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The Grenke Chess Classic is the first tournament for World Champion Magnus Carlsen since he won the Tata Steel Chess tournament in January and the start of a busy few months. He faced his future Challenger for the World Championship, Fabiano Caruana, fresh off his Berlin win, already in the first round.
Fabiano Caruana won his last round game against Nikita Vitiugov, and therefore secured clear first place.
The time control is 100 minutes for 40 moves, then 50 minutes for 20 moves and then 15 minutes to the end of the game, with a 30-second increment from move 1.
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Commentary by GM Peter Leko and GM Jan Gustafsson
The Grenke Chess Open in Karlsruhe ran from March 29th to April 2nd. The top A-open group contained over 300 players including over 50 grandmasters, four of whom are over 2700: Etienne Bacrot, Richard Rapport, Wang Hao and Dmitry Andreikin.
IM Vincent Keymer was the surprise winner.
| Rank | Title | Teilnehmer | Elo | Attr. | Club/City | FED | W | D | L | Points | Buchh |
| 1. | IM | Keymer, Vincent | 2403 | M | SF Deizisau | GER | 7 | 2 | 0 | 8.0 | 52.5 |
| 2. | GM | Korobov, Anton | 2664 | M | SC Viernheim | UKR | 6 | 3 | 0 | 7.5 | 56.0 |
| 3. | GM | Gordievsky, Dmitry | 2630 | M | RUS | 6 | 3 | 0 | 7.5 | 54.5 | |
| 4. | GM | Shirov, Alexei | 2651 | M | OSG Baden-Baden | LAT | 6 | 3 | 0 | 7.5 | 52.0 |
| 5. | GM | Lagarde, Maxime | 2587 | M | SF Deizisau | FRA | 6 | 2 | 1 | 7.0 | 57.0 |
| 6. | GM | Bindrich, Falko | 2602 | M | DJK Aufwärts Aachen | GER | 5 | 4 | 0 | 7.0 | 54.0 |
| 7. | GM | Sadzikowski, Daniel | 2583 | M | SC Heusenstamm | POL | 5 | 4 | 0 | 7.0 | 53.5 |
| 7. | GM | Firat, Burak | 2453 | M | TUR | 5 | 4 | 0 | 7.0 | 53.5 | |
| 9. | GM | Antal, Gergely | 2540 | M | ESV Nickelhütte Aue | HUN | 6 | 2 | 1 | 7.0 | 52.5 |
| 9. | IM | Valsecchi, Alessio | 2510 | M | ITA | 6 | 2 | 1 | 7.0 | 52.5 | |
| 11. | GM | Andreikin, Dmitry | 2712 | M | RUS | 5 | 4 | 0 | 7.0 | 52.5 | |
| 12. | IM | Santos Latasa, Jaime | 2549 | M | ESP | 5 | 4 | 0 | 7.0 | 52.0 | |
| 13. | GM | Kollars, Dmitrij | 2534 | M | Hamburger SK | GER | 6 | 2 | 1 | 7.0 | 51.5 |
| 13. | IM | Grinberg, Eyal | 2448 | M | ISR | 6 | 2 | 1 | 7.0 | 51.5 | |
| 15. | GM | Wang, Hao | 2713 | M | CHN | 5 | 4 | 0 | 7.0 | 51.0 | |
| 15. | GM | Heimann, Andreas | 2574 | M | SF Deizisau | GER | 5 | 4 | 0 | 7.0 | 51.0 |
| 15. | GM | Malakhatko, Vadim | 2536 | M | BEL | 5 | 4 | 0 | 7.0 | 51.0 | |
| 18. | GM | Landa, Konstantin | 2613 | M | SV Mülheim-Nord | RUS | 5 | 4 | 0 | 7.0 | 50.5 |
| 19. | GM | Bacrot, Etienne | 2718 | M | OSG Baden-Baden | FRA | 5 | 4 | 0 | 7.0 | 50.0 |
| 20. | IM | Lampert, Jonas | 2532 | M | Hamburger SK | GER | 6 | 2 | 1 | 7.0 | 49.5 |
| 21. | IM | Noe, Christopher | 2494 | M | SC Eppingen | GER | 5 | 4 | 0 | 7.0 | 49.5 |
| 22. | IM | Fedorovsky, Michael | 2471 | M | FC Bayern München | GER | 5 | 4 | 0 | 7.0 | 49.0 |
| 23. | GM | David, Alberto | 2566 | M | ITA | 7 | 0 | 2 | 7.0 | 47.5 | |
| 24. | GM | Burmakin, Vladimir | 2522 | M | SF 90 Spraitbach | RUS | 5 | 4 | 0 | 7.0 | 47.0 |
| 25. | GM | Mikhalevski, Victor | 2557 | M | SV Lingen | ISR | 7 | 0 | 2 | 7.0 | 44.5 |
| 26. | FM | Baenziger, Fabian | 2356 | M | Luzern SK | SUI | 6 | 2 | 1 | 7.0 | 42.5 |
...Total 787 players
