The European Individual Chess Championship 2013 was held in Legnica, Poland from May 4 (day of arrival) until May 17 (day of departure) 2013. It took place at the Qubus Hotel 4*.
No less than 286 players registered to participate, even though some left early as they had no chance to get one of the coveted 23 spots for the upcoming World Cup in Norway. 143 GMs and 63 IMs were among these players.
Ukrainian GM Alexander Moiseenko stood out from the very strong field from the “early middlegame” of the event. Already after 6 rounds, he was the sole leader with 5.5 points. It seemed unlikely that he would be able to keep this level throughout the event, but he almost did. He arrived as the sole leader to the last round, where he lost to Ian Nepomniachtchi. This allowed other nine players to join the leader on 8/11, however, Moiseenko took first place on tiebreaks.
Francisco Vallejo Pons and Aleksey Dreev both finished among the 23rd first qualified, but already had tickets for the World Cup, so the list of players that got a spot in the prestigious event goes down to the 25th place, thus including Russian GM Vadim Zvjaginsev and French GM Andrei Istratescu.
It is worth noting that none of the three highest rated players finished among the 23: Dmitry Jakovenko, Evgeny Tomashevsky and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave.
The special prize given to the player that achieved the biggest difference between his Rating Performance and his Elo rating was won by Polish Jakub Szostko, who performed 364 points above his rating.
Full standings below.
Final Standings:
1 | GM | MOISEENKO Alexander | UKR | 8 |
2 | GM | ALEKSEEV Evgeny | RUS | 8 |
3 | GM | ROMANOV Evgeny | RUS | 8 |
4 | GM | BELIAVSKY Alexander G | SLO | 8 |
5 | GM | LUPULESCU Constantin | ROU | 8 |
6 | GM | VALLEJO PONS Francisco | ESP | 8 |
7 | GM | MOVSESIAN Sergei | ARM | 8 |
8 | GM | NEPOMNIACHTCHI Ian | RUS | 8 |
9 | GM | DREEV Aleksey | RUS | 8 |
10 | GM | MELKUMYAN Hrant | ARM | 8 |
11 | GM | KOROBOV Anton | UKR | 7.5 |
12 | GM | LYSYJ Igor | RUS | 7.5 |
13 | GM | SHIMANOV Aleksandr | RUS | 7.5 |
14 | GM | ARESHCHENKO Alexander | UKR | 7.5 |
15 | GM | ELJANOV Pavel | UKR | 7.5 |
16 | GM | KRAVTSIV Martyn | UKR | 7.5 |
17 | GM | DUBOV Daniil | RUS | 7.5 |
18 | GM | RAGGER Markus | AUT | 7.5 |
19 | GM | HRACEK Zbynek | CZE | 7.5 |
20 | GM | POPOV Ivan | RUS | 7.5 |
21 | GM | BRUNELLO Sabino | ITA | 7.5 |
22 | GM | FEDORCHUK Sergey A. | UKR | 7.5 |
23 | GM | POSTNY Evgeny | ISR | 7.5 |
24 | GM | ZVJAGINSEV Vadim | RUS | 7.5 |
25 | GM | ISTRATESCU Andrei | FRA | 7.5 |
26 | GM | SAFARLI Eltaj | AZE | 7.5 |
27 | GM | TKACHIEV Vladislav | FRA | 7 |
28 | GM | YILMAZ Mustafa | TUR | 7 |
29 | GM | SARIC Ivan | CRO | 7 |
30 | GM | LENIC Luka | SLO | 7 |
31 | GM | SARGISSIAN Gabriel | ARM | 7 |
32 | GM | BALOGH Csaba | HUN | 7 |
33 | GM | MAMEDOV Rauf | AZE | 7 |
34 | GM | BERKES Ferenc | HUN | 7 |
35 | GM | NAVARA David | CZE | 7 |
36 | IM | KOVALEV Vladislav | BLR | 7 |
37 | GM | ZHIGALKO Sergei | BLR | 7 |
38 | GM | L’AMI Erwin | NED | 7 |
39 | GM | PETROSIAN Tigran L. | ARM | 7 |
40 | GM | RODSHTEIN Maxim | ISR | 7 |
41 | GM | MASTROVASILIS Dimitrios | GRE | 7 |
42 | GM | LAZNICKA Viktor | CZE | 7 |
43 | GM | WOJTASZEK Radoslaw | POL | 7 |
44 | GM | TOMASHEVSKY Evgeny | RUS | 7 |
45 | GM | MITON Kamil | POL | 7 |
46 | GM | RUCK Robert | HUN | 7 |
47 | GM | MAMEDOV Nidjat | AZE | 7 |
48 | GM | MISTA Aleksander | POL | 7 |
49 | GM | SHOMOEV Anton | RUS | 7 |
50 | GM | ESEN Baris | TUR | 7 |
51 | GM | MASTROVASILIS Athanasios | GRE | 7 |
52 | GM | ALMASI Zoltan | HUN | 6.5 |
53 | GM | KHALIFMAN Alexander | RUS | 6.5 |
54 | GM | GAGUNASHVILI Merab | GEO | 6.5 |
55 | GM | PAPP Gabor | HUN | 6.5 |
56 | GM | VACHIER-LAGRAVE Maxime | FRA | 6.5 |
57 | GM | GRACHEV Boris | RUS | 6.5 |
58 | GM | PASHIKIAN Arman | ARM | 6.5 |
59 | GM | GRIGORIANTS Sergey | RUS | 6.5 |
60 | GM | SALGADO LOPEZ Ivan | ESP | 6.5 |
61 | GM | ZHIGALKO Andrey | BLR | 6.5 |
62 | IM | GOGANOV Aleksey | RUS | 6.5 |
63 | FM | AGHASARYAN Robert | ARM | 6.5 |
64 | GM | VOLKOV Sergey | RUS | 6.5 |
65 | GM | HOVHANNISYAN Robert | ARM | 6.5 |
66 | GM | IVANISEVIC Ivan | SRB | 6.5 |
67 | GM | BRKIC Ante | CRO | 6.5 |
68 | GM | ANDRIASIAN Zaven | ARM | 6.5 |
69 | GM | SVETUSHKIN Dmitry | MDA | 6.5 |
70 | IM | DUDA Jan-Krzysztof | POL | 6.5 |
71 | GM | POTKIN Vladimir | RUS | 6.5 |
72 | GM | GUSEINOV Gadir | AZE | 6.5 |
73 | GM | SOCKO Bartosz | POL | 6.5 |
74 | GM | JAKOVENKO Dmitry | RUS | 6.5 |
75 | GM | ZONTAKH Andrey | UKR | 6.5 |
76 | GM | AKOPIAN Vladimir | ARM | 6.5 |
77 | GM | GAJEWSKI Grzegorz | POL | 6.5 |
78 | GM | RAKHMANOV Aleksandr | RUS | 6.5 |
79 | IM | BLUEBAUM Matthias | GER | 6.5 |
80 | GM | MORANDA Wojciech | POL | 6.5 |
81 | GM | ZOLER Dan | ISR | 6.5 |
82 | GM | SUTOVSKY Emil | ISR | 6.5 |
83 | GM | NISIPEANU Liviu-Dieter | ROU | 6.5 |
84 | IM | DRAGUN Kamil | POL | 6.5 |
85 | GM | KEMPINSKI Robert | POL | 6.5 |
86 | GM | CHEPARINOV Ivan | BUL | 6.5 |
87 | GM | GODENA Michele | ITA | 6.5 |
88 | GM | ROMANISHIN Oleg M | UKR | 6.5 |
89 | GM | SHENGELIA David | AUT | 6 |
90 | GM | HALKIAS Stelios | GRE | 6 |
91 | GM | ARIZMENDI MARTINEZ Julen Luis | ESP | 6 |
92 | GM | NYBACK Tomi | FIN | 6 |
93 | IM | KREISL Robert | AUT | 6 |
94 | GM | BABULA Vlastimil | CZE | 6 |
95 | GM | KHAIRULLIN Ildar | RUS | 6 |
96 | FM | MERIBANOV Vitaly | BLR | 6 |
97 | GM | CYBOROWSKI Lukasz | POL | 6 |
98 | GM | JIANU Vlad-Cristian | ROU | 6 |
99 | GM | SJUGIROV Sanan | RUS | 6 |
100 | GM | GALLAGHER Joseph G. | SUI | 6 |
101 | GM | JOBAVA Baadur | GEO | 6 |
102 | GM | JARACZ Pawel | POL | 6 |
103 | GM | SOLAK Dragan | TUR | 6 |
104 | GM | MOTYLEV Alexander | RUS | 6 |
105 | GM | BARTEL Mateusz | POL | 6 |
106 | GM | KULAOTS Kaido | EST | 6 |
107 | GM | TIMOFEEV Artyom | RUS | 6 |
108 | GM | KRAEMER Martin | GER | 6 |
109 | GM | GRIGORYAN Avetik | ARM | 6 |
110 | GM | PARLIGRAS Mircea-Emilian | ROU | 6 |
111 | GM | AJRAPETJAN Yuriy | UKR | 6 |
112 | GM | NYZHNYK Illya | UKR | 6 |
113 | GM | KURNOSOV Igor | RUS | 6 |
114 | GM | KULJASEVIC Davorin | CRO | 6 |
115 | GM | HANDKE Florian | GER | 6 |
116 | GM | GEORGIEV Kiril | BUL | 6 |
117 | GM | CAN Emre | TUR | 6 |
118 | GM | BUKAVSHIN Ivan | RUS | 6 |
119 | IM | MUZYCHUK Mariya | UKR | 6 |
120 | IM | PETENYI Tamas | SVK | 6 |
121 | GM | PAP Gyula | HUN | 6 |
122 | GM | SEBENIK Matej | SLO | 6 |
123 | GM | KOZUL Zdenko | CRO | 6 |
124 | GM | DJUKIC Nikola | MNE | 6 |
125 | IM | PAVLIDIS Antonios | GRE | 6 |
126 | GM | IPATOV Alexander | TUR | 5.5 |
127 | GM | MIRZOEV Azer | AZE | 5.5 |
128 | GM | TRATAR Marko | SLO | 5.5 |
129 | IM | ANTIPOV Mikhail Al. | RUS | 5.5 |
130 | GM | GORDON Stephen J | ENG | 5.5 |
131 | NASUTA Grzegorz | POL | 5.5 | |
132 | GM | NEVEROV Valeriy | UKR | 5.5 |
133 | GM | IORDACHESCU Viorel | MDA | 5.5 |
134 | GM | STOCEK Jiri | CZE | 5.5 |
135 | GM | STEVIC Hrvoje | CRO | 5.5 |
136 | GM | GABUZYAN Hovhannes | ARM | 5.5 |
137 | GM | MARKOWSKI Tomasz | POL | 5.5 |
138 | IM | STACHOWIAK Kamil | POL | 5.5 |
139 | GM | SANIKIDZE Tornike | GEO | 5.5 |
140 | IM | KANAREK Marcel | POL | 5.5 |
141 | GM | GRITSAK Orest | UKR | 5.5 |
142 | GM | FODOR Tamas Jr. | HUN | 5.5 |
143 | IM | PACHER Milan | SVK | 5.5 |
144 | IM | RZAYEV Bahruz | AZE | 5.5 |
145 | GM | KISLINSKY Alexey | CZE | 5.5 |
146 | IM | HAGEN Andreas Skytte | DEN | 5.5 |
147 | IM | KJARTANSSON Gudmundur | ISL | 5.5 |
148 | IM | MICHIELS Bart | BEL | 5.5 |
149 | IM | BUTKIEWICZ Lukasz | POL | 5.5 |
150 | IM | GRIGORYAN Karen H. | ARM | 5.5 |
151 | GOLUB Dan | MDA | 5.5 | |
152 | IM | DVIRNYY Danyyil | ITA | 5.5 |
153 | GM | MEIER Georg | GER | 5.5 |
154 | IM | ARDELEAN George-Catalin | ROU | 5.5 |
155 | PREDKE Alexandr | RUS | 5.5 | |
156 | IM | KANTER Eduard | RUS | 5.5 |
157 | GM | DANIELIAN Elina | ARM | 5.5 |
158 | GM | PETR Martin | CZE | 5.5 |
159 | GM | MACIEJA Bartlomiej | POL | 5.5 |
160 | IM | ANTON Teodor | ROU | 5.5 |
161 | GM | DURARBAYLI Vasif | AZE | 5.5 |
162 | IM | CAPRIO Guido | ITA | 5.5 |
163 | IM | PRIZANT Jaroslav | RUS | 5.5 |
164 | IM | PEDERSEN Nicolai Vesterbaek | DEN | 5.5 |
165 | IM | PERUNOVIC Miodrag | SRB | 5.5 |
166 | IM | DIERMAIR Andreas | AUT | 5.5 |
167 | IM | DROZDOWSKI Kacper | POL | 5 |
168 | GM | ROIZ Michael | ISR | 5 |
169 | GM | KOTRONIAS Vasilios | GRE | 5 |
170 | IM | DONCHENKO Alexander | GER | 5 |
171 | GM | OLEKSIENKO Mikhailo | UKR | 5 |
172 | GM | GRANDELIUS Nils | SWE | 5 |
173 | IM | SKYTTE Rasmus | DEN | 5 |
174 | WGM | BULMAGA Irina | ROU | 5 |
175 | IM | CHUDINOVSKIKH Alexander M | RUS | 5 |
176 | FM | IZZAT Kanan | AZE | 5 |
177 | WGM | ZAWADZKA Jolanta | POL | 5 |
178 | WIM | WOREK Joanna | POL | 5 |
179 | IM | NEDILKO Vasily | UKR | 5 |
180 | IM | FAULAND Alexander | AUT | 5 |
181 | GM | ERNST Thomas | SWE | 5 |
182 | IM | KHAETSKY Roman | UKR | 5 |
183 | IM | VEDDER Henk | NED | 5 |
184 | IM | HNYDIUK Aleksander | POL | 5 |
185 | STANCIU Alexandru-Ovidiu | ROU | 5 | |
186 | DEAC Bogdan-Daniel | ROU | 5 | |
187 | IM | MAMMADOV Zaur | AZE | 5 |
188 | IM | FIRAT Burak | TUR | 5 |
189 | GM | MAIOROV Nikita | BLR | 5 |
190 | FM | MAEVSKY Nikolay | RUS | 5 |
191 | IM | CERNOUSEK Lukas | CZE | 5 |
192 | GOUMAS Georgios | GRE | 5 | |
193 | GOLUCH Piotr | POL | 5 | |
194 | WIM | IWANOW Anna | POL | 5 |
195 | GM | HOLZKE Frank | GER | 5 |
196 | FM | IVIC Mateo | CRO | 5 |
197 | FM | SZWED Jacek | POL | 5 |
198 | IM | MATSENKO Sergei | RUS | 5 |
199 | FM | SCHACHINGER Mario | AUT | 5 |
200 | IM | KOLOSOWSKI Mateusz | POL | 4.5 |
201 | IM | ARNGRIMSSON Dagur | ISL | 4.5 |
202 | IM | PASIEV Rakhim | RUS | 4.5 |
203 | IM | MANEA Alexandru | ROU | 4.5 |
204 | FM | KRIEBEL Tadeas | CZE | 4.5 |
205 | FM | MINKO Vladimir | RUS | 4.5 |
206 | SVANE Rasmus | GER | 4.5 | |
207 | IM | LUBCZYNSKI Rafal | POL | 4.5 |
208 | FM | SELBES Tarik | TUR | 4.5 |
209 | FM | PAVLIDIS Anastasios | GRE | 4.5 |
210 | IM | SCHROLL Gerhard | AUT | 4.5 |
211 | IM | KANOVSKY David | CZE | 4.5 |
212 | IM | PETRISOR Adrian-Marian | ROU | 4.5 |
213 | IM | MATINIAN Nikita | RUS | 4.5 |
214 | DUBINSKI Mateusz | POL | 4.5 | |
215 | IM | VUILLEUMIER Alexandre | SUI | 4.5 |
216 | FM | RINDLISBACHER Lars | SUI | 4.5 |
217 | HUBER Martin Christian | AUT | 4.5 | |
218 | MUSIALKIEWICZ Pawel | POL | 4.5 | |
219 | IM | MAZUR Stefan | SVK | 4.5 |
220 | MATSENKO Andrei | RUS | 4.5 | |
221 | IM | SIMACEK Pavel | CZE | 4.5 |
222 | FM | TOMAZINI Zan | SLO | 4.5 |
223 | TARI Aryan | NOR | 4.5 | |
224 | IM | KANTORIK Marian | SVK | 4.5 |
225 | WGM | CHEREDNICHENKO Svetlana | UKR | 4 |
226 | IM | ZUDE Erik Dr. | GER | 4 |
227 | FM | TATE Alan | SCO | 4 |
228 | GM | FRIDMAN Daniel | GER | 4 |
229 | MUSIALKIEWICZ Jan | POL | 4 | |
230 | IM | ERTURAN Yakup | TUR | 4 |
231 | WGM | PRZEZDZIECKA Marta | POL | 4 |
232 | IM | WAGNER Dennis | GER | 4 |
233 | MARJANOVIC Dejan | BIH | 4 | |
234 | SABUK Piotr | POL | 4 | |
235 | KRNIC Ivan | CRO | 4 | |
236 | FM | BUCHAL Stephan | GER | 4 |
237 | POGOSIAN Vladimir | ARM | 4 | |
238 | DUMAN Aydin | TUR | 4 | |
239 | SZUMILAS Piotr | POL | 4 | |
240 | IM | SIPILA Vilka | FIN | 4 |
241 | PAPASIMAKOPOULOS Alexandros | GRE | 4 | |
242 | SZOSTKO Jakub | POL | 4 | |
243 | GAEHWILER Gabriel | SUI | 4 | |
244 | SAHITAJ Naim | EUR | 4 | |
245 | MACHAN Jan | CZE | 4 | |
246 | GEBIGKE Martin | GER | 4 | |
247 | LOMSADZE Davit | GEO | 4 | |
248 | IM | EKSTROEM Roland | SUI | 4 |
249 | FM | POSEDARU Bogdan | ROU | 4 |
250 | SVANA Peter | SVK | 4 | |
251 | LEWTAK Damian | POL | 3.5 | |
252 | HRISTODOULOU Panagiotis | GRE | 3.5 | |
253 | WIM | PAVLIDOU Ekaterini | GRE | 3.5 |
254 | WFM | CHEREDNICHENKO Elena | UKR | 3.5 |
255 | HENSELER Jorgen | NED | 3.5 | |
256 | TOMCZAK Mikolaj | POL | 3.5 | |
257 | CURIC Drazen | CRO | 3.5 | |
258 | WGM | YILDIZ Betul Cemre | TUR | 3.5 |
259 | SKYTTE Torill | NOR | 3.5 | |
260 | GUZEWICZ Rafal | POL | 3.5 | |
261 | FM | SIMEONIDIS Ioannis | GRE | 3 |
262 | RINDLISBACHER Jan | SUI | 3 | |
263 | LEIBER Bernard | GER | 3 | |
264 | PAPPELIS Dimitrios | GRE | 3 | |
265 | XYLOGIANNOPOULOS Antonios | GRE | 3 | |
266 | MAKOLLI Perparim | EUR | 3 | |
267 | IM | CHUBAR Vladimir | UKR | 3 |
268 | WOLFF Peter | GER | 3 | |
269 | ZEMLICKA Vit | CZE | 3 | |
270 | ZAHARIEV Ognyan | BUL | 3 | |
271 | GM | PELLETIER Yannick | SUI | 2.5 |
272 | FM | ANTAL Tibor Kende | HUN | 2.5 |
273 | FM | NIKOLAIDIS Konstantinos | GRE | 2.5 |
274 | WENZEL Birger | GER | 2.5 | |
275 | PAVLICEK Miroslav | CZE | 2.5 | |
276 | SZONYI Bence | HUN | 2.5 | |
277 | ULANOWSKI Karol | POL | 2 | |
278 | KORCZ Daniel | POL | 2 | |
279 | GM | EFIMENKO Zahar | UKR | 1.5 |
280 | D`ASTE Federico | ITA | 1 | |
281 | IM | TAZBIR Marcin | POL | 0 |
IM | GERBER Richard | SUI | 0 | |
IM | ZUEGER Beat | SUI | 0 | |
TWORZYDLO Piotr | POL | 0 | ||
KULAS Szymon | POL | 0 | ||
VDOVENKO Volodymyr | UKR | 0 | ||
