TWIC 974(CAN) INDEX July 9 2013

Introduction
TWIC is the work of Mark Crowther.

V4 Int Open ch-SVK 2013
IM Krnan(CAN),GM Banusz(HUN),IM Nagy(HUN),IM Bokros(HUN) are amongst a large group with 3/3.

GM Banusz(front right)

Photo-Gallery

Overall Standings

Rk.		Name	FED	FIDE	Pts.
1	GM	Banusz Tamas	HUN	2588	3
2	GM	Michalik Peter	SVK	2579	3
3	GM	Markos Jan	SVK	2580	3
4	IM	Nagy Gabor	HUN	2449	3
5	WGM	Kocetkova Julia	SVK	2328	3
6	IM	Bokros Albert	HUN	2439	3
7	IM	Krnan Tomas	CAN	2411	3
8	GM	Manik Mikulas	SVK	2412	3
9	IM	Pinter Erik	SVK	2364	3
10	GM	Likavsky Tomas	SVK	2458	3
11	IM	Macak Stefan	SVK	2374	3
12		Dzikowski Michal	POL	1904	3

World Open 2013-See Photo Gallery

Winner GM Varuzhan Akobian

GM Ray Robson

Canadian players

IM Cheng, B

FM Kleinman

Thavandiran

Prilleltensky

etc

Report-ChessDom

GM Varuzhan Akobian wins World Chess Open in Armageddon play-off

The 41st Annual World Open was held on June 29th – July 7th, 2013, at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City, 2799 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, Virginia.

A 10-way tie for first place in the Open Section led to an Armageddon play-off game between the two players with the best tie-break scores.

This game was contested by GM Quesada Yuniesky, with white, against GM Varuzhan Akobian. Yuniesky had 5 minutes to Akobian’s 3 minutes and draw odds. The play-off game finished in a draw and GM Varuzhan Akobian became the 2013 World Open Champion.(more)

Benasque 2013(Previously covered on blog)

FM Humphreys and others from Annex CC.

DC International 2013(Previously covered on blog)

IM Cheng B

Edmonton International 2013(Previously covered on blog)

GM Hansen