Mighty Morozevich beats Svidler

The Moro magic continued into the 8th round of the Russian Superfinals of chess. Morozevich beat Svidler and with black and in 38 moves in a Sicilian Najdorf game. Morozevich's rating performance is a whopping 2900 now. The others seem to be tiring now with only one other game which saw a result when Timofeev beat Rychagov with the black pieces. Timofeev has salvaged a lot of points right at the end in what was otherwise a disastrous tournament for him.

In the women's section, the competition is cut-throat. No moro-like performance from anyone. But there were 5 decisive games out of 6. The big upset of the round in this section was Stepovaia beating Tatiana Kosintseva.

Results of the 8th round:

Men

Grischuk, Alexander - Sakaev, Konstantin ½-½
Dreev, Alexey - Tomashevsky, Evgeny ½-½
Amonatov, Farrukh - Vitiugov, Nikita ½-½
Svidler, Peter - Morozevich, Alexander 0-1
Rychagov, Andrey - Timofeev, Artyom 0-1
Inarkiev, Ernesto - Jakovenko, Dmitry ½-½

Women

Tairova, Elena - Girya, Olga 1-0
Kosintseva, Tatiana - Stepovaia, Tatiana 0-1
Matveeva, Svetlana - Pogonina, Natalija 0-1
Ovod, Evgenija - Gunina, Valentina 1-0
Kosintseva, Nadezhda - Korbut, Ekaterina ½-½
Shadrina, Tatiana - Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina 1-0

Standings after 8 rounds:

Men

Morozevich 6.5
Tomashevsky 5
Grischuk 4.5

Women

Tairova 6.5
Korbut 6
Pogonina 5.5