh1 Bd7
19. Bxg7 Kxg7 20. a5 Qe7 21. Nf2 Qe5 22. Bc4 Nh5 23. Ne2 f5 24. Nd3 Qe7 25. Nc3
Qf6 26. e5 dxe5 27. Nxc5 Rbd8 28. Rad1 Nf8 29. Ne2 b6 {
Zubov,A (2564)-Boroday,S (2370)/Poltava UKR 2008/1/2 (40)}) (15. Bg5 b6 $16)
15... Nh7 (15... Qa5 $5 $11) 16. Nh1 $14 Ne5 17. Nf2 Bd7 18. a5 f5 19. b4 (19.
h3 $142 $5 $16) 19... cxb4 $11 20. Na4 Bb5 (20... Qxa5 $4 {
the pawn is safe and cannot be captured without dire consequences} 21. Bb6 Qxa4
22. Rxa4 Bxa4 23. Qxb4 $18) 21. Nb6 {A beautiful square!} Bxe2 (21... Nxf3+ 22.
Bxf3 Bc3 23. Qc2 $15) 22. Qxe2 fxe4 (22... Nd7 23. Rab1 f4 24. Bd2 Nxb6 25.
axb6 $11) 23. Nxe4 Ng4 (23... Nf6 24. Rab1 Nxe4 25. fxe4 $11) 24. Rab1 $14 (24.
fxg4 Bxa1 (24... Rxe4 $6 25. Rae1 $17) 25. Nxd6 Qxd6 26. Rxa1 Nf6 27. gxh5 Re4
$19) 24... Nxe3 25. Qxe3 Nf6 26. Rxb4 Nxe4 27. Rxe4 Rxe4 28. Qxe4 Qe8 29. Qd3
Kh7 30. f4 (30. Rb1 Qf7 $14) 30... Qb5 $11 31. Qxb5 Bd4+ 32. Kh1 axb5 33. g3 b4
34. Rb1 Bc5 35. Re1 Kg8 36. Nd7 {White threatens to win material: Nd7xb8} Ra8
37. Nxc5 dxc5 38. d6 {Don't underestimate that pawn} Kf7 (38... Rxa5 $4 {
the pawn is something Black will choke on} 39. d7 Ra8 40. Re8+ Rxe8 41. dxe8=Q+
(41. dxe8=B $6 Kg7 $16) 41... Kg7 42. Qe7+ Kg8 43. Qxc5 $18) 39. Re5 c4 (39...
b3 $142 40. Rxc5 b6 $17) 40. Rb5 $4 (40. Re4 $142 $11 {was possible}) 40... b3
$19 41. Rxb7+ $2 (41. Kg2 Ke6 42. Rb4 $19) 41... Ke6 42. d7 Ke7 43. Kg2 Rxa5
44. Kf3 Rd5 45. Rb4 (45. Ke4 Rd2 46. Ke3 Rd1 $19) 45... Rc5 46. Ke2 Kxd7 47.
Kd1 (47. Kd2 {doesn't change anything anymore} c3+ 48. Kc1 b2+ 49. Kc2 Ke6 $19)
47... Ke6 (47... Kc6 {might be the shorter path} 48. h3 $19) 48. Kc1 (48. Rb6+
{a last effort to resist the inevitable} Kf5 49. Kc1 $19) 48... Kd5 49. Rb8 (
49. h3 {doesn't change the outcome of the game} Ra5 50. Rb7 Kd4 $19) 49... Kd4
50. h3 (50. Kb2 {hoping against hope} c3+ 51. Kb1 $19) 50... Ra5 51. Kb1 Ra2 (
51... Kc3 $142 {and Black has reached his goal} 52. Re8 b2 53. Re3+ Kd2 54. Rf3
$19) 52. Rd8+ Kc3 53. Re8 Kd2 (53... Kd2 54. Rd8+ Ke3 $19) 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.16"]
[Round "8.5"]
[White "Petkov, Vladimir"]
[Black "Vasilev, Milen"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D16"]
[WhiteElo "2490"]
[BlackElo "2466"]
[PlyCount "54"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

{D16: Slav Defence: 5 a4: Lines with 5...Bg4 and 5...Na6} 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3.
Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 dxc4 5. a4 c5 6. d5 (6. e4 cxd4 7. Qxd4 Qxd4 8. Nxd4 e5 9. Ndb5
Na6 10. Bxc4 Be6 11. Bxe6 fxe6 12. Be3 Bb4 13. Bxa7 Bxc3+ 14. bxc3 Nxe4 15. Bb6
Ke7 16. f3 Nec5 17. O-O Rhc8 18. Rfe1 Nd7 19. Be3 h6 20. f4 Nac5 {
Panelo,M (2455)-Martinez Martin,D (2394)/Roquetas de Mar ESP 2010/1-0 (65)})
6... e6 7. e4 exd5 8. e5 {White threatens to win material: e5xf6} d4 $146 {
Black threatens to win material: d4xc3} (8... Nbd7 9. exf6 Nxf6 10. Bf4 Be6 11.
Ng5 d4 12. Nb5 Nd5 13. Nxe6 fxe6 14. Qh5+ g6 15. Qe5 Nxf4 16. Qxf4 Qa5+ 17. Qd2
c3 18. bxc3 a6 19. Na3 Bh6 20. Qc2 b5 21. axb5 axb5 22. Bxb5+ Qxb5 23. Nxb5 {
Shneider,A (2532)-Martinez Martin,D (2395)/Cappelle La Grande FRA 2008/1-0}) 9.
Bxc4 Ng4 10. Qb3 Qd7 {
Black has a cramped position. Black's piece can't move: c8} 11. O-O Nc6 {
Black threatens to win material: Nc6xe5. Black should quickly conclude
development.} 12. Nb5 (12. Ng5 $5 {deserves consideration} Ngxe5 13. Re1 dxc3
14. Bxf7+ Kd8 15. Ne6+ Ke7 16. Bg5+ (16. Nxc5 {is clearly worse} Qf5 $17) 16...
Kxf7 17. Nxc5+ Kg6 18. Nxd7 Nxd7 19. Qxc3 $18) 12... Na5 $17 (12... Ngxe5 $2 {
doesn't work because of} 13. Nxe5 Nxe5 14. Re1 $18) 13. Qc2 Nxc4 14. Qxc4 a6
15. Na3 Be7 16. Qe2 (16. h3 $5 {should be considered} Nh6 17. Bg5 $15) 16...
Qd5 17. Rd1 Bf5 18. h3 Nh6 19. Nc4 $2 (19. Bxh6 $142 gxh6 20. Nc4 $17) 19... d3
20. Nd6+ (20. Ne3 dxe2 21. Rxd5 $19) 20... Qxd6 21. exd6 dxe2 22. Rd2 e1=Q+ $1
{surprise!.} 23. Nxe1 Bd8 (23... Bf8 {makes it even easier for Black} 24. Rd1
$19) 24. Re2+ (24. g4 {cannot change destiny} Bg6 $19) 24... Kd7 25. g4 (25.
Bxh6 {cannot change destiny} gxh6 26. Re5 Be6 27. Rxc5 Kxd6 $19) 25... Bg6 26.
f4 (26. Bf4 {a fruitless try to alter the course of the game} f6 $19) 26... f6
({Weaker is} 26... Kxd6 27. f5 Nxf5 28. Bf4+ Kc6 29. gxf5 Bxf5 30. Nf3 $19) 27.
f5 Re8 (27... Re8 28. Rxe8 Bxe8 $19 (28... Kxe8 $6 29. fxg6 hxg6 30. Be3 $17))
0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.16"]
[Round "8.6"]
[White "Velikov, Petar"]
[Black "Janev, Evgeni"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A14"]
[WhiteElo "2433"]
[BlackElo "2461"]
[PlyCount "58"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

{A14: English Opening: 1...e6 with b3 by White} 1. c4 (1. d4 Nf6 $11) 1... e6
2. Nf3 Nf6 3. g3 c5 4. Bg2 Nc6 5. O-O b6 6. b3 Bb7 7. Bb2 (7. Nc3 Be7 $14) 7...
Be7 $11 8. Nc3 O-O 9. e3 {Covers d4} d5 10. Qe2 Rc8 11. Rfd1 d4 12. exd4 cxd4 (
12... Nxd4 $2 13. Nxd4 Bxg2 14. Nxe6 $18 (14. Kxg2 $6 cxd4 (14... Qxd4 $2 15.
Nd5 Qxb2 16. Nxe7+ Kh8 17. Nxc8 Rxc8 18. Qf3 $18) 15. Nb5 d3 $11)) 13. Nb5 d3
14. Qf1 a6 15. Nbd4 Nxd4 16. Nxd4 Bxg2 17. Qxg2 Bc5 {
Black threatens to win material: Bc5xd4} 18. Nc6 {
White threatens to win material: Nc6xd8} Qd6 {
Black threatens to win material: Qd6xc6} 19. Ne5 Rfd8 (19... Bd4 20. Nxd3 Bxb2
21. Nxb2 $15) 20. h3 {Consolidates g4} (20. Qf3 Rc7 $14) 20... Bd4 (20... Nd7
$142 $5 {would allow Black to play on} 21. Re1 f6 22. Nxd7 Rxd7 $15) 21. Bxd4
$16 ({Instead of} 21. Nxd3 Bxb2 22. Nxb2 Qd4 $15) 21... Qxd4 22. Nc6 $4 {
gives the opponent counterplay} (22. Re1 $142 Qd6 23. Re3 $16) 22... Rxc6 $17
23. Qxc6 {White wins the exchange} Ne4 {Black has a mate threat} 24. Rf1 Nxg3 (
24... Nxd2 $6 25. Rfe1 Ne4 26. Qxe4 $11) 25. Rfe1 Ne2+ {A classical outpost}
26. Kg2 e5 27. Rab1 (27. Qf3 Re8 $15) 27... e4 (27... h6 28. Rbd1 $19) 28. b4
g6 29. c5 $2 (29. Rf1 $142 $17) 29... Rd5 $19 (29... Rd5 30. Rf1 Nf4+ (30...
bxc5 $6 31. bxc5 Kg7 32. Rb8 $19) 31. Kg3 Rg5+ 32. Kxf4 Rf5+ 33. Kg4 h5+ 34.
Kh4 Qe5 35. Qc8+ Kg7 36. Qxf5 Qxf5 $19) 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.16"]
[Round "8.7"]
[White "Stanoev, Atanas"]
[Black "Dimitrov, Radoslav"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A05"]
[WhiteElo "2202"]
[BlackElo "2394"]
[PlyCount "69"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 b6 3. Bg2 Bb7 4. O-O e6 5. d3 Be7 6. e4 c5 7. e5 Nd5 8. Nbd2
f5 9. exf6 Nxf6 10. a4 Nc6 11. Nc4 O-O 12. c3 d5 13. Nfe5 Nxe5 14. Nxe5 Qc7 15.
Re1 Bd6 16. Ng4 e5 17. c4 d4 18. Bxb7 Qxb7 19. Nxe5 Rae8 20. f4 Re7 21. Bd2
Rfe8 22. Qf3 Bxe5 23. Qxb7 Rxb7 24. Rxe5 Rxe5 25. fxe5 Ng4 26. Re1 Re7 27. Bf4
g5 28. h3 gxf4 29. hxg4 Rg7 30. e6 Kf8 31. Re4 fxg3 32. Kg2 Ke7 33. Kxg3 Rg6
34. Re5 h6 35. Kf4 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.16"]
[Round "8.8"]
[White "Badev, Kiril"]
[Black "Argiroudis, Stamatis"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B17"]
[WhiteElo "2369"]
[BlackElo "2284"]
[PlyCount "95"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nd7 5. Bc4 Ndf6 6. Ng5 e6 7. Qe2 Bd6 8.
Bd2 Qc7 9. O-O-O h6 10. N5f3 Ne7 11. Ne5 a6 12. f4 c5 13. dxc5 Qxc5 14. Ngf3
Qc7 15. Rhe1 Nfd5 16. Kb1 b5 17. Bd3 Bxe5 18. Nxe5 O-O 19. Qh5 f5 20. Rg1 Nc6
21. Nxc6 Qxc6 22. g4 Nf6 23. Qg6 Qe8 24. gxf5 Qxg6 25. Rxg6 exf5 26. Rdg1 Rf7
27. Bc3 Ne8 28. a4 Bd7 29. Rxh6 Nc7 30. Rd6 Ne8 31. Rb6 Nc7 32. Be5 Ne6 33.
axb5 axb5 34. Bxb5 Bxb5 35. Rxb5 Rfa7 36. b3 Kf7 37. h4 Rh8 38. Bb8 Nd4 39.
Rxg7+ Kxg7 40. Be5+ Kg6 41. Bxd4 Rah7 42. Bxh8 Rxh8 43. Rd5 Rxh4 44. Rd4 Kh5
45. b4 Kg4 46. b5 Kf3 47. b6 Rh7 48. Rb4 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.16"]
[Round "8.9"]
[White "Daels, Marc"]
[Black "Kukov, Velislav"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B14"]
[WhiteElo "2207"]
[BlackElo "2367"]
[PlyCount "94"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. c4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e6 6. c5 Be7 7. Nf3 O-O 8. b4
Ne4 9. Qc2 f5 10. Bf4 g5 11. Bxb8 Rxb8 12. Bd3 Bf6 13. O-O g4 14. Ne5 Bxe5 15.
dxe5 Qh4 16. b5 Bd7 17. c6 bxc6 18. bxc6 Bxc6 19. Nxe4 fxe4 20. Qxc6 Rb6 21.
Qa4 exd3 22. Qxa7 Rb2 23. Rab1 Re2 24. a4 d2 25. Qd4 Qg5 26. a5 Qxe5 27. Qxg4+
Kh8 28. Qg3 Qf5 29. h3 Qf4 30. a6 Qxg3 31. fxg3 Ra8 32. Ra1 Ra7 33. Rf2 Rxa6
34. Rd1 Re1+ 35. Rf1 Rxd1 36. Rxd1 Ra2 37. g4 Kg7 38. Kf2 Kf6 39. h4 Ke5 40. g3
Ke4 41. Ke2 Ra3 42. Rg1 d4 43. g5 d3+ 44. Kxd2 Kd4 45. Rc1 Ra2+ 46. Kd1 Ke3 47.
Rc5 Ra1+ 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.16"]
[Round "8.10"]
[White "Kostadinov, Rumen"]
[Black "Dimitrov, Pavel"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D03"]
[WhiteElo "2200"]
[BlackElo "2361"]
[PlyCount "74"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 g6 2. Nf3 Bg7 3. Bg5 Nf6 4. Nbd2 d5 5. e3 Nbd7 6. b4 c6 7. Be2 O-O 8. O-O
Re8 9. c4 e5 10. cxd5 cxd5 11. Qb3 e4 12. Ne1 h6 13. Bh4 Nf8 14. Nc2 g5 15. Bg3
Ng6 16. Rfc1 h5 17. Na3 a6 18. b5 Re7 19. bxa6 bxa6 20. Qc3 Bg4 21. Bf1 Bf8 22.
h3 Bf5 23. Rab1 h4 24. Bh2 g4 25. Qc6 Re6 26. Qa4 gxh3 27. gxh3 Nh7 28. Bg2 Ng5
29. Rc3 Bxh3 30. Nc2 Qf6 31. Rf1 Qf5 32. Ne1 Bxg2 33. Kxg2 Qh3+ 34. Kg1 Ne5 35.
dxe5 Rg6 36. Kh1 Nf3 37. Ndxf3 Qxf1+ 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.16"]
[Round "8.11"]
[White "Panbukchian, Valentin"]
[Black "Vachev, Vladimir"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B20"]
[WhiteElo "2361"]
[BlackElo "2145"]
[PlyCount "89"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. f4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. g3 g6 4. Bg2 Bg7 5. O-O d6 6. d3 e6 7. e4 Nge7 8. c3 O-O
9. Be3 Rb8 10. Re1 b6 11. d4 Bb7 12. Na3 a6 13. Qd2 cxd4 14. cxd4 b5 15. Rac1
Rc8 16. Bf2 Re8 17. Nc2 Qa5 18. b4 Qd8 19. Bh3 Ra8 20. a3 Nc8 21. d5 exd5 22.
Qxd5 Na5 23. Qd3 Nc4 24. Bd4 Bxd4+ 25. Ncxd4 N8b6 26. Rc2 Re7 27. Rce2 Qc7 28.
Bg4 Rae8 29. h4 Nd7 30. Bxd7 Qxd7 31. a4 Ba8 32. axb5 axb5 33. Kh2 Qb7 34. h5
Rxe4 35. h6 f6 36. Nxb5 Qxb5 37. Rxe4 Rxe4 38. Rxe4 Bxe4 39. Qxe4 Kf7 40. Nd4
Qxb4 41. Qe6+ Kf8 42. Qxf6+ Ke8 43. Qh8+ Kd7 44. Qxh7+ Kc8 45. Qg8+ 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.16"]
[Round "8.12"]
[White "Nikolova, Adriana"]
[Black "Gantar, Jan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C95"]
[WhiteElo "2336"]
[BlackElo "2077"]
[PlyCount "87"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8. c3
O-O 9. h3 Nb8 10. d4 Nbd7 11. Nbd2 c5 12. Nf1 Re8 13. Ng3 g6 14. a4 Bb7 15. d5
c4 16. Bc2 Bf8 17. Be3 Qc7 18. Qd2 Nc5 19. Nh4 Kh8 20. Bh6 Bxh6 21. Qxh6 Ng8
22. Qd2 Qe7 23. Nf3 Rad8 24. Nh2 Bc8 25. axb5 axb5 26. Ra5 Bd7 27. Rea1 Qf8 28.
Nhf1 Ra8 29. f4 f6 30. f5 Rxa5 31. Rxa5 Ra8 32. Rxa8 Qxa8 33. Qd1 Ne7 34. Ne3
Qa7 35. Kf2 Kg7 36. Ke2 Qa2 37. Qc1 {Diagram #} Nc8 $2 38. Ng4 Kf7 39. Qh6 Qxb2
40. Qxh7+ Ke8 41. Qh8+ Ke7 42. Qxf6+ Ke8 43. Qh8+ Kf7 44. Nh6+ 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.16"]
[Round "8.13"]
[White "Bednikova, Stefi"]
[Black "Andonov, Bogomil"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B19"]
[WhiteElo "2094"]
[BlackElo "2302"]
[PlyCount "41"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bf5 5. Ng3 Bg6 6. Nf3 e6 7. h4 h6 8. h5
Bh7 9. Bd3 Bxd3 10. Qxd3 Nf6 11. Bd2 c5 12. Ne4 Nc6 13. dxc5 Qxd3 14. cxd3 Nxe4
15. dxe4 Bxc5 16. Bc3 Bb4 17. Rc1 Bxc3+ 18. Rxc3 Ke7 19. Ke2 Rhd8 20. Rd1 Rxd1
21. Kxd1 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.16"]
[Round "8.14"]
[White "Nikolaou, Georgios"]
[Black "Karadimov, Marin"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A15"]
[WhiteElo "2292"]
[BlackElo "2081"]
[PlyCount "127"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 g6 3. Bg2 Bg7 4. O-O O-O 5. c4 d5 6. Qc2 dxc4 7. Qxc4 Nfd7 8.
d4 Nb6 9. Qb3 Nc6 10. Rd1 Be6 11. Qc2 Bf5 12. e4 Bg4 13. d5 Ne5 14. Nbd2 Nbc4
15. Qb3 Nxd2 16. Bxd2 Qd6 17. Bf4 Bxf3 18. Bxf3 Nxf3+ 19. Qxf3 Be5 20. Bh6 Rfc8
21. Qe2 c5 22. Be3 Bg7 23. f4 f6 24. Rac1 b6 25. Qc4 Kf8 26. b3 a6 27. Qc2 Bh6
28. Kg2 Bg7 29. f5 g5 30. g4 Kf7 31. Bf2 Rd8 32. Bg3 Qd7 33. Qc4 Ra7 34. h4 h6
35. Rh1 Rh8 36. hxg5 hxg5 37. Rxh8 Bxh8 38. Rh1 Kg7 39. Kf3 Qb5 40. a4 Qxc4 41.
bxc4 b5 42. a5 bxc4 43. Rb1 c3 44. Rc1 Rb7 45. Rxc3 Rb5 46. Bc7 Kf7 47. Bb6 Bg7
48. Rxc5 Rxc5 49. Bxc5 Ke8 50. Ke3 Bf8 51. Kd4 Kd7 52. Kc4 Kc7 53. Bf2 Kd7 54.
Bg3 Kc8 55. Kc5 e5+ 56. Kb6 Bd6 57. Bf2 Bb4 58. Kxa6 Bc3 59. Kb5 Kc7 60. Bb6+
Kb7 61. a6+ Kc8 62. Kc6 Kb8 63. d6 Bb4 64. Bd8 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.16"]
[Round "8.15"]
[White "Veleski, Robert"]
[Black "Stoinev, Metodi"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D00"]
[WhiteElo "2289"]
[BlackElo "2268"]
[PlyCount "88"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 d5 3. Bxf6 gxf6 4. e3 c5 5. c3 Qb6 6. Qc2 Nc6 7. Nd2 cxd4 8.
exd4 Bg4 9. Be2 Bxe2 10. Nxe2 e6 11. O-O Rc8 12. Nf3 Bd6 13. Rfe1 h5 14. Rad1
Kf8 15. Nh4 Ne7 16. Rd3 Qc7 17. Rh3 f5 18. Nc1 b5 19. Nd3 Nc6 20. Qe2 b4 21.
Nxf5 exf5 22. Rxh5 Rxh5 23. Qxh5 Ne7 24. h4 bxc3 25. bxc3 Ke8 26. Ne5 Bxe5 27.
Rxe5 Qxc3 28. Qxf5 Rc6 29. Qg4 Re6 30. Rh5 Qe1+ 31. Kh2 Qxf2 32. Rh8+ Kd7 33.
Ra8 Qxa2 34. Rb8 Qa6 35. Qg3 Re4 36. Qh3+ f5 37. Qg3 Rg4 38. Qe5 Rxh4+ 39. Kg1
Qa1+ 40. Kf2 Qxd4+ 41. Qxd4 Rxd4 42. Rb7+ Kd6 43. Rxa7 Rg4 44. Kf3 Nc6 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.16"]
[Round "8.16"]
[White "Menkinoski, Riste"]
[Black "Angelov, Georgi"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B22"]
[WhiteElo "2355"]
[BlackElo "2257"]
[PlyCount "121"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. c3 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. exd5 exd5 5. d4 Nf6 6. Bb5+ Bd7 7. Qe2+ Be7 8.
dxc5 O-O 9. O-O Bxc5 10. Bxd7 Nbxd7 11. Nbd2 Re8 12. Qd3 a5 13. Nb3 a4 14. Nxc5
Nxc5 15. Qd4 Ne6 16. Qb4 a3 17. bxa3 Ne4 18. c4 N6c5 19. cxd5 Qxd5 20. Be3 Nd3
21. Qb3 Qd6 22. a4 Qa6 23. a5 Ndc5 24. Bxc5 Nxc5 25. Qd5 Qxa5 26. Rfe1 Red8 27.
Qh5 Nd3 28. Qxa5 Rxa5 29. Rad1 f6 30. Re7 Rdd5 31. Rxb7 Nf4 32. Re1 h6 33. g3
Ng6 34. Re8+ Kh7 35. Rc8 Rdc5 36. Rxc5 Rxc5 37. Nd4 Nf8 38. Nb5 Ne6 39. a4 Rc1+
40. Kg2 Ra1 41. Ra7 Nc5 42. Nc3 Kg6 43. Rc7 Nb3 44. Nd5 Rxa4 45. Nf4+ Rxf4 46.
gxf4 Nd4 47. Rd7 Nf5 48. Kf3 h5 49. Ke4 Nh6 50. f3 Nf5 51. Rd1 Nh6 52. f5+ Kh7
53. Rd7 Kg8 54. Rd8+ Kh7 55. Rf8 h4 56. Kf4 Ng8 57. Rxg8 Kxg8 58. Kg4 Kh7 59.
Kxh4 Kh6 60. Kg4 Kh7 61. Kh5 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.16"]
[Round "8.17"]
[White "Gavrilidis, Georgios"]
[Black "Arnaudov, G  Petar"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E04"]
[WhiteElo "2100"]
[BlackElo "2413"]
[PlyCount "96"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 Nc6 3. Nf3 e6 4. g3 d5 5. Bg2 dxc4 6. O-O Rb8 7. Re1 Bd6 8. e4
e5 9. dxe5 Bxe5 10. Qxd8+ Kxd8 11. Nxe5 Nxe5 12. h3 b5 13. b3 Bb7 14. bxc4 Nxc4
15. Na3 Nxa3 16. Bxa3 Re8 17. f3 b4 18. Bxb4 Bxe4 19. Bc3 Bc2 20. Rec1 Ba4 21.
Ba5 Re7 22. Rc4 Bb5 23. Rb4 Kc8 24. Rab1 a6 25. a4 c5 26. Rc1 Bc6 27. Rxc5 Re6
28. Rbc4 Rb1+ 29. Rc1 Rxc1+ 30. Rxc1 Kb7 31. Rb1+ Ka8 32. Rb6 Nd5 33. Rxa6+ Kb7
34. Bf1 Bxa4 35. Rxe6 fxe6 36. Bd3 h6 37. Bd2 Kc6 38. Bc1 Kd7 39. Bb2 Nf6 40.
g4 Ke7 41. Bg6 Kf8 42. Kf2 Be8 43. Bd3 Nd5 44. Kg3 g5 45. Be5 Kf7 46. h4 Ke7
47. h5 Kf8 48. Kf2 Ke7 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.16"]
[Round "8.18"]
[White "Todorov, Ognjan"]
[Black "Vrban, Rok"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E15"]
[WhiteElo "2309"]
[BlackElo "2005"]
[PlyCount "75"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. g3 Ba6 5. Nbd2 Bb7 6. Bg2 c5 7. e4 d6 8. d5 e5
9. O-O g6 10. Ne1 Bg7 11. Nd3 O-O 12. f4 Nbd7 13. f5 Bh6 14. Qe2 Ba6 15. Nf2
Rb8 16. a4 Kh8 17. g4 Rg8 18. Ra3 Bf4 19. h4 h6 20. Rh3 Kg7 21. Nd3 Bxd2 22.
Qxd2 Rh8 23. g5 hxg5 24. hxg5 Nh5 25. f6+ Nhxf6 26. gxf6+ Nxf6 27. Rhf3 Bxc4
28. Rxf6 Qxf6 29. Rxf6 Kxf6 30. Nxe5 dxe5 31. Qg5+ Kg7 32. Qxe5+ Kh7 33. b3 Be2
34. Bb2 Rhg8 35. Qf6 Rbf8 36. Bf3 Bxf3 37. Qxf3 f6 38. Bxf6 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.16"]
[Round "8.19"]
[White "Georgieva, Emilia"]
[Black "Gochev, Mladen"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A46"]
[WhiteElo "1934"]
[BlackElo "2248"]
[PlyCount "72"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d6 3. c3 Nbd7 4. Bg5 h6 5. Bxf6 Nxf6 6. e3 c6 7. Qc2 Qc7 8.
Nbd2 e6 9. Bd3 Be7 10. O-O-O Bd7 11. h3 c5 12. Kb1 Rc8 13. g4 b5 14. g5 Nd5 15.
gxh6 Rxh6 16. Rdg1 cxd4 17. Nxd4 Bf6 18. e4 Nb4 19. cxb4 Qb6 20. Qb3 Qxd4 21.
Nf3 Qb6 22. Ng5 Rh4 23. f3 Be7 24. f4 Rxf4 25. Nh7 g6 26. Rf1 Rxf1+ 27. Rxf1
Qd4 28. Qa3 Qh8 29. Qxa7 Qxh7 30. Qb7 Qxh3 31. Bxb5 Rd8 32. a4 Kf8 33. Rc1 Bxb5
34. Qxb5 d5 35. exd5 exd5 36. a5 Qb3 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.16"]
[Round "8.20"]
[White "Ivanov, Borislav"]
[Black "Davidov, Stefan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E18"]
[WhiteElo "2128"]
[PlyCount "87"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. g3 Be7 5. Bg2 O-O 6. O-O b6 7. Nc3 Bb7 8. Ne5
Nbd7 9. Qa4 Nxe5 10. dxe5 Nd7 11. cxd5 exd5 12. Nxd5 Nc5 13. Qd1 c6 14. Nxe7+
Qxe7 15. Qd6 Qxd6 16. exd6 Rfd8 17. Rd1 Rac8 18. Be3 Ne6 19. a4 Ba6 20. Rd2 c5
21. a5 b5 22. b4 Rd7 23. bxc5 Nxc5 24. Rc1 Ne6 25. Rxc8+ Bxc8 26. Bc6 Rd8 27.
Bxa7 Bd7 28. Bxd7 Rxd7 29. Bb6 Nd8 30. a6 Nc6 31. a7 Nxa7 32. Bxa7 f6 33. Bb8
Kf7 34. Bc7 Ke6 35. Rb2 g5 36. Rxb5 h5 37. Rb8 Kf7 38. Rh8 Kg6 39. Rd8 Rg7 40.
Re8 h4 41. Re7 Rg8 42. d7 Ra8 43. d8=Q Ra1+ 44. Kg2 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.16"]
[Round "8.21"]
[White "Ljangov, Petar"]
[Black "Lichkov, Ivan"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B92"]
[WhiteElo "2107"]
[PlyCount "139"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 a6 6. Be2 e5 7. Nb3 Be6 8. Be3
Be7 9. Nd5 Nxd5 10. exd5 Bf5 11. Qd2 O-O 12. O-O Nd7 13. c4 Bg6 14. Na5 Qc7 15.
b4 f5 16. f3 f4 17. Bf2 e4 18. fxe4 Bxe4 19. Bd4 g5 20. Bg4 Bf5 21. Bxf5 Rxf5
22. Rae1 Bf6 23. Bxf6 Rxf6 24. Re7 Raf8 25. Rfe1 Qc8 26. Qd3 R6f7 27. Qh3 f3
28. Rxf7 Rxf7 29. gxf3 Qf8 30. Nb3 Ne5 31. Nd2 g4 32. fxg4 Rf2 33. Rf1 Rxf1+
34. Qxf1 Qh6 35. Qe2 Qf4 36. Nf1 Nxg4 37. Qe8+ Kg7 38. Qe7+ Kg6 39. Qe8+ Kh6
40. Qe6+ Nf6 41. Qh3+ Kg5 42. Qg2+ Kf5 43. Ng3+ Ke5 44. Qe2+ Kd4 45. Qb2+ Kxc4
46. Qb3+ Kb5 47. a4+ Kb6 48. Ne2 Qg5+ 49. Kf2 Nxd5 50. Qd3 Qf6+ 51. Kg1 Qg6+
52. Qxg6 hxg6 53. h4 a5 54. bxa5+ Kxa5 55. Kf2 Kxa4 56. Kf3 b5 57. Ke4 Ne7 58.
Kf4 b4 59. Kg5 b3 60. Nc3+ Kb4 61. Nb1 b2 62. Kf6 Nd5+ 63. Kxg6 Kb3 64. Kf5 Nc3
65. Nd2+ Kc2 66. Nc4 d5 67. Nxb2 Kxb2 68. Ke5 Kb3 69. h5 Ne4 70. Kxd5 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.16"]
[Round "8.22"]
[White "Simeonov, Ventsislav"]
[Black "Petrovski, Igor"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A33"]
[BlackElo "2032"]
[PlyCount "77"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 c5 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 Nc6 6. g3 Bb4 7. Bg2 O-O 8.
O-O a6 9. Nxc6 bxc6 10. Qb3 a5 11. Rd1 Qc7 12. Bg5 Be7 13. Ne4 h6 14. Nxf6+
Bxf6 15. Bxf6 gxf6 16. Rd4 Qe5 17. Re4 Qg5 18. Rd1 d5 19. cxd5 cxd5 20. Rh4 Ba6
21. Qf3 f5 22. h3 Rfc8 23. Rh5 Qg6 24. Kh2 Rc2 25. Bf1 Rxb2 26. g4 fxg4 27.
hxg4 Rc8 28. g5 hxg5 29. Qg4 Rb4 30. Qh3 Kg7 31. Kg1 Rcc4 $2 32. e4 dxe4 33.
Bxc4 Bxc4 34. Qg4 f5 35. Rd7+ Kf6 36. Qh3 Rb1+ 37. Kh2 {Diagram #} Ke5 $2 38.
Qc3+ Kf4 39. Qg3# 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.16"]
[Round "8.23"]
[White "Savov, Zheljazko"]
[Black "Lalev, Ivan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B76"]
[WhiteElo "1989"]
[BlackElo "2026"]
[PlyCount "40"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 Bg7 7. f3 O-O 8. Qd2
Nc6 9. O-O-O d5 10. Nxc6 bxc6 11. exd5 Nxd5 12. Nxd5 cxd5 13. Qxd5 Qc7 14. Qc5
Qb7 15. Bd4 Bf5 16. Qb5 Qc7 17. Qc5 Qxc5 18. Bxc5 Rfc8 19. b4 Bh6+ 20. Kb1 Rxc5
0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.16"]
[Round "8.24"]
[White "Dimitrov, Ivan"]
[Black "Krastev, Krasimir Naidenov"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B21"]
[BlackElo "1825"]
[PlyCount "85"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. c3 Nf6 5. e5 dxe5 6. Nxe5 Qa5 7. Qxd4 Nc6 8.
Nxc6 bxc6 9. Be2 e5 10. Qc4 Qc7 11. O-O Be6 12. Qa6 Bc5 13. Nd2 O-O 14. Nb3 Bb6
15. Bg5 Ne4 16. Be3 f5 17. Bc4 Bd5 18. Bxd5+ cxd5 19. Bxb6 axb6 20. Qb5 Rad8
21. Rad1 Qb7 22. Na5 Qa8 23. Nc6 Rd6 24. Ne7+ Kh8 25. Nxd5 Rfd8 26. c4 Nf6 27.
a3 R8d7 28. Nxb6 Rxb6 29. Qxb6 Qc8 30. Rxd7 Qxd7 31. Qb8+ Ng8 32. Qxe5 h5 33.
Qd5 Qc8 34. Rd1 Kh7 35. Qd7 Qf8 36. b4 Nf6 37. Qxf5+ g6 38. Qf4 Qe7 39. h3 Qe2
40. Rd6 Qe1+ 41. Kh2 Ne4 42. Qf7+ Kh6 43. Qxg6# 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.16"]
[Round "8.25"]
[White "Stankov, Stanimir"]
[Black "Mandzhukov, Stoyan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B50"]
[PlyCount "107"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. b4 Nf6 4. bxc5 Nxe4 5. Bb5+ Bd7 6. Bxd7+ Qxd7 7. cxd6
Nxd6 8. O-O Nc6 9. d4 g6 10. d5 Na5 11. Bb2 Rg8 12. Nbd2 Qb5 13. Nb3 Nac4 14.
Bc3 Ne4 15. a4 Nxc3 16. axb5 Nxd1 17. Rfxd1 Bg7 18. Nfd4 Bxd4 19. Nxd4 Kd7 20.
Nb3 b6 21. Nd4 Na5 22. Nc6 Nxc6 23. dxc6+ Ke6 24. Kf1 Rgc8 25. Rd7 a5 26. Re1+
Kf6 27. Rexe7 a4 28. Rxf7+ Ke6 29. Rfe7+ Kf6 30. Rb7 a3 31. Re1 Rcb8 32. Ra1
Rxb7 33. cxb7 Rb8 34. Rxa3 Rxb7 35. Ke2 Ke5 36. Rd3 Rc7 37. Kd2 Rc5 38. Rb3 Kd4
39. Rb4+ Kd5 40. Kd3 Ke5 41. Re4+ Kd5 42. c4+ Kd6 43. Rd4+ Ke6 44. g4 h5 45. h3
hxg4 46. hxg4 Rc8 47. f4 Ra8 48. Ke4 Rb8 49. f5+ gxf5+ 50. gxf5+ Kf6 51. Rd6+
Kg5 52. Rg6+ Kh5 53. Kd5 Rf8 54. Rxb6 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.16"]
[Round "8.26"]
[White "Alexiou, Andomahi"]
[Black "Ismail, Tamer"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A08"]
[PlyCount "48"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 c5 4. d3 Nc6 5. O-O e5 6. Nbd2 Bd6 7. e4 d4 8. Nc4
Bc7 9. a4 h6 10. h3 O-O 11. Nfd2 Be6 12. f4 exf4 13. gxf4 Qc8 14. f5 Bxc4 15.
Nxc4 Re8 16. c3 Qd7 17. Bf4 Rad8 18. Bxc7 Qxc7 19. Qf3 a6 20. a5 dxc3 21. bxc3
Qd7 22. Ra4 Qc7 23. Qf4 Qxf4 24. Rxf4 Ne5 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.16"]
[Round "8.27"]
[White "Vezenkov, Stoyan"]
[Black "Vakavchiev, Ivan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B19"]
[PlyCount "79"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bf5 5. Ng3 Bg6 6. Nf3 e6 7. h4 h6 8. Bd3
Bxd3 9. Qxd3 Nf6 10. O-O Bd6 11. Re1 O-O 12. Ne4 Nxe4 13. Rxe4 Nd7 14. Bf4 Nf6
15. Bxd6 Qxd6 16. Re5 Rac8 17. Rae1 Rfd8 18. Qe2 Qb4 19. c3 Qd6 20. Nh2 c5 21.
Rxc5 Rxc5 22. dxc5 Qxc5 23. Nf3 Qa5 24. Qc4 Qb6 25. b4 Qd6 26. Nd4 Qf4 27. g3
Qd2 28. Re2 Rxd4 29. cxd4 Qd1+ 30. Kg2 Nd5 31. Qc8+ Kh7 32. Qc2+ Qxc2 33. Rxc2
Nxb4 34. Rb2 a5 35. a3 Nc6 36. d5 exd5 37. Rxb7 f6 38. Rd7 d4 39. Rd6 d3 40.
Rxc6 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.16"]
[Round "8.28"]
[White "Chorapinov, Marian"]
[Black "Manov, Jordan"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B08"]
[PlyCount "50"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 g6 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. Bc4 Be6 6. Bxe6 fxe6 7. Be3 c6 8. h3
O-O 9. O-O Na6 10. a3 Nc7 11. Qd3 Nh5 12. Rad1 Qd7 13. Rfe1 Kh8 14. Ne2 e5 15.
dxe5 Rxf3 16. gxf3 Qxh3 17. f4 Ne6 18. Bc1 Qg4+ 19. Kh2 Nhxf4 20. Nxf4 Bxe5 21.
Qg3 Bxf4 22. Bxf4 Qxf4 23. Qxf4 Nxf4 24. c4 Ne6 25. e5 Ng5 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.17"]
[Round "9.1"]
[White "Petrov, Marijan"]
[Black "Radulski, Julian"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C85"]
[WhiteElo "2500"]
[BlackElo "2577"]
[PlyCount "21"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Bxc6 dxc6 7. d3 Nd7 8.
Nbd2 O-O 9. Nc4 f6 10. b3 Nc5 11. Bb2 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.17"]
[Round "9.2"]
[White "Drenchev, Petar"]
[Black "Grigorov, Grigor"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A30"]
[WhiteElo "2477"]
[BlackElo "2508"]
[PlyCount "17"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. g3 b6 4. Bg2 Bb7 5. O-O c5 6. Nc3 Be7 7. d4 cxd4 8. Qxd4
d6 9. Rd1 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.17"]
[Round "9.3"]
[White "Vasilev, Milen"]
[Black "Georgiev, Kiril"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A46"]
[WhiteElo "2466"]
[BlackElo "2672"]
[PlyCount "72"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 c5 3. c3 e6 4. Bf4 Nc6 5. e3 Be7 6. Nbd2 Nh5 7. dxc5 Nxf4 8.
exf4 Qc7 9. Ne4 Qxf4 10. Nd6+ Bxd6 11. Qxd6 Qxd6 12. cxd6 b6 13. Bd3 Bb7 14.
Ke2 f6 15. a4 g5 16. h3 Kf7 17. b4 h5 18. a5 g4 19. hxg4 hxg4 20. Nd2 bxa5 21.
Rxh8 Rxh8 22. b5 Ne5 23. g3 Rc8 24. c4 a6 25. Rxa5 axb5 26. cxb5 f5 27. b6 Kf6
28. Ra7 Rb8 29. Ke3 Bc6 30. Ra5 Nxd3 31. Kxd3 Rxb6 32. Kd4 Bd5 33. Ra7 Rxd6 34.
Ke3 Ke7 35. Kf4 Rc6 36. Ke3 Rc1 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.17"]
[Round "9.4"]
[White "Janev, Evgeni"]
[Black "Rusev, Krasimir"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C00"]
[WhiteElo "2461"]
[BlackElo "2547"]
[PlyCount "87"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. g3 Nc6 4. Qe2 g6 5. Bg2 Bg7 6. c3 e5 7. Na3 Nge7 8. Nc4
d6 9. Qd3 d5 10. exd5 Bf5 11. Qe2 Qxd5 12. Nh4 Qd7 13. Nxf5 Nxf5 14. O-O O-O
15. d3 f6 16. a4 Rad8 17. a5 Rfe8 18. Rd1 Bf8 19. Qc2 Kh8 20. Qb3 h5 21. Qb5
Re6 22. Be4 Kg7 23. Bxf5 gxf5 24. Ne3 Kg6 25. Ng2 Rd6 26. Be3 Ne7 27. Qxd7
R6xd7 28. Bxc5 Rxd3 29. Rxd3 Rxd3 30. Bxa7 Nc6 31. Be3 Kf7 32. Kf1 Rd5 33. a6
bxa6 34. Rxa6 Na5 35. Ke2 Nc4 36. b4 Nd6 37. Rc6 Nb5 38. Rc8 Bd6 39. Bd2 f4 40.
gxf4 exf4 41. Bxf4 h4 42. Bxd6 Nxd6 43. Rc7+ Ke6 44. Nf4+ 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.17"]
[Round "9.5"]
[White "Kukov, Velislav"]
[Black "Petkov, Vladimir"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D27"]
[WhiteElo "2367"]
[BlackElo "2490"]
[PlyCount "76"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. d4 Nf6 3. c4 dxc4 4. e3 e6 5. Bxc4 a6 6. a4 c5 7. Nc3 Nc6 8. O-O
Be7 9. dxc5 Qc7 10. Qe2 Bxc5 11. e4 Ng4 12. g3 Nce5 13. Nxe5 Nxe5 14. Bb3 Qb6
15. Bc2 Bd7 16. a5 Qb4 17. Ba4 Rd8 18. Bf4 Bd4 19. Rfd1 Nc6 20. Be3 O-O 21.
Bxc6 Bxc6 22. Nd5 exd5 23. Rxd4 Qe7 24. exd5 Rxd5 25. Rxd5 Bxd5 26. Qd3 Bc6 27.
Rd1 Re8 28. Qd4 Qe6 29. Qh4 Qf5 30. Qf4 Qxa5 31. f3 h6 32. Kf2 Qb5 33. Rd2 Qb3
34. Bd4 Qe6 35. Kg2 Qe1 36. Bc3 Re2+ 37. Rxe2 Qxe2+ 38. Kh3 Bxf3 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.17"]
[Round "9.6"]
[White "Dimitrov, Pavel"]
[Black "Bratanov, Zsivko"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B07"]
[WhiteElo "2361"]
[BlackElo "2463"]
[PlyCount "109"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. f4 g6 2. Nf3 Bg7 3. e4 d6 4. d4 Nf6 5. Bd3 c5 6. c3 cxd4 7. cxd4 O-O 8. Be3
Nc6 9. Nbd2 e5 10. fxe5 dxe5 11. d5 Nd4 12. Nxd4 exd4 13. Bg5 h6 14. Bh4 g5 15.
Bg3 Ng4 16. O-O Ne3 17. Qb3 f5 18. exf5 Kh8 19. Rfc1 Qxd5 20. Qxd5 Nxd5 21. Bd6
Rd8 22. Nc4 Ne3 23. Be7 Bxf5 24. Bxf5 Nxf5 25. Bxd8 Rxd8 26. a4 a6 27. a5 Rd5
28. Ra3 Rc5 29. Rd3 Ne3 30. b3 Kh7 31. h3 h5 32. Kh1 Kg6 33. Rb1 Nxc4 34. bxc4
g4 35. Rxb7 Rxa5 36. Rd1 Be5 37. Rc1 Bf4 38. Rf1 g3 39. Rd7 Be3 40. Rd6+ Kg7
41. Rd7+ Kg6 42. Rd6+ Kg5 43. Rd8 Bf2 44. Rc1 Rc5 45. Ra8 a5 46. Ra1 Rxc4 47.
R8xa5+ Kf4 48. Rxh5 Ke3 49. Re5+ Kd2 50. Re4 Rc2 51. Re8 Be3 52. Rg8 Bf2 53.
Re8 d3 54. Re6 Be3 55. Rd6 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.17"]
[Round "9.7"]
[White "Nikolov, Sasho"]
[Black "Panbukchian, Valentin"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A84"]
[WhiteElo "2403"]
[BlackElo "2361"]
[PlyCount "84"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 f5 2. g3 g6 3. Bg2 Bg7 4. c4 d6 5. Nc3 Nh6 6. Nh3 O-O 7. O-O Qe8 8. Qb3
c6 9. d5 Kh8 10. Ng5 Na6 11. dxc6 bxc6 12. Qa4 Rb8 13. Bxc6 Qd8 14. Nb5 Ng4 15.
Nxa7 Nc5 16. Qc2 h6 17. Nh3 Be6 18. Nf4 Bf7 19. Bg2 Qd7 20. Nb5 Rfc8 21. Nc3
Qa7 22. Bd2 g5 23. Nfd5 e6 24. Ne3 Ne5 25. Nb5 Qb6 26. f4 gxf4 27. gxf4 Ng6 28.
Rf2 d5 29. a4 Ne4 30. Bxe4 fxe4 31. Rg2 Nxf4 32. Rxg7 Kxg7 33. Kh1 Bh5 34. Bc3+
Kh7 35. Bd4 Qd8 36. Nc3 Qh4 37. cxd5 exd5 38. Rf1 Rf8 39. Nexd5 Nxd5 40. Rxf8
Rxf8 41. Qxe4+ Qxe4+ 42. Nxe4 Bxe2 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.17"]
[Round "9.8"]
[White "Nikolaou, Georgios"]
[Black "Badev, Kiril"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A13"]
[WhiteElo "2292"]
[BlackElo "2369"]
[PlyCount "94"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 b5 3. Bg2 Bb7 4. O-O e6 5. b3 Be7 6. c4 a6 7. Bb2 c5 8. e3 Qb6
9. d3 O-O 10. e4 d6 11. Qe2 Nc6 12. Nbd2 Nd7 13. Rad1 Rfd8 14. h4 Bf6 15. Bc1
Qa5 16. Nb1 Nb4 17. Na3 Rab8 18. d4 Nxa2 19. Qxa2 b4 20. Qd2 Bxe4 21. Bb2 Bxf3
22. Bxf3 cxd4 23. Nc2 e5 24. Ra1 Qb6 25. Ne1 Nc5 26. Qc2 Re8 27. Nd3 Nd7 28.
Rfe1 g6 29. Qd2 a5 30. h5 Bg7 31. hxg6 hxg6 32. Be4 Nf6 33. Qe2 Bh6 34. Bc1
Bxc1 35. Rexc1 Kg7 36. Kg2 Nd7 37. g4 Rh8 38. Rh1 Rxh1 39. Rxh1 Rh8 40. Rxh8
Kxh8 41. Qf3 Kg7 42. Bd5 f6 43. g5 f5 44. Qh3 Kf8 45. Qh7 Ke8 46. Qxg6+ Kd8 47.
Qxf5 a4 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.17"]
[Round "9.9"]
[White "Dimitrov, Radoslav"]
[Black "Nikolova, Adriana"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A45"]
[WhiteElo "2394"]
[BlackElo "2336"]
[PlyCount "96"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 c5 3. Bxf6 gxf6 4. d5 Qb6 5. Qc1 f5 6. c4 d6 7. Nc3 Na6 8. e3
Bd7 9. a3 Rg8 10. g3 O-O-O 11. Bd3 e5 12. Qc2 Kb8 13. Rb1 f4 14. Bxh7 Rh8 15.
Nf3 Bh6 16. Ke2 fxe3 17. fxe3 e4 18. Bxe4 Rde8 19. Nh4 Bg4+ 20. Kf2 Re5 21. Ng2
Rhe8 22. Bf3 Bxf3 23. Kxf3 Bxe3 24. Nxe3 Rxe3+ 25. Kg2 Nb4 26. Qf5 Nd3 27. Rhf1
Qb3 28. Qf6 Qc2+ 29. Kg1 Ka8 {Diagram #} 30. Qxf7 $4 Rh8 31. Qh7 Ree8 32. Rbe1
Nxe1 33. Qxc2 Nxc2 34. Rf4 Rhf8 35. Rxf8 Rxf8 36. Ne4 Ne3 37. h4 Nxc4 38. Kh2
Nxb2 39. h5 Nd3 40. Nxd6 Rd8 41. Nb5 a6 42. Nc3 b5 43. g4 b4 44. axb4 cxb4 45.
Na4 Kb7 46. h6 Rxd5 47. Kg3 Ne5 48. g5 Nf7 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.17"]
[Round "9.10"]
[White "Andonov, Bogomil"]
[Black "Velikov, Petar"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B13"]
[WhiteElo "2302"]
[BlackElo "2433"]
[PlyCount "17"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. c3 Nf6 5. Bf4 Nc6 6. Bd3 Bg4 7. Nf3 e6 8.
Nbd2 Bd6 9. Bxd6 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.17"]
[Round "9.11"]
[White "Menkinoski, Riste"]
[Black "Stanoev, Atanas"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B22"]
[WhiteElo "2355"]
[BlackElo "2202"]
[PlyCount "76"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. c3 d5 3. exd5 Qxd5 4. d4 Nf6 5. Nf3 Bg4 6. Be2 cxd4 7. cxd4 e6 8.
O-O Nc6 9. Nc3 Qd6 10. Be3 Be7 11. h3 Bh5 12. Nb5 Qb8 13. Ne5 Bxe2 14. Qxe2 O-O
15. Nxc6 bxc6 16. Nc3 Nd5 17. Rac1 Qb4 18. Ne4 Rfc8 19. b3 a5 20. Nc5 Bxc5 21.
dxc5 Qe4 22. Rc4 Qe5 23. Qf3 Qb2 24. Bd4 Qxa2 25. Qg4 g6 26. Qg3 Re8 27. Be5
Ra7 28. Ra4 Qd2 29. Rd4 Qc2 30. Rh4 f6 31. Rc4 Qd2 32. Bd6 Qb2 33. Rd1 Rb7 34.
Rd3 e5 35. Rg4 Kg7 36. Kh2 e4 37. Rxd5 cxd5 38. c6 Rxb3 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.17"]
[Round "9.12"]
[White "Stoinev, Metodi"]
[Black "Ivanov, Borislav"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B19"]
[WhiteElo "2268"]
[BlackElo "2128"]
[PlyCount "108"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bf5 5. Ng3 Bg6 6. Nf3 Nd7 7. h4 h6 8. h5
Bh7 9. Bd3 Bxd3 10. Qxd3 e6 11. Bd2 Qc7 12. Ne4 Ngf6 13. O-O-O Nxe4 14. Qxe4
Nf6 15. Qe2 O-O-O 16. Kb1 Bd6 17. c4 c5 18. Bc3 a6 19. dxc5 Qxc5 20. Ne5 Bxe5
21. Bxe5 Rxd1+ 22. Rxd1 Rd8 23. Rxd8+ Kxd8 24. b3 Kc8 25. f4 Qg1+ 26. Kb2 Qh1
27. Qf2 Nd7 28. Bxg7 Qxh5 29. Bd4 e5 30. fxe5 Nxe5 31. Qe3 Nc6 32. Bc3 Qg6 33.
Qf3 h5 34. a4 Qg4 35. Qd5 Qe2+ 36. Ka3 Qe7+ 37. c5 h4 38. Qf5+ Qd7 39. Qxd7+
Kxd7 40. Bf6 Ke6 41. Bxh4 Kd5 42. Bf2 a5 43. Kb2 Nb4 44. Kc3 Na6 45. Bh4 Kxc5
46. Be7+ Kc6 47. Kd4 Nb8 48. g4 Nd7 49. Bd8 Nc5 50. Ke5 Kd7 51. Bxa5 Nxb3 52.
Bb4 Nc1 53. Bd2 Nd3+ 54. Kf6 Nf2 {...} 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.17"]
[Round "9.13"]
[White "Argiroudis, Stamatis"]
[Black "Bednikova, Stefi"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E92"]
[WhiteElo "2284"]
[BlackElo "2094"]
[PlyCount "54"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 g6 2. c4 Nf6 3. Nf3 Bg7 4. Nc3 O-O 5. e4 d6 6. Be2 e5 7. d5 a5 8. Bg5 h6
9. Bh4 Qe8 10. Nd2 Na6 11. a3 Bd7 12. O-O Nh7 13. Rb1 f5 14. exf5 Bxf5 15. Nde4
Nf6 16. Bxf6 Bxf6 17. b4 axb4 18. axb4 Qe7 19. c5 dxc5 20. Bxa6 Rxa6 21. bxc5
Bxe4 22. Nxe4 b6 23. Qd3 Rfa8 24. d6 cxd6 25. cxb6 Ra5 26. Qc3 Rc5 27. Nxc5
dxc5 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.17"]
[Round "9.14"]
[White "Vachev, Vladimir"]
[Black "Todorov, Ognjan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A39"]
[WhiteElo "2145"]
[BlackElo "2309"]
[PlyCount "127"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. g3 g6 4. Bg2 Bg7 5. O-O O-O 6. Nc3 Nc6 7. d4 cxd4 8.
Nxd4 Ng4 9. e3 d6 10. h3 Nxd4 11. exd4 Nh6 12. g4 f5 13. g5 Nf7 14. f4 e5 15.
dxe5 dxe5 16. Qxd8 Nxd8 17. Bd5+ Be6 18. fxe5 Bxe5 19. Bf4 Bxf4 20. Rxf4 Bxd5
21. cxd5 Nf7 22. h4 Rfe8 23. Rd1 Nd6 24. Kf2 Kf7 25. Re1 Rxe1 26. Kxe1 h6 27.
gxh6 Rh8 28. Kf2 Rxh6 29. Kg3 Rh8 30. a4 a6 31. Rb4 Kf6 32. Rd4 Re8 33. Kf2 Re7
34. Rb4 Ke5 35. Kf3 Rc7 36. Ne2 b5 37. axb5 axb5 38. Nf4 Kf6 39. Rb3 Rc1 40.
Rb4 Rh1 41. Ne2 Ne4 42. Rxb5 Rh3+ 43. Kg2 Rxh4 44. Rb6+ Kg5 45. b4 Rh7 46. Nd4
Ra7 47. Nf3+ Kf4 48. Ne1 Ra2+ 49. Kf1 g5 50. Rc6 Rd2 51. Rc2 Rxd5 52. Rb2 Nc3
53. Rb3 Nb5 54. Rb2 g4 55. Ra2 Kg3 56. Rg2+ Kh4 57. Rh2+ Kg5 58. Rh8 f4 59. Rc8
f3 60. Rc5 Rxc5 61. bxc5 Kf4 62. c6 g3 63. Nc2 Kg4 64. Ne3+ 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.17"]
[Round "9.15"]
[White "Gochev, Mladen"]
[Black "Kostadinov, Rumen"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B06"]
[WhiteElo "2248"]
[BlackElo "2200"]
[PlyCount "41"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. Nf3 c6 4. c3 d6 5. Nbd2 Nf6 6. Bd3 O-O 7. O-O Qc7 8. a4
e5 9. dxe5 dxe5 10. Qc2 Nbd7 11. b4 Bh6 12. Nc4 Bxc1 13. Qxc1 Kg7 14. a5 Nh5
15. Re1 Nf4 16. Bf1 f6 17. Qd2 Nb8 18. Nb6 axb6 19. axb6 Qxb6 20. Rxa8 Rd8 21.
Qe3 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.17"]
[Round "9.16"]
[White "Karadimov, Marin"]
[Black "Daels, Marc"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B33"]
[WhiteElo "2081"]
[BlackElo "2207"]
[PlyCount "89"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e5 6. Ndb5 d6 7. Bg5 a6 8.
Na3 b5 9. Nd5 Be7 10. Bxf6 Bxf6 11. c3 Ne7 12. Nc2 Nxd5 13. Qxd5 Rb8 14. Qd3
O-O 15. Nb4 Bb7 16. Rd1 a5 17. Nd5 Bg5 18. Be2 g6 19. h4 Bh6 20. Bg4 Kg7 21.
Qh3 b4 22. c4 a4 23. O-O b3 24. a3 Ba6 25. Be2 Rc8 26. Nc3 Bxc4 27. Bxc4 Rxc4
28. Qd3 Rd4 29. Qb5 Qxh4 30. Rxd4 exd4 31. Nxa4 Qxe4 32. Qxb3 d3 33. Nc3 Qe5
34. Qc4 d2 35. Qd3 Re8 36. g3 Kg8 37. f4 Qc5+ 38. Kg2 Bg7 39. Qxd2 Bxc3 40.
bxc3 Qxa3 41. Re1 Rb8 42. Re2 Qa8+ 43. Kh2 Re8 44. Re1 Rxe1 45. Qxe1 {....} 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.17"]
[Round "9.17"]
[White "Gantar, Jan"]
[Black "Veleski, Robert"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B34"]
[WhiteElo "2077"]
[BlackElo "2289"]
[PlyCount "48"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 g6 5. Nc3 Bg7 6. Nde2 d6 7. g3 h5 8. Bg2
h4 9. O-O Nf6 10. Nd5 hxg3 11. hxg3 Bg4 12. f3 Nxd5 13. exd5 Qb6+ 14. Rf2 Ne5
15. Kf1 Bh3 16. Qd4 Bxg2+ 17. Kxg2 Rh2+ 18. Kf1 Rh1+ 19. Kg2 Rg1+ 20. Kh3 Qxd4
21. Nxd4 Kd7 22. Kh2 Rd1 23. Rd2 Rh8+ 24. Kg2 Rdh1 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.17"]
[Round "9.18"]
[White "Arnaudov, G  Petar"]
[Black "Simeonov, Ventsislav"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D36"]
[WhiteElo "2413"]
[PlyCount "46"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. d4 Nf6 3. c4 e6 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bg5 Nbd7 6. e3 O-O 7. cxd5 exd5 8.
Bd3 c6 9. O-O h6 10. Bf4 Re8 11. Qc2 Nf8 12. Rab1 Ne6 13. Be5 Ng4 14. Bg3 Ng5
15. Nxg5 Bxg5 16. h3 Nxe3 17. fxe3 Bxe3+ 18. Kh1 Bxd4 19. Bh7+ Kf8 20. Rxf7+
Kxf7 21. Qg6+ Kf8 22. Bd6+ Re7 23. Rf1+ Bf6 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.17"]
[Round "9.19"]
[White "Lalev, Ivan"]
[Black "Ljangov, Petar"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E62"]
[WhiteElo "2026"]
[BlackElo "2107"]
[PlyCount "76"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. g3 d6 5. Bg2 g6 6. O-O Bg7 7. d4 O-O 8. d5
Nb8 9. e4 Nbd7 10. Ne1 a5 11. Nd3 Nc5 12. h3 Nfd7 13. Be3 Nxd3 14. Qxd3 f5 15.
exf5 gxf5 16. f4 exf4 17. gxf4 Nc5 18. Qd2 b6 19. Rad1 Bd7 20. Kh2 Na4 21. Rg1
Kh8 22. Bf3 Bf6 23. Rg2 Nxc3 24. bxc3 Qe7 25. Re1 Qf7 26. Bd4 Rae8 27. Reg1
Bxd4 28. Qxd4+ Qf6 29. Qxf6+ Rxf6 30. Rg7 Rd8 31. Bh5 Rff8 32. Bf7 Bc8 33. Be6
Bxe6 34. dxe6 Rg8 35. Rxg8+ Rxg8 36. Rxg8+ Kxg8 37. Kg2 Kg7 38. Kf2 Kf6 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.17"]
[Round "9.20"]
[White "Gavrilidis, Georgios"]
[Black "Stankov, Stanimir"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E00"]
[WhiteElo "2100"]
[PlyCount "28"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. g3 Bb4+ 4. Bd2 Bxd2+ 5. Nxd2 d5 6. Bg2 c6 7. e3 O-O 8.
Ne2 Nbd7 9. O-O b6 10. Rc1 Ba6 11. b4 Rb8 12. a4 Bb7 13. cxd5 cxd5 14. Qb3 Ne4
{......} 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.17"]
[Round "9.21"]
[White "Lichkov, Ivan"]
[Black "Dimitrov, Ivan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A57"]
[PlyCount "45"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5 4. Nf3 Qa5+ 5. Bd2 b4 6. Qc2 g6 7. e4 d6 8. h3 Bg7
9. Bd3 O-O 10. O-O Bd7 11. Bf4 Nh5 12. Bh2 Ba4 13. Qe2 Bh6 14. g3 Bd7 15. Kg2
Qc7 16. Nbd2 Bxh3+ 17. Kxh3 Qd7+ 18. Kg2 Qg4 19. Kh1 Nd7 20. Rad1 f5 21. exf5
Rxf5 22. Bxf5 Qxf5 23. Qxe7 1-0

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.17"]
[Round "9.22"]
[White "Angelov, Georgi"]
[Black "Georgieva, Emilia"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B19"]
[WhiteElo "2257"]
[BlackElo "1934"]
[PlyCount "62"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bf5 5. Ng3 Bg6 6. h4 h6 7. Nf3 Nd7 8. h5
Bh7 9. Bd3 Bxd3 10. Qxd3 Ngf6 11. Bd2 e6 12. Ne4 Nxe4 13. Qxe4 Nf6 14. Qe2 Bd6
15. O-O-O Qc7 16. g3 a5 17. c4 b6 18. Kb1 O-O 19. Bc3 Bb4 20. Bxb4 axb4 21. Ne5
Qa7 22. b3 Ne4 23. Rd3 c5 24. a4 Nc3+ 25. Rxc3 bxc3 26. d5 exd5 27. Nc6 Qd7 28.
Ne7+ Kh8 29. Nxd5 b5 30. Nb6 Qb7 31. Nd5 bxa4 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.17"]
[Round "9.24"]
[White "Ismail, Tamer"]
[Black "Savov, Zheljazko"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B82"]
[BlackElo "1989"]
[PlyCount "26"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Qb6 5. Nb3 Nf6 6. Nc3 e6 7. Bd3 a6 8.
Be3 Qc7 9. f4 d6 10. Qf3 Be7 11. O-O-O O-O 12. Kb1 b5 13. g4 Bb7 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.17"]
[Round "9.25"]
[White "Krastev, Krasimir Naidenov"]
[Black "Alexiou, Andomahi"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E72"]
[WhiteElo "1825"]
[PlyCount "33"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. c4 Nf6 2. d4 g6 3. g3 Bg7 4. Bg2 O-O 5. Nc3 d6 6. e4 c6 7. Nge2 e5 8. f4 Re8
9. O-O Bg4 10. Be3 Nbd7 11. b4 Bxe2 12. Qxe2 Nh5 13. fxe5 c5 14. bxc5 dxc5 15.
h4 cxd4 16. Bxd4 Nxe5 17. Be3 0-1

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.17"]
[Round "9.26"]
[White "Petrovski, Igor"]
[Black "Vezenkov, Stoyan"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B19"]
[WhiteElo "2032"]
[PlyCount "64"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bf5 5. Ng3 Bg6 6. h4 h6 7. h5 Bh7 8. Nf3
Nf6 9. Bd3 Bxd3 10. Qxd3 e6 11. Bd2 Bd6 12. O-O-O O-O 13. Ne4 Nxe4 14. Qxe4 Nd7
15. g4 Nf6 16. Qe2 Nxg4 17. Rdg1 f5 18. Qxe6+ Kh8 19. Nh4 Rf6 20. Qe2 Qe8 21.
Qf3 Qf7 22. Kb1 Re8 23. Bc3 Qd5 24. Qxd5 cxd5 25. Nxf5 Rxf5 26. Rxg4 Rxf2 27.
Rg6 Ref8 28. a3 Rf1+ 29. Rxf1 Rxf1+ 30. Ka2 Rf6 31. Rg1 Rf5 32. Rh1 Kg8 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL 2nd Memorial GM Nino Kirov"]
[Site "Blagoevgrad"]
[Date "2010.01.17"]
[Round "9.27"]
[White "Manov, Jordan"]
[Black "Vakavchiev, Ivan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D52"]
[PlyCount "88"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. c4 d5 4. Nc3 Nbd7 5. Bg5 c6 6. e3 Qb6 7. Qc2 Bb4 8. Bd3
Qa5 9. O-O dxc4 10. Bxc4 Bxc3 11. Qxc3 Qxc3 12. bxc3 Ne4 13. Rac1 O-O 14. Bd3
Nxg5 15. Nxg5 h6 16. Ne4 e5 17. Nd6 exd4 18. cxd4 Nb6 19. e4 Rb8 20. f4 Rd8 21.
e5 Be6 22. Rc2 Nc8 23. Nxc8 Rbxc8 24. f5 Bd5 25. Rf4 b5 26. a3 a5 27. Rh4 b4
28. axb4 axb4 29. f6 b3 30. Rc3 Rb8 31. Bb1 Ra8 32. Kf2 Ra1 33. Rg3 g6 34. Bxg6
fxg6 35. Rxg6+ Kf7 36. Rg7+ Ke6 37. Re7+ Kf5 38. g3 Rg8 39. Rf4+ Kg5 40. h4+
Kh5 41. Rf5+ Kg4 42. Rf4+ Kh3 43. Rg7 b2 44. h5 Rf1+ 0-1
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