4th Alajuela Open in Costa Rica
The winner of this open tournament, which finished last week, is 16-year old IM Emilio Cordova of Peru. His rating is 2519 and he had 2 GM norms before this event.
Final standings:
1 IM Cordova, Emilio 2519 PER 8
2 GM Tiviakov, Sergei 2645 NED 7½
3 GM Sagalchik, Gennadij 2424 USA 7½
4 IM Perez, Luis Manuel 2495 CUB 7
5 GM Vera, Reynaldo 2493 CUB 7
6 GM Mitkov, Nikola 2556 MKD 7
7 IM Leyva, Hector 2380 ESA 7
8 IM Arias, Mauricio 2310 CRC 7
9 FM Arias, Lemmys A 2342 ESA 7
10 Ruiz, Sebastian 2195 CRC 7
11 GM Mikhalevski, Victor 2592 ISR 6½
12 GM Georgiev, Vladimir 2531 MKD 6½
Full standings can be seen here: http://www.internacionaldealajuela.com/tabla_pareo_abierto/ronda9.html
Another young phenom!
Isn’t he the kid that ran off with the stripper??
US prodigies thrashed 0-5 in round 1:
http://www.chess-results.com/
tnr13674.aspx?art=25&fedb=
USA&lan=1&fed=SIN&flag=
30&m=-1
Hope they recover soon and bring home fame!