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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Ivan Ivanisevic Wins Rapid Chess Tournament in Sabac

Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2013

Hello everyone,

Rapid and blitz chess fever is becoming popular catching on around the chess planet particularly after FIDE started registering blitz and rapid chess ratings. One nice chess tournament was held recently in Serbia: Sabacki Chess Club organized the “Cedomir Petrovic Memorial” rapid tournament on 7th December in Sabac, Serbia.

The tournament format was 9-round Swiss with the time control 15 minutes per player. 133 players, including 11 Grandmasters, took participation. Top Serbian player GM Ivan Ivanisevic emerged clear winner with 7,5/9 points. (www.chessdom.com)



GM Ivan Ivanisevic

Top Final standings:

1. GM Ivanisevic Ivan 2638 – 7.5
2. FM Pezelj Novak 2409 – 7
3. GM Pikula Dejan 2500 – 7
4. GM Lajthajm Borko 2550 – 7
5. GM Popovic Dusan 2554 – 7
6. GM Savic Miodrag R 2524 – 6.5
7. GM Stojanovic Dalibor 2551 – 6.5
8. GM Antic Dejan 2456 – 6.5
9. IM Arsovic Goran 2414 – 6.5
10. FM Pantelic Sasa 2342 – 6.5
11. IM Arsovic Zoran 2422 – 6.5
12. FM Kosanovic Dragan 2341 – 6.5
13. FM Stojanovic Marko 2294 – 6.5
14. FM Kolognat Petar 2294 – 6.5
15. FM Vujic Mihailo 2323 – 6.5
16. FM Stojanovic Dobrisav 2369 – 6.5
17. FM Sredojevic Ivan 2404 – 6.5
18. GM Cabrilo Goran 2442 – 6
19. IM Ilic Dragan M 2371 – 6
20. GM Abramovic Bosko 2427 – 6
21. FM Misojcic Miroslav 2259 – 6
22. Topalov Aleksandar 2245 – 6
23. Pantovic Dragan M 2159 – 6
24. Ignjatovic Predrag 2286 – 6
25. Micic Vlado 0 – 6
26. Novakovic Slobodan 2149 – 6
27. Savic Petar A 2127 – 6


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