Praggnanandhaa wins Reykjavik Chess 2022

13 Apr, 2022by gprevenasΣκακιστικά νέα

An eventful Kvika Reykjavik Open came to an end yesterday as 245 players from 39 countries played their final moves of the event. The Indian sensation Praggnanandhaa was the soler winner clocking in with an impressive 7½ pionts in the 9 rounds.

The prize giving ceremony was held at the Reykjavik Ciy Hall and Pawel Bartoszek, member of city council, welcomed players with some impressive flexing of his chess vocabulary when he weaved in that he didn’t rage quit and how his opening repertoire had stayed the same for too long. He gave out the prizes along with ICF president Gunnar Bjornsson and vice president Jóhanna Björg Jóhannsdóttir.

The players above finished in 2nd.-5th after the dramatic final round. 7 points was the final score for Hjörvar Steinn Grétarsson (2548) Iceland, Max Warmerdam (2599), Netherlands, Mads Andersen (2582), Denmark and Mishra Abhimanyu (2524), USA, the youngest GM in the world.

The prize winners were as follows

Main Prizes

Rank	Title	Name	Ctr	Elo	Pts	Prize
1	GM	Praggnanandhaa R	IND	2624	7.5	5000
2	GM	Warmerdam Max	NED	2599	7	1581
3	GM	Andersen Mads	DEN	2582	7	1206
4	GM	Gretarsson Hjorvar Steinn	ISL	2542	7	981
5	GM	Mishra Abhimanyu	USA	2524	7	881
6	GM	Fier Alexandr	BRA	2573	6.5	318
7	GM	Niemann Hans Moke	USA	2637	6.5	268
	GM	Gupta Abhijeet	IND	2616	6.5	268
9	IM	Larkin Vladyslav	UKR	2424	6.5	268
10	IM	Korley Kassa	DEN	2400	6.5	268
11	GM	Maze Sebastien	FRA	2524	6.5
	IM	Clarke Brandon G I	ENG	2436	6.5
13	IM	Sarkar Justin	USA	2314	6.5
14	IM	Yoo Christopher Woojin	USA	2532	6.5
15	GM	Libiszewski Fabien	FRA	2510	6.5

Seniors (+65)

The legend, Oleg Romanishin was the top finisher for seniors.

Ukrainian Grandmaster Oleg Romanishin (2415) was the winner of the senior category prize.

Rank	Title	Name	Elo	Pts.	Prize.
1	GM	Romanishin Oleg M	2415	5½	400
2	IM	Large Peter G	2293	5½	200
3	IM	Povah Nigel E	2216	5½	150

Juniors(U16)

Mishra Abhimanyu (2524) was top junior..

Rank		Name	Rtg	Pts	Prize.
1	GM	Mishra Abhimanyu	2524	7	250
2	IM	Yoo Christopher Woojin	2532	6½	150
3	GM	Gukesh D	2637	6	100

Womens prizes

Indian chess queen Tania Sachdev (2392) had a very good tournament and won the women’s prize. Anna Cramling also had a good tournament.

Rank		Name	Rtg	Pts	Prize.
1	IM	Tania Sachdev	2392	6	750
2	IM	Brunello Marina	2337	5½	450
3	WFM	Cramling Bellon Anna	2057	5½	300

Rating category (2201-2400)

Danish/American IM Kassa Korley (2400) was the highest sub 2400.

Rank		Name	Rtg	Pts	Prize.
1	IM	Korley Kassa	2400	6½	250
2	IM	Sarkar Justin	2314	6½	150
3	IM	Song Julien	2373	6	100

Rating category (2201-2400)

German Vitaliy Garbuz came out on top in sub 2200 category

Rank	Name	Rtg	Pts	Res.
1	Garbuz Vitaliy	2142	6	250
2	Zysko Jan	2110	5½	150
3	Player Edmund C	2196	5½	100

Rating category (0-2000)

Vignesh Anand (1829) was the highest placed finisher sub 2000.

Rank	Name	Rtg	Pts	Prize
1	Anand Vignesh	1829	5½	250
2	Filipovich David	1975	5½	150
3	Hartmann Wolfgang Dr.	1927	5½	100

Best performance according to rating

Birkir Hallmundarson 574 (1736-1162) – €250
Tómas Möller 517 (1857-1340) – €150
Þorsteinn Jakob F Þorsteinsson 457 (1851-1394) – €100

The Icelandic Chess Federation thanks all the 245 players that participated in Harpa, we hope to see you again soon!

Special thanks go to the main sponsors of the tourney, The city of Reykjavik, Kvika and FIDE were the biggest sponsors and we are very grateful, without their support a tournament of this size and class is not possible!