GM Andrey Vovk wins TV2 Chess International 2015 |
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Monday, 04 January 2016 13:48 |
The TV2 Chess International Fagernes 2015 took place from December 27th, 2015, through January 3rd, 2016, at Quality Hotel & Resort Fagernes, a large hotel and congress center, situated in the small Norwegian town of Fagernes.
The GM Group was a 9-round Swiss FIDE tournament, open to all players with official FIDE titles – GM, WGM, IM, WIM, FM or WFM.
Ukrainian GM Andrey Vovk emerged a solo winner with 6.5/9 points and grabbed the top prize in the amount of 1,500 EUR, leaving the nearest followers half a point behind.
The second place was shared in a four-way tie by Czech player GM Igors Rausis, GM Yuri Vovk from Ukraine, GM Evgeny Postny from Israel and GM Peter Prohaszka from Hungary, after the whole group finished the event with 6 points.
http://tv2chess2015.blogspot.no/p/information.html
Final standings:
1 GM Andrey Vovk 2617 UKR 6,5 2 GM Igors Rausis 2600 CZE 6,0 3 GM Yuri Vovk 2626 UKR 6,0 4 GM Evgeny Postny 2670 ISR 6,0 5 GM Peter Prohaszka 2607 HUN 6,0 6 GM Milos Pavlovic 2496 SRB 5,5 7 GM Matthew J Turner 2493 SCO 5,5 8 GM Torbjørn R. Hansen 2475 NOR 5,0 9 IM Frode Olav Olsen Urkedal NOR 2469 5,0 10 GM Gergely Antal 2565 HUN 5,0 11 IM Nicolai Getz 2383 NOR 5,0 12 FM Sebastian Mihajlov NOR 2340 NOR 5,0 13 Sondre Merkesvik 2167 NOR 4,0 14 Lucas Ranaldi 2000 NOR 3,5 15 Daniel Nordquelle 1978 NOR 2,5 16 Edit Machlik 2036 NOR 2,0 17 Tor Fredrik Kaasen 2122 NOR 1,5 18 WGM Anastasia Gutsko 2177 UKR 1,0
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