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Suurmeister Jaan Ehlvest jagas Ameerikas korraldatud Chicago Openil 5.5 punktiga esimest kohta. Ehlvest võitis neli ja viigistas kolm partiid. Sama palju punkte said veel Vadim Milov, Igor Novikov ja Petr Kiriakov. Edasi järgnesid 5 punktiga Evgeny Najer, Dmitry Gurevich, Alexander Shabalov, Artur Jussupov, Darmen Sadvakasov, Benjamin Finegold, Zviad Izoria, Dashze Sharavdorj ja Vladimir Georgiev.
Actually there were 101 boards in match between Estonia and Finland with score 45.5 - 55.5 but official matches has always been maximum in 100 boards, so Estonia lost 45.5 - 54.5.
It was historical moment because Estonia had never been lost to Finland before. Tournament was held in Helsinki (Finland) and home city or place is one of the important factors in those matches. In some point of few it was even good that Finland won, so hopefully in future there will be more interest and fight between neighbours...