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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
