4-Way Tie At The Doeberl Cup
The 50th Doeberl Cup took place from 5-9 April in Canberra, Australia.
The main 'Premier' event ended with 4 players level on a score of 7 points from a 9-round Swiss competition with 80 entrants.
The Hungarian GM Adam Horvath took first place thanks to a superior tie-break score, after drawing with GM Gergely Szabo in the final round.
Indian IM Rathnakaran won his final round game against his compatriot IM Karthikeyan to earn a GM norm and finish among the top scorers on 7 points. Top seed GM Levente Vajda of Romania also won his last game to finish on 7 points.
More details are available at the official website www.doeberlcup.com.au including round-by round video summaries from GM Ian Rodgers and Macauley Peterson.
The top scores in the 2012 Doeberl Premier:
| Name | Elo | Fed | Pts | TB1 | TB2 | ||
| 1 | GM | Horvath Adam | 2487 | HUN | 7.0 | 54.0 | 49.5 |
| 2 | GM | Szabo Gergely-Andras | 2553 | ROU | 7.0 | 52.0 | 48.0 |
| 3 | GM | Vajda Levente | 2597 | ROU | 7.0 | 50.5 | 47.0 |
| 4 | IM | Rathnakaran K. | 2410 | IND | 7.0 | 50.5 | 46.5 |
| 5 | IM | Karthikeyan P. | 2414 | IND | 6.5 | 53.0 | 49.5 |
| 6 | GM | Rodriguez Cepedes Am | 2440 | ESP | 6.0 | 51.5 | 48.0 |
| 7 | IM | Solomon Stephen J. | 2375 | AUS | 6.0 | 49.0 | 45.0 |
| 8 | IM | Yang Kaiqi | 2360 | CHN | 6.0 | 47.5 | 44.0 |
| 9 | IM | Lane Gary W. | 2368 | AUS | 6.0 | 46.0 | 44.0 |
| 10 | IM | Zeng Chongsheng | 2435 | CHN | 6.0 | 46.0 | 42.5 |
| 11 | GM | Czebe Attila | 2477 | HUN | 6.0 | 45.0 | 42.0 |
| 12 | IM | Akshat Khamparia | 2411 | IND | 6.0 | 44.5 | 41.0 |
| 13 | IM | Morris James | 2354 | AUS | 6.0 | 42.0 | 38.5 |
| 14 | IM | Ly Moulthun | 2402 | AUS | 6.0 | 40.0 | 36.5 |
