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The Bosnia Sarajevo tournament took place from May 23rd to June 2nd, 2008. The event was organised by the Sarajevo Chess Club “Bosna”, the venue was the Concert Hall of House of Army. It was a six-player double round robin, with an additional “B” tournament taking place (average Elo 2445). The rate of play was 90 minutes for 40 moves, with 30 seconds increment per move, then 15 minutes + 30 seconds/move for the rest of the game.
The winner of Sarajevo by 1.5 points: Russian GM Alexander Morozevich
At the end of seven rounds Morozevich had scored 6.0 points with a performance of 2987. He was on track to becoming number two in the world, overtaking Kramnik in the FIDE rating list. There was even a theoretical chance hat he could catch Anand in the number one slot. But then came three draws in the final rounds and the dream (probably not of Morozevich but certainly of many chess fans) came to an end. Morozevich's performance was a modest 2869 (it is not easy to type in those words) and he has to settle for number three. According to Live Top List, a site that tracks chess ratings of players over 2700 on a daily basis, the new world rankings at this moment would be as follows:
| Rank | Player | Rating |
Change |
games |
events |
born | 01 | Anand | 2798,1 |
-4,9 |
2 |
1 |
1969 |
| 02 | Kramnik | 2788,0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1975 |
| 03 | Morozevich | 2789,1 |
+15,1 |
16 |
2 |
1977 |
| 04 | Ivanchuk | 2780,5 |
+40,5 |
25 |
3 |
1969 |
| 05 | Topalov | 2777,0 |
+10 |
10 |
1 |
1975 |
| 06 | Carlsen | 2775,4 |
+10,4 |
16 |
3 |
1990 |
| 07 | Radjabov | 2744,1 |
-6,9 |
31 |
3 |
1987 |
| 08 | Mamedyarov | 2742,1 |
-9,9 |
23 |
2 |
1985 |
| 09 | Shirov | 2741,4 |
+1,4 |
11 |
2 |
1972 |
| 10 | Leko | 2741,0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1979 |
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