Cappelle-la-Grande Chess: GM Sanan Sjugirov Wins on Tiebreak

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Hello everyone,

Grandmaster Sanan Sjugirov has won the Cappelle La Grande International Open after edging seven players that obtained the same 7/9 score in the tie-breaks criteria.

The important games of the last round finished rather quickly. All the leaders from the eigth round signed draws in 21 moves or less. Three players took this opportunity to reach them in the standings with 7 points.

The players on the shared first place are: SJUGIROV Sanan 2646 RUS, NEGI Parimarjan 2638 IND, RODSHTEIN Maxim 2616 ISR, FEDORCHUK Sergey 2643 UKR, HANSEN Eric 2557 CAN, JIANU Vlad-Cristian 2500 ROU, FEDOROV Alexei 2576 BLR and VOVK Yuri 2594 UKR.

The next edition, that will mark the 30th anniversary of the tournament, will take place on 1st – 8th March 2014.

GM norms:
Maxime Lagarde – France
Aleksandar Indjic – Serbia
Karen Grigoryan – Armenia

IM norms:
Lukasz Jarmula – Poland
Radoslaw Gajek – Poland
Tristan Calistri – France
Evgeniya Doluhanova – Armenia
Yannick Kambrath – France
Tangi Migot – France
Stef Soors – Belgium

WIM Norms:
Ewa Harazinska – Poland
Yuliya Shvayger – Israel

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GM Sanan Sjugirov Wins Magistral Casino de Barcelona Chess

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Hi everyone,

The latest chess tournament news is that GM Sanan Sjugirov has won the Magistral Casino de Barcelona Chess Tournament 2012. He took a clear first place with 7/9 points. In second place was GM Yuniesky Quesada with six points. The Chess Tournament Magistral Casino de Barcelona 2012 was held on 23-31st October at the Casino of Barcelona (Marina Avenue, 19-21) as a ten-player round robin, according to the latest updates via Chessdom.

The Tournament was organised by the Catalonian Chess Federation and sponsored by the Casino of Barcelona (Group Peralada), Barcelona City Hall and and the Autonomous Government of Catalonia. A couple of days before the start of the event, the last year Magistral winner Ivan Salgado Lopez and winner of the 2012 Catalan chess circuit Emilio Cordova were substituted by the legendary GM Predrag Nikolic and Georgian GM Levan Aroshidze.

Final standings:
1. GM Sjugirov Sanan RUS 2624 – 7
2. GM Quesada Perez Yuniesky CUB 2604 – 6
3. GM Nielsen Peter Heine DEN 2662 – 5.5
4-5. GM Sokolov Ivan NED 2690 and GM Aroshidze Levan GEO 2560 – 5
6. IM Alonso Rosell Alvar ESP 2540 – 4
7. IM Fluvia Poyatos Joan ESP 2490 – 3.5
8-10. GM Oms Pallisse Josep ESP 2506, GM Nikolic Predrag BIH 2638 and GM Munoz Pantoja Miguel ESP 2460 – 3

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