GM Kiril Georgiev won Karpos Open 2014 for the forth time

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Karpos Open Chess Tournament took place in Skopje, Macedonia, 29 March - 5 April 2014. The winner, for the forth time in a row, is GM Kiril Georgiev (Bulgaria) with 7.5/9 points.

GM Alexander DELCHEV who commented Candidates games for ChessBomb took part in Karpos Open, and he is at 30th place with 6/9 points.
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Final results

Rank	Name	Rtg	Fed	Pts	Tie 1
1 GM	Georgiev Kiril	2625	BUL	7½	44
2 GM	Salgado Lopez Ivan	2605	ESP	7	50
3 GM	Iturrizaga Bonelli Eduardo	2645	VEN	7	49
4 GM	Markus Robert	2608	SRB	7	48
5 GM	Vovk Andrey	2605	UKR	7	48
6 GM	Kozul Zdenko	2586	CRO	7	47½
7 GM	Kuljasevic Davorin	2567	CRO	7	46
8 GM	Grigoriants Sergey	2574	RUS	7	43½
9 GM	Anton Guijarro David	2559	ESP	6½	50
10 GM	Smirin Ilia	2644	ISR	6½	48
11 IM	Bok Benjamin	2575	NED	6½	48
12 GM	Rozentalis Eduardas	2623	LTU	6½	48
13 GM	Golod Vitali	2573	ISR	6½	47
14 GM	Predojevic Borki	2607	BIH	6½	47
15 IM	Georgescu Tiberiu-Marian	2468	ROU	6½	46½
16 GM	Roiz Michael	2591	ISR	6½	46
17 GM	Jumabayev Rinat	2580	KAZ	6½	45
18 GM	Romanov Evgeny	2636	RUS	6½	44½
19 GM	Djukic Nikola	2551	MNE	6½	44
20 GM	Baron Tal	2513	ISR	6½	43
21 GM	Salem A.R. Saleh	2558	UAE	6½	42
22 GM	Granda Zuniga Julio E	2680	PER	6½	41½
23 IM	Smirnov Artem	2445	RUS	6	49
24 GM	Damljanovic Branko	2566	SRB	6	48
25 GM	Grandelius Nils	2600	SWE	6	48
26 GM	Drazic Sinisa	2415	SRB	6	47
27 GM	Antic Dejan	2462	SRB	6	47
28 IM	Dastan Muhammed Batuhan	2416	TUR	6	47
29 IM	Donchenko Alexander	2463	GER	6	46
30 GM	Delchev Aleksander	2638	BUL	6	45½
31 GM	Peralta Fernando	2613	ARG	6	45
32 GM	Blagojevic Dragisa	2517	MNE	6	43½
33 GM	Nevednichy Vladislav	2591	ROU	6	43½
34 GM	Tosic Miroslav	2426	SRB	6	43½
35 GM	Berkes Ferenc	2687	HUN	6	43
36 GM	Antipov Mikhail Al.	2507	RUS	6	42½
37 IM	Sanal Vahap	2442	TUR	6	42½
38 IM	Pancevski Filip	2466	MKD	6	42½
39 GM	Fier Alexandr	2595	BRA	6	41½
40 GM	Harika Dronavalli	2487	IND	6	41
41 GM	Berescu Alin-Mile	2459	ROU	6	41
42 IM	Karavade Eesha	2408	IND	6	40
43 GM	Todorovic Gora	2476	SRB	6	36

Full list

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Karpos Open Chess Tournament 2014

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Karpos Open Chess Tournament 2014

Karpos Open Chess Tournament will take place in Skopje, Macedonia, 29 March - 5 April 2014. It is organised by the municipality of Karpos in Skopje, in collaboration with Chess Club Gambit Asseco SEE.

Format: 9 Rounds Swiss-system.
Time control: 90 minutes for 40 moves and 30 minutes till the end of the game with 30 sec. for a move, timed from the first move.

GM Alexander DELCHEV who commented Candidates games for ChessBomb is taking part at Karpos Open. We wish him good luck!
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Participants

No.		Name	FideID	FED	Rtg
1	GM	BERKES Ferenc	718572	HUN	2687
2	GM	GRANDA ZUNIGA Julio E	3800024	PER	2680
3	GM	ITURRIZAGA BONELLI Eduardo	3901211	VEN	2645
4	GM	SMIRIN Ilia	2801990	ISR	2644
5	GM	DELCHEV Aleksander	2900394	BUL	2638
6	GM	ROMANOV Evgeny	4148843	RUS	2636
7	GM	IVANISEVIC Ivan	912417	SRB	2633
8	GM	GEORGIEV Kiril	2900017	BUL	2625
9	GM	ROZENTALIS Eduardas	12800023	LTU	2623
10	GM	TKACHIEV Vladislav	618438	FRA	2623
11	GM	PERUNOVIC Milos	921629	SRB	2617
12	GM	PERALTA Fernando	105309	ARG	2613
13	GM	MARKUS Robert	921637	SRB	2608
14	GM	PREDOJEVIC Borki	930849	BIH	2607
15	GM	SALGADO LOPEZ Ivan	2257327	ESP	2605
16	GM	VOVK Andrey	14114470	UKR	2605
17	GM	MIROSHNICHENKO Evgenij	14102595	UKR	2602
18	GM	GRANDELIUS Nils	1710400	SWE	2600

Full list

Playing schedule

Round	Day	Date	Time
Round 1	Saturday	29.03.2014	17:30
Round 2	Sunday	30.03.2014	9:00
Round 3	Sunday	30.03.2014	17:30
Round 4	Monday	31.03.2014	17:30
Round 5	Tuesday	01.04.2014	17:30
Round 6	Wednesday	02.04.2014	17:30
Round 7	Thursday	03.04.2014	17:30
Round 8	Friday	04.04.2014	17:30
Round 9	Saturday	05.04.2014	9:30

All times are CET (GMT + 1 hour).

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GM LI CHAO won Reykjavik Open 2014!

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Official page: Reykjavik Open Chess 2014

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Li Chao (photo taken from Official website)
GM Li Chao (China) is the sole winner of Reykjavik Open 2014 with the impressive result of 8.5/10 points, followed by GM Robin van Kampen, GM Eric Hansen, GM Eduardas Rozentalis and GM Helgi Olafsson with 8.0/10 points each.

Final results

Rk.		Name	FED	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	GM	Li Chao	CHN	8.5	65.5	53	55.5
2	GM	Van Kampen Robin	NED	8	66	53	51
3	GM	Hansen Eric	CAN	8	64.5	51.5	51
4	GM	Rozentalis Eduardas	LTU	8	63.5	50	50
5	GM	Olafsson Helgi	ISL	8	61	48.5	47.75
6	GM	L'Ami Erwin	NED	7.5	65.5	53	48
7	GM	Harika Dronavalli	IND	7.5	64	50.5	45.5
8	GM	Gretarsson Hjorvar Steinn	ISL	7.5	62	50.5	45.75
9	GM	Stefansson Hannes	ISL	7.5	59.5	48.5	45.25
10	IM	Panjwani Raja	CAN	7.5	57	45	40.75
11	GM	Naiditsch Arkadij	GER	7	66	54	44.75
12	GM	Rapport Richard	HUN	7	65.5	52.5	42.25
13	GM	Ramirez Alejandro	USA	7	63	51	42
14	GM	Berkes Ferenc	HUN	7	63	49.5	42.25
15	GM	Jones Gawain C B	ENG	7	62.5	50	41.75
16	GM	Browne Walter S.	USA	7	62	50.5	39.5
17	GM	Danielsen Henrik	ISL	7	61	49	41.5
18	GM	Gajewski Grzegorz	POL	7	61	49	39.5
19	IM	Hamitevici Vladimir	MDA	7	61	48.5	40.25
20	GM	Grandelius Nils	SWE	7	60.5	48	40.5
21	WGM	Abrahamyan Tatev	USA	7	60	49	38.5
22	GM	Molner Mackenzie	USA	7	59.5	48.5	40.75
23	GM	Colovic Aleksandar	MKD	7	58	47	40.25
24	GM	Krush Irina	USA	7	57.5	45.5	40
25	GM	Djurhuus Rune	NOR	7	57	45	38
26	GM	Pavlovic Milos	SRB	7	56	45	37.5

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Reykjavik Open 2014

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Reykjavik Open 2014 is held from 4th to 12th March in Reykjavik, Iceland.

Since the first Reykjavik Open in 1964, it has featured some of the strongest chess players, including Mikhail Tal, Nona Gaprindashvili, David Bronstein, Vasili Smyslov, Bent Larsen, Friðrik Ólafsson, Mark Taimanov, Lev Polugaevsky, Jan Timman, Victor Korchnoi, Samuel Reshevsky, Anthony Miles, Nigel Short, Hikaru Nakamura, Judit Polgar, Magnus Carlsen, Alexander Grischuk, Fabiano Caruana and Hou Yifan.

Participants

No.			Name	FideID	FED	Rtg
1		GM	Naiditsch Arkadij	4650891	GER	2706
2		GM	Li Chao b	8604436	CHN	2700
3		GM	Berkes Ferenc	718572	HUN	2687
4		GM	Rapport Richard	738590	HUN	2681
5		GM	Amin Bassem Dr.	10601457	EGY	2657
6		GM	Jones Gawain C B	409561	ENG	2651
7		GM	Kobalia Mikhail	4119150	RUS	2646
8		GM	L Ami Erwin	1007998	NED	2646
9		GM	Gajewski Grzegorz	1116207	POL	2629
10		GM	Rozentalis Eduardas	12800023	LTU	2623
11		GM	Van Kampen Robin	1020854	NED	2603
12		GM	Grandelius Nils	1710400	SWE	2600
13		GM	Ramirez Alejandro	6500617	USA	2599
14		GM	Hansen Eric	2606771	CAN	2587
15		GM	Olafsson Helgi	2300010	ISL	2546
16		GM	Stefansson Hannes	2300087	ISL	2541
17		GM	Molner Mackenzie	2021722	USA	2528
18		GM	Gretarsson Hjorvar Steinn	2302241	ISL	2511
19		GM	Pavlovic Milos	900389	SRB	2506
20		GM	Kristjansson Stefan	2301172	ISL	2503
21		GM	Danielsen Henrik	1400185	ISL	2501

Full list

Schedule

March 4th	Tuesday	16:30	1st round
March 5th	Wednesday	9:30 16:30	2nd round 3rd round
March 6th	Thursday	16:30	4th round
March 7th	Friday	16:30	5th round
March 8th	Saturday	13:00	6th round
March 9th	Sunday	13:00	7th round
March 10th	Monday	16:30	8th round
March 11th	Tuesday	16:30	9th round
March 12th	Wednesday	12:00	10th round

All times are GMT. 
 

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