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Naiditsch, who plays for Azerbaijan and the German club OSG Baden-Baden, started with 4.0/4 before conceding his first draw against Vitaly Kunin in round five.
Arkadij Naiditsch
Kunin started with 4.0/4 and after his draw against Naiditsch shared the lead together with Naiditsch and French GM Christian Bauer. However, in round six Naiditsch managed to beat the Mongolian GM Bayarsaikhan Gundavaa while Bauer and Kunin drew, allowing Naiditsch to take the sole lead. In the final round Naiditsch drew against Bauer and that was enough for him to become sole winner of the tournament.
Christian Bauer
Swiss IM Oliver Kurman
GM Kiril Georgiev from Bulgaria
One of the participants in Zurich was FM Yoshiharu Habu, a living legend of Shogi, which is also known as Japanese Chess. In Shogi Habu won many prestigious tournaments and titles and at his peak he had a winning percentage of 0.723, according to Wikipedia, "the all-time highest of any professional player". Habu is also a prolific Shogi author and has won millions of dollars with his Shogi skills. He plays Western chess more as a hobby and in Zurich Habu finished 14th with a score of 5.0/7.
Yoshiharu Habu
| Rg. | Snr | Name | Federation | Elo | Club/Residence | Pts. | Wtg1 | Wtg2 | Wtg3 | |
| 1 | 1 | GM | Naiditsch Arkadij | AZE | 2698 | Dortmund | 6,0 | 33,5 | 211,5 | 24,5 |
| 2 | 6 | GM | Kunin Vitaly | GER | 2572 | Deutschland | 5,5 | 32,5 | 211,0 | 23,5 |
| 3 | 3 | GM | Bauer Christian | FRA | 2624 | Montpellier | 5,5 | 32,5 | 202,0 | 24,0 |
| 4 | 10 | GM | Gonda Laszlo | HUN | 2544 | Ungarn | 5,5 | 29,5 | 193,5 | 21,0 |
| 5 | 13 | GM | Gundavaa Bayarsaikhan | MGL | 2506 | Ulaanbator | 5,5 | 29,0 | 196,5 | 20,5 |
| 6 | 2 | GM | Georgiev Kiril | BUL | 2627 | Sofia | 5,5 | 29,0 | 192,5 | 21,5 |
| 7 | 8 | GM | Burmakin Vladimir | RUS | 2556 | Russland | 5,0 | 32,0 | 194,0 | 23,0 |
| 8 | 5 | GM | Vorobiov Evgeny E. | RUS | 2574 | Russland | 5,0 | 31,5 | 198,0 | 23,0 |
| 9 | 11 | GM | Sebenik Matej | SLO | 2523 | Slowenien | 5,0 | 30,0 | 196,5 | 22,0 |
| 10 | 32 | Kheit Wahbi | ISR | 2306 | Israel | 5,0 | 30,0 | 185,0 | 23,5 | |
| 11 | 9 | GM | Bogner Sebastian | SUI | 2546 | Zürich | 5,0 | 27,5 | 191,0 | 19,0 |
| 12 | 15 | IM | Georgiadis Nico | SUI | 2485 | Schindellegi | 5,0 | 27,0 | 195,0 | 19,5 |
| 13 | 36 | FM | Gantner Matthias | SUI | 2274 | Leeds | 5,0 | 26,5 | 189,5 | 19,5 |
| 14 | 20 | FM | Habu Yoshiharu | JAP | 2398 | Tokyo | 5,0 | 26,5 | 186,5 | 19,0 |
| 15 | 19 | IM | Studer Noël | SUI | 2404 | Muri b. Bern | 4,5 | 30,5 | 192,5 | 21,5 |
| 16 | 34 | FM | Wyss Jonas | SUI | 2289 | Zürich | 4,5 | 29,5 | 184,0 | 21,0 |
| 17 | 7 | GM | Pelletier Yannick | SUI | 2571 | Paris | 4,5 | 29,5 | 181,0 | 21,5 |
| 18 | 14 | GM | Cvitan Ognjen | CRO | 2499 | Basel | 4,5 | 28,5 | 189,5 | 20,0 |
| 19 | 4 | GM | Bindrich Falko | GER | 2583 | Zittau | 4,5 | 28,5 | 177,0 | 20,5 |
| 20 | 25 | FM | Dragnev Valentin | AUT | 2356 | Wien | 4,5 | 28,0 | 189,5 | 21,0 |
| 21 | 18 | IM | Kurmann Oliver | SUI | 2435 | Luzern | 4,5 | 28,0 | 187,0 | 20,5 |
| 22 | 42 | FM | Majer Damir | GER | 2222 | München | 4,5 | 27,0 | 179,5 | 19,5 |
| 23 | 51 | FM | Hugentobler Patrik | SUI | 2188 | Volketswil | 4,5 | 24,5 | 171,5 | 17,5 |
| 24 | 17 | GM | Milov Leonid | GER | 2465 | Mainz | 4,5 | 24,0 | 176,0 | 17,5 |
| 25 | 35 | Gretz Denis | GER | 2287 | Königsbrunn | 4,5 | 23,5 | 182,0 | 17,5 | |
| 26 | 49 | FM | Friedrich Norbert | GER | 2192 | Zürich | 4,5 | 19,5 | 175,0 | 14,0 |
... 105 players
Yannick Pelletier
Vladimir Burmakin
Judith Fuchs
The winners: Christian Bauer, Arkadij Naiditsch, Vitaly Kunin
Photos: Georg Kradolfer (Tournament page)
Complete results at Chess-results...
