The 14th Sautron Chess Open was held from 25th October to 1st November 2014 in Sautron, a commune in the Loire-Atlantique département in western France.
The event was a 9-round Swiss with a time control 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the rest of the game plus 30 seconds increment starting from move one.
French GM Maxime Lagarde emerged a clear winner on 7.5/9 points, leaving the nearest followers half point behind.
Second place was shared in a three-way tie by GM Nikita Maiorov (Belarus), FM Pierre Barbot (France) and IM Dragos-Nicolae Dumitrache (Romania) on 6.5 points each, but Maiorov prevailed on a better tie-break score and took the silver, while Barbot got third. You can replay the games below with triple engine analysis.
Official website/ LIVE games with analysis/ Previous report: GM Lagarde and IM Koziak lead Sautron Open 2014
Top standings after 9 rounds:
1 g LAGARDE Maxime 2566 F SenM FRA IDF Clichy-Echecs-92 7½
2 g MAIOROV Nikita 2583 F SenM BLR 7
3 f BARBOT Pierre 2440 F JunM FRA IDF Clichy-Echecs-92 7
4 m DUMITRACHE Dragos-Nicolae 2413 F SenM ROU PDL Club d’Echecs de Sautron 7
5 m TERRIEUX Kevin 2409 F SenM FRA LOR Club d’Echecs Metz Fischer 6½
6 m LOISEAU Quentin 2354 F JunM FRA IDF C.E. de Rueil Malmaison 6½
7 g ZUBAREV Alexander 2588 F SenM UKR IDF Chess 15 6½
8 m BAILET Pierre 2485 F SenM FRA LOR Vandoeuvre-Echecs 6½
9 LE RUYET Leopold 2242 F SenM FRA IDF U.S.Villejuif Echecs 6½
10 m LEJARRE Ludovic 2361 F SenM FRA BRE Rennes Paul Bert 6½
11 LE PEN Steven 1937 F CadM FRA PDL Club d’Echecs de la Bruffière 6½
12 m KOZIAK Vitali 2456 F SenM UKR IDF C.E. de Bois-Colombes 6
13 m IDER Borya 2394 F SenM FRA ALS Mulhouse Philidor 6
14 g NEELOTPAL Das 2424 F SenM IND 6
15 m SHIRAZI Kamran 2367 F VetM FRA IDF Tremblay en France 6
Impressive.