[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.03"]
[Round "1.1"]
[White "Trotsenko, Dmitriy M."]
[Black "Gryaznev, Alexander"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E91"]
[WhiteElo "2273"]
[BlackElo "1985"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 O-O 6.Be2 c5 7.O-O b6
8.Re1 cxd4 9.Nxd4 Bb7 10.Bg5 Nbd7 11.Bf3 Ne5 12.Nd5 Rc8 13.Bxf6
exf6 14.b3 Bxd5 15.exd5 f5 16.Be2 Qf6 17.Rc1 f4 18.Bf1 f3 19.g3
h5 20.h4 a5 21.Re4 g5 22.hxg5 Qxg5 23.Rf4 Ng6 24.Nxf3 Qe7 25.Rf5
h4 26.Ng5 Bf6 27.Qh5 Bxg5 28.Rxg5 hxg3 29.Bd3 Qf6 30.Bxg6 1-0

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.03"]
[Round "1.2"]
[White "Zhilchikov, Nikolai"]
[Black "Sotnikov, Alexander I."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A52"]
[WhiteElo "1978"]
[BlackElo "2241"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5 3.dxe5 Ng4 4.Nf3 Bc5 5.e3 Nc6 6.Bd2 Ngxe5 7.Nxe5
Nxe5 8.Bc3 Qe7 9.a3 a5 10.Be2 O-O 11.O-O Ra6 12.Nd2 Re8 13.Nf3
Ng4 14.Bd4 Rh6 15.h3 Nf6 16.Nh2 Ne4 17.Bf3 Bd6 18.Ng4 Rh4 19.Qc2
b6 20.b3 f5 21.Nh2 Bxa3 22.Bxe4 fxe4 23.f4 Bc5 24.f5 Bxd4 25.exd4
e3 26.Rae1 Rxd4 27.f6 gxf6 28.Ng4 Rxg4 29.hxg4 d6 30.Rf4 Qe5
31.g3 e2 32.Qd2 h5 33.Qd3 Kg7 34.gxh5 Qxh5 35.Rf2 Bg4 36.Qd2
Re5 37.Rf4 f5 38.Rf2 Qg5 39.Rf4 Kf7 40.Kf2 Qh5 41.Kg1 Ke6 42.Qd3
Qh3 43.Rf2 Qh6 44.Rf4 Kd7 45.Qd4 Qe6 46.Kf2 c5 47.Qd3 Kc7 48.Qd2
d5 49.cxd5 Rxd5 50.Qc3 Qe5 51.Qc4 Rd4 52.Qf7+ Kc6 53.Rxd4 Qxd4+
54.Kg2 Qd5+ 55.Qxd5+ Kxd5 56.Kf2 Kd4 57.Rb1 Kc3 0-1

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.03"]
[Round "1.3"]
[White "Fesenko, Vitaly"]
[Black "Matsenko, Andrei"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B47"]
[WhiteElo "2232"]
[BlackElo "1970"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Qc7 5.Nc3 e6 6.Ndb5 Qb8 7.Be3
a6 8.Bb6 axb5 9.Nxb5 Bb4+ 10.c3 Ba5 11.Nc7+ Qxc7 12.Bxc7 Bxc7
13.Bd3 Nge7 14.O-O O-O 15.f4 b6 16.b4 Bb7 17.b5 Na5 18.e5 Nd5
19.Qd2 Rac8 20.c4 Ne7 21.Rac1 Ba8 22.Qe2 Nb7 23.Qh5 g6 24.Qh6
Nc5 25.Bb1 Be4 26.Bxe4 Nxe4 27.Rfe1 Nc5 28.Rc3 Nf5 29.Qh3 d6
30.g4 Ng7 31.Qh6 f5 32.exf6 Rxf6 33.Rh3 Kf7 34.Qxh7 Rxf4 35.Rf1
d5 36.Rh6 Rxf1+ 37.Kxf1 dxc4 38.Qxg6+ Kg8 39.Qh7+ Kf7 40.Qg6+
Kg8 41.Qh7+ Kf7 42.Rh3 Bf4 43.Qc2 Nd7 44.Rf3 e5 45.Rc3 Nc5 46.Rxc4
Rh8 47.a4 Bxh2 48.a5 Bf4 49.a6 Rh1+ 50.Kg2 Rh2+ 51.Kg1 Rxc2 52.Rxc2
Be3+ 53.Kf1 Nge6 54.a7 Nc7 55.Rh2 Kg7 56.Rh5 Bf4 57.g5 N5e6 58.Rh6
Kf7 59.Rh7+ Kg6 60.Re7 Kf5 61.g6 Bh6 62.Re8 Kf6 63.Kf2 Bf8 64.Ke1
Bb4+ 65.Kd1 e4 66.g7 Nxg7 67.Rxe4 Bc5 68.Rh4 Nge8 69.Rh8 Ke7
70.Kc2 Kd7 71.Kb3 Kc8 72.Rxe8+ Kb7 73.Rg8 Kxa7 74.Kc4 Kb7 1/2-1/2

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.03"]
[Round "1.4"]
[White "Sultanov, Ruslan"]
[Black "IIyin, Konstantin"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B23"]
[WhiteElo "1842"]
[BlackElo "2195"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 e6 4.Bb5 Nd4 5.Bc4 Ne7 6.e5 d5 7.exd6
Nef5 8.Nf3 Bxd6 9.O-O Bxf4 10.Ne4 O-O 11.c3 Nxf3+ 12.Qxf3 Bc7
13.d4 Nd6 14.Bg5 f6 15.Nxd6 Qxd6 16.Bf4 Qxf4 17.Qxf4 Bxf4 18.Rxf4
cxd4 19.Rxd4 Kf7 20.a4 Ke7 21.Bd3 e5 22.Rc4 f5 23.Rc7+ Kf6 24.Bc4
Rd8 25.Rf7+ Kg6 26.Rf1 Bd7 27.g4 fxg4 28.Re7 Bxa4 29.Rxe5 Rd1
30.Bf7+ 1-0

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.03"]
[Round "1.5"]
[White "Korostelev, Stanislav"]
[Black "Dementjev, Vladimir"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B21"]
[WhiteElo "2184"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.f4 d5 3.Nc3 d4 4.Nce2 d3 5.cxd3 Qxd3 6.Nc3 Qd6 7.e5
Qd8 8.Bc4 Nc6 9.e6 Bxe6 10.Bxe6 fxe6 11.Qh5+ g6 12.Qxc5 Qd4 13.Qb5
Rb8 14.Nge2 Qb4 15.Qd3 Qd6 16.Qh3 Nb4 17.O-O Bg7 18.Ne4 Qd3 19.Qxe6
Rd8 20.f5 Nc2 21.fxg6 Nd4 22.Qf7+ Kd7 23.Nc5+ Kc6 24.Nxd3 Nxe2+
25.Kh1 Ng3+ 26.hxg3 hxg6+ 27.Kg1 Bd4+ 28.Nf2 Nf6 29.Qc4+ Kb6
30.a4 a6 31.Ra3 Ne4 32.Qe6+ 1-0

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.03"]
[Round "1.6"]
[White "Ksenofontov, Nikolai"]
[Black "Arkhipenko, Daniil"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A21"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "2136"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 d6 3.g3 g6 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.e3 f5 6.Nge2 Nf6 7.e4 O-O
8.exf5 gxf5 9.Bd5+ Kh8 10.d3 c6 11.Bg2 d5 12.cxd5 cxd5 13.Bg5
d4 14.Nd5 Nc6 15.Qd2 Be6 16.Bxf6 Bxf6 17.Nxf6 Rxf6 18.O-O Bd5
19.f3 Qe8 20.Rae1 Qh5 21.h3 Qg6 22.f4 Bxg2 23.Kxg2 e4 24.dxe4
fxe4 25.f5 Qf7 26.g4 Rd8 27.b4 e3 28.Qb2 Qd5+ 29.Kh2 Ne5 30.Nxd4
Qxd4 31.Qxd4 Rxd4 32.Rxe3 Nf7 33.a3 Kg7 34.Kg3 Rfd6 35.h4 h6
36.Re7 Kf6 37.Rfe1 Rd3+ 38.Kf4 R6d4+ 39.R1e4 Ng5 40.Rxd4 Rf3# 0-1

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.03"]
[Round "1.7"]
[White "Kosov, Viacheslav"]
[Black "Mazyrin, Yuri"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D32"]
[WhiteElo "2108"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c5 4.e3 Nf6 5.Nf3 Nc6 6.cxd5 exd5 7.Be2
c4 8.O-O Bd6 9.b3 cxb3 10.Qxb3 O-O 11.Ba3 Re8 12.Bxd6 Qxd6 13.Rac1
Rb8 14.h3 Bf5 15.Nb5 Qd7 16.Ne5 Nxe5 17.dxe5 Rxe5 18.Rc7 Qd8
19.Rfc1 Ne4 20.Qb2 Re8 21.Nd4 Qh4 22.Bb5 Qf6 23.Bxe8 Rxe8 24.Qe2
Bg6 25.Rc8 Qe7 26.Qb5 Nd6 27.Rxe8+ Nxe8 28.Rc8 1-0

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.03"]
[Round "1.8"]
[White "Nabokov , Valery"]
[Black "Kalinin, Viacheslav"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B16"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "2091"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nf6 5.Nxf6+ gxf6 6.Nf3 Bg4
7.Be2 e6 8.c3 Bd6 9.Bh6 Nd7 10.Qc2 Qc7 11.g3 O-O-O 12.O-O-O Qa5
13.Ne1 Bxe2 14.Qxe2 Qxa2 15.c4 Ba3 16.Qc2 Qa1+ 17.Kd2 Qxb2 18.Qxb2
Bxb2 19.Kc2 Ba3 20.Ra1 Bf8 21.Bxf8 Nxf8 22.Rxa7 Rxd4 23.Kc3 Rd1
24.Kc2 Rd8 25.Nd3 Kb8 26.Rha1 Nd7 27.Kc3 e5 28.f3 h5 29.Kb4 f5
30.Nc5 Nxc5 31.Kxc5 Kc7 32.Rb1 Rb8 33.Rf1 Ra8 34.Rxa8 Rxa8 35.g4
Ra4 36.Rb1 b6+ 37.Rxb6 Ra5+ 0-1

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.03"]
[Round "1.9"]
[White "Murzikov, Boris"]
[Black "Popov, Alexander A."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C10"]
[WhiteElo "2046"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nf6 5.Bd3 b6 6.Nf3 Bb7 7.Qe2
Be7 8.O-O O-O 9.Re1 Nbd7 10.Bf4 c5 11.Rad1 Nxe4 12.Bxe4 Qc8 13.Bxb7
Qxb7 14.d5 e5 15.Nxe5 Bf6 16.Qb5 Bxe5 17.Bxe5 Rfe8 18.Bc3 Rad8
19.Qc6 Qc8 20.Qa4 a6 21.Qg4 Nf6 22.Qxc8 Rxc8 23.Kf1 c4 1-0

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.03"]
[Round "1.10"]
[White "Popov, Sergei"]
[Black "Barkov, Alexey"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B33"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "2027"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

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 Qa5+ 10.Bd2 Qd8 11.Bg5 Qa5+ 12.Bd2 Qd8 13.Bg5
Be7 14.Bxf6 Bxf6 15.c3 Bg5 16.Bd3 O-O 17.h4 Bh6 18.g4 Bf4 19.Nc2
Be6 20.Nce3 Rb8 21.b4 Ne7 22.a4 Bxd5 23.Nxd5 Nxd5 24.exd5 e4
25.Bxe4 Qe7 26.Qf3 Be5 27.Kd2 Rfc8 28.Rac1 bxa4 29.Qd3 Bf4+ 30.Kc2
Bxc1 31.Kxc1 Rxb4 32.Bxh7+ Kh8 33.Bf5 Rc5 34.Qxa6 Rxc3+ 35.Kd2
Rb2+ 0-1

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.03"]
[Round "1.11"]
[White "Lefebr, Vladislav"]
[Black "Vlasov, Vitaliy"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B22"]
[WhiteElo "1994"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.c3 Nf6 3.e5 Nd5 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nf3 Nc6 6.cxd4 d6 7.Bc4
Nb6 8.Bb5 a6 9.Bxc6+ bxc6 10.Qc2 Bb7 11.Be3 g6 12.Nbd2 Bg7 13.h4
h5 14.e6 f5 15.Ng5 Qc8 16.Ndf3 c5 17.dxc5 Bxf3 18.gxf3 dxc5 19.Bxc5
Qc6 20.Rc1 Rc8 21.b4 Nd5 22.Qd2 Bh6 23.O-O Qb7 24.Qd4 Nf6 25.Bxe7
Kxe7 26.Rxc8 Rxc8 27.Nf7 Bg7 28.Qd6+ Ke8 29.Rd1 Qa8 30.Ne5 Bf8
31.Qd4 Be7 32.Nd7 Rd8 33.Nxf6+ Bxf6 34.Qxf6 Rxd1+ 35.Kg2 Qc6
36.Qf7+ 1-0

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.05"]
[Round "2.1"]
[White "Kalinin, Viacheslav"]
[Black "Trotsenko, Dmitriy M."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A46"]
[WhiteElo "2091"]
[BlackElo "2273"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 d6 3.g3 Nbd7 4.Bg2 e5 5.dxe5 dxe5 6.Bg5 Bb4+ 7.c3
Be7 8.O-O O-O 9.Nbd2 h6 10.Bxf6 Bxf6 11.Ne4 Be7 12.Qb3 c6 13.Rad1
Qc7 14.g4 Nc5 15.Nxc5 Bxc5 16.Qc4 Be7 17.Qe4 Bf6 18.h4 g6 19.g5
Bf5 20.Qe3 hxg5 21.hxg5 Bg7 22.Nh4 Be6 23.b3 Qb6 24.Qg3 a5 25.Be4
a4 26.Rd6 axb3 27.axb3 Qxb3 28.Rb1 Qc4 29.Rb4 Qxe2 30.Bf3 Qe1+
31.Kh2 Qxc3 32.Re4 Rad8 33.Re3 Qc5 34.Rxe6 fxe6 35.Nxg6 Rd2 36.Kh3
Rf5 37.Bg4 e4 38.Bxf5 0-1

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.05"]
[Round "2.2"]
[White "Sotnikov, Alexander I."]
[Black "Murzikov, Boris"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A12"]
[WhiteElo "2241"]
[BlackElo "2046"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.Nf3 d5 2.b3 Nf6 3.Bb2 g6 4.c4 c6 5.cxd5 cxd5 6.Bxf6 exf6 7.e3
Nc6 8.d4 Bf5 9.Bd3 Qa5+ 10.Kf1 Bxd3+ 11.Qxd3 Rc8 12.Ne1 Nb4 13.Qd2
Qa6+ 14.Kg1 Qc6 15.g3 Be7 16.Kg2 O-O 17.a3 Nc2 18.Ra2 Nxe1+ 19.Rxe1
Rc7 20.Qd3 Rfc8 21.Nd2 a6 22.b4 Qc3 23.Qe2 f5 24.h4 Bd6 25.Qf3
Qc6 26.Nb3 Bf8 27.Rc1 Qe6 28.Rxc7 Rxc7 29.Nc5 Bxc5 30.bxc5 Qe4
31.Rb2 Kf8 32.Qxe4 dxe4 33.Rb6 h5 34.Kf1 Ke8 35.Ke2 Kd7 36.Kd2
Kc8 37.Rf6 Kd8 38.Kc3 Ke7 39.Rd6 Rc6 40.Rxc6 bxc6 41.Kb4 f6 42.Ka5
g5 43.Kxa6 f4 44.Kb7 fxe3 45.fxe3 gxh4 46.gxh4 f5 47.d5 f4 48.exf4
e3 49.dxc6 e2 50.c7 e1Q 51.c8Q Qxh4 52.Qc7+ 1-0

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.05"]
[Round "2.3"]
[White "Barkov, Alexey"]
[Black "Korostelev, Stanislav"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B02"]
[WhiteElo "2027"]
[BlackElo "2184"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 Nf6 2.Nc3 d5 3.exd5 Nxd5 4.Nxd5 Qxd5 5.d4 Nc6 6.Nf3 Bg4
7.Be2 O-O-O 8.Be3 e5 9.dxe5 Bxf3 10.Bxf3 Qxe5 11.Qc1 Nd4 12.Bd1
Bd6 13.c3 Nf5 14.Bg4 g6 15.Qc2 Bc5 16.Bxf5+ gxf5 17.O-O Bxe3
18.fxe3 Qxe3+ 19.Kh1 Qe4 20.Qf2 b6 21.a4 Kb8 22.Qxf5 Qxf5 23.Rxf5
Rd2 24.b4 Rc2 25.Rxf7 Rxc3 26.h3 h5 27.a5 Rc4 28.Rb1 Kb7 29.axb6
axb6 30.Rf5 h4 31.Kh2 Rd8 32.Rb2 Rd1 33.g3 Rd3 34.Rg5 Rcc3 35.Rg2
c5 36.bxc5 bxc5 37.Rg4 c4 38.Rxh4 Rc1 39.g4 c3 40.g5 Rd2 41.g6
Rcc2 42.Rhg4 Rxg2+ 43.Rxg2 Rxg2+ 44.Kxg2 c2 45.g7 c1Q 46.g8Q
Qf4 47.Qg4 Qd2+ 48.Kg3 Kc7 49.h4 Kd6 50.h5 Qh6 51.Qf5 Ke7 52.Kg4
Qg7+ 53.Kh3 Qh6 1/2-1/2

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.05"]
[Round "2.4"]
[White "Arkhipenko, Daniil"]
[Black "Lefebr, Vladislav"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D48"]
[WhiteElo "2136"]
[BlackElo "1994"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 e6 4.Nc3 c6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4
b5 8.Bd3 Bb7 9.O-O a6 10.e4 c5 11.e5 cxd4 12.Nxb5 axb5 13.exf6
gxf6 14.Nxd4 Rg8 15.g3 Ne5 16.Bxb5+ Ke7 17.Be3 Qd5 18.f3 Ng4
19.Nf5+ exf5 20.Qxd5 Bxd5 21.fxg4 Rxg4 22.Rfd1 Re4 23.Bc5+ Ke6
24.Bxf8 Rxf8 25.Bd7+ Kxd7 26.Rxd5+ Ke7 27.Rxf5 Re6 28.Ra5 Rb8
29.Ra7+ Kf8 30.Rf1 Kg8 31.Rf2 Kg7 32.Kg2 Kg6 33.Ra4 f5 34.Ra5
f4 35.gxf4 Reb6 36.b3 f6 37.Kf3 R8b7 38.Rg2+ Kf7 39.h4 Rd6 40.h5
Rd3+ 41.Kg4 h6 42.Kf5 Rh3 43.Ke4 Rb4+ 44.Kf5 Rxh5+ 45.Rg5 fxg5
46.Ra7+ Ke8 47.Kg6 Rh4 48.Ra8+ Kd7 49.Ra7+ Kc8 50.f5 Rb6+ 51.f6
Rf4 52.Rf7 Rfxf6+ 0-1

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.05"]
[Round "2.5"]
[White "Sultanov, Ruslan"]
[Black "Kosov, Viacheslav"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B23"]
[WhiteElo "1842"]
[BlackElo "2108"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 a6 3.f4 Nc6 4.Nf3 e6 5.g3 d5 6.d3 Nf6 7.Bg2 Be7
8.O-O O-O 9.a4 Rb8 10.Ne5 Nd4 11.Be3 dxe4 12.dxe4 Qc7 13.a5 Rd8
14.Qb1 b5 15.axb6 Rxb6 16.Kh1 Rb8 17.Ra4 Rb4 18.Rd1 Rxa4 19.Nxa4
Bb7 20.c3 Nb3 21.Rxd8+ Qxd8 22.Qc2 Na1 23.Qd3 Qxd3 24.Nxd3 c4
25.Nf2 Nc2 26.Bc5 Kf8 27.e5 Nd5 28.Ba7 Ne1 29.Be4 Nd3 30.Kg1
Bc6 31.Bxd3 cxd3 32.Nc5 d2 33.Nb3 d1Q+ 34.Nxd1 Ba4 35.Nc5 Bxd1
36.Nxa6 Ke8 37.Kf2 Bb3 38.Kf3 Kd7 39.Nc5+ Bxc5 40.Bxc5 Kc6 41.Bf8
g6 42.Ke4 Nb6 43.Kd4 Nc4 44.Be7 Nxb2 45.Ba3 Nc4 46.Bc1 h5 47.Ke4
Kc5 48.Kd3 Kd5 49.h3 Bd1 50.h4 Bf3 51.Kc2 Ke4 0-1

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.05"]
[Round "2.6"]
[White "IIyin, Konstantin"]
[Black "Fesenko, Vitaly"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C50"]
[WhiteElo "2195"]
[BlackElo "2232"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.Bc4 Bc5 5.d3 d6 6.h3 h6 7.Be3 Bb6 1/2-1/2

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.05"]
[Round "2.7"]
[White "Matsenko, Andrei"]
[Black "Gryaznev, Alexander"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B56"]
[WhiteElo "1970"]
[BlackElo "1985"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Be3 Bd7 7.Be2
a6 8.f3 e6 9.Qd2 Be7 10.g4 h6 11.h4 Qa5 12.Nb3 Qc7 13.O-O-O Nh7
14.g5 h5 15.Rdg1 b5 16.g6 fxg6 17.Rxg6 Bf6 18.f4 Na5 19.Bxh5
Nxb3+ 20.axb3 O-O-O 21.Rgg1 Bc6 22.Bf3 Nf8 23.h5 Kb8 24.Rd1 Nh7
25.Qf2 Kb7 26.Rdg1 Nf8 27.Kb1 Nd7 28.Ne2 a5 29.Nd4 Bxd4 30.Bxd4
e5 31.fxe5 dxe5 32.Be3 Nf6 33.Qg2 Rd7 34.Qg6 a4 35.h6 Ne8 36.bxa4
bxa4 37.h7 Nd6 38.Rd1 a3 39.b3 Nb5 40.Bd2 Nd4 41.Qg2 Nxc2 42.Bc1
a2+ 43.Kxa2 Nd4 44.Kb2 Qb6 45.Rd3 Qa6 46.Qd2 g6 47.Qb4+ Qb6 48.Qxb6+
Kxb6 49.Be3 Rdxh7 50.Rxh7 Rxh7 51.Bxd4+ exd4 52.Rxd4 Rh3 53.Bd1
Re3 54.Bc2 g5 55.Kc1 g4 56.Kd2 Rf3 57.Ke2 Rc3 58.Kd2 Rc5 59.Bd3
g3 60.Ke2 g2 61.Kf2 Rg5 62.Kg1 Kc5 63.Rc4+ Kd6 64.Rc2 Rg3 65.Rd2
Ke5 66.Bc2 Bxe4 67.Re2 Rg4 68.b4 Kd4 69.b5 Bxc2 70.Rxc2 Rg6 71.Rc6 1/2-1/2

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.05"]
[Round "2.8"]
[White "Popov, Alexander A."]
[Black "Zhilchikov, Nikolai"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B40"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "1978"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Bb4 6.Bd3 Nc6 7.Nxc6
bxc6 8.O-O d5 9.exd5 cxd5 10.Bg5 O-O 11.Qf3 Bxc3 12.bxc3 Bb7
13.Rfe1 Rc8 14.Rab1 Bc6 15.Qh3 Re8 16.Bxh7+ Kf8 17.Bd3 Ke7 18.Bb5
Qc7 19.Qg3 Qxg3 20.hxg3 Bxb5 21.Rxb5 Rxc3 22.Rb7+ Kf8 23.Bxf6
gxf6 24.Re2 Ra3 25.Rb2 Rc8 26.Kf1 f5 27.Ke1 Rc6 28.Re3 Ra4 29.Kd2
Rca6 30.Rc3 Rxa2 31.Rb7 Kg7 32.Rcc7 Kf6 33.f4 R2a3 34.Rxf7+ Kg6
35.Rg7+ Kh6 36.Rh7+ Kg6 37.Rbg7+ Kf6 38.Rf7+ Kg6 39.Rhg7+ Kh6 1/2-1/2

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.05"]
[Round "2.9"]
[White "Dementjev, Vladimir"]
[Black "Nabokov , Valery"]
[Result "*"]
[ECO "?"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

 *

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.05"]
[Round "2.10"]
[White "Vlasov, Vitaliy"]
[Black "Ksenofontov, Nikolai"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C02"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.c3 Nc6 5.Nf3 Qc7 6.Bf4 f5 7.Bb5 Nge7
8.Na3 Ng6 9.Qd2 Bd7 10.Nc2 Nxf4 11.Qxf4 O-O-O 12.Bxc6 bxc6 13.Ng5
Re8 14.O-O-O c4 15.Nb4 Bxb4 16.cxb4 Re7 17.Qe3 a5 18.Qa3 axb4
19.Qxb4 Kd8 20.Rhe1 Be8 21.Re3 Kd7 22.Ra3 Bh5 23.Qc5 Rb8 24.Ra7
Rb7 25.Rxb7 Qxb7 26.Rd2 Ke8 27.Qd6 Qc8 28.Nxh7 Bg6 29.Ng5 Qa8
30.Nxe6 Qxa2 31.Qd8+ 1-0

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.05"]
[Round "2.11"]
[White "Mazyrin, Yuri"]
[Black "Popov, Sergei"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B22"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.c3 d5 3.exd5 Qxd5 4.d4 Nc6 5.Nf3 Bg4 6.Be2 cxd4 7.cxd4
e6 8.O-O Nf6 9.Nc3 Qd7 10.Be3 Be7 11.Qb3 O-O 12.Rfd1 Nd5 13.Nxd5
exd5 14.h3 Bh5 15.Rac1 f5 16.Bf4 h6 17.Ne5 Nxe5 18.Bxh5 Nc4 19.Qg3
Bd6 20.Bxd6 Qxd6 21.Qxd6 Nxd6 22.Rc5 Rac8 23.Rxd5 Ne4 24.Bf3
Rc2 25.Rxf5 Rxf5 26.Bxe4 Rfxf2 27.Bxc2 Rxc2 28.d5 Kf8 29.d6 Ke8
30.Re1+ Kd8 31.Re7 Rxb2 32.Rxg7 a5 33.a4 Rb4 34.Rh7 Rxa4 35.Rxb7
h5 36.Ra7 h4 37.Kf2 Ra2+ 38.Kf3 a4 39.Rg7 a3 40.Ra7 Ra1 41.Kg4
Rg1 42.Kxh4 Rxg2 43.Rxa3 Kd7 44.Rd3 Rg8 45.Kh5 Rh8+ 46.Kg5 Rg8+
47.Kh6 Rh8+ 48.Kg7 Rh4 49.Kg6 Rh8 50.Kf6 Rh4 51.Kg7 Rh5 52.Kg6
Rh8 53.Kg5 1-0

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.11"]
[Round "3.1"]
[White "Trotsenko, Dmitriy M."]
[Black "Kosov, Viacheslav"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D52"]
[WhiteElo "2273"]
[BlackElo "2108"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 e6 5.Bg5 Nbd7 6.e3 Qa5 7.cxd5
Nxd5 8.Qd2 Bb4 9.Rc1 Nxc3 10.bxc3 Ba3 11.Rb1 O-O 12.c4 Qxd2+
13.Nxd2 f6 14.Bh4 c5 15.d5 Nb6 16.Bg3 e5 17.e4 Bb4 18.f3 Na4
19.a3 Ba5 20.Bd3 b6 21.Bc2 Bd7 22.Bxa4 Bxa4 23.Ke2 Bxd2 24.Kxd2
g5 25.h4 h6 26.Bf2 Kg7 27.Be3 Rad8 28.g3 Rh8 29.Kd3 Kf7 30.Rh2
Kg6 31.Bd2 Rh7 32.Bc3 Rdd7 33.f4 gxf4 34.gxf4 exf4 35.Rf2 Rhg7
36.Rxf4 Kh5 37.Rf5+ Kg4 38.Bxf6 Rgf7 39.Rg1+ Kh3 40.e5 Rb7 41.e6
Rf8 42.Rf3+ Kh2 43.Rg6 1-0

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.11"]
[Round "3.2"]
[White "Lefebr, Vladislav"]
[Black "Sotnikov, Alexander I."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B06"]
[WhiteElo "1994"]
[BlackElo "2241"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.Nf3 d6 5.h3 Nd7 6.a4 Qc7 7.Bc4 Ngf6
8.O-O O-O 9.Bf4 e5 10.Bh2 h6 11.Qd3 Re8 12.Rad1 a6 13.dxe5 dxe5
14.Nh4 b5 15.Bb3 Nc5 16.Qd6 Qxd6 17.Rxd6 b4 18.Ne2 Nfxe4 19.Rxc6
Nxb3 20.cxb3 Nd2 21.Rd1 Nxb3 22.Rd3 Nd4 23.Nxd4 exd4 24.Bd6 a5
25.Rc7 Re1+ 26.Kh2 Re2 27.Rf3 Be6 28.b3 Rd8 29.Rg3 Rxd6 30.Nxg6
fxg6 31.Rxg6 Bf7 0-1

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.11"]
[Round "3.3"]
[White "Korostelev, Stanislav"]
[Black "Arkhipenko, Daniil"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B09"]
[WhiteElo "2184"]
[BlackElo "2136"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.f4 Bg7 5.Nf3 O-O 6.Bd3 Na6 7.e5 Nd7
8.h4 c5 9.e6 fxe6 10.h5 gxh5 11.Ng5 Nf6 12.Nce4 h6 13.Nxf6+ exf6
14.Nh7 Re8 15.Bg6 Bd7 16.Qxh5 Re7 17.f5 exf5+ 18.Kd1 Bb5 19.Qxf5
Be2+ 20.Kd2 cxd4 21.Nxf6+ Bxf6 22.Qxf6 Bg4 23.Be4 Qa5+ 24.c3
Qb5 25.Re1 Rf8 26.Qxd4 Rxe4 27.Rxe4 Rf4 28.a4 Qf1 29.Qd5+ Kg7
30.Qd4+ Kg8 31.c4 Qxg2+ 32.Kc3 Rxe4 33.Qd5+ Be6 34.Qd3 Rxc4+
35.Qxc4 Bxc4 36.Kxc4 Qc2+ 37.Kd4 Qd1+ 38.Ke3 Nc5 39.Bd2 Qxa1
40.b4 Nxa4 41.Kf3 0-1

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.11"]
[Round "3.4"]
[White "Fesenko, Vitaly"]
[Black "Barkov, Alexey"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B33"]
[WhiteElo "2232"]
[BlackElo "2027"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

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 Qa5+ 10.Bd2 Qd8 11.Bg5 Qa5+ 12.Bd2 Qd8 13.Bg5
Qa5+ 14.Bd2 Qd8 15.Bg5 1/2-1/2

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.11"]
[Round "3.5"]
[White "Kalinin, Viacheslav"]
[Black "Sultanov, Ruslan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C50"]
[WhiteElo "2091"]
[BlackElo "1842"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nc6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 Be7 5.d4 d6 6.h3 O-O 7.O-O
Re8 8.Be3 Bf8 9.Ng5 Re7 10.f4 exd4 11.Bxd4 Nxd4 12.Qxd4 h6 13.e5
Ne8 14.Nge4 Be6 15.Rad1 Rd7 16.Bxe6 fxe6 17.f5 exf5 18.Rxf5 c6
19.Nc5 Rf7 20.Rxf7 Kxf7 21.Rf1+ Kg8 22.Rxf8+ 1-0

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.11"]
[Round "3.6"]
[White "Murzikov, Boris"]
[Black "Mazyrin, Yuri"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B01"]
[WhiteElo "2046"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Nf6 3.d4 Bg4 4.Be2 Bxe2 5.Qxe2 Qxd5 6.Nf3 e6 7.O-O
Nc6 8.c4 Nxd4 9.Nxd4 Qxd4 10.Nc3 a6 11.Rd1 Qg4 12.Qxg4 Nxg4 13.Bf4
Rc8 14.Rd3 Nf6 15.h3 Be7 16.g4 h6 17.a3 O-O 18.b4 Rfd8 19.Rad1
Rxd3 20.Rxd3 Rd8 21.Rxd8+ Bxd8 22.Kf1 Nd7 23.Ke2 Kf8 24.Kd3 Ke8
25.c5 Nf6 26.Be5 Kd7 27.a4 c6 28.a5 Ne8 29.Ne4 Bc7 30.Bd4 f5
31.Nd2 e5 32.Bc3 g6 33.f3 Ke6 34.Nc4 Nf6 35.Ke2 fxg4 36.hxg4
Nd5 37.Bd2 h5 38.gxh5 gxh5 39.Nb2 Nf4+ 40.Bxf4 exf4 41.Nd1 Bd8
42.Nf2 Bh4 43.Ne4 Kd5 44.Kd3 Be1 45.Nf6+ Ke5 46.Nxh5 Bxb4 47.Kc4
Bxa5 48.Ng7 b5+ 0-1

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.11"]
[Round "3.7"]
[White "Matsenko, Andrei"]
[Black "Nabokov , Valery"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B33"]
[WhiteElo "1970"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

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.Bxf6 gxf6 10.Nd5 Bg7 11.Qh5 Ne7 12.Nxe7 Qxe7 13.Bd3
f5 14.O-O O-O 15.Rfe1 d5 16.f3 fxe4 17.fxe4 f5 18.exf5 Kh8 19.c3
e4 20.f6 Bxf6 21.Kh1 Qg7 22.Bf1 Qg5 23.Qxg5 Bxg5 24.Rad1 Bb7
25.Nc2 Rf2 26.Re2 Raf8 27.Kg1 R2f7 28.g3 a5 29.Bh3 Re7 30.Nd4
b4 31.Ne6 Rg8 32.Nxg5 Rxg5 33.cxb4 axb4 34.Rd4 Ba6 35.Re3 Rc7
36.Rxb4 Rc1+ 37.Kf2 1/2-1/2

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.11"]
[Round "3.8"]
[White "Zhilchikov, Nikolai"]
[Black "Vlasov, Vitaliy"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A34"]
[WhiteElo "1978"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.c4 c5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.g3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.Bg2 e6 6.e3 c4 7.Nge2
Bb4 8.Nxd5 exd5 9.Qa4+ Nc6 10.Nd4 Qa5 11.Qxa5 Bxa5 12.Bxd5 Nxd4
13.exd4 Bb6 14.Bxc4 Bxd4 15.O-O O-O 16.d3 Bh3 17.Re1 Rac8 18.Bd2
a6 19.Be3 Bxb2 20.Rab1 b5 21.Bxb5 Bc3 22.Bxa6 Bxe1 23.Bxc8 Bxf2+
24.Kxf2 Rxc8 25.Rb2 Kf8 26.a4 Bf5 27.d4 Rc2+ 28.Rxc2 Bxc2 29.a5
Bd3 30.Bd2 Ke7 31.Ke3 Bc4 32.Ke4 Ke6 33.Bb4 Bd5+ 34.Kf4 f6 35.h4
Bc4 36.Bf8 g6 37.g4 Kd5 38.Bg7 Ke6 39.Bf8 Kd5 40.Bc5 Bd3 41.Be7
Ke6 42.Bd8 Bc4 43.Ke4 Bd5+ 44.Ke3 Bc4 45.Kf4 Bd5 46.a6 Ba8 47.a7
Bd5 48.g5 f5 49.Bf6 Ba8 50.Be5 Kd5 1/2-1/2

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.11"]
[Round "3.9"]
[White "Gryaznev, Alexander"]
[Black "IIyin, Konstantin"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B34"]
[WhiteElo "1985"]
[BlackElo "2195"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Be2 Bg7 7.Be3
O-O 8.Qd2 d5 9.f4 Nxe4 10.Nxe4 dxe4 11.O-O-O Nxd4 12.Bxd4 Be6
13.g4 Qd5 14.b3 Rfd8 15.Bxg7 Qxd2+ 16.Rxd2 Rxd2 17.Kxd2 Kxg7
18.Ke3 f5 19.h3 Bd5 20.Rd1 Bc6 21.b4 b5 22.a4 Rb8 23.axb5 Bxb5
24.c4 Be8 25.b5 Kf6 26.Ra1 Rb7 27.Ra5 Rc7 28.Ra6+ e6 29.Kd4 Rd7+
30.Kc3 Ke7 31.c5 e5 32.fxe5 f4 33.c6 Rc7 34.Kd4 e3 35.g5 Kd8
36.Ke4 Rf7 37.Ra4 h6 38.h4 hxg5 39.hxg5 Rf5 40.Rxa7 Rxg5 41.Kxf4
Rf5+ 42.Ke4 Rg5 43.Kd4 Rf5 44.c7+ Kc8 45.b6 1-0

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.11"]
[Round "3.10"]
[White "Dementjev, Vladimir"]
[Black "Popov, Alexander A."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B51"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 d6 4.O-O Nf6 5.Re1 e6 6.e5 Nd5 7.c4 Nc7
8.Bxc6+ bxc6 9.exd6 Bxd6 10.Nc3 O-O 11.d4 Ba6 12.b3 Rc8 13.Ne4
cxd4 14.Qxd4 Be7 15.Rd1 Qxd4 16.Nxd4 Rfd8 17.Bg5 f6 18.Nxc6 Rxd1+
19.Rxd1 Bf8 20.Be3 Bb7 21.Nxa7 Ra8 22.Nd6 Rd8 23.c5 Ne8 24.Nab5
Bc6 25.Nd4 Bxd6 26.Rc1 Bd5 27.cxd6 Nxd6 28.f3 Ra8 29.Rc2 e5 30.Ne2
Nf5 31.Bc5 e4 32.Nc3 Bb7 33.fxe4 Nh6 34.a4 Re8 35.Re2 Ng4 36.b4
Rd8 37.h3 Rd3 38.Rc2 Ne5 39.b5 Nc4 40.Nd5 Nd2 41.a5 Nxe4 42.Ne7+
Kf7 43.Nc6 Rd5 44.a6 Bxc6 45.bxc6 Nxc5 46.a7 Rd1+ 47.Kh2 Ra1
48.Rxc5 Rxa7 49.c7 1-0

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.11"]
[Round "3.11"]
[White "Ksenofontov, Nikolai"]
[Black "Popov, Sergei"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D02"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Bf4 Bf5 4.c3 c6 5.Qb3 Qb6 6.Nh4 Qxb3 7.axb3
Bc2 8.Nd2 Nbd7 9.Rc1 Bg6 10.b4 e6 11.f3 Be7 12.Nxg6 fxg6 13.e4
dxe4 14.fxe4 O-O 15.Bc4 Nxe4 16.Bxe6+ Kh8 17.O-O Nxd2 18.Bxd2
Nf6 19.Bg5 h6 20.Bh4 Nd5 21.Bg3 Bg5 22.Rce1 Nf4 23.Bc4 b5 24.Bb3
Nd3 25.Re6 Nxb2 26.h4 Bd2 27.Rxc6 Be3+ 28.Bf2 Rxf2 29.Rxf2 Rf8
30.d5 Bxf2+ 31.Kh2 Bxh4 32.d6 Rd8 33.Be6 Bf6 34.d7 Nc4 35.Rc7
Be5+ 0-1

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.13"]
[Round "4.1"]
[White "Sotnikov, Alexander I."]
[Black "Trotsenko, Dmitriy M."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A30"]
[WhiteElo "2241"]
[BlackElo "2273"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.Nf3 c5 2.c4 Nf6 3.Nc3 e6 4.g3 b6 5.Bg2 Bb7 6.O-O Be7 7.d4 cxd4
8.Nxd4 Bxg2 9.Kxg2 Qc8 10.Qd3 Nc6 11.b3 Nxd4 12.Qxd4 Qc6+ 13.Kg1
O-O 14.Bb2 Rfd8 15.Rac1 a6 16.e4 d6 17.Rfe1 Qb7 18.Qd3 Rab8 19.f3
b5 20.Kg2 Nd7 21.Ne2 Ne5 22.Bxe5 dxe5 23.Qe3 Bb4 24.Red1 Rxd1
25.Rxd1 bxc4 26.bxc4 Qc7 27.Rc1 Bc5 28.Qc3 Rd8 29.Kh3 f6 30.f4
Qf7 31.Qf3 Qg6 32.Rc2 h5 33.Rb2 f5 34.exf5 Qxf5+ 35.Kg2 e4 36.Qc3
h4 37.Qc2 h3+ 38.Kf1 e3 39.Ke1 Qxc2 40.Rxc2 Bb4+ 41.Nc3 Rd2 42.Rc1
Rxh2 43.Kd1 Rh1+ 0-1

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.13"]
[Round "4.2"]
[White "Arkhipenko, Daniil"]
[Black "Barkov, Alexey"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E88"]
[WhiteElo "2136"]
[BlackElo "2027"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f3 O-O 6.Be3 e5 7.d5 c6
8.Bd3 cxd5 9.cxd5 Nbd7 10.Nge2 a6 11.O-O 1/2-1/2

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.13"]
[Round "4.3"]
[White "Kosov, Viacheslav"]
[Black "Lefebr, Vladislav"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D36"]
[WhiteElo "2108"]
[BlackElo "1994"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e3 O-O 6.Nf3 Nbd7 7.cxd5
exd5 8.Qc2 c6 9.Bd3 Re8 10.O-O Ne4 11.Bxe7 Qxe7 1/2-1/2

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.13"]
[Round "4.4"]
[White "Mazyrin, Yuri"]
[Black "Kalinin, Viacheslav"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B14"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "2091"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.c4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e6 6.Nf3 Be7 7.cxd5
exd5 8.Bd3 O-O 9.h3 Nc6 10.O-O h6 11.Bf4 Be6 12.Re1 Rc8 13.Rc1
a6 14.Bb1 Re8 15.a3 Nd7 16.Qd3 Nf8 17.Ne5 Bg5 18.Bxg5 Qxg5 19.Rcd1
b5 20.Nxc6 Rxc6 21.Re5 Qd8 22.Qe2 Nd7 23.Re3 Nf6 24.f4 Rc8 25.Re1
Qb6 26.Qd3 Rc4 27.Rd1 Rec8 28.Ba2 b4 29.Na4 Qb5 30.Nc5 R8xc5
31.dxc5 Rxc5 32.Qxb5 axb5 33.axb4 Rc2 34.f5 Bxf5 35.Bb1 Rd2 36.Rxd2
Bxb1 37.Re1 Bf5 38.Rf1 Be6 39.Rxf6 gxf6 40.Kf2 Kf8 41.Ke3 Ke7
42.Kd4 1-0

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.13"]
[Round "4.5"]
[White "Gryaznev, Alexander"]
[Black "Fesenko, Vitaly"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B43"]
[WhiteElo "1985"]
[BlackElo "2232"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.Nc3 a6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Qc7 6.a3 Nf6 7.f4
d6 8.Nb3 b5 9.Be2 Bb7 10.Bf3 Nbd7 11.Be3 Be7 12.g4 Nb6 13.Na5
Nc4 14.Nxc4 bxc4 15.Qd4 e5 16.Qd2 exf4 17.Bxf4 Nd7 18.Nd5 Bxd5
19.exd5 O-O 20.O-O Bf6 21.Rab1 Bxb2 22.Rxb2 c3 23.Bxd6 Qxd6 24.Qxc3
Rac8 25.Qb4 Qg6 26.Qe4 Qf6 27.Rb4 Rc3 28.Bg2 Qd6 29.Qf4 Ne5 30.Kh1
Rxc2 31.Qg3 Rfc8 32.Re4 f6 33.Re3 h6 34.Be4 Rd2 35.Qf4 Rb8 36.Rf2
Rxf2 37.Qxf2 Nxg4 38.Qg3 Qxg3 39.Rxg3 Nf2+ 0-1

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.13"]
[Round "4.6"]
[White "Nabokov , Valery"]
[Black "Korostelev, Stanislav"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B04"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "2184"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.d4 d6 4.Nf3 Nc6 5.c4 Nb6 6.e6 fxe6 7.Ng5
e5 8.d5 Nd4 9.Bd3 g6 10.Nxh7 Bf5 11.Bxf5 gxf5 12.Nxf8 Rxf8 13.Be3
c5 14.dxc6 Nxc6 15.Na3 f4 16.Bd2 f3 17.gxf3 Nd4 18.f4 e4 19.Qh5+
Kd7 20.O-O-O Rc8 21.Bc3 Nf5 22.b3 Qc7 23.Qe2 Qc5 24.Kb2 d5 25.Qxe4
Qxf2+ 26.Nc2 Nd6 27.Qd4 Rxf4 28.Qxf2 Rxf2 29.Bd4 Nbxc4+ 30.bxc4
Nxc4+ 31.Kb1 Nd2+ 32.Kc1 Nb3+ 33.axb3 Rcxc2+ 34.Kb1 Rxh2 35.Rxh2
Rxh2 36.Bxa7 Kc6 37.Re1 Kd7 38.Bc5 e6 39.Bd4 Rg2 40.Be5 Kc6 41.Rc1+
Kb5 42.Rc2 Rg4 43.Re2 Kc5 44.Bf6 Kd6 45.Kb2 Rg6 46.Be5+ Kc5 47.Kc3
Rh6 48.Bd4+ Kb5 49.Re3 Kc6 50.b4 Kd7 51.Be5 Rh4 52.Kb3 Rh1 53.Ka4
Rd1 54.Kb5 Rc1 55.Kb6 Rc4 56.b5 Rb4 57.Rc3 Re4 58.Rc7+ Ke8 59.Bf6
Rf4 60.Be5 Re4 61.Bd6 d4 62.Kxb7 d3 63.Re7+ Kd8 64.Bb4 d2 1/2-1/2

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.13"]
[Round "4.7"]
[White "Vlasov, Vitaliy"]
[Black "Matsenko, Andrei"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B22"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "1970"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.c3 Nf6 3.e5 Nd5 4.d4 cxd4 5.cxd4 d6 6.Bc4 Nb6 7.Bb3
Nc6 8.Bf4 dxe5 9.Bxe5 Nxe5 10.dxe5 Qxd1+ 11.Bxd1 Nc4 12.f4 Nxb2
13.Be2 Na4 14.Na3 a6 15.Nc4 b5 16.Bf3 Rb8 17.O-O-O Bd7 18.Ne3
e6 19.Ne2 Rc8+ 20.Kb1 Bc5 21.Rd3 Bc6 22.Bxc6+ Rxc6 23.Rc1 O-O
24.f5 Rfc8 25.fxe6 fxe6 26.Ng4 Nb6 27.Nf4 Nc4 28.Rcd1 Be7 29.Rd7
Na3+ 30.Ka1 Bb4 31.Rd8+ Kf7 32.R1d7+ Be7 33.Rxc8 Rxc8 34.Kb2
Rc4 35.g3 g5 36.Nh6+ Ke8 0-1

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.13"]
[Round "4.8"]
[White "Dementjev, Vladimir"]
[Black "Murzikov, Boris"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B31"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "2046"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 g6 4.O-O Bg7 5.c3 d6 6.Re1 Bd7 7.d4 cxd4
8.cxd4 Nf6 9.Nc3 O-O 10.d5 Ne5 11.Nxe5 dxe5 12.Be2 Ne8 13.h4
h5 14.g3 Nd6 15.Kh2 b5 16.a3 Rc8 17.g4 hxg4 18.Bxg4 f5 19.Bh3
fxe4 20.Bg2 Rxf2 21.Rf1 Qb6 22.Qe1 Rxf1 23.Bxf1 Nf5 24.Nxe4 Rc2+
25.Bg2 Nd4 26.Qd1 Bf5 27.Ng3 Qc7 28.Bg5 e4 29.Rc1 Nf3+ 30.Kh1
Rxc1 31.Bxc1 Qxg3 0-1

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.13"]
[Round "4.9"]
[White "Popov, Sergei"]
[Black "Zhilchikov, Nikolai"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B45"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "1978"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Bb4 6.Bd3 Nc6 7.Be3
d5 8.exd5 Nxd5 9.Nxc6 bxc6 10.Bd2 Nxc3 11.Bxc3 Bxc3+ 12.bxc3
Qa5 13.O-O O-O 14.Qf3 Ba6 15.c4 Qc5 16.Qe3 Qxe3 17.fxe3 Rab8
18.Rab1 e5 19.Rb3 Rb6 20.Rfb1 Rfb8 21.Kf2 Kf8 22.Ke2 f5 23.Kd2
g6 24.Kc3 Ke7 25.g3 c5 26.a4 Kd6 27.a5 Rxb3+ 28.Rxb3 Rf8 29.Rb1
Kc7 30.Kd2 Rd8 31.Kc3 Rf8 32.Kd2 g5 33.Rf1 Bc8 34.g4 f4 35.exf4
gxf4 36.g5 Bf5 37.Re1 Kd6 38.h4 Ke6 39.Rb1 e4 40.Bf1 e3+ 41.Ke2
Be4 42.a6 Ke5 43.Rd1 Rf7 44.c3 Bg6 45.Rd5+ Ke4 46.Rxc5 Bh5+ 47.Ke1
f3 48.Bh3 f2+ 49.Kf1 e2+ 50.Kg2 f1Q+ 0-1

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.13"]
[Round "4.10"]
[White "Popov, Alexander A."]
[Black "Sultanov, Ruslan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C63"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "1842"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 f5 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.d3 fxe4 6.dxe4 Bb4 7.Bc4
d6 8.Bg5 Bg4 9.h3 Bh5 10.g4 Bg6 11.Qe2 Rf8 12.O-O-O Bxc3 13.bxc3
Bxe4 14.Rhe1 Bxf3 15.Qxf3 h6 16.Bh4 a6 17.Qg2 g5 18.Bg3 Qe7 19.Kb1
Na5 20.Bd3 O-O-O 21.c4 Nd7 22.Qd5 Nc5 23.Re3 Nc6 24.Bf5+ Kb8
25.c3 Qf7 26.Kc2 Qxd5 27.cxd5 Ne7 28.Be4 Nxe4 29.Rxe4 Rf3 30.c4
Rdf8 31.Rd3 Rxd3 32.Kxd3 Ng6 33.a4 Nf4+ 34.Bxf4 Rxf4 35.Rxf4
exf4 36.Ke4 c6 37.Kf5 cxd5 38.cxd5 b5 39.axb5 axb5 40.Kg6 b4
41.Kxh6 b3 42.Kxg5 b2 43.Kxf4 b1Q 44.h4 Kc7 45.Kg5 Kd7 46.f4
Ke7 47.f5 Kf7 0-1

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.13"]
[Round "4.11"]
[White "IIyin, Konstantin"]
[Black "Arkhipenko, Daniil"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C05"]
[WhiteElo "2195"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.c3 Be7 6.Bd3 b6 7.Qa4 Bb7
8.Ne2 c5 9.O-O Bc6 10.Qd1 O-O 11.f4 f5 12.exf6 Nxf6 13.Nf3 Nbd7
14.Ng5 Qc8 15.Nxe6 Re8 16.Ng3 Ne4 17.Bxe4 dxe4 18.Nf5 Nf8 19.Nexg7
Bd7 20.Nxe7+ Rxe7 21.Nh5 Kh8 22.dxc5 bxc5 23.Nf6 Bb5 24.Qb3 Nd7
25.Qxb5 Rb8 26.Qe2 Nxf6 27.b3 Nd5 28.Bb2 Kg8 29.Qc4 Qf5 30.Rad1
Rd8 31.Qxc5 Rc7 32.Qd4 Rg7 33.Qe5 Qg6 34.g3 Qb6+ 35.Qd4 Rgd7
36.Qxb6 axb6 37.Rfe1 e3 38.c4 1-0

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.18"]
[Round "5.1"]
[White "Trotsenko, Dmitriy M."]
[Black "Mazyrin, Yuri"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D14"]
[WhiteElo "2273"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.cxd5 cxd5 4.Nc3 Nc6 5.Nf3 Nf6 6.Bf4 Bf5 7.e3
e6 8.Bb5 Nd7 9.Qa4 Rc8 10.O-O Be7 11.Rfc1 a6 12.Bxc6 Rxc6 13.Nd1
Qc8 1/2-1/2

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.18"]
[Round "5.2"]
[White "Barkov, Alexey"]
[Black "Sotnikov, Alexander I."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B27"]
[WhiteElo "2027"]
[BlackElo "2241"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 b6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Bb7 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Nxc6
dxc6 8.e5 Qxd1+ 9.Rxd1 Nd7 10.e6 fxe6 11.Bc4 e5 12.Be6 Nf6 13.g4
Bc8 14.Bxc8 Rxc8 15.f3 g6 16.O-O Bg7 17.Rf2 Rd8 18.Rfd2 Rxd2
19.Rxd2 Rf8 20.Kg2 e4 21.Nxe4 Nxe4 22.fxe4 Bxb2 23.Rd3 Be5 24.a4
Bf4 25.Bf2 Bxh2 26.Rh3 Be5 27.Rxh7 Rh8 28.Rxh8+ Bxh8 29.a5 bxa5
30.Bxa7 a4 31.Bc5 Bb2 0-1

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.18"]
[Round "5.3"]
[White "Fesenko, Vitaly"]
[Black "Kosov, Viacheslav"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C55"]
[WhiteElo "2232"]
[BlackElo "2108"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bc4 Bc5 5.O-O O-O 6.d3 d6 7.h3
h6 8.Be3 Bb6 9.a4 1/2-1/2

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.18"]
[Round "5.4"]
[White "Matsenko, Andrei"]
[Black "Arkhipenko, Daniil"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B09"]
[WhiteElo "1970"]
[BlackElo "2136"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.f4 Bg7 5.Bd3 O-O 6.Nf3 Na6 7.O-O
c5 8.d5 Rb8 9.h3 Nc7 10.a4 b6 11.Qe2 a6 12.Nd1 e6 13.c4 b5 14.dxe6
fxe6 15.axb5 axb5 16.cxb5 Nh5 17.Kh2 Nxf4 18.Bxf4 Rxf4 19.g3
Rf8 20.e5 Bb7 21.exd6 Qxd6 22.Nc3 Bxf3 23.Rxf3 Rxf3 24.Qxf3 Qd4
25.Bf1 Qd2+ 26.Qe2 Qxe2+ 27.Bxe2 Nd5 28.Bc4 Nxc3 29.Bxe6+ Kh8
30.bxc3 Bxc3 31.Rb1 Rb6 32.Bd7 Kg7 33.Bc6 Bd4 34.Rf1 Rb8 35.h4
h6 36.Rb1 Rb6 37.Kg2 Kf6 38.Kf3 Ke5 39.Re1+ Kd6 40.Re8 g5 41.h5
c4 42.Rd8+ Kc5 43.Rd5+ Kb4 44.Rxd4 Kc3 45.Rd6 1-0

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.18"]
[Round "5.5"]
[White "Lefebr, Vladislav"]
[Black "Korostelev, Stanislav"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B03"]
[WhiteElo "1994"]
[BlackElo "2184"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.d4 d6 4.c4 Nb6 5.f4 dxe5 6.fxe5 Nc6 7.Be3
Bf5 8.Nc3 e6 9.Nf3 Be7 10.Be2 O-O 11.O-O f6 12.exf6 Bxf6 13.Qd2
Qe7 14.Rad1 Rad8 15.Qc1 h6 16.Kh1 Bg4 17.Ne4 Bxf3 18.Nxf6+ Qxf6
19.Rxf3 Qh4 20.Bf2 Qe7 21.Rxf8+ Rxf8 22.Qe3 Kh8 23.Bg3 Qb4 24.b3
Qa3 25.Bd3 Nb4 26.Bb1 Nd7 27.Qxe6 Nf6 28.Be5 Nc6 29.c5 Re8 30.Qf7
Qb4 31.h3 Nxd4 32.Bxf6 Re1+ 33.Kh2 1-0

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.18"]
[Round "5.6"]
[White "Murzikov, Boris"]
[Black "Kalinin, Viacheslav"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B10"]
[WhiteElo "2046"]
[BlackElo "2091"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Nf3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nf6 5.Ng3 Bg4 6.h3 Bxf3 7.Qxf3
g6 8.Bc4 Nd5 9.d4 Bg7 10.c3 O-O 11.O-O e6 12.Re1 Qb6 13.Ne4 Nd7
14.Bg5 e5 15.Nd6 Qc7 16.Bxd5 Qxd6 17.Bb3 Rae8 18.Rad1 Qb8 19.d5
cxd5 20.Bxd5 Nc5 21.Bh4 b6 22.b4 e4 23.Bxe4 Nxe4 24.Rxe4 Rxe4
25.Qxe4 Bxc3 26.Bg3 Re8 27.Qc6 Rc8 28.Qxc3 1-0

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.18"]
[Round "5.7"]
[White "Sultanov, Ruslan"]
[Black "Nabokov , Valery"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B23"]
[WhiteElo "1842"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 g6 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Bb5 Nd4 6.Bc4 e6 7.e5 d5
8.exd6 Qxd6 9.d3 Nf6 10.Nxd4 Qxd4 11.Bb5+ Nd7 12.Qf3 Qb4 13.O-O
O-O 14.a3 Qa5 15.Bxd7 Bxc3 16.bxc3 Qxc3 17.Rb1 Qd4+ 18.Be3 Qxd7
19.Bxc5 Rd8 20.c4 Qc6 21.Qxc6 bxc6 22.Rb3 Ba6 23.Rfb1 Kg7 24.Kf2
f6 25.Ke3 Kf7 26.Rb4 Rd7 27.Rb8 Rxb8 28.Rxb8 Rb7 29.Rf8+ Kg7
30.Ra8 g5 31.fxg5 fxg5 32.Bxa7 c5 33.Bxc5 Bxc4 34.dxc4 e5 35.Ra7 1-0

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.18"]
[Round "5.8"]
[White "Zhilchikov, Nikolai"]
[Black "IIyin, Konstantin"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A45"]
[WhiteElo "1978"]
[BlackElo "2195"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c3 g6 3.Nf3 Bg7 4.g3 d6 5.Bg2 O-O 6.O-O Nbd7 7.Bf4
Re8 8.Nbd2 e5 9.dxe5 dxe5 10.Bg5 h6 11.Bxf6 Nxf6 12.Qc2 e4 13.Nd4
e3 14.fxe3 Rxe3 15.Nc4 Re8 16.Rad1 Qe7 17.Rf3 Qc5 18.Ne3 Bg4
19.Nxg4 Nxg4 20.Qb3 Rxe2 21.Qxf7+ Kh8 22.b4 Qb6 23.Bf1 Ne5 24.Qf4
Nxf3+ 25.Qxf3 Rxa2 26.Bc4 Ra3 27.Qd5 Rxc3 0-1

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.18"]
[Round "5.9"]
[White "Vlasov, Vitaliy"]
[Black "Gryaznev, Alexander"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B14"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "1985"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.c3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.cxd4 d5 5.e5 Qb6 6.Nc3 Bf5 7.Nxd5
Qa5+ 8.Nc3 O-O-O 9.Nf3 Nb4 10.Bf4 g5 11.Bg3 g4 12.Nd2 Nc2+ 13.Ke2
Qa6+ 0-1

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.18"]
[Round "5.10"]
[White "Popov, Sergei"]
[Black "Dementjev, Vladimir"]
[Result "*"]
[ECO "?"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

 *

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.18"]
[Round "5.11"]
[White "Ksenofontov, Nikolai"]
[Black "Popov, Alexander A."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A12"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.Nf3 d5 2.c4 c6 3.b3 Nf6 4.Bb2 Bf5 5.d4 e6 6.Nbd2 Nbd7 7.Nh4
Bg6 8.Nxg6 hxg6 9.Qc2 Bb4 10.a3 Bxd2+ 11.Qxd2 Ne4 12.Qc2 Qf6
13.e3 Qg5 14.O-O-O O-O-O 15.Kb1 Qf6 16.Bd3 Rdf8 17.f3 Nd6 18.e4
dxe4 19.fxe4 e5 20.c5 Nb5 21.Bxb5 cxb5 22.d5 Rh4 23.Bc1 Kb8 24.Rhf1
Qe7 25.g3 Rh5 26.Be3 f5 27.Ka2 fxe4 28.Rxf8+ Qxf8 29.d6 Qf3 30.c6
bxc6 31.Qxc6 Qxe3 32.Qc7+ Ka8 33.Qc8+ Nb8 34.Qc2 Rf5 35.Rd2 Rf1
36.d7 Qe1 37.Rd1 Qxd1 38.Qxe4+ Nc6 39.Qxc6+ 1-0

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.20"]
[Round "6.1"]
[White "Lefebr, Vladislav"]
[Black "Trotsenko, Dmitriy M."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B22"]
[WhiteElo "1994"]
[BlackElo "2273"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.c3 d5 3.exd5 Qxd5 4.Nf3 Nc6 5.d4 e6 6.Bd3 Nf6 7.O-O
Be7 8.a4 O-O 9.Na3 cxd4 10.Nb5 Qd8 11.Nbxd4 Bd7 12.Re1 Qc7 13.Qe2
Rfe8 14.Bg5 Nxd4 15.Nxd4 Nd5 16.Bxe7 Rxe7 17.Qe4 g6 18.Bb5 Rd8
19.Rad1 a6 20.Bxd7 Rexd7 21.g3 Qa5 22.Nb3 Qb6 23.Qc2 Qc6 24.Rd4
Nb6 25.Qe4 Rxd4 26.Qxc6 bxc6 27.Nxd4 c5 28.Nb3 Nxa4 29.Ra1 Nxb2
30.Nxc5 Rc8 31.Nxa6 Rxc3 32.Ra2 Nd3 33.Nb8 Ne5 34.Ra7 Rc2 35.Nd7
Ng4 36.f4 Nxh2 37.Ne5 f6 38.Ra8+ Kg7 39.Ra7+ Kh6 40.Nd7 Nf3+
41.Kf1 f5 42.Nf6 g5 43.Nxh7 gxf4 44.gxf4 Kh5 45.Rg7 Nd2+ 46.Ke2
Ne4+ 47.Kf3 Rc3+ 48.Ke2 Kh4 49.Nf8 Nc5 1/2-1/2

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.20"]
[Round "6.2"]
[White "Sotnikov, Alexander I."]
[Black "Matsenko, Andrei"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "?"]
[WhiteElo "2241"]
[BlackElo "1970"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.g4 d5 2.Bg2 Bxg4 3.c4 Nf6 4.cxd5 Qd6 5.Nc3 c6 6.Qb3 Qc7 7.d4
e6 8.h3 Bf5 9.e4 Bg6 10.dxe6 fxe6 11.Qxe6+ Be7 12.Qb3 Bf7 13.Qc2
O-O 14.Nge2 Na6 15.Bf4 Nb4 16.Qd2 Qb6 17.a3 Na6 18.b4 Rad8 19.O-O
Nh5 20.Bg5 Bxg5 21.Qxg5 Nc7 22.Rad1 Ne6 23.Qe3 g5 24.d5 Nef4
25.dxc6 Qxc6 26.Rfe1 Bg6 27.Nd4 Qc8 28.Bf1 g4 29.Nd5 Nxd5 30.exd5
Rxd5 31.Rc1 Qd7 32.Bc4 Nf4 33.Qe7 Nxh3+ 34.Kh1 Bf7 35.Qxd7 Rxd7
36.Ne6 Re8 37.Nc5 Rxe1+ 38.Rxe1 Nxf2+ 39.Kg2 Rd2 40.Bxf7+ Kxf7
41.Rf1 b6 42.Ne4 Rd3 43.Rxf2+ Kg6 44.Rf6+ Kg7 45.Rf4 Rxa3 46.Rxg4+
Kf8 47.b5 a6 48.bxa6 Rxa6 49.Kf3 Ra5 50.Kf4 Kf7 51.Rg1 Ke6 52.Ng5+
Kd5 53.Nxh7 Ra4+ 54.Ke3 Ra3+ 55.Kd2 b5 56.Nf6+ Kc4 57.Rg4+ Kc5
58.Ne4+ Kb6 59.Nc3 Ra8 60.Rg5 Rd8+ 61.Kc2 Rh8 62.Rxb5+ Kc6 63.Rf5
Rh2+ 64.Kd3 Kd6 65.Ne4+ Kc6 66.Kd4 Rh4 67.Rf6+ Kb5 68.Re6 Rh5
69.Nc3+ Ka5 70.Nd5 Kb5 71.Rb6+ Ka5 72.Rb1 Rh8 73.Ne7 Rh5 74.Nc6+
Ka6 75.Ne7 Rb5 76.Ra1+ Kb7 1-0

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.20"]
[Round "6.3"]
[White "Mazyrin, Yuri"]
[Black "Sultanov, Ruslan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C22"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "1842"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.Qxd4 Nc6 4.Qe3 Nf6 5.Nc3 Bb4 6.Bd2 O-O 7.O-O-O
Re8 8.Qg3 Rxe4 9.a3 Ba5 10.f4 Re8 11.Bd3 d5 12.Nh3 Bg4 13.Rde1
Qd6 14.Nf2 Be6 15.Qh4 Nd4 16.Re5 h6 17.Rhe1 Bd7 18.Kb1 c5 19.Nfd1
c4 20.Bf1 a6 21.Rxe8+ Bxe8 22.Ne4 Nxe4 23.Bxa5 Ba4 24.Ne3 c3
25.Bb4 Qc6 26.Bd3 cxb2 27.Nxd5 Bxc2+ 28.Kxb2 Qxd5 29.Bxc2 Nxc2
30.Kxc2 Rc8+ 31.Kb2 a5 32.Qg4 Qd4+ 33.Kb3 Qc4+ 0-1

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.20"]
[Round "6.4"]
[White "Kosov, Viacheslav"]
[Black "Murzikov, Boris"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E94"]
[WhiteElo "2108"]
[BlackElo "2046"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

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 Nc5 9.Qc2 a5 10.b3 Nh5 11.Bg5 f6 12.Be3 b6 13.a3 f5 14.b4
Nxe4 15.Nxe4 fxe4 16.Ng5 Nf4 17.Nxe4 Bf5 18.f3 Qh4 19.Bf2 Qh5
20.Be1 axb4 21.Bxb4 Bh6 22.Rae1 Nxe2+ 23.Qxe2 Bd7 24.g4 Qh4 25.Qg2
Bf4 26.Re2 Kh8 27.Ra1 Rf7 28.Be1 Qh6 29.g5 Qh3 30.Qxh3 Bxh3 31.a4
Rf5 32.Bh4 0-1

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.20"]
[Round "6.5"]
[White "Arkhipenko, Daniil"]
[Black "Fesenko, Vitaly"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D14"]
[WhiteElo "2136"]
[BlackElo "2232"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.cxd5 cxd5 5.Bf4 Nc6 6.Nf3 Bf5 7.e3
e6 8.Bd3 Bxd3 9.Qxd3 Bd6 10.Bxd6 Qxd6 11.O-O O-O 1/2-1/2

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.20"]
[Round "6.6"]
[White "IIyin, Konstantin"]
[Black "Barkov, Alexey"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B33"]
[WhiteElo "2195"]
[BlackElo "2027"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e5 6.Ndb5 d6 7.Bg5
a6 8.Bxf6 gxf6 9.Na3 b5 10.Nd5 f5 11.exf5 Bxf5 12.Qf3 Nd4 13.Nc7+
Qxc7 14.Qxa8+ Ke7 15.c3 b4 16.cxd4 bxa3 17.dxe5 Qa5+ 18.Ke2 Qxe5+
19.Kf3 Bh6 20.Qb7+ Kf6 21.g3 Re8 22.Qc6 Rc8 23.Qb7 axb2 24.Rd1
b1R 25.Rxb1 Rc3+ 0-1

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.20"]
[Round "6.7"]
[White "Gryaznev, Alexander"]
[Black "Zhilchikov, Nikolai"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B40"]
[WhiteElo "1985"]
[BlackElo "1978"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Bb4 6.Bd3 Nc6 7.Nxc6
bxc6 8.Bd2 d5 9.exd5 cxd5 10.a3 Bd6 11.g4 Bb7 12.Rg1 d4 13.g5
dxc3 14.Bxc3 Nd7 15.Qh5 Be5 16.g6 Bxc3+ 17.bxc3 Qf6 18.gxf7+
Ke7 19.f4 g6 20.Qb5 Bd5 21.Qb4+ Kxf7 22.Ke2 Rab8 23.Qd6 Qe7 24.Qxe7+
Kxe7 25.c4 Bc6 26.Rg5 Rhf8 27.Ke3 Kf6 28.Rag1 Rbe8 29.h4 e5 30.f5
e4 31.fxg6 exd3+ 32.Kd2 h6 0-1

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.20"]
[Round "6.8"]
[White "Kalinin, Viacheslav"]
[Black "Dementjev, Vladimir"]
[Result "*"]
[ECO "B00"]
[WhiteElo "2091"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 *

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.20"]
[Round "6.9"]
[White "Korostelev, Stanislav"]
[Black "Vlasov, Vitaliy"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C57"]
[WhiteElo "2184"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 d5 5.exd5 Nxd5 6.Nxf7 Kxf7
7.Qf3+ Qf6 8.Qxd5+ Be6 9.Qxe6+ Qxe6 10.Bxe6+ Kxe6 11.d3 Nd4 12.Kd1
Rd8 13.Be3 Nf5 14.Nc3 Bb4 15.Ne4 Rhf8 16.Ke2 h6 17.h4 Nd4+ 18.Bxd4
exd4 19.g3 Kd5 20.f4 c5 21.Kf3 Ba5 22.h5 Bc7 23.Rae1 b6 24.Kg4
Rde8 25.Nd2 b5 26.Nf3 c4 27.Rxe8 Rxe8 28.Re1 Rxe1 29.Nxe1 Bd8
30.Kf5 c3 31.b3 Bf6 32.g4 a5 33.g5 hxg5 34.fxg5 Bd8 1-0

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.20"]
[Round "6.10"]
[White "Nabokov , Valery"]
[Black "Ksenofontov, Nikolai"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B40"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d3 d6 4.g3 b6 5.Bg2 Bb7 6.O-O Ne7 7.c3 Ng6
8.h4 Be7 9.Re1 Bf6 10.Nbd2 O-O 11.Nf1 Nd7 12.N1h2 Re8 13.d4 d5
14.e5 Be7 15.Ng5 h6 16.Nh3 f5 17.exf6 Bxf6 18.Qg4 Kf7 19.Ng5+
hxg5 20.hxg5 Bxd4 21.cxd4 cxd4 22.Qxd4 Nc5 23.Ng4 Qe7 24.Ne5+
Nxe5 25.Rxe5 Ne4 26.Qe3 Kg8 27.Bxe4 dxe4 28.g6 Qd6 29.Rg5 Rf8
30.Qd2 Qc6 31.f4 Rad8 32.Qc3 Rd1+ 33.Kh2 Qb5 34.Rxb5 1-0

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.20"]
[Round "6.11"]
[White "Popov, Alexander A."]
[Black "Popov, Sergei"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B33"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

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 Qa5+ 10.Bd2 Qd8 11.Bg5 Qa5+ 12.Bd2 Qd8 13.Bg5
Qa5+ 14.Bd2 1/2-1/2

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.23"]
[Round "7.1"]
[White "Trotsenko, Dmitriy M."]
[Black "Murzikov, Boris"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A51"]
[WhiteElo "2273"]
[BlackElo "2046"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5 3.dxe5 Ne4 4.Nf3 Bb4+ 5.Bd2 Nxd2 6.Nbxd2 Nc6
7.a3 Bxd2+ 8.Qxd2 O-O 9.O-O-O Re8 10.Qf4 Qe7 11.Rd5 b6 12.e3
Bb7 13.Bd3 g6 14.Qh6 Rad8 15.Ng5 f6 16.exf6 Qxf6 17.Qxh7+ Kf8
18.Bxg6 Ne5 19.Bxe8 Bxd5 20.cxd5 Rxe8 21.f4 1-0

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.23"]
[Round "7.2"]
[White "Sultanov, Ruslan"]
[Black "Sotnikov, Alexander I."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B00"]
[WhiteElo "1842"]
[BlackElo "2241"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 b6 2.d4 Bb7 3.Nc3 e6 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.Bd3 d5 6.e5 Nfd7 7.O-O 1/2-1/2

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.23"]
[Round "7.3"]
[White "Fesenko, Vitaly"]
[Black "Lefebr, Vladislav"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B19"]
[WhiteElo "2232"]
[BlackElo "1994"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Bf5 5.Ng3 Bg6 6.h4 h6 7.Nf3
Nd7 8.h5 Bh7 1/2-1/2

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.23"]
[Round "7.4"]
[White "Barkov, Alexey"]
[Black "Mazyrin, Yuri"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B01"]
[WhiteElo "2027"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Nf6 3.Bb5+ Bd7 4.Bc4 Bg4 5.f3 Bf5 6.Nc3 Nbd7 7.d4
Nb6 8.Bb3 Nbxd5 9.Nxd5 Nxd5 10.c4 Nf6 11.Ne2 e6 12.O-O Bd6 13.Be3
O-O 14.Qd2 c6 15.Bf4 Qc7 16.Bxd6 Qxd6 17.Ng3 Bg6 18.Qe3 Rfd8
19.Rad1 h6 20.Ne4 Bxe4 21.fxe4 Qxh2+ 22.Kxh2 Ng4+ 23.Kg1 Nxe3
24.Rfe1 Nxd1 25.Rxd1 c5 26.d5 exd5 27.cxd5 Re8 28.Re1 Re5 29.Kf2
Rd8 30.Kf3 f5 31.Kf4 Rxe4+ 32.Rxe4 fxe4 33.Kxe4 Kf8 34.Ke5 Ke7 0-1

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.23"]
[Round "7.5"]
[White "Matsenko, Andrei"]
[Black "Kosov, Viacheslav"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B53"]
[WhiteElo "1970"]
[BlackElo "2108"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Qxd4 Nc6 5.Bb5 Bd7 6.Bxc6 Bxc6 7.Nc3
Nf6 8.Bg5 e6 9.O-O-O Be7 10.Qd3 Qa5 11.h4 O-O 12.Nd4 Rfc8 13.f4
b5 14.Nxc6 Rxc6 15.e5 b4 16.Ne4 Nxe4 17.Qxe4 d5 18.Qd3 Bf8 19.f5
Qxa2 20.fxe6 fxe6 21.Be3 Rac8 22.Bd4 Bc5 23.Bxc5 Rxc5 24.Rhe1
Qa1+ 25.Kd2 Qxb2 26.Rc1 b3 27.Qxb3 Qxb3 28.cxb3 Rxc1 0-1

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.23"]
[Round "7.6"]
[White "Kalinin, Viacheslav"]
[Black "Korostelev, Stanislav"]
[Result "*"]
[ECO "?"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "2184"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

 *

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.23"]
[Round "7.7"]
[White "Zhilchikov, Nikolai"]
[Black "Nabokov , Valery"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C11"]
[WhiteElo "1978"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Bg5 e6 4.e4 dxe4 5.Nxe4 Be7 6.Bxf6 Bxf6 7.c3
Nd7 8.Nf3 O-O 9.Bd3 b6 10.Qc2 Bb7 11.h4 c5 12.Nfg5 g6 13.Rh3
Qe7 14.Rg3 Rac8 15.h5 Bxe4 16.Nxe4 Bg7 17.hxg6 fxg6 18.dxc5 Nxc5
19.Nxc5 Qxc5 20.Re3 e5 21.Rd1 Rc6 22.Qe2 a5 23.Be4 Rd6 24.Rxd6
Qxd6 25.Rd3 Qf6 26.Qd2 Qf4 27.Qxf4 exf4 28.Rd6 Rf6 29.Bd5+ Kh8
30.Rd7 h6 31.Ke2 Kh7 32.Kd3 h5 33.b4 axb4 34.cxb4 Kh6 35.Kc4
h4 36.Rb7 Rd6 37.b5 g5 38.f3 Bb2 39.a4 Bc1 40.Rc7 Bd2 41.Rc6
Rxc6+ 42.bxc6 b5+ 43.Kxb5 g4 44.fxg4 f3 45.Bxf3 Bf4 46.Kb6 1-0

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.23"]
[Round "7.8"]
[White "Arkhipenko, Daniil"]
[Black "Gryaznev, Alexander"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E90"]
[WhiteElo "2136"]
[BlackElo "1985"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 c5 2.d5 d6 3.e4 e6 4.c4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.h3 Bg7 7.Nf3 O-O
8.Bd3 exd5 9.cxd5 a6 10.a4 Bd7 11.O-O Ne8 12.Re1 f6 13.Nd2 f5
14.Qb3 b6 15.Nc4 Bxc3 16.bxc3 b5 17.axb5 fxe4 18.Bxe4 Bxb5 19.Ne3
Nf6 20.Bf3 c4 21.Nxc4 Nbd7 22.Ba3 Nc5 23.Bxc5 dxc5 24.Ne5 Qd6
25.c4 Nd7 26.Ng4 h5 27.Nh2 Ne5 28.cxb5 axb5 29.Qc3 Rae8 30.Ra6
Qc7 31.Re6 Rxe6 32.dxe6 1-0

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.23"]
[Round "7.9"]
[White "Popov, Sergei"]
[Black "IIyin, Konstantin"]
[Result "*"]
[ECO "?"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "2136"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

 *

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.23"]
[Round "7.10"]
[White "Ksenofontov, Nikolai"]
[Black "Dementjev, Vladimir"]
[Result "*"]
[ECO "A10"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.c4 *

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.23"]
[Round "7.11"]
[White "Vlasov, Vitaliy"]
[Black "Popov, Alexander A."]
[Result "*"]
[ECO "?"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

 *

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.25"]
[Round "8.1"]
[White "Sultanov, Ruslan"]
[Black "Trotsenko, Dmitriy M."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B23"]
[WhiteElo "1842"]
[BlackElo "2273"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 d6 4.Nf3 g6 5.Bc4 Bg7 6.O-O Be6 7.Bxe6
fxe6 8.Ng5 Nd4 1/2-1/2

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.25"]
[Round "8.2"]
[White "Sotnikov, Alexander I."]
[Black "Mazyrin, Yuri"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A06"]
[WhiteElo "2241"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.Nf3 d5 2.b3 a5 3.e3 c6 4.c4 Bg4 5.Nc3 Nf6 6.h3 Bf5 7.Ba3 g6
8.cxd5 cxd5 9.g4 Bc8 10.g5 Ne4 11.Nb5 Bg7 12.Rc1 Nc6 13.d3 Nd6
14.Bxd6 exd6 15.d4 O-O 16.Nc3 Be6 17.h4 Qd7 18.Bg2 Rae8 19.Qd2
Bf5 20.Kf1 Qe6 21.Ne1 Ne7 22.Nd3 Bxd3+ 23.Qxd3 f6 24.Bh3 Qf7
25.f4 fxg5 26.hxg5 Nc6 27.Ne2 Qe7 28.Kf2 Qxg5 29.Rcg1 Qe7 30.Bg2
Qe6 31.Bf3 Re7 32.Rg5 Nb4 33.Qd2 Bf6 34.Rg3 Rfe8 35.a3 Nc6 36.Nc3
Kg7 37.Nxd5 Rf7 38.Rgh3 Rh8 39.b4 axb4 40.axb4 Nd8 41.Nc3 Rc7
42.Ne4 Qb3 43.Bd1 Qe6 44.Ng3 1-0

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.25"]
[Round "8.3"]
[White "Murzikov, Boris"]
[Black "Lefebr, Vladislav"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B10"]
[WhiteElo "2046"]
[BlackElo "1994"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c6 2.Nc3 g6 3.Bc4 b5 4.Bb3 b4 5.Qf3 Nf6 6.Nd1 e5 7.d3 Bg7
8.a3 bxa3 9.Rxa3 O-O 10.Ne2 d5 11.Bg5 Be6 12.O-O Nbd7 13.h3 Nc5
14.exd5 cxd5 15.Nec3 Nxb3 16.Rxb3 h6 17.Bxh6 Bxh6 18.d4 exd4
19.Nb5 Ne4 20.Nxd4 Nd2 21.Qd3 Qf6 22.Ne3 0-1

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.25"]
[Round "8.4"]
[White "Korostelev, Stanislav"]
[Black "Fesenko, Vitaly"]
[Result "*"]
[ECO "B00"]
[WhiteElo "2184"]
[BlackElo "2232"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 *

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.25"]
[Round "8.5"]
[White "Kosov, Viacheslav"]
[Black "Arkhipenko, Daniil"]
[Result "*"]
[ECO "A40"]
[WhiteElo "2108"]
[BlackElo "2136"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 *

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.25"]
[Round "8.6"]
[White "Barkov, Alexey"]
[Black "Zhilchikov, Nikolai"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B40"]
[WhiteElo "2027"]
[BlackElo "1978"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Bd3 Bc5 6.Nb3 Bb6 7.e5
Nd5 8.Qg4 g6 9.O-O Nc6 10.Re1 Bc7 11.Bg5 f6 12.exf6 Nxf6 13.Qh4
O-O 14.Re3 Be5 15.N1d2 d5 16.Rh3 Qc7 17.c3 Nh5 18.Re1 Bf4 19.Rf3
e5 20.g3 Bxg5 21.Rxf8+ Kxf8 22.Qxg5 Ng7 23.Bb5 Bf5 24.g4 Be6
25.Bxc6 bxc6 26.Rxe5 Re8 27.Nd4 Qf7 28.Nxc6 Qd7 29.Nd4 Bxg4 30.Rxe8+
Nxe8 31.N2b3 Kg7 32.Nc5 Qc8 33.Qe7+ Kh6 34.Nce6 Bxe6 35.Nxe6
Ng7 36.Qg5# 1-0

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.25"]
[Round "8.7"]
[White "IIyin, Konstantin"]
[Black "Matsenko, Andrei"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E07"]
[WhiteElo "2195"]
[BlackElo "1970"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.Nf3 d5 2.c4 e6 3.g3 Nf6 4.Bg2 c6 5.b3 Be7 6.O-O O-O 7.Bb2 Nbd7
8.d4 Re8 9.Nbd2 Bd6 10.Qc2 1/2-1/2

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.25"]
[Round "8.8"]
[White "Gryaznev, Alexander"]
[Black "Nabokov , Valery"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B33"]
[WhiteElo "1985"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e5 6.Nf3 Bb4 7.Bd3
d5 8.exd5 Qxd5 9.O-O Bxc3 10.bxc3 e4 11.Re1 O-O 12.c4 Qd7 13.Ba3
Re8 14.Be2 exf3 15.Bxf3 Qxd1 16.Rexd1 Bg4 17.Bxg4 Nxg4 18.Rd7
b6 19.Rad1 Red8 20.Bb2 Rxd7 21.Rxd7 Rd8 22.Rxd8+ Nxd8 23.f3 Nf6 0-1

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.25"]
[Round "8.9"]
[White "Ksenofontov, Nikolai"]
[Black "Kalinin, Viacheslav"]
[Result "*"]
[ECO "A10"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "2091"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.c4 *

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.25"]
[Round "8.10"]
[White "Popov, Sergei"]
[Black "Vlasov, Vitaliy"]
[Result "*"]
[ECO "B00"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 *

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.27"]
[Round "9.1"]
[White "Korostelev, Stanislav"]
[Black "Trotsenko, Dmitriy M."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B80"]
[WhiteElo "2184"]
[BlackElo "2273"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bd3 e5 7.Nde2
b5 8.Bg5 Be7 9.a4 bxa4 10.Rxa4 Nbd7 11.O-O O-O 12.Ng3 Nc5 13.Ra1
Rb8 14.Bxf6 Bxf6 15.b3 g6 16.Bc4 Bg7 17.Nd5 Bb7 18.Qe2 h5 19.h3
h4 20.Nh1 a5 21.f3 Ne6 22.Nf2 Bxd5 23.Bxd5 Nf4 24.Qe1 Qg5 25.Ng4
Nxd5 26.exd5 f5 27.Ne3 e4 28.f4 Qg3 29.Ra4 Rb5 30.Qe2 Rc5 31.Kh1
g5 32.fxg5 Be5 0-1

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.27"]
[Round "9.2"]
[White "Kosov, Viacheslav"]
[Black "Sotnikov, Alexander I."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A56"]
[WhiteElo "2108"]
[BlackElo "2241"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e5 4.Nc3 d6 5.e4 Be7 6.Nf3 O-O 7.h3 Nbd7
8.Be2 Ne8 9.O-O Kh8 10.a3 g6 11.b4 Ng7 12.Be3 b6 13.bxc5 Nxc5
14.Nd2 Bg5 15.Bxg5 Qxg5 16.Nf3 Qe7 17.a4 Nb7 18.Qd2 Na5 19.Qh6
f6 20.Rab1 Kg8 21.Nd2 Bd7 22.Nb3 Nb7 23.Qe3 f5 24.Ra1 Qd8 25.f4
exf4 26.Rxf4 g5 27.Rff1 f4 28.Qd4 Nc5 29.Nd2 h5 30.a5 bxa5 31.Nb5
Bxb5 32.cxb5 a4 33.Ra3 Qe7 34.Bf3 Rab8 35.Rb1 Qd7 36.Nc4 Nb3
37.Qf2 g4 38.hxg4 hxg4 39.Rxa4 Nc5 40.Bd1 g3 41.Qd4 Nxa4 42.Bxa4
Qe7 43.Nd2 Rbe8 44.Bd1 Nf5 45.exf5 Qh4 46.Nf3 Qh2+ 47.Nxh2 Re1+
48.Nf1 f3 49.Qg4+ Kf7 50.Qxf3 Rh8 51.Qxg3 Rh1+ 52.Kxh1 Rxf1+
53.Kh2 Rxf5 54.Rc1 Kf6 55.Qxd6+ Kg5 56.Qg3+ Kf6 0-1

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.27"]
[Round "9.3"]
[White "Lefebr, Vladislav"]
[Black "Sultanov, Ruslan"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C92"]
[WhiteElo "1994"]
[BlackElo "1842"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O b5 6.Bb3 Be7 7.Re1
d6 8.c3 O-O 9.h3 Re8 10.Ng5 1/2-1/2

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.27"]
[Round "9.4"]
[White "Matsenko, Andrei"]
[Black "Barkov, Alexey"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B62"]
[WhiteElo "1970"]
[BlackElo "2027"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Bb5
Bd7 8.O-O Be7 9.f3 O-O 10.Be3 a6 11.Be2 b5 12.a3 Qc7 13.Qd2 Ne5
14.Rad1 Nc4 15.Bxc4 Qxc4 16.Nb3 a5 17.Kh1 Rfc8 18.Qf2 b4 19.axb4
axb4 20.Rd4 Qc7 21.Rxb4 d5 22.Rd4 dxe4 23.fxe4 Bd6 24.g3 Be5
25.Rd3 Bc6 26.Nd2 Qb7 27.Bd4 Nxe4 28.Ndxe4 Bxe4+ 29.Nxe4 Qxe4+
30.Kg1 Rc7 31.Bxe5 Qxe5 32.Rc3 Rd7 33.Rd3 1/2-1/2

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.27"]
[Round "9.5"]
[White "Mazyrin, Yuri"]
[Black "IIyin, Konstantin"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B34"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "2195"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Nxc6 bxc6 7.e5
Ng8 8.Bc4 Qa5 9.Bf4 Bg7 10.Qf3 Bxe5 11.Bxf7+ Kxf7 12.Bxe5+ Nf6
13.Bxf6 exf6 14.O-O d5 15.Qf4 Bf5 16.Rfe1 Rac8 1-0

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.27"]
[Round "9.6"]
[White "Zhilchikov, Nikolai"]
[Black "Fesenko, Vitaly"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A29"]
[WhiteElo "1978"]
[BlackElo "2232"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.g3 d5 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.Bg2 Be6 7.O-O
Nb6 8.d3 Be7 9.a3 Qd7 10.b4 a6 11.Bb2 f6 12.Rc1 h5 13.Ne4 h4
14.Nxh4 Bh3 15.f4 Bxg2 16.Kxg2 exf4 17.Rxf4 Nd5 18.Rf3 O-O-O
19.Qg1 Rh5 20.Ng6 Qh3+ 21.Kh1 Kb8 22.g4 1-0

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.27"]
[Round "9.7"]
[White "Nabokov , Valery"]
[Black "Arkhipenko, Daniil"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C20"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "2136"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.g3 Bg7 5.Bg2 O-O 6.Nge2 Nbd7 7.h3
c6 8.a4 a5 9.O-O e5 10.Be3 Re8 11.Re1 Qc7 12.Qd2 exd4 13.Nxd4
Nc5 14.Bh6 Bh8 15.Rad1 Be6 16.Nxe6 Rxe6 17.Bf4 Ne8 18.h4 Qb6
19.b3 Qb4 20.Re3 d5 21.e5 Re7 22.Nb1 Qb6 23.Rde1 Ne6 24.Bg5 Nxg5
25.hxg5 Nc7 26.Bh3 Rae8 27.Qd3 Rxe5 28.Rxe5 Rxe5 29.Rxe5 Bxe5
30.Nd2 Qc5 31.Nf3 Bxg3 32.Nd4 Be5 33.c3 Bxd4 34.cxd4 Qc1+ 35.Kh2
Qxg5 36.Qf3 Ne6 37.Bxe6 fxe6 38.Qh3 Qf6 39.Qe3 Qh4+ 40.Kg1 Qg4+
41.Kf1 h5 42.Qe5 h4 43.Qb8+ Kh7 44.Qxb7+ Kh6 45.Qxc6 h3 46.Qc1+
g5 47.f4 Qg2+ 48.Ke1 Qg1+ 49.Kd2 Qxc1+ 0-1

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.27"]
[Round "9.8"]
[White "Murzikov, Boris"]
[Black "Ksenofontov, Nikolai"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C24"]
[WhiteElo "2046"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nf6 3.d3 c6 4.f4 d5 5.exd5 Bg4 6.Nf3 Bc5 7.fxe5
Nxd5 8.d4 Bxf3 9.Qxf3 Qh4+ 10.Qg3 Qe4+ 11.Be2 Bxd4 12.Qxg7 Bxe5
13.Qg4 Qxg4 14.Bxg4 Ne3 15.Bc8 Nd7 16.Bxe3 Bxb2 17.Bxd7+ Kxd7
18.c3 Rhe8 19.Kd2 Bxa1 20.Rf1 Ke6 21.Na3 Bb2 22.Nc4 Rad8+ 23.Kc2
Kd5 24.Nxb2 c5 25.Kd3 b5 26.Ke2 Rd7 27.Rf5+ Kd6 28.Kf3 Rc8 29.Nd3
c4 30.Ne5 Ke6 31.Rh5 Rd5 32.Bd4 f6 33.Ke4 Rf8 34.Rh6 Rg8 35.g3
Rg5 36.Nf3 Rg4+ 37.Ke3 1-0

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.27"]
[Round "9.9"]
[White "Kalinin, Viacheslav"]
[Black "Popov, Sergei"]
[Result "*"]
[ECO "?"]
[WhiteElo "2091"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

 *

[Event "SemiFinal Chelyabinsk 2008"]
[Site "Chelyabinsk"]
[Date "2007.12.27"]
[Round "9.10"]
[White "Popov, Alexander A."]
[Black "Gryaznev, Alexander"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B60"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "1985"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Be2 Bd7 7.Bg5
a6 8.Qd2 Rc8 9.a4 h6 10.Bxf6 gxf6 11.O-O h5 12.Kh1 Qb6 13.Nb3
f5 14.Nd5 Qa7 15.Bd3 Ne5 16.exf5 Bc6 17.Nb4 h4 18.Nxc6 bxc6 19.h3
Bg7 20.c3 c5 21.Nc1 Qb7 22.f4 Nxd3 23.Qxd3 Rg8 24.Qc2 Bf6 25.Nd3
Rg3 26.Ne1 Rb8 27.Nf3 Qxb2 28.Ra2 Qxc3 29.Qxc3 Bxc3 30.Nxh4 d5
31.Kh2 Rg8 32.g4 d4 33.g5 c4 34.Nf3 d3 35.Rc1 Rb3 36.h4 Kd7 37.h5
Rc8 38.h6 Rb2+ 39.Rxb2 Bxb2 40.Rb1 c3 41.Ne5+ 1-0