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The 9th Leiden Chess Tournament 2015 took place from July 17 – 26, in the Leiden Denksportcentrum.

The event was a 9-round Swiss open with tempo of play 90′/40 + 30′ + 30″.

Top seed player GM David Howell defeated GM Marian Petrov in the last round of the tournament to emerge a convincing winner with 8.5/9 points.

The game between GM Evgeny Postny and GM Predrag Nikolic ended in a draw, so that  Postny came up second with 7 points, while Nikolic remained third with 6.5 points.

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

Tournament websiteGames with analysis

Top 10

Final standings:

1 GM Howell, David W L 8.5 ENG M 2698
2 GM Postny, Evgeny 7.0 ISR M 2642
3 GM Nikolic, Predrag 6.5 BIH M 2601
4 GM Chatalbashev, Boris 6.0 BUL M 2516
5 GM Tiviakov, Sergei 6.0 NED M 2639
6 GM Milov, Leonid 6.0 GER M 2462
7 IM De Jong, Jan-Willem 6.0 NED M 2448
8 IM Das, Arghyadip 6.0 IND M 2457
9 Pijpers, Arthur 6.0 NED M 2433
10 GM Petrov, Marian 5.5 BUL M 2487

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