The 53rd Chess Festival Groningen brought hundreds of chess players of all levels to the city of Groningen from December 21-30, 2015.
The Master event was a 9-round Swiss FIDE tournament open to all players rated above 2000 Elo.
The playing venue was Sportcentrum Rijksuniversiteit & Hanzehogeschool, while the prize fund was in the amount of 6,000 EUR.
Dutch young talent IM Jorden Van Foreest and Indian GM Sundar Shyam tied for the first place at 7.5 points each but Van Foreest prevailed on a better tie-break criteria and took the gold.
The third place was shared in a five-way tie by GM Avital Boruchovsky from Israel, IM Saveliy Golubov from Russia and Dutch players Barry Brink, FM Ivo Maris and IM Stefan Kuipers, after the whole group finished the event with 6.5 points.
WIM Tatiana Kasparova claimed the top female prize with 4.5 points and 36th place in the final standings.
Official website/ Standings and statistics/ LIVE games with analysis
Final standings (top 30):
1 IM Van Foreest, Jorden 7.5 NED M 2547
2 GM Shyam, Sundar M. 7.5 IND M 2485
3 GM Boruchovsky, Avital 6.5 ISR M 2540
4 IM Golubov, Saveliy 6.5 RUS M 2452
5 Brink, Barry 6.5 NED M 2360
6 FM Maris, Ivo 6.5 NED M 2352
7 IM Kuipers, Stefan 6.5 NED M 2398
8 IM Petrov, Nikita 6.0 RUS M 2456
9 GM Kasparov, Sergey 6.0 BLR M 2485
10 FM Baskin, Robert 6.0 GER M 2351
11 GM Werle, Jan 5.5 NED M 2542
12 IM Lobzhanidze, Davit 5.5 GEO M 2425
13 IM De Jong, Migchiel 5.5 NED M 2336
14 Maatman, Nick 5.5 NED M 2258
15 FM Chen, Pengyu 5.5 AUS M 2289
16 FM Warmerdam, Max 5.5 NED M 2335
17 IM Soors, Stef 5.0 BEL M 2398
18 Amesz, Jaap 1st r.pr. 5.0 NED M 2166
19 FM Von Meijenfeldt, Bart 5.0 NED M 2283
20 FM Beerdsen, Thomas 5.0 NED M 2323
21 FM Gedajlovic, Max 5.0 CAN M 2302
22 Van Osch, Mees 5.0 NED M 2289
23 Ypma, Peter 5.0 NED M 2228
24 FM Liu, Yi 5.0 AUS M 2306
25 IM Berkovich, Mark A 5.0 ISR M 2353
26 FM Kevlishvili, Robby 5.0 NED M 2351
27 GM Pruijssers, Roeland 5.0 NED M 2489
28 IM Kerigan, Demre 5.0 TUR M 2374
29 Schoppen, Casper 5.0 NED M 2305
30 Kalaiyalahan, Akshaya 2nd r.pr. 5.0 ENG F 2157
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