27 April 2017
Emil Sutovsky Wins Poikovsky Tournament
Evgeniy Najer finished second with the same score.
Emil Sutovsky won the traditional Anatoly Karpov tournament in Poikovsky. The Israeli grandmaster collected 7 points in 9 games. The Russian grandmaster and trainer Evgeniy Najer also scored 7 points thanks to his last-round victory as Black against Sergey Zhigalko. However, the tie-break score of the Russian national women's team trainer was inferior, and he remained on second place.Anton Korobov (Ukraine) finished third with 6 points.
Final standings
Sutovsky, Najer 7
Korobov 6
Inarkiev 5
Jakovenko, Guijarro, Rodstein 4
Zhigalko 3.5
Dubov 3
Bologan 1.5
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