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Montecatini Terme
3 August 2000

Ivanchuk wins in Italy

Vassily Ivanchuk of the Ukraine took the Montecatini Terme Chess Festival main tournament first prize after beating Minasian in the final round.

Final results

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Vassily Ivanchuk UKR
Evgeny Bareev RUS
Zurab Azmaiparashvili GEO
Alexei Shirov ESP
Sergei Rublevsky RUS
Jeroen Piket NED
Artashes Minasian ARM
Smbat Lputian ARM

2719
2702
2673
2746
2670
2649
2595
2598

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4½
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3½
3½
3½
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Round 7

Artashes Minasian - Vassily Ivanchuk 0-1
Evgeny Bareev - Jeroen Piket 1-0
Smbat Lputian - Alexei Shirov ½-½
Sergey Rublevsky - Zurab Azmaiparashvili ½-½

Round 1

Sergei Rublevsky - Artashes Minasian, 1-0
Vassily Ivanchuk - Evgeny Bareev, ½-½
Jeroen Piket - Smbat Lputian ½-½
Alexei Shirov - Zurab Azmaiparashvili 0-1

Round 2

Zurab Azmaiparashvili - Artashes Minasian ½-½
Evgeny Bareev - Sergei Rublevsky ½-½
Smbat Lputian - Vassily Ivanchuk 0-1
Alexei Shirov - Jeroen Piket ½-½

Round 3

Vassily Ivanchuk - Alexei Shirov ½-½
Artashes Minasian - Evgeny Bareev 0-1
Jeroen Piket - Zurab Azmaiparashvili 1-0
Sergei Rublevsky - Smbat Lputjan ½-½

Round 4

Jeroen Piket - Vassily Ivanchuk 0-1
Alexei Shirov - Sergei Rublevsky 1-0
Zurab Azmaiparashvili - Evgeny Bareev ½-½
Smbat Lputjan - Artashes Minasian ½-½

Round 5

Vassily Ivanchuk - Zurab Azmaiparashvili ½-½
Evgeny Bareev - Smbat Lputjan 1-0
Sergei Rublevsky - Jeroen Piket ½-½
Artashes Minasian - Alexei Shirov 1-0

Round 6

Vassily Ivanchuk - Sergei Rublevsky ½-½
Alexei Shirov - Evgeny Bareev 1-0
Zurab Azmaiparashvili - Smbat Lputjan 1-0
Jeroen Piket - Artashes Minasian 1-0

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