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While the idea of holding a young Grandmasters tournament looks very attractive, this year we didn't see that much fighting chess. Many spectators even referred to it as the "young veterans" event. After 9 rounds the rankings were the following:
1.
Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son
(VIE, 2617)
5.5
24.00
2.
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
(FRA, 2723)
5.5
23.75
3.
Fabiano Caruana
(ITA, 2697)
5.5
23.25
4.
Dmitry Andreikin
(RUS, 2650)
5.0
5.
Wesley So
(PHI, 2674)
4.5
19.50
6.
Evgeny Tomashevsky
(RUS, 2708)
4.5
18.75
7.
Maxim Rodshtein
(ISR, 2609)
4.5
18.50
8.
Anish Giri
(NED, 2672)
4.0
9.
David Howell
(ENG, 2616)
3.5
10.
Parimarjan Negi
(IND, 2615)
2.5
Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son got a place in the finals, while Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Fabiano Caruana had to play each other in the semi-final. After exchanging blows at blitz Fabiano emerged victorious in the Armageddon games. As it often happens, being warmed up served him good: he won the rapid final match against Nguyen 1,5-0,5. Congratulations to Fabiano for winning Biel-2010, turning 18 and securing a place in the 2700+ club!
It is also worth noting other events held at Biel:
Hanowa Rapid: 1. Dmitry Andreikin 2. Alexander Riazantsev 3. Victor Mikhalevski
Chess 960: 1.Michail Roiz 2. Alexandra Kosteniuk 3. Sebastien Maze
Here are the final standings of the Master tournament (16 GMs and many other strong players participated):
1.
Riazantsev,Alexan
GM
2682
RUS
5
6
0
8.0
74.5
690.5
2.
Kosintseva,Nadezh
IM
2551
RUS
5
6
0
8.0
73.5
686.5
3.
Kritz,Leonid
GM
2618
GER
6
4
1
8.0
72.0
682.0
4.
Feller,Sebastien
GM
2611
FRA
7
2
2
8.0
71.5
702.0
5.
Bauer,Christian
GM
2612
FRA
5
6
0
8.0
71.5
681.0
6.
Golod,Vitali
GM
2585
ISR
6
4
1
8.0
71.0
665.0
7.
Maze,Sebastien
GM
2573
FRA
7
2
2
8.0
64.0
629.5
8.
Hauchard,Arnaud
GM
2526
FRA
5
5
1
7.5
71.5
675.0
9.
Mikhalevski,Victo
GM
2610
ISR
5
5
1
7.5
70.0
668.5
10.
Roiz,Michael
GM
2645
ISR
5
5
1
7.5
66.5
660.0
11.
Gleizerov,Evgeny
GM
2573
RUS
5
5
1
7.5
63.5
642.5
Congratulations to the winners, especially to IM Nadezhda Kosintseva, who co-won the event & obtained a GM-norm. Actually, both sisters have been on a roll lately. If you check out our daily women's live ratings, you will see them on the 3rd and 4th spots in the rankings - Kosintseva domination!
More information about Biel-2010 can be found at the official website
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on 13:49 30 2010 .
Biel
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Felicito a los organizadores y a todos los jugadores que llegaron a Biel. Ac en America Latina, no vemos torneos con esa fuerza ajedrecstica. (Un saludo a Victor Mikhalevski, quien hace unos aos jug el open de Alajuela, ac en Costa Rica).null
