GM Ulibin wins International Championship of Central Serbia

The 6th International Chess Festival “Sport Summer 2013″ took place on July 5-12th in Hotel Petrus in Paraćin, Serbia. The main event was International Championship of Central Serbia, a 9-round Swiss tournament with FIDE time control.

There were three events, OPEN A for players rated higher then 2100 and OPEN B for the lower rated players. In addition, the 9th “Uroš Dinić” Memorial was held on Sunday, July 7th, as 15-min rapid tournament.

Russian Grandmaster Mikhail Ulibin repeated his earlier success and emerged clear winner of the main Open A with 7,5/9 points. In the last round Ulibin defeated GM Suat Atalik with black pieces. Ulibin also won the International Championship of Central Serbia in 2011.

Grandmasters Igor Miladinovic, Borko Lajthajm (Serbia) and Evgeny Gleizerov (Russia) shared the second place with 7,0 points each. Full standings below.

In the Open B the 14-years old Janko Radovic finished convincing winner with 8,0 points, leaving the second placed Jovan Rasic half a point behind. Rasic started furiously with 6/6, but Radovic beat him in the 7th round in what turned out to be the decisive game of the tournament.

In the Uroš Dinić Memorial Grandmasters Branko Damljanovic and Borko Lajthajm shared the first place with 7,5/9 points each. GM Suat Atalik and IM Bosko Tomic shared the third place half a point behind the winners.

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Open A final standings (top finishers):

1. GM Ulibin Mikhail RUS 2529 – 7.5

2. GM Miladinovic Igor SRB 2558 – 7
3. GM Lajthajm Borko SRB 2477 – 7
4. GM Gleizerov Evgeny RUS 2553 – 7

5. IM Tomic Bosko BIH 2425 – 6.5
6. GM Olszewski Michal POL 2551 – 6.5

7. GM Damljanovic Branko SRB 2544 – 6
8. GM Mista Aleksander POL 2579 – 6
9. GM Kasparov Sergey BLR 2470 – 6
10. GM Atalik Suat TUR 2568 – 6
11. GM Drenchev Petar BUL 2483 – 6
12. GM Savic Miodrag R SRB 2529 – 6
13. IM Arsovic Zoran SRB 2417 – 6
14. IM Atalik Ekaterina TUR 2430 – 6
15. IM Strzemiecki Zbigniew POL 2431 – 6

16. GM Bogdanovski Vlatko MKD 2435 – 5.5
17. IM Nestorovic Dejan SRB 2411 – 5.5
18. IM Kadric Denis BIH 2459 – 5.5
19. IM Kuzmicz Krystian POL 2470 – 5.5
20. IM Nenezic Marko SRB 2391 – 5.5
21. Zajic Milan SRB 2272 – 5.5
22. FM Dimic Pavle SRB 2218 – 5.5

23. GM Abramovic Bosko SRB 2427 – 5
24. IM Nestorovic Lazar SRB 2394 – 5
25. GM Kosic Dragan MNE 2490 – 5
26. FM Tosic Srecko SRB 2389 – 5
27. IM Cioara Andrei-Nestor ROU 2465 – 5
28. IM Stojanovski Dejan MKD 2439 – 5
29. Ratkovic Milovan SRB 2315 – 5
30. FM Cerovic Danilo SRB 2340 – 5