Close Finish In Capelle-la-Grande
The Cappelle-la-Grande 2013 tournament took place from 23 February - 2 March in France. The tournament was a strong and huge 9-round Swiss Open with over 550 players taking part!
The competition finished with Sanan Sjugirov of Russia as a narrow winner on tie-break after no less than 8 players scored a total of 7/9 points.
Top seed Krishnan Sasikiran finished in 44th place, despite being only 1 point behind the leaders.
The playing hall at Cappelle-la-Grande
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The top standings
| # | Name | Fed | Elo | Pts | TB1 | TB2 |
| 1 | SJUGIROV Sanan | RUS | 2646 | 7.0 | 45.5 | 2747 |
| 2 | NEGI Parimarjan | IND | 2638 | 7.0 | 44.5 | 2724 |
| 3 | RODSHTEIN Maxim | ISR | 2616 | 7.0 | 44.0 | 2749 |
| 4 | FEDORCHUK Sergey | UKR | 2643 | 7.0 | 44.0 | 2697 |
| 5 | HANSEN Eric | CAN | 2557 | 7.0 | 44.0 | 2679 |
| 6 | JIANU Vlad-Cristian | ROU | 2500 | 7.0 | 43.0 | 2698 |
| 7 | FEDOROV Alexei | BLR | 2576 | 7.0 | 42.5 | 2702 |
| 8 | VOVK Yuri | UKR | 2594 | 7.0 | 41.5 | 2696 |
| 9 | GHARAMIAN Tigran | FRA | 2661 | 6.5 | 45.5 | 2708 |
| 10 | GUREVICH Mikhail | TUR | 2581 | 6.5 | 44.0 | 2646 |
| 11 | DJUKIC Nikola | MNE | 2538 | 6.5 | 44.0 | 2632 |
| 12 | PETKOV Vladimir | BUL | 2559 | 6.5 | 43.5 | 2648 |
| 13 | TER-SAHAKYAN Samvel | ARM | 2563 | 6.5 | 43.0 | 2638 |
| 14 | VAZQUEZ IGARZA Renier | ESP | 2565 | 6.5 | 43.0 | 2614 |
| 15 | ROZENTALIS Eduardas | LTU | 2613 | 6.5 | 42.0 | 2596 |
| 16 | GRIGORYAN Karen | ARM | 2531 | 6.5 | 41.5 | 2639 |
| 17 | ITURRIZAGA Eduardo | VEN | 2646 | 6.5 | 41.5 | 2610 |
| 18 | KHARITONOV Alexandr | RUS | 2536 | 6.5 | 40.5 | 2608 |
| 19 | BOROVIKOV Vladislav | UKR | 2557 | 6.5 | 39.5 | 2612 |
| 20 | BARYSHPOLETS Andrey | UKR | 2526 | 6.5 | 39.5 | 2551 |
| 21 | VOVK Andrey | UKR | 2564 | 6.5 | 39.5 | 2544 |
| 22 | NABATY Tamir | ISR | 2573 | 6.5 | 39.5 | 2542 |
| 23 | GAJEK Radoslaw | POL | 2273 | 6.5 | 38.5 | 2552 |
| 24 | NINOV Nikolai | BUL | 2520 | 6.5 | 38.5 | 2464 |
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The full results table can be found here. The time control was 40 moves in 90 minutes, then 30 minutes to a finish with a 30 second increment from the start.
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Photo from the official website. Games via TWIC.
