Vladivostok in Russian Far East is currently holding a series of summer chess events. The festival opened with Tikhookeanskiy Meridian, 11-round Swiss rapid tournament with the time control 15 min + 10 sec.
Among 76 participants, Grandmasters Grigoriy Oparin, Dmitry Kokarev and Ivan Rozum shared the first place with 9,0/11 points each, leaving the nearest followers a full point behind. Oparin took the winner’s trophy on best tie-break.
The events following the rapid are “Primorskiy Debyut” with standard time control – a stage of the Russian Cup, Student’s Grand Prix at Far East Federal University with participants from Vietnam, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, Ukraine, Tajikistan and Russia, and finally the stage of the Russian Youth Cup – “Ostrov Russkiy”.
Winners of the Tikhookeanskiy Meridian 2016
Updates are being posted on the RCF website
Tikhookeanskiy Meridian 2016 final standings: (top 15)
1 GM Oparin Grigoriy RUS 2597 – 9
2 GM Kokarev Dmitry RUS 2605 – 9
3 GM Rozum Ivan RUS 2575 – 9
4 FM Yanchenko Roman RUS 2471 – 8
5 GM Goganov Aleksey RUS 2541 – 8
6 GM Batchuluun Tsegmed MGL 2509 – 7.5
7 GM Bocharov Dmitry RUS 2615 – 7.5
8 GM Smirnov Pavel RUS 2606 – 7.5
9 Obodenko Amir RUS 2195 – 7.5
10 Lian Yury RUS 2236 – 7.5
11 FM Keosidi Konstantin RUS 2451 – 7
12 FM Sutormin Danila RUS 2344 – 7
13 IM Kravtsov Sergey RUS 2321 – 7
14 FM Ovchinnikov Vsevolod RUS 2328 – 7
15 IM Pevzner Lev RUS 2353 – 7
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