GM Li Chao wins O2C Doeberl Cup 2013

GM Li Chao won the O2C Doeberl Cup 2013 which was held on 28 March – 1 April at the Olympus Room of the Hellenic Club of Canberra in Australia.

The Chinese arrived as rating favorite and got clear first place with 7.5/9 points, despite a big setback on the 5th round, when he lost against Hungarian GM Attila Czebe. Li Chao followed with four straight wins to take the $4,000 first prize. He repeated the success from 2010 when he won the same event.

Czech GM Jiri Stocek and Dutch GM Loek van Wely both finished with 7/9. Stocek got the second place on tiebreaks.

77 players signed up to participate in the Premier Event, including 11 GMs and 10 IMs.

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Final Standings:

1	GM	Li Chao	2686	7.5
2	GM	Stocek Jiri	2557	7.0
3	GM	Van Wely Loek	2684	7.0
4	GM	Sethuraman S.P.	2532	6.5
5	GM	Horvath Adam	2509	6.5
6	IM	Ly Moulthun	2428	6.5
7	GM	Vajda Levente	2632	6.0
8	—	Li Zuhao Luke	2285	6.0
9	GM	Zhao Zong-Yuan	2537	6.0
10	—	Smirnov Anton	2194	5.5
11	IM	Lane Gary W.	2412	5.5
12	GM	Johansen Darryl K.	2430	5.5
13	—	Lei Tingjie	2232	5.5
14	FM	Cheng Bobby	2425	5.5
15	FM	Wallis Christopher	2261	5.5
16	WFM	Otgonjargal Sengerav	2171	5.5
17	FM	Stojic Dusan	2228	5.5
18	IM	Illingworth Max	2423	5.5
19	—	Garner David J	2150	5.5
20	GM	Varga Zoltan	2446	5.5
21	IM	Akshat Khamparia	2383	5.5
22	IM	Solomon Stephen J.	2390	5.0
23	GM	Czebe Attila	2492	5.0
24	FM	Dragicevic Domagoj	2204	5.0
25	GM	Laxman R.R.	2435	5.0
26	IM	Palit Somak	2442	5.0
27	—	Dale Ari	2225	5.0
28	IM	Morris James	2388	5.0
29	—	Rishi Sardana	2232	5.0
30	—	Schon Eugene	2169	5.0
31	IM	Stany G.A.	2449	5.0
32	—	Zelesco Karl	2148	5.0
33	—	Yin Wenlin	1908	5.0
34	—	Tan Justin	2269	4.5
35	IM	Brown Andrew	2295	4.5
36	—	Farrell Roger S	2188	4.5
37	—	Chan Michael	1948	4.5
38	FM	Ambrus Endre	2324	4.5
39	—	Bishop Joshua	1861	4.5
40	—	Beaumont David	2095	4.5
41	CM	Goundar Sanmogam	1936	4.5
42	—	Liu Yi	2158	4.0
43	FM	Ikeda Junta	2362	4.0
44	—	Lester George E	2012	4.0
45	—	Zulfic Fedja	2142	4.0
46	—	Louie Ryan	1861	4.0
47	—	Wright Neil	2182	4.0
48	—	Nemeth John	2100	4.0
49	—	Michaille Laurent	2093	4.0
50	—	Williams Bruce	2007	4.0
51	—	Ferozkohi Ihsan	2107	4.0
52	—	Watson James	2111	4.0
53	—	Deen-Cowell Nicholas	1889	3.5
54	—	Wei Michael	2104	3.5
55	—	Mandla Blair	2123	3.5
56	—	Stojic Svetozar	1993	3.5
57	—	Puccini Jack	1886	3.5
58	WIM	Guo Emma	2092	3.5
59	—	Loh Zachary	1993	3.0
60	—	Muller Jonas	2039	3.0
61	—	McNamara Gary	2135	3.0
62	—	Sengstock Steven	1804	3.0
63	—	Davis Tony J	1936	3.0
64	—	Safarian Alek	2023	3.0
65	—	Bennett Matthew	1833	3.0
66	—	Flitney Adrian	1955	2.5
67	—	Kethro Michael	1831	2.5
68	—	Chew Lee Max	1841	2.5
69	—	Rowlison Colin N	1949	1.5
70	—	Wyss Felix	1813	1.5
71	—	Jaime Joshua Fria(W)	1980	0.0
72	IM	Udeshi Aditya (W)	2416	0.0
73	—	Thornton Giovanni(W)	2138	0.0
74	FM	Hacche David (W)	2071	0.0
75	—	Jarek Katherine (W)	2036	0.0
76	—	Dela Cruz Richard(W)	2125	0.0
77	—	Chernih Nick (W)	2080	0.0