17 countries represented at First Saturday Budapest May
Thursday, 13 May 2010 06:19

A record number of countries gathered in Budapest for the First Saturday May events. Players from AUT, BLR, DEN, ENG, GER, HUN, LUX, MAS, NED, PER, RUS, SRB, SVK, SYR, RSA, USA, VIE were put in six groups of different level sections.

GM: Grandmasters showed great forms so neither candidates could achieve any title-norms. GM Kovalev Andrei (BLR) and former Hungarian Champion GM Varga Zoltan took the first two places and both remained unbeaten.

Final crosstable, First Saturday GM, 01-10th May 2010, Budapest (HUN)

Rank

Name

Score

Fed.

M/F

Rating

TPR

W-We

SB

PS

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

1

GM Kovalev, Andrei

7.0

BLR

M

2518

2610

+1.00

28.0

38.0

1

½

1

1

1

1

½

½

½

2

GM Varga, Zoltan

6.0

HUN

M

2479

2489

+0.11

23.25

30.0

1

½

½

½

+

½

½

½

1

3

IM Munoz Pantoja, Miguel

6.0

PER

M

2476

2520

+0.53

22.75

29.0

½

1

½

0

1

1

½

1

½

4

IM Solomon, Kenny

5.5

RSA

M

2351

2489

+1.69

22.25

29.0

1

1

0

0

1

1

½

½

½

5

GM Czebe, Attila

5.5

HUN

M

2480

2449

-0.28

21.75

28.5

1

0

1

½

1

½

½

0

+

6

IM Paschall, William M.

4.0

USA

M

2397

2361

-0.42

17.0

17.5

½

0

½

½

0

½

1

½

½

7

FM Radovanovic, Jovica

3.0

SRB

M

2351

2284

-0.81

14.25

17.5

0

1

0

1

0

½

½

0

0

8

Papp, Gellert

3.0

HUN

M

2400

2307

-1.07

13.25

8.0

0

0

½

0

0

½

1

1

9

IM Wittmann, Walter

3.0

AUT

M

2302

2319

+0.11

12.0

19.5

0

1

1

½

0

0

½

0

10

IM Szalanczy, Emil

2.0

HUN

M

2277

2197

-0.86

6.5

8.0

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

1

0

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