08.05.2006 Tigran Petrosian and Evgeny Bareev become the March laureates

March was tough. It creative potential was significantly lower than usually, and in April all the experts moved to Sochi, and I could not conduct the voting in time. So I would like to express my gratitude to those who found the time and took part in the voting. The family did not fell apart!

There were 8 judges to evaluate 16 games: Ekaterina Kovalevskaya, Alexandra Kosteniuk, Michal Krasenkow, Ilya Odessky, Andrey Deviatkin, Nikita Vitiugov, Vladimir Potkin and Sergey Ivanov .

Only three games had real chances to succeed. Like in February, I have to annouce not one but two winners of the contest: Tigran Petrosian and Evgeny Bareev. The game Petrosian-Minasian from the Armenian championship collected 1 first place (Deviatkin), 2 second and 3 third places. The game Bareev-Onischuk, the only game from Poikovsky to enter the contest, had 2 first places (Vitiugov, Kovalevskaya), 2 second and 1 third place.

Vassily Ivanchuk's blinfold win over Luke van Wely is also among the leaders with 2 first places (Ivanov, Kosteniuk) and 2 second places.

The applause becomes less loud as we proceed further. Radjabov-Svidler is on the 4th overall spot: it earned the highest praise from Ilya Odessky and a second place. The USA champion's encounter Onischuk-Florean enchanted Potkin and Krasenkow (2 first places), but did not impress other experts - the 5th overall.

Here are other games from the top 10: 6) Radzievic-Kononenko (1 third place), 7) Aronian-Morozevich (1 third), 8) Aronian-Topalov (1 third), 9) Svidler-Nielsen, 10) Williams-Ivanisevic.

Soon we will publish the analytical review, and now I will take care of the April games, which should provide us with many high quality examples