Boris Grachev wins Basel Chess Festival 2013

The Russian Grandmaster Boris Grachev is the winner of the Basel Chess Festival 2013. Grachev scored 5,5/7, the same points as GM Levente Vajda, GM Robin Van Kampen, and GM Andrej Istratescu, but had better tiebreak score. Grachev started with quality 4,0/4, which allowed him to secure the title with three straight draws to the end.

Places 5-12 were shared by some of the top competitors of the Basel Schachfestival – GM Vachier-Lagrave, GM Alexandr Fier, GM Hrant Meklumyan, GM Romain Edouard, GM Ghaem Maghami, GM Yannik Pelletier, GM Vorotnikov, and GM Mateusz Bartel, all with 5,0/7.

Half a point behind them is the Tata Steel B 2013 participant GM Maxim Turov, and the top untitled player of the championship Svetlin Mladenov.

 

Standings

1	GM	Grachev,Boris	2688	5.5
2	GM	Vajda,Levente	2603	5.5
3	GM	Van Kampen,Robin	2581	5.5
4	GM	Istratescu,Andrej	2654	5.5
5	GM	Vachier-Lagrave,M	2711	5
6	GM	Fier,Alexandr	2573	5
7	GM	Melkumyan,Hrant	2656	5
8	GM	Edouard,Romain	2686	5
9	GM	Ghaem Maghami,Ehs	2572	5
10	GM	Pelletier,Yannick	2604	5
11	GM	Vorotnikov,Vladis	2464	5
12	GM	Bartel,Mateusz	2629	5
13	GM	Turov,Maxim	2630	4.5
14		Mladenov,Svetlin	2407	4.5
15	IM	Hansen,Eric	2568	4.5
16	IM	Heimann,Andreas	2489	4.5
17	IM	Milosevic,Goran	2328	4.5
18	IM	Lekic,Dusan	2411	4.5
19	FM	Georgiadis,Nico	2369	4.5
20	IM	Toth,Bela	2352	4.5
21	IM	Maier,Christian	2354	4.5
22	FM	Dann,Matthias	2432	4.5
23	WGM	Maisuradze,Nino	2306	4.5
24	IM	Faibisovich,Vadim	2349	4.5
25	FM	Lötscher,Roland	2395	4
26	IM	Kurmann,Oliver	2456	4
27	GM	Gavrilov,Alexei	2501	4
28		Schmidt-Schäffer,	2356	4
29	FM	Flückiger,Christi	2344	4
30	IM	Filipovic,Branko	2369	4
31	IM	Bogdanovich,Grigo	2343	4
32	FM	Vulevic,Vjekoslav	2299	4
33	IM	Dimitrov,Atanas	2346	4
34		Tschann,Stephan	2224	4
35	IM	Hendriks,Willy	2420	4
36	FM	Nuri,Kambez	2241	4
37	IM	Bhend,Edwin	2248	4
38	WIM	Guo,Emma	2006	3.5
39	FM	Aguera Naredo,Jav	2417	3.5
40	FM	Grandadam,Nicolas	2322	3.5
41		Kvetny,Mark	2201	3.5
42		Balint,Vilmos	2252	3.5
43		Aerni,Andreas	2206	3.5
44		Karabalis,Harilos	2245	3.5
45		Faraone,Ettore	2003	3.5
46		Sand,Rolf,Dr.	1949	3.5
47		Schenker,Roberto	2129	3.5
48	FM	Lutz,Bernhard	2348	3.5
49	FM	Melkumjanc,Nicola	2256	3.5
50		Stoeri,Laura	2053	3.5
51	FM	Hess,Christian	2269	3.5
52		Winterberg,Lukas	2212	3.5
53		Eidinger,Helmut	2137	3.5
54		Staechelin,Ruedi	2078	3.5
55		Spiess,Thomas	2028	3.5
56		Giesler,Julius	2089	3
57	FM	Mäurer,Christoph,	2291	3
58		Müller,Werner	2033	3
59		Sommerhalder,Eric	2054	3
60		Grandadam,Patrik	2204	3
61	FM	Ernst,Rolf	2131	3
62		Villegas,Pierre	2234	3
63		Stolniceanu,Victo	2135	3
64		Graeber,Fabien	2071	3
65		Wirz,Heinz	2161	2.5
66		Prill,Daniel	2154	2.5
67		Klumpp,Jochen	2070	2.5
68		Bagri,Jaspaul	2178	2.5
69		Curien,Nicolas	2239	2.5
70		Heinis,Vincent	2101	2.5
71		Michaelis,Nico	2165	2.5
72		Bräunlin,Klaus-Ro	2131	2.5
73		Frey,Matthias	1958	2.5
74		Düssel,Udo	2228	2.5
75		Ditzler,Jürg	2038	2.5
76	FM	Vatter,Hans-Joach	2318	2
77		Deubelbeiss,René	2015	2
78	FM	Xheladini,Mahmut	2281	2
79		Tillmann,Marc	1999	2
80		Janasik,Gerhard,D	2014	2
81		Bender,Dirk	2047	2
82		Prill,Gerhard	2056	2
83		Brait,Wolfgang	2021	2
84		Terraz,Christian	2098	1.5
85		Kaspereit,Holger	2094	1.5
86		Wehrle,Uwe	2117	1.5
87		Jud,Marc	2032	1.5
88		Stankovic,Zeljko	2212	0.5
89		Moser,Guido	2006	0.5