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The Groningen Chess Festival took place December 21st-30th 2010. Six players finished at 6.5/9 points, with Dejan Bojkov taking first prize on tie-break points.
|
# |
Player |
Pts |
Nat. |
Rtng |
TPR |
W-We | WP | SB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GM Bojkov, Dejan | 6.5 | BUL | 2542 | 2631 |
+1.12 |
50.5 |
35.25 |
| 2 | IM Nyzhnyk, Illya | 6.5 | UKR | 2535 | 2671 |
+1.71 |
49.5 |
33.75 |
| 3 | GM Bluvshtein, Mark | 6.5 | CAN | 2587 | 2606 |
+0.39 |
49.0 |
34.25 |
| 4 | IM Brandenburg, Daan | 6.5 | NED | 2515 | 2639 |
+1.66 |
49.0 |
33.75 |
| 5 | GM Ernst, Sipke | 6.5 | NED | 2590 | 2628 |
+0.49 |
47.0 |
32.25 |
| 6 | IM Van Kampen, Robin | 6.5 | NED | 2454 | 2627 |
+2.18 |
45.5 |
30.5 |
| 7 | GM Andriasian, Zaven | 5.5 | ARM | 2585 | 2540 |
-0.45 |
50.5 |
29.25 |
| 8 | GM Prohaszka, Peter | 5.5 | HUN | 2536 | 2550 |
+0.27 |
49.5 |
28.75 |
| 9 | GM Gupta, Abhijeet | 5.5 | IND | 2600 | 2550 |
-0.54 |
49.5 |
28.5 |
| 10 | GM Rotstein, Arkadij | 5.5 | GER | 2538 | 2551 |
+0.28 |
49.0 |
28.75 |
| 11 | IM Lobzhanidze, Davit | 5.5 | GEO | 2496 | 2471 |
-0.12 |
44.5 |
25.25 |
| 12 | IM Grover, Sahaj | 5.5 | IND | 2432 | 2475 |
+0.62 |
44.0 |
25.75 |
| 13 | IM Bok, Benjamin | 5.5 | NED | 2458 | 2390 |
-0.56 |
44.0 |
23.0 |
| 14 | GM Baklan, Vladimir | 5.5 | UKR | 2613 | 2502 |
-1.09 |
43.0 |
23.75 |
| 15 | FM Naroditsky, Daniel | 5.5 | USA | 2425 | 2474 |
+0.71 |
40.5 |
22.5 |
| 16 | IM Van Oosterom, Chiel | 5.5 | NED | 2426 | 2398 |
-0.13 |
37.0 |
21.75 |
| 17 | Baghdasaryan, Vahe | 5.0 | ARM | 2303 | 2474 |
+1.90 |
48.5 |
26.25 |
| 18 | GM Werle, Jan | 5.0 | NED | 2578 | 2466 |
-1.17 |
48.5 |
23.75 |
| 19 | GM Romanishin, Oleg M | 5.0 | UKR | 2534 | 2437 |
-0.68 |
46.5 |
25.0 |
| 20 | GM Nijboer, Friso | 5.0 | NED | 2583 | 2423 |
-1.75 |
43.0 |
23.25 |
| 21 | Shiven, Khosla | 5.0 | IND | 2354 | 2467 |
+1.34 |
43.0 |
22.5 |
| 22 | Herman, Matthew J | 5.0 | USA | 2149 | 2429 |
+2.97 |
42.5 |
22.0 |
| 23 | FM Poetsch, Hagen | 5.0 | GER | 2408 | 2377 |
-0.21 |
42.0 |
21.0 |
| 24 | IM Ashwin, Jayaram | 5.0 | IND | 2420 | 2367 |
-0.54 |
41.0 |
20.75 |
| 25 | WGM Stjazhkina, Olga | 5.0 | RUS | 2240 | 2310 |
+0.74 |
35.5 |
16.0 |
The winner on tiebreak points: Dejan Bojkov
In the leading group with 6.5/9: GM Mark Bluvshtein
Second GM norm for IM Daan Brandenburg (with Nyzhnyk in the background)
Robin van Kampen scored 6.5/9 and made a second GM norm
Three players made GM norms in this event: Daan Brandenburg and Robin van Kampen each completed their second norm, while Ukrainian prodigy Illya Nyzhnyk, who is now the youngest grandmaster in the world.
GM title at 14 years 3 months: Illya Nyzhnyk of Ukraine
Illya was born September 27, 1996 in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. He gained international attention when he won the B Group of the 2007 Moscow Open at the age of ten, with a nearly flawless score of 8.5/9 and a 2633 performance. In April 2008 Nyzhnyk won the Nabokov Memorial in Kiev, Ukraine, with 8½/11, and scored his first GM norm. In December 2009 he won the Schaakfestival Groningen iwith a 2741 performance. Now with a third GM norm under his belt he will receive the title from FIDE, making him the 11th youngest GM in history, and the youngest today.
Illya Nyzhnyk playing in the Boy's Under 10 at the European Youth Chess Championships in Herceg Novi, Serbia and Montenegro in September 2005. Here's a video showing the 10-year-old Illya in action.
Knee-high to a grasshopper and giving simuls: Illya Nyzhnyk
The twelve-year-old playing for “PVK Kievchess” at the Ukrainian Team Championship in 2009
|
No. |
Player |
Nat. |
years |
months |
days |
year |
|
1 |
Sergey Karjakin |
UKR |
12 |
7 |
0 |
2002 |
|
2 |
Parimarjan Negi |
|
|
|
|
|
|
3 |
Magnus Carlsen |
NOR |
13 |
3 |
27 |
2004 |
|
4 |
Bu Xiangzhi |
CHN |
13 |
10 |
13 |
1999 |
|
5 |
Richard Rapport |
HUN |
13 |
11 |
15 |
2010 |
|
6 |
Teimour Radjabov |
AZE |
14 |
0 |
14 |
2001 |
|
7 |
Ruslan Ponomaryov |
UKR |
14 |
0 |
17 |
1997 |
|
8 |
Wesley So |
PHI |
14 |
1 |
28 |
2007 |
|
9 |
Etienne Bacrot |
FRA |
14 |
2 |
0 |
1997 |
|
10 |
Jorge Cori |
PER |
14 |
2 |
0 |
2009 |
|
11 |
Illya Nyzhnyk |
UKR |
14 |
3 |
2 |
2010 |
|
12 |
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave |
FRA |
14 |
4 |
0 |
2005 |
|
13 |
Peter Leko |
HUN |
14 |
4 |
22 |
1994 |
|
14 |
Hou Yifan |
CHN |
14 |
6 |
2 |
2008 |
|
15 |
Anish Giri |
RUS |
14 |
7 |
2 |
2009 |
|
16 |
Yuri Kuzubov |
UKR |
14 |
7 |
12 |
2004 |
|
17 |
Dariusz Swiercz |
POL |
14 |
7 |
29 |
2009 |
|
18 |
Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son |
VIE |
14 |
10 |
0 |
2004 |
|
19 |
Ray Robson |
USA |
14 |
11 |
16 |
2009 |
|
20 |
Fabiano Caruana |
ITA |
14 |
11 |
20 |
2007 |
|
21 |
Koneru Humpy |
IND |
15 |
1 |
27 |
2002 |
|
22 |
Hikaru Nakamura |
USA |
15 |
2 |
19 |
2003 |
|
23 |
Pentala Harikrishna |
IND |
15 |
3 |
5 |
2001 |
|
24 |
Judit Polgar |
HUN |
15 |
4 |
28 |
1991 |
|
25 |
Alejandro Ramirez |
CRI |
15 |
5 |
14 |
2003 |
|
26 |
Bobby Fischer |
USA |
15 |
6 |
1 |
1958 |
Source: ChessBase
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