Rainer Buhmann wins Winterthur Open

by ChessBase
10/14/2007 – The 7th Winterthur Chess Week 2007 took place from Thursday, October 5th until Saturday, October 13th 2007 in Winterthur, Switzerland. The main event, an Open, was a nine-round Swiss, FIDE-rules, 40 moves in 2 hours and 1 hour for the rest of the game. The prize fund was CHF 11,500, with the winner getting CHF 2,500. On the side players enjoyed chess variants.
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7th Winterthur Chess Week 2007

For much of the tournament the youngest GM Fabiano Caruana (ring a bell?) was in the lead. However the 15-year-old lost two white games towards the end of the tournament and had to make do with fourth place. The winner was German GM Rainer Buhmann, who defeated Caruana with black in the final round.


The winner: GM Rainer Buhmann (Germany)


Fourth place: GM Fabiano Caruana (Italy)

Final standings (top ten)

No Name Title Elo Residence Country
W
D
L
Points
Buchh.
Prize
1. Buhmann, Rainer GM 2567 Hockenheim GER
6
3
0
7.5
48.0
2,500
2. Malakhatko, Vadim GM 2603 Oostende BEL
7
1
1
7.5
47.0
1,800
3. Jenni, Florian GM 2511 Zürich SUI
6
2
1
7.0
48.5
1,200
4. Caruana, Fabiano GM 2594 Budapest ITA
6
1
2
6.5
52.5
800
5. Galyas, Miklos IM 2433 Budapest HUN
6
1
2
6.5
47.5
700
6. Filipovic, Branko IM 2422 Basel CRO
5
3
1
6.5
45.5
600
6. Zozulia, Anna WGM 2347 Oostende BEL
5
3
1
6.5
45.5
500
8. Mede, Istvan   2233 Paszto HUN
5
3
1
6.5
45.0
450
9. Eschmann, Patrick   2191 Adliswil SUI
6
1
2
6.5
43.0
400
10 Känel, Hansjürg IM 2388 Ostermundigen SUI
4
5
0
6.5
42.5
350


The Open under way, with Goreskul-Remensberger on board 18


WGM Alyona Goreskul (Ukraine)


Emanuel Schiendorfer (SUI) vs GM Florian Jenni (SUI)


A bird's eyeview of the Open in Winterthur


Young players trying their hand with chess variants


Rolf Benz of the organising committee und Genaro Garcia play a chess variant
developed by Winterthurer artist Martin Schwarz


A simul by FM Oliver Kurmann (here against Winterthurer Junior
Gabriel Gaehwiler) in a Martin Schwarz chess variant

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