European Hybrid Swiss tiebreak took place yesterday as a 9 rounds Swiss tournament, deciding the distribution of 32.000 EUR prize pool.
36 qualifiers for the FIDE World Cup 2021 participated the Finals. After 9 played rounds, two players tied for the top scoring 6.5 points each: Vladislav Artemiev (RUS, 2709) and Aleksandar Indjic (SRB, 2607).
Additional tiebreak criteria decided that European Chess Champion 2019 – Vladislav Artemiev – takes the 1st prize, while Indjic came second.
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Pavel Ponkratov (RUS, 2624) earned the third prize as he had better additional criteria than Haik Martirosyan (ARM, 2637). Both players scored 6 points to tie for the third place.
Final standings:
Rk.
Name
FED
Rtg
Pts.
1
GM
Artemiev Vladislav
RUS
2709
6.5
2
GM
Indjic Aleksandar
SRB
2607
6.5
3
GM
Ponkratov Pavel
RUS
2624
6
4
GM
Martirosyan Haik M.
ARM
2637
6
5
GM
Esipenko Andrey
RUS
2701
5.5
6
GM
Matlakov Maxim
RUS
2688
5.5
7
GM
Fedoseev Vladimir
RUS
2687
5.5
8
GM
Tomashevsky Evgeny
RUS
2706
5.5
9
GM
Kozak Adam
HUN
2518
5.5
10
GM
Jobava Baadur
GEO
2603
5
11
GM
Alekseev Evgeny
RUS
2617
5
12
GM
Deac Bogdan-Daniel
ROU
2627
5
13
GM
Nguyen Thai Dai Van
CZE
2577
5
14
GM
Sargsyan Shant
ARM
2618
5
15
GM
Oparin Grigoriy
RUS
2652
5
16
GM
Predke Alexandr
RUS
2690
5
17
GM
Motylev Alexander
RUS
2641
5
18
GM
Brkic Ante
CRO
2592
5
19
GM
Sjugirov Sanan
RUS
2663
4.5
20
GM
Ivanisevic Ivan
SRB
2606
4.5
21
GM
Svane Rasmus
GER
2615
4.5
22
GM
Zvjaginsev Vadim
RUS
2614
4.5
GM
Savchenko Boris
RUS
2538
4.5
24
GM
Gabuzyan Hovhannes
ARM
2590
4
25
GM
Yilmaz Mustafa
TUR
2630
3.5
26
GM
Lupulescu Constantin
ROU
2656
3.5
27
IM
Teclaf Pawel
POL
2502
3.5
28
GM
Cheparinov Ivan
BUL
2667
3.5
29
GM
Krasenkow Michal
POL
2597
3.5
30
GM
Can Emre
TUR
2569
3.5
31
GM
Anton Guijarro David
ESP
2673
3.5
32
GM
Martinovic Sasa
CRO
2548
3.5
33
GM
Laznicka Viktor
CZE
2647
2.5
34
GM
Afanasiev Nikita
RUS
2522
2.5
35
GM
Braun Arik
GER
2609
2.5
36
GM
Paichadze Luka
GEO
2565
2.5
In accordance with the ECU Board decision made in February, ECU announced names of 10 additional qualifiers for the FIDE World Cup 2021.
During the final day of the Hybrid Qualification Tournament, ECU Live studio with WGM Keti Tsatsalashvili and GM Marcin Tazbir hosted special guests.
Reelected President of the Icelandic Chess Federation and ECU Deputy President Mr. Gunnar Bjornsson joined the studio and spoke about the details and preparations for the upcoming European Chess Championship 2021 in Reykjavik. The invitation will be published this week.
Shortly after, FIDE General Director Mr. Emil Sutovsky joined the live studio of the European Hybrid Qualification ChessTournament giving valuable information for the World Cup qualifiers.
European Qualification Tournament is over and European Chess Union is thankful to the Arbiters team led by Takis Nikolopoulos.
“Besides the central Panel Arbiters and ECU Arbiter Council , who actively participated in the preparations, a total of 82 Arbiters achieved a special condition event with 0 Appeals and no cheating case to be reported. We would like to sincerely thank the Arbiters team, Tornelo Team, the Broadcasting team and ECU officers and National Chess Federations who supported daily the competition.
A total team of 100 persons made the European Hybrid Qualification Tournament possible.”
European Hybrid Qualification Tournament details:
European Hybrid Qualification Chess Tournament 2021 – information and participants / European Hybrid Qualification Chess Tournament 2021 – pairings / European Hybrid Qualification Chess Tournament – Photo gallery of the venues / 36 European players qualified for FIDE World Chess Cup 2021 / Fair play at its best #TweetOftheDay / European Hybrid Qualification Tournament with Over-the-Board games /