Saratov

The runaway leader

The Governer's cup In Saratov, Russia takes place from the 8th to the 20th of October. A twelve player round robin involving several members of the Saratov team that won the European Club Championship in 2009 and 2010. Saratov has a population nearing one million and is about 460 miles south-east of Moscow on the Volga river.

The twelve players involved are as follows:

Seed	Player	Age	Country	Rating	World rank
1	Ruslan Ponomariov	28*	UKR	2758	8
2	Alexander Morozevich	34	RUS	2737	17
3	Peter Leko	32	HUN	2728	20
4=	Nikita Vitiugov	24	RUS	2726	21
4=	Alexander Moiseenko	31	UKR	2726	22
6	Alexei Shirov	39	ESP	2713	31
7	Evgeny Tomashevsky	24	RUS	2710	36
8	Dmitry Andreikin	21	RUS	2705	44
9	Pavel Eljanov	28	UKR	2683	60
10	Ni Hua	28	CHN	2670	75
11	Michael Roiz	28*	ISR	2668	78
12	Evgeny Alekseev	25	RUS	2662	85

* = including a birthday during the tournament.

More information and live games from the official site:

http://www.russiachess.org/

Games start at

1pm Paris, Madrid

12 noon London

3pm Saratov, Moscow

7am New York

4am Los Angeles