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    MOVSESIAN WINS BOSNA 2007 IN SARAJEVO

    Chessbase News, Germany
    May 29 2007

    29.05.2007 - This traditional tournament took place in the Bosnian
    capital of Sarajevo for the 37th time, and starred Morozevich, Short,
    Timofeev, and Sokolov. The six player round robin was won by fifth
    seed Sergei Movsesian, an Armenian-Slovakian grandmasters, who led
    the tournament from the start. Second was local boy Borki Predojevic.

    Report, pictures and games.

    37th Bosna 2007 in Sarajevo The 37th "Bosna" tournament took place
    from May 18th to 28th, 2007, in Sarajevo. This is the capital city
    and the urban center of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH). The city,
    which is surrounded by the Dinaric Alps, is famous for its traditional
    religious diversity, with adherents of Islam, Catholicism, Orthodoxy,
    and Judaism peacefully coexisting there for centuries.

    The annual GM tournament, which in the past had achieved absolute
    supertournament status (with Kasparov participating), was a double
    round robin with six very strong players: Alexander Morozevich
    (RUS 2762), Nigel Short (ENG 2691), Artyom Timofeev (RUS 2658), Ivan
    Sokolov (NED 2655), Sergei Movsesian (SVK 2642), and Borki Predojevic
    (BIH 2609).

    The tournament was practically a start-to-finish victory for the
    29-year-old Armenian-Slovakian GM Sergei Movsesian, who scored a
    point more than his nearest rival and did not lose any games.

    Movsesian's performance was 2782. The other stars of the event,
    Morozevich and Short, played less successfully (Nigel was indisposed
    during the tournament), while Ivan Sokolov played as one could have
    expected him to.

    Photos and results at
    http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid= 3890
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