Richard Rapport Wins Sigeman & Co.
17 year-old Richard Rapport of Hungary won the 21st Annual Sigeman & Co tournament in Malmo on superior tie-breaks from rivals Nigel Short and Nils Grandelius.
All three players finished on 4½/7 points, but Rapport won because the first tie-break was the results between the tied players, and Rapport had beaten Short and tied with Grandelius (Short and Grandelius drew).
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The final standings in Sigeman 2013
Name | Elo | Fed | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Pts |
Rapport, Richard | 2674 | HUN | * | 1 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4.5 |
Short, Nigel | 2681 | ENG | 0 | * | 1 | ½ | 1 | ½ | 1 | ½ | 4.5 |
Grandelius, Nils | 2556 | SWE | ½ | 0 | * | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 1 | 4.5 |
Sokolov, Ivan | 2642 | NED | ½ | ½ | 0 | * | ½ | 1 | 1 | ½ | 4.0 |
Van Wely, Loek | 2689 | NED | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | * | 1 | ½ | 1 | 4.0 |
Tikkanen, Hans | 2537 | SWE | 1 | ½ | ½ | 0 | 0 | * | ½ | 1 | 3.5 |
Berg, Emanuel | 2561 | SWE | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ½ | ½ | * | 1 | 2.0 |
Hector, Jonny | 2512 | SWE | 0 | ½ | 0 | ½ | 0 | 0 | 0 | * | 1.0 |
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Richard Rapport at Tata Steel this year where he was runner-up in the B Group
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Games via TWIC.