Dubai Chess Open R8: Miezis, Chanda in joint lead; to play decisive last round
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2012
Hi everyone,
Indian grandmaster Sandipan Chanda, fetching a lucky win over Parimarjan Negi, will now take on the other tournament leader Normunds Miezis at the Dubai Chess Open.
In the last round, which will be played on Monday, Miezis has White against Sandipan. One of them can get the top prize of $10,000. There are twelve grandmasters half a point behind the leaders. In that group, which includes the three rating favourites: Baadur Jobava, Loek Van Wely and Vladimir Akopian, the pairings are as follows: Ganguly - Jobava, Mchedlishvili - Van Wely, Akopian - Hovhannisyan, Andriasian - Gupta, Miroshnichenko - T.L.Petrosian, Ni Hua - Kuzubov. Here is a nice video by Vijay Kumar from Dubai Chess Open 2012.
Labels: dubai chess open, Normunds Miezes, sandipan chanda
Normunds Miezes wins Västerås Chess Open 2011
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011
Hello everyone,
The chess news about tournaments from www.chessdom.com is about an interesting tournament that was held with a modified Swiss system over eight rounds!
The Västerås Open 2011 took place on 23rd-25th September at the Växhuset, Viktor Larssons plats, in Västerås, Sweden. The tournament was held under the 8-rounds modified Swiss system. First four games were played on Friday with the rapid time control of 20 minutes per player. The remaining four rounds were played at the regular 90min + 30sec time control and submitted for FIDE rating. Top five prizes were 1100 EUR, 660 EUR, 440 EUR, 220 EUR and 110 EUR, respectively.
Latvian Grandmaster Normunds Miezes conceded only one draw in the course of the tournament and took a clear first place with 7.5 points. Local GM Lars Karlsson is second with 7 points. 225 players participated, full standings bellow.
Final top-10 standings:1. GM Miezis Normunds 2534 – 7.5
2. GM Karlsson Lars 2485 – 7
3. FM Westerberg Jonathan 2318 – 6.5
4. IM Blomqvist Erik 2469 – 6.5
5. GM Åkesson Ralf 2421 – 6.5
6. GM Brynell Stellan 2491 – 6.5
7. Krantz Christopher 2248 – 6.5
8. Nygren Kim 2224 – 6.5
9. Isetoft Bengt-Ola 0 – 6
10. Henriksson Johan 2289 – 6
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Labels: Normunds Miezes, Västerås Chess Open 2011
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