Tuesday, August 21, 2012

ANDORRA Chess-Open 2012 .. a tournament in the Pyrenees

The "Open Internacional d' Andorra" is a well known high level international chess tournament.
It was first organized in 1983 by the Andorran "Benet Pantebre" (1. Andorra-Open 1983), and is organized every year since then.

It is now an international established chess-tournament and attracts many professional chess players, like Grandmasters and International Masters, and is also interesting for many amateur players.

In the video to see the hotel-aera of "Sant Gothard" where the the chess-tournament was played (30. Open Internacional d' Andorra). "Sant Gothard" hotel is in ARINSAL, a small village in 10 km distance north from "Andorra la Vella", the capital of ANDORRA (Catalan: Principat d' Andorra).

Rank Name First name Country ELO
1
Hammer Jon Ludvig
NOR
2638
2
Georgiev Kiril
BUL
2680
3
Illescas Cordoba
ESP
2601
4
Arizmendi Julen Luis
ESP
2559
5
Iturrizaga Eduardo
VEN
2628
6
Alonso Rosell Alvar
ESP
2502
7
Granda Zuniga Julio
PER
2657
8
Negi Parimarjan
IND
2661
9
Kogan Artur
ISR
2587
10
Szabo Krisztian
HUN
2548
This "30. Open Internacional d'Andorra" in July 2012 was attended by many grandmasters from Andorra, Spain and France, and also Grandmasters from the Eastern European countries: from Ukraine, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, ...
And Grandmasters from South-America: from Venezuela, Peru, Argentina, Colombia, ... and also GM's from India and Israel.
Among the amateur players were represented countries like: Andorra, Spain, Italy, Germany, Costa Rica, Cuba, India, Israel, France, Holland, Russia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, ...

They played 9 rounds Swiss-system. The winner of the tournament is the Norwegian "Jon Ludvig Hammer" with 7 points out of 9 rounds and an ELO of 2638. The grandmasters on Place 1 to 4 scored with 7 points.

Shown in the table is the final result after the ninth round, the top 10 players are all grandmasters. At the positions 11 to 30 are nearly all players grandmasters and some strong amateur chess players.
Final result after 9 rounds

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