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Cuban Chess Championship Defines Leader in Las Tunas
Corrales, first preclasified for his ELO of 2586 points (fourth in the national ranking), defeated Almeida with white pieces in 30 moves of a Pawn King, to achieve 5.5 points in the chart of positions and to guaratee his classification, if he ties in the ninth round this Tuesday.

On the other hand, the FM Yusnel Bacallao (2438) eliminated with whites the favorite GM Walter Arencibia (2536) and he incorporated with his 5.0 pints to the group that will fight today for one of the five tickets toward the second phase.

In the most attractive match in the day and after four hours of game, the GM Reynaldo Vera (2479) appealed to his experience and tied with black pieces in front of the FM of Las Tunas Humberto Blanco (2434) who was very close to the victory and almost achieves a norm of Grand Master.

The GM Luis Manuel Perez (2521) and the FM Lelys Martinez (2485) divided the point; the same as the GM Frank de la Paz (2491) and Yuri Gonzalez (2507); as well as the FM Jose Angel Guerra (2411) and Roberto Garcia (2295), a promise of 16 years old.

Undoubteddly, the last classificatory day will be the most spectacular, because ten players arrive at the end with possibilities of obtaining one from the five tickets to the following stage to be played from January 18 to 28, with the participation of the Grand Masters Lazaro Bruzon (2617), the defending national champion Yunieski Quesada (2590), Holden Hernandez (2568), Jesus Nogueiras (2575) and Neuris Delgado (2550), to play all against all in nine rounds for the Cuban title of 2009.

In the ninth and decisive day, the following matches are foreseen:

GM Luis Manuel Perez (5) - IM Fidel Corrales (5½)
GM Omar Almeida (5) - FM Lelys Martinez (5)
IM Yuri Gonzalez (5)-MF Jose Angel Guerra (5)
GM Reynaldo Vera - GM Frank de la Paz (5)
FM Humberto Blanco (5) - FM Yusnel Bacallao (5)
FM Luis Lazaro Aguero (4½) - IM Rodney Perez (4½)
Roberto Garcia (4½) - Pedro Morales (4½)
GM Walter Arencibia (4) - Isam Ortiz (4)
IM Camilo Gomez (4) - IM Humberto Pecorelli (4)
FM Carlos Mena (4) - FM Borges Yasel (4)
Leandro Guerra (3½) - Aramis Alvarez (3½)
GM Juan Borges (3½) - Pedro Jimenez (3½)
Alejandro Valdes (3½) - IM Maikel Gongora (3½)
FM Sandro Pozo (3½)-Yasser Quesada(2½)
Leonel Figueredo (3)-Alejandro Gonzalez (2)
MF Carlos Castellano (1)-FM Carlos Hevia (2½)

Results in the eighth round

1 IM Corrales Jimenez Fidel 1 - 0 GM Almeida Quintana Omar
2 GM Perez Rodriguez Luis Manuel ½ - ½ FM Martínez Duany Lelys
3 GM De la Paz Perdomo Frank ½ - ½ IM Gonzalez Vidal Yuri
4 FM Blanco Ronquillo Humberto ½ - ½ GM Vera Reynaldo
5 FM Guerra Mendez Jose Angel ½ - ½ Garcia Pantoja Roberto
6 FM Bacallao Alonso Yusnel 1 - 0 GM Arencibia Rodriguez Walter
7 IM Perez Garcia Rodney ½ - ½ FM Morales Rosemary Pedro
8 IM Alvarez Pedraza Aramis 0 - 1 FM Omen Jimenez Luis Lazaro
9 FM Borges Feria Yasel ½ - ½ IM Gomez Garrido Camilo
10 IM Pecorelli Garcia Humberto ½ - ½ FM Mena Crespo Carlos
11 IM Ortiz Suarez Isam 1 - 0 Valdes Lopez Alejandro
12 IM Gongora Reyes Maikel ½ - ½ FM Pozo Vera Sandro
13 Figueredo Losada Leonel 0 - 1 Guerra Mojena Leandro
14 Gonzalez Vega Alejandro ½ - ½ GM Borges Mateos Juan
15 Quesada Perez Yasser 1 - 0 FM Hevia Alejano Carlos A
16 Jimenez Fraga Pedro AT 1 - 0 FM Castellano Sanchez Carlos

Chart of Positions

Place Points Bucholz *

1 IM Corrals Jimenez Fidel 2586 5½ 38
2 FM Blanco Ronquillo Humberto 2434 5 39
3 GM Almeida Quintana Omar 2521 5 37½
4 IM Gonzalez Vidal Yuri 2507 5 37
5 GM De la Paz Perdomo Frank 2491 5 36½
6 FM Martinez Duany Lelys 2485 5 36
7 GM Vera Reynaldo 2479 5 36
8 GM Perez Rodriguez Luis M. 2521 5 34
9 FM Bacallao Alonso Yusnel 2438 5 31½
10 FM Guerra Mendez Jose A. 2411 5 30½
11 Garcia Pantoja Roberto 2295 4½ 36½
12 FM Morales Romero Pedro 2376 4½ 36
13 IM Perez Garcia Rodney 2436 4½ 35
14 FM Aguero Jimenez Luis L. 2325 4½ 29
15 FM Mena Crespo Carlos 2337 4 36
16 GM Arencibia Walter 2536 4 35
17 FM Borges Yasel Trades 2403 4 33
18 IM Ortiz Suarez Isam 2522 4 31½
19 IM Gomez Garrido Camilo 2454 4 29
20 IM Pecorelli Garcia Humberto 2405 4 26½
21 Valdes Lopez Alejandro 2115 3½ 34
22 IM Gongora Reyes Maikel 2454 3½ 31
23 FM Pozo Vera Sandro 2474 3½ 29½
24 Jimenez Fraga Pedro AT 2349 3½ 29
25 IM Alvarez Pedraza Aramis 2466 3½ 28½
26 GM Borges Mateos Juan 2459 3½ 26
27 Guerra Mojena Leandro 2252 3½ 23
28 Figueredo Losada Leonel 2419 3 29½
29 FM Hevia Alejano Carlos A 2303 2½ 30
30 Quesada Perez Yasser 2343 2½ 26½
31 Gonzalez Vega Alejandro 2086 2 26
32 FM Castellano Carlos 2297 1 27½

* System to determine the winner used in this National Championship. Each chess player accumulates the sum of all the punctuations of the players he has faced in the tournament

(Tiempo21.cu)

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