In the Blitz tournament of the Grandmasters on Saturday, the Indian Grandmaster Santosh Vidit showed himself to be the strongest player with the shortest reflection time of this year's tournament format in the form of a triathlon. He achieved 11 out of 14 possible points, followed by the American Grandmaster Sam Shankland with only one point less. The two Swiss GM Nico Georgiadis and GM Sebastian Bogner each score 2 points.
In the 5th round of classical reflection time of the Grand Master tournament on Sunday the leading GM Vidit was the first to score the full points. In a game with the Sicilian opening the GM enabled Sebastian Bogner a strong initiative in the middlegame, because his king was stuck in the middle. With an attack on the queen and a threat to checkmate, the game was already over in the 30th move.
The second placed GM Sam Shankland lost his game against GM Jorge Cori. After Shankland had won a pawn with black, however, he soon came under strong pressure and had to play a piece for some counterplay under the pressure. However, this was not enough.
GM Nico Georgiadis lost after 97 moves and almost seven hours against GM Norbirek Abdusattorov (UZB). At times he was clearly better, later he made several attempts to win in a balanced position. However, this was all parried and with the growing time shortage in a difficult endgame he could no longer withstand the pressure. In the last game of the 5th round the Iranian GM Parham Maghsoodloo could win an endgame with major pieces and a breaking free pawn after more than six hours playing time.
In the table there is a situation with three different groups: the two leading GM Vidit (30 points) and GM Shankland (26 points) will probably decide the tournament victory among themselves. The advantage after the 5th round is clearly on Vidits side. In the wide midfield (23.5 to 21 points) various shifts are still possible. The two Swiss GM Georgiadis (11 points) and GM Bogner (10 points) are at the end of the two tables.
After the 6th round, there is a top group of three players with 5.0 points from six rounds in the Master Open: GM Ante Brkic (CRO), Jeffery Xiong (USA) and GM Arjun Erigaisi (IND).
In the open Blitz tournament on Saturday the victory went to the Indian grandmaster Arjun Erigisi with 11.0 points from 14 games. Second place went to GM Rinat Jumabayev from Kazakhstan with 10.5 points. Third place went to GM Alexander Donchenko from Germany with 10.5 points.
GM Noël Studer became the new Swiss champion in Blitz. In the last rounds he won the decisive match against GM Florian Jenni, who, despite this defeat, still landed on the 3rd place. Surprisingly, on the second place followed Sandro Schmid, who according to the seed list only started on the 20th place of the Swiss players in the tournament.
In the Vinetum Youth Tournament, held parallely to the two Blitz tournaments, Arejou Wenger (Hettlingen) won the U18 (12 participants) followed by Maximilian Wehrle (D) and Niels Stijve (Villars-sur-Glâne), for U13 (21 participants) Robert Prieb (D) followed by Steve Papaux (Yverdon-les-Bains) and Athanasios Zafeiridis (Muri/BE) and for U10 (25 participants) Stepan Maranin (Rus) followed by Igor Melenevskii (Bern) and Nicholas Honstetter (USA).
Ranking Grand Master Tournament
|
Rank |
Name |
Games |
Points Classic |
Points Rapid |
Points Blitz |
Points Total |
|
1 |
GM Santosh Vidit |
26 |
11 |
8 |
11 |
30 |
|
2 |
GM Sam Shankland |
26 |
7 |
9 |
10 |
26 |
|
3 |
GM Parham Maghsoodloo |
26 |
6 |
8 |
9.5 |
23.5 |
|
4 |
GM Jorge Cori |
26 |
8 |
7 |
7 |
22 |
|
5 |
GM Peter Leko |
26 |
5 |
10 |
6.5 |
21.5 |
|
6 |
GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov |
26 |
8 |
5 |
8 |
21 |
|
7 |
GM Nico Georgiadis |
26 |
3 |
6 |
2 |
11 |
|
8 |
GM Sebastian Bogner |
26 |
5 |
3 |
2 |
10 |
Results and Pairings Grand Master Tournament
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Round 5 (Sunday 28. July) |
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Santosh Vidit (IND) |
3 - 0 |
Sebastian Bogner (SUI) |
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Nodirbek Abdusattorov (UZB) |
3 - 0 |
Nico Georgiadis (SUI) |
|
Parham Maghsoodloo (IRN) |
3 - 0 |
Peter Leko (UNG) |
|
Jorge Cori (PER) |
3 - 0 |
Sam Shankland (USA) |
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Round 6 (Monday 29. July after 14h) |
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Sebastian Bogner (SUI) |
- |
Sam Shankland (USA) |
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Peter Leko (UNG) |
- |
Jorge Cori (PER) |
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Nico Georgiadis (SUI) |
- |
Parham Maghsoodloo (IRN) |
|
Santosh Vidit (IND) |
- |
Nodirbek Abdusattorov (UZB) |
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