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Jinshi Bai is serious about his chess. He was born in 1999, is coached by Chinese Grandmaster Li Chao, and one day wants to be among the very top. 2015 he told Schachbundesliga.de, the site of the German Bundesliga: "I stopped going to school for one year to focus entirely on chess. ... I love it to travel to play chess and one day I want to mix things up among the very top."
Jinshi Bai (Photo: Sergey Tiviakov)
With two draws the Chinese started slowly into the tournament but then he turned up the heat and after scoring 6.0/7 he finished with 7.0/9. In his game against Lucas Van Foreest he showed that a knight on the rim sometimes is indeed dim.
After 9 rounds Bai thus shared first place with open specialist and ChessBase Sergey Tiviakov. Tiviakov drew the first game, then won four games in a row and finished the tournament with three draws. In his game against Maksim Chigaev Tiviakov also made use of a classical strategic motif: the power of the bishops:
Sergey Tiviakov
But Tiviakov had the worse tie-break and had to content himself with second place. A very close decision. His direct encounter with Jinshi Bai had ended in a draw, they both had the same number of Buchholz points (the first tie-break criteria) but the Chinese had 0.25 Sonneborn-Berger points (the second tie-break criteria) more than Tiviakov and this made him win the tournament.
| # | Name | Title | FED | Elo | Pts | TB1 | TB2 | TPR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bai, Jinshi | GM | CHN | 2544 | 7.0 | 50.5 | 38.5 | 2628 |
| 2 | Tiviakov, Sergei | GM | NED | 2609 | 7.0 | 50.5 | 38.25 | 2650 |
| 3 | Chigaev, Maksim | GM | RUS | 2531 | 6.5 | 50.0 | 33.5 | 2603 |
| 4 | Schoppen, Casper | NED | 2337 | 6.5 | 49.0 | 35.5 | 2572 | |
| 5 | Ernst, Sipke | GM | NED | 2554 | 6.5 | 42.0 | 30.0 | 2502 |
| 6 | Krasenkow, Michal | GM | POL | 2626 | 6.5 | 38.5 | 27.25 | 2478 |
| 7 | Ulybin, Mikhail | GM | RUS | 2483 | 6.0 | 49.0 | 29.5 | 2512 |
| 8 | Liu, Guanchu | IM | CHN | 2418 | 6.0 | 47.0 | 28.5 | 2514 |
| 9 | Gleizerov, Evgeny | GM | RUS | 2518 | 6.0 | 46.0 | 29.0 | 2541 |
| 10 | Ten Hertog, Hugo | IM | NED | 2453 | 6.0 | 43.0 | 26.25 | 2437 |
| 11 | Van Foreest, Lucas | NED | 2395 | 5.5 | 51.0 | 27.75 | 2458 | |
| 12 | Gao, Rui | GM | CHN | 2551 | 5.5 | 48.0 | 26.25 | 2486 |
| 13 | Deepan Chakkravarthy J. | GM | IND | 2471 | 5.5 | 45.5 | 26.0 | 2394 |
| 14 | Karthikeyan, P. | IM | IND | 2474 | 5.5 | 45.5 | 25.75 | 2446 |
| 15 | Ypma, Peter | NED | 2260 | 5.5 | 45.5 | 25.0 | 2467 | |
| 16 | Maatman, Nick | FM | NED | 2319 | 5.5 | 45.0 | 27.0 | 2497 |
| 17 | Werle, Jan | GM | NED | 2560 | 5.5 | 44.5 | 26.25 | 2437 |
| 18 | Warmerdam, Max | FM | NED | 2347 | 5.5 | 44.0 | 24.5 | 2436 |
| 19 | Xiang, Zeyu | CHN | 2310 | 5.0 | 48.5 | 26.75 | 2481 | |
| 20 | Anwesh, Upadhyaya | IM | IND | 2386 | 5.0 | 48.5 | 24.75 | 2433 |
| 21 | Zwirs, Nico | NED | 2388 | 5.0 | 47.5 | 23.75 | 2417 | |
| 22 | Chu, Wei Chao | IM | CHN | 2281 | 5.0 | 43.0 | 22.5 | 2391 |
| 23 | Aradhya, Garg | IND | 2231 | 5.0 | 42.0 | 21.25 | 2354 | |
| 24 | Soumya, Swaminathan | WGM | IND | 2384 | 5.0 | 39.5 | 19.25 | 2321 |
| 25 | Bao, Qilin | CHN | 2331 | 5.0 | 39.0 | 16.25 | 2300 | |
| 26 | Vrolijk, Liam | FM | NED | 2332 | 5.0 | 37.5 | 17.75 | 2278 |
| 27 | Kuipers, Stefan | IM | NED | 2408 | 5.0 | 36.0 | 18.75 | 2288 |
| 28 | Chu, Ruotong | CHN | 2106 | 4.5 | 46.5 | 23.25 | 2387 | |
| 29 | De Jong, Migchiel | IM | NED | 2331 | 4.5 | 42.5 | 19.25 | 2264 |
| 30 | Lai, Hing Ting | FM | NED | 2409 | 4.5 | 42.5 | 18.0 | 2285 |
| 31 | Brink, Barry | FM | NED | 2299 | 4.5 | 41.0 | 17.75 | 2344 |
| 32 | Popov, Mikhail | FM | RUS | 2369 | 4.5 | 40.5 | 14.25 | 2300 |
| 33 | Gedajlovic, Max | FM | CAN | 2338 | 4.5 | 39.5 | 16.5 | 2246 |
| 34 | Hopman, Pieter | FM | NED | 2345 | 4.5 | 38.5 | 14.75 | 2261 |
| 35 | Vos, Tjark | AHO | 2183 | 4.5 | 32.5 | 13.5 | 2221 | |
| 36 | Colijn, Stefan | FM | NED | 2330 | 4.0 | 45.5 | 16.0 | 2257 |
| 37 | Wacker, Peter | FM | GER | 2306 | 4.0 | 44.5 | 17.25 | 2399 |
| 38 | Schippers, Maurice | NED | 2288 | 4.0 | 44.0 | 16.5 | 2326 | |
| 39 | Gomes, Mary Ann | WGM | IND | 2302 | 4.0 | 44.0 | 16.5 | 2269 |
| 40 | Gerlagh, Joris | NED | 2269 | 4.0 | 38.5 | 15.25 | 2287 | |
| 41 | Sparenberg, Erik | NED | 2119 | 4.0 | 38.0 | 12.25 | 2266 | |
| 42 | Nandhidhaa, PV | WIM | IND | 2251 | 4.0 | 37.5 | 15.5 | 2290 |
| 43 | Van Delft, Merijn | IM | NED | 2376 | 4.0 | 35.5 | 13.25 | 2135 |
| 44 | Rakotomaharo, Fy Antenaina | FM | MAD | 2446 | 4.0 | 33.5 | 13.75 | 2178 |
| 45 | Elgersma, Simon | NED | 2070 | 4.0 | 27.0 | 10.0 | 2129 | |
| 46 | Maris, Ivo | FM | NED | 2345 | 3.5 | 40.0 | 13.5 | 2215 |
| 47 | Van Meegen, Ruud | NED | 2183 | 3.5 | 40.0 | 12.25 | 2283 | |
| 48 | De Boer, Eelke | NED | 2027 | 3.5 | 36.0 | 13.0 | 2155 | |
| 49 | Swayams, Mishra | IM | IND | 2473 | 3.5 | 35.0 | 11.0 | 2105 |
| 50 | Simonsen, Hans Kristian | FM | FAI | 2172 | 3.5 | 35.0 | 10.25 | 2164 |
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