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The players were IM Hipolito Asis Gargatagli (Spain), GM Marc Narciso Dublan (Spain), Aexel Bachmann (Paraguay), Csaba Balogh (Hungary), GM Karen H. Grigoryan Karen (Armenia), and GM Alexander Morozevich (Russia).
In the last couple of years, many tournaments have resorted including their own specific addendums to FIDE's controversial Zero Tolerance rule, and The Barcelona International was no exception, setting the limit at 20 minutes.
Taking advantage of the presence of the ever popular Russian, Morozevich held a simul against
20 players, scoring 17 wins, two draws, and one loss
The time control was 90 minutes + 30 sec increment per move from move one for 40 moves, then 30 minutes knockout, with a 30-second increment per move. Draw offers were not allowed until the first time control had finished.
Perhaps due to the nature of the short five-round event, the draw rate was quite high, since any loss would be the much harder to recover from. That did not prevent Morozevich from playing his brand of volatile chess, as seen in the very first round:
The lowest rated player, Hipolito Asis, almost caused an upset in the first round
In spite of this brush with disaster, he was true to himself, and was directly involved in three decisive games out of five, including a loss in the last round to Axel Bachmann. The Paraguayan grandmaster tied him with 3.0/5 at the end, but the Russian took it on tiebreak, with the largest number of blacks being the first criteria. Morozevich played three to Bachmann's two, and thus took the title.
Alexander Morozevich (right) was involved in more decisive games than not, and ensured
there were always entertaining games to watch
The South American grandmaster Axel Bachmann had an excellent tournament, undefeated,
and scoring a win against the winner, Alexander Morozevich
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