The Opatija International Open 2013 took place on June 29th – July 7th at the Grand Hotel Adriatica, Marsala Tita 200, Opatija – Croatia.
Croatian GM Marin Bosiocic arrived as the second seed and dominated the event from start to finish. He obtained a remarkable 8.5/9 score to take home the 1.000 Euros first prize.
Bosiocic only drew his sixth round game against Italian Angelo Salmoiraghi and won the rest of the games. His rating performance was 2680, which will add 9 rating points in the next FIDE rating list.
The surprise of the event was 14-years old Croatian Sven Tica, who got second place with 6.5 points. He edged first seed GM Andrey Shariyazdanov (third place) and Russian IM Boris Fradkin on tiebreaks.
Prizes (in €): 1000, 600, 300, 150, 100, 50.
Final Standings:
1 GM Bosiocic Marin CRO 2556 8.5
2 Tica Sven CRO 2037 6.5
3 GM Shariyazdanov Andrey RUS 2579 6.5
4 IM Fradkin Boris RUS 2426 6.5
5 FM Plenca Julijan CRO 2351 6
6 WIM Franciskovic Borka CRO 2277 6
7 Juranic Bruno CRO 2184 6
8 CM Muhsen Abdulla.Mohmmed IRQ 2203 6
9 Pezelj Sinisa SRB 2172 6
10 IM Zsinka Laszlo HUN 2261 6
Impressive!