GM Zoltan Almasi wins European Rapid Chess Championship 2010

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GM Zoltan Almasi of Hungary.

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Hello Everyone,

Chess news from Poland has it that GM Zoltan Almasi of Hungary has won the European Rapid Chess Championship 2010. GM Almasi had to go through the torture of an Armageddon playoff in the Polish city of Warsaw to take the title after a six-way tie for first. He beat GM Gashimov to win first while GM Ivanchuk beat GM Shirov to finish third. Here are the final results of top-20 standings. You can check the full results here at the official website.

Top-20 standings

1	GM	Almasi, Zoltan	HUN	2721	10.5
2	GM	Ivanchuk, Vassily	UKR	2764	10.5
3	GM	Gashimov, Vugar	AZE	2733	10.5
4	GM	Korobov, Anton	UKR	2684	10.5
5	GM	Shirov, Alexei	ESP	2735	10.5
6	GM	Naiditsch, Arkadij	GER	2685	10.5
7	GM	Bartel, Mateusz	POL	2617	10.0
8	GM	Mchedlishvili, Mikheil	GEO	2637	10.0
9	GM	Rublevsky, Sergei	RUS	2678	10.0
10	GM	Lysyj, Igor	RUS	2627	10.0
11	GM	Jussupow, Artur	GER	2589	10.0
12	GM	Movsesian, Sergei	SVK	2721	10.0
13	GM	Romanov, Evgeny	RUS	2605	10.0
14	GM	Jobava, Baadur	GEO	2707	10.0
15	GM	Halkias, Stelios	GRE	2578	9.5
16	GM	Andriasian, Zaven	ARM	2585	9.5
17	GM	Fridman, Daniel	GER	2645	9.5
18	GM	Riazantsev, Alexander	RUS	2689	9.5
19	GM	Polgar, Judit	HUN	2686	9.5
20	GM	Ponomariov, Ruslan	UKR	2744	9.5

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