Cappelle-la-Grande Open
The tournament was organised by the “Echiquier Cappellois” chess
club and took place at the Complexe sportif Roger Gouvart at Cappelle-la-Grande.
It was a nine-round open that went from Saturday, February 12th to Saturday,
February 19, with 590 players from 52 different countries making the trip to
this town, located near Dunkerque at the northernmost tip of France.
After leading the event for a long stretch GM Amir Bagheri of Iran dropped
into second tier, behind IM David Shengelia of Georgia and GM Michail Brodsky
of Ukraine, who won the Cappelle-la-Grande Open with 7.5 points in nine rounds.
First place for IM David Shengelia, Georgia
Co-winner GM Michail Brodsky, Ukraine
Place 11 and a male GM norm for Monika Socko of Poland
IM Mikhailo Oleksienko of the Ukraine also made a GM norm
Monika Socko with Jean-Claude Moingt, the new president of French Chess
Federation
A simul by GM Amir Bagheri before the prize-giving ceremony
The following players made GM norms: IM David Shengelia (GEO), IM Mikhailo
Oleksienko (UKR), IM Piotr Bobras (POL), IM Daniel Gormally (ENG), IM Pawel
Czarnota (POL), IM Yuriy Kryvoruchko (UKR), IM Alexander Raetsky (RUS) and
IM Monika Socko (POL).
The top results (six points and higher)
1 IM Shengelia David GEO 2482 7.5 2707
2 GM Brodsky Michail UKR 2515 7.5 2685
3 GM Bagheri Amir IRI 2500 7 2697
4 IM Gormally Daniel ENG 2472 7 2671
5 IM Oleksienko Mikhailo UKR 2469 7 2648
6 GM Hebden Mark ENG 2521 7 2635
7 IM Czarnota Pawel POL 2432 6.5 2637
8 GM Kveinys Aloyzas LTU 2518 6.5 2626
9 GM Delchev Aleksander BUL 2597 6.5 2624
10 GM Burmakin Vladimir RUS 2554 6.5 2614
11 IM Bobras Piotr POL 2481 6.5 2613
12 IM Socko Monika POL 2441 6.5 2610
13 GM Baklan Vladimir UKR 2578 6.5 2605
14 GM Spraggett Kevin CAN 2589 6.5 2603
15 GM Stefansson Hannes ISL 2561 6.5 2603
16 GM Shneider Aleksandr UKR 2528 6.5 2597
17 IM Kryvoruchko Yuriy UKR 2474 6.5 2594
18 GM Vysochin Spartak UKR 2579 6.5 2594
19 IM Raetsky Alexander RUS 2459 6.5 2590
20 GM Jaracz Pawel POL 2532 6.5 2584
21 GM Palac Mladen CRO 2575 6.5 2578
22 GM Socko Bartosz POL 2591 6.5 2567
23 IM Predojevic Borki BIH 2546 6.5 2563
24 GM Fridman Daniel LAT 2569 6.5 2561
25 IM Milanovic Danilo SCG 2447 6.5 2560
26 GM Vuckovic Bojan SCG 2525 6.5 2553
27 IM Szelag Marcin POL 2474 6.5 2546
28 IM Williams Simon Kim ENG 2487 6.5 2543
29 GM Svetushkin Dmitry MDA 2530 6.5 2540
30 GM Landa Konstantin RUS 2574 6.5 2539
31 IM Palo Davor DEN 2541 6.5 2535
32 IM Gouliev Namig AZE 2514 6.5 2534
33 GM Kovchan Alexander UKR 2485 6.5 2512
34 GM Timoshenko Georgy UKR 2546 6.5 2510
35 IM Vovk Yuri UKR 2420 6.5 2510
36 FM Riff Jean-Noel MULH 2435 6.5 2464
37 GM De La Paz Frank CUB 2466 6 2581
38 GM Cyborowski Lukasz POL 2564 6 2569
39 GM Kazhgaleyev Murtas KAZ 2613 6 2563
40 GM Klovans Janis LAT 2477 6 2555
41 GM Zhang Pengxiang CHN 2560 6 2554
42 GM Yevseev Denis RUS 2550 6 2552
43 IM Heberla Bartlomiej POL 2438 6 2551
44 GM Kruppa Yuri UKR 2553 6 2533
45 GM Anka Emil HUN 2437 6 2518
46 FM Kuzmicz Krystian POL 2375 6 2504
47 GM Rozentalis Eduardas LTU 2584 6 2501
48 IM Dziuba Marcin POL 2416 6 2498
49 IM Shaw John SCO 2445 6 2498
50 IM Gharamian Tigran LILL 2420 6 2487
51 IM Zimmerman Yuri RUS 2363 6 2487
52 IM Seret Jean-Luc GIFY 2359 6 2486
53 IM Siebrecht Sebastian GER 2408 6 2485
54 IM Kasparov Sergey BLR 2464 6 2482
55 GM Magomedov Magaram RUS 2575 6 2480
56 IM Wang Rui CHN 2478 6 2472
57 GM Zelcic Robert CRO 2514 6 2467
58 IM Delemarre Jop NED 2427 6 2442
59 GM Thorhallsson Throstur ISL 2455 6 2442
60 IM Abergel Thal EVRY 2443 6 2439
61 IM Skatchkov Pavel RUS 2483 6 2434
62 GM Perunovic Milos SCG 2564 6 2428
63 FM Moranda Wojciech POL 2451 6 2413
64 FM Draoui Najib MAR 2377 6 2412
65 GM Yemelin Vasily RUS 2555 6 2407
66 GM Muzychuk Anna SLO 2387 6 2402
67 CF Denayer Eric BEL 2189 6 2375
68 IM Likavsky Tomas SVK 2465 6 2375
69 GM Pogorelov Ruslan UKR 2472 6 2348
