2014-04-21

Fagernes Chess International 13-20 April 2014: News

Fagernes Chess International13-20 April 2014: News: Congratulations to the winners!



We congratulate GM Evgeny Postny of Israel with winning the GM-group ahead of GM Samuel Shankland (USA) and GM Evgeny Romanov (RUS).

There were no title norms, but IM Avitar Boruchovsky (ISR) fullfilled his GM-title by passing 2500 in Elo. The Open Norwegian Championship (Elo-group) was won by Norwegian junior Sigve Hølleland.

Welcome back next easter to a new chess festival at Fagernes!




Top-3 in the GM-group:
Romanov (3), Postny (1) and Shankland (3).

Number 1 and 3 in the Elo-group:
Hølleland and Monika Machlik.
To the right: Organizer Hans Olav Lahlum

Photos by Frode Merkesvik.