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The 49th Ilmar Raud Memorial was organized by Viljandi CC Fellin from June 29 to July 5, 2015, at the Viljandi Sports Center in Viljandi, a town in southern Estonia.

The event was a 9-round Swiss tournament with tempo of play 90′ X 40 moves + 15′ + 30″.

Latvian GM Arturs Neiksans emerged a sole winner at 7/9 points, leaving the nearest followers half a point behind.

The second place was shared in a four-way tie by GM Aleksej Aleksandrov (Belarus), GM Normunds Miezis(Latvia), IM Nikita Meskovs (Latvia) and GM Kaido Kulaots (2574) after the whole group finished the tournament with 6.5 points.

You can see the full standings and replay the games below.

Tournament websiteStandings and statistics

Final standings (top finishers):

1 GM Neiksans Arturs LAT 2600 7
2 GM Aleksandrov Aleksej BLR 2607 6,5
3 GM Miezis Normunds LAT 2508 6,5
4 IM Meskovs Nikita LAT 2451 6,5
5 GM Kulaots Kaido EST 2574 6,5
6 GM Blomqvist Erik SWE 2509 6
7 GM Kveinys Aloyzas LTU 2486 6
8 IM Sepp Olav EST 2426 6
9 GM Ehlvest Jaan USA 2545 6
10 IM Ladva Ottomar EST 2411 6
11 IM Seeman Tarvo EST 2414 5,5
12 FM Sirosh Ilja EST 2314 5,5
13 IM Smirnov Artem RUS 2448 5,5
14 IM Berzinsh Roland LAT 2402 5,5
15 Jezov Roman EST 2258 5,5
16 GM Shvyrjov Igor EST 2433 5,5
17 Dubrovin Robert EST 2230 5,5
18 WIM Narva Mai EST 2252 5,5

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