The Politiken Cup 2012 was a ten round Swiss tournament that ran from Saturday July 28th to Sunday August 05th 2012 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The rate of play was 90 min for 40 moves + 30 min for the rest of the game + 30 sec increment for every move played starting from the first move. The prizes (in DKK): 1st 20,000 (€ 2700 or US $3,300), 2nd 18,000, 3rd 15,000, etc. The total prize fund was € 4,700 = $5,800. The tiebrake system to decide the main prizes: 1. Middle Buchholz, 2. Sonneborn-Berger.
GM Ivan Cheparinov from Bulgaria won the Politiken Cup 2012 on better tie break than GM Ivan Sololov and GM Jonny Hector. All three scored 8 points out of 10 games in the tournament.
| Pl. | Politiken Cup | Rtng |
Pts |
MiBu | SoB |
| 1 | GM Ivan Cheparinov | 2677 |
8 |
56.5 | 54.25 |
| 2 | GM Ivan Sokolov | 2676 |
8 |
55 | 51.5 |
| 3 | GM Jonny Hector | 2530 |
8 |
54 | 51 |
| 4 | GM Aleksey Dreev | 2677 |
7½ |
57.5 | 51.25 |
| 5 | GM Dusan Popovic | 2579 |
7½ |
55.5 | 49.25 |
| 6 | GM Stelios Halkias | 2570 |
7½ |
55 | 49 |
| 7 | GM Erwin l´Ami | 2615 |
7½ |
54.5 | 48.75 |
| 8 | GM Vladimir Malakhov | 2712 |
7½ |
54.5 | 48.75 |
| 9 | GM Robert Markus | 2599 |
7½ |
54.5 | 48 |
| 10 | GM Jacob Aagaard | 2506 |
7½ |
54 | 48 |
| 11 | GM Sune Berg Hansen | 2577 |
7½ |
53 | 47.75 |
| 12 | GM Jan Timman | 2575 |
7½ |
53 | 47.75 |
| 13 | GM Vladimir Burmakin | 2590 |
7½ |
52.5 | 46.5 |
| 14 | IM Krzysztof Bulski | 2554 |
7½ |
52.5 | 46.5 |
| 15 | GM Lars Schandorff | 2516 |
7½ |
52 | 47.25 |
| 16 | Rasmus Svane | 2367 |
7½ |
51 | 45 |
| 17 | GM Stellan Brynell | 2498 |
7½ |
50 | 45 |
| 18 | GM Evgeny Romanov | 2623 |
7½ |
49.5 | 44.5 |
| 19 | IM Jakob Vang Glud | 2498 |
7 |
53.5 | 43.25 |
| 20 | GM Ivan Salgado Lopez | 2635 |
7 |
52.5 | 43.75 |
| 21 | GM Tiger Hillarp Persson | 2575 |
7 |
52.5 | 43.25 |
| 22 | GM Allan Stig Rasmussen | 2496 |
7 |
52.5 | 42.25 |
| 23 | IM Simon Bekker-Jensen | 2394 |
7 |
51 | 42.75 |
| 24 | IM Jonathan Carlstedt | 2352 |
7 |
51 | 42 |
| 25 | IM Erik Zude | 2384 |
7 |
50.5 | 40 |
| 26 | GM Ilmars Starostits | 2494 |
7 |
50 | 41 |
| 27 | IM Jens Kristiansen | 2426 |
7 |
49.5 | 40 |
| 28 | FM Jakob Aabling-Thomsen | 2331 |
7 |
49.5 | 39 |
| 29 | WGM Anna Rudolf | 2325 |
7 |
48.5 | 38 |
| 30 | Julian Kramer | 2048 |
7 |
48 | 38.5 |
| 31 | WGM Svetlana Cherednichenko | 2293 |
7 |
47.5 | 37.5 |
| 32 | IM Jasmin Bejtovic | 2385 |
7 |
46.5 | 38.75 |
| 33 | FM Erik Hedman | 2381 |
7 |
46 | 38 |
| 34 | IM Erik Blomqvist | 2457 |
7 |
46 | 37.25 |
| 35 | FM Igor Teplyi | 2388 |
7 |
45 | 38.5 |
The winner on tiebreak, with 8.0/10 and a 2680 performance:
Bulgarian GM (and Topalov second) Ivan Cheparinov, rated 2677
Second: Dutch GM Ivan Sokolov, 2676, 8.0/10, 2635 performance
Third: Swedish GM Jonny Hector, 2530, 8.0/9, 2652 performance
Fifth: GM Dusan Popovic, 2579, 7.5/10, 2553 performance
Sixth: GM Stelios Halkias, 2570, 7.5/10, 2578 performance
Seventh: Dutch GM Erwin l'Ami, 2615, 7.5/10, 2553 performance
Eighth: GM Robert Markus, 2599, 7.5/10, 2590 performance
Tenth, with 7.5/10 and a 2571 performance: the man who tops
every (alphabetical) list: GM Jacob Aagaard, 2506
Eleventh: GM Sune Berg Hansen, 2573, 7.5/10, 2538 performance
Twelfth: GM Jan Timman, 2575, 7.5/10, 2527 performance
13th: GM Vladimir Burmakin, 2590, 7.5/8, 2491 performance
19th: IM Jakob Vang Glud, 2498, 7.0/8, 2499 performance
20th: GM Ivan Salgado Lopez, 2635, 7.0/10, 2482 performance
All pictures courtesy Calle Erlandsson ©
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