Nisipeanu and Volkov joint winners in Ortisei

Top seeded Grandmasters Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu (Romania) and Sergey Volkov (Russia) concluded the second Ortisei Open on the top of the crosstable with 7,0/9 points.

The 2nd Server24 Chess Festival Ortisei 2013 was held on 1-9th June in Ortisei, Val Gardena, South Tyrol, Italy.

Five players shared the third place with 6,5 points, including the talented Canadian juniors Eric Hansen and Aman Hambleton. Rounding up the good performance for team Canada Elias Oussedik won the top U2100 prize.

After the World Chess Championship Match in Merano 1981 between Karpov and Korchnoi this event is the biggest tournament in the history of South Tyrol chess since the Second World War.  

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Final standings: (top finishers)

1. GM Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter ROU 2667 – 7
2. GM Volkov Sergey RUS 2613 – 7
3. GM Khenkin Igor GER 2601 – 6.5
4. GM Hansen Eric CAN 2577 – 6.5
5. GM Levin Felix GER 2497 – 6.5
6. IM Hambleton Aman CAN 2461 – 6.5
7. GM Popilski Gil ISR 2515 – 6.5
8. IM Warakomski Tomasz POL 2488 – 6
9. GM Kveinys Aloyzas LTU 2479 – 6
10. IM Collutiis Duilio ITA 2465 – 6
11. GM Sundararajan Kidambi IND 2428 – 6
12. IM Codenotti Marco ITA 2390 – 5.5
13. IM Saravanan V. IND 2371 – 5.5
14. FM Boscolo Federico ITA 2314 – 5.5
15. FM Bertagnolli Alexander ITA 2329 – 5.5
16. FM Cocchi Andrea ITA 2304 – 5.5
17. IM Solomon Kenny RSA 2414 – 5.5
18. GM Burmakin Vladimir RUS 2575 – 5
19. WGM Szczepkowska-Horowska Karina POL 2375 – 5
20. WGM Fierro Baquero Martha ECU 2365 – 5