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Anton Korobov arrived in Sitges as number three on the ranking list behind Vassily Ivanchuk and Parham Maghsoodloo, but he dominated the tournament from the outset. Korobov started with six wins out of six games and only made his first draw against Ivanchuk in round seven. With a final sprint of two out of three, he then secured the sole tournament victory.
The German grandmaster Rasmus Svane started number 22 on the Elo list but impressively reached 8 out of 10 to tie for second place along with Vasif Durarbayli, just a half point behind Korobov. Durarbayli bested him 1½:½ in a two-game blitz match to snag the higher prize.
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Svane dropped a pawn out of the opening in the second blitz game and never recovered.
7...♝g4 is the normal and best move for black here, but Svane went for 7...♝d6 and was under pressure after 8.♘c4 ♝e6 9.♘fxe5 when Black is down a pawn without any compensation. Just a handful of moves later Durarbayli went into steamroller mode:
White's next six moves are b4, a4, b5, a5, b6 and axb6 and Black can pretty much resign!
The decisive game for Korobov came in the ninth and penultimate round against the young American grandmaster Awonder Liang. In this important game, Korobov showed good nerves as well as defensive qualities:
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Liang vs Korobov: Rough seas ahead | Photo: @SunwayChessOpen on Twitter
| Rk. | SNo | Name | Gr | FED | RtgI | Pts. | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 | ||
| 1 | 3 |
|
GM | Korobov Anton | UKR | 2668 | 8,5 | 61,5 | 66,0 | 54,75 | |
| 2 | 18 |
|
GM | Durarbayli Vasif | AZE | 2609 | 8,0 | 60,0 | 65,0 | 51,50 | |
| 3 | 22 |
|
GM | Svane Rasmus | GER | 2597 | 8,0 | 56,5 | 60,5 | 48,50 | |
| 4 | 26 |
|
GM | Puranik Abhimanyu | IND | 2580 | 7,5 | 60,0 | 64,5 | 47,50 | |
| 5 | 35 |
|
GM | Li Di | CHN | 2543 | 7,5 | 59,5 | 64,5 | 46,00 | |
| 6 | 11 |
|
GM | Tabatabaei M.Amin | IRI | 2635 | 7,5 | 59,0 | 63,5 | 46,00 | |
| 7 | 21 |
|
GM | Gareyev Timur | USA | 2598 | 7,5 | 58,5 | 63,5 | 46,50 | |
| 8 | 14 |
|
GM | Heimann Andreas | GER | 2617 | 7,5 | 58,0 | 62,5 | 45,25 | |
| 9 | 17 |
|
GM | Karthikeyan Murali | IND | 2611 | 7,5 | 57,0 | 61,5 | 45,50 | |
| 10 | 6 |
|
GM | Lagarde Maxime | FRA | 2655 | 7,5 | 57,0 | 61,5 | 44,25 | |
| 11 | 16 |
|
GM | Nihal Sarin | IND | 2612 | 7,5 | 56,5 | 61,0 | 45,25 | |
| 12 | 19 |
|
GM | Adly Ahmed | EGY | 2607 | 7,5 | 56,5 | 60,5 | 44,75 | |
| 13 | 34 |
|
GM | Erigaisi Arjun | IND | 2544 | 7,0 | 60,0 | 65,5 | 45,00 | |
| 14 | 9 |
|
GM | Donchenko Alexander | GER | 2644 | 7,0 | 60,0 | 64,0 | 43,75 | |
| 15 | 27 |
|
GM | Wagner Dennis | GER | 2578 | 7,0 | 59,5 | 63,5 | 43,50 | |
| 16 | 1 |
|
GM | Ivanchuk Vassily | UKR | 2690 | 7,0 | 59,0 | 63,0 | 43,00 | |
| 17 | 37 |
|
GM | Moradiabadi Elshan | USA | 2539 | 7,0 | 57,5 | 62,5 | 42,25 | |
| 18 | 23 |
|
GM | Liang Awonder | USA | 2593 | 7,0 | 57,0 | 62,0 | 41,50 | |
| 19 | 33 |
|
GM | Nasuta Grzegorz | POL | 2545 | 7,0 | 57,0 | 61,0 | 40,75 | |
| 20 | 31 |
|
GM | Gukesh D | IND | 2547 | 7,0 | 56,0 | 60,0 | 39,00 | |
| 21 | 43 |
|
IM | Bjerre Jonas Buhl | DEN | 2526 | 7,0 | 55,5 | 60,0 | 39,75 | |
| 22 | 10 |
|
GM | Sethuraman S.P. | IND | 2638 | 7,0 | 55,0 | 59,5 | 39,75 | |
| 23 | 65 |
|
GM | Karthik Venkataraman | IND | 2470 | 7,0 | 54,5 | 59,0 | 39,50 | |
| 24 | 42 |
|
GM | Sindarov Javokhir | UZB | 2526 | 7,0 | 54,5 | 58,5 | 37,25 | |
| 25 | 48 |
|
IM | Sadhwani Raunak | IND | 2507 | 7,0 | 53,5 | 57,5 | 37,00 | |
| 26 | 61 |
|
WGM | Pogonina Natalija | RUS | 2479 | 7,0 | 49,0 | 53,5 | 36,75 | |
| 27 | 13 |
|
GM | Narayanan.S.L | IND | 2626 | 6,5 | 61,5 | 66,5 | 39,75 |
...311 players
Translation from German and additional reporting: Macauley Peterson
