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In the first round of the GM Tournament at classical time controls, the German up-and-comer Vincent Keymer showed himself to be in good form. Focused and very concentrated, he put the Spaniard David Anton Guijarro under constant pressure, and finally scored the full point with tactical precision. A confident victory against a 2700+ player at the start. The audience is curious to see how strong the young German already is and maybe he can make another important step in Biel. The signs are good. The entire family is there to support him, and sister Cecilia also scored in the C-HTO event on Tuesday.
Cecilia Keymer — cello, chess, ballet and gymnastics — may help her big brother to victory.
Arkadij Naiditsch also won against the Swiss champion Noël Studer, who started very ambitiously but his attack ultimately failed.
Pentala Harikrishna and Michael Adams drew, as did Radek Wojtaszek against Romain Édouard.
The large hall in the Congress Center
| Rank | Name | Classical | Rapid | Blitz | Total |
| 1 | GM Vincent Keymer | 4 | 10 | 0 | 14 |
| 2 | GM Radoslaw Wojtaszek | 1½ | 12 | 0 | 13½ |
| 3 | GM Pentala Harikrishna | 1½ | 10 | 0 | 11½ |
| 4 | GM Michael Adams | 1½ | 8 | 0 | 9½ |
| 5 | GM Arkadij Naiditsch | 4 | 5 | 0 | 9 |
| 6 | GM Romain Édouard | 1½ | 4 | 0 | 5½ |
| 7 | GM David Antón Guijarro | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 8 | GM Noël Studer | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
A win in classical is worth 4 points; a draw, 1½ points
In the C-HTO, a grandmaster had to drop half a point for the first time. The young German Julius Ohler from SC ML Kastellaun, who caused a sensation during the Corona period, showed a committed and courageous performance against the Algerian GM Bilel Bellahcene.
Eleven-year-old Magnus Ermitsch from Berlin (current German youth team champion with SC Borussia Lichtenberg) tried everything against International Master Gerlef Meins, but experience still prevailed over youth.
Magnus Ermitsch, 11 years old, German team champion with SC Borussia Lichtenberg
Gerlef Meins
The other participants of the German team also entered the tournament in good spirits.
Michael Schulz
Adrian Gschnitzer, from Walldorf
Sebastian Siebrecht
| Rg. | Name | Elo | Pkt. | Wtg1 | |
| 1 | IM | Baenziger Fabian | 2403 | 2,0 | 0,0 |
| Mathieu Phileas | 2214 | 2,0 | 0,0 | ||
| Shatil Shir | 1826 | 2,0 | 0,0 | ||
| 4 | GM | Siebrecht Sebastian | 2429 | 2,0 | 0,0 |
| IM | Gschnitzer Adrian | 2404 | 2,0 | 0,0 | |
| FM | Kamber Bruno | 2290 | 2,0 | 0,0 | |
| IM | Contin Daniel | 2251 | 2,0 | 0,0 | |
| FM | Schulz Michael | 2132 | 2,0 | 0,0 | |
| Perestjuk Marko | 2116 | 2,0 | 0,0 | ||
| Carre Sylvain | 2106 | 2,0 | 0,0 | ||
| 11 | AGM | Rohrer Christophe | 2235 | 2,0 | 0,0 |
| Adrian Leopold | 2061 | 2,0 | 0,0 | ||
| Decker Nils | 2047 | 2,0 | 0,0 | ||
| 14 | GM | Bauer Christian | 2623 | 2,0 | 0,0 |
| IM | Meins Gerlef | 2415 | 2,0 | 0,0 | |
| FM | Karsay Pascal | 2304 | 2,0 | 0,0 | |
| FM | Buchenau Frank | 2278 | 2,0 | 0,0 | |
| IM | Adrian Claude | 2246 | 2,0 | 0,0 | |
| Jovanovic Sladjan | 2176 | 2,0 | 0,0 | ||
| Emmenecker Pierre-Antoine | 2172 | 2,0 | 0,0 | ||
| FM | Borner Daniel | 2154 | 2,0 | 0,0 | |
| AIM | Cahen Alexis | 2125 | 2,0 | 0,0 | |
| Pham Khoi | 2048 | 2,0 | 0,0 | ||
| 24 | FM | Youssoupov Moisse | 2333 | 1,5 | 0,0 |
| FM | Lorscheid Gerhard | 2241 | 1,5 | 0,0 |
Translation from German: Nick Murphy
