8/2/2013 – With four players finishing equal in the Biel GM tournament, tiebreaks were required. The semi-finals blitz games were won by Alexander Moiseenko and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, who knocked out Etienne Bacrot and Ding Liren respectively. In the rapid chess final Vachier-Lagrave won the first game and drew the second to take the title. Final report with an interview with the winner.
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GM
Tournament in memoriam Olivier Breisacher
The GM tournament this year was in memory of Olivier
Breisacher, who for more than 15 years looked after the organisation,
reporting and external communications around the grandmasters tournament
in Biel. The tournament was a ten-round double round robin, played from
July 22nd to August 1st.
Playoffs
In Biel the games were scored at three points for a win, one for a draw
and zero for a loss. According to this "soccer" system, which
is official in this tournament, the standings are:
Since four players finished with the same number of points, there had
to be tiebreaks, beginning with blitz semi-finals (two games with 5’+2’).
Here is what happened:
02.08.2013 12:00: Tiebreak semi-finals
Alexander Moiseenko
-
Etienne Bacrot
1-0
Etienne Bacrot
-
Alexander Moiseenko
0-1
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
-
Ding Liren
1-0
Ding Liren
-
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
0-1
Etienne Bacrot lost both of his blitz games
in the semi-finals...
... as did Chinese GM Ding Liren
After this the two winners played in the final, which consisted of two
rapid games – 15 minutes for all moves, with a 10 second increment
per move (with tiebreak blitz and Armageddon to follow if necessary).
02.08.2013 12:00: Tiebreak final
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
-
Alexander Moiseenko
1-0
Alexander Moiseenko
-
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
½-½
Ukrainian GM Alexander Moiseenko in the first
rapid game of the final against ...
... GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave of France
Moiseenko loses the first game and draws the
second, which means that ...
French GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave is the winner
of Biel 2013
The three winners: Moiseenko (second), Vachier-Lagrave
(first) and Bacrot (third)
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Interview with the winner of the 2013 Biel
GMT - Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Thanks
We thank the organiser in Biel and the
sponsors of the event for the close and friendly cooperation with ChessBase,
which enabled us to provide extraordinary coverage and test new techniques.
We also thank GM Daniel King and Pascal Simon whose three to five minute
video summaries gave us a feel for what had happened in each round of the
Biel GM tournament. We look forward to continued partnership with the organisation
in the coming years.
The games were broadcast live on the official web site and on the
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