Pentala Harikrishna claims first place at Biel Masters International Tournament

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Parallel to the Olivier Breisacher Memorial, a very strong 11-rounds open took place in Biel. Indian GM Pentala Harikrishna showed a great performance to finish in sole first place with 8.5/11 points.

Harikrishna arrived as the second seed with 2680 rating points. Thanks to his strong run at this event, he joined the 2700-club and is now on the 38th position according to the live ratings list.

Second place went to GM Mateusz Bartel. The fur-time Polish champion arrived to the last round with the same amount of points as Harikrishna, but was not able to defeat GM Susanto Megaranto, thus getting a final 8/9 score.

Two other players obtained 8 points. Turkish GM Dragan Solak got the medal for third place due to his better tiebreak score. Bu Xiangzhi was the player left out of the podium.

The first prizes were distributed as follows: CHF 7’000, 5’000, 4’000, 3’000.

Daniel Hausrath from Germany obtained a GM norm, and three players gained IM norms: Huang Qian (CHN), Holger Rasch (GER) and Hakimifard Ghazal (IRI). Ghazal also got a WGM norm.

Tournament website

Final Standings:

1	Harikrishna,Penta	GM	2680	IND	8.5
2	Bartel,Mateusz	GM	2619	POL	8
3	Solak,Dragan	GM	2598	TUR	8
4	Bu,Xiangzhi	GM	2664	CHN	8
5	Gharamian,Tigran	GM	2655	FRA	7.5
6	Adianto,Utut	GM	2548	INA	7.5
7	Megaranto,Susanto	GM	2524	INA	7.5
8	Grachev,Boris	GM	2683	RUS	7
9	Salem,A R. Saleh	GM	2531	UAE	7
10	Smeets,Jan	GM	2643	NED	7
11	Hausrath,Daniel	IM	2516	GER	7
12	Zhao,Xue	GM	2553	CHN	7
13	Saric,Ivan	GM	2639	CRO	7
14	Ganguly,Surya She	GM	2628	IND	7
15	Cvitan,Ognjen	GM	2562	CRO	7
16	Malakhatko,Vadim	GM	2529	BEL	7
17	Kurnosov,Igor	GM	2657	RUS	6.5
18	Antipov,Mikhail A	IM	2490	RUS	6.5
19	Sandipan,Chanda	GM	2623	IND	6.5
20	Farid,Firman Syah	IM	2396	INA	6.5
21	Donchenko,Alexand	IM	2477	GER	6.5
22	Saric,Ante	GM	2565	CRO	6.5
23	Medina,Warda Auli	WIM	2286	INA	6.5
24	Raetsky,Alexander	GM	2412	RUS	6.5
25	Huang,Qian	WGM	2487	CHN	6
26	Sebenik,Matej	GM	2511	SLO	6
27	Braun,Christian	IM	2360	GER	6
28	Masruri,Rahman		2174	INA	6
29	Wirig,Anthony	GM	2496	FRA	6
30	Nuri,Kambez	FM	2244	SUI	6
31	Rindlisbacher,Jan		2219	SUI	6
32	Sukandar,Irene Kh	WGM	2365	INA	6
33	Gaehwiler,Gabriel		2267	SUI	6
34	Minko,Vladimir	FM	2312	RUS	6
35	Studer,Noel	FM	2324	SUI	6
36	Patuzzo,Fabrizio	FM	2332	SUI	6
37	Bartel,Michal	FM	2276	POL	6
38	Cebalo,Miso	GM	2438	CRO	6
39	Hasenohr,Benedict		2276	SUI	6
40	Gloor,Roger	FM	2340	SUI	6
41	Rasch,Holger	FM	2220	GER	5.5
42	Zozulia,Anna	IM	2316	BEL	5.5
43	Lampert,Jonas		2373	GER	5.5
44	Schiendorfer,Eman	FM	2392	SUI	5.5
45	Botta,Gabriele	FM	2319	SUI	5.5
46	Padurariu,Ioana-S	WIM	2208	ROU	5.5
47	Pomini,Aurelien		2051	SUI	5.5
48	Kamber,Bruno	FM	2283	SUI	5.5
49	Burnier,David	FM	2347	SUI	5
50	Lang,Torsten	FM	2338	GER	5
51	Schoorl,Rob	FM	2340	NED	5
52	Meins,Gerlef	IM	2474	GER	5
53	Hakimifard,Ghazal	WIM	2196	IRI	5
54	Sihite,Chelsie Mo	WIM	2285	INA	5
55	Schiendorfer,Flor		2180	SUI	5
56	Muhammad,Luthfi A	CM	2279	INA	5
57	Cherniaev,Alexand	GM	2447	RUS	5
58	Ludwig,Peter		2265	GER	5
59	Silber,Gerhard		2217	GER	5
60	Heinis,Vincent		2100	FRA	5
61	Sean,Winshand Cuh		2259	INA	4.5
62	Zuse,Klaus-Peter	FM	2263	GER	4.5
63	Schaerer,Julian		2294	SUI	4.5
64	Dewi,Aa Citra	WFM	2138	INA	4.5
65	Liepins,Oliver		2087	LAT	4.5
66	Lienhard,Alex		2151	SUI	4.5
67	Speck,Hans		2016	SUI	4.5
68	Valet,Richard		2060	GER	4.5
69	Kuenzli,Thomas		1995	SUI	4.5
70	Bozinovic,Bogdan	FM	2218	CRO	4.5
71	Heer,Stephan		2105	SUI	4
72	Haussernot,Cecile	WFM	2135	FRA	4
73	Eidinger,Helmut		2188	SUI	4
74	Bischoff,Peter		2082	SUI	4
75	Arbinger,Roland D		2075	GER	4
76	Gorse,Gerard		2073	FRA	4
77	Khanabiev,Alexey		1986	BLR	3.5
78	Oud,Niek		2043	NED	3.5
79	Saikrishnan,Sai		1912	SUI	3
80	Cochet,Jean-Danie		2067	SUI	3
81	Post,Nikolai		1937	SUI	3
82	Banas,Jan	IM	2310	SVK	2.5
83	Paust,Wolf-Dieter		2049	GER	2
84	Khaetsky,Roman	IM	2424	UKR	0.5
85	Marro,Christian		1995	SUI	0