5th Capo d’Orso Tournament in Palau

The 5th edition of the Capo d’Orso open is taking place on 1st-6th June at the Residence Hotel Porto Mannu in Palau.

It is a 9 round Swiss open with a classical FIDE time control. The first prizes are distributed as follows: 1st – 1.000 €; 2nd – 800 €; 3rd – 650 €; 4th – 500 €, etc.

The tournament, organized for the first time in 2007, has already become Sardinia’s most prominent and one of Italy’s most renowned chess events. As for last year, we have invited a number of Italian and international players who will make it possible to acquire FIDE GM and IM norms (depending on the opposition met).

The tournament will be played in a recently opened air-conditioned playing hall, with wooden chess sets and boards and DGT clocks for all players. Morning lectures of the duration of approximately one hour will be held by leading IM/GM trainers (among them Jacob Aagaard, Mihail Marin, Jonathan Rowson and Fabiano Caruana). And all around, the enchanting setting of Porto Mannu and its “all-chess-and-sea-resort”.

After six rounds, Italian Axel Rombaldoni and Romanian Mihail Marin are leading with 5/6 points. No less than 16 players are sharing second place a whole point behind the leaders.

Tournament website

Standings after 6 rounds:

1	IM	Rombaldoni Axel	2484	5
2	GM	Marin Mihail	2549	5
3	GM	Libiszewski Fabien	2520	4
4	WGM	L’ami Alina	2345	4
5	GM	Tischbierek Raj	2426	4
6	IM	Lanzani Mario	2303	4
7	WIM	Caoili Arianne	2219	4
8	GM	Rowson Jonathan	2574	4
9	IM	Loeffler Stefan	2425	4
10	FM	Bonafede Alessandro	2353	4
11	—	Kyas Juergen	2198	4
12	—	Tommasini Enzo	2161	4
13	—	Serra Emanuele	1903	4
14	—	Nohr Finn	2100	4
15	—	Gedajlovic Max	1813	4
16	—	Murgia Andrea	1984	4
17	—	Blonna Michele	1938	4
18	—	Battasi Antonio	1740	4
19	—	Cardili Mariano	2131	3.5
20	—	Sprotte Norbert	2144	3.5
21	FM	Esposito Luca	2297	3.5
22	—	Andreoni Giuseppe	2102	3.5
23	—	Marano Daniele	1676	3.5
24	—	Puzko Danila	2018	3.5
25	—	Virzi Ettore	1963	3.5
26	—	Pedrinzani Ivano	1874	3.5
27	—	Del Nevo Claudio	1840	3.5
28	—	Zangrando Gianpietro	1775	3.5
29	—	Pieri Enzo	1726	3.5
30	—	Mercandelli Claudio	1893	3.5
31	—	Danieli Enrico	2093	3
32	—	Hoenick Andreas	2152	3
33	—	Valet Richard	2068	3
34	—	Salzano Guido	1990	3
35	—	Neri Enzo	2052	3
36	—	Silini Riccardo	1788	3
37	—	Killane Jack	1983	3
38	—	Hajenius Willem	1909	3
39	—	Gozzi Giorgio	1828	3
40	—	Marras Giuseppe	1887	3
41	—	Sonis Francesco	1697	3
42	—	Vanzan Alessandro	1654	3
43	—	Alfier Cecilia	1677	3
44	—	Pitzanti Matteo	1708	3
45	—	Daly Patrick	1846	3
46	—	Murray Jim G.	1845	3
47	—	Neri Luca	1649	3
48	—	Le Creurer Kilian	1760	3
49	—	Cautiero Pietro	1716	3
50	—	Diotallevi Maurizio	2007	2.5
51	—	Grinblat Artemiy	2004	2.5
52	—	Bellafiore Enzo	1764	2.5
53	—	Simoncini Francesco	2020	2.5
54	—	Blasco Domenico	1925	2.5
55	—	Denozza Mauro	1605	2.5
56	—	Ravagnani Tiziano	1973	2.5
57	—	Egan Colm	1896	2.5
58	CM	Crapulli Giuseppe	1976	2.5
59	—	Graziani Sergio	1906	2.5
60	—	Ponzecchi Riccardo	1457	2.5
61	—	Bermingham Tony	1900	2.5
62	—	Kopischke Maik	1892	2.5
63	—	Sani Leonardo	1789	2.5
64	—	Di Dario Dario	1690	2.5
65	—	Lynch Peter J.	1706	2.5
66	—	Savarese Vincenzo	1805	2.5
67	—	Sigillo Carmelo	1757	2.5
68	—	Squarci Franco	1683	2.5
69	—	Reutimann Hans Peter	1825	2
70	—	Valens Thieu	1467	2
71	—	Deruda Leonardo	1892	2
72	—	Burns John	1919	2
73	—	Mircoli Filippo	1711	2
74	NC	Corbo Giuseppe	1491	2
75	—	Bangert Ruediger	1666	2
76	—	D`augusta Paolo	1612	2
77	—	Brioschi Camillo	1791	1.5
78	—	Schiappacasse Marcel	1837	1.5
79	—	Pantaleoni Claudi(W)	2156	1
80	—	Ryzhkov Vjachesla(W)	2147	1
81	—	Simone Marco (W)	1905	1
82	—	Casartelli Luciano	1485	1
83	—	Vallifuoco Giovan(W)	2177	0.5