The IX International Chess Festival “Baltic Pearl” took place from June 29th to July 7th at the Holiday Resort “Breeze” in Lazy, ul. T-2, 76-032 Lazy K / Koszalin, West – Poland.
Clear favorite Vadim Shishkin finished first with 6.5 points. He did not have an easy task as it was necessary to evaluate the tiebreak scores to put him above two lower-rated local players.
IM Tomask Warakomski and WGM Joanna Majdan-Gajewska finished second and third, respectively.
The first prizes for group A were distributed as follows: 1st – 3.000 Polish zloty; 2nd – 2.500 PLN; 3rd – 2.000 PLN, etc.
Final Standings (top 10):
1 GM SHISHKIN, Vadim UKR 2502 6.5
2 IM WARAKOMSKI, Tomasz POL 2488 6.5
3 WGM MAJDAN-GAJEWSKA, Joanna POL 2375 6.5
4 IM SIECIECHOWICZ, Marcin POL 2462 6
5 k+ WEICHHOLD, Paweł POL 2382 6
6 IM URBAN, Klaudiusz POL 2462 6
7 IM ALIAVDIN, Nikolai BLR 2349 6
8 IM KANAREK, Marcel POL 2478 6
9 k BUGALSKI, Michał POL 2161 5.5
10 I++ EGGINK, Ryszard POL 2121 5.5
Beautiful place for chess.