Five players share first in Munich

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The centrepiece of the 2nd Munich Chess Festival (24 May to 2 June) was a well-attended A-Open with 132 participants. A number of strong grandmasters took part, top seed was Vladimir Fedoseev.

Among the players most likely to challenge the grandmaster, who now plays for Slovenia, were Ukrainian Pavel Eljanov, seeded second, and the German grandmasters Dmitrij Kollars and Frederik Svane.

Vladimir Fedoseev took the lead from the very beginning, but was unable to shake off a few other players, including Pavel Eljanov and the less well-known Giga Quparadze from Georgia.

Pavel Eljanov

In the seventh round, the Georgian even managed to beat Fedoseev and took the sole lead with 6.0/7.

In the last two rounds, however, Quparadze did not manage to score more than two draws against Frederik Svane and the young German IM Alex Dac-Vuong Nguyen, and was caught up by the chasers.

The best woman in the field was Evgeniya Doluhanova, who finished 11th with 6.0/9.

The Ukrainian had an Elo-performance of more than 2400 and managed to beat two grandmasters during the tournament.

Final standings

Rk.	Snr		Name	Type	sex	EloI	EloN	Club/Residence	Pts.	Tb1	Tb2	Tb3
1	1	GM	Fedoseev, Vladimir			2701	2707		7	2466	55,5	41,50
2	5	GM	Quparadze, Giga			2494	2483		7	2458	50,5	36,75
3	3	GM	Kollars, Dmitrij			2648	2639	SF Deizisau	7	2446	54,5	41,00
4	2	GM	Eljanov, Pavel			2676	2700	MSA Zugzwang 82 e.V.	7	2439	55	41,50
5	4	GM	Svane, Frederik			2636	2630	Hamburger SK von 1830 eV	7	2399	54	40,50
6	18	IM	Nguyen, Alex Dac-Vuong			2371	2379	Schachgemeinschaft Leipzig	6,5	2297	49,5	35,00
7	9	GM	Kjartansson, Gudmundur			2475	2500		6,5	2283	48,5	32,75
8	17	IM	Yelisieiev, Yevhenii			2402	2387	SC Noris-Tarrasch Nürnberg 187	6,5	2257	46	31,75
9	15	IM	Fedorovsky, Michael			2406	2386	FC Bayern München e.V.	6	2377	50	29,50
10	8	GM	Baldauf, Marco			2475	2461	Schachfreunde Berlin 1903 e.V.	6	2371	48,5	33,50
11	36	WGM	Doluhanova, Evgeniya		w	2272	2288	SVG Eppstein 1932	6	2338	52	32,00
12	7	GM	Bromberger, Stefan			2485	2469	MSA Zugzwang 82 e.V.	6	2311	46,5	28,00
13	37	FM	Weihrauch, Jakob			2272	2294	Hamburger SK von 1830 eV	6	2257	48	30,25
14	22	FM	Kundianok, Vladislav			2335	2138		6	2245	44	27,25
15	26	FM	Kolb, Tobias			2313	2328	SV Seubelsdorf e.V.	6	2192	44	27,75
16	76	WIM	Sun, Fanghui		w	2097	2097		6	2188	43	26,50
17	13	GM	Ubilava, Elizbar	S60		2408	2449		5,5	2377	52,5	28,50
18	12	GM	Pacher, Milan			2413	2413		5,5	2305	48	27,00
19	30	FM	Dobrosmyslov, Artem			2298	2319	OSG Baden-Baden	5,5	2279	45	24,25
20	11	IM	Baenziger, Fabian			2414	2438		5,5	2275	44,5	25,25