Groningen Chess Festival

Submitted by SonofPearl on Thu, 01/05/2012 at 2:09am.

The 49th Groningen Chess Festival ran from 21-30 December 2011. The main event was a 9-round Swiss competition which was won by Ukrainian Alexander Kovchan on tie-break from Robert Hess of the USA after both finished on a score of 7/9.

Robert Hess (middle left) and Alexander Kovchan (middle right)

The time control was 90 minutes for 30 moves, with a 30 second increment. The top finishers:

	Name	Nat	Elo	Pts
1	Kovchan, Alexander	UKR	2573	7.0
2	Hess, Robert L	USA	2625	7.0
3	Tiviakov, Sergei	NED	2650	6.5
4	Zherebukh, Yaroslav	UKR	2594	6.5
5	Rapport, Richard	HUN	2534	6.0
6	Ruck, Robert	HUN	2579	6.0
7	Romanov, Evgeny	RUS	2627	6.0
8	Durarbeyli, Vasif	AZE	2539	6.0
9	Ernst, Sipke	NED	2593	5.5
10	Poetsch, Hagen	GER	2408	5.5
11	Michalik, Peter	SVK	2509	5.5
12	Michiels, Bart	BEL	2492	5.5
13	Klein, David	NED	2378	5.5
14	Naroditsky, Daniel	USA	2472	5.5
15	Plat, Vojtech	CZE	2425	5.5
16	Bok, Benjamin	NED	2513	5.5
17	Hoffmann, Michael	GER	2499	5.5
18	Brandenburg, Daan	NED	2519	5.5
19	Pijpers, Arthur	NED	2332	5.0
20	Thesing, Matthias	GER	2409	5.0
21	Georgiadis, Nico	SUI	2316	5.0
22	Assendelft van, Floris	NED	2357	5.0