34th Open de Cappelle la Grande was held from 3 to 10 March at Palais des Arts et des Loisirs.
360 players took part in the competition.
Tournament was very competitive until the end. Amazingly two players have made 8 points out of 9. GM Christian Bauer had better tie-break then GM Momchil Nikolov.
They both won their last round games . Bauer against Gukesh, who also was on 7 out of 8, and Nikolov against IM Stany.
GM Jules Moussard and Grzegorz Nasuta both finished with 7,5 points.
final standings Capelle 2018
1 g BAUER Christian 2628 8
2 g NIKOLOV Momchil 2532 8
3 g MOUSSARD Jules 2576 7½
4 m NASUTA Grzegorz 2459 7½
5 m KRZYZANOWSKI Marcin 2453 7
6 m PAYEN Arnaud 2360 7
7 GUKESH D 2360 7
8 m SOCHACKI Christophe 2465 7
9 g POGORELOV Ruslan 2371 7
10 f RABINEAU Clement 2248 7
11 m NITIN S. 2414 7
12 m SANTOS LATASA Jaime 2549 6½
13 g BAI Jinshi 2594 6½
14 m STANY G.a. 2494 6½
15 g SHYAM Sundar M. 2525 6½
16 m GRINEV Valeriy 2406 6½
17 f PHILIPPE Guillaume 2359 6½
18 m DIMITROV Radoslav 2493 6½
19 DEGRAEVE Remy 2175 6½
20 m BAULES Jorge 2328 6½
21 m DEBRAY Christopher 2360 6½
22 m KOJIMA Shinya 2402 6½
23 m PETRISOR Adrian-Marian 2419 6½
24 gf HOOLT Sarah 2392 6½
25 mf OSMANODJA Filiz 2324 6½
26 gf FUCHS Judith 2261 6½
27 LI Zhaoyang 2091 6½
28 f VILLEGAS Pierre 2350 6½
29 g MARTINEZ DUANY Lelys Stanley 6½
30 m GASCON DEL NOGAL Jose Rafael
