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The 12th Avicenna International Open Chess Tournament took was organized by the Hamedan Chess Association and Iranian Chess Federation from September 2-9, 2015, in the Iranian city of Hamedan.

The event was an 11-round Swiss open with time control 90′ + 30″.

GM Oleg Korneev from Spain emerged a sole winner with 9.5/11 points, leaving the runner-up, 2015 Iranian champion GM Ehsan Ghaem Maghami, half a point behind.

The 15-year-old Parham Maghsoodloo clinched the bronze medal on a superior tie-break score, after sharing 3-7th place with 8.5 points.

Maghsoodloo has just qualified for the FIDE World Cup 2015 that starts today and he will face GM Wesley So in the first knockout match.

Tournament website

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Final standings:

1 GM Korneev Oleg 2578 ESP 9.5
2 GM Ghaem Maghami Ehsan 2596 IRI 9
3 Maghsoodloo Parham 2447 IRI 8.5
4 FM Mousavi Seyed Khalil 2427 IRI 8.5
5 Mosadeghpour Masoud 2416 IRI 8.5
6 Dalir Alireza 2297 IRI 8.5
7 IM Asgarizadeh Ahmad 2402 IRI 8.5
8 GM Toufighi Homayoon 2400 IRI 8
9 Sedaghati Mehrdad 2238 IRI 8
10 Faghirnavaz Ali 2298 IRI 8
11 Aghaei Alireza 2178 IRI 8
12 FM Hosseinipour Mehdi 2243 IRI 8
13 Akhgari Reza 2060 IRI 8
14 Roohi Abdolmajid 2149 IRI 8
15 Gholami Orimi Mahdi 2058 IRI 8
16 GM Kotanjian Tigran 2495 ARM 7.5
17 Bolourchifard Farzad 2229 IRI 7.5
18 FM Sadeh Shahin 2273 IRI 7.5
19 Delavari Amirali 2049 IRI 7.5
20 Bagheri Maziar 2252 IRI 7.5

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