Tigran Petrosian Memorial Internet Tournament : December 18-23 : http://www.petrosian2004.com
This event was played on ICC.
Games start 6:00 AM : Time Start with 90 minutes. Add 15 minutes after move 40 : Add 30 seconds after every move.
Four teams, all play all twice (ICC account names) : Armenia : Levon-Aronian Smbat-Lputian Gabr-Sargissian Artash-Minasian
France : Joel-Lautier L-Fressinet Christian-Bauer Igor-Nataf : Russia : Peter-Svidler Alexey-Dreev Alex-Khalifman Vad-Zvjaginsev : China : Bu-Xiangzhi Ni-Hua Zhang-Zhong Wang-Yue
Round 1 Saturday Armenia-Russia 2.0-2.0 China-France 2.0-2.0 : Round 2 Sunday China-Russia 2.0-2.0* France-Armenia 3.0-1.0 : Round 3 Monday Russia-France 3.0-1.0 Armenia-China 0.5-3.5
Round 4 Tuesday Russia-Armenia 2.5-1.5 France-China 2.0-2.0 : Round 5 Wednesday France-Russia 2.5-1.5 China-Armenia 2.5-1.5 : Round 6 Thursday Russia-China 2.0-2.0 Armenia-France 1.5-2.5
Final Standings: : China 14.0 -- France 13.0 -- Russia 13.0 -- Armenia 8.0 : France wins second on tiebreaks (match points).
* Connection problem of all 4 games China versus Russia in round 2 : between China and ICC. China and Russia agreed with organisers of : Petrosian to set these games to draw.
"liblist Petrosian04" for games played. : Prizes US$ 1: 20,000 2: 15,000 3: 12,000 4: 8,000 : These games will not be rated by FIDE