30th Cappelle-la-Grande under way
3/3/2014 – One of the most traditional opens in Europe has begun. Despite the heavy competition in this busy March, with the European Chess Championship starting and the Reykjavik Open only a couple a day away, Cappelle-la-Grande, a minute city in France, keeps attracting hordes of grandmasters and amateurs to its playing hall. Standings after round three.
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The 30th edition of the Cappelle-La-Grande Open is underway from March 1st to March 8th at the Palais des Arts et Loisirs (Palace of Arts and Leisure) in Cappelle-La-Grande, France. It is a nine-round Swiss open played at the rate of 40 moves in 90 minutes plus 30 seconds per move, followed by 30 minutes plus 30 seconds per move for the rest of the game. The tournament has a 30 thousand Euro prize fund, with 1st - 3000 Euros, 2nd - 2000 Euros, 3rd - 1500 Euros, etc. and many prizes by category and age.
Everything ready for the start!
The playing hall looks crowded but it's not hard to navigate through it
The tournament is very attractive for top players because of the excellent conditions provided by the organizers, who have been able to secure many top players including a 2700 to participate in the event despite the competition in the schedule. The Reykjavik open will start tomorrow while the European Chess Championship, a qualifier for the World Cup, is just playing its first round in Yerevan.
The top boards are in their own stage, and getting up here is a task in itself for any player
After three only three rounds there are only seven players with a perfect 3.0/3. The top seed, Ding Liren from China, was dinged half a point by Papin, a strong grandmaster himself, on the third round.
Lagarde is one of France's top cards in this tournament. On the right, Ding Liren against Papin
The event is absolutely massive at nearly 600 players all in the same section. The tournament is not a consistent fight of grandmasters vs. amateurs because if their use of accelerated pairings, although it is sometimes hard to predict parings because of this.
Standings
| Bd. | White | Res. | Black | ||||
| 1 | [3] | FIER Alexandr | 2595 | GUPTA Abhijeet | 2630 | [3] | |
| 2 | [3] | JOVANIC Ognjen | 2526 | GANGULY Surya Shekhar | 2623 | [3] | |
| 3 | [3] | MARTYNOV Pavel | 2352 | VOVK Andrey | 2605 | [3] | |
| 4 | [3] | MAIOROV Nikita | 2520 | DING Liren | 2717 | [2,5] | |
| 5 | [2,5] | TIMOSHENKO Georgy | 2531 | ITURRIZAGA Eduardo | 2645 | [2,5] | |
| 6 | [2,5] | SUMETS Andrey | 2628 | KVEINYS Aloyzas | 2530 | [2,5] | |
| 7 | [2,5] | DANIN Alexandre | 2606 | ULIBIN Mikhail | 2491 | [2,5] | |
| 8 | [2,5] | GUREVICH Mikhail | 2574 | HASANGATIN Ramil | 2494 | [2,5] | |
| 9 | [2,5] | ROMBALDONI Axel | 2518 | KOVACEVIC Aleksandar | 2572 | [2,5] | |
| 10 | [2,5] | PIORUN Kacper | 2570 | BAILET Pierre | 2477 | [2,5] | |
| 11 | [2,5] | PAPIN Vasily | 2515 | BURMAKIN Vladimir | 2568 | [2,5] | |
| 12 | [2,5] | CHERNYSHOV Konstantin | 2504 | PETKOV Vladimir | 2566 | [2,5] | |
| 13 | [2,5] | VISHNU PRASANNA. V | 2462 | SPRAGGETT Kevin | 2557 | [2,5] | |
| 14 | [2,5] | DRASKO Milan | 2460 | BRODSKY Michail | 2554 | [2,5] | |
| 15 | [2,5] | KHARITONOV Alexandr | 2554 | BARBOSA Evandro Amorim | 2459 | [2,5] | |
| 16 | [2,5] | DUMITRACHE Dragos-Nicolae | 2453 | MAZE Sebastien | 2545 | [2,5] | |
| 17 | [2,5] | HEBERLA Bartlomiej | 2544 | HAUB Thorsten Michael | 2449 | [2,5] |
Replay select games from the top boards
Select games from the dropdown menu above the board
Photos by Alexandre Feryn
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