The winner GM David Howell at the award ceremony
The 9th Leiden Chess Tournament 2015 took place from July 17 – 26, in the Leiden Denksportcentrum.
The event was a 9-round Swiss open with tempo of play 90′/40 + 30′ + 30″.
Top seed player GM David Howell defeated GM Marian Petrov in the last round of the tournament to emerge a convincing winner with 8.5/9 points.
The game between GM Evgeny Postny and GM Predrag Nikolic ended in a draw, so that Postny came up second with 7 points, while Nikolic remained third with 6.5 points.
You can see the full standings and replay the games with analysis below.
Tournament website/ LIVE games with analysis
Final standings:
1 GM Howell, David W L 8.5 ENG M 2698
2 GM Postny, Evgeny 7.0 ISR M 2642
3 GM Nikolic, Predrag 6.5 BIH M 2601
4 GM Chatalbashev, Boris 6.0 BUL M 2516
5 GM Tiviakov, Sergei 6.0 NED M 2639
6 GM Milov, Leonid 6.0 GER M 2462
7 IM De Jong, Jan-Willem 6.0 NED M 2448
8 IM Das, Arghyadip 6.0 IND M 2457
9 Pijpers, Arthur 6.0 NED M 2433
10 GM Petrov, Marian 5.5 BUL M 2487
11 Van Overdam, Julian 5.5 NED M 2367
12 FM Erwich, Frank 5.5 NED M 2361
13 Johansson, Gunnar 5.5 SWE M 2223
14 Wallgren, Ulf 5.5 SWE M 2141
15 Oosterom, Erik 5.5 NED M 2043
16 Van der Marel, Bert 5.0 NED M 2161
17 IM Van Delft, Merijn 5.0 NED M 2428
18 FM Gindi, Shachar 5.0 ISR M 2336
19 Wilschut, Peter 5.0 NED M 2238
20 Van der Raaf, Erik 5.0 NED M 2110
21 IM Palit, Somak 5.0 IND M 2360
22 FM Heemskerk, Wim 5.0 NED M 2175
23 Den Hartog, Marijn 5.0 NED M 2088
24 Halfhide, Sebastian 5.0 NED M 2091
25 Polak, Alexander 5.0 NED M 2114
26 FM Happel, Henk 5.0 NED M 2107
27 Visser, Henk-Jan 4.5 NED M 2272
28 Van Halderen, Herman 4.5 NED M 2052
29 Kerkvliet, Max 4.5 NED M 2186
30 Vistisen, Lars 4.5 DEN M 2159
31 Knudsen, Martin 4.5 DEN M 2026
32 Brantjes, Yme 4.5 NED M 1937
33 Bebchuk, Leonid 4.5 ISR M 2072
34 FM Overeem, Marc 4.0 NED M 2216
35 Corstjens, Rolf 4.0 NED M 1953
36 Van der Elburg, Freddie 4.0 NED M 2185
37 Kolodkin, Daniil 4.0 NED M 2208
38 Van Drunick, Jan-Willem 4.0 NED M 1919
39 FM Sorensen, Bent 4.0 DEN M 2217
40 Dellert, Lena 3.5 GER F 1835
41 Jongste, David 3.5 NED M 1976
42 Van Briemen, Willem 3.5 NED M 2041
43 Havenaar, Jan 3.5 NED M 2017
44 Nguyen, Kevin 3.5 NED M 1986
45 Vreeburg, Jan 3.5 NED M 1901
46 Campbell, Ian 3.5 ENG M 2005
47 Hawkins, James N H 3.5 ENG M 1942
48 Van der Meer, Kees 3.5 NED M 2038
49 Van der Scheer, Henk 3.5 NED M 2049
50 De Mooij, Marco 3.5 NED M 1929
51 Erwich, Frans 3.5 NED M 1974
52 Holwijn, Melvin 3.0 NED M 1952
53 Weiland, Harro 3.0 NED M 1890
54 Bishoen, Bob 2.5 NED M 1968
55 Ratsma, Rosa 2.5 NED F 2088
56 Roozendaal, Marc 1.5 NED M 1989
57 Van Brussel, Bert 1.5 NED M 1877
58 Bakker, Joop 1.0 NED M 1956
59 Veenendaal, Loek 1.0 NED M 1993
