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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)
| 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
