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Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Pentala Harikrishna Wins Biel Chess Masters International Tournament
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Hi everyone,
Parallel to the Olivier Breisacher Memorial, a very strong 11-rounds open took place in Biel. Indian GM Pentala Harikrishna showed a great performance to finish in sole first place with 8.5/11 points.
Harikrishna arrived as the second seed with 2680 rating points. Thanks to his strong run at this event, he joined the 2700-club and is now on the 38th position according to the live ratings list. Second place went to GM Mateusz Bartel. The fur-time Polish champion arrived to the last round with the same amount of points as Harikrishna, but was not able to defeat GM Susanto Megaranto, thus getting a final 8/9 score.
Two other players obtained 8 points. Turkish GM Dragan Solak got the medal for third place due to his better tiebreak score. Bu Xiangzhi was the player left out of the podium.
The first prizes were distributed as follows: CHF 7’000, 5’000, 4’000, 3’000. Daniel Hausrath from Germany obtained a GM norm, and three players gained IM norms: Huang Qian (CHN), Holger Rasch (GER) and Hakimifard Ghazal (IRI). Ghazal also got a WGM norm.
Harikrishna wins Cappelle la Grande Chess on tiebreak
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2012
Hi everyone,
After his excellent performance winning the Wijk Aan Zee Tata Steel Chess Group B, Indian Grandmaster has won the Cappelle la Grande. We have the latest chess news update via www.chessdom.com.
The 28th International Open Cappelle la Grande was held from March 3-10 at the Palais des arts in Cappelle la Grande, France. A total of 497 players took part in the event. Five players shared the first place with 7 points each: Indians Pentala Harikrishna and Parimarjan Negi, Georgian Tornike Sanikidze, local GM Tigran Gharamian and the late comer with a last round victoryMartyn Kravtsiv from Ukraine.
GM norm: Maxime Lagarde and Marcin Tazbir WGM norm: Sarah Hoolt WIM norm: Aleksandra Lach and Ewa Przezdziecka IM norm: Etienne Goudriaan
The popular tournament featured the prize fund of 30,000 EUR and started immediately after the 11th Rochefort Chess Open, making it convenient for the players to combine participation in two events.
Cappelle-la-Grande is a small town of 8000 inhabitants in the northeast of France, near to the North Sea. It is part of the Urban Community of Dunkerque, an industrial and commercial port with residential areas housing more than 200,000 inhabitants.
Tata Steel Chess Group B winner P Harikrishna looking forward to stronger Group A challenge next year
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2012
Hello everyone,
This year's winner of the Group B at the Tata Steel Chess has said that he is already looking ahead to playing stronger competition in next year's Group A. Pentala Harikrishna could not have started 2012 in a better way. Currently, the Tata Steel chess tournament (formerly called Corus) is the most popular among the super events and to win even the second group (B) is a big achievement.
Group B at Wijk aan Zee this year was a strong tournament as four of the 14 players were rated above Harikrishna, and to score nine points from 13 rounds was creditable.
"This victory is very important for me. It gives me the opportunity to play against the best players next year in group A," Hari told an Indian newspaper on Wednesday as he took stock of his performance.
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Tata Steel Chess 2012 - Congratulations to Levon Aronian for winning Group A
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2012
Hello everyone,
Grandmaster Levon Aronian had his chess flowing - like a river of jewels - to win the Tata Steel Chess Group A this Sunday! Before anything else, here are the videos of the champion. Must watch. Congratulations to GM Levon Aronian for a fantastic tournament. Congratulations to Grandmasters Pentala Harikrishna and Maxim Turov for winning the Groups B and C respectively.
The 74th Tata Steel Chess Tournament took place from 13 to 29, 2012 in the sports hall Moriaan in Wijk aan Zee. There were three grandmaster tournaments with 14 players each playing 13 rounds at 100 minutes for 40 moves, then 50 minutes for 20 moves and finally 15 minutes for the rest of the game, with a 30 seconds/move increment starting with the first move of the game.
Here are the final results of all the three groups:
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