[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.24"]
[Round "1.1"]
[White "Georgiev, S."]
[Black "Petkov, Vladimir"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A06"]
[WhiteElo "2167"]
[BlackElo "2490"]
[PlyCount "96"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. d3 Nc6 3. e4 Bg4 4. Be2 Nf6 5. Nbd2 e6 6. O-O Bc5 7. c3 dxe4 8.
dxe4 O-O 9. b4 Bb6 10. a3 a5 11. b5 Bxf3 12. Nxf3 Qxd1 13. Bxd1 Ne7 14. Bg5 Ng6
15. Bxf6 gxf6 16. g3 a4 17. Be2 Rfd8 18. Rfd1 Kf8 19. Kf1 Ke7 20. Ne1 Ne5 21.
f4 Nd7 22. Nd3 Rh8 23. Bh5 Ra5 24. Rdb1 Rd8 25. Bd1 f5 26. e5 f6 27. Bf3 Nxe5
28. Nxe5 fxe5 29. fxe5 Rd2 30. Bxb7 Rf2+ 31. Ke1 Rxh2 32. Bc6 Bf2+ 33. Ke2
Bxg3+ 34. Kd3 Bxe5 35. Rh1 Kf6 36. Rxh2 Bxh2 37. Kc2 Bd6 38. Kb2 e5 39. Rd1 e4
40. c4 Kg5 41. Rg1+ Kf4 42. Rf1+ Ke5 43. Rh1 e3 44. Bf3 Kd4 45. Rh5 Kd3 46.
Rxf5 e2 47. Bxe2+ Kxe2 48. Rd5 Ke3 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.24"]
[Round "1.2"]
[White "Janev, Evgeni"]
[Black "Andreev, Sasho"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B04"]
[WhiteElo "2461"]
[BlackElo "2153"]
[PlyCount "123"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 Nf6 2. e5 Nd5 3. d4 d6 4. c4 Nb6 5. exd6 cxd6 6. Nc3 g6 7. Be3 Bg7 8. Rc1
Be6 9. Nf3 O-O 10. b3 Bg4 11. Be2 Nc6 12. O-O d5 13. c5 Nc8 14. b4 a6 15. h3
Bxf3 16. Bxf3 e6 17. Ne2 N8e7 18. g4 Qd7 19. Qd2 f5 20. g5 e5 21. dxe5 Nxe5 22.
Bg2 Rad8 23. Rcd1 Qc8 24. Qc2 f4 25. Bxf4 Nf5 26. Qb3 Kh8 27. Rxd5 Nc6 28. Rxd8
Qxd8 29. Qc4 Nfd4 30. Be3 Nf3+ 31. Kh1 Bb2 32. Rb1 Bg7 33. Qe4 Nce5 34. Nf4 Nd2
35. Bxd2 Qxd2 36. Qe3 Qxa2 37. Re1 Nc4 38. Qe4 Qd2 39. Nxg6+ hxg6 40. Qh4+ Kg8
41. Qxc4+ Kh8 42. Qh4+ Kg8 43. Qe4 Kh7 44. Rf1 Rf4 45. Qxb7 Rxb4 46. Qe7 Rc4
47. c6 Qf4 48. Bd5 Rc3 49. Qd7 a5 50. Qg4 Be5 51. Qxf4 Bxf4 52. Kg2 Bxg5 53.
Ra1 Bd8 54. Be4 Kh6 55. Rd1 Bc7 56. Rd7 Bb6 57. Rd6 Rc4 58. Rxg6+ Kh5 59. Rg4
Rc3 60. f4 a4 61. Rg5+ Kh4 62. Bg6 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.24"]
[Round "1.3"]
[White "Ivanov, T."]
[Black "Berbatov, Kiprian"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B87"]
[WhiteElo "2142"]
[BlackElo "2455"]
[PlyCount "58"]
[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. Bc4 e6 7. Be3 b5 8. Bb3
Bb7 9. f3 Nbd7 10. O-O Nc5 11. Qe1 Be7 12. Qg3 O-O 13. Rad1 Qc7 14. Bh6 Ne8 15.
f4 Kh8 16. Bg5 Nf6 17. Qh4 b4 18. Rf3 bxc3 19. Rh3 Ncxe4 20. bxc3 e5 21. Nf5
Bc8 22. g4 Bxf5 23. gxf5 exf4 24. Bxf4 Qc5+ 25. Be3 Qxf5 26. Rf1 Qg6+ 27. Kh1
Nd5 28. Qe1 Nxe3 29. Qxe3 Bg5 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.24"]
[Round "1.4"]
[White "Enchev, Ivajlo"]
[Black "Ivanov, B."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D11"]
[WhiteElo "2434"]
[BlackElo "2128"]
[PlyCount "59"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 Bg4 5. h3 Bxf3 6. Qxf3 e6 7. Nc3 Nbd7 8. Bd3
Bd6 9. O-O O-O 10. b3 Qe7 11. Bd2 Rfe8 12. Qd1 Rac8 13. c5 Bc7 14. f4 b6 15. b4
a5 16. a3 b5 17. Qf3 Ra8 18. g4 Nf8 19. g5 N6d7 20. e4 Ra7 21. Rae1 axb4 22.
axb4 Qd8 23. e5 f5 24. exf6 gxf6 25. f5 fxg5 26. Qg4 Kh8 27. Bxg5 exf5 28. Bxf5
Qb8 29. Bxd7 Nxd7 30. Rf7 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.24"]
[Round "1.5"]
[White "Ljangov, P."]
[Black "Marholev, D."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A34"]
[WhiteElo "2107"]
[BlackElo "2431"]
[PlyCount "110"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 c5 3. Nf3 b6 4. e4 Nc6 5. d4 cxd4 6. Nxd4 Bb7 7. Nxc6 dxc6 8.
Qc2 e5 9. Be2 Qc7 10. O-O Bc5 11. Kh1 O-O 12. Bg5 Nd7 13. Bg4 f6 14. Bd2 Rad8
15. Rad1 Kh8 16. Qd3 Bc8 17. Qh3 Nb8 18. Bxc8 Qxc8 19. Qxc8 Rxc8 20. Bc1 Bd4
21. Ne2 c5 22. b3 Nc6 23. Bd2 Rcd8 24. Bc3 Rf7 25. Rd2 Rfd7 26. Rfd1 Kg8 27.
Kg1 Kf7 28. Kf1 Ke6 29. Rd3 g6 30. Bxd4 cxd4 31. f3 Nb4 32. R3d2 a5 33. Nc1 Na6
34. Nd3 Nc5 35. Ke2 Rc8 36. Nxc5+ bxc5 37. Rd3 Rb7 38. Kd2 a4 39. Kc2 Ra8 40.
Rb1 axb3+ 41. axb3 Ra2+ 42. Rb2 Ra1 43. Rb1 Rba7 44. Rxa1 Rxa1 45. Kb2 Re1 46.
Rd2 f5 47. exf5+ gxf5 48. b4 cxb4 49. Kb3 Kd6 50. Kxb4 Rb1+ 51. Ka3 Kc5 52. Ka2
Re1 53. Kb3 e4 54. fxe4 fxe4 55. Rf2 Re3+ 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.24"]
[Round "1.6"]
[White "Arnaudov, Petar G."]
[Black "Asparuhov, P."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D11"]
[WhiteElo "2413"]
[BlackElo "2107"]
[PlyCount "84"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Qc2 g6 5. Bf4 Bg7 6. e3 a6 7. c5 Bf5 8. Qb3 Qc8
9. h3 Bxb1 10. Rxb1 Nbd7 11. Bd3 O-O 12. O-O Re8 13. Bh2 h6 14. Rfe1 Nh7 15. e4
dxe4 16. Bxe4 Nhf6 17. Bxg6 e6 18. Bc2 Nd5 19. Qd3 N7f6 20. b4 a5 21. a3 axb4
22. axb4 Ra2 23. Ne5 Qa8 24. Nc4 Qa6 25. Be5 Qb5 26. Nd6 Qxd3 27. Bxd3 Re7 28.
b5 Nc3 29. Ra1 Nfd5 30. Rxa2 Nxa2 31. b6 Nab4 32. Bc4 f6 33. Bg3 Nc2 34. Rd1
Rd7 35. Rd2 Ncb4 36. Re2 Re7 37. Rb2 Kh7 38. Bxd5 Nxd5 39. Ra2 Nc3 40. Ra7 Ne2+
41. Kf1 Nxd4 42. Rxb7 Rxb7 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.24"]
[Round "1.7"]
[White "Nikolov, J."]
[Black "Mladenov, P."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B00"]
[WhiteElo "2090"]
[BlackElo "2394"]
[PlyCount "114"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. c3 e6 3. d4 b6 4. Nf3 Bb7 5. Bd3 Nf6 6. Nbd2 Nc6 7. O-O cxd4 8.
cxd4 Nb4 9. Bb1 Ba6 10. Re1 Bd3 11. a3 Bxb1 12. axb4 Bd3 13. Qb3 Bb5 14. d5 a6
15. d6 Bc6 16. Nd4 Bb7 17. e5 Nd5 18. Ne4 Qh4 19. Qf3 h6 20. Bd2 Rb8 21. Rac1
g6 22. Rc7 Bg7 23. Rxd7 O-O 24. Qg3 Qxg3 25. hxg3 Bxe5 26. Nf3 Bg7 27. b3 Rfd8
28. Rxd8+ Rxd8 29. g4 f5 30. gxf5 exf5 31. Ng3 Rxd6 32. Re8+ Kf7 33. Re2 Re6
34. Kf1 Bc6 35. Ke1 Bb5 36. Rxe6 Kxe6 37. Ne2 Bd3 38. Ned4+ Kd6 39. g3 g5 40.
Ne2 Bxe2 41. Kxe2 Nc3+ 42. Kd3 Ne4 43. Be1 Kd5 44. Ke3 Bf6 45. Kd3 b5 46. Nh2
Bd4 47. f3 Nd6 48. Nf1 Nf7 49. Ke2 Ne5 50. f4 Nc6 51. Kd3 g4 52. Bd2 h5 53. Be1
Bg1 54. Bc3 Nd4 55. Bxd4 Bxd4 56. Nd2 Bf2 57. Nf1 Be1 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.24"]
[Round "1.8"]
[White "Tsvetkov, Ilia"]
[Black "Kolev, Atanas Tonchev"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E91"]
[WhiteElo "2392"]
[BlackElo "2017"]
[PlyCount "75"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 g6 3. e4 d6 4. d4 Bg7 5. Be2 O-O 6. Bg5 Na6 7. Nf3 Qe8 8. O-O
e5 9. d5 Nc5 10. Nd2 a5 11. b3 h6 12. Be3 Nfd7 13. a3 f5 14. f3 f4 15. Bf2 Nf6
16. b4 Ncd7 17. Nb5 Qd8 18. c5 Ne8 19. Nc4 axb4 20. axb4 Rxa1 21. Qxa1 dxc5 22.
bxc5 c6 23. dxc6 bxc6 24. Nbd6 Qc7 25. Rb1 Kh7 26. Qa8 Nxd6 27. cxd6 Qd8 28.
Qxc6 g5 29. Ra1 Nb8 30. Qc7 Nd7 31. Ra8 Qe8 32. Nb6 Nxb6 33. Bxb6 Qe6 34. Bc4
Qe8 35. h3 h5 36. Rxc8 Qxc8 37. Qxc8 Rxc8 38. d7 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.24"]
[Round "1.9"]
[White "Angelov, B."]
[Black "Filev, Georgi"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B10"]
[WhiteElo "2000"]
[BlackElo "2389"]
[PlyCount "120"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. g3 d5 2. Bg2 Nf6 3. d3 c6 4. Nd2 e5 5. e4 Bd6 6. Ngf3 O-O 7. O-O Re8 8. Qe2
Nbd7 9. b3 a5 10. a3 b6 11. Bb2 Ba6 12. Rfe1 Rc8 13. Qe3 h6 14. Nh4 Bf8 15. Nf5
Kh7 16. Qf3 g6 17. Ne3 d4 18. Ng4 Bg7 19. Rf1 a4 20. Nc4 Nxg4 21. Qxg4 axb3 22.
cxb3 Nc5 23. Qf3 Nxb3 24. Rad1 b5 25. Nd2 Nxd2 26. Rxd2 Qe7 27. Qd1 c5 28. Bc1
c4 29. Bh3 Rc7 30. Ra2 Bc8 31. Bxc8 Rexc8 32. Rb2 Qxa3 33. Rxb5 Qxd3 34. Qxd3
cxd3 35. Bd2 f5 36. f3 Rc3 37. Rd1 Ra3 38. Rb7 Kg8 39. Rb6 Kh7 40. Rb7 fxe4 41.
fxe4 g5 42. g4 Rc6 43. Kg2 Kg6 44. Kg3 Rf6 45. Rb5 h5 46. gxh5+ Kxh5 47. Rxe5
Rf3+ 48. Kxf3 Bxe5 49. Rg1 Bf4 50. Bxf4 d2+ 51. Ke2 gxf4 52. Kxd2 Kh4 53. Ke2
Kh3 54. Kf2 Re3 55. Rg8 d3 56. e5 Rxe5 57. Kf3 Kxh2 58. Rd8 Rh5 59. Kxf4 Rh3
60. Ke4 Kg2 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.24"]
[Round "1.10"]
[White "Milchev, N."]
[Black "Sotirov, I."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E06"]
[WhiteElo "2382"]
[BlackElo "1996"]
[PlyCount "161"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. c4 Nf6 2. g3 e6 3. Bg2 d5 4. Nf3 Be7 5. O-O O-O 6. d4 b6 7. Nc3 Bb7 8. Ne5
c6 9. Qa4 Nfd7 10. Bf4 Nxe5 11. Bxe5 Nd7 12. Bf4 Nf6 13. Rfd1 Nh5 14. Rac1 a6
15. cxd5 cxd5 16. Bd2 Nf6 17. Bg5 Rc8 18. Qb3 b5 19. a3 Qd7 20. e3 h6 21. Bxf6
gxf6 22. Bf1 Kg7 23. Rd2 Rc7 24. Qd1 f5 25. Bd3 Bd6 26. Rdc2 Rfc8 27. f4 Qe7
28. Kh1 Qf6 29. g4 fxg4 30. Qxg4+ Kf8 31. Ne2 Rxc2 32. Rxc2 Rxc2 33. Bxc2 Qg7
34. Qh4 Be7 35. Qh5 f5 36. Ng3 Bc6 37. Bd1 Be8 38. Qh3 Qf6 39. Be2 a5 40. Qf1
b4 41. axb4 axb4 42. Kg2 Qh4 43. Qa1 Bd8 44. Qa6 Qe7 45. Bb5 Bf7 46. Qa4 Qd6
47. Kf3 h5 48. Ke2 Be7 49. Qa8+ Qd8 50. Qb7 Bd6 51. Kd2 Qc7 52. Qa8+ Qb8 53.
Qa6 Qc7 54. Ne2 h4 55. Qa8+ Qb8 56. Qa6 Qc7 57. Nc1 Bxf4 58. exf4 Qxf4+ 59. Kc2
Qxd4 60. Nd3 Qe4 61. Qc8+ Kg7 62. Qc7 Kf6 63. Kb3 Bh5 64. Qd8+ Kg7 65. Qg5+ Bg6
66. Nf4 Qf3+ 67. Bd3 Qd1+ 68. Bc2 Qf3+ 69. Ka4 Qg4 70. Nxe6+ Kf7 71. Nd8+ Kg7
72. Qe7+ Kh6 73. Qf8+ Kh7 74. Qe7+ Kh6 75. Ne6 b3+ 76. Kxb3 Qc4+ 77. Ka3 Qa6+
78. Ba4 Qd3+ 79. b3 Qe4 80. Qg5+ Kh7 81. Nf8+ 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.24"]
[Round "1.11"]
[White "Ivanov, L."]
[Black "Badev, K."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A55"]
[WhiteElo "1949"]
[BlackElo "2369"]
[PlyCount "72"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 d6 3. Nf3 Nbd7 4. Nc3 e5 5. e4 Be7 6. Be2 O-O 7. O-O exd4 8.
Nxd4 Re8 9. Be3 Bf8 10. f3 c6 11. Nc2 a6 12. a4 Ne5 13. b3 Ng6 14. Re1 Qc7 15.
Bf1 d5 16. cxd5 Bd6 17. g3 Bxg3 18. hxg3 Qxg3+ 19. Bg2 Nh4 20. Qe2 Bh3 21. Qf2
Qxg2+ 22. Qxg2 Nxg2 23. Re2 Nxe3 24. Nxe3 cxd5 25. Ncxd5 Nxd5 26. Nxd5 Rac8 27.
Rd1 Be6 28. Red2 f5 29. e5 Kf7 30. f4 h6 31. Kf2 Rc5 32. Ne3 g5 33. Rd6 gxf4
34. Nxf5 Rxe5 35. Nxh6+ Kg7 36. Ng4 Bxg4 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.24"]
[Round "1.12"]
[White "Pantev, V."]
[Black "Rojdov, P."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E61"]
[WhiteElo "2369"]
[BlackElo "1941"]
[PlyCount "61"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. Bf4 Bg7 4. e3 d6 5. c4 Nbd7 6. Nc3 O-O 7. Be2 Re8 8. O-O
Nh5 9. Bg5 c5 10. d5 Nhf6 11. e4 h6 12. Bf4 Ng4 13. h3 Nge5 14. Nd2 g5 15. Be3
Ng6 16. g3 Ndf8 17. Bg4 Ne5 18. Bxc8 Qxc8 19. Kg2 g4 20. hxg4 Qxg4 21. f4 Qxd1
22. Nxd1 Ng4 23. Bg1 e6 24. Kf3 f5 25. dxe6 h5 26. exf5 Rad8 27. Ne3 Nxe3 28.
Bxe3 b6 29. Ne4 Bxb2 30. Rad1 Nh7 31. Nxd6 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.25"]
[Round "2.1"]
[White "Petkov, Vladimir"]
[Black "Pantev, V."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E40"]
[WhiteElo "2490"]
[BlackElo "2369"]
[PlyCount "65"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. Bd3 Nc6 6. Bd2 d6 7. Nge2 e5 8. d5
Ne7 9. a3 Ba5 10. b4 Bb6 11. Na4 c6 12. Nxb6 Qxb6 13. dxc6 Qxc6 14. O-O Bf5 15.
b5 Qd7 16. Bb4 Rfd8 17. Nc3 e4 18. Be2 Qe6 19. Ra2 Rd7 20. Rd2 Rad8 21. Qb3 Bg4
22. Rfd1 Ng6 23. Qc2 Nh4 24. Rd4 Bxe2 25. Nxe2 Qg4 26. Ng3 h5 27. h3 Qg5 28.
Bxd6 Rxd6 29. Rxd6 Rxd6 30. Rxd6 Nxg2 31. Kxg2 h4 32. Rxf6 hxg3 33. Rf4 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.25"]
[Round "2.2"]
[White "Badev, K."]
[Black "Janev, Evgeni"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C41"]
[WhiteElo "2369"]
[BlackElo "2461"]
[PlyCount "86"]
[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 exd4 8.
Qxd4 Nb6 9. Bf1 Bg4 10. Qd3 Nfd7 11. a4 Nc5 12. Qe3 a5 13. h3 Bd7 14. b3 Re8
15. Ba3 Bf8 16. Rad1 Nxe4 17. Nxe4 f5 18. Qf4 fxe4 19. Ng5 Re5 20. Nf7 g5 21.
Nxd8 gxf4 22. Nxb7 Bc6 23. Nxd6 cxd6 24. Bxd6 Bxd6 25. Rxd6 Rc8 26. Bb5 Bxb5
27. axb5 Rxb5 28. Rxe4 Rf8 29. g3 fxg3 30. fxg3 Rbf5 31. g4 Nc8 32. Rd2 Rc5 33.
Kg2 Rf7 34. c4 Rb7 35. Rd3 Ne7 36. Kg3 Nc6 37. Re8+ Kg7 38. Rc8 Ne5 39. Rxc5
Nxd3 40. Rxa5 Rxb3 41. Ra7+ Kg8 42. Ra8+ Kf7 43. Ra7+ Kg6 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.25"]
[Round "2.3"]
[White "Berbatov, Kiprian"]
[Black "Panajotov, J."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B42"]
[WhiteElo "2455"]
[BlackElo "2219"]
[PlyCount "152"]
[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 Ne7 6. Nd2 Nec6 7. Nxc6 Nxc6 8.
f4 d5 9. e5 Bc5 10. Nf3 b5 11. Qe2 Qb6 12. Bd2 b4 13. g4 a5 14. h4 Ba6 15. h5
Bxd3 16. Qxd3 Qa6 17. Ke2 Nd4+ 18. Nxd4 Bxd4 19. c3 Bc5 20. Rac1 Kd7 21. c4
Rac8 22. cxd5 Qxd3+ 23. Kxd3 exd5 24. f5 Rhe8 25. h6 g6 26. e6+ fxe6 27. fxg6
hxg6 28. h7 e5 29. Rxc5 Rxc5 30. h8=Q Rxh8 31. Rxh8 Rc4 32. Ra8 Rxg4 33. Rxa5
Kc6 34. Ra6+ Kc5 35. Ra5+ Kc6 36. Ra4 Kb5 37. b3 g5 38. Kc2 Kc5 39. a3 Rg2 40.
axb4+ Kd4 41. b5+ Kc5 42. Ra6 e4 43. Re6 Kxb5 44. Re5 Kc5 45. Rxg5 Rh2 46. Kd1
Rh3 47. b4+ Kc4 48. Rg8 Kd3 49. Be1 e3 50. b5 Rh1 51. Rg2 d4 52. b6 Rh6 53. Rb2
e2+ 54. Kc1 Rc6+ 55. Kb1 Rc8 56. b7 Rb8 57. Rb4 Ke4 58. Rb5 Kd3 59. Ka2 Kc4 60.
Rb1 d3 61. Rb2 Kd5 62. Bg3 Kc6 63. Bxb8 e1=Q 64. Bf4 Qa5+ 65. Kb1 Qe1+ 66. Bc1
d2 67. b8=N+ Kc5 68. Rxd2 Qe4+ 69. Rc2+ Kb4 70. Na6+ Kb5 71. Nc7+ Kb6 72. Bf4
Kb7 73. Bh2 Qe1+ 74. Ka2 Qe4 75. Rb2+ Kc6 76. Ka3 Qe3+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.25"]
[Round "2.4"]
[White "Vutov, M."]
[Black "Enchev, Ivajlo"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B90"]
[WhiteElo "2331"]
[BlackElo "2434"]
[PlyCount "88"]
[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 e5 7. Nf3 Be7 8. Bc4
Be6 9. Bb3 O-O 10. Bg5 Nbd7 11. O-O Rc8 12. Bxf6 Nxf6 13. Qd3 h6 14. Rfd1 Rc5
15. Nd2 Qc7 16. Nf1 Qb6 17. Ne3 Rfc8 18. a5 Qc6 19. Ncd5 Bxd5 20. Nxd5 Nxd5 21.
Bxd5 Qc7 22. c3 Rb8 23. g3 Bd8 24. Qf3 Bf6 25. Qh5 Rf8 26. Rd3 Kh7 27. Kg2 g6
28. Qf3 Be7 29. b4 Rc6 30. Bxc6 bxc6 31. h4 f5 32. c4 Qb7 33. c5 d5 34. exf5 e4
35. fxg6+ Kg7 36. Qe3 Rf3 37. Qxf3 exf3+ 38. Rxf3 Kxg6 39. Re1 Qd7 40. Re5 d4
41. b5 cxb5 42. h5+ Kg7 43. Ref5 d3 44. c6 Qd6 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.25"]
[Round "2.5"]
[White "Marholev, D."]
[Black "Arnaudov, Petar"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B27"]
[WhiteElo "2431"]
[BlackElo "2207"]
[PlyCount "99"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Qa5 3. b3 Nc6 4. Bb2 d6 5. Nc3 Nf6 6. Bb5 Bd7 7. O-O e6 8. Re1
Be7 9. Bxc6 Bxc6 10. e5 dxe5 11. Nxe5 Qc7 12. d3 Rd8 13. Qe2 O-O 14. Nxc6 Qxc6
15. a4 Rd7 16. Ne4 Nxe4 17. Qxe4 Qxe4 18. Rxe4 Rfd8 19. Rg4 g6 20. a5 Rd5 21.
Kf1 Bf8 22. Ke2 Bg7 23. Bxg7 Kxg7 24. Rc4 e5 25. b4 cxb4 26. Rxb4 R8d7 27. Rab1
e4 28. dxe4 Rd2+ 29. Ke3 Rxc2 30. Rxb7 Rc3+ 31. Kf4 Rd6 32. f3 Ra6 33. Rd1 Rcc6
34. Rd5 h5 35. e5 Rc4+ 36. Kg3 h4+ 37. Kh3 Rf4 38. Rc5 Kh6 39. Rb3 Ra4 40. Rbb5
Rf4 41. Rd5 Re6 42. Rb7 Ra6 43. Rc7 Kg7 44. Rdd7 Re6 45. Re7 Ra6 46. e6 Rxa5
47. Rxa7 Rxa7 48. Rxa7 Rb4 49. Rxf7+ Kg8 50. Rf6 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.25"]
[Round "2.6"]
[White "Janachkov, A."]
[Black "Arnaudov, Petar G."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B10"]
[WhiteElo "2231"]
[BlackElo "2413"]
[PlyCount "72"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c6 2. d3 d5 3. Nd2 e5 4. Ngf3 Bd6 5. g3 Nf6 6. Bg2 Bg4 7. h3 Bh5 8. O-O
O-O 9. Qe1 Re8 10. Nh4 Na6 11. Nf5 Nb4 12. g4 Bg6 13. Qd1 dxe4 14. dxe4 Bc5 15.
a3 Na6 16. Nc4 Bxf5 17. Qxd8 Raxd8 18. exf5 Nd5 19. Re1 f6 20. Na5 Bb6 21. Nxb7
Rd7 22. c4 Ne7 23. c5 Nxc5 24. Nxc5 Bxc5 25. b4 Bd4 26. Ra2 c5 27. bxc5 Bxc5
28. Rc2 Bb6 29. Be3 Bxe3 30. Rxe3 Red8 31. Rec3 Nd5 32. Bxd5+ Rxd5 33. Rc7 R5d7
34. Kg2 Kf7 35. Rxd7+ Rxd7 36. Rc6 g6 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.25"]
[Round "2.7"]
[White "Mladenov, P."]
[Black "Stanoev, A."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D17"]
[WhiteElo "2394"]
[BlackElo "2202"]
[PlyCount "36"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 d5 3. d4 c6 4. Nc3 dxc4 5. a4 Bf5 6. Ne5 Nbd7 7. Nxc4 Qc7 8.
g3 e5 9. dxe5 Nxe5 10. Bf4 Nfd7 11. Bg2 f6 12. O-O O-O-O 13. a5 Nc5 14. Qe1 Nb3
15. Ra4 Nc5 16. Ra1 Nb3 17. Ra4 Nc5 18. Ra1 Nb3 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.25"]
[Round "2.8"]
[White "Janchev, P."]
[Black "Tsvetkov, Ilia"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D31"]
[WhiteElo "2215"]
[BlackElo "2392"]
[PlyCount "72"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 c6 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Nf3 Bf5 6. Bg5 Qb6 7. Qb3 Nd7 8. e3
Bd6 9. Qxb6 axb6 10. Nh4 Be6 11. Bd3 Ne7 12. Bxe7 Bxe7 13. Nf5 Bxf5 14. Bxf5 b5
15. Bxd7+ Kxd7 16. Kd2 Ra6 17. Kc2 Rha8 18. Kb3 Bd6 19. g4 b4 20. Ne2 b6 21.
Rhd1 Ke6 22. Rac1 c5 23. Nf4+ Bxf4 24. exf4 Kd6 25. dxc5+ bxc5 26. Rd3 Rxa2 27.
Re3 c4+ 28. Kxb4 Rxb2+ 29. Kc3 Rxf2 30. Kb4 Rb2+ 31. Kc3 Rxh2 32. Kd4 Rd2+ 33.
Kc3 Rf2 34. Kb4 Rb2+ 35. Kc3 Rb3+ 36. Kd4 Raa3 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.25"]
[Round "2.9"]
[White "Mishev, L."]
[Black "Milchev, N."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B01"]
[WhiteElo "2205"]
[BlackElo "2382"]
[PlyCount "136"]
[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. Bd3 c6 6. Nge2 g6 7. Bf4 Qd8 8.
Qd2 Bg7 9. Bh6 O-O 10. f3 Qa5 11. h4 Na6 12. Bxg7 Kxg7 13. h5 Ng8 14. hxg6 fxg6
15. O-O-O Be6 16. Qe3 Bf7 17. Bxa6 bxa6 18. Qe5+ Qxe5 19. dxe5 h5 20. Na4 c5
21. Nxc5 Rfc8 22. Nb3 a5 23. Rd4 Rab8 24. Nc3 Nh6 25. Rd7 Nf5 26. g4 hxg4 27.
fxg4 Ne3 28. Rxe7 Re8 29. Rxa7 Rxe5 30. Nxa5 Rc8 31. Rg1 Kg8 32. Nb3 Be6 33.
Ra6 g5 34. Ra4 Kg7 35. Nd2 Rf8 36. Re4 Rxe4 37. Ncxe4 Kg6 38. Nc5 Bxg4 39. Rg3
Rh8 40. b4 Rh1+ 41. Kb2 Nd1+ 42. Kb3 Kf5 43. b5 Kf4 44. Rd3 Be2 45. Rd5 Rh6 46.
Nd7 g4 47. b6 Ba6 48. Rd4+ Ke3 49. c3 g3 50. b7 Bxb7 51. Nf1+ Kf2 52. Nxg3 Nxc3
53. Kxc3 Kxg3 54. Nc5 Bc6 55. a4 Bxa4 56. Nxa4 Kf3 57. Nb2 Rc6+ 58. Nc4 Rc8 59.
Kd3 Ra8 60. Rd7 Rf8 61. Ne5+ Kf2 62. Rd4 Ra8 63. Rf4+ Kg3 64. Rf3+ Kg2 65. Rf5
Kg3 66. Ke3 Ra3+ 67. Nd3 Kg4 68. Re5 Rc3 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.25"]
[Round "2.10"]
[White "Filev, Georgi"]
[Black "Stoinev, M."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C75"]
[WhiteElo "2389"]
[BlackElo "2268"]
[PlyCount "80"]
[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. c3 Bd7 6. d4 Nge7 7. Be3 h6 8. h4
exd4 9. cxd4 d5 10. e5 Nf5 11. Bf4 Be7 12. g3 Bb4+ 13. Nc3 Nfe7 14. Nh2 Ba5 15.
Bb3 Be6 16. Be3 Qd7 17. f4 h5 18. Qd2 Bb6 19. Na4 Ba7 20. Bf2 b5 21. Nc3 Bb6
22. O-O Nf5 23. Nf3 O-O 24. Rfc1 Rfd8 25. Bd1 g6 26. Be2 Nce7 27. Nd1 Ng7 28.
Ne3 Nef5 29. Nxf5 Bxf5 30. Ng5 c6 31. a3 a5 32. b3 Rdc8 33. Bf1 Bd8 34. a4 b4
35. Re1 Bb6 36. Rac1 Qa7 37. Bg2 Rc7 38. Kh2 Re8 39. Bf3 Rcc8 40. Red1 Qd7
1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.25"]
[Round "2.11"]
[White "Stankov, A."]
[Black "Angelov, B."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C69"]
[WhiteElo "1897"]
[BlackElo "2000"]
[PlyCount "61"]
[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 f6 6. d4 exd4 7. Nxd4 c5 8.
Nb3 Qxd1 9. Rxd1 Bd6 10. Be3 b6 11. a4 Bb7 12. f3 O-O-O 13. N1d2 a5 14. Nc4 Be7
15. Rxd8+ Bxd8 16. Nbd2 Ne7 17. b3 Nc6 18. Rd1 Re8 19. Nf1 Ba6 20. Nfd2 Nd4 21.
Bxd4 cxd4 22. Nf1 Be7 23. Ng3 Bc5 24. Kf1 Rd8 25. Nh5 Rd7 26. Nf4 Kb7 27. h4
Kc6 28. Nd3 Bxc4 29. bxc4 Bd6 30. Kf2 Re7 31. Rb1 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.25"]
[Round "2.12"]
[White "Rojdov, P."]
[Black "Georgiev, S."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B03"]
[WhiteElo "1941"]
[BlackElo "2167"]
[PlyCount "36"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 Nf6 2. e5 Nd5 3. d4 d6 4. Bc4 Nb6 5. Bb3 dxe5 6. Qf3 e6 7. dxe5 Nc6 8.
Qg3 Nd4 9. Be3 Nf5 10. Qf3 Bd7 11. Qxb7 Nxe3 12. fxe3 Bc5 13. Qf3 Qg5 14. Qg3
Qh6 15. e4 Qc1+ 16. Ke2 Bb5+ 17. c4 Nxc4 18. Nc3 Qxb2+ 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.25"]
[Round "2.13"]
[White "Andreev, Sasho"]
[Black "Ivanov, L."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E46"]
[WhiteElo "2153"]
[BlackElo "1949"]
[PlyCount "91"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. Nge2 b6 6. a3 Be7 7. Ng3 d5 8. cxd5
exd5 9. Be2 c5 10. dxc5 bxc5 11. O-O Be6 12. Bf3 Nc6 13. Qc2 Ne5 14. Be2 Qc8
15. Rd1 Nc6 16. Qa4 Rb8 17. Bb5 Rb6 18. Bxc6 Qxc6 19. Qf4 Bd6 20. Qg5 h6 21.
Qh4 Be5 22. Nh5 Ng4 23. Nxd5 Bxd5 24. Qxg4 f5 25. Qh3 Bxb2 26. Bxb2 Rxb2 27.
Qg3 Rb7 28. Nf4 Bf7 29. Nd3 c4 30. Ne5 Qe6 31. Rac1 Rc8 32. Nf3 Qe7 33. Nd4 Bh5
34. Nxf5 Qxa3 35. Re1 Rd7 36. Nxh6+ Kh7 37. Qh3 Rcd8 38. g4 gxh6 39. Qxh5 c3
40. Qf5+ Kg7 41. Qe5+ Kf7 42. Rxc3 Qe7 43. Qxe7+ Rxe7 44. Ra3 h5 45. gxh5 Rg8+
46. Kf1 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.25"]
[Round "2.14"]
[White "Velikov, V."]
[Black "Ivanov, T."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C27"]
[WhiteElo "1843"]
[BlackElo "2142"]
[PlyCount "60"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Bc4 Nxe4 4. Bxf7+ Kxf7 5. Nxe4 d5 6. Qh5+ Kg8 7. Ng3 Nc6
8. Nf3 g6 9. Qh4 Qxh4 10. Nxh4 e4 11. Ne2 Nb4 12. Kd1 Be7 13. g3 Bg4 14. h3
Bxe2+ 15. Kxe2 Bxh4 16. gxh4 Nxc2 17. Rb1 Nd4+ 18. Kd1 c5 19. b4 c4 20. Bb2 Nf3
21. Bxh8 Kxh8 22. h5 gxh5 23. a4 Kg7 24. b5 Kf6 25. b6 a6 26. Ke2 Rg8 27. Rhc1
Ke5 28. Rc3 Kf4 29. Re3 d4 30. Ra3 d3+ 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.25"]
[Round "2.15"]
[White "Ivanov, B."]
[Black "Gudzhenov, V."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D30"]
[WhiteElo "2128"]
[BlackElo "1932"]
[PlyCount "67"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 e6 4. Qc2 Nf6 5. Nbd2 Nbd7 6. g3 b6 7. Bg2 Bb7 8. O-O
Be7 9. e4 dxe4 10. Nxe4 Nxe4 11. Qxe4 Nf6 12. Qe2 c5 13. Rd1 cxd4 14. Nxd4 Qc8
15. Nb5 Bxg2 16. Kxg2 O-O 17. Bf4 Qc6+ 18. Kg1 Bc5 19. Bd6 Rfd8 20. Bxc5 Rxd1+
21. Rxd1 Qxc5 22. b3 h6 23. Qf3 Re8 24. Nxa7 e5 25. Nb5 e4 26. Qe3 Qh5 27. Qd4
Qh3 28. Nc7 Rc8 29. Nd5 Ng4 30. Ne7+ Kh7 31. Nxc8 Qxh2+ 32. Kf1 e3 33. Qf4 Qh5
34. Rd5 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.25"]
[Round "2.16"]
[White "Stankovski, M."]
[Black "Ljangov, P."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A03"]
[WhiteElo "1731"]
[BlackElo "2107"]
[PlyCount "80"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. f4 c5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. g3 g6 4. Bg2 Bg7 5. O-O O-O 6. d3 d5 7. Qe1 Nc6 8. c3 d4
9. Na3 Nd5 10. e4 dxe3 11. Bxe3 b6 12. Rd1 Bb7 13. Bf2 Qc7 14. Nc4 Rad8 15. a4
Nf6 16. h3 Ba6 17. b4 cxb4 18. cxb4 Bxc4 19. dxc4 Rxd1 20. Qxd1 Nxb4 21. Qb3
Na6 22. Qb5 Nc5 23. a5 Nfe4 24. axb6 axb6 25. Rb1 Nxf2 26. Kxf2 Ne4+ 27. Kg1
Nxg3 28. Qxb6 Qxc4 29. Qe3 Nf5 30. Qd2 Bd4+ 31. Nxd4 Qxd4+ 32. Qxd4 Nxd4 33.
Rb7 Ne2+ 34. Kf2 Nxf4 35. Rxe7 Nxg2 36. Kxg2 Kg7 37. h4 h5 38. Kg3 Ra8 39. Kf4
Ra4+ 40. Kg5 Rg4# 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.25"]
[Round "2.18"]
[White "Baltov, N."]
[Black "Nikolov, J."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C63"]
[BlackElo "2090"]
[PlyCount "60"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 f5 4. d3 fxe4 5. dxe4 Nf6 6. Nc3 Bb4 7. Qd3 d6 8.
Qc4 Bxc3+ 9. Qxc3 Bd7 10. Qd3 O-O 11. Qb3+ Kh8 12. Bd3 b6 13. Bg5 Ne7 14. h3
Qe8 15. Qc3 Bc6 16. Bxf6 Rxf6 17. Rg1 Rf4 18. Nd2 a5 19. f3 b5 20. Nf1 Qg6 21.
Nh2 Qg3+ 22. Ke2 Qxh2 23. Qe1 Rf6 24. Qf2 Ng6 25. Rh1 Nf4+ 26. Ke3 Qxg2 27. Qh4
Qg6 28. Kd2 Qh6 29. Qxh6 Rxh6 30. h4 Rf8 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.25"]
[Round "2.19"]
[White "Kolev, Atanas Tonchev"]
[Black "Kolev, H."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D44"]
[WhiteElo "2017"]
[BlackElo "1765"]
[PlyCount "67"]
[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. Bg5 dxc4 6. e4 b5 7. e5 h6 8. Bh4 g5
9. Nxg5 hxg5 10. Bxg5 Nbd7 11. exf6 Bb7 12. g3 c5 13. d5 Qb6 14. Bg2 O-O-O 15.
O-O b4 16. Na4 Qb5 17. a3 Ne5 18. axb4 Bxd5 19. Nc3 Bxg2 20. Nxb5 Rxd1 21.
Rfxd1 Bb7 22. Nxa7+ Kc7 23. Bf4 Bd6 24. Nb5+ Kb8 25. Nxd6 Nf3+ 26. Kf1 Nxh2+
27. Ke2 Bf3+ 28. Ke3 e5 29. Bxe5 Rh5 30. Nxf7+ Kc8 31. Rd8+ Kb7 32. Rb8+ Kc6
33. Ra6+ Kd7 34. Rd8# 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.25"]
[Round "2.20"]
[White "Sotirov, I."]
[Black "Pantev, T."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A43"]
[WhiteElo "1996"]
[BlackElo "1721"]
[PlyCount "96"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nc3 c5 3. d5 g6 4. e4 d6 5. Bb5+ Nbd7 6. f4 a6 7. Bxd7+ Nxd7 8.
Nf3 Bg7 9. Ne2 b5 10. c3 O-O 11. O-O Nb6 12. h3 e6 13. dxe6 Bxe6 14. Re1 Qc7
15. Ng5 Bc8 16. Qc2 Bb7 17. Be3 Rae8 18. Ng3 d5 19. Qf2 Rc8 20. e5 Rfe8 21.
Rad1 Nc4 22. Bc1 f6 23. exf6 Bxf6 24. Ne6 Qd6 25. f5 Be5 26. Bf4 Rxe6 27. Bxe5
Rxe5 28. fxg6 Rxe1+ 29. Rxe1 hxg6 30. Rf1 Rf8 31. Qe1 Rxf1+ 32. Nxf1 Qe5 33.
Qh4 Qc7 34. b3 Nd6 35. Qf6 Nf5 36. Qxg6+ Ng7 37. Ng3 Qc6 38. Qg5 d4 39. Nf5
Qxg2+ 40. Qxg2 Bxg2 41. Kxg2 Nxf5 42. cxd4 cxd4 43. Kf3 Kg7 44. Ke4 Kg6 45. a4
Kg5 46. axb5 axb5 47. b4 Kh4 48. Kxf5 d3 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.25"]
[Round "2.17"]
[White "Asparuhov, P."]
[Black "Hristov, N."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B07"]
[WhiteElo "2107"]
[BlackElo "1878"]
[PlyCount "91"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. c3 d6 3. d4 Nf6 4. Bd3 g6 5. Nf3 Bg7 6. O-O O-O 7. Qe2 a6 8. Bf4
Nbd7 9. Nbd2 Qc7 10. Rac1 b6 11. h3 Bb7 12. Rfe1 Rac8 13. Bxa6 Bxa6 14. Qxa6
Nh5 15. Be3 cxd4 16. Nxd4 Ra8 17. Qc4 Qxc4 18. Nxc4 Rxa2 19. Nc6 Bf6 20. Nb4
Raa8 21. Nxb6 Nxb6 22. Bxb6 Rfb8 23. Be3 e6 24. Ra1 Rxa1 25. Rxa1 Bg7 26. Nc6
Re8 27. Rd1 Bf8 28. b4 Nf6 29. f3 d5 30. e5 Nd7 31. c4 Nb8 32. cxd5 exd5 33.
Nxb8 Rxb8 34. Bc5 Bxc5+ 35. bxc5 Rd8 36. Kf2 f6 37. exf6 Kf7 38. Ke3 Kxf6 39.
Kd4 h5 40. c6 h4 41. Kc5 Ke5 42. c7 Rc8 43. Rxd5+ Ke6 44. Rd6+ Ke7 45. Kc6 Ra8
46. Rd2 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.25"]
[Round "3.1"]
[White "Tsvetkov, Ilia"]
[Black "Petkov, Vladimir"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A21"]
[WhiteElo "2392"]
[BlackElo "2490"]
[PlyCount "68"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Bb4 3. Nd5 a5 4. a3 Bc5 5. Nf3 c6 6. Nc3 d6 7. d4 exd4 8. Nxd4
Ne7 9. e3 O-O 10. Be2 Nd7 11. Rb1 Nf6 12. b4 axb4 13. axb4 Bb6 14. Bb2 d5 15.
c5 Bc7 16. Ra1 Rxa1 17. Qxa1 Ng6 18. b5 Nh4 19. g3 Nf5 20. b6 Be5 21. Nf3 Bxc3+
22. Bxc3 Ne4 23. g4 Nxc3 24. Qxc3 Ne7 25. h4 Bxg4 26. Rg1 h5 27. Nd4 g6 28.
Bxg4 hxg4 29. Rxg4 Qd7 30. Rf4 Qh3 31. Nf3 Nf5 32. Ng5 Qh1+ 33. Ke2 Ra8 34. Qb2
Ra1 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.25"]
[Round "3.2"]
[White "Enchev, Ivajlo"]
[Black "Marholev, D."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D14"]
[WhiteElo "2434"]
[BlackElo "2431"]
[PlyCount "62"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. cxd5 cxd5 5. Nf3 Nc6 6. Bf4 Bf5 7. e3 e6 8. Bd3
Bxd3 9. Qxd3 Bd6 10. Bg3 O-O 11. Rc1 Rc8 12. O-O a6 13. Nd2 Bxg3 14. hxg3 Na5
15. b3 b5 16. Ne2 Qb6 17. Rc2 Qb8 18. Rfc1 Nd7 19. Nf4 Nb6 20. Rxc8 Rxc8 21.
Rc3 Nb7 22. Qc2 b4 23. Rxc8+ Qxc8 24. Qxc8+ Nxc8 25. Kf1 a5 26. Ke2 Kf8 27. Nb1
Ke7 28. Nd3 Kd6 29. a4 Na7 30. g4 h6 31. Nd2 Nc6 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.25"]
[Round "3.3"]
[White "Janev, Evgeni"]
[Black "Janachkov, A."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C74"]
[WhiteElo "2461"]
[BlackElo "2231"]
[PlyCount "62"]
[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. c3 f5 6. exf5 Bxf5 7. d4 e4 8. Ng1
d5 9. Ne2 Bd6 10. Be3 Nge7 11. Nd2 O-O 12. Bb3 Kh8 13. Ng3 Bg6 14. O-O Nf5 15.
Nxf5 Rxf5 16. f4 Qh4 17. Qe1 Qd8 18. g4 Rf8 19. Bxd5 Bxf4 20. Bxc6 Bxe3+ 21.
Qxe3 bxc6 22. Rxf8+ Qxf8 23. Rf1 Qe7 24. h3 c5 25. dxc5 Rd8 26. Nb3 Rd3 27. Qg5
Qe8 28. Qe5 Qg8 29. Nd4 h6 30. Qe7 Kh7 31. Ne6 Be8 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.25"]
[Round "3.4"]
[White "Stanoev, A."]
[Black "Berbatov, Kiprian"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E84"]
[WhiteElo "2202"]
[BlackElo "2455"]
[PlyCount "60"]
[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. f3 O-O 6. Be3 Nc6 7. Qd2 a6 8. Nge2
Rb8 9. Rc1 Bd7 10. Nd1 b5 11. c5 e6 12. Nf2 b4 13. g3 Ne7 14. Bg2 Bb5 15. O-O
Nd7 16. Rfd1 a5 17. Qc2 Qc8 18. f4 Qa6 19. Rd2 e5 20. fxe5 dxc5 21. dxc5 Nxe5
22. Nd4 Nc4 23. Bg5 Nxd2 24. Nxb5 Qxb5 25. Bxe7 Rfe8 26. Bg5 b3 27. Qxd2 bxa2
28. Nd1 Bxb2 29. Nxb2 Qxb2 30. Qe1 Qxc1 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.25"]
[Round "3.5"]
[White "Arnaudov, Petar G."]
[Black "Mishev, L."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E90"]
[WhiteElo "2413"]
[BlackElo "2205"]
[PlyCount "107"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. d4 O-O 6. h3 Na6 7. Bg5 Qe8 8. g4 e5
9. d5 Nc5 10. Nd2 a5 11. Be2 h6 12. Be3 Bd7 13. Qc2 c6 14. Rg1 cxd5 15. cxd5 a4
16. Nc4 Ra6 17. Nxd6 Rxd6 18. Bxc5 Qb8 19. f3 Rc8 20. Be3 b5 21. Qd2 b4 22. Nd1
Kh7 23. Rc1 Rxc1 24. Qxc1 Ne8 25. Bc5 Rf6 26. Qc4 b3 27. axb3 axb3 28. Qb4 Qc7
29. Be3 Qc2 30. Qd2 Qb1 31. Qb4 Qa2 32. Qb7 Qa5+ 33. Kf2 Ba4 34. Nc3 Bf8 35.
Ra1 Bc6 36. Rxa5 Bxb7 37. Rb5 Nd6 38. Rxb3 g5 39. Ke1 Be7 40. Bc5 Bc8 41. Rb6
Bd7 42. b4 h5 43. Nd1 hxg4 44. hxg4 Kg7 45. Ne3 Rh6 46. Kd2 Kf8 47. Kc3 Ke8 48.
Rb8+ Bd8 49. Bxd6 Rxd6 50. Nc4 Ra6 51. Na5 Rb6 52. Nb7 Ke7 53. d6+ Kf6 54. Nc5
1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.25"]
[Round "3.6"]
[White "Panajotov, J."]
[Black "Mladenov, P."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C11"]
[WhiteElo "2219"]
[BlackElo "2394"]
[PlyCount "62"]
[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. f4 c5 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. Be3 Qb6 8. Na4
Qa5+ 9. c3 cxd4 10. b4 Qc7 11. Nxd4 a6 12. Bd3 Be7 13. O-O g6 14. Qg4 b5 15.
Nb2 Nb6 16. a4 Nxd4 17. Bxd4 Bd7 18. axb5 Bxb5 19. Bxb5+ axb5 20. Qe2 Qc6 21.
Rxa8+ Nxa8 22. Ra1 O-O 23. Nd3 Nc7 24. Bc5 Bxc5+ 25. Nxc5 Rd8 26. Qd3 Ra8 27.
Qd1 Na6 28. Qd4 Nxc5 29. Rxa8+ Qxa8 30. Qxc5 Qa1+ 31. Kf2 Qa2+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.25"]
[Round "3.7"]
[White "Milchev, N."]
[Black "Badev, K."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E18"]
[WhiteElo "2382"]
[BlackElo "2369"]
[PlyCount "60"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. c4 b6 2. Nf3 Bb7 3. g3 Nf6 4. Bg2 e6 5. O-O Be7 6. d4 O-O 7. Nc3 Ne4 8. Nxe4
Bxe4 9. Ne1 Bxg2 10. Nxg2 d5 11. Qc2 dxc4 12. Qxc4 c5 13. dxc5 Bxc5 14. Be3
Bxe3 15. Nxe3 Nd7 16. Rfd1 Rc8 17. Qa4 Rc7 18. Rac1 Rxc1 19. Rxc1 Nc5 20. Qd1
h6 21. b4 Qxd1+ 22. Rxd1 Ne4 23. Rd7 Ra8 24. a3 a5 25. bxa5 Rxa5 26. Rd3 Nc5
27. Rc3 Ne4 28. Rd3 Nc5 29. Rc3 Ne4 30. Rd3 Nc5 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.25"]
[Round "3.8"]
[White "Ivanov, T."]
[Black "Filev, Georgi"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B40"]
[WhiteElo "2142"]
[BlackElo "2389"]
[PlyCount "38"]
[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. Nxc6 bxc6 7. O-O d5 8.
Bg5 Be7 9. e5 Nd7 10. Bxe7 Qxe7 11. f4 Qb4 12. Qc1 Rb8 13. Nd2 Qxb2 14. Qxb2
Rxb2 15. Nb3 c5 16. c4 Ba6 17. Rfc1 O-O 18. Bf1 d4 19. g3 Rb8 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.25"]
[Round "3.9"]
[White "Pantev, V."]
[Black "Ivanov, B."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D23"]
[WhiteElo "2369"]
[BlackElo "2128"]
[PlyCount "93"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 c6 3. d4 d5 4. Qc2 dxc4 5. Qxc4 Bf5 6. g3 e6 7. Bg2 Nbd7 8.
O-O Be7 9. Nc3 O-O 10. e3 Ne4 11. Nd2 Nxc3 12. bxc3 e5 13. Qb3 Qc7 14. Ba3 Nb6
15. Bxe7 Qxe7 16. a4 Be6 17. Qb2 Nc4 18. Nxc4 Bxc4 19. Rfb1 Rab8 20. Qb4 Qe6
21. dxe5 Ba6 22. Qd6 Rbe8 23. Qxe6 Rxe6 24. f4 f6 25. exf6 Rxe3 26. fxg7 Kxg7
27. Bf1 Rd8 28. Bxa6 bxa6 29. Rb7+ Kg6 30. Ra2 Rxc3 31. Rxa7 h5 32. Kg2 h4 33.
Re2 hxg3 34. hxg3 Kf6 35. Ree7 Rd4 36. Rf7+ Kg6 37. f5+ Kg5 38. Ra8 Rd6 39.
Rg8+ Kh6 40. Rfg7 Rd2+ 41. Kh3 Rd6 42. Rg4 Kh7 43. R8g7+ Kh8 44. R7g6 Rd7 45.
Rh4+ Rh7 46. Rxh7+ Kxh7 47. Kh4 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.25"]
[Round "3.10"]
[White "Ljangov, P."]
[Black "Vutov, M."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B15"]
[WhiteElo "2107"]
[BlackElo "2331"]
[PlyCount "70"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 g6 2. d4 c6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. h3 dxe4 6. Nxe4 Nd7 7. Bd3 Ngf6 8.
O-O Nxe4 9. Bxe4 O-O 10. c3 Qb6 11. Re1 Re8 12. Bc2 Nf8 13. Bb3 Be6 14. Be3 Qb5
15. Ng5 Bxb3 16. Qxb3 Qxb3 17. axb3 Nd7 18. Nf3 a6 19. Bg5 e6 20. b4 h6 21. Bf4
Nb6 22. Be5 Nc4 23. Bxg7 Kxg7 24. Re2 Red8 25. Ne5 Nxe5 26. Rxe5 Rd5 27. f4 g5
28. fxg5 hxg5 29. Ra5 Kg6 30. Kf2 Re8 31. Kf3 f6 32. Re2 Rd6 33. Ra1 Rh8 34.
Rae1 Kf7 35. Kf2 Rh4 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.25"]
[Round "3.11"]
[White "Stoinev, M."]
[Black "Asparuhov, P."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C14"]
[WhiteElo "2268"]
[BlackElo "2107"]
[PlyCount "129"]
[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. Bxe7 Qxe7 7. Qd2 a6 8. f4
c5 9. Nf3 Nc6 10. g3 Nxd4 11. Nxd4 cxd4 12. Qxd4 Qc5 13. Qxc5 Nxc5 14. Bd3 b5
15. Ne2 Bb7 16. Nd4 Ke7 17. Kd2 g6 18. Ke3 Rac8 19. Rhf1 Nd7 20. h3 h5 21. Kd2
Nc5 22. Rae1 Ne4+ 23. Bxe4 dxe4 24. Ke3 Rhd8 25. Rf2 Rc5 26. h4 b4 27. Nb3 Rc7
28. Rd2 Rdc8 29. Nd4 Bd5 30. Ra1 Rc5 31. a3 Ra5 32. a4 Rac5 33. Rg1 Ra5 34. Ra1
Rac5 35. Rg2 R8c7 36. g4 hxg4 37. h5 gxh5 38. Rh1 Bc6 39. Rxh5 Bxa4 40. Rxg4
Rxc2 41. Nxc2 Rxc2 42. Kxe4 Rxb2 43. Rh8 Rd2 44. Ke3 Rd5 45. Rb8 a5 46. Rb7+
Bd7 47. Rg8 Rd1 48. Ra8 Rd5 49. Raa7 Kd8 50. Rb8+ Ke7 51. Ke4 f6 52. Rbb7 f5+
53. Ke3 Kd8 54. Rb8+ Ke7 55. Kf2 Rd2+ 56. Kg3 Rd3+ 57. Kh4 Rd5 58. Rh8 Rd1 59.
Rh7+ Kd8 60. Kg5 b3 61. Kf6 b2 62. Rh8+ Be8 63. Re7 Rd7 64. Rhxe8+ Kc7 65.
Rxd7+ 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.25"]
[Round "3.12"]
[White "Nikolov, J."]
[Black "Janchev, P."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B01"]
[WhiteElo "2090"]
[BlackElo "2215"]
[PlyCount "82"]
[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 g6 6. Bc4 Bg7 7. O-O c6 8. h3
O-O 9. Re1 Nbd7 10. Qe2 Nb6 11. Bb3 Re8 12. Bg5 Nbd5 13. Ne4 Nxe4 14. Qxe4 Be6
15. Qh4 a5 16. c4 Nc7 17. Bf4 Qd7 18. Bxc7 Qxc7 19. Ng5 Bf5 20. c5 e6 21. Qxh7+
Kf8 22. Qh4 a4 23. Bc4 b5 24. Bf1 a3 25. b3 e5 26. Nh7+ Kg8 27. Nf6+ Bxf6 28.
Qxf6 Re6 29. Qh4 exd4 30. Qxd4 Qa5 31. b4 Rd8 32. Qc3 Qa4 33. g4 Be4 34. Bg2
Rd3 35. Qc1 Qxb4 36. Rb1 Qd4 37. Qf4 Bxg2 38. Qb8+ Qd8 39. Qxd8+ Rxd8 40. Rxe6
fxe6 41. Kxg2 Rd2 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.25"]
[Round "3.13"]
[White "Arnaudov, Petar"]
[Black "Kolev, Atanas Tonchev"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A05"]
[WhiteElo "2207"]
[BlackElo "2017"]
[PlyCount "47"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 g6 3. b4 Bg7 4. Bb2 d6 5. Bg2 c5 6. bxc5 dxc5 7. O-O Nc6 8.
Na3 O-O 9. Nc4 Be6 10. Nce5 Nxe5 11. Bxe5 Bd5 12. d3 Qd7 13. c4 Bc6 14. a4 a5
15. Qb3 Qe6 16. Qb2 Qd7 17. Rfb1 Ra6 18. Ra3 Qe6 19. Ne1 Bxg2 20. Nxg2 b6 21.
Nf4 Qc6 22. Rb3 Qxa4 23. Rb5 Rfa8 24. Ra1 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.25"]
[Round "3.14"]
[White "Georgiev, S."]
[Black "Stankov, A."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "2167"]
[BlackElo "1897"]
[PlyCount "41"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c3 d5 3. d4 e6 4. e3 c5 5. Bd3 Nc6 6. Nbd2 Bd6 7. O-O O-O 8. Qe2
e5 9. dxc5 Bxc5 10. e4 d4 11. Nb3 Bb6 12. cxd4 exd4 13. Bg5 h6 14. Bh4 Bg4 15.
e5 Bxf3 16. gxf3 Re8 17. Bxf6 gxf6 18. Qe4 Rxe5 19. Qh7+ Kf8 20. f4 Re6 21. Bc4
1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.25"]
[Round "3.15"]
[White "Angelov, B."]
[Black "Andreev, Sasho"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B02"]
[WhiteElo "2000"]
[BlackElo "2153"]
[PlyCount "91"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 Nf6 2. Nc3 d5 3. exd5 Nxd5 4. Bc4 Nb6 5. Bb3 Nc6 6. Nge2 a5 7. a3 a4 8.
Ba2 Bf5 9. d3 e6 10. Be3 Be7 11. O-O O-O 12. Ng3 Bg6 13. Qg4 Kh8 14. f4 Nd4 15.
Bxd4 Qxd4+ 16. Kh1 Ra5 17. Qe2 Bxa3 18. bxa3 Qxc3 19. Qe1 Qxe1 20. Raxe1 Rc5
21. f5 exf5 22. c4 Rc6 23. Nxf5 Rf6 24. g4 h5 25. h3 Rd8 26. c5 Nc8 27. Bc4 b6
28. Re5 bxc5 29. Rxc5 Nd6 30. Rf3 Rd7 31. Ra5 Nxc4 32. dxc4 Rd2 33. Rxa4 Re6
34. Kg1 Re1+ 35. Rf1 Ree2 36. Rf3 f6 37. Ra8+ Be8 38. Ne3 Re1+ 39. Nf1 Rde2 40.
Ra7 Kh7 41. Rxc7 hxg4 42. hxg4 Kg6 43. Rb3 Kh6 44. Rh3+ Kg6 45. Rb3 Kh6 46.
Rh3+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.25"]
[Round "3.16"]
[White "Pantev, T."]
[Black "Rojdov, P."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E61"]
[WhiteElo "1721"]
[BlackElo "1941"]
[PlyCount "73"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d6 3. c4 g6 4. Nc3 Bg7 5. Bf4 O-O 6. e3 b6 7. h3 Bb7 8. Be2
Nbd7 9. O-O Re8 10. Rc1 e5 11. Bh2 e4 12. Nd2 a6 13. b4 a5 14. a3 axb4 15. axb4
Nf8 16. Nb5 Bc6 17. c5 Qd7 18. Nc3 bxc5 19. dxc5 dxc5 20. bxc5 Ba4 21. Nxa4
Qxa4 22. Qxa4 Rxa4 23. Bb5 Ra2 24. Bxe8 Rxd2 25. Bb5 Ne6 26. c6 g5 27. Rfd1 Rb2
28. Bc4 g4 29. Bxe6 fxe6 30. Bxc7 Nd5 31. Ba5 g3 32. fxg3 Nxe3 33. c7 Rxg2+ 34.
Kh1 h6 35. c8=Q+ Kh7 36. Qxe6 Rxg3 37. Qxe4+ 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.25"]
[Round "3.17"]
[White "Kolev, H."]
[Black "Sotirov, I."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C50"]
[WhiteElo "1765"]
[BlackElo "1996"]
[PlyCount "51"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 d6 5. Nc3 Bd7 6. Bc4 Nf6 7. f3 Be7 8.
Be3 a6 9. Bb3 Na5 10. Qd2 Nxb3 11. cxb3 O-O 12. O-O-O b5 13. g4 c5 14. Nf5 Bxf5
15. gxf5 b4 16. Nd5 Nxd5 17. Qxd5 Qc7 18. Kb1 Rfd8 19. Rhg1 Bf8 20. Rg3 Kh8 21.
f6 g6 22. Qg5 Re8 23. Bf4 Re6 24. Rh3 Rae8 25. Qh4 h5 26. Qxh5+ 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.25"]
[Round "3.18"]
[White "Ivanov, L."]
[Black "Velikov, V."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A52"]
[WhiteElo "1949"]
[BlackElo "1843"]
[PlyCount "39"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e5 3. dxe5 Ng4 4. Nf3 Bc5 5. e3 Nc6 6. Nc3 O-O 7. Be2 Re8 8. a3
a5 9. b3 Ncxe5 10. Bb2 Nxf2 11. Kxf2 Ng4+ 12. Ke1 Nxe3 13. Qd2 Nxg2+ 14. Kd1 d6
15. Nd5 c6 16. Nf4 Be3 17. Qc3 f6 18. Nxg2 Bb6 19. Bd3 Bg4 20. Rf1 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.25"]
[Round "3.19"]
[White "Gudzhenov, V."]
[Black "Stankovski, M."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B12"]
[WhiteElo "1932"]
[BlackElo "1731"]
[PlyCount "48"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c6 2. f4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. d4 h6 5. Bd3 Bxd3 6. Qxd3 e6 7. Nf3 Nd7 8. c3 c5
9. Be3 Qb6 10. Nbd2 Ne7 11. O-O Nf5 12. Bf2 Rb8 13. g4 Ne7 14. Qc2 c4 15. f5
exf5 16. gxf5 g6 17. f6 Nf5 18. Rfe1 Qe6 19. b3 b5 20. bxc4 bxc4 21. Qa4 a6 22.
Rab1 Rd8 23. Rb7 g5 24. Reb1 g4 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.25"]
[Round "3.20"]
[White "Hristov, N."]
[Black "Baltov, N."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D53"]
[WhiteElo "1878"]
[PlyCount "51"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Bg5 c6 5. e3 Be7 6. cxd5 Nxd5 7. Bxe7 Qxe7 8.
Bd3 Nd7 9. Nf3 Nxc3 10. bxc3 O-O 11. Qc2 Nf6 12. h4 g6 13. g4 Nxg4 14. h5 f5
15. Ne5 Nxe5 16. dxe5 Bd7 17. O-O-O Qa3+ 18. Kb1 Be8 19. f4 c5 20. Bc4 Bf7 21.
hxg6 Bxg6 22. Bxe6+ Kh8 23. Rd7 Qa5 24. Qh2 Qb5+ 25. Ka1 Qxd7 26. Bxd7 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.26"]
[Round "4.1"]
[White "Petkov, Vladimir"]
[Black "Janev, Evgeni"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E04"]
[WhiteElo "2490"]
[BlackElo "2461"]
[PlyCount "62"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 e6 2. c4 Nf6 3. Nf3 d5 4. g3 dxc4 5. Bg2 c5 6. O-O Nc6 7. dxc5 Qxd1 8.
Rxd1 Bxc5 9. Nbd2 c3 10. bxc3 O-O 11. Ne1 Bd7 12. Rb1 Rab8 13. Nd3 Be7 14. Ne4
Nxe4 15. Bxe4 g5 16. Nb4 Rbd8 17. Nxc6 Bxc6 18. Rxd8 Rxd8 19. Bxc6 Rd1+ 20. Kg2
bxc6 21. Rb8+ Kg7 22. Be3 Ra1 23. Bxa7 Rxa2 24. Bd4+ Bf6 25. Bxf6+ Kxf6 26. Rb6
Rxe2 27. Rxc6 g4 28. Rc8 Ke5 29. Rh8 Rc2 30. Rxh7 Kf6 31. h3 gxh3+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.26"]
[Round "4.2"]
[White "Berbatov, Kiprian"]
[Black "Enchev, Ivajlo"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B12"]
[WhiteElo "2455"]
[BlackElo "2434"]
[PlyCount "43"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Nc3 h5 5. Bd3 Bxd3 6. Qxd3 e6 7. Nf3 Nd7 8. Ne2
Ne7 9. Nf4 g6 10. O-O Nf5 11. b3 Be7 12. h3 c5 13. c4 dxc4 14. Qxc4 cxd4 15.
Nxd4 Rc8 16. Nxf5 gxf5 17. Qe2 h4 18. Bb2 Bg5 19. Nh5 Nb6 20. Rfd1 Qc7 21. Ba3
Rg8 22. Rac1 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.26"]
[Round "4.3"]
[White "Marholev, D."]
[Black "Arnaudov, Petar G."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A50"]
[WhiteElo "2431"]
[BlackElo "2413"]
[PlyCount "83"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 Nc6 3. Nc3 e5 4. d5 Ne7 5. e4 Ng6 6. Be3 Bb4 7. f3 Bxc3+ 8.
bxc3 d6 9. c5 O-O 10. Ne2 Nd7 11. cxd6 cxd6 12. Ng3 Qc7 13. Qd2 Nb6 14. Rc1 Nc4
15. Bxc4 Qxc4 16. Qe2 Qa4 17. O-O f5 18. exf5 Bxf5 19. c4 b6 20. Rfd1 Rae8 21.
Qb2 Qd7 22. Qb5 Qe7 23. Re1 Rc8 24. a4 Bd3 25. Qb3 Bf5 26. a5 bxa5 27. c5 Qd7
28. c6 Qc7 29. Ra1 Ne7 30. Qa2 Bg6 31. Qxa5 Bf7 32. Red1 Qxa5 33. Rxa5 Rc7 34.
Ne4 Rd8 35. Bg5 h6 36. Bxe7 Rxe7 37. Rda1 Kf8 38. Rxa7 Bxd5 39. c7 Rc8 40. Nxd6
Rexc7 41. Nxc8 Rxc8 42. R7a5 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.26"]
[Round "4.4"]
[White "Mladenov, P."]
[Black "Stoinev, M."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D16"]
[WhiteElo "2394"]
[BlackElo "2268"]
[PlyCount "128"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. c4 c6 4. Nc3 dxc4 5. a4 Bg4 6. Ne5 Bh5 7. g3 e6 8. Bg2
Bb4 9. Nxc4 Nd5 10. Qb3 O-O 11. e3 a5 12. O-O Nb6 13. Ne5 Na6 14. h4 Bd6 15.
Ne4 Nb4 16. Nxd6 Qxd6 17. Bd2 f6 18. Bxb4 axb4 19. Nf3 Bf7 20. a5 e5 21. dxe5
fxe5 22. Qc2 Bg6 23. Qb3+ Bf7 24. Qc2 Bg6 25. Qc1 Nd5 26. Ng5 h6 27. Ne4 Bxe4
28. Bxe4 Nf6 29. Qc4+ Kh8 30. Bg2 Qe7 31. Ra4 c5 32. Raa1 e4 33. Rfc1 Rac8 34.
Bh3 Rc6 35. Rc2 Qe5 36. Qb5 Rf7 37. Rac1 Rfc7 38. Bg2 Ne8 39. Rd1 Nd6 40. Qa4
Kh7 41. Rcd2 b5 42. axb6 Rxb6 43. Rd5 Qe7 44. Qc2 b3 45. Qc3 c4 46. Qd4 Rcc6
47. Re5 Qf6 48. h5 Kg8 49. Bxe4 Rc8 50. Qd5+ Kh8 51. Re6 Nxe4 52. Rxf6 Nxf6 53.
Qf7 Rb5 54. Qe7 c3 55. bxc3 b2 56. Qe6 Rxc3 57. Kg2 Rc1 58. Rd8+ Kh7 59. Rd7
b1=Q 60. Rxg7+ Kxg7 61. Qe7+ Kg8 62. Qe6+ Kf8 63. Qxf6+ Ke8 64. Qe6+ Kd8 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.26"]
[Round "4.5"]
[White "Panajotov, J."]
[Black "Tsvetkov, Ilia"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B34"]
[WhiteElo "2219"]
[BlackElo "2392"]
[PlyCount "61"]
[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 Nf6 7. g3 h5 8. h3
d6 9. Bg2 Bd7 10. Bg5 Qa5 11. Bd2 Qb6 12. Rb1 Qd8 13. b3 Qc8 14. Be3 O-O 15.
Qd2 Nb4 16. Rc1 Re8 17. a3 Na6 18. b4 Nc7 19. Nd4 a5 20. Nce2 axb4 21. axb4 d5
22. exd5 Ncxd5 23. c4 Nxe3 24. Qxe3 Kh7 25. Nf3 Bh6 26. Ng5+ Kg7 27. h4 Ng4 28.
Qc3+ f6 29. f3 Ne5 30. f4 Bc6 31. Ne4 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.26"]
[Round "4.6"]
[White "Filev, Georgi"]
[Black "Arnaudov, Petar"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A42"]
[WhiteElo "2389"]
[BlackElo "2207"]
[PlyCount "60"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 g6 3. d4 Bg7 4. c4 d6 5. Nc3 Bg4 6. dxc5 Bxf3 7. Qxf3 dxc5 8.
Bd2 Nc6 9. Qd1 Nf6 10. Be2 O-O 11. O-O Nd7 12. Rc1 Nd4 13. Be3 Nb8 14. f4 Nbc6
15. e5 b6 16. Bf3 Rc8 17. Bxc6 Nxc6 18. Qf3 Nd4 19. Qe4 f5 20. Qb1 Rc7 21. Rcd1
Rd7 22. Bxd4 cxd4 23. Qd3 Qa8 24. Ne2 Rfd8 25. Rd2 e6 26. Rfd1 Bf8 27. a3 a5
28. Rc2 Qc6 29. Kf2 Bc5 30. Ng3 a4 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.26"]
[Round "4.7"]
[White "Janchev, P."]
[Black "Milchev, N."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A26"]
[WhiteElo "2215"]
[BlackElo "2382"]
[PlyCount "80"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nc6 2. c4 e5 3. Nc3 g6 4. g3 Bg7 5. Bg2 d6 6. O-O f5 7. d3 Nf6 8. Rb1
O-O 9. b4 h6 10. b5 Ne7 11. Ba3 Be6 12. Nd2 Rb8 13. Qa4 Nc8 14. Bb4 Rf7 15. Nb3
b6 16. Rfd1 Qe8 17. Ba3 Kh7 18. d4 e4 19. d5 Bd7 20. Nd4 a5 21. Bc1 Bh8 22. Qc2
Ne7 23. f3 exf3 24. exf3 Neg8 25. Nc6 Ra8 26. Bd2 Rf8 27. Re1 Qf7 28. Ne2 Nh5
29. Bc3 Bxc3 30. Qxc3 Rae8 31. Ned4 Qf6 32. Qd3 Ng7 33. f4 Qf7 34. Bf3 Nf6 35.
Kg2 Ng4 36. h3 Nf6 37. Rbd1 Bc8 38. Qc2 Bd7 39. Qd3 Kh8 40. Qc2 Kh7 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.26"]
[Round "4.8"]
[White "Badev, K."]
[Black "Georgiev, S."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B90"]
[WhiteElo "2369"]
[BlackElo "2167"]
[PlyCount "33"]
[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 Be6 8. g4
h6 9. Bg2 Be7 10. O-O Nbd7 11. Be3 b5 12. Ng3 b4 13. Nd5 Bxd5 14. exd5 g6 15.
Qd2 Nb6 16. b3 Rc8 17. a3 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.26"]
[Round "4.9"]
[White "Pantev, T."]
[Black "Pantev, V."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A90"]
[WhiteElo "1721"]
[BlackElo "2369"]
[PlyCount "60"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 e6 2. c4 f5 3. g3 Nf6 4. Bg2 Bb4+ 5. Bd2 a5 6. a3 Bxd2+ 7. Nxd2 O-O 8.
Ngf3 a4 9. b4 axb3 10. Nxb3 d6 11. O-O Nc6 12. d5 Na5 13. Nxa5 Rxa5 14. Nd4 e5
15. Nb3 Ra8 16. c5 Bd7 17. cxd6 cxd6 18. Nd2 Bb5 19. a4 Ba6 20. Re1 Qa5 21. e4
fxe4 22. Nxe4 Nxe4 23. Bxe4 Rf6 24. f4 exf4 25. gxf4 Qb6+ 26. Kh1 Qf2 27. Bg2
Raf8 28. Re6 Qxf4 29. Qh5 Bd3 30. Rae1 Bg6 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.26"]
[Round "4.10"]
[White "Vutov, M."]
[Black "Stanoev, A."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B86"]
[WhiteElo "2331"]
[BlackElo "2202"]
[PlyCount "60"]
[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. Bc4 Nbd7 7. f4 e6 8. Bb3
Nc5 9. Qf3 b5 10. f5 b4 11. fxe6 fxe6 12. Na4 Nxb3 13. axb3 Bd7 14. Bd2 e5 15.
Nf5 g6 16. Nh6 Bg7 17. O-O Rf8 18. Kh1 Ng4 19. Nf7 Qe7 20. Nb6 Ra7 21. Nxd7
Qxd7 22. Nxd6+ Qxd6 23. Qxg4 Rxf1+ 24. Rxf1 Qxd2 25. Qc8+ Qd8 26. Qe6+ Qe7 27.
Qc8+ Qd8 28. Qe6+ Qe7 29. Qc8+ Qd8 30. Qe6+ Qe7 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.26"]
[Round "4.11"]
[White "Janachkov, A."]
[Black "Ljangov, P."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E04"]
[WhiteElo "2231"]
[BlackElo "2107"]
[PlyCount "61"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. g3 c5 4. Bg2 Nc6 5. O-O d5 6. c4 dxc4 7. Qa4 Nd7 8. dxc5
Bxc5 9. Qxc4 O-O 10. Nc3 Be7 11. Rd1 Qa5 12. Qb5 a6 13. Qxa5 Nxa5 14. Bf4 Bf6
15. Rac1 h6 16. b3 Nc6 17. Ne4 Be7 18. Bd6 Bxd6 19. Nxd6 Nf6 20. Nd2 Rd8 21.
N2c4 Rb8 22. Bxc6 bxc6 23. Ne5 Bb7 24. Nexf7 Rd7 25. Ne5 Rdd8 26. Nxb7 Rxd1+
27. Rxd1 Rxb7 28. Rd8+ Kh7 29. Rc8 Rb5 30. Nd3 Ra5 31. a4 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.26"]
[Round "4.12"]
[White "Mishev, L."]
[Black "Angelov, B."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C54"]
[WhiteElo "2205"]
[BlackElo "2000"]
[PlyCount "83"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 Bc5 5. c3 a6 6. O-O d6 7. Bb3 Ba7 8. h3 h6
9. Re1 Qe7 10. Be3 Bxe3 11. Rxe3 Nh5 12. Kh2 Nf4 13. Ng1 h5 14. g3 Ne6 15. Bxe6
Bxe6 16. Nd2 O-O-O 17. Qf1 g6 18. b4 f5 19. exf5 gxf5 20. a4 Nb8 21. d4 h4 22.
dxe5 dxe5 23. Ndf3 hxg3+ 24. fxg3 f4 25. Rxe5 fxg3+ 26. Kg2 Qd7 27. h4 Bd5 28.
Qb1 Rxh4 29. Qf5 Qxf5 30. Rxf5 Rg4 31. Re1 b6 32. Ree5 Bc6 33. a5 Nd7 34. Re6
Kb7 35. axb6 cxb6 36. Rf7 Bd5 37. Re8 Rxe8 38. Rxd7+ Kc6 39. Rh7 Re3 40. Rh6+
Kb5 41. Rd6 Bxf3+ 42. Nxf3 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.26"]
[Round "4.13"]
[White "Andreev, Sasho"]
[Black "Ivanov, T."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E87"]
[WhiteElo "2153"]
[BlackElo "2142"]
[PlyCount "90"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 d6 3. Nc3 g6 4. e4 Bg7 5. f3 O-O 6. Be3 e5 7. d5 Nh5 8. Qd2 f5
9. exf5 gxf5 10. Bd3 Na6 11. O-O-O Nc5 12. Bxc5 dxc5 13. Nge2 Qf6 14. Kb1 Bh6
15. Qc2 Be3 16. h3 Rf7 17. g4 Nf4 18. Ng3 Nxd3 19. Qxd3 Bf2 20. Nh5 Qg6 21.
Rhf1 fxg4 22. fxg4 Bd7 23. Ne4 Raf8 24. Rd2 Bd4 25. Rxf7 Rxf7 26. Nhg3 Rf4 27.
Re2 a6 28. a4 Qh6 29. Nf5 Bxf5 30. gxf5 Rxf5 31. Nxc5 Qg6 32. Ne4 Rf1+ 33. Ka2
Qg1 34. Qc2 Kh8 35. Rg2 Ra1+ 36. Kb3 Qe3+ 37. Kb4 a5+ 38. Kb5 Qh6 39. d6 Qe6
40. c5 cxd6 41. Nxd6 Qd5 42. Kxa5 b6+ 43. Ka6 bxc5 44. Qf5 Rxa4+ 45. Kb5 Rb4+
0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.26"]
[Round "4.14"]
[White "Ivanov, B."]
[Black "Ivanov, L."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E09"]
[WhiteElo "2128"]
[BlackElo "1949"]
[PlyCount "80"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. g3 d5 4. Nf3 c6 5. Nbd2 Nbd7 6. Qc2 Be7 7. Bg2 O-O 8. O-O
b6 9. e4 dxc4 10. Nxc4 Ba6 11. b3 Rc8 12. Rd1 c5 13. d5 exd5 14. exd5 b5 15.
Nce5 Qc7 16. Nc6 Bd6 17. Bb2 Rfe8 18. Ng5 b4 19. Ne4 Nxe4 20. Bxe4 g6 21. a3 f5
22. Bf3 Ne5 23. Nxe5 Bxe5 24. axb4 Qb6 25. Bxe5 Rxe5 26. bxc5 Rxc5 27. Qa2 Bb7
28. Qxa7 Qxa7 29. Rxa7 Bxd5 30. b4 Rb5 31. Bxd5+ Rexd5 32. Rc1 Rd8 33. Rcc7
Rxb4 34. Rg7+ Kh8 35. Rxh7+ Kg8 36. Rag7+ Kf8 37. Rxg6 Rd5 38. Ra6 Kg8 39. Rc7
Rb8 40. Rg6+ Kh8 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.26"]
[Round "4.15"]
[White "Asparuhov, P."]
[Black "Gudzhenov, V."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C40"]
[WhiteElo "2107"]
[BlackElo "1932"]
[PlyCount "84"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 f5 3. Nxe5 Nc6 4. Qh5+ g6 5. Nxg6 Nf6 6. Qh3 hxg6 7. Qxh8 Qe7
8. Qh4 Nd4 9. Na3 fxe4 10. Qg3 d5 11. h3 Kf7 12. Be2 c6 13. Bd1 Nf5 14. Qb3 Qe5
15. Kf1 Bd7 16. d4 Nxd4 17. Qc3 c5 18. Qe1 Qf5 19. c3 Nc6 20. Qe3 Ne5 21. g4
Qe6 22. g5 Ne8 23. Qf4+ Kg7 24. Be3 Bd6 25. Qh4 Kf7 26. Qf4+ Kg7 27. Qh4 Kf7
28. Be2 a6 29. Rd1 Ng7 30. Bf4 Rg8 31. Qg3 Nf5 32. Qh2 Re8 33. h4 Nf3 34. Qh3
Bxf4 35. Bxf3 exf3 36. Qxf3 Bd6 37. h5 Bc6 38. hxg6+ Qxg6 39. Rh6 d4 40. Rxg6
Bxf3 41. Rf6+ Kg7 42. Rd2 Rh8 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.26"]
[Round "4.16"]
[White "Stankov, A."]
[Black "Nikolov, J."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C57"]
[WhiteElo "1897"]
[BlackElo "2090"]
[PlyCount "90"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Nd4 6. d6 Qxd6 7. Bxf7+ Ke7 8.
Bb3 Nxb3 9. axb3 h6 10. Nf3 e4 11. Ng1 Kf7 12. h3 Qe5 13. Nc3 Bc5 14. Qe2 Re8
15. b4 Bf8 16. b3 c6 17. Bb2 Qg5 18. g3 b5 19. Qe3 Qxe3+ 20. dxe3 Bxb4 21. Nge2
a5 22. Kf1 Rd8 23. Nd4 Bd7 24. Kg2 Bxc3 25. Bxc3 b4 26. Bb2 c5 27. Ne2 Bb5 28.
Bxf6 Kxf6 29. c4 Bc6 30. Rad1 Rd3 31. Nf4 Rxd1 32. Rxd1 a4 33. bxa4 Bxa4 34.
Rd6+ Kf7 35. Nd5 Bd1 36. Rd7+ Kf8 37. g4 b3 38. Rb7 Ra4 39. Nc3 Bf3+ 40. Kg3
Rb4 41. Rb5 b2 42. Nb1 Be2 43. Rxc5 Bxc4 44. Nc3 Bd3 45. Rc8+ Kf7 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.26"]
[Round "4.17"]
[White "Kolev, Atanas Tonchev"]
[Black "Hristov, N."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A79"]
[WhiteElo "2017"]
[BlackElo "1878"]
[PlyCount "77"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 c5 4. d5 exd5 5. cxd5 d6 6. Nc3 g6 7. Nd2 Bg7 8. e4
O-O 9. Be2 Na6 10. O-O Nc7 11. a4 Re8 12. f3 Nd7 13. Nc4 Ne5 14. Bf4 Nxc4 15.
Bxc4 f5 16. Qd3 b6 17. Rfe1 g5 18. Bg3 f4 19. Bf2 a6 20. g3 Qd7 21. gxf4 gxf4
22. Kh1 Re5 23. Rg1 Rh5 24. Rg2 Ra7 25. Ne2 Qf7 26. Qd2 Bh3 27. Rgg1 Bc8 28.
Nxf4 Rh6 29. Rg3 Kh8 30. Rag1 Ne8 31. Ne6 Rh4 32. Rxg7 Rxh2+ 33. Kxh2 Qh5+ 34.
Kg3 Rxg7+ 35. Nxg7 Qh3+ 36. Kf4 Qh6+ 37. Rg5 Nxg7 38. Qc3 b5 39. Qxg7+ 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.26"]
[Round "4.18"]
[White "Velikov, V."]
[Black "Kolev, H."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B73"]
[WhiteElo "1843"]
[BlackElo "1765"]
[PlyCount "68"]
[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. Be2 Bg7 7. Be3 O-O 8.
Qd2 Nc6 9. O-O Bd7 10. f4 Qc7 11. Bf3 a6 12. h3 Na5 13. b3 Rac8 14. Nd5 Nxd5
15. exd5 b5 16. Rac1 Nb7 17. g4 e5 18. dxe6 fxe6 19. c4 Qb8 20. cxb5 axb5 21.
Rxc8 Rxc8 22. f5 Nd8 23. fxe6 Nxe6 24. Bd5 Re8 25. Bf2 Kh8 26. Nxe6 Bxe6 27.
Re1 Bxd5 28. Rxe8+ Qxe8 29. Qxd5 Be5 30. Bd4 b4 31. Bxe5+ Qxe5 32. Qxe5+ dxe5
33. Kf2 Kg7 34. Ke3 Kf6 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.26"]
[Round "4.19"]
[White "Sotirov, I."]
[Black "Stankovski, M."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A82"]
[WhiteElo "1996"]
[BlackElo "1731"]
[PlyCount "53"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 f5 2. e4 fxe4 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. f3 d5 5. Bg5 exf3 6. Nxf3 Bg4 7. Be2 c6 8.
O-O Nbd7 9. Ne5 Bxe2 10. Qxe2 h6 11. Bh4 Qb6 12. Bf2 Qxb2 13. Qd3 Nxe5 14. dxe5
Nd7 15. Rab1 Qa3 16. Rb3 Qa6 17. Qg6+ Kd8 18. e6 Nf6 19. Rfb1 b6 20. Bg3 d4 21.
Ne4 Qe2 22. Nc5 Qg4 23. Qd3 Nd5 24. Qa6 Nf4 25. Qb7 Ne2+ 26. Kh1 Nxg3+ 27. Rxg3
1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.26"]
[Round "4.20"]
[White "Rojdov, P."]
[Black "Baltov, N."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B19"]
[WhiteElo "1941"]
[PlyCount "87"]
[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 Nf6 8. Ne5
Bh7 9. Bc4 e6 10. Qe2 Qe7 11. Bb3 Nbd7 12. f4 Nxe5 13. fxe5 Nd5 14. Ne4 Qd7 15.
Bd2 O-O-O 16. O-O-O Kb8 17. g4 Be7 18. g5 h5 19. Ng3 Bg6 20. c3 c5 21. dxc5
Bxc5 22. Bc2 Bxc2 23. Kxc2 Qa4+ 24. Kb1 g6 25. Ne4 Qc6 26. Rhf1 Rhf8 27. Qc4
Be3 28. Qxc6 bxc6 29. Rf3 Bxd2 30. Rxd2 Kc7 31. Nd6 Kb6 32. Rdf2 Rd7 33. c4 Ne7
34. Rxf7 Rxf7 35. Rxf7 Kc7 36. Rf4 Nf5 37. c5 Ne3 38. Rf6 Ng2 39. Rxg6 Nxh4 40.
Rxe6 Kb8 41. Re8+ Rd8 42. Rxd8+ Kc7 43. Re8 Ng6 44. e6 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.27"]
[Round "5.1"]
[White "Berbatov, Kiprian"]
[Black "Petkov, Vladimir"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C67"]
[WhiteElo "2455"]
[BlackElo "2490"]
[PlyCount "90"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Nxe4 5. d4 Nd6 6. dxe5 Nxb5 7. a4 Nbd4 8.
Nxd4 Nxd4 9. Qxd4 d5 10. Nc3 c6 11. Qd3 g6 12. Ne2 Bg7 13. Nd4 O-O 14. Bf4 c5
15. Nb5 Be6 16. Rfe1 Qd7 17. Qd2 b6 18. Bh6 f6 19. Bxg7 Kxg7 20. Qf4 f5 21. Nd6
h6 22. a5 g5 23. Qa4 Qxa4 24. Rxa4 b5 25. Raa1 a6 26. f4 Ra7 27. Rad1 Kg6 28.
Kf2 Rg8 29. c3 Rc7 30. Kf3 Kh5 31. g3 Rcg7 32. Rg1 gxf4 33. Kxf4 Rg4+ 34. Kf3
f4 35. Kf2 fxg3+ 36. Rxg3 Rf8+ 37. Kg1 Rxg3+ 38. hxg3 Rf3 39. Nb7 c4 40. Nc5
Bg4 41. Re1 Rxg3+ 42. Kh2 Kh4 43. Rg1 Re3 44. Rg2 Rxe5 45. Nxa6 Bf3 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.27"]
[Round "5.2"]
[White "Janev, Evgeni"]
[Black "Marholev, D."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D40"]
[WhiteElo "2461"]
[BlackElo "2431"]
[PlyCount "68"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. c4 c5 4. e3 d5 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. a3 Ne4 7. cxd5 exd5 8. dxc5
Nxc3 9. bxc3 Bxc5 10. Be2 O-O 11. O-O Bg4 12. Ra2 Qe7 13. a4 Rad8 14. Rd2 Be6
15. Nd4 Ne5 16. Nxe6 fxe6 17. Qb3 b6 18. Rdd1 Qh4 19. g3 Qe4 20. Ba3 Nf3+ 21.
Bxf3 Rxf3 22. Bxc5 bxc5 23. Qb5 Rdf8 24. Qxc5 Qxa4 25. Rd2 h5 26. Qe7 Qe4 27.
Qxa7 h4 28. Qd4 hxg3 29. hxg3 Qf5 30. c4 Rxg3+ 31. fxg3 Qxf1+ 32. Kh2 Rf6 33.
g4 Rh6+ 34. Kg3 Rh3# 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.27"]
[Round "5.3"]
[White "Stoinev, M."]
[Black "Badev, K."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B91"]
[WhiteElo "2268"]
[BlackElo "2369"]
[PlyCount "102"]
[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 Be7 8. Bg2
O-O 9. a4 Bg4 10. Qd3 Nc6 11. Be3 Nb4 12. Qd2 Rc8 13. O-O Be6 14. Bg5 h6 15.
Bxf6 Bxf6 16. h4 g5 17. hxg5 hxg5 18. Rfe1 Kg7 19. Qd1 Rh8 20. Nd2 Qg8 21. Nf1
Qh7 22. g4 Bd8 23. a5 Nc6 24. Nd5 Nxa5 25. Ng3 Qh2+ 26. Kf1 Rh4 27. Nf5+ Bxf5
28. exf5 Nc4 29. b3 Nb6 30. f6+ Kg8 31. Ne3 d5 32. Nf5 Bxf6 33. Nxh4 Qxh4 34.
c4 e4 35. Rc1 dxc4 36. bxc4 Nxc4 37. Rxe4 b5 38. Qe2 Kg7 39. Rd1 Qh2 40. Rd7
Nd6 41. Qa2 Rc1+ 42. Re1 Rxe1+ 43. Kxe1 Qxg2 44. Rxd6 Bc3+ 45. Ke2 Qxg4+ 46.
Kf1 a5 47. Rd3 b4 48. Qxa5 Qf4 49. Qd5 Qe5 50. Qc4 Kg6 51. Qc6+ Kg7 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.27"]
[Round "5.4"]
[White "Enchev, Ivajlo"]
[Black "Panajotov, J."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E42"]
[WhiteElo "2434"]
[BlackElo "2219"]
[PlyCount "103"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 c5 5. Nge2 cxd4 6. exd4 d5 7. c5 Ne4 8. Bd2
Nxd2 9. Qxd2 Nc6 10. a3 Ba5 11. b4 Bc7 12. g3 O-O 13. Bg2 a6 14. O-O Bd7 15. f4
Ne7 16. a4 Kh8 17. b5 Ba5 18. Qd3 Bxc3 19. Nxc3 Qa5 20. Rab1 Rfc8 21. f5 axb5
22. fxe6 Bxe6 23. Rxb5 Qc7 24. Rb6 Qd7 25. Qb5 Rc7 26. Rb1 Nc6 27. Rxb7 Nxd4
28. Qxd7 Rxd7 29. Rxd7 Bxd7 30. Rd1 Ne6 31. Bxd5 Rc8 32. Bxe6 Bxe6 33. c6 g6
34. Rd6 Kg7 35. Nb5 Kf8 36. c7 Ke7 37. Rc6 Ra8 38. Rxe6+ Kxe6 39. Na7 Kd7 40.
c8=Q+ Rxc8 41. Nxc8 Kxc8 42. Kf2 Kc7 43. Ke3 f6 44. Kd4 Kc6 45. h3 Kd6 46. h4
h5 47. a5 Kc6 48. a6 Kb6 49. Kd5 g5 50. Ke6 Kxa6 51. Kxf6 gxh4 52. gxh4 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.27"]
[Round "5.5"]
[White "Arnaudov, Petar G."]
[Black "Janchev, P."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A53"]
[WhiteElo "2413"]
[BlackElo "2215"]
[PlyCount "87"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 d6 3. d4 Bf5 4. Nc3 h6 5. h3 Nbd7 6. g4 Bh7 7. Bg2 c6 8. d5
Rc8 9. Nd4 cxd5 10. cxd5 Qa5 11. O-O g6 12. Kh1 Bg7 13. f4 Rxc3 14. bxc3 Qxc3
15. Nb3 Ne4 16. Bxe4 Qxh3+ 17. Kg1 g5 18. Bg2 Qxg4 19. e4 Qxd1 20. Rxd1 Bxa1
21. Nxa1 gxf4 22. Bxf4 Rg8 23. Kf2 Nc5 24. Bxh6 Nxe4+ 25. Bxe4 Bxe4 26. Ke3 f5
27. Nb3 Rg2 28. Nc1 Rc2 29. Ne2 Rxa2 30. Nc3 Rh2 31. Bg5 Rh3+ 32. Kd4 Rg3 33.
Bf4 Rf3 34. Bc1 Rh3 35. Bf4 Rf3 36. Be3 Rg3 37. Rf1 Kd7 38. Nxe4 Rg4 39. Rxf5
b5 40. Rf7 Ke8 41. Rh7 b4 42. Bg5 Kf8 43. Bxe7+ Kg8 44. Rh1 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.27"]
[Round "5.6"]
[White "Tsvetkov, Ilia"]
[Black "Arnaudov, Petar"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A44"]
[WhiteElo "2392"]
[BlackElo "2207"]
[PlyCount "85"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 c5 2. d5 e5 3. e4 d6 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Nf3 Nf6 6. Bb5+ Nbd7 7. a4 O-O 8. O-O
Ne8 9. Bd3 g6 10. Bh6 Ng7 11. Qd2 Nf6 12. h3 Kh8 13. Nh2 Ng8 14. Be3 g5 15. g4
h5 16. f3 f6 17. Rfb1 a5 18. b3 Rf7 19. Nd1 Bf8 20. Nb2 Ne7 21. c3 Ng6 22. b4
Ne8 23. Nc4 b6 24. Rb2 Ba6 25. bxc5 bxc5 26. Rab1 Bxc4 27. Bxc4 Qc8 28. Bb5 Ne7
29. Bxe8 Qxe8 30. Rb5 Ng6 31. Nf1 hxg4 32. hxg4 Be7 33. Ng3 Nh4 34. Qf2 Rh7 35.
Kf1 Kg7 36. Ke2 Kg6 37. Nh5 Bd8 38. Qg1 Bc7 39. Bf2 Bd8 40. Qh2 Kh6 41. Bxh4
gxh4 42. Qxh4 f5 43. Nf6+ 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.27"]
[Round "5.7"]
[White "Pantev, V."]
[Black "Filev, Georgi"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D93"]
[WhiteElo "2369"]
[BlackElo "2389"]
[PlyCount "129"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. c4 c6 4. Qc2 g6 5. Bf4 Bg7 6. e3 O-O 7. Nc3 Qa5 8. Be2
c5 9. O-O dxc4 10. d5 b5 11. e4 Bb7 12. a4 b4 13. Nb5 Ne8 14. d6 Nxd6 15. Bxd6
exd6 16. Nxd6 Ba6 17. Bxc4 Bxc4 18. Nxc4 Qc7 19. Rad1 Nc6 20. Rd5 Nd4 21. Nxd4
Bxd4 22. b3 Rad8 23. g3 Rfe8 24. Rxd8 Qxd8 25. Re1 h5 26. Qe2 h4 27. Qg4 hxg3
28. hxg3 Qf6 29. Re2 Kg7 30. e5 Qc6 31. Re4 Rh8 32. Qf3 Qe6 33. Rf4 Rf8 34. Qe4
Qh3 35. Qg2 Qe6 36. Qe4 Qh3 37. Qf3 Qe6 38. Qg4 Qe7 39. Re4 Rh8 40. Nd6 Qe6 41.
Qxe6 fxe6 42. Nb5 Rd8 43. Nxa7 c4 44. Nc6 cxb3 45. Nxd8 Bc3 46. Re2 b2 47. Rxb2
Bxb2 48. Nxe6+ Kf7 49. Nd8+ Ke8 50. Nc6 Bc3 51. Na5 Bxe5 52. f4 Bc7 53. Nb3 Kd7
54. Kf2 Ke6 55. Ke3 Kd5 56. Kd3 Bb6 57. a5 Bf2 58. g4 Bg3 59. f5 gxf5 60. gxf5
Be5 61. Nd2 Kc5 62. Nc4 Bf6 63. a6 Kc6 64. Ne3 Bg5 65. Nd5 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.27"]
[Round "5.8"]
[White "Milchev, N."]
[Black "Pantev, T."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E90"]
[WhiteElo "2382"]
[BlackElo "1721"]
[PlyCount "101"]
[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. h3 Na6 7. Be3 e5 8. d5 Nh5
9. Ng1 Qe8 10. a3 f5 11. b4 Bd7 12. Be2 Nf6 13. g4 Nxe4 14. Nxe4 fxe4 15. Bf1
c6 16. dxc6 bxc6 17. Qxd6 Rf6 18. Qd2 Bf8 19. Ne2 Rd6 20. Qc2 Nc7 21. Qxe4 a5
22. Rb1 axb4 23. axb4 c5 24. b5 Nxb5 25. cxb5 Bxb5 26. Nc3 Bc6 27. Qc4+ Kh8 28.
Rg1 Bf3 29. Be2 Rd4 30. Qb5 Bc6 31. Qb6 Rdd8 32. Bb5 Bxb5 33. Qxb5 Qf7 34. Ke2
Bg7 35. Rgd1 e4 36. Nxe4 Ra2+ 37. Rd2 Raxd2+ 38. Nxd2 Qa2 39. Qb6 Rxd2+ 40.
Bxd2 Qc4+ 41. Kf3 Qd5+ 42. Kg3 Be5+ 43. Bf4 Qd3+ 44. f3 Bxf4+ 45. Kxf4 Qd4+ 46.
Kg3 Qe5+ 47. f4 Qe3+ 48. Kh4 Qf2+ 49. Kg5 h6+ 50. Kxg6 Qc2+ 51. f5 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.27"]
[Round "5.9"]
[White "Angelov, B."]
[Black "Janachkov, A."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D02"]
[WhiteElo "2000"]
[BlackElo "2231"]
[PlyCount "63"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. c3 c6 4. Bf4 Bf5 5. e3 e6 6. Bd3 Bxd3 7. Qxd3 Bd6 8.
Bxd6 Qxd6 9. Ne5 Nbd7 10. Nxd7 Nxd7 11. O-O O-O 12. a3 e5 13. Nd2 exd4 14. exd4
Rae8 15. Rfe1 Qg6 16. Qxg6 hxg6 17. Rxe8 Rxe8 18. Kf1 f6 19. Re1 Rxe1+ 20. Kxe1
Kf7 21. Ke2 Ke6 22. Kd3 g5 23. g4 Nf8 24. Ke3 Ng6 25. Nb3 b6 26. Nc1 Nf4 27.
Nd3 Nxd3 28. Kxd3 Kd6 29. Ke3 a5 30. a4 b5 31. b3 bxa4 32. bxa4 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.27"]
[Round "5.10"]
[White "Ivanov, T."]
[Black "Mladenov, P."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B58"]
[WhiteElo "2142"]
[BlackElo "2394"]
[PlyCount "28"]
[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 Nc6 6. Be2 e5 7. Nxc6 bxc6 8.
O-O Be7 9. Bg5 h6 10. Bxf6 Bxf6 11. Nd5 cxd5 12. Bb5+ Bd7 13. Qxd5 Bxb5 14.
Qxb5+ Qd7 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.27"]
[Round "5.11"]
[White "Nikolov, J."]
[Black "Vutov, M."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B07"]
[WhiteElo "2090"]
[BlackElo "2331"]
[PlyCount "118"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 c6 4. a4 Qc7 5. h3 e5 6. Nge2 Nbd7 7. g3 g6 8. Bg2
Bg7 9. O-O O-O 10. Be3 Re8 11. Qd2 exd4 12. Bxd4 Nc5 13. f3 Ne6 14. Bf2 d5 15.
exd5 Nxd5 16. Nxd5 cxd5 17. c3 Qc4 18. Rfd1 Nc5 19. Qxd5 Qxd5 20. Rxd5 Nb3 21.
Re1 Be6 22. Rdd1 Bc4 23. Bf1 b6 24. Nc1 Na5 25. Rxe8+ Rxe8 26. Rd7 Bxf1 27.
Kxf1 Nc4 28. Nd3 a6 29. Bd4 b5 30. axb5 axb5 31. Kf2 Bxd4+ 32. Rxd4 Re7 33. Rd5
Rb7 34. f4 h5 35. Kf3 Kg7 36. g4 hxg4+ 37. hxg4 Re7 38. Ne5 Nxb2 39. Rxb5 Nd1
40. c4 f6 41. Rd5 Nb2 42. Rd2 Na4 43. Nd7 Re6 44. c5 Kf7 45. Rd4 Nc3 46. Rc4
Nd5 47. c6 Nc7 48. g5 fxg5 49. fxg5 Ke7 50. Re4 Kd6 51. Nf8 Re5 52. Rxe5 Kxe5
53. Nxg6+ Kf5 54. Ne7+ Kxg5 55. Ke4 Kf6 56. Nd5+ Ke6 57. Nb4 Kd6 58. Kd4 Nb5+
59. Kc4 Nc7 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.27"]
[Round "5.12"]
[White "Stanoev, A."]
[Black "Ivanov, B."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A03"]
[WhiteElo "2202"]
[BlackElo "2128"]
[PlyCount "85"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. f4 d5 2. Nf3 g6 3. e3 Bg7 4. d3 Nf6 5. Be2 c5 6. O-O O-O 7. Qe1 Nc6 8. Qh4
Re8 9. Nbd2 e5 10. fxe5 Nxe5 11. Nxe5 Rxe5 12. Bf3 Bf5 13. Nb3 b6 14. h3 a5 15.
a4 Rc8 16. Bd2 Re8 17. Rae1 Bd7 18. Bc3 Bc6 19. Nc1 Nd7 20. Qxd8 Rcxd8 21. Bxg7
Kxg7 22. b3 Ne5 23. Kf2 c4 24. Be2 cxb3 25. cxb3 Rb8 26. Na2 b5 27. d4 Nd7 28.
Rc1 Re6 29. Nc3 bxa4 30. bxa4 Rbe8 31. Bf3 Rxe3 32. Nb5 Bxb5 33. axb5 Nf6 34.
b6 R3e6 35. Rb1 Rb8 36. Rb5 Rexb6 37. Rxa5 Rb4 38. Bxd5 Rxd4 39. Bf3 h5 40. Kg1
Rd7 41. Ra6 Rbd8 42. Rc1 Rd6 43. Ra7 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.27"]
[Round "5.13"]
[White "Georgiev, S."]
[Black "Kolev, Atanas Tonchev"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E92"]
[WhiteElo "2167"]
[BlackElo "2017"]
[PlyCount "64"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. d4 g6 3. c4 Bg7 4. Nc3 O-O 5. e4 d6 6. Be2 e5 7. d5 Nh5 8. O-O
Nf4 9. Ne1 f5 10. exf5 Nxe2+ 11. Qxe2 gxf5 12. f4 e4 13. Be3 Nd7 14. Rc1 c5 15.
a3 Nf6 16. h3 Bd7 17. Bf2 Qe8 18. Bh4 Qg6 19. Nc2 Rae8 20. Kh2 Nh5 21. Qe3 Kh8
22. b4 b6 23. Rb1 Rg8 24. g3 h6 25. bxc5 dxc5 26. Rg1 Kh7 27. Rg2 Bxc3 28. Qxc3
Nxf4 29. Rd2 Nxh3 30. Kxh3 Qg4+ 31. Kh2 f4 32. Rh1 e3 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.27"]
[Round "5.14"]
[White "Gudzhenov, V."]
[Black "Mishev, L."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B70"]
[WhiteElo "1932"]
[BlackElo "2205"]
[PlyCount "70"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 d6 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nc3 c5 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 g6 6. Bc4 Bg7 7. Bb3 O-O 8.
O-O Nc6 9. Nde2 Na5 10. Be3 a6 11. f3 b5 12. Qd3 Bb7 13. Rad1 Rc8 14. g4 Nd7
15. Bd4 Ne5 16. Bxe5 Bxe5 17. f4 Bg7 18. Bd5 Nc4 19. Bxc4 Rxc4 20. Rf3 Qc8 21.
f5 b4 22. Nd5 Bxd5 23. Qxd5 Rxc2 24. Nf4 Rxb2 25. Nd3 Qc3 26. e5 Bxe5 27. Nxb2
Qxb2 28. Rd2 Qc1+ 29. Kg2 gxf5 30. g5 e6 31. Qd3 Rc8 32. Qe2 Rc4 33. Rf1 Rg4+
34. Kh3 Qc7 35. Qxa6 Qe7 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.27"]
[Round "5.15"]
[White "Kolev, H."]
[Black "Andreev, Sasho"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B03"]
[WhiteElo "1765"]
[BlackElo "2153"]
[PlyCount "74"]
[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. Nc3
e6 9. Nf3 Bb4 10. Be2 Qd7 11. O-O Na5 12. Nd2 O-O 13. Rc1 Bg6 14. Nce4 Nc6 15.
a3 Bxd2 16. Nxd2 Nxd4 17. Kh1 Nxe2 18. Qxe2 Bd3 19. Qg4 Bxf1 20. Rxf1 Qd3 21.
Rf3 Qg6 22. Qh4 f6 23. Rg3 Qf5 24. Bh6 Rf7 25. exf6 Rd8 26. Rxg7+ Rxg7 27. f7+
Kxf7 28. Qxd8 Rg8 29. Qxc7+ Kg6 30. Qg3+ Kxh6 31. Qxg8 Nxc4 32. Nf3 Ne5 33. Kg1
Nxf3+ 34. gxf3 Qb1+ 35. Kg2 Qxb2+ 36. Kh3 Qf6 37. Qg4 Qf5 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.27"]
[Round "5.16"]
[White "Ljangov, P."]
[Black "Asparuhov, P."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C14"]
[WhiteElo "2107"]
[BlackElo "2107"]
[PlyCount "92"]
[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. Bxe7 Qxe7 7. f4 a6 8. Nf3
c5 9. dxc5 Nxc5 10. Bd3 g6 11. Qd2 Nc6 12. O-O-O b5 13. Ne2 Bb7 14. Ned4 Nxd4
15. Nxd4 Ne4 16. Qe3 Rc8 17. Kb1 Nc5 18. Rhf1 Ne4 19. Nb3 Nc5 20. g4 Nxb3 21.
axb3 Qc5 22. Qxc5 Rxc5 23. b4 Rc7 24. c3 Ke7 25. Be2 Bc8 26. Kc2 f6 27. exf6+
Kxf6 28. Kd2 g5 29. Ke3 gxf4+ 30. Rxf4+ Ke5 31. Rdf1 Rd8 32. g5 Rdd7 33. Rd1
Rg7 34. h4 Bd7 35. Rdf1 Be8 36. Rf8 Bg6 37. Ra8 Rc6 38. Ra1 Rd6 39. R8xa6 d4+
40. cxd4+ Rxd4 41. Rxe6+ Kxe6 42. Kxd4 Rd7+ 43. Ke3 Rb7 44. Ra5 Be8 45. Bd3 Kd6
46. Ra6+ Ke5 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.27"]
[Round "5.17"]
[White "Hristov, N."]
[Black "Sotirov, I."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D58"]
[WhiteElo "1878"]
[BlackElo "1996"]
[PlyCount "116"]
[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 h6 6. Bh4 O-O 7. Nf3 b6 8. cxd5
exd5 9. Bd3 Bb7 10. O-O Nbd7 11. Rc1 c5 12. Bb1 Re8 13. Bg3 a6 14. Qc2 Nf8 15.
Rfd1 c4 16. Ne5 Qc8 17. f3 Qe6 18. Ne2 Nh5 19. Bf2 Rad8 20. g4 Nf6 21. Nf4 Qc8
22. Bg3 Bd6 23. Qc3 Qb8 24. Ng2 b5 25. a3 N8d7 26. f4 Ne4 27. Bxe4 dxe4 28. Nh4
Bd5 29. Nf5 Bf8 30. g5 h5 31. Qe1 Qc8 32. Nh4 Nxe5 33. dxe5 Be6 34. Qf2 g6 35.
Rf1 Rd3 36. f5 Bc5 37. fxe6 Bxe3 38. exf7+ Kg7 39. Qxe3 Rxe3 40. fxe8=Q Qxe8
41. Rf6 Rxg3+ 42. hxg3 Qxe5 43. Rxg6+ Kh7 44. Kh2 Qxb2+ 45. Kh3 Qxc1 46. Rh6+
Kg8 47. Rg6+ Kf7 48. Rf6+ Ke8 49. Kg2 Qd2+ 50. Kh3 Qe1 51. Kh2 Qd2+ 52. Kh3
Qxg5 53. Re6+ Kd7 54. Rxe4 Qd5 55. Re1 c3 56. Ng2 Qd2 57. Rh1 c2 58. Nf4 c1=Q
0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.27"]
[Round "5.18"]
[White "Ivanov, L."]
[Black "Rojdov, P."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E81"]
[WhiteElo "1949"]
[BlackElo "1941"]
[PlyCount "101"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 c5 2. d5 d6 3. c4 Nf6 4. Nc3 g6 5. e4 Bg7 6. f3 O-O 7. Be3 a6 8. Qd2 Bd7
9. Bd3 Qa5 10. Nge2 b5 11. O-O bxc4 12. Bxc4 Bb5 13. Nxb5 axb5 14. Qxa5 Rxa5
15. Bd2 b4 16. a3 Nfd7 17. axb4 Rxa1 18. Rxa1 Bxb2 19. Rb1 Bf6 20. bxc5 Nxc5
21. Be3 Nbd7 22. Nd4 Rb8 23. Rxb8+ Nxb8 24. Nc6 Nbd7 25. g4 g5 26. h4 h6 27. h5
Kf8 28. Nd4 Bxd4 29. Bxd4 f6 30. Bb5 Ke8 31. Kf1 Kf7 32. Ke2 Ne5 33. Kf2 Ned3+
34. Bxd3 Nxd3+ 35. Ke2 Nf4+ 36. Kd2 e6 37. Be3 Ng2 38. Bf2 exd5 39. exd5 Nf4
40. Bg3 f5 41. Bxf4 gxf4 42. gxf5 Kf6 43. Kd3 Kxf5 44. Kd4 Kf6 45. Kd3 Ke5 46.
Kc4 Kf6 47. Kb5 Kf5 48. Kb6 Kf6 49. Kc7 Ke5 50. Kd7 Kf6 51. Kxd6 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.27"]
[Round "5.19"]
[White "Stankovski, M."]
[Black "Stankov, A."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A03"]
[WhiteElo "1731"]
[BlackElo "1897"]
[PlyCount "70"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. f4 d5 2. Nf3 c5 3. g3 g6 4. Bg2 Bg7 5. d3 Nc6 6. O-O Nf6 7. c3 O-O 8. Qe1 d4
9. e4 dxe3 10. Bxe3 Qd6 11. Na3 b6 12. Rd1 Ng4 13. Nc4 Qc7 14. h3 Nxe3 15. Qxe3
Bb7 16. Rfe1 Rad8 17. Nfe5 e6 18. Bxc6 Bxc6 19. Nxc6 Qxc6 20. Qe4 Qc7 21. Kg2
Rd5 22. Ne3 Rd7 23. Rd2 Rfd8 24. Red1 b5 25. a3 a5 26. h4 h5 27. g4 hxg4 28.
Nxg4 Rd5 29. Kf3 Qd6 30. Qe1 Rf5 31. Qe4 e5 32. Kg3 Rxf4 33. Qe2 f5 34. Nf2 e4
35. dxe4 Rg4+ 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.27"]
[Round "6.1"]
[White "Petkov, Vladimir"]
[Black "Marholev, D."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C67"]
[WhiteElo "2490"]
[BlackElo "2431"]
[PlyCount "29"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Nxe4 5. d4 Nd6 6. dxe5 Nxb5 7. a4 Nbd4 8.
Nxd4 Nxd4 9. Qxd4 d5 10. exd6 Qxd6 11. Qe4+ Qe6 12. Qd4 Qd6 13. Qe4+ Qe6 14.
Qd4 Qd6 15. Qe4+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.27"]
[Round "6.2"]
[White "Milchev, N."]
[Black "Berbatov, Kiprian"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E90"]
[WhiteElo "2382"]
[BlackElo "2455"]
[PlyCount "102"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. d4 O-O 6. h3 e5 7. d5 a5 8. Bg5 Na6
9. g4 Nc5 10. Nd2 c6 11. Be2 a4 12. Qc2 Qa5 13. O-O Bd7 14. Rab1 Rfc8 15. Kg2
cxd5 16. exd5 h6 17. Be3 Na6 18. b4 axb3 19. Qxb3 Nc5 20. Qb4 Rc7 21. Qxa5 Rxa5
22. Rb6 Ra3 23. Rc1 Ne8 24. Nb3 Na4 25. Nxa4 Bxa4 26. Rc2 Bf8 27. Bc1 Bxb3 28.
axb3 Ra8 29. Bd3 Nf6 30. Re2 Nxd5 31. cxd5 Rxc1 32. Rxb7 Raa1 33. Rc2 Rg1+ 34.
Kf3 Rh1 35. Rc8 Rxh3+ 36. Ke2 Ra2+ 37. Bc2 e4 38. Rb4 Kg7 39. Rc7 Be7 40. Rxe4
Bd8 41. Rc8 Rxb3 42. Kf1 Rbb2 43. Rxd8 Rxc2 44. Rf4 g5 45. Rf5 Rc4 46. Rd7 Rxg4
47. Rdxf7+ Kg6 48. R5f6+ Kh5 49. Rxd6 Rd4 50. Rf3 Ra1+ 51. Ke2 Ra2+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.27"]
[Round "6.3"]
[White "Badev, K."]
[Black "Enchev, Ivajlo"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C01"]
[WhiteElo "2369"]
[BlackElo "2434"]
[PlyCount "61"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 exd5 4. Bd3 Nf6 5. Nf3 Bg4 6. O-O Be7 7. h3 Bh5 8.
Re1 O-O 9. c3 c6 10. Bf4 Bd6 11. Bxd6 Qxd6 12. Nbd2 Nbd7 13. Qc2 Bxf3 14. Nxf3
Rae8 15. Bf5 g6 16. Bxd7 Nxd7 17. Rxe8 Rxe8 18. Re1 Rxe1+ 19. Nxe1 Qe6 20. Kf1
b6 21. Qe2 Qxe2+ 22. Kxe2 f6 23. Kd3 Kf7 24. Nc2 Ke6 25. Ne3 h5 26. b3 Kd6 27.
Nf1 Nf8 28. Nd2 Ne6 29. Ke3 g5 30. g3 Ng7 31. Kf3 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.27"]
[Round "6.4"]
[White "Pantev, V."]
[Black "Arnaudov, Petar G."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A46"]
[WhiteElo "2369"]
[BlackElo "2413"]
[PlyCount "60"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. g3 c5 4. Bg2 Qc7 5. O-O cxd4 6. Nxd4 a6 7. a4 Nc6 8. c4
Nxd4 9. Qxd4 Bc5 10. Qc3 Be7 11. Be3 d6 12. a5 Bd7 13. Bb6 Qc8 14. Nd2 Bc6 15.
e4 O-O 16. Rfe1 Nd7 17. Bd4 e5 18. Be3 f5 19. exf5 Bxg2 20. Kxg2 Qc6+ 21. Kg1
Rxf5 22. Qd3 Rf7 23. Ne4 h6 24. Qd5 Qxd5 25. cxd5 Nf6 26. Nxf6+ Bxf6 27. Rac1
Bd8 28. b4 Bg5 29. Rc2 Bxe3 30. Rxe3 Raf8 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.27"]
[Round "6.5"]
[White "Stoinev, M."]
[Black "Tsvetkov, Ilia"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C50"]
[WhiteElo "2268"]
[BlackElo "2392"]
[PlyCount "60"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. O-O Nf6 5. d4 Bxd4 6. Nxd4 Nxd4 7. f4 d6 8.
fxe5 dxe5 9. Bg5 Qe7 10. Na3 Be6 11. c3 Bxc4 12. Nxc4 Ne6 13. Bxf6 Qc5+ 14. Kh1
Qxc4 15. Bxe5 Qxe4 16. Bxc7 O-O 17. Re1 Qc4 18. Bg3 Rfd8 19. Qe2 Qc6 20. Rad1
h6 21. h3 Rxd1 22. Rxd1 Rd8 23. Rxd8+ Nxd8 24. c4 Ne6 25. b3 Qd7 26. Kh2 a6 27.
Kh1 Qd4 28. Kh2 Qd7 29. Kh1 Qd4 30. Kh2 Qd7 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.27"]
[Round "6.6"]
[White "Kolev, Atanas Tonchev"]
[Black "Janev, Evgeni"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A70"]
[WhiteElo "2017"]
[BlackElo "2461"]
[PlyCount "42"]
[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 a6 10. a4 Nbd7 11. O-O Qc7 12. Bf4 c4 13. Bc2 Re8 14. Re1 Rb8 15. a5
b5 16. axb6 Rxb6 17. Ra2 Nh5 18. Bh2 Rxb2 19. e5 Rxa2 20. exd6 Rxe1+ 21. Nxe1
Qa5 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.27"]
[Round "6.7"]
[White "Mladenov, P."]
[Black "Angelov, B."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D65"]
[WhiteElo "2394"]
[BlackElo "2000"]
[PlyCount "87"]
[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. Bg5 O-O 6. e3 Nbd7 7. Qc2 a6 8. cxd5
exd5 9. Bd3 Re8 10. O-O c6 11. Rae1 Nf8 12. Ne5 Ng4 13. Bxe7 Rxe7 14. f4 f6 15.
Nxg4 Bxg4 16. h3 Bh5 17. Qf2 Bf7 18. g4 Qd7 19. Ne2 Rae8 20. Ng3 Bg6 21. f5 Bf7
22. g5 Kh8 23. h4 c5 24. dxc5 d4 25. e4 Qc7 26. h5 h6 27. gxf6 gxf6 28. Ne2
Bxh5 29. Nf4 Rg7+ 30. Kh1 Bg4 31. Qxd4 Qe5 32. Qxe5 Rxe5 33. b4 Rd7 34. Kg2 Rd4
35. a3 Kg7 36. Rc1 a5 37. b5 Re7 38. c6 Rd8 39. c7 Rc8 40. Nd5 Rf7 41. b6 Nd7
42. Bb5 Nxb6 43. Nxb6 Rcxc7 44. Nd5 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.27"]
[Round "6.8"]
[White "Janachkov, A."]
[Black "Filev, Georgi"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A07"]
[WhiteElo "2231"]
[BlackElo "2389"]
[PlyCount "57"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 d5 3. Bg2 c6 4. O-O Bf5 5. b3 h6 6. Bb2 e6 7. d3 Be7 8. Nbd2
O-O 9. Qe1 Bh7 10. e4 Nbd7 11. Qe2 a5 12. a3 Qb6 13. Kh1 Qa6 14. Ng1 Rfd8 15.
e5 Ne8 16. f4 Nf8 17. g4 Nc7 18. f5 exf5 19. gxf5 Bg5 20. Ndf3 Be7 21. f6 gxf6
22. exf6 Bd6 23. Nh4 Bg6 24. Qd2 Nce6 25. Qxh6 Rd7 26. Bh3 Bh7 27. Rf2 Qa7 28.
Rg2+ Kh8 29. Bxe6 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.27"]
[Round "6.9"]
[White "Vutov, M."]
[Black "Pantev, T."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C88"]
[WhiteElo "2331"]
[BlackElo "1721"]
[PlyCount "112"]
[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
d5 9. exd5 Nxd5 10. Nxe5 Nxe5 11. Rxe5 c6 12. d3 Bd6 13. Re1 Qf6 14. Bxd5 cxd5
15. Nc3 Be6 16. Qh5 Bb4 17. Bd2 Qg6 18. Qxg6 hxg6 19. a3 Bxc3 20. Bxc3 a5 21.
f4 Rfc8 22. Re2 Rc6 23. Kf2 a4 24. g4 Rac8 25. Ke3 f6 26. Kd4 Kf7 27. Rae1 Rd8
28. Rf1 f5 29. g5 Rh8 30. Rf3 Rhc8 31. Rfe3 Rh8 32. Be1 Rhc8 33. Re5 Rh8 34.
R2e3 Re8 35. Re2 Rh8 36. h4 Rh7 37. Rxd5 Bxd5 38. Kxd5 Ra6 39. Kc5 Rh8 40. Bc3
Rxh4 41. Be5 Re6 42. Rd2 Rh8 43. Kxb5 Rxe5+ 44. fxe5 Rb8+ 45. Kc6 Rc8+ 46. Kd7
Ra8 47. e6+ Kg8 48. d4 Ra7+ 49. Kd6 Kf8 50. d5 Ra6+ 51. Ke5 Ra5 52. c4 Ke7 53.
Rh2 Rc5 54. Rh8 f4 55. Rg8 f3 56. Rxg7+ Ke8 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.27"]
[Round "6.10"]
[White "Andreev, Sasho"]
[Black "Panajotov, J."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E15"]
[WhiteElo "2153"]
[BlackElo "2219"]
[PlyCount "67"]
[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 Bb4+ 6. Bd2 Be7 7. Bg2 c6 8. Bc3
d5 9. Nbd2 Nbd7 10. O-O Rc8 11. Re1 dxc4 12. bxc4 b5 13. c5 Nd5 14. Bb2 O-O 15.
e4 Nc7 16. e5 Nd5 17. a3 Rb8 18. Ne4 Bc8 19. h4 Re8 20. Qd3 f5 21. exf6 gxf6
22. Qd2 Kh8 23. Bh3 Nf8 24. Bg4 Kg7 25. Bh5 Ng6 26. Bc1 Rg8 27. Bxg6 hxg6 28.
Qh6+ Kf7 29. Neg5+ Ke8 30. Qh7 Kd7 31. Nxe6 Qe8 32. Nf4 Ba6 33. Nxd5 cxd5 34.
c6+ 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.27"]
[Round "6.11"]
[White "Janchev, P."]
[Black "Stanoev, A."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A48"]
[WhiteElo "2215"]
[BlackElo "2202"]
[PlyCount "139"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. Bg5 Bg7 4. Nbd2 d6 5. c3 Nbd7 6. e4 c6 7. Be2 O-O 8. O-O
Qc7 9. Re1 Re8 10. Qc2 b6 11. Bf1 Bb7 12. e5 dxe5 13. dxe5 Ng4 14. e6 fxe6 15.
Qe4 Ngf6 16. Qxe6+ Kh8 17. Bh4 Nf8 18. Qb3 e5 19. Ng5 Nd5 20. Nde4 Ne6 21. Nxe6
Rxe6 22. c4 Nf6 23. Bxf6 Rxf6 24. Nxf6 Bxf6 25. Rad1 Re8 26. Bd3 Be7 27. Be4
Bc5 28. Bxg6 hxg6 29. Qh3+ Qh7 30. Qxh7+ Kxh7 31. Rd7+ Re7 32. Rxe7+ Bxe7 33.
Rxe5 Bc5 34. h4 Kg7 35. Re4 Kf7 36. Rf4+ Ke6 37. g4 Be7 38. h5 gxh5 39. Re4+
Kf7 40. Rf4+ Ke6 41. gxh5 c5 42. h6 Bf6 43. h7 Bxb2 44. Rf8 Ba6 45. f4 Ke7 46.
h8=Q Bxh8 47. Rxh8 Bxc4 48. Rh7+ Bf7 49. Kf2 Kf6 50. a3 b5 51. Rh8 a5 52. Rc8
b4 53. axb4 cxb4 54. Ra8 b3 55. Rxa5 Bc4 56. Ra4 Bg8 57. Rb4 Ke7 58. Rb6 Kd7
59. Ke3 Kc7 60. Rb4 Kc6 61. Kd4 Be6 62. Kc3 Kc5 63. Re4 Kd6 64. Rd4+ Kc5 65.
Rd8 Kc6 66. Ra8 Kd5 67. Ra5+ Kc6 68. f5 Bd5 69. f6 Kd6 70. Rxd5+ 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.27"]
[Round "6.12"]
[White "Arnaudov, Petar"]
[Black "Ljangov, P."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A15"]
[WhiteElo "2207"]
[BlackElo "2107"]
[PlyCount "122"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 g6 3. b4 Bg7 4. Bb2 O-O 5. Bg2 d6 6. O-O c6 7. c4 e5 8. d3
Nbd7 9. a4 Re8 10. Nbd2 Qc7 11. Qc2 Nf8 12. e4 c5 13. Bc3 N6d7 14. a5 Ne6 15.
Nb3 Rb8 16. Nfd2 Qd8 17. Ra2 Rf8 18. Re1 Qe7 19. Nf1 Nd4 20. Qd1 Nf6 21. bxc5
dxc5 22. Ne3 Bd7 23. Nd5 Qd6 24. Bd2 Nxd5 25. exd5 Rbe8 26. Nxd4 exd4 27. Bf4
Be5 28. Bg5 Bf6 29. Bh6 Rxe1+ 30. Qxe1 Re8 31. Re2 Rxe2 32. Qxe2 Qe7 33. Qd2
Be5 34. h4 Bd6 35. h5 Bg4 36. f3 Bc8 37. Bf4 Bf5 38. Bxd6 Qxd6 39. h6 f6 40.
Kf2 g5 41. f4 gxf4 42. gxf4 Qe7 43. Bf3 Kf8 44. Bh5 Kg8 45. Qe2 Qxe2+ 46. Kxe2
Kf8 47. Bf3 b6 48. axb6 axb6 49. Be4 Bg4+ 50. Bf3 Bd7 51. Kf2 Ke7 52. Bh5 Bf5
53. Ke2 Kd6 54. Bf3 Bd7 55. Kf2 Ke7 56. Bh5 Bf5 57. Ke2 Kf8 58. Kd2 Ke7 59. Ke2
Kf8 60. Kd2 Ke7 61. Ke2 Kd6 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.27"]
[Round "6.13"]
[White "Mishev, L."]
[Black "Nikolov, J."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C55"]
[WhiteElo "2205"]
[BlackElo "2090"]
[PlyCount "80"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 h6 5. O-O d6 6. c3 g6 7. Bb3 Bg7 8. Re1
O-O 9. Nbd2 Nh5 10. Nf1 Qf6 11. Ne3 Nf4 12. h3 Nd8 13. Ng4 Bxg4 14. hxg4 Nde6
15. g3 Nh3+ 16. Kg2 Nhg5 17. Bxe6 Nxe6 18. Rh1 g5 19. Nd2 c6 20. Qf3 Qxf3+ 21.
Kxf3 d5 22. Ke2 Rfd8 23. a4 Rd7 24. Nb3 Rad8 25. Be3 b6 26. f3 c5 27. c4 d4 28.
Bf2 a5 29. Nd2 Kh7 30. Ra3 Rd6 31. Nb1 Kg6 32. Ra1 Rh8 33. Na3 h5 34. Nb5 Rd7
35. Rxh5 Rxh5 36. gxh5+ Kxh5 37. Rh1+ Kg6 38. Be1 Bh6 39. Bd2 f6 40. Kf2 Kg7
1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.27"]
[Round "6.14"]
[White "Ivanov, B."]
[Black "Georgiev, S."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A52"]
[WhiteElo "2128"]
[BlackElo "2167"]
[PlyCount "85"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e5 3. dxe5 Ng4 4. Bf4 Bb4+ 5. Nd2 Nc6 6. Ngf3 Qe7 7. e3 Ngxe5
8. Nxe5 Nxe5 9. Be2 O-O 10. O-O Bxd2 11. Qxd2 d6 12. b4 Be6 13. c5 Rad8 14.
cxd6 Rxd6 15. Qc3 f6 16. Bxe5 fxe5 17. Qxe5 Rf5 18. Qe4 c6 19. Bg4 Rg5 20.
Bxe6+ Rxe6 21. Qc4 h5 22. Rad1 Kh7 23. Rd4 a5 24. bxa5 Rxa5 25. Rfd1 Rg5 26. g3
Rgg6 27. Rd7 Qf6 28. Rxb7 Qf3 29. Rbd7 Ref6 30. R7d2 h4 31. Qe2 hxg3 32. Qxf3
gxh2+ 33. Kxh2 Rxf3 34. Rg1 Rh6+ 35. Kg2 Rf5 36. Kf1 c5 37. Rd7 Rg6 38. Rxg6
Kxg6 39. Rc7 Kf6 40. Ke2 g5 41. e4 Re5 42. Ke3 Ke6 43. Rc6+ 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.27"]
[Round "6.15"]
[White "Stankov, A."]
[Black "Ivanov, T."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A41"]
[WhiteElo "1897"]
[BlackElo "2142"]
[PlyCount "69"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. c4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. g3 d6 4. Bg2 Nc6 5. Nf3 Bg4 6. d5 Ne5 7. Nxe5 Bxe5 8. O-O
Bg7 9. Qc2 Nf6 10. Nc3 O-O 11. e4 c6 12. Be3 cxd5 13. exd5 Bf5 14. Qd2 Ng4 15.
Bd4 Ne5 16. b3 Qa5 17. Rad1 Rfc8 18. h3 Bxh3 19. f4 Bxg2 20. Kxg2 Ng4 21. Bxg7
Kxg7 22. Qd4+ f6 23. Rde1 Rc7 24. Re2 a6 25. Rfe1 Kf8 26. Ne4 Rac8 27. Ng5 Ke8
28. Nxh7 Kf7 29. Kf3 Nh2+ 30. Kg2 Ng4 31. Kf3 Nh2+ 32. Kg2 Ng4 33. Rh1 Qc5 34.
Ng5+ Ke8 35. Qe4 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.27"]
[Round "6.16"]
[White "Sotirov, I."]
[Black "Gudzhenov, V."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D01"]
[WhiteElo "1996"]
[BlackElo "1932"]
[PlyCount "88"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 d5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Bg5 Bf5 4. f3 Nbd7 5. Qd2 h6 6. Bh4 g5 7. Bf2 e6 8. g4
Bg6 9. h4 gxh4 10. Bxh4 c5 11. e3 a6 12. Bd3 Bxd3 13. Qxd3 Qc7 14. Nge2 c4 15.
Qd2 Bb4 16. Bg3 Bd6 17. Bxd6 Qxd6 18. e4 dxe4 19. Nxe4 Nxe4 20. fxe4 O-O-O 21.
O-O-O e5 22. Qe3 Qb6 23. Qf3 f6 24. c3 Kb8 25. Kb1 Ka8 26. Rhf1 Rhg8 27. Ng3
Rg6 28. Nf5 exd4 29. cxd4 Qe6 30. Rh1 Re8 31. Rde1 Qb6 32. Ka1 Ka7 33. Qf4 Nf8
34. d5 Nd7 35. Rxh6 Rxh6 36. Nxh6 Nc5 37. Qd2 Rxe4 38. Rxe4 Nxe4 39. Qc1 Qd4
40. Nf5 Qxd5 41. Ne3 Qc5 42. Kb1 b5 43. Nd1 Kb6 44. a3 Qd4 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.27"]
[Round "6.17"]
[White "Kolev, H."]
[Black "Ivanov, L."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B78"]
[WhiteElo "1765"]
[BlackElo "1949"]
[PlyCount "67"]
[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. Bc4
Nc6 9. Qd2 Bd7 10. O-O-O Rc8 11. Bb3 Na5 12. Bh6 Nc4 13. Bxc4 Rxc4 14. Bxg7
Kxg7 15. g4 Qa5 16. Nde2 b5 17. Kb1 b4 18. Nd5 Nxd5 19. exd5 Rfc8 20. Nd4 Kg8
21. Rhe1 Qc7 22. b3 Rc5 23. Rxe7 Rxd5 24. Qxb4 Re5 25. Re1 Re8 26. Rxe8+ Bxe8
27. f4 Qc5 28. Qd2 Rxe1+ 29. Qxe1 Bd7 30. Qe4 Bxg4 31. f5 Bxf5 32. Nxf5 gxf5
33. Qg2+ Kf8 34. Qg5 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.27"]
[Round "6.18"]
[White "Baltov, N."]
[Black "Asparuhov, P."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C01"]
[BlackElo "2107"]
[PlyCount "73"]
[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. Bf4 Be7 6. Nc3 c6 7. Be2 O-O 8.
O-O Qb6 9. Rb1 Bf5 10. Bd3 Bg4 11. Be3 Bd6 12. h3 Bh5 13. Be2 Nbd7 14. Nd2 Bxe2
15. Nxe2 Rfe8 16. c3 Nf8 17. Bf4 Qc7 18. Bxd6 Qxd6 19. Ng3 g6 20. Nf3 Ne4 21.
Nxe4 dxe4 22. Ne5 Nd7 23. Nxd7 Qxd7 24. Re1 Qd5 25. Qb3 Re7 26. Qxd5 cxd5 27.
Rbc1 Rc8 28. Re2 Rec7 29. g3 b5 30. Kg2 f5 31. f4 Kg7 32. Re3 Rc4 33. Kf2 Rxd4
34. Ke2 Ra4 35. a3 d4 36. Rd1 dxe3 37. Rd7+ 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.27"]
[Round "6.19"]
[White "Rojdov, P."]
[Black "Hristov, N."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C82"]
[WhiteElo "1941"]
[BlackElo "1878"]
[PlyCount "65"]
[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 Nxe4 6. d4 b5 7. Bb3 d5 8. dxe5
Be6 9. c3 Bc5 10. Nbd2 O-O 11. Qe2 Nxf2 12. Rxf2 f6 13. exf6 Bxf2+ 14. Kxf2
Qxf6 15. Kg1 Rae8 16. Nf1 Kh8 17. Bg5 Qg6 18. Bc2 Bf5 19. Bxf5 Rxf5 20. Qd2 Ne5
21. Nxe5 Rfxe5 22. Be3 c5 23. Re1 Qg4 24. Rd1 h6 25. h3 Qh5 26. b3 Rxe3 27.
Nxe3 Rxe3 28. Rf1 Re8 29. Rd1 a5 30. Qxd5 Re1+ 31. Kf2 Qxd1 32. Qa8+ Kh7 33.
Qxa5 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.27"]
[Round "6.20"]
[White "Stankovski, M."]
[Black "Velikov, V."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A02"]
[WhiteElo "1731"]
[BlackElo "1843"]
[PlyCount "60"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. f4 e5 2. fxe5 d6 3. exd6 Bxd6 4. Nf3 g5 5. g3 g4 6. Nh4 Nf6 7. d4 Ne4 8. Qd3
Qe7 9. Bg2 Nf6 10. Bg5 h6 11. Bxf6 Qxf6 12. Nd2 Nc6 13. c3 Bd7 14. Ne4 Qe7 15.
Nxd6+ Qxd6 16. Nf5 Qf6 17. Be4 Qg5 18. Rf1 O-O-O 19. e3 Rhe8 20. O-O-O Ne7 21.
Rde1 Ng8 22. Kb1 Nf6 23. Bh1 Kb8 24. e4 Bxf5 25. Rxf5 Qxf5 26. exf5 Rxe1+ 27.
Kc2 Rxh1 28. Qe3 Rxh2+ 29. Kb3 Re8 30. Qd3 Ree2 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.28"]
[Round "7.1"]
[White "Enchev, Ivajlo"]
[Black "Petkov, Vladimir"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A34"]
[WhiteElo "2434"]
[BlackElo "2490"]
[PlyCount "61"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. c4 c5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. g3 b6 4. Bg2 Nc6 5. d3 Bb7 6. Qd2 g6 7. b3 Bg7 8. Bb2
Rb8 9. Nh3 Nd4 10. Bxb7 Rxb7 11. Nf4 O-O 12. Ncd5 Nxd5 13. Nxd5 e6 14. Nf4 d6
15. O-O Re7 16. Bxd4 Bxd4 17. Rad1 Bg7 18. e3 Bh6 19. Ne2 Bg7 20. d4 cxd4 21.
Nxd4 Bxd4 22. Qxd4 Rd7 23. Qc3 d5 24. cxd5 Rxd5 25. Qc2 Qa8 26. Rxd5 Qxd5 27.
Rd1 Qb7 28. Rd4 Rc8 29. Rc4 Rxc4 30. Qxc4 b5 31. h4 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.28"]
[Round "7.2"]
[White "Marholev, D."]
[Black "Mladenov, P."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D18"]
[WhiteElo "2431"]
[BlackElo "2394"]
[PlyCount "31"]
[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. e3 e6 7. Bxc4 Bb4 8. Qb3
a5 9. O-O Nbd7 10. Na2 Be7 11. Qxb7 Rb8 12. Qa7 Ra8 13. Qb7 Rb8 14. Qa7 Ra8 15.
Qb7 Rb8 16. Qa7 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.28"]
[Round "7.3"]
[White "Janev, Evgeni"]
[Black "Milchev, N."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B01"]
[WhiteElo "2461"]
[BlackElo "2382"]
[PlyCount "60"]
[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. Bd3 Bg4 7. h3 Bh5 8.
O-O Nc6 9. Ne4 Nxe4 10. Bxe4 O-O-O 11. c3 e6 12. Re1 f6 13. Qb3 Bf7 14. c4 Qb4
15. Bxc6 bxc6 16. Qd3 c5 17. Bd2 Qb7 18. Qc3 cxd4 19. Nxd4 e5 20. Nb3 Bg6 21.
Re3 Be7 22. c5 Rd5 23. Na5 Qa8 24. b4 Rhd8 25. Be1 Kd7 26. Qb3 Ke8 27. Bc3 Kf8
28. Rae1 Rd3 29. Qc4 Qd5 30. Qxd5 R8xd5 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.28"]
[Round "7.4"]
[White "Berbatov, Kiprian"]
[Black "Badev, K."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B32"]
[WhiteElo "2455"]
[BlackElo "2369"]
[PlyCount "96"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 e5 5. Nb5 d6 6. N1c3 a6 7. Na3 b5 8. Nd5
Be7 9. c4 Nf6 10. cxb5 Nd4 11. Nxf6+ Bxf6 12. Bd3 O-O 13. O-O d5 14. Be3 dxe4
15. Bxe4 Rb8 16. Bxd4 Qxd4 17. Qxd4 exd4 18. Bd3 axb5 19. Nxb5 Bf5 20. Bxf5
Rxb5 21. Bd3 Rxb2 22. a4 Rd2 23. Be4 d3 24. Rfd1 Bc3 25. Rxd2 Bxd2 26. Bxd3 Rd8
27. Bb5 Ba5 28. g3 Kf8 29. Rc1 Ke7 30. Rc4 Rd2 31. Re4+ Kd6 32. Rf4 f6 33. h4
Bb6 34. Kf1 Ke5 35. Be2 Rd4 36. Rxd4 Kxd4 37. h5 g6 38. h6 Ba5 39. Bb5 Bd2 40.
f4 g5 41. Ke2 Bb4 42. fxg5 fxg5 43. Kf3 Bf8 44. Kg4 Bxh6 45. a5 Kc5 46. Bd3 Bg7
47. Kxg5 Bc3 48. a6 Bd2+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.28"]
[Round "7.5"]
[White "Arnaudov, Petar G."]
[Black "Stoinev, M."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D94"]
[WhiteElo "2413"]
[BlackElo "2268"]
[PlyCount "145"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 c6 3. d4 d5 4. e3 g6 5. Nc3 Bg7 6. Be2 O-O 7. O-O dxc4 8. Bxc4
Bg4 9. h3 Bxf3 10. Qxf3 Nbd7 11. Rd1 e5 12. d5 e4 13. Nxe4 Nxe4 14. Qxe4 Nb6
15. Rb1 Re8 16. Qc2 cxd5 17. Bb5 Rc8 18. Qb3 Re6 19. Be2 h5 20. Bf3 Rd6 21. Qd3
Rd7 22. b3 d4 23. Bb2 dxe3 24. Qxe3 Bxb2 25. Rxd7 Qxd7 26. Rxb2 Re8 27. Qd2 Qe7
28. Qa5 Qc7 29. Rb1 a6 30. Rd1 Re5 31. Qd2 Re8 32. Qd6 Qxd6 33. Rxd6 Nc8 34.
Rd7 b6 35. Bb7 a5 36. Bd5 Re1+ 37. Kh2 Ne7 38. Bc4 Kf8 39. h4 a4 40. Rb7 axb3
41. axb3 Rd1 42. Rxb6 Nf5 43. Rb8+ Kg7 44. Rb7 Nd6 45. Rd7 Rd4 46. Kh3 Rxc4 47.
bxc4 Nxc4 48. Ra7 Nd6 49. g3 Nf5 50. Kg2 Nd4 51. Ra4 Ne6 52. Kf3 Kf6 53. Ra7
Ng7 54. Ke4 Nf5 55. Ra6+ Kg7 56. Kf4 Nd4 57. Ke5 Nf5 58. Ra7 Nh6 59. Kd6 Kf8
60. Ra4 Kg7 61. Rf4 Kf8 62. f3 Kg7 63. Ke5 Ng8 64. Rc4 Nh6 65. g4 hxg4 66. fxg4
Ng8 67. g5 Ne7 68. Rc7 Kf8 69. Ra7 Ng8 70. Kd6 Kg7 71. Kd7 Kf8 72. Ra8+ Kg7 73.
Ke8 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.28"]
[Round "7.6"]
[White "Tsvetkov, Ilia"]
[Black "Janachkov, A."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E74"]
[WhiteElo "2392"]
[BlackElo "2231"]
[PlyCount "71"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. c4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. e4 d6 4. Nc3 Nf6 5. Be2 O-O 6. Bg5 c5 7. d5 b5 8. cxb5 a6
9. a4 Qa5 10. Bd2 Qb4 11. Qc2 axb5 12. Bxb5 Ba6 13. f3 c4 14. Nge2 Qc5 15. Qc1
Nfd7 16. Be3 Qb4 17. O-O Nc5 18. Qc2 Nb3 19. Rad1 Bxb5 20. axb5 Nd7 21. Nd4
Nxd4 22. Bxd4 Bxd4+ 23. Rxd4 Nc5 24. Qe2 Qb3 25. Rxc4 Rfb8 26. Rc1 Kg7 27. h3
h5 28. Kh2 h4 29. e5 Na4 30. exd6 exd6 31. Rxh4 Nxc3 32. Qe3 Qxb2 33. Qd4+ f6
34. Rxc3 Ra2 35. Rc7+ Kg8 36. Rh8+ 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.28"]
[Round "7.7"]
[White "Vutov, M."]
[Black "Pantev, V."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B33"]
[WhiteElo "2331"]
[BlackElo "2369"]
[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 e5 5. Nb5 Nf6 6. N1c3 d6 7. Bg5 a6 8.
Na3 b5 9. Nd5 Be7 10. Bxf6 Bxf6 11. c4 b4 12. Nc2 a5 13. g3 O-O 14. h4 Be6 15.
Qf3 Bxd5 16. cxd5 Nb8 17. Ne3 Nd7 18. Bh3 Nc5 19. O-O g6 20. Rac1 Bg7 21. Rxc5
dxc5 22. Nc4 Qc7 23. Rd1 Kh8 24. h5 Qe7 25. hxg6 fxg6 26. Qe3 h5 27. d6 Qf6 28.
d7 Kh7 29. Rd6 Qe7 30. Qxc5 h4 31. Qe3 Bh6 32. Qd3 Rad8 33. Kg2 Bg5 34. Rd5
hxg3 35. fxg3 Bf6 36. Nxa5 Bg7 37. Qe2 Qf6 38. Nb7 Rb8 39. Nc5 Qe7 40. Ne6 Rg8
41. Bg4 Bf6 42. Rd1 Rgd8 43. Qc4 Bg7 44. Rh1+ Bh6 45. Qc1 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.28"]
[Round "7.8"]
[White "Ivanov, B."]
[Black "Janchev, P."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A42"]
[WhiteElo "2128"]
[BlackElo "2215"]
[PlyCount "85"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 d6 2. Nf3 g6 3. c4 Bg7 4. Nc3 Nd7 5. e4 e5 6. Be2 exd4 7. Nxd4 Ne7 8. h4
O-O 9. h5 Nc6 10. Be3 Nde5 11. f3 Nxd4 12. Bxd4 f5 13. hxg6 hxg6 14. exf5 gxf5
15. Qd2 Be6 16. O-O-O Qe7 17. Nd5 Qf7 18. Qg5 Bxd5 19. cxd5 Qg6 20. Qh4 Kf7 21.
f4 Ng4 22. Bxg4 Qxg4 23. Qxg4 fxg4 24. Rh7 Rg8 25. f5 Kf8 26. f6 Bh8 27. Rdh1
c5 28. Bc3 Bxf6 29. Bxf6 Re8 30. Kd2 Re4 31. Rf1 Rg6 32. Bc3+ Ke8 33. Rff7 Rh6
34. Rxh6 Kxf7 35. Rxd6 b5 36. Rd7+ Kg6 37. Rxa7 b4 38. Bg7 g3 39. d6 Re6 40.
Bf8 Re5 41. d7 Rd5+ 42. Kc2 Kf5 43. Be7 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.28"]
[Round "7.9"]
[White "Ljangov, P."]
[Black "Andreev, Sasho"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B04"]
[WhiteElo "2107"]
[BlackElo "2153"]
[PlyCount "258"]
[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. Qe2 Nc6 8. exd6
Qxd6 9. c3 Nd5 10. Qe4 Nf6 11. Qf4 O-O 12. O-O Nh5 13. Qxd6 cxd6 14. h3 Na5 15.
Bc2 Bf5 16. Bxf5 gxf5 17. Bg5 Rfe8 18. g4 fxg4 19. hxg4 Nf6 20. Bxf6 Bxf6 21.
Nbd2 Rac8 22. Kg2 Nc4 23. Nxc4 Rxc4 24. Nd2 Ra4 25. Ne4 Bg7 26. Rfe1 Rf8 27. f3
Ra5 28. Ng3 e6 29. Ne4 Rd8 30. Rh1 h6 31. Rhd1 Rd5 32. Ng3 Rc8 33. Ne2 Rb5 34.
Rd2 h5 35. gxh5 Rg5+ 36. Kf2 Rxh5 37. Rg1 Kh7 38. Ng3 Rh2+ 39. Rg2 Rxg2+ 40.
Kxg2 d5 41. Kf1 Bh6 42. Rh2 Rg8 43. Ne2 Rc8 44. Nf4 b6 45. Nd3 f6 46. Re2 Rc6
47. Rg2 Rd6 48. Ke1 Bg7 49. Kd1 Kg8 50. Ke2 Kf7 51. f4 Rd8 52. Rh2 Rc8 53. Kf3
b5 54. a3 a5 55. Rh1 Rc7 56. Rg1 Rc4 57. Re1 Bf8 58. f5 exf5 59. Nf4 b4 60.
axb4 axb4 61. Nxd5 bxc3 62. bxc3 Bd6 63. Rc1 Ke6 64. Ne3 Ra4 65. Re1 Bc7 66.
Nd1+ Kd6 67. Nb2 Ra2 68. Nc4+ Kd7 69. Re2 Ra1 70. Ne3 Rh1 71. Nxf5 Rh3+ 72. Kg4
Rxc3 73. Re7+ Kc6 74. Re6+ Kd5 75. Rxf6 Rd3 76. Rf7 Bb6 77. Rd7+ Kc4 78. Kf4
Bxd4 79. Ke4 Rd2 80. Nxd4 Rh2 81. Rc7+ Kb4 82. Nf3 Rh8 83. Ne5 Kb3 84. Nf3 Kb4
85. Rc1 Rh7 86. Ne5 Rh4+ 87. Kd5 Kb3 88. Rc5 Rh1 89. Rc8 Rh4 90. Rc1 Rh8 91.
Nc6 Rh5+ 92. Ne5 Rh8 93. Nd3 Rd8+ 94. Ke4 Re8+ 95. Kd4 Rh8 96. Rb1+ Kc2 97.
Rb2+ Kd1 98. Rg2 Rd8+ 99. Ke3 Re8+ 100. Kf3 Rd8 101. Nb2+ Kc1 102. Nc4 Rc8 103.
Ne3 Rd8 104. Rc2+ Kb1 105. Rg2 Kc1 106. Ke4 Kb1 107. Nd5 Kc1 108. Ne3 Kb1 109.
Nc4 Kc1 110. Na3 Rd2 111. Rg1+ Rd1 112. Rg2 Rd2 113. Rg3 Rd8 114. Rg1+ Rd1 115.
Rg2 Rd2 116. Rg5 Rd8 117. Rc5+ Kb2 118. Nc4+ Kb3 119. Ne3 Kb2 120. Nd5 Rh8 121.
Rb5+ Kc2 122. Ne3+ Kc3 123. Rc5+ Kb4 124. Rc4+ Kb5 125. Rc1 Rh4+ 126. Kd3 Rh8
127. Nf5 Rd8+ 128. Nd4+ Ka6 129. Rb1 Rh8 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.28"]
[Round "7.10"]
[White "Angelov, B."]
[Black "Arnaudov, Petar"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B07"]
[WhiteElo "2000"]
[BlackElo "2207"]
[PlyCount "126"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 c6 4. Be3 b5 5. a3 a6 6. Nf3 g6 7. Bd3 Bg7 8. O-O O-O
9. Qd2 Nbd7 10. Rfe1 e5 11. dxe5 dxe5 12. b4 Bb7 13. Na2 c5 14. Bxc5 Nxc5 15.
bxc5 Qc7 16. c4 bxc4 17. Bxc4 Nxe4 18. Qb4 Nxc5 19. Rac1 Rac8 20. Be2 Rfd8 21.
Rxc5 Qxc5 22. Qxb7 Qxa3 23. Qxa6 Qb3 24. Nc1 Qc3 25. Bd3 Bh6 26. Rxe5 Qxc1+ 27.
Re1 Qc3 28. Bf1 Bf8 29. Qb5 Bc5 30. Qe2 Kf8 31. g3 Rc7 32. Qe5 Qxe5 33. Rxe5
Ba7 34. Ra5 h6 35. Kg2 g5 36. h3 Rdd7 37. Ra2 Kg7 38. Ng1 Rd1 39. Be2 Rdc1 40.
Bf3 R1c2 41. Rxc2 Rxc2 42. Ne2 f5 43. Kf1 Kf6 44. Kg2 Rb2 45. Kf1 Ke5 46. Kg2
Kd6 47. Kf1 Kc5 48. g4 f4 49. Ng1 Rb1+ 50. Kg2 Re1 51. Be2 Kd5 52. Bf3+ Kc4 53.
Be2+ Kc3 54. Bf1 Ra1 55. Bb5 Ra2 56. Be2 Kd2 57. Bc4 Rb2 58. Kf1 Kc3 59. Be2
Rb1+ 60. Kg2 Kd2 61. Bf1 Rb2 62. Bc4 Kd1 63. Kh1 Rxf2 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.28"]
[Round "7.11"]
[White "Nikolov, J."]
[Black "Kolev, Atanas Tonchev"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B22"]
[WhiteElo "2090"]
[BlackElo "2017"]
[PlyCount "92"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. c3 Nf6 3. e5 Nd5 4. Nf3 e6 5. d4 cxd4 6. cxd4 Nc6 7. Bc4 Nb6 8. Bb3
d5 9. O-O Bd7 10. Nc3 Be7 11. a3 O-O 12. Bc2 f5 13. exf6 Bxf6 14. Qd3 g6 15.
Bh6 Rf7 16. Rfe1 Rc8 17. g3 Nc4 18. b3 Nd6 19. Qd2 Qa5 20. Re3 Nf5 21. Bxf5
gxf5 22. Ra2 b5 23. b4 Qb6 24. Ne2 a5 25. Bg5 Bg7 26. Bf4 Bf8 27. Rb2 axb4 28.
axb4 Ra8 29. Ne5 Nxe5 30. Bxe5 Bh6 31. Bf4 Bg7 32. Rc3 Be8 33. Qe3 Rfa7 34. Be5
Bh5 35. Nf4 Bh6 36. Rbc2 Re8 37. Rc6 Qd8 38. Kg2 Qa8 39. R2c3 Bf7 40. Bf6 Ra6
41. Rc7 e5 42. Bxe5 Rae6 43. Qf3 Bxf4 44. Qxf4 Rxe5 45. dxe5 d4+ 46. Rf3 Qe4
1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.28"]
[Round "7.12"]
[White "Gudzhenov, V."]
[Black "Stankov, A."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B06"]
[WhiteElo "1932"]
[BlackElo "1897"]
[PlyCount "78"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 d6 2. d4 g6 3. Bc4 Bg7 4. c3 Nf6 5. f3 Nc6 6. Ne2 e5 7. d5 Ne7 8. Bb3 O-O
9. O-O Ne8 10. c4 f5 11. Nbc3 f4 12. Bd2 b6 13. Be1 g5 14. a4 a5 15. Nb5 h5 16.
Kh1 Ng6 17. Qd3 Nf6 18. Rc1 g4 19. Ng1 Nd7 20. Bd1 Nc5 21. Qc2 Rf7 22. Bf2 Qg5
23. Bxc5 bxc5 24. Qd2 Qh4 25. Rc3 g3 26. h3 Nf8 27. Re1 Nh7 28. Be2 Bf8 29. Bf1
Nf6 30. Rb3 Bh6 31. Rc3 Kg7 32. Qe2 Kg6 33. Rd3 Bg4 34. Rc3 Rh8 35. Rd3 Bg5 36.
Rc3 Bc8 37. Rd3 Rfh7 38. Nc3 Ng4 39. fxg4 hxg4 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.28"]
[Round "7.13"]
[White "Panajotov, J."]
[Black "Mishev, L."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D94"]
[WhiteElo "2219"]
[BlackElo "2205"]
[PlyCount "79"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 g6 3. c4 c6 4. Nc3 Bg7 5. e3 Nf6 6. Be2 O-O 7. O-O dxc4 8. Bxc4
Bg4 9. h3 Bxf3 10. Qxf3 Nbd7 11. Rd1 Qa5 12. e4 b5 13. Bb3 e5 14. Be3 Rfe8 15.
d5 c5 16. a4 Qb4 17. Ba2 bxa4 18. Bd2 c4 19. Qe2 Nb6 20. Bb1 Qxb2 21. Ra2 Qb4
22. Nxa4 Qb3 23. Nc3 Qb4 24. Bc2 Nfd7 25. Rb1 Qd6 26. Nb5 Qb8 27. Rba1 Nxd5 28.
Qxc4 N7b6 29. Qb3 Nf4 30. Bxf4 exf4 31. Rb1 a5 32. Qf3 Nc4 33. Qe2 Ne5 34. Bb3
Qd8 35. Bd5 f3 36. Qe3 Qh4 37. Nd4 Rab8 38. Rxb8 Rxb8 39. Nxf3 Rb1+ 40. Kh2 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.28"]
[Round "7.14"]
[White "Filev, Georgi"]
[Black "Ivanov, L."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C99"]
[WhiteElo "2389"]
[BlackElo "1949"]
[PlyCount "47"]
[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 b5 6. Bb3 Be7 7. Re1 O-O 8. c3
d6 9. h3 Na5 10. Bc2 c5 11. d4 cxd4 12. cxd4 Qc7 13. Nbd2 Re8 14. Nf1 Bf8 15.
Bg5 Nd7 16. Ne3 Nb6 17. Rc1 Nbc4 18. Nd5 Qa7 19. b3 Nb6 20. dxe5 Nxd5 21. exd5
dxe5 22. Nxe5 Rxe5 23. Rxe5 f6 24. Qd3 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.28"]
[Round "7.15"]
[White "Pantev, T."]
[Black "Stanoev, A."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E61"]
[WhiteElo "1721"]
[BlackElo "2202"]
[PlyCount "88"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. Bf4 Bg7 4. e3 O-O 5. Be2 d6 6. c4 c6 7. Nc3 a6 8. b4
Nfd7 9. Rc1 a5 10. b5 Qe8 11. h3 e5 12. Bh2 f5 13. O-O Qe7 14. Qb3 Kh8 15. Rfe1
Qf6 16. Bf1 Re8 17. Qa3 g5 18. Red1 Bf8 19. Qb2 h5 20. h4 gxh4 21. Na4 Re7 22.
c5 e4 23. cxd6 Rg7 24. Ne5 h3 25. f4 exf3 26. Nxf3 Bxd6 27. Bxd6 Qxd6 28. Qf2
Qa3 29. Nc3 hxg2 30. Bxg2 Nf6 31. Ne5 Be6 32. Kf1 Nbd7 33. Nb1 Qd6 34. bxc6
Rag8 35. c7 Nb6 36. Qh4 Ne4 37. Bxe4 fxe4 38. Qxh5+ Rh7 39. Nc6 Rg6 40. Qe5+
Qxe5 41. dxe5 Rh1+ 42. Kf2 Rh2+ 43. Kf1 Bh3+ 44. Ke1 Rg1# 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.28"]
[Round "7.16"]
[White "Georgiev, S."]
[Black "Sotirov, I."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A00"]
[WhiteElo "2167"]
[BlackElo "1996"]
[PlyCount "63"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. a3 Nf6 3. d3 e6 4. c3 c5 5. Nbd2 Nc6 6. b4 b6 7. e4 Qc7 8. b5 Ne5
9. Qc2 Bb7 10. Nxe5 Qxe5 11. Nf3 Qc7 12. e5 Nd7 13. Qe2 Be7 14. Bf4 a6 15. bxa6
Rxa6 16. Qb2 Ra4 17. d4 c4 18. Bg5 Bf8 19. Be2 h6 20. Bc1 Bc6 21. Bd1 Ra5 22.
Bc2 Be7 23. Bb1 Qa7 24. O-O Ba4 25. Ne1 O-O 26. f4 b5 27. Qf2 f5 28. exf6 Rxf6
29. Nc2 Bxc2 30. Qxc2 Nf8 31. Qb2 Qd7 32. Ra2 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.28"]
[Round "7.17"]
[White "Ivanov, T."]
[Black "Hristov, N."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A35"]
[WhiteElo "2142"]
[BlackElo "1878"]
[PlyCount "124"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. c4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. e3 g6 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. Be2 d6 6. O-O Nh6 7. b3 O-O 8. Bb2
Nf5 9. a3 b6 10. Ra2 Bb7 11. Re1 e6 12. Bd3 d5 13. Bxf5 gxf5 14. cxd5 exd5 15.
Ne2 d4 16. Ng3 Qd5 17. Nh4 Ne7 18. exd4 Ng6 19. Ngxf5 Rae8 20. dxc5 Nxh4 21.
Nxh4 Bxb2 22. Rxb2 Rxe1+ 23. Qxe1 Qd4 24. c6 Bc8 25. Rc2 Qxh4 26. Rc3 Qf6 27.
h4 Kh8 28. c7 Rg8 29. Qe4 b5 30. b4 a6 31. h5 h6 32. Rf3 Qg7 33. g3 Bg4 34. Rc3
Bc8 35. d4 f6 36. Rc5 Qf7 37. Qf4 Kh7 38. d5 Re8 39. d6 Re1+ 40. Kh2 Qe6 41. g4
Re4 42. Qf5+ Qxf5 43. Rxf5 Kg7 44. Rd5 Bd7 45. c8=Q Bxc8 46. d7 Bxd7 47. Rxd7+
Kf8 48. Kg3 a5 49. f3 Re3 50. bxa5 Rxa3 51. Ra7 b4 52. Kf4 b3 53. Rb7 Rxa5 54.
Rxb3 Kf7 55. Rb7+ Kg8 56. Rd7 Rb5 57. Ke4 Ra5 58. f4 Rb5 59. Rd8+ Kg7 60. Rd7+
Kg8 61. Rc7 Ra5 62. Rb7 Rc5 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.28"]
[Round "7.18"]
[White "Asparuhov, P."]
[Black "Kolev, H."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B07"]
[WhiteElo "2107"]
[BlackElo "1765"]
[PlyCount "91"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. c3 d6 3. d4 Nf6 4. Bd3 Qc7 5. Nf3 Bg4 6. O-O e6 7. Be3 Be7 8. Nbd2
Bh5 9. Rc1 O-O 10. Qc2 Bg6 11. Nh4 Nc6 12. Nxg6 hxg6 13. Qd1 b6 14. f4 d5 15.
e5 Nd7 16. Qg4 c4 17. Bb1 Rfb8 18. Bxg6 Nf8 19. Bb1 f5 20. exf6 Bxf6 21. Nf3
Kf7 22. Rce1 Re8 23. Bf2 g6 24. Ng5+ Bxg5 25. fxg5 Kg8 26. Bg3 Qd7 27. Rf6 Ne7
28. Rf3 Nf5 29. Be5 Re7 30. h4 Rh7 31. g3 Re8 32. Rf2 Qd8 33. Kg2 Nd7 34. Bxf5
exf5 35. Qf3 Nxe5 36. dxe5 Rhe7 37. Qf4 Re6 38. Qd4 R8e7 39. Kf3 Kf7 40. Rfe2
Rd7 41. Kf4 Ke7 42. g4 Qh8 43. Kg3 Kf8 44. gxf5 gxf5 45. Rf2 Rf7 46. Rf4 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.28"]
[Round "7.19"]
[White "Velikov, V."]
[Black "Rojdov, P."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C28"]
[WhiteElo "1843"]
[BlackElo "1941"]
[PlyCount "55"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. f4 d6 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. Bc4 Bg4 6. d3 Nd4 7. h3 Nxf3+ 8.
gxf3 Bh5 9. Be3 exf4 10. Bxf4 Nxe4 11. Nxe4 d5 12. Ng3 dxc4 13. Nxh5 Qh4+ 14.
Bg3 Qxh5 15. Qe2+ Kd7 16. dxc4 Re8 17. O-O-O+ Bd6 18. Qd2 Re6 19. Qc3 Qh6+ 20.
Kb1 Kc8 21. Bxd6 cxd6 22. c5 Qf6 23. Qa3 Kb8 24. Rxd6 Rxd6 25. cxd6 Rd8 26. Rd1
Qf5 27. Qc3 Rc8 28. d7 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.28"]
[Round "7.20"]
[White "Baltov, N."]
[Black "Stankovski, M."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B15"]
[BlackElo "1731"]
[PlyCount "86"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6 5. Ng3 Na6 6. Bxa6 Qa5+ 7. Bd2 Qxa6
8. Qe2 Qb6 9. Bc3 Nd5 10. Qd2 Nxc3 11. Qxc3 e6 12. O-O-O a5 13. Qb3 Qc7 14. a3
b5 15. Nf3 Bd6 16. Ne2 O-O 17. Ng5 Bf4+ 18. Nxf4 Qxf4+ 19. Qe3 Qxe3+ 20. fxe3
Bb7 21. Rhg1 c5 22. dxc5 Rfc8 23. Rd7 Bc6 24. Rd6 h6 25. Nf3 Bxf3 26. gxf3 Rxc5
27. Kd2 Rac8 28. c3 b4 29. axb4 axb4 30. Rd3 Rc4 31. Rg4 bxc3+ 32. Rxc3 Rd8+
33. Rd3 Rdc8 34. Rxc4 Rxc4 35. Rd4 Rc5 36. b4 Rb5 37. Kc3 f5 38. Kc4 Rb8 39.
Rd6 Kf7 40. b5 g5 41. Rd7+ Kf6 42. Kc5 h5 43. b6 h4 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.29"]
[Round "8.1"]
[White "Petkov, Vladimir"]
[Black "Arnaudov, Petar G."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D13"]
[WhiteElo "2490"]
[BlackElo "2413"]
[PlyCount "65"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. cxd5 cxd5 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Bf4 a6 7. e3 Bg4 8. Be2
Bxf3 9. Bxf3 e6 10. O-O Bd6 11. Bxd6 Qxd6 12. e4 dxe4 13. Nxe4 Nxe4 14. Bxe4
O-O 15. d5 exd5 16. Qxd5 Rad8 17. Qxd6 Rxd6 18. Rfd1 Rfd8 19. Rxd6 Rxd6 20. Rc1
Rd2 21. Bxc6 bxc6 22. b4 Rxa2 23. g3 g6 24. Rxc6 Rb2 25. Rxa6 Rxb4 26. h4 Kg7
27. Kg2 h5 28. Ra3 Rb6 29. Rf3 Rf6 30. Rb3 Ra6 31. Rf3 Rf6 32. Rb3 Ra6 33. Rf3
1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.29"]
[Round "8.2"]
[White "Marholev, D."]
[Black "Tsvetkov, Ilia"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C92"]
[WhiteElo "2431"]
[BlackElo "2392"]
[PlyCount "32"]
[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 Bb7 10. d4 Re8 11. Ng5 Rf8 12. Nf3 Re8 13. Ng5 Rf8 14. Nf3 Re8 15.
Ng5 Rf8 16. Nf3 Re8 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.29"]
[Round "8.3"]
[White "Mladenov, P."]
[Black "Janev, Evgeni"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A54"]
[WhiteElo "2394"]
[BlackElo "2461"]
[PlyCount "72"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 d6 3. d4 Nbd7 4. Nc3 e5 5. Bg5 Be7 6. e3 O-O 7. Qc2 c6 8.
O-O-O exd4 9. exd4 d5 10. Kb1 Ne4 11. Bxe7 Qxe7 12. cxd5 Nxc3+ 13. Qxc3 cxd5
14. Qc7 Qd8 15. Qxd8 Rxd8 16. Bd3 Nf6 17. Nd2 Re8 18. h3 Bd7 19. Rhe1 Nh5 20.
g3 g6 21. Rh1 Nf6 22. g4 h5 23. g5 Nh7 24. h4 Nf8 25. Nf1 Bg4 26. Rc1 Ne6 27.
Ne3 Bf3 28. Rh3 Nxd4 29. Rc7 Rab8 30. Nc2 Bg4 31. Rg3 Ne6 32. Rc3 Nf4 33. Kc1
Be2 34. Bxe2 Nxe2+ 35. Kd2 Nxc3 36. bxc3 Re4 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.29"]
[Round "8.4"]
[White "Berbatov, Kiprian"]
[Black "Vutov, M."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C30"]
[WhiteElo "2455"]
[BlackElo "2331"]
[PlyCount "66"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 Qh4+ 3. g3 Qe7 4. Nc3 exf4 5. d4 fxg3 6. hxg3 d5 7. e5 Be6 8.
Bd3 Nc6 9. Rxh7 Rxh7 10. Bxh7 Nh6 11. Bxh6 gxh6 12. Qd3 O-O-O 13. O-O-O f6 14.
exf6 Qxf6 15. Nge2 Bg4 16. Qg6 Qxg6 17. Bxg6 Bg7 18. Bf7 Rd7 19. Rf1 Nxd4 20.
Nxd4 Bxd4 21. Bxd5 Bxc3 22. Rf8+ Rd8 23. Rxd8+ Kxd8 24. bxc3 b6 25. Kd2 Bf5 26.
a3 Ke7 27. Bf3 Kd6 28. Bh5 Ke5 29. Bf3 c5 30. Be2 a5 31. Bb5 Bg6 32. Be2 Be8
33. Bd3 Bc6 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.29"]
[Round "8.5"]
[White "Milchev, N."]
[Black "Enchev, Ivajlo"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E05"]
[WhiteElo "2382"]
[BlackElo "2434"]
[PlyCount "155"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. c4 d5 4. g3 Be7 5. Bg2 O-O 6. O-O dxc4 7. Qc2 a6 8. a4
Bd7 9. Bg5 Bc6 10. Qxc4 Bd5 11. Qd3 c5 12. Nc3 Bc6 13. Bh3 Nbd7 14. Rfd1 h6 15.
Bc1 Rc8 16. a5 Qc7 17. Qb1 Bxf3 18. exf3 cxd4 19. Rxd4 Bc5 20. Rh4 Ne5 21. Bg2
Ng6 22. Rha4 Rfd8 23. Qc2 Bd4 24. Bd2 Qc5 25. Be1 e5 26. Qe2 Nf8 27. R1a3 Ne6
28. Bh3 Qc6 29. Kg2 Rc7 30. Bf5 Bc5 31. Ra1 Nd4 32. Qd3 Be7 33. Be4 Qe6 34. Rd1
Qb3 35. Raa1 Qe6 36. Qb1 Rcd7 37. Qa2 Nb3 38. Rxd7 Rxd7 39. Rd1 Rxd1 40. Nxd1
Nxe4 41. fxe4 Qc4 42. Qb1 Nc5 43. Kf3 Qf1 44. Bc3 Nd3 45. Qc2 Bc5 46. Ne3 Qh1+
47. Ke2 Nxf2 48. Kxf2 Qxh2+ 49. Kf3 Qh1+ 50. Kf2 Qh2+ 51. Kf1 Qxg3 52. Nd5 Qf3+
53. Ke1 Qg3+ 54. Kd1 Qg1+ 55. Be1 Kh7 56. Qe2 Qd4+ 57. Kc2 f5 58. Nc3 f4 59.
Qg4 Qe3 60. Qf5+ Kh8 61. Bd2 Qd4 62. Bc1 Bb4 63. Qc8+ Kh7 64. Qf5+ Kh8 65. Nd5
Bc5 66. Qc8+ Kh7 67. Qf5+ Kh8 68. b3 Qf2+ 69. Kb1 Qg1 70. Qc8+ Kh7 71. Qf5+ Kh8
72. Qc8+ Kh7 73. Qf5+ Kh8 74. Qxe5 Be3 75. Nxe3 fxe3 76. Qd4 Qe1 77. Qxe3 Qxa5
78. Bb2 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.29"]
[Round "8.6"]
[White "Badev, K."]
[Black "Ivanov, B."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B22"]
[WhiteElo "2369"]
[BlackElo "2128"]
[PlyCount "51"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c5 2. c3 d6 3. d4 Nf6 4. dxc5 Nc6 5. f3 dxc5 6. Qxd8+ Nxd8 7. Na3 Bd7 8.
Be3 Rc8 9. O-O-O Bc6 10. Nb5 a6 11. Na7 Rc7 12. Nxc6 Rxc6 13. e5 Nd7 14. f4 e6
15. Nf3 Rc7 16. Nd2 Nb6 17. c4 Be7 18. Ne4 O-O 19. Be2 f5 20. Nd6 Nf7 21. g4
Bxd6 22. exd6 Rd7 23. Bxc5 Nc8 24. Rd2 Ncxd6 25. Rhd1 Rfd8 26. Kb1 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.29"]
[Round "8.7"]
[White "Mishev, L."]
[Black "Pantev, V."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B06"]
[WhiteElo "2205"]
[BlackElo "2369"]
[PlyCount "120"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. Bc4 d6 5. Nf3 e6 6. Bf4 Ne7 7. Qd2 h6 8. h4 b5
9. Bd3 a6 10. e5 d5 11. a3 Qb6 12. b4 a5 13. bxa5 Qxa5 14. O-O Nd7 15. Rfb1 Nb6
16. Rb3 Bd7 17. Rab1 Na4 18. g3 Nxc3 19. Rxc3 Nc8 20. Bf1 Nb6 21. Qe3 Nc4 22.
Bxc4 bxc4 23. Kg2 Kd8 24. Nd2 Kc7 25. Rd1 Bf8 26. Qf3 Be7 27. Nf1 Qb6 28. Bd2
Raf8 29. Re3 c5 30. Bc3 Bc6 31. Qf4 g5 32. Qf3 gxh4 33. Ree1 hxg3 34. Nxg3 h5
35. Nxh5 Rh6 36. Rh1 Qa7 37. Qe3 Rg6+ 38. Ng3 Rg4 39. Rh5 Qxa3 40. Qd2 cxd4 41.
Bxd4 Rfg8 42. Rh3 c3 43. Qd3 Bc5 44. Qh7 R8g7 45. Qh8 Bxd4 46. Rxd4 Rxd4 47.
Qxg7 Rf4 48. Rh8 d4+ 49. Kh3 Qe7 50. Qg8 Kb6 51. Qb8+ Bb7 52. Ne2 Rf3+ 53. Kg4
f5+ 54. exf6 Rxf6 55. Nxd4 Qg7+ 56. Kh5 Qg6+ 57. Kh4 Qe4+ 58. Kh5 Qd5+ 59. Kg4
Rg6+ 60. Kh3 Qh1+ 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.29"]
[Round "8.8"]
[White "Andreev, Sasho"]
[Black "Stoinev, M."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C28"]
[WhiteElo "2153"]
[BlackElo "2268"]
[PlyCount "132"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. d3 Bc5 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bh4 d6 7. Na4 Bb6 8. Nxb6
axb6 9. f3 Be6 10. Ne2 g5 11. Bf2 Qd7 12. O-O Bxc4 13. dxc4 Qe6 14. b3 Ne7 15.
Nc3 Rg8 16. Kh1 Rg6 17. a4 Kf8 18. Qd2 Kg7 19. Rad1 Kh7 20. Nb5 Ne8 21. Be3 f5
22. exf5 Qxf5 23. Qd3 Rf6 24. Nc3 Rf7 25. Qe4 Qxe4 26. fxe4 Rxf1+ 27. Rxf1 Kg7
28. Rb1 Nf6 29. g3 Rf8 30. Kg2 Nc6 31. Rd1 Rf7 32. h3 Nd8 33. Re1 Ne6 34. Bg1
Kg6 35. b4 h5 36. Bf2 Rh7 37. Nd5 h4 38. gxh4 gxh4 39. Kh2 Ng5 40. Nxf6 Nf3+
41. Kh1 Kxf6 42. Re2 Ng5 43. Kh2 Kg6 44. Kg2 Kh5 45. c5 bxc5 46. bxc5 Rf7 47.
a5 dxc5 48. Bxc5 Rf4 49. Ba7 Rf3 50. Re3 Rxe3 51. Bxe3 Nxe4 52. Ba7 Ng5 53. Bb8
Ne6 54. Kf3 Kg5 55. Ke4 Kf6 56. c4 Ng5+ 57. Kd5 e4 58. Bxc7 e3 59. Bd8+ Kf5 60.
Bb6 Kf4 61. a6 bxa6 62. Bxe3+ Kxe3 63. c5 Ne4 64. c6 Nc3+ 65. Kc5 Nb5 66. Kb6
Nd4 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.29"]
[Round "8.9"]
[White "Janachkov, A."]
[Black "Nikolov, J."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D02"]
[WhiteElo "2231"]
[BlackElo "2090"]
[PlyCount "83"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nc6 2. d4 d5 3. Bf4 Bg4 4. Nbd2 e6 5. c3 Nf6 6. Qb3 Rb8 7. e3 a6 8. Bd3
Be7 9. O-O O-O 10. Qc2 Bh5 11. Ne5 Na7 12. Bg5 Bg6 13. f4 Bxd3 14. Qxd3 Nb5 15.
Rf3 Nd6 16. Bxf6 Bxf6 17. Rh3 g6 18. Re1 Bg7 19. g4 f5 20. gxf5 exf5 21. Re2
Rc8 22. Rg2 Qe8 23. Ndf3 Ne4 24. c4 Qe6 25. c5 c6 26. Qf1 Rc7 27. Qe1 Bf6 28.
b4 Rg7 29. a4 Qe8 30. Rh6 Bd8 31. a5 Bf6 32. Kh1 Bd8 33. Rh3 Bf6 34. Qg1 Bd8
35. Rh6 Bf6 36. h4 Qe7 37. h5 g5 38. fxg5 Bxg5 39. Nxg5 Nxg5 40. Rd6 Rd8 41.
Rxd8+ Qxd8 42. h6 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.29"]
[Round "8.10"]
[White "Arnaudov, Petar"]
[Black "Stankov, A."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B52"]
[WhiteElo "2207"]
[BlackElo "1897"]
[PlyCount "61"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 c5 2. e4 d6 3. Bb5+ Bd7 4. a4 a6 5. Bxd7+ Qxd7 6. O-O Nc6 7. c3 Nf6 8.
Re1 g6 9. d4 cxd4 10. cxd4 Bg7 11. Nc3 O-O 12. Bg5 e6 13. a5 Qc7 14. Qa4 Rac8
15. d5 Nb8 16. dxe6 fxe6 17. Qb3 Rfe8 18. e5 dxe5 19. Nxe5 Nc6 20. Bxf6 Bxf6
21. Ng4 Be5 22. Ne4 Kh8 23. Ng5 Nd4 24. Qd1 Bg7 25. Ne5 Qc5 26. Re4 Bxe5 27.
Rxe5 Qc4 28. Nf7+ Kg7 29. Nd6 Qb4 30. Nxe8+ Rxe8 31. Ra4 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.29"]
[Round "8.11"]
[White "Stanoev, A."]
[Black "Filev, Georgi"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A39"]
[WhiteElo "2202"]
[BlackElo "2389"]
[PlyCount "61"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. Nc3 g6 4. g3 Nc6 5. Bg2 Bg7 6. O-O O-O 7. d4 cxd4 8.
Nxd4 Nxd4 9. Qxd4 d6 10. Qd2 Rb8 11. b3 Bd7 12. Bb2 Bc6 13. Rfd1 Bxg2 14. Kxg2
a6 15. Nd5 Nxd5 16. Bxg7 Kxg7 17. cxd5 Qd7 18. Rac1 Rfc8 19. Rxc8 Rxc8 20. Rc1
Rxc1 21. Qxc1 h5 22. Qc3+ Kg8 23. h4 Qf5 24. Qc4 b5 25. Qd3 Qe5 26. b4 Kg7 27.
a3 Qb2 28. Kf3 Qf6+ 29. Kg2 Qb2 30. Kf3 Qf6+ 31. Kg2 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.29"]
[Round "8.12"]
[White "Janchev, P."]
[Black "Ljangov, P."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B80"]
[WhiteElo "2215"]
[BlackElo "2107"]
[PlyCount "155"]
[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 Nc6 7. f3 e6 8. Qd2
Be7 9. g4 Nd7 10. O-O-O O-O 11. h4 Nxd4 12. Bxd4 b5 13. g5 b4 14. Na4 Qa5 15.
b3 Nc5 16. a3 Rb8 17. axb4 Qxb4 18. Qxb4 Rxb4 19. Bc3 Rb8 20. Nxc5 dxc5 21. Bc4
Re8 22. Kb2 Bb7 23. Be5 Rbd8 24. Ra1 Ra8 25. Rhd1 Red8 26. Bc3 Rxd1 27. Rxd1
Rd8 28. Ra1 Ra8 29. Be5 Kf8 30. Rd1 Rd8 31. Ra1 Ra8 32. Re1 Rd8 33. Bf4 Bd6 34.
Be3 Ke8 35. Ra1 Ra8 36. h5 Kd7 37. Rd1 Kc7 38. g6 hxg6 39. hxg6 Rf8 40. gxf7
Rxf7 41. Be2 Rd7 42. c3 Rd8 43. Kc2 Bf8 44. Bf4+ Bd6 45. Be3 Bf8 46. Rg1 Ra8
47. Bf4+ Kc6 48. Be5 Bd6 49. Bxd6 Kxd6 50. Rxg7 Bc6 51. Kd2 a5 52. Bc4 a4 53.
bxa4 Rxa4 54. Kd3 Ke5 55. Re7 Kd6 56. Rxe6+ Kd7 57. Rf6 Ra1 58. Rf7+ Kd8 59.
Rf5 Ra5 60. Re5 Kd7 61. f4 Kd6 62. Re6+ Kd7 63. f5 Ra1 64. f6 Rf1 65. Re7+ Kd8
66. e5 Rf3+ 67. Kd2 Rf4 68. Bd3 Rf2+ 69. Ke3 Rf3+ 70. Ke2 Rf4 71. Rg7 Bd5 72.
c4 Be6 73. Ra7 Rh4 74. Ra5 Bxc4 75. Ra8+ Kd7 76. Bxc4 Re4+ 77. Kd3 Rd4+ 78. Kc3
1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.29"]
[Round "8.13"]
[White "Asparuhov, P."]
[Black "Angelov, B."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C45"]
[WhiteElo "2107"]
[BlackElo "2000"]
[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. Nxd4 Bc5 5. Nb3 Bb6 6. a4 a6 7. Nc3 Nge7 8.
a5 Ba7 9. Nd5 O-O 10. Bd3 Nxd5 11. exd5 Re8+ 12. Be2 Nb4 13. O-O Nxd5 14. Bxa6
bxa6 15. Qxd5 c6 16. Qf3 d5 17. c3 Qd6 18. Ra4 c5 19. Rh4 Bb7 20. Qh3 h6 21.
Bxh6 gxh6 22. Rxh6 Qe5 23. Nd2 Re6 24. Rh5 Qg7 25. Nf3 d4 26. Rg5 Rg6 27. Rxg6
Qxg6 28. Nh4 Qf6 29. Re1 dxc3 30. bxc3 c4 31. Nf5 Kf8 32. Rd1 Re8 33. Kf1 Be4
34. g4 Bd3+ 35. Kg1 Re2 36. Rf1 Rc2 37. Qf3 Qe5 38. Qb7 Bxf2+ 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.29"]
[Round "8.14"]
[White "Kolev, Atanas Tonchev"]
[Black "Gudzhenov, V."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D44"]
[WhiteElo "2017"]
[BlackElo "1932"]
[PlyCount "81"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 e6 4. Nc3 Nf6 5. Bg5 dxc4 6. e4 b5 7. e5 h6 8. Bh4 g5
9. Nxg5 hxg5 10. Bxg5 Nbd7 11. exf6 Bb7 12. g3 Qb6 13. Bg2 c5 14. d5 O-O-O 15.
O-O b4 16. Na4 Qb5 17. a3 Ne5 18. axb4 cxb4 19. Qd4 Nc6 20. dxc6 Rxd4 21. cxb7+
Kb8 22. Be3 Rd5 23. Bxa7+ Kxb7 24. Nb6 Qxb6 25. Bxb6 Kxb6 26. Bxd5 exd5 27. Ra8
Be7 28. Ra4 Bxf6 29. Rxb4+ Kc5 30. Rb7 Kc6 31. Rxf7 Bxb2 32. Re1 c3 33. Re6+
Kc5 34. Rc7+ Kd4 35. Re3 Ra8 36. Kf1 Ra4 37. Ke2 Rc4 38. Rd3+ Ke4 39. Rxc4+
dxc4 40. Re3+ Kd4 41. Kd1 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.29"]
[Round "8.15"]
[White "Ivanov, L."]
[Black "Panajotov, J."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E15"]
[WhiteElo "1949"]
[BlackElo "2219"]
[PlyCount "87"]
[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 Bb4+ 6. Bd2 Be7 7. Bg2 Bb7 8. Bc3
Ne4 9. O-O O-O 10. Bb2 f5 11. Nc3 Bf6 12. Rc1 d6 13. Nxe4 Bxe4 14. Ne1 Bxg2 15.
Nxg2 Nd7 16. Re1 a5 17. e4 fxe4 18. Rxe4 e5 19. dxe5 Nxe5 20. Bxe5 Bxe5 21.
Qd5+ Kh8 22. f4 Bf6 23. Rce1 a4 24. Qc6 axb3 25. axb3 Bc3 26. R1e2 h6 27. Nh4
Kh7 28. Re7 Ra1+ 29. Kg2 Qa8 30. Qxa8 Rfxa8 31. Rxc7 R8a2 32. Rxa2 Rxa2+ 33.
Kh3 Rb2 34. Nf5 Rxb3 35. Nxd6 Rb2 36. Rb7 Bd4 37. Nf5 Bg1 38. Kg4 Rxh2 39.
Rxg7+ Kh8 40. Rg6 Kh7 41. Rg7+ Kh8 42. Rb7 Bc5 43. Nh4 Rd2 44. Kh5 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.29"]
[Round "8.16"]
[White "Hristov, N."]
[Black "Georgiev, S."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A52"]
[WhiteElo "1878"]
[BlackElo "2167"]
[PlyCount "49"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e5 3. dxe5 Ng4 4. Nf3 Bc5 5. e3 Nc6 6. Be2 O-O 7. O-O Re8 8.
Nbd2 Bxe3 9. fxe3 Nxe3 10. Qb3 Nxf1 11. Nxf1 Nxe5 12. Nxe5 Rxe5 13. Bf3 Re1 14.
Qc3 Qe7 15. Bg5 Rxf1+ 16. Rxf1 Qxg5 17. Bd5 c6 18. Bxf7+ Kh8 19. Bd5 Qd8 20.
Rf7 Qg8 21. Qf3 cxd5 22. Rf8 h6 23. Qf7 Qxf8 24. Qxf8+ Kh7 25. cxd5 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.29"]
[Round "8.17"]
[White "Pantev, T."]
[Black "Ivanov, T."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D36"]
[WhiteElo "1721"]
[BlackElo "2142"]
[PlyCount "92"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. c4 c6 4. Nc3 e6 5. Bg5 Nbd7 6. cxd5 exd5 7. e3 Be7 8.
Qc2 O-O 9. Bd3 Re8 10. O-O h6 11. Bxf6 Bxf6 12. b4 Nf8 13. b5 cxb5 14. Bxb5 Re7
15. Qb3 Be6 16. Bd3 Rc8 17. Rac1 Rec7 18. Ne2 Rxc1 19. Rxc1 Rxc1+ 20. Nxc1 Qc7
21. Qc2 Qxc2 22. Bxc2 Nd7 23. Kf1 Kf8 24. Ke2 Ke7 25. Nb3 Kd6 26. Nfd2 Bd8 27.
f3 f5 28. e4 fxe4 29. fxe4 dxe4 30. Nxe4+ Kc6 31. Nc3 Bc4+ 32. Bd3 b5 33. d5+
Kb6 34. Bxc4 bxc4 35. Nd4 Bf6 36. Ke3 Kc5 37. Nde2 Kb4 38. Kd2 Be5 39. h3 Nb6
40. Kc2 Kc5 41. d6 Kxd6 42. Ne4+ Kd5 43. N2c3+ Kd4 44. Nf2 a6 45. Ng4 Bd6 46.
Ne2+ Ke4 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.29"]
[Round "8.18"]
[White "Sotirov, I."]
[Black "Velikov, V."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B07"]
[WhiteElo "1996"]
[BlackElo "1843"]
[PlyCount "87"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nc3 d6 3. e4 Nbd7 4. Nf3 c6 5. a4 Qc7 6. Be2 e5 7. dxe5 dxe5 8.
O-O Bc5 9. Bc4 O-O 10. Qe2 Rd8 11. Bg5 a6 12. h3 b5 13. axb5 cxb5 14. Bxb5 Rb8
15. Bxa6 Rxb2 16. Bxc8 Rxc8 17. Bc1 Rbb8 18. Nd5 Nxd5 19. exd5 Bd6 20. Ra2 Nf6
21. Rd1 Qc4 22. Qxc4 Rxc4 23. Nd2 Rd4 24. c4 Ne4 25. Rf1 Nxd2 26. Bxd2 Rxc4 27.
Be3 Bc5 28. Bxc5 Rxc5 29. Rd1 Rd8 30. d6 Rc6 31. Rad2 Rd7 32. Rd5 f6 33. Kf1
Kf7 34. R5d3 Ke6 35. Ke2 Rcxd6 36. Rxd6+ Rxd6 37. Ra1 f5 38. Ra7 Kf6 39. g3 h5
40. h4 g5 41. hxg5+ Kxg5 42. Re7 Kf6 43. Rh7 Kg6 44. Rh8 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.29"]
[Round "8.19"]
[White "Kolev, H."]
[Black "Baltov, N."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D02"]
[WhiteElo "1765"]
[PlyCount "86"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. Bf4 e6 4. e3 c5 5. Bd3 Nc6 6. c3 Qb6 7. Qc1 Bd7 8. dxc5
Bxc5 9. b4 Be7 10. O-O Rc8 11. Qb2 O-O 12. Nbd2 h6 13. h3 Rfe8 14. a3 a6 15. c4
Na7 16. Rac1 Bc6 17. c5 Qd8 18. Nb3 Nd7 19. Qe2 Bf6 20. e4 e5 21. Bg3 d4 22.
Na5 Nf8 23. Nc4 Ng6 24. Nd6 Qd7 25. Nd2 Rb8 26. Nxe8 Rxe8 27. Nc4 Rd8 28. Qh5
Qe6 29. Nd6 Be7 30. Bc4 Qf6 31. Bxf7+ Kh7 32. Bxg6+ Qxg6 33. Qxg6+ Kxg6 34. Nc4
Bf6 35. Bxe5 d3 36. Bxf6 Kxf6 37. e5+ Ke6 38. f4 d2 39. f5+ Kf7 40. Rcd1 Rd4
41. Nd6+ Kf8 42. Rf2 Rd3 43. Rfxd2 Rg3 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.29"]
[Round "8.20"]
[White "Rojdov, P."]
[Black "Stankovski, M."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B10"]
[WhiteElo "1941"]
[BlackElo "1731"]
[PlyCount "59"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 c6 2. c4 d5 3. cxd5 cxd5 4. exd5 Qxd5 5. Nc3 Qd8 6. Nf3 Bg4 7. Qa4+ Bd7
8. Bb5 Nc6 9. d4 a6 10. Be2 e6 11. Qd1 Nf6 12. Bg5 Be7 13. O-O O-O 14. Ne5 Nd5
15. Nxd5 Bxg5 16. Nxd7 exd5 17. Nxf8 Qxf8 18. Bf3 Rd8 19. Qa4 Qd6 20. Rad1 Bf6
21. Rfe1 g6 22. Rd3 Nb4 23. Rb3 Nc2 24. Re8+ Rxe8 25. Qxe8+ Kg7 26. Rxb7 Qf8
27. Qxf8+ Kxf8 28. Bxd5 Be7 29. Bc4 Nxd4 30. Bxa6 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.30"]
[Round "9.1"]
[White "Petkov, Vladimir"]
[Black "Milchev, N."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A84"]
[WhiteElo "2490"]
[BlackElo "2382"]
[PlyCount "50"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. e3 e6 4. Nf3 Bd6 5. Nc3 f5 6. Bd2 Nf6 7. Rb1 O-O 8. b4
Nbd7 9. c5 Bc7 10. b5 Ne4 11. bxc6 bxc6 12. Qa4 Nxd2 13. Kxd2 Nf6 14. Kc2 Ne4
15. Nd1 Qe8 16. Ba6 f4 17. Bd3 e5 18. Bxe4 dxe4 19. Nxe5 Bxe5 20. dxe5 fxe3 21.
fxe3 Qxe5 22. Qd4 Qf5 23. Rb2 Ba6 24. Kb1 Rad8 25. Qc3 Rd5 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.30"]
[Round "9.2"]
[White "Badev, K."]
[Black "Marholev, D."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C97"]
[WhiteElo "2369"]
[BlackElo "2431"]
[PlyCount "42"]
[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 Na5 10. Bc2 c5 11. d4 Qc7 12. d5 Bd7 13. Nbd2 c4 14. Nf1 Nb7 15. Ng3
g6 16. Nh2 Nc5 17. Bh6 Rfe8 18. Be3 Rf8 19. Bh6 Rfe8 20. Be3 Rf8 21. Bh6 Rfe8
1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.30"]
[Round "9.3"]
[White "Janev, Evgeni"]
[Black "Arnaudov, Petar G."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D14"]
[WhiteElo "2461"]
[BlackElo "2413"]
[PlyCount "61"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. cxd5 cxd5 5. Bf4 Nc6 6. e3 Bf5 7. Bd3 Bxd3 8.
Qxd3 e6 9. Nf3 Bd6 10. Bxd6 Qxd6 11. O-O O-O 12. Rac1 Rac8 13. h3 a6 14. Nd2
Rc7 15. a3 Rfc8 16. Ne2 Ne7 17. Rxc7 Rxc7 18. Rc1 Rxc1+ 19. Nxc1 g6 20. Qc2 Qc6
21. Qxc6 Nxc6 22. Nd3 b6 23. Kf1 Kf8 24. Ke2 Ke7 25. f4 h5 26. Ne5 Nxe5 27.
fxe5 Nd7 28. e4 f6 29. exd5 exd5 30. exf6+ Kxf6 31. Nf3 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.30"]
[Round "9.4"]
[White "Tsvetkov, Ilia"]
[Black "Berbatov, Kiprian"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E73"]
[WhiteElo "2392"]
[BlackElo "2455"]
[PlyCount "90"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. c4 g6 2. Nc3 Bg7 3. d4 Nf6 4. e4 d6 5. Be2 O-O 6. Bg5 Na6 7. Qd2 e5 8. d5
Nc5 9. f3 a5 10. Bd1 c6 11. Nge2 cxd5 12. cxd5 Bd7 13. O-O b5 14. Bc2 Qb6 15.
Be3 Qb7 16. Nd1 Rfc8 17. Nf2 b4 18. Rfc1 Bb5 19. Bd3 Nxd3 20. Nxd3 Qa6 21.
Rxc8+ Rxc8 22. Rc1 Rxc1+ 23. Nexc1 Nd7 24. Qc2 f5 25. Qc7 fxe4 26. fxe4 Bxd3
27. Qxd7 h5 28. Qe8+ Kh7 29. Qc6 Qxc6 30. dxc6 Bxe4 31. c7 Bf5 32. Nb3 d5 33.
Nxa5 d4 34. Nc6 Bf8 35. Bg5 Bd6 36. Bf6 d3 37. Kf2 e4 38. Bg5 Bxc7 39. Nxb4
Bb6+ 40. Ke1 e3 41. h3 Be4 42. Kd1 Bc5 43. a3 Kg7 44. Na6 Bxg2 45. Nxc5 Bf3+
0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.30"]
[Round "9.5"]
[White "Pantev, V."]
[Black "Janachkov, A."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A48"]
[WhiteElo "2369"]
[BlackElo "2231"]
[PlyCount "145"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. Bf4 Bg7 4. e3 O-O 5. Be2 d6 6. O-O c5 7. c4 Nh5 8. Bg5
h6 9. Bh4 g5 10. Bg3 Nxg3 11. hxg3 Qb6 12. Nc3 e6 13. Qc2 Nc6 14. d5 exd5 15.
cxd5 Ne7 16. Nd2 Qd8 17. Nc4 a6 18. a4 b6 19. Qb3 Rb8 20. Ne4 Nxd5 21. Ncxd6
Be6 22. Bc4 Nc7 23. Bxe6 fxe6 24. Rad1 Qe7 25. g4 Kh8 26. Ng3 b5 27. Nh5 Be5
28. Ne4 Nd5 29. axb5 axb5 30. Qc2 Rbc8 31. Nc3 Nf6 32. Nxf6 Bxf6 33. Nxb5 Rb8
34. Nc3 Rb4 35. Ne4 Rxb2 36. Qxc5 Qxc5 37. Nxc5 Re8 38. Rd6 Rb4 39. f3 Rb5 40.
Nxe6 Be5 41. Nc7 Bxd6 42. Nxb5 Bc5 43. Re1 Rxe3 44. Rxe3 Bxe3+ 45. Kf1 Kg7 46.
Ke2 Bc5 47. Kd3 Kg6 48. Kc4 Bg1 49. Kd5 h5 50. Ke6 hxg4 51. fxg4 Be3 52. Nd6
Bd2 53. Nc4 Bc1 54. Ne5+ Kg7 55. Kf5 Be3 56. Nf3 Kh6 57. Kf6 Bc1 58. Ne5 Bb2
59. Kf5 Bc1 60. Nf7+ Kg7 61. Nxg5 Bd2 62. Ne6+ Kf7 63. g5 Bc3 64. g6+ Kg8 65.
Kg5 Bd2+ 66. Kh5 Bc3 67. Ng5 Bb2 68. Nf3 Kg7 69. Nh4 Kg8 70. Nf5 Bc3 71. g4 Bb2
72. Kh6 Bc3 73. g7 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.30"]
[Round "9.6"]
[White "Vutov, M."]
[Black "Arnaudov, Petar"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B07"]
[WhiteElo "2331"]
[BlackElo "2207"]
[PlyCount "123"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 c6 4. a4 Qa5 5. Bd2 e5 6. Nf3 Bg4 7. dxe5 dxe5 8. h3
Bxf3 9. Qxf3 Bb4 10. Bc4 Nbd7 11. O-O O-O 12. g4 Rad8 13. Rfd1 Qc5 14. Bb3 Qe7
15. Be3 Nc5 16. Bxc5 Bxc5 17. Ne2 g6 18. Ng3 Ne8 19. Rxd8 Qxd8 20. Rd1 Qe7 21.
Kg2 Nc7 22. Qd3 Ne6 23. Bxe6 fxe6 24. f3 Qf6 25. c3 a5 26. Qe2 Rf7 27. Rd3 Kg7
28. Qd1 Qe7 29. Qd2 h6 30. Qe1 Bb6 31. Nf1 Kh7 32. Qd1 Qc5 33. Ne3 Kg7 34. Qb3
Re7 35. Qc4 Kf6 36. Qxc5 Bxc5 37. Nc4 b6 38. h4 g5 39. h5 Ra7 40. Nd2 b5 41.
Kf1 Ke7 42. Ke2 Bg1 43. Kd1 Ra8 44. Kc2 Bf2 45. Kb3 Rb8 46. Ka3 Bc5+ 47. Ka2
Bd6 48. Nb3 Ra8 49. Rd1 bxa4 50. Nd2 a3 51. Nc4 Bc7 52. Kxa3 Rb8 53. Rd3 Rb5
54. Ka2 Rc5 55. Kb3 Bb8 56. Na3 Bd6 57. Ka4 Bb8 58. c4 Bc7 59. b3 Bd6 60. Nc2
Kd7 61. Ne1 Kc7 62. Rxd6 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.30"]
[Round "9.7"]
[White "Stoinev, M."]
[Black "Janchev, P."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C41"]
[WhiteElo "2268"]
[BlackElo "2215"]
[PlyCount "74"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 Nbd7 4. Nf3 e5 5. g3 Be7 6. Bg2 O-O 7. O-O c6 8. a4
a5 9. Re1 Re8 10. b3 Qc7 11. Bb2 Bf8 12. Qd2 exd4 13. Nxd4 Nc5 14. h3 Bd7 15.
Rad1 Rad8 16. g4 Bc8 17. Qf4 Ne6 18. Nxe6 fxe6 19. Rd3 Nd7 20. Ba3 e5 21. Qd2
Nc5 22. Bxc5 dxc5 23. Rd1 Be7 24. Bf1 Be6 25. Qe3 b6 26. Kg2 h6 27. Qg3 Rxd3
28. Bxd3 Rf8 29. Qe3 c4 30. Bxc4 Bxc4 31. bxc4 Bc5 32. Qd3 Rxf2+ 33. Kh1 Qf7
34. Ne2 Kh7 35. h4 h5 36. gxh5 Qxh5 37. Ng1 Qg6 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.30"]
[Round "9.8"]
[White "Enchev, Ivajlo"]
[Black "Mladenov, P."]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B13"]
[WhiteElo "2434"]
[BlackElo "2394"]
[PlyCount "34"]
[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 Nc6 6. Bg5 Qa5 7. Bxf6 exf6 8.
cxd5 Bb4 9. dxc6 Bxc3+ 10. bxc3 Qxc3+ 11. Ke2 O-O 12. f3 Re8+ 13. Kf2 Qe3+ 14.
Kg3 Qg5+ 15. Kf2 Qe3+ 16. Kg3 Qg5+ 17. Kf2 Qe3+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.30"]
[Round "9.9"]
[White "Ivanov, B."]
[Black "Mishev, L."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A55"]
[WhiteElo "2128"]
[BlackElo "2205"]
[PlyCount "65"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. d4 d6 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. c4 Nbd7 4. Nc3 e5 5. e4 Be7 6. Be2 O-O 7. O-O c6 8. Qc2
Re8 9. Rd1 Qc7 10. Bg5 h6 11. Bh4 Nf8 12. Rac1 Ng6 13. Bg3 Nh5 14. a3 Nxg3 15.
hxg3 exd4 16. Nxd4 Ne5 17. Nf3 Be6 18. Nxe5 dxe5 19. b4 a5 20. c5 Bg5 21. Ra1
Red8 22. Rxd8+ Qxd8 23. Rd1 Qf8 24. Na4 axb4 25. axb4 Rd8 26. Nb6 Rd4 27. Rxd4
exd4 28. Nc4 Be7 29. e5 f6 30. Qe4 fxe5 31. Qxe5 Qf6 32. Qxf6 Bxf6 33. Nd6 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.30"]
[Round "9.10"]
[White "Filev, Georgi"]
[Black "Kolev, Atanas Tonchev"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B97"]
[WhiteElo "2389"]
[BlackElo "2017"]
[PlyCount "55"]
[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 Qb6 8. Qd2
Qxb2 9. Rb1 Qa3 10. e5 dxe5 11. fxe5 Nfd7 12. Ne4 h6 13. Bh4 Qxa2 14. Rd1 Qd5
15. Qe3 Qxe5 16. Be2 Nc6 17. Nxc6 bxc6 18. O-O Be7 19. Bxe7 Kxe7 20. Qa3+ c5
21. Nd6 f6 22. Bb5 Nb6 23. Bc6 Rb8 24. Rfe1 Qxd6 25. Rxd6 Kxd6 26. Qg3+ e5 27.
Qxg7 Be6 28. Qxf6 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.30"]
[Round "9.11"]
[White "Nikolov, J."]
[Black "Stanoev, A."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B22"]
[WhiteElo "2090"]
[BlackElo "2202"]
[PlyCount "63"]
[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 e6 8.
Be3 Qa5 9. Nc4 Qc7 10. Qa4+ Nc6 11. Nfe5 Bh5 12. Nxc6 Qxc6 13. Qxc6+ bxc6 14.
Ne5 c5 15. Bb5+ Kd8 16. f3 Nd5 17. O-O-O Kc7 18. Bf2 Rb8 19. a4 Bd6 20. Rhe1
Bg6 21. g4 Rb6 22. Bg3 Rd8 23. Bc4 Ne7 24. a5 Rbb8 25. h4 h5 26. Re2 Nc6 27.
Rxd6 Rxd6 28. Nxg6 fxg6 29. Rxe6 Rbd8 30. Rxg6 Nxa5 31. Bf7 hxg4 32. fxg4 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.30"]
[Round "9.12"]
[White "Stankov, A."]
[Black "Andreev, Sasho"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C11"]
[WhiteElo "1897"]
[BlackElo "2153"]
[PlyCount "84"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 Nf6 2. Nc3 d5 3. e5 Nfd7 4. d4 c5 5. Nf3 Nc6 6. Bb5 e6 7. Bxc6 bxc6 8.
O-O Rb8 9. Re1 Qc7 10. b3 h6 11. Bf4 cxd4 12. Nxd4 Ba6 13. Qh5 Nc5 14. a3 g6
15. Qh3 Be7 16. b4 Nd7 17. Nxe6 fxe6 18. Qxe6 Nf8 19. Qg4 h5 20. Qg3 g5 21.
Bxg5 Bxg5 22. Qxg5 Qe7 23. Qg3 h4 24. Qf3 Ne6 25. Rad1 Qf7 26. Qe3 Rg8 27. h3
Qg6 28. Qf3 Nf4 29. Kh1 Qxg2+ 30. Qxg2 Rxg2 31. Rg1 Rg6 32. Rxg6 Nxg6 33. Na4
Ke7 34. Nc5 Bc8 35. Rg1 Bf5 36. c3 Nxe5 37. Rg7+ Nf7 38. Kh2 Kf6 39. Rg1 Re8
40. Rd1 Re2 41. Kg2 Ng5 42. Kf1 Rc2 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.30"]
[Round "9.13"]
[White "Angelov, B."]
[Black "Ivanov, L."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C48"]
[WhiteElo "2000"]
[BlackElo "1949"]
[PlyCount "110"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bb5 Nd4 5. O-O Nxb5 6. Nxb5 c6 7. Nc3 d6 8.
d4 Qc7 9. Bg5 Be7 10. h3 h6 11. Bh4 g5 12. dxe5 dxe5 13. Bg3 Bd6 14. Nd2 Be6
15. Qe2 O-O-O 16. Nc4 Bxc4 17. Qxc4 Nh5 18. Ne2 Nf4 19. f3 Nxe2+ 20. Qxe2 Bc5+
21. Bf2 Qb6 22. Bxc5 Qxc5+ 23. Qf2 Qxf2+ 24. Rxf2 Rd7 25. Re2 h5 26. h4 f6 27.
Kf2 Rhd8 28. Rh1 Rd1 29. Rhe1 Rxe1 30. Kxe1 gxh4 31. Rd2 Rxd2 32. Kxd2 Kd7 33.
Ke3 Ke6 34. Kf2 Kf7 35. Kg1 Kg6 36. Kh2 c5 37. Kh3 Kg5 38. a4 c4 39. a5 b6 40.
a6 c3 41. bxc3 b5 42. Kh2 Kf4 43. Kh3 Ke3 44. Kxh4 Kd2 45. Kxh5 Kxc2 46. Kg6
Kxc3 47. Kxf6 b4 48. f4 b3 49. fxe5 b2 50. e6 b1=Q 51. e5 Qf1+ 52. Ke7 Kd4 53.
Kd8 Kxe5 54. e7 Qf6 55. Kd7 Qd6+ 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.30"]
[Round "9.14"]
[White "Ljangov, P."]
[Black "Hristov, N."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C77"]
[WhiteElo "2107"]
[BlackElo "1878"]
[PlyCount "140"]
[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. Bxc6 dxc6 6. d3 Bc5 7. O-O Qe7 8.
Nbd2 Bg4 9. Nc4 Nd7 10. h3 Bh5 11. Be3 f6 12. Bxc5 Nxc5 13. Ne3 O-O-O 14. Nf5
Qf7 15. Ng3 Ne6 16. Nxe5 fxe5 17. Qxh5 Qxh5 18. Nxh5 g6 19. Ng3 Nf4 20. Rae1
Rhf8 21. Ne2 Ne6 22. f3 Rf7 23. Kf2 c5 24. b3 Nd4 25. Nxd4 cxd4 26. Rc1 g5 27.
Ke2 b6 28. c3 Rfd7 29. cxd4 Rxd4 30. Rfd1 Kb7 31. Rc3 R8d7 32. Rh1 R4d6 33. Ke3
Rg7 34. Rd1 Rgd7 35. Rc4 Kb8 36. a4 Kb7 37. b4 Rd4 38. Rxd4 Rxd4 39. Rb1 Kc8
40. Kd2 Kd7 41. Kc3 Rd6 42. Rd1 Rd4 43. h4 gxh4 44. Rh1 a5 45. bxa5 bxa5 46.
Rxh4 Rxa4 47. Rxh7+ Kc6 48. g3 Ra3+ 49. Kd2 Ra2+ 50. Ke3 Rg2 51. Rh6+ Kb5 52.
Re6 a4 53. Rxe5+ Kb4 54. Re7 c5 55. Rb7+ Ka3 56. g4 Rb2 57. Ra7 Rb6 58. g5 Kb3
59. f4 Rg6 60. e5 a3 61. Ke4 a2 62. Kd5 Rg8 63. e6 Rc8 64. f5 Rd8+ 65. Ke5 Rc8
66. Kd6 Rd8+ 67. Kxc5 Rc8+ 68. Kd5 Rd8+ 69. Ke5 Rxd3 70. Rxa2 Kxa2 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.30"]
[Round "9.15"]
[White "Ivanov, T."]
[Black "Sotirov, I."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C75"]
[WhiteElo "2142"]
[BlackElo "1996"]
[PlyCount "61"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 d6 4. c3 a6 5. Ba4 Bd7 6. d4 Nge7 7. Bg5 f6 8. Be3
Ng6 9. h4 h5 10. Nbd2 b5 11. Bb3 Na5 12. Bc2 Bg4 13. a4 Be7 14. b4 Nb7 15. Bd3
c6 16. Qb3 Qc8 17. O-O Nd8 18. d5 Bd7 19. dxc6 Qxc6 20. axb5 axb5 21. Bxb5 Qb7
22. Bc4 Qc8 23. b5 Nf8 24. Bd5 Rb8 25. b6 Bc6 26. Ra7 Nfe6 27. Rd1 Rb7 28. Nc4
Bxd5 29. Rxd5 Qb8 30. Qa4+ Kf8 31. Ra8 1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.30"]
[Round "9.16"]
[White "Velikov, V."]
[Black "Asparuhov, P."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C14"]
[WhiteElo "1843"]
[BlackElo "2107"]
[PlyCount "53"]
[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. Bxe7 Qxe7 7. Qg4 g6 8.
Nf3 a6 9. O-O-O c5 10. dxc5 Nc6 11. Re1 Qxc5 12. h4 h5 13. Qg3 b5 14. Ng5 b4
15. Nxe6 fxe6 16. Qxg6+ Kd8 17. Nxd5 Qxd5 18. Rd1 Qxe5 19. Bc4 Qf4+ 20. Kb1 Qh6
21. Qe4 Kc7 22. Rh3 Nc5 23. Qe2 Bb7 24. Re3 Rad8 25. Rxd8 Rxd8 26. Bxe6 Nxe6
27. Rxe6 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.30"]
[Round "9.18"]
[White "Panajotov, J."]
[Black "Rojdov, P."]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C54"]
[WhiteElo "2219"]
[BlackElo "1941"]
[PlyCount "79"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 Bc5 5. c3 d6 6. O-O Bg4 7. Re1 O-O 8. h3
Bh5 9. Nbd2 Na5 10. Bb5 a6 11. Ba4 Ba7 12. Nf1 b5 13. Bc2 c5 14. Ng3 Bg6 15.
Nh4 Qc7 16. Qf3 Nc6 17. Nhf5 Ne8 18. Bb3 Bxf5 19. Nxf5 Ne7 20. Nxe7+ Qxe7 21.
a4 Nc7 22. Qg4 Kh8 23. Bg5 f6 24. Be3 b4 25. Bc4 a5 26. Re2 Rad8 27. f4 d5 28.
exd5 Nxd5 29. Bd2 Qd6 30. fxe5 fxe5 31. Rf1 Rxf1+ 32. Kxf1 Rf8+ 33. Rf2 Nf6 34.
Qf5 Bb6 35. Be3 g6 36. Qe6 Qxe6 37. Bxe6 Kg7 38. g4 Ne8 39. Bh6+ Kxh6 40. Rxf8
1-0

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.30"]
[Round "9.19"]
[White "Baltov, N."]
[Black "Pantev, T."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B88"]
[BlackElo "1721"]
[PlyCount "94"]
[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 Nc6 6. Bc4 Nf6 7. Bb3 d6 8. O-O
Qc7 9. Bg5 Be7 10. Re1 O-O 11. h3 b5 12. a3 Rb8 13. Kh1 Na5 14. f4 Nc4 15. Bxc4
Qxc4 16. e5 dxe5 17. fxe5 Nd5 18. Bxe7 Nxe7 19. Qg4 h5 20. Qh4 Ng6 21. Qf2 b4
22. Ne4 Qd5 23. Rad1 Bb7 24. Nf3 Qa5 25. axb4 Qxb4 26. c3 Qa5 27. b4 Qc7 28.
Qc5 Rbc8 29. Qxc7 Rxc7 30. Nc5 Bxf3 31. gxf3 a5 32. Kg2 Nf4+ 33. Kg3 Nd5 34.
Rxd5 exd5 35. Rd1 axb4 36. cxb4 Rd8 37. Rd4 Kf8 38. Kh4 g6 39. Kg5 Ke7 40. f4
Rxc5 41. bxc5 Ke6 42. Rd1 Rc8 43. Rc1 Rc6 44. Rc2 d4 45. h4 Kd5 46. Re2 d3 47.
Rd2 Kd4 0-1

[Event "BUL, Men Ch semi-final"]
[Site "Plovdiv"]
[Date "2010.01.30"]
[Round "9.20"]
[White "Stankovski, M."]
[Black "Georgiev, S."]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A03"]
[WhiteElo "1731"]
[BlackElo "2167"]
[PlyCount "61"]
[EventDate "2010.01.??"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "BUL"]
[SourceDate "2008.07.28"]

1. f4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. g3 c5 4. Bg2 Nc6 5. O-O Bf5 6. d3 h6 7. h3 e6 8. c3 Be7
9. Nbd2 O-O 10. Re1 d4 11. Nf1 Nd5 12. c4 Nc7 13. e4 dxe3 14. Rxe3 Bf6 15. g4
Bh7 16. g5 hxg5 17. Nxg5 Bd4 18. Qh5 Bg6 19. Qg4 Bxe3+ 20. Bxe3 Nd4 21. h4 Ne8
22. h5 Bf5 23. Qd1 Nf6 24. h6 gxh6 25. Ne4 Bxe4 26. dxe4 Kh8 27. e5 Ne8 28. Be4
Nf5 29. Qh5 Neg7 30. Qh3 Rg8 31. Ng3 0-1