The 13th Sahel Open Tournament was held on 19-24th December, in Bandar Abbas, center of Hormozgan Province, Iran. 73 participants, including 27 rated and 2 titled, competed.
Sayyed Hossein Daneshpour, 5th seed in the tournament, obtained the first place with 8 points from nine rounds.
Ali Faghirnavaz and GM Homayoon Toufighi both finished with 7.5 points, but with better tiebreak score Faghirnavaz landed on the 2nd place. Toufighi defeated Daneshpour in the last round and finished third.
The tournament director was Hossein Ahmadi Sarkhooni and the chief arbiter was FA Shahram Salari.
Sayyed Hossein Daneshpour - The winner of the tournament
News by Ali Ghaemmaghami (http://iranianchess.ir/)
Final standings:
1. Daneshpour S.H. 2175 Hormozgan – 8
2. Faghirnavaz Ali 2317 Gilan – 7.5
3. GM Toufighi Homayoon 2440 Gilan – 7.5
4. IM Darban Morteza 2384 Tehran – 7
5. Khalesi Vahid 2221 Zanjan – 7
6. Ghaledar Faraz 2076 Esfahan – 6.5
7. Sadeghi Adel 2109 Hormozgan – 6.5
8. Khaje Hesamedini Ali 2158 Fars – 6.5
9. Asgharzadeh M.Reza 2046 Mazandaran – 6
10. Momtahan Hossein 0 Fars – 6
11. Bashniji Morteza 2046 Hormozgan – 6
12. Bahadori Abdollah 2029 Hormozgan – 6
13. Hajipoor Javad 0 Boushehr – 6
14. Tafakori Mohammad Reza 0 Yazd – 5.5
15. Noori Amir 2166 Tehran – 5.5
16. Bakhtiari Nowroozi Babak 1940 Fars – 5.5
17. Ghorban Oghly Mohsen 1928 Hormozgan – 5.5
18. Choopani Morteza 1903 Hormozgan – 5.5
19. Behnam Poor Reza 1763 Hormozgan – 5.5
20. Khajoee Gholamreza 1678 Kerman – 5.5
21. Seifaddini Abdolhossein 0 Yazd – 5.5
22. Gharibnavaz Hossein 0 Hormozgan – 5.5
23. Akbari Masoud 0 Yazd – 5
24. Rahimi Aref 1653 Hormozgan – 5
25. Taghipoor Habib 1755 Hormozgan – 5
26. Asbahi Mohammad 2154 Hormozgan – 5
27. Zahedi Mehdi 1763 Hormozgan – 5
28. Davari Karim 1511 Hormozgan – 5
29. Baneshi Mahan 0 Fars – 5
30. Darabi Zadeh Parviz 1617 Kerman – 5
31. Shadkam Malek 0 Boushehr – 5
32. Abdi Alireza 0 Hormozgan – 4.5
33. Irannejad Ali 0 Kerman – 4.5
34. Imanzadeh Mehdi 1872 Hormozgan – 4.5
35. Shahmoradi Nooreddin 0 Hormozgan – 4.5
36. Mehrfar Saeed 0 Hormozgan – 4.5
37. Taherzadeh Hamid 0 Hormozgan – 4.5
38. Jahangiri Hossein 1633 Hormozgan – 4
39. Zarei Ali 0 Hormozgan – 4
40. Naghibzadeh Khalil 0 Hormozgan – 4
41. Sharifi Mohammad 0 Hormozgan – 4
42. Rostami Chaijan Iraj 0 Hormozgan – 4
43. Shah Karami Ali 0 Kerman – 4
44. Baseri Masoud 0 Hormozgan – 4
45. Rasti Shahram 0 Hormozgan – 4
46. Valipoor Saeed 0 Hormozgan – 4
47. Shojae Amir Ali 0 Hormozgan – 4
48. Firouzi Mostafa 0 Kerman – 3.5
49. Doodman Ahmadreza 1859 Fars – 3.5
50. Nazeri Jafar 1857 Hormozgan – 3.5
51. Soltani Mehdi 0 Hormozgan – 3.5
52. Etmadi Nareman 0 Hormozgan – 3.5
53. Bastin Hasan 0 Hormozgan – 3.5
54. Zerehizadeh Masoud 0 Hormozgan – 3.5
55. Delzendeh Nezhad Mohammad 0 Hormozgan – 3
56. Namdari Yousof 0 Hormozgan – 3
57. Maleki Shayan 0 Hormozgan – 3
58. Alipoor Mohammadjavad 0 Hormozgan – 3
59. Azadi Mehdi 0 Hormozgan – 3
60. Zakeri Omid 0 Hormozgan – 3
61. Safaee Mostafa 0 Khouzestan – 2.5
62. Fallah Mostafa 0 Hormozgan – 2.5
63. Shams Farzad 0 Hormozgan – 2.5
64. Pooraskar Amiri Mani 0 Hormozgan – 2.5
65. Khoshnood Ehsan 0 Hormozgan – 2
66. Avazeh Mohsen 0 Hormozgan – 2
67. Moosavi Artin 0 Hormozgan – 2
68. Looni Arshiya 0 Hormozgan – 1.5
69. Shamsaldini Esmail 0 Hormozgan – 1
70. Pasavand Rasoul 0 Hormozgan – 1
71. Shah Karami Mohammad Ali 0 Kerman – 1
72. Shahrollahi Keramat 0 Hormozgan – 1
73. Mahmoodi Zahra 0 Hormozgan – 1
