The 2015 Hungarian Rapid Chess Championship took place on December 28th and gathered 70 players. The event was played in a 9-round Swiss format with time control 15’ + 10” and average Elo rating of 2181.
The 16-year-old prodigy IM Benjamin Gledura emerged a solo winner with 7.5 points, leaving no less than eight grandmasters behind.
Gledura played at performance 2656 and added 36 new Elo points to his rating.
The second place was shared in a three-way tie by GM Tamas Banusz, GM Imre Balog and GM Csaba Horvath at 7 points each.
WGM Petra Papp was the best female participant with 5.5 points and 18th place at the final ranking.
Final standings (top 25):
1 IM Gledura Benjamin 2492 HUN 7.5
2 GM Banusz Tamas 2516 HUN 7
3 GM Balog Imre 2565 HUN 7
4 GM Horvath Csaba 2559 HUN 7
5 GM Erdos Viktor 2627 HUN 6.5
6 GM Papp Gabor 2569 HUN 6.5
7 IM Farago Sandor 2273 HUN 6.5
8 GM Medvegy Zoltan 2542 HUN 6
9 IM Vertetics Attila 2416 HUN 6
10 GM Horvath Peter 2434 HUN 6
11 IM Kiss Pal 2307 HUN 6
12 IM Hujbert Florian 2453 HUN 6
13 IM Lizak Peter 2399 HUN 5.5
14 IM Kantor Gergely 2327 HUN 5.5
15 Reznak Attila 2342 HUN 5.5
16 FM Juhasz Kristof 2295 HUN 5.5
17 IM Szalanczy Emil 2262 HUN 5.5
18 WGM Papp Petra 2293 HUN 5.5
19 Kormos Adam 2171 HUN 5.5
20 FM Mihok Laszlo 2076 HUN 5.5
21 IM Meszaros Andras 2283 HUN 5
22 FM Ress Tamas 2333 HUN 5
23 Grimm Gyorgy 2057 HUN 5
24 GM Farago Ivan 2403 HUN 5
25 IM Dory Jeno 2256 HUN 5