The 2015 Alkaloid Rapid Open was organized by Chess Club Alkaloid, Skopje and FYROM Chess Federation on December 6th, at the luxurious 4-star Hotel Continental, situated in Skopje.
The event was a 9-round Swiss FIDE international rapid open chess tournament with tempo of play 15’ + 5”. Total of 147 players from Bulgaria, FYROM, Poland and Serbia took part in the competition, including 9 GMs, 8 IMs and 14 FMs.
IM Filip Pancevski emerged a convincing winner with 8/9 points, leaving the nearest followers a full point behind. He scored 8 victories and only one loss against his country-mate GM Vlatko Bogdanovski. The winner played at Elo performance of 2647 and added 30 new Elo points to his rating.
The second place was shared in a seven-way tie by GM Boban Bogosavljevic, FM Stanoje Jovic, FM Ljubomir Biljanic, IM Boroljub Zlatanovic, GM Miroslav Miljkovic, Lyubomir Danov and IM Dejan Stojanovski, on 7 points each.
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Final standings (top 40):
1 IM Pancevski Filip MKD 2507 8
2 GM Bogosavljevic Boban SRB 2579 7
3 FM Jovic Stanoje SRB 2284 7
4 FM Biljanic Ljubomir SRB 2338 7
5 IM Zlatanovic Boroljub SRB 2461 7
6 GM Miljkovic Miroslav D SRB 2525 7
7 Danov Lyubomir BUL 2356 7
8 IM Stojanovski Dejan MKD 2441 7
9 GM Bogdanovski Vlatko MKD 2381 6.5
10 GM Nedev Trajko MKD 2482 6.5
11 Djordjevic Vuk SRB 2418 6.5
12 GM Tosic Miroslav SRB 2419 6.5
13 IM Nikolov Sasho BUL 2337 6.5
14 GM Drenchev Petar BUL 2503 6.5
15 GM Stanojoski Zvonko MKD 2423 6.5
16 IM Novoselski Zoran SRB 2389 6
17 IM Milenkovic Mladen SRB 2298 6
18 FM Ristic Nebojsa B SRB 2302 6
19 IM Kiroski Toni MKD 2285 6
20 FM Nikolovski Nikola MKD 2293 6
21 Kalisi Nazim MKD 0 6
22 Livaja Mario SRB 2289 6
23 Stoinev Metodi BUL 2221 6
24 Gjorgjieski Dejan MKD 2188 6
25 FM Stojcevski Zoran MKD 2350 6
26 FM Andonovski Ljubisa MKD 2280 6
27 Stojkoski Acko MKD 2102 6
28 GM Jacimovic Dragoljub MKD 2374 5.5
29 GM Kutirov Rolando MKD 2331 5.5
30 FM Veleski Robert MKD 2280 5.5
31 FM Dinev Dejan MKD 2305 5.5
32 WFM Stojkovska Monika MKD 2016 5.5
33 Konstantinov Aleksandar MKD 1958 5.5
34 Petrov Georgi SRB 2185 5.5
35 FM Kralevski Aleksander MKD 2209 5.5
36 Sali Sahmedin MKD 1913 5.5
37 FM Stefanovski Dushan MKD 2257 5.5
38 FM Petkovski Vlatko MKD 2129 5.5
39 Lika Jakup MKD 1941 5.5
40 FM Ilic Ljubomir MKD 2132 5.5