The Chigorin Memorial 2012, one of the strongest open tournaments for the season with over 100 titled players, started with a rapid tournament. A total of 173 players entered the two days fast chess event.
GM Denis Khismatullin won convincingly the Chigorin rapid, scoring 8,0/9 after seven victories and two draws. He finished a full point ahead of competition, in the group of players with 7,0/9 are IM Anton Demchenko, GM Vladimir Fedoseev, GM Stelios Halkias, GM Igor Lysyj, GM Boris Grachev, GM Alexandr Lenderman, GM Vadim Zvjaginsev, and GM Daniele Vocaturo. Scroll down for the full standings, to replay the games visit the official website.
Today starts the classical tournament of the Chigorin Memorial with 63 Grandmasters. Follow the games live on Chessdom.
Final standings
| 1 | GM Khismatullin, Denis | 8 | |
| 2 | IM Demchenko, Anton | 7 | |
| 3 | GM Fedoseev, Vladimir | 7 | |
| 4 | GM Halkias, Stelios | 7 | |
| 5 | GM Lysyj, Igor | 7 | |
| 6 | GM Grachev, Boris | 7 | |
| 7 | GM Lenderman, Aleksandr | 7 | |
| 8 | GM Zvjaginsev, Vadim | 7 | |
| 9 | GM Vocaturo, Daniele | 7 | |
| 10 | GM Hovhannisyan, Robert | 6.5 | |
| 11 | GM Epishin, Vladimir | 6.5 | |
| 12 | GM Andriasian, Zaven | 6.5 | |
| 13 | GM Socko, Bartosz | 6.5 | |
| 14 | GM Grigoriants, Sergey | 6.5 | |
| 15 | IM Stukopin, Andrey | 6.5 | |
| 16 | GM Vorobiov, Evgeny E. | 6.5 | |
| 17 | GM Levin, Evgeny A. | 6.5 | |
| 18 | IM Bajarani, Ulvi | 6.5 | |
| 19 | GM Grigoryan, Avetik | 6 | |
| 20 | GM Timofeev, Artyom | 6 | |
| 21 | GM Durarbayli, Vasif | 6 | |
| 22 | GM Iordachescu, Viorel | 6 | |
| 23 | GM Stupak, Kirill | 6 | |
| 24 | IM Baryshpolets, Andrey | 6 | |
| 25 | IM Antipov, Mikhail Al. | j | 6 |
| 26 | IM Mammadov, Zaur | 6 | |
| 27 | FM Tsydypov, Zhamsaran | j | 6 |
| 28 | IM Eliseev, Urii | j | 6 |
| 29 | GM Zhigalko, Andrey | 6 | |
| 30 | GM Alekseev, Evgeny | 6 | |
| 31 | GM Popov, Ivan | 6 | |
| 32 | GM Onischuk, Vladimir | 6 | |
| 33 | IM Anisimov, Pavel | 5.5 | |
| 34 | GM Negi, Parimarjan | 5.5 | |
| 35 | GM Savchenko, Boris | 5.5 | |
| 36 | GM Lintchevski, Daniil | 5.5 | |
| 37 | GM Shimanov, Aleksandr | 5.5 | |
| 38 | FM Dzhangobegov, Vladimir | 5.5 | |
| 39 | GM Bartel, Mateusz | 5.5 | |
| 40 | GM Jumabayev, Rinat | 5.5 | |
| 41 | GM Alsina Leal, Daniel | 5.5 | |
| 42 | GM Malakhatko, Vadim | 5.5 | |
| 43 | IM Mozharov, Mikhail | 5.5 | |
| 44 | Aitbayev, Aslan | 5.5 | |
| 45 | GM Ajrapetjan, Yuriy | 5.5 | |
| 46 | IM Karasev, Vladimir I | s | 5.5 |
| 47 | GM Yevseev, Denis | 5.5 | |
| 48 | GM Gabrielian, Artur | 5.5 | |
| 49 | IM Belov, Igor | i | 5.5 |
| 50 | IM Ovod, Evgenija | w | 5.5 |
| 51 | Golovin, Leonid | 5 | |
| 52 | GM Romanov, Evgeny | 5 | |
| 53 | GM Klimov, Sergey | 5 | |
| 54 | GM Neverov, Valeriy | 5 | |
| 55 | FM Sipila, Vilka | 5 | |
| 56 | IM Oparin, Grigoriy | j | 5 |
| 57 | IM Bodnaruk, Anastasia | w | 5 |
| 58 | GM Burmakin, Vladimir | 5 | |
| 59 | FM Malakhov, Igor | 5 | |
| 60 | Usmanov, Vasily | j | 5 |
| 61 | FM Belyakov, Bogdan | 5 | |
| 62 | GM Kovalyov, Anton | 5 | |
| 63 | IM Rozum, Ivan | 5 | |
| 64 | GM Socko, Monika | w | 5 |
| 65 | IM Demuth, Adrien | 5 | |
| 66 | GM Tseitlin, Mark D | s | 5 |
| 67 | IM Chigaev, Maksim | j | 5 |
| 68 | Polyaninov, Aleksey | 5 | |
| 69 | IM Shuraev, Andrei | 5 | |
| 70 | GM Gorovykh, Eduard | 5 | |
| 71 | IM Slugin, Sergey | 5 | |
| 72 | Aminov, Andrey | 5 | |
| 73 | Sarana, Alexey | j | 5 |
| 74 | FM Pasiev, Rakhim | 5 | |
| 75 | Afanasiev, Nikita | j | 5 |
| 76 | Hohluks, Aleksandrs | 5 | |
| 77 | IM Arslanov, Shamil | 5 | |
| 78 | GM Alavkin, Arseny | 4.5 | |
| 79 | Golubov, Saveliy | j | 4.5 |
| 80 | FM Lugovskoy, Maxim | j | 4.5 |
| 81 | IM Baghdasaryan, Vahe | 4.5 | |
| 82 | GM Cori, Jorge | 4.5 | |
| 83 | IM Vlasenko, Miroslav | 4.5 | |
| 84 | GM Maslak, Konstantin | 4.5 | |
| 85 | FM Maevsky, Nikolay | 4.5 | |
| 86 | IM Biriukov, Oleg V. | 4.5 | |
| 87 | Samdanov, Samdan | j | 4.5 |
| 88 | GM Soffer, Ram | 4.5 | |
| 89 | WFM Cheremnova, Tamara | w | 4.5 |
| 90 | FM Tologontegin, Semetey | 4.5 | |
| 91 | Khanin, Semen | j | 4.5 |
| 92 | FM Duzhakov, Ilya | 4.5 | |
| 93 | Kuzmin, Egor | j | 4.5 |
| 94 | IM Kashtanov, Ruslan | 4.5 | |
| 95 | IM Bystrov, Sergej M. | 4.5 | |
| 96 | IM Marusenko, Petr | 4.5 | |
| 97 | WGM Nikolova, Adriana | w | 4.5 |
| 98 | Kharchenko, Daniil | j | 4.5 |
| 99 | GM Shomoev, Anton | 4.5 | |
| 100 | WGM Cori T., Deysi | w | 4 |
| 101 | IM Mishuchkov, Nikolai M. | s | 4 |
| 102 | FM Buchenau, Frank | 4 | |
| 103 | IM Leontiev, Aleksandr V. | 4 | |
| 104 | IM Kanter, Eduard | 4 | |
| 105 | WGM Papp, Petra | w | 4 |
| 106 | FM Zalkind, Konstantin | 4 | |
| 107 | GM Portisch, Lajos | s | 4 |
| 108 | IM Bajarani, Ilgar | 4 | |
| 109 | Sukhareva, Evgeniya | w | 4 |
| 110 | IM Reprintsev, Alexander | 4 | |
| 111 | IM Pakhomov, Egor | 4 | |
| 112 | FM Suleymanyants, Odisey | 4 | |
| 113 | Kozhabekov, Adilkhan | 4 | |
| 114 | WGM Cherednichenko, Svetlana | w | 4 |
| 115 | Panjkov, Oleg | 4 | |
| 116 | Pischikov, Vadim | 4 | |
| 117 | Pyatin, Alexander | 4 | |
| 118 | Kosarev, Dmitry | 4 | |
| 119 | IM Yandarbiev, Ruslan | 4 | |
| 120 | FM Ivanov, Rostislav | s | 4 |
| 121 | Aseev, Vladimir | 4 | |
| 122 | FM Nechaev, Konstantin | 4 | |
| 123 | WIM Timofeeva, Ekaterina | w | 3.5 |
| 124 | IM Zavoronkov, Vladimir | 3.5 | |
| 125 | Mrykhin, Igor | 3.5 | |
| 126 | IM Ageichenko, Genadi A | s | 3.5 |
| 127 | Ivanov, Sergei V. | 3.5 | |
| 128 | Valli, Frans | 3.5 | |
| 129 | FM Turikov, Viktor | s | 3.5 |
| 130 | Klukin, Kirill | j | 3.5 |
| 131 | Minko, Vladimir | j | 3.5 |
| 132 | Nazaretyan, Tigran | 3.5 | |
| 133 | Aleksanyan, Gor | j | 3.5 |
| 134 | Grachev, Andrey | j | 3.5 |
| 135 | Grigorjev, Iljya | j | 3.5 |
| 136 | Sazonov, Artem | 3.5 | |
| 137 | Bondarenko, Dmitry | 3.5 | |
| 138 | GM AL-Sayed, Mohammed | 3 | |
| 139 | WFM Kostrikina, Anna | w | 3 |
| 140 | FM Sysolyatin, Evgeny | 3 | |
| 141 | WIM Dolzhykova, Kateryna | w | 3 |
| 142 | Kondratiev, Denis | 3 | |
| 143 | Kopasov, Evgeny | s | 3 |
| 144 | Gantsevich, Aleksei | 3 | |
| 145 | Gumirov, Konstantin L | s | 3 |
| 146 | Lisov, Stepan | 3 | |
| 147 | Panov, Ivan | j | 3 |
| 148 | Lebedev, Anton. | 3 | |
| 149 | Chernyak, Viktoria | w | 3 |
| 150 | Shuvalov, Arvind | j | 3 |
| 151 | Aleksandrov, Grigoriy | j | 3 |
| 152 | Toporkova, Sofia | w | 3 |
| 153 | Stroganov, Anatoly | s | 3 |
| 154 | Fedoseeva, Valentina | w | 2.5 |
| 155 | Popov, Denis G. | 2.5 | |
| 156 | Andreeva, Yulia | w | 2.5 |
| 157 | Elizarova, Taisia | w | 2.5 |
| 158 | Chernova, Natalja | w | 2.5 |
| 159 | Dushin, Nikolay | s | 2.5 |
| 160 | Tarakanova, Valeria | w | 2.5 |
| 161 | Shemenko, Georgy | j | 2.5 |
| 162 | Kiselev, Viktor | s | 2.5 |
| 163 | Gantsevich, Dmitry | j | 2 |
| 164 | Puzyrevsky, Boris M. | s | 2 |
| 165 | Fokin, Anatoly | s | 2 |
| 166 | Nuzhdin, Andrey | 2 | |
| 167 | Kokhnover, Ilya | j | 1.5 |
| 168 | Bazeev, German | 1 | |
| 169 | Potyavin, Igor | 1 | |
| 170 | IM Nezad, Husein Aziz | 1 | |
| 171 | Fedin, Sergey | 1 | |
| 172 | Bezobrazov, Lev | s | 1 |
| 173 | Gantsevich, Aleksey A. | j | 0.5 |
