Title and GM norm for Frode Urkedal at 7th Manacor GM Tournament

The 7th Manacor GM Chess Tournament was held from February 21st to February 28th 2016, in Porto Christo, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

The event was a 10-player single round-robin tournament, valid for GM norms.

The 23-year-old Norwegian player IM Frode Urkedal emerged a convincing winner with 7/9 points and Elo performance of 2715. He fulfilled a GM norm and added 24 new Elo points to his rating.

Three players remained two points behind the winner to share the second place: IM Daniil Yuffa from Russia, GM Olexandr Bortnyk from Ukraine and GM Kirill Stupak from Belarus. They scored 5/9 points each, but Yuffa prevailed on better tie-break criteria to take the silver while Bortnyk remained third.

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Final standings:

1 IM Urkedal Frode 2507 NOR 7
2 IM Yuffa Daniil 2516 RUS 5
3 GM Bortnyk Olexandr 2554 UKR 5
4 GM Stupak Kirill 2537 BLR 5
5 GM Burmakin Vladimir 2556 RUS 4.5
6 IM Tan Justin 2440 AUS 4.5
7 FM Santos Ruiz Miguel 2418 ESP 4
8 IM Stremavicius Titas 2468 LTU 3.5
9 IM Salomon Johan 2450 NOR 3.5
10 IM Pardo Simon David 2512 ESP 3