Germany's Biggest Chess Open Begins April 5 in Stuttgart
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2012
Hi everyone,
According to the latest chess tournament update via Chessdom, the 16th Int. Neckar-Open will take place on 5-9th April at the Gemeindehalle in Deizisau, Stuttgart, Germany. The total prize fund is 15.000 EUR.
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The biggest chess open in Germany attracts more than 700 players in three groups and offers a prize fund of 15.000 Euro. With nearly 100 titleholders and more than 20 Grandmasters the A-Group will be this year the strongest ever.
Top seeded player is GM Etienne Bacrot, while GM Arkadij Naiditsch will be back to defend last year’s title. The tournament starts on 5th April (Thursday) at 6:30 pm and ends on 9th April (Monday). The top 16 boards will be broadcasted live on the official website.
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GM Naiditsch wins Neckar Chess Open, joins 2700+ club
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Hello everyone,
Congratulations to Grandmaster Arkadij Naiditsch for joining the 2700 Elo plus club by winning the 15th International Neckar Open. He scored 8.5/9, finishing a full point ahead of GM Arik Braun and GM David Baramidze. The group of players with 7.0/9 included Cappelle La Grande winner GM Grzegorz Gajewski, and Hungarian talents Viktor Erdös and Peter Prohaszka plus others. The best woman player prize went Joanna Majdan-Gajewska.
More than 400 played the A group from among the 753 at the chess festival. Starting with the May rating list GM Arkadij Naiditsch will be with his highest ever ELO - 2701 points. This ELO includes the EICC and the Bundesliga games, Neckar finished just 5 days before the rating list and if included the ELO of Naiditsch will be 2716. Here are the top standings:
1 Naiditsch,Arkadij 2684 8.5
2 Braun,Arik 2542 7.5
3 Baramidze,David 2554 7.5
4 Huschenbeth,Nicla 2465 7
5 Erdo"s,Viktor 2597 7
6 Greenfeld,Alon 2571 7
7 Gajewski,Grzegorz 2567 7
8 Shytaj,Luca 2475 7
9 Schneider,Ilja 2511 7
10 Epishin,Vladimir 2567 7
11 Prohaszka,Peter 2545 7
12 Piorun,Kacper 2521 7
13 Svetushkin,Dmitri 2543 7
14 Heimann,Andreas 2491 7
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