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GM Nils Grandelius clinches the national title after a playoff match |
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Monday, 20 July 2015 19:51 |
 The 2015 Swedish Grandmaster Championship was held from July 11-19, at the Selma Spa Hotel****, in Sunne, Sweden.
The event was a 10-player invitational round-robin tournament with an average Elo rating 2509.
For the third time in the last four years, a playoff was needed to decide the Swedish champion and the second time was Nils Grandelius involved. Last time, in 2013, he lost against Hans Tikkanen in a duel that went all the way to the final Armageddon.
“I’m a different player now and it did not feel like I had any advantage of having played a playoff in the Swedish GM championship earlier. But understandably it hurts not to have done it before. And it could probably be good training for the future to play a playoff in a tight situation. Many champions are determined this way nowadays”, Grandelius says.
Berg had to win the game and chose the sharp King’s Gambit Variation. After a complicated game he managed to secure the victory and take it all the way to playoff. However, the top Swedish player prevailed to clinch the title for the first time.
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Final standings:
1 GM Nils Grandelius Eksjö SK 2623 - 6.5
2 GM Emanuel Berg SK Team Viking 2553 - 6.5
3 GM Erik Blomqvist SK Rockaden, Sthlm 2487 - 5.5
4 IM Axel Smith Lunds ASK 2449 - 4.5
5 GM Jonny Hector Limhamns SK 2485 - 4.5
6 GM Pia Cramling SK Team Viking 2512 - 4.5
7 GM Hans Tikkanen Lunds ASK 2529 - 4.0
8 GM Daniel Semcesen Lunds ASK 2437 - 4.0
9 GM Tiger Hillarp Persson Lunds ASK 2563 - 3.0
10 GM Pontus Carlsson Eksjö SK 2451 - 2.0
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