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
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