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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
| Pl | Name | Rtng | Score | Opp-Ø | Performance |
| 1 | GM Eduardas Rozentalis | 2616 | 7.0 | 2366 | 2629 (+3.30) |
| 2 | GM Simen Agdestein | 2555 | 6.5 | 2451 | 2639 (+10.90) |
| 3 | GM Sergey Volkov | 2593 | 6.5 | 2442 | 2635 (+6.00) |
| 4 | IM Timofey Galinsky | 2416 | 6.5 | 2408 | 2596 (+22.90) |
| 5 | GM Maxim Turov | 2599 | 6.5 | 2322 | 2559 (-1.70) |
| 6 | IM Frode Elsness | 2483 | 6.5 | 2309 | 2502 (+4.60) |
| 7 | Aryan Tari | 2293 | 6.0 | 2443 | 2585 (+51.00) |
| 8 | GM Normunds Miezis | 2552 | 6.0 | 2345 | 2494 (-5.00) |
| 9 | GM Nikolai Ninov | 2508 | 6.0 | 2341 | 2492 (-0.30) |
| 10 | GM Aloyzas Kveinys | 2528 | 6.0 | 2304 | 2457 (-6.20) |
| 10 | GM Leif E Johannessen | 2521 | 6.0 | 2304 | 2468 (-4.60) |
| 12 | IM Frode Olav Olsen Urkedal | 2470 | 6.0 | 2249 | 2339 (-10.70) |
| 13 | Gudmund Stenersen | 2219 | 6.0 | 2178 | 2337 (+20.40) |
| 14 | GM Sinisa Drazic | 2459 | 5.5 | 2392 | 2501 (+7.20) |
| 15 | IM Andreas G.R. Moen | 2390 | 5.5 | 2353 | 2454 (+14.55) |
| 16 | GM Jon Ludvig Hammer | 2629 | 5.5 | 2312 | 2448 (-17.60) |
| 17 | IM Torbjørn Ringdal Hansen | 2463 | 5.5 | 2301 | 2409 (-3.60) |
| 18 | IM Nicolai Getz | 2352 | 5.5 | 2286 | 2386 (+9.60) |
| 19 | IM Espen Lie | 2471 | 5.5 | 2210 | 2322 (-13.80) |
| 20 | IM Petter Haugli | 2293 | 5.5 | 2194 | 2312 (+6.45) |
| 21 | FM Bjørnar Byklum | 2296 | 5.5 | 2151 | 2269 (-1.35) |
| 22 | WGM Olga Dolzhikova | 2270 | 5.5 | 2143 | 2240 (-1.80) |
| 23 | FM Kristian Stuvik Holm | 2310 | 5.5 | 1929 | 2092 (-30.90) |
