Texas Tech Knight Raider IM Gabor Papp is closing on his third and final GM norm in Croatia. After 8 (of 9) rounds, his performance is 2642. He needs a draw against GM Brkić Ante with Black in the final round to clinch his GM title.

If he is successful, he would be the 3rd Texas Tech Knight Raider in the past 6 months to become a GM (Davorin Kuljasevic and Gergely Antal).

Here are his results so far:

Kolo SNo Ime RtgI FED Bod. Rez. we w-we K rtg+/-
1 41 FM Đurović Goran 2328 CRO 4,0 s 1 0,76 0,24 10 2,40
2 3 GM Stević Hrvoje 2621 CRO 4,5 w ½ 0,37 0,13 10 1,30
3 5 GM Kovačević Aleksandar 2594 SRB 5,5 s ½ 0,41 0,09 10 0,90
4 10 GM Sedlak Nikola 2546 SRB 5,0 w 1 0,47 0,53 10 5,30
5 1 GM Berkes Ferenc 2680 HUN 5,5 s 0 0,29 -0,29 10 -2,90
6 2 GM Predojević Borki 2632 BIH 5,5 w ½ 0,36 0,14 10 1,40
7 23 IM Kovačević Blažimir 2447 CRO 4,0 s 1 0,61 0,39 10 3,90
8 14 GM Jovanović Zoran 2527 CRO 5,5 w ½ 0,50 0,00 10 0,00
9 8 GM Brkić Ante 2564 CRO 4,5 s

Full tournament results here: http://www.crochess.com/turniri/zadar/10/index.shtm

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