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Sunday 14 July 2013

Swedish Chess Championship 2013, Örebro 6-14 July


Swedish chess championship is going into the final round. There are 10 GM's rated 2500+ and you can read some names which maybe familiar to you like Tiger Hillarp Persson, Stellan Brynell or Jonny Hector.
The standings before the last round looked like that:


Place
Name
Nation
Rating
Club
Points
1
Grandelius Nils
SWE
2573
Lunds Ask
6
2
Tikkanen Hans
SWE
2528
Lunds Ask
5.5
3
Hillarp Persson T
SWE
2528
Lunds Ask
4.5
4
Smith Axel
SWE
2461
Lunds Ask
4.5
5
Cramling Pia
SWE
2524
Team Viking
4
6
Brynell Stellan
SWE
2484
Limhamns Sk
3.5
7
Wiedenkeller M
LUX
2475
Rockaden Sthlm
3.5
8
Hector Jonny
SWE
2509
Limhamns Sk
3
9
Lindberg Bengt
SWE
2410
Solna Ss
3
10
Carlsson Pontus
SWE
2516
Eksjö Sk
2.5


Just to give you a flavour how tough these Norses can be let me show you the game between Tiger Hillarp Persson who is know because of his contributions to the theory of the Modern Defence and one of the famous Swedish GM's Jonny Hector.





And here are the games of the last round.




GM Hans Tikkanen
Hans Tikkanen and Nils Grandelius finished on the top of the leaderboard, both with 6½ points but because of better Sonneborn-Berger-Tie-Break variable the Swedish chess champion for year 2013 is Hans Tikkanen.












Final Standings

Place
Name
Nation
Rating
Club
Points
TB1
TB2
TB3
1
Tikkanen Hans
SWE
2528
Lunds Ask
6.5
0
0.5
26.8
2
Grandelius Nils
SWE
2573
Lunds Ask
6.5
0
0.5
25.8
3
Hillarp Persson Tiger
SWE
2528
Lunds Ask
5.0
0
0.5
21.8
4
Smith Axel
SWE
2461
Lunds Ask
5.0
0
0.5
17.8
5
Cramling Pia
SWE
2524
Sk Team Viking
4.5
0
0
17.3
6
Brynell Stellan
SWE
2484
Limhamns Sk
4.0
0
0
18.5
7
Wiedenkeller Michael
LUX
2475
Sk Rockaden, Sthlm
3.5
0
0
13.8
8
Carlsson Pontus
SWE
2516
Eksjö Sk
3.0
0
1.5
12.3
9
Hector Jonny
SWE
2509
Limhamns Sk
3.0
0
1
12.8
10
Lindberg Bengt
SWE
2410
Solna Ss
3.0
0
0.5
13



























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