Four-way tie in Bad Wiessee
10 November 2009, 10.42 CET | Last modified: 17:29 | By Peter Doggers | Filed under: Reports | Tags:
This year’s Bavaria Championship in Bad Wiessee ended in a four-way tie between Viorel Iordachescu, Vitaly Kunin, Abhijeet Gupta and Gerald Hertneck. The four grandmasters ended on 7.5; Iordachescu had the best tiebreak.
In the photo we see GMs Gupta, Kunin and Iordachescu with their trophies
The 13th Open Bavaria Chess Championship took place October 31-November 8 in Bad Wiessee, Germany, about 50 km south of Munich. It was a 9-round Swiss with a time control of 40 moves in 90 minutes followed by 30 minutes + 30 seconds per move to finish the game.
Viorel Iordachescu: 1st on tiebreak
This year’s top seeds were Igor Khenkin (2613), Viorel Iordachescu (2607) and Eduardas Rozentalis (2603). Only Iordachescu indeed managed to finish on first place; after starting with 5 out of 5 he finished with 2.5/4, which was just enough.
It almost when wrong when Iordachescu lost to Gupta in the penultimate round, but all is well that ends well: a nice win against Krivoborodov in the last round. The Moldavian grandmaster shared the total of € 7,000 (the sum of 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th prize) with GMs Vitaly Kunin, Abhijeet Gupta and Gerald Hertneck.
Below you can find a number of games from rounds 6-9. Earlier games can be replayed in our previous report.
Selection of games rounds 6-9
Game viewer by ChessTempo
Photos courtesy of the tournament website
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The games are in fact from the rounds 1-5, not from the rounds 6-9.
Oops sorry, corrected.
On the official site it says that four players scored an IM-norm – does somebody know the names?