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St. Stephen's Cathedral
Markus Ragger is Austria's number one and of course he wants to play well in Austria's capital Vienna. And in the first seven rounds of the Vienna Open he fully lived up to his role of rating favorite. Except for a short and pragmatic draw in round six against Rainer Buhmann Ragger won all his games, showing a mix of good preparation, smooth positional play and fine tactical skills.
Second seed Rainer Buhmann almost stumbled in round three against the much-lower rated Tobias Vöge but then found his stride and after seven rounds shares places two to eight. In round five he won a nice attacking game with Black.
11-year old Vincent Keymer from Germany, whose talent even impressed Garry Kasparov, also has 6.0/7 and is half-a-point behind Ragger.
Vincent Keymer during a training session with Garry Kasparov
In round seven Keymer won with Black against GM Keith Arkell from England who missed a big chance to decide the game in his favor.
| Rank | Snr | Name | Country | Elo | Pts. | TB | Rp | ||
| 1 | 1 |
|
GM | Ragger Markus | AUT | 2686 | 6,5 | 24,5 | 2819 |
| 2 | 14 |
|
IM | Rathnakaran Kantholi | IND | 2452 | 6,0 | 24,5 | 2623 |
| 3 | 5 |
|
GM | Shengelia David | AUT | 2572 | 6,0 | 23,5 | 2641 |
| 4 | 2 |
|
GM | Buhmann Rainer | GER | 2641 | 6,0 | 23,5 | 2665 |
| 5 | 16 |
|
IM | Schreiner Peter | AUT | 2445 | 6,0 | 23,0 | 2631 |
| 6 | 19 |
|
IM | Vetoshko Volodymyr | UKR | 2438 | 6,0 | 22,5 | 2602 |
| 7 | 27 |
|
IM | Koop Thorben | GER | 2412 | 6,0 | 22,0 | 2569 |
| 8 | 38 |
|
Keymer Vincent | GER | 2348 | 6,0 | 21,5 | 2563 | |
| 9 | 4 |
|
GM | Vorobiov Evgeny | RUS | 2586 | 5,5 | 25,5 | 2546 |
| 10 | 10 |
|
GM | Hertneck Gerald | GER | 2469 | 5,5 | 23,0 | 2546 |
| 11 | 20 |
|
IM | Gajek Radoslaw | POL | 2434 | 5,5 | 22,5 | 2496 |
| 12 | 6 |
|
GM | Burmakin Vladimir | RUS | 2553 | 5,5 | 22,5 | 2528 |
| 13 | 7 |
|
IM | Ponizil Cyril | CZE | 2510 | 5,5 | 22,5 | 2519 |
| 14 | 28 |
|
IM | Nitin Senthilvel | IND | 2398 | 5,5 | 22,0 | 2502 |
| 15 | 9 |
|
IM | Leenhouts Koen | NED | 2491 | 5,5 | 20,0 | 2460 |
| 16 | 3 |
|
GM | Mastrovasilis Dimitrios | GRE | 2603 | 5,0 | 26,0 | 2534 |
| 17 | 15 |
|
IM | Fröwis Georg | AUT | 2449 | 5,0 | 25,0 | 2509 |
| 18 | 17 |
|
GM | Williams Simon | ENG | 2443 | 5,0 | 24,5 | 2434 |
| 19 | 33 |
|
IM | Pirrot Dieter | GER | 2367 | 5,0 | 23,5 | 2460 |
| 20 | 26 |
|
IM | Kilgus Georg | AUT | 2413 | 5,0 | 23,5 | 2472 |
| 21 | 23 |
|
IM | Baldauf Marco | GER | 2423 | 5,0 | 23,0 | 2431 |
| 22 | 11 |
|
GM | Arkell Keith | ENG | 2464 | 5,0 | 23,0 | 2432 |
| 23 | 24 |
|
FM | Carow Johannes | GER | 2423 | 5,0 | 23,0 | 2371 |
| 24 | 35 |
|
FM | Kokol Peter | SLO | 2360 | 5,0 | 22,0 | 2414 |
| 25 | 36 |
|
WGM | Foisor Cristina | ROU | 2351 | 5,0 | 21,5 | 2420 |
| 26 | 21 |
|
IM | Fauland Alexander | AUT | 2431 | 5,0 | 21,5 | 2323 |
| 27 | 25 |
|
Yankelevich Lev | GER | 2414 | 5,0 | 21,0 | 2447 | |
| 28 | 71 |
|
Dedebas Emre Emin | TUR | 2248 | 5,0 | 21,0 | 2439 | |
| 29 | 8 |
|
GM | Manolache Marius | ROU | 2492 | 5,0 | 21,0 | 2403 |
| 30 | 84 |
|
FM | Sadilek Peter | AUT | 2201 | 5,0 | 20,5 | 2359 |
| 31 | 74 |
|
IM | Praveen Kumar Chandrasekar | IND | 2242 | 5,0 | 20,5 | 2412 |
| 32 | 87 |
|
WFM | Exler Veronika | AUT | 2194 | 5,0 | 20,0 | 2389 |
| 33 | 13 |
|
GM | Stanec Nikolaus | AUT | 2457 | 5,0 | 19,5 | 2361 |
| 34 | 51 |
|
FM | Formento Paolo | ITA | 2298 | 5,0 | 19,5 | 2343 |
| 35 | 65 |
|
FM | Gstach Jakob | AUT | 2267 | 5,0 | 19,5 | 2290 |
| 36 | 47 |
|
CM | Lewicki Miroslaw | POL | 2319 | 5,0 | 19,5 | 2355 |
| 37 | 64 |
|
NM | Ivanov Mike | CAN | 2269 | 5,0 | 19,0 | 2291 |
| 38 | 49 |
|
FM | Bisby Daniel | ENG | 2311 | 5,0 | 19,0 | 2301 |
| 39 | 53 |
|
Mertens Heiko | GER | 2297 | 5,0 | 18,5 | 2333 | |
| 40 | 34 |
|
FM | Dauth Benjamin | GER | 2367 | 5,0 | 18,5 | 2251 |
| 41 | 62 |
|
FM | Santagati Alessandro | ITA | 2271 | 5,0 | 18,0 | 2268 |
| 42 | 104 |
|
Pisu Robert-Daniel | ROU | 2165 | 4,5 | 24,0 | 2379 |
...310 players
Source: chess-results.com
Photos: Tournament page
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