Vugar Gashimov wins Cappelle la Grande

Just like last year 7 out of 9, just like then shared first, but this time Vugar Gashimov was declared the winner of the 24th open tournament of Cappelle la Grande, on tiebreak .

Before the last round, Arutinian, Kryvoruchko, Chernysov and Kotronias were leading. These players drew their games on the top boards, and Gashimov, as one of the followers, won his last game. You can replay it here, with his funny game from round 5:

And so Gashimov joined the leaders in the final standings, and so did Fedorchuk, Deviatkin and l’Ami.

As always, many norms were scored in Cappelle la Grande: four GM norms (Kravtsiv, Salgado Lopez, Papp & Deviatkin), seven IM norms (Gosset, Nabaty, Grandelius, Hrabinska, Melia, Bijaoui & Rasmussen), one WGM norm (Hoolt) and two WIM norms (Hoolt and Schuurman).

Cappelle la Grande 2008 | Final standings (top 30)

Place	Title	Name	Surname	Country	Elo	Points	Perf
1	GM	GASHIMOV	Vugar	AZE	2665	7.0	2741
2	GM	ARUTINIAN	David	GEO	2576	7.0	2736
3	GM	FEDORCHUK	Sergey	UKR	2652	7.0	2735
4	GM	KRYVORUCHKO	Yuriy	UKR	2597	7.0	2735
5	GM	CHERNYSHOV	Konstantin	RUS	2543	7.0	2722
6	IM	DEVIATKIN	Andrei	RUS	2543	7.0	2712
7	GM	KOTRONIAS	Vasilios	GRE	2628	7.0	2651
8	GM	L'AMI	Erwin	NED	2581	7.0	2637
9	GM	MOISEENKO	Alexander	UKR	2643	6.5	2665
10	GM	VITIUGOV	Nikita	RUS	2609	6.5	2664
11	GM	KAZHGALEYEV	Murtas	KAZ	2594	6.5	2662
12	GM	MALAKHATKO	Vadim	BEL	2600	6.5	2653
13	GM	PETROSIAN	Tigran l	ARM	2606	6.5	2653
14	GM	MIROSHNICHENKO	Evgenij	UKR	2647	6.5	2645
15	IM	KRAVTSIV	Martyn	UKR	2516	6.5	2642
16	GM	LUTHER	Thomas	GER	2526	6.5	2632
17	GM	GULKO	Boris f	USA	2550	6.5	2622
18	GM	KANEP	Meelis	EST	2523	6.5	2614
19	IM	PAPP	Gabor	HUN	2484	6.5	2611
20	GM	ULIBIN	Mikhail	RUS	2518	6.5	2607
21	GM	DAVID	Alberto	LUX	2557	6.5	2606
22	GM	DEGRAEVE	Jean-Marc	FRA	2535	6.5	2601
23	GM	SAVCHENKO	Stanislav	UKR	2558	6.5	2601
24	GM	RENET	Olivier	FRA	2513	6.5	2593
25	GM	ROZENTALIS	Eduardas	LTU	2567	6.5	2568
26	IM	SIMUTOWE	Amon	ZAM	2457	6.5	2565
27	GM	SOKOLOV	Andrei	FRA	2594	6.5	2541
28	IM	SZELAG	Marcin	POL	2484	6.5	2534
29	GM	MAIOROV	Nikita	BLR	2525	6.5	2506
30	GM	ERDOS	Viktor	HUN	2575	6.5	2503

Playing hall

The winner: Vugar Gashimov

Sergey Fedorchuk

Andrei Deviatkin

Konstantin Chernyshov

Erwin l’Ami

(Foto’s: Jan Lagrain, De Schaakfabriek)

Links:

• Tournament website
• Games in PGN
• More photos
• “And there’s Cappelle too”