GM Norm at thirteen – Aryan Tari with 6.0/9
GM Eduardas Rozentalis of Lithuania won the Open Norwegian Championship
in Fagernes, but 13-year-old Norwegian Aryan Tari, currently rated 2297,
was name of the day when he secured his first grandmaster norm. And it all
happened on the same Sunday when Magnus Carlsen gained his most important
win of the Candidates tournament in London, in the penultimate round against
Radjabov.
Aryan Tari completing his GM norm against GM
Nikolai Ninov of Bulgaria in the final round.
Young Aryan Tari, whose parents are from Iran, is clearly a Norwegian chess
hope for the future. His GM norm came surprisingly early, as he is not even
and FM yet. Among his countrymen only Magnus Carlsen has achieved GM norms
at the age of 13. Tari faced five GMs and three IMs in Fagernes, defeating
GMs Misa Pap of Serbia and Norway's second seed Jon Ludvig Hammer, while
only losing to Maxim Turov of Russia.
Winners Sergey Volkov, third, Eduardas Rozentalis,
first and Simen Agdestein, 2nd place
The veteran Norwegian top player Simen Agdestein (45) performed strongly
in a sort of come-back tournament in Fagernes. He only lost the final battle
against Eduardas Rozentalis, when a draw would have secured him a clear
victory ahead of ten GM colleagues. For next year's chess olympiad host
Norway it is good news that Simen Agdestein is seriously running for the
team again.
IM Timofey Galinsky of Ukraine (above) gained his second GM norm of the
tournament, through his last round victory over top seed GM Jon Ludvig Hammer,
who didn't have his best tournament.
IM Eirik Gullaksen of Bergen, editor of the
excellent club webpage
Aryan, who picks up 51 rating points with his
result in Fagernes,
has been selected on one of Norway’s three teams in the 2014 Chess
Olympiad in Tromsø
The Open Norwegian Championship consisted of three groups with a total
of 130 participants, and was a main event of the third Norwegian Chess Festival
in the beautiful holiday resort Fagernes, which is is approximately three
hours northwest of Oslo.
Fagernes – an important destination for
tourism in Norway (photo by John Erling Blad)
Information and pictures supplied by Øystein Brekke,
organizer of the Norwegian Chess Festival in Fagernes
Top final standings
