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Lüneburg Chess Tournament 2013 concluded in Germany

The Lüneburg Chess Festival is taking place on 15th – 23rd July at the 4-Star Hotel Seminar, Soltau Strasse 3, D-21335 Lüneburg, Germany. The large event consists of four strong tournaments.

The open section saw a fierce battle for first place with four players getting the same score at the top of the standings. The final positions were decided on tiebreaks. First place went to Aleksandr Karpatchev, second was Mikail Ivanov and the last place in the podium went to Igor Rausis.

The Grandmaster round-robin tournament was won by Aljosc Feuerstack, who edged Malte Colpe on tiebreaks after both finished on 6/9. Lev Gutman finished in third place.

The IM round-robin did have a clear winner: Arghyadip Das was the only player to obtain 7 points. Mikhail Ivanov and Thorben Koop arrived second and third, respectively.

Tournament website

The players completely focused

The players completely focused

Final Standings – Open Section:

1 GM Karpatchev,Aleksandr 2484 7
2 GM Ivanov,Mikail 2392 7
3 GM Rausis,Igor,Dr. 2532 7
4 IM Fries-Nielsen,Jens O 2381 7
5 IM Kopylov,Michael 2454 7
6 GM Chatalbashev,Boris 2560 7
7 Lubbe,Nikolas 2451 7
8 WGM Ohme,Melanie 2303 7
9 GM Gutman,Lev 2451 7
10 Meyner,Hannes 2251 7
11 IM Das,Arghyadip 2493 7
12 Bokelmann,Joachim 2073 7
13 Bitan,Banerjee 2338 7
14 Ramme,Christoph 2135 6
15 FM Hebbinghaus,Holger 2265 5
16 CM Schatz,Christian 2232 7
17 Schiele,Lars 2097 7
18 Kaminik,Aleksandar 2174 7
19 Reuber,Artur 2129 6
20 IM Piankov,Evgenij 2264 7
21 Svane,Frederik 1753 7
22 FM Gazic,Josip 2282 7
23 Wasmuth,Matthias 2163 7
24 Olsson,Tomas 1932 7
25 Jantzen,Hans-Joerg 2131 7
26 Terhorst,Jochen 2182 7
27 Kunow,Frank 1920 7
28 Oehne,Timo 2027 7
29 Ditmas,Hugh 1996 7
30 Schirmer,Werner 2028 7
31 Schmidt-Wilke,Jens 2130 7
32 Kühl,Klaus-Dieter 1933 7
33 Bücker,Timo 1918 7
34 Gehrmann,Rudolf-Rain 2072 7
35 Seifer,Gregor Fabian 1943 7
36 Gehrmann,Dorit 1927 7
37 Ziese,Gerhard 2003 7
38 Kopylov,Daniel 1655 7
39 Zülle,Bruno,Dr. 2132 7
40 Urbanek,Paul-Gerhard 1959 7
41 Hesse,Jürgen 2028 7
42 Nobis,Anna 1757 7
43 Bücker,Simone 1640 7
44 Kloppers,Eric 1788 7
45 Vonhoff,Joerg 1747 7
46 Andrés Lange,Luis 1551 7
47 Reimers,Achim 1686 5
48 Döll,Detlef 2065 7
49 Vonhoff,Nils 1842 7
50 Andrés Lange,Elke 1664 7
51 Külshammer,Michael 1903 7
52 Kowalski,Ben Wito 1623 7
53 Askerov,Imamali 1347 7
54 Raedisch,Peter 1684 6
55 Jürgens,Helmut 1705 7
56 Schmidt,Johannes 1808 7
57 Levink,Clemens 1839 7
58 Möller,Dustin 1748 7
59 Boldt,Kai-Ulrich,Dr. 1788 7
60 Meyling,Lennart 1621 6
61 Stork,Oliver 1604 7
62 Vahabi,Seyed Reza 1567 7
63 Bergmann,Marcus 1720 7
64 von Estorff,Jacob 1338 7
65 Vogel,Theo,Prof. Dr. 3
66 Walter,Robert 836 7

Final Standings – GM Tournament:

1 Feuerstack,Aljosc 2410 6.0
2 Colpe,Malte 2305 6.0
3 Gutman,Lev 2451 5.0
4 Kopylov,Michael 2454 5.0
5 Bitan,Banerjee 2338 5.0
6 Svane,Rasmus 2432 5.0
7 Karpatchev,Aleksa 2484 5.0
8 Lubbe,Nikolas 2451 4.0
9 Inkiov,Ventzislav 2465 3.5
10 Wenzel,Birger 2054 0.5

Final Standings – IM tournament:

1 Das,Arghyadip 2493 7.0
2 Ivanov,Mikail 2392 6.0
3 Koop,Thorben 2168 5.5
4 Bach,Matthias 2251 5.0
5 Gazic,Josip 2282 4.5
6 Fries-Nielsen,Jen 2381 4.5
7 Piankov,Evgenij 2264 4.0
8 Bathke,Jörg 2144 3.5
9 Hinrichs,Jan 2072 3.0
10 Hinrichs,Lars 1993 2.0

 

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