Vahap Sanal wins Fagernes GM Open 2023, Abhimanyu Puranik second
GM Abhimanyu Puranik drew with GM Eduardas Rozentalis (LTU) in the final round of Fagernes GM Open 2023. GM Vahap Sanal defeated GM Aditya Mittal. Both Vahap and Abhimanyu finished with the same score 7.5/9. Vahap won the tournament due to better tie-breaks and Abhimanyu was adjudged second. Both received €2000 each as the prize money gets shared among players in the same point group. GM Samvel Ter-Sahalyan (ARM) scored sole 7/9 to finish third. He earned €800. GM Sethuraman S P made a strong comeback to finish fifth on tie-breaks scoring 6.5/9. IM Koustav Chatterjee and GM Aditya Mittal are the only two other Indians to make a top ten finish at seventh and eighth place scoring 6/9 each. Photo: Tom Eriksen
A successful event for the Indians
It has been quite a successful event for the Indian players as WIM Savitha Shri B became India's latest WGM and also earned an IM-norm. FM Tanmay Chopra and Sanket Chakravarty also scored their respective maiden IM-norms. IM Kushagra Mohan won the Slow Blitz event.
Apart from sharing the second prize in Best female category, IM Vantika Agrawal also won the Female player with the highest rating performance prize.
Norm makers list:
IM Tor Fredrik Kaasen (NOR) - GM-norm, FM Benny Aizenberg (ISR) and FM Aksel Bu Kvaløy (NOR) - IM-norm, WGM Vantika Agrawal scored a fourth IM-norm. She has already become an IM last month.
A total of 92 players including 14 GMs, 21 IMs, 2 WGMs and a WIM took part from 25 countries across the world in the GM (>2000) Open section. The tournament was organized by IO IA Hans Olav Lahlum in cooperation with Sotra SK and Innlandet Sjakkrets from 2nd to 9th April 2023 at Scandic Valdres hotel in Fagernes, Norway. The nine-round Swiss league tournament had a time control of 100 minutes/40 moves + 40 minutes/rest with 30 seconds increment from move no. 1.
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Round 9 results
Final standings
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Abhimanyu Puranik on the verge of winning Fagernes GM Open 2023
@ 09/04/2023 by Shahid Ahmed (en) |
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Fagernes GM Open 2023 R7: Abhimanyu Puranik gains sole lead
@ 08/04/2023 by Shahid Ahmed (en) |
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Fagernes GM Open 2023 R6: Samvel makes it a three-way with Vahap and Abhimanyu
@ 07/04/2023 by Shahid Ahmed (en) |
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Fagernes GM Open 2023 R4-5: Abhimanyu Puranik and Vahap Sanal are the coleaders
@ 06/04/2023 by Shahid Ahmed (en) |
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Fagernes GM Open 2023 R3: Abhimanyu, Koustav, Savitha and Sanket make a perfect start 3/3
@ 05/04/2023 by Shahid Ahmed (en) |
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Fagernes GM Open 2023 R1-2: Savitha and Vantika slay top GMs
@ 04/04/2023 by Shahid Ahmed (en) |