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Sunway Sitges Open (2018) The 5th Sunway Sitges Open (Group A) was a 174-player 10-round Swiss tournament held at Hotel Sunway Playa Golf & Spa in Sitges, Spain, 14-23 December 2018. Time control: 90 minutes for the first 40 moves then 30 more minutes to finish the game, with 30 seconds added per move from move 1. If equal number of points after 10 rounds between some of the top 4 Buchholz ranked players, elimination matches (two 5'+ 3" Blitz games + eventually an Armageddon game 6 v 5 min) to be played for the standings. Prize fund: 20,765 euros, with 5,000 euros + trophy to the winner. Rounds 1-9 started at 4:30 pm, Round 10 at 9:30 am local time. Tournament director: Francesc Gonzalez Alonso. Chief arbiter: Eduardo Lopez Rodríguez. Number of games: 820 Classical + 4 Blitz + 2 Armageddon = 826 (of which only 278 were made available). Alvar Alonso Rosell won with 8/10. Inarkiev (2nd) beat Sasikiran ( 3rd) and Sasikiran beat Andreikin (4th) in the Blitz + Armageddon tiebreak games. Official site: https://web.archive.org/web/2018122... Regulations 1: https://web.archive.org/web/2019032... Regulations 2: https://web.archive.org/web/2019032... Chess-Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr383044.... Chess.com: https://www.chess.com/news/view/sun... ChessBase: https://en.chessbase.com/post/sunwa... Chess24: https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-t... TWIC: https://theweekinchess.com/chessnew... FIDE: https://ratings.fide.com/tournament... Previous: Sunway Sitges Open (2017). Next: Sunway Sitges Open (2019)  page 1 of 4; games 1-25 of 94  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. P Llaneza-Vega vs S del Rio de Angelis   ½-½ 22 2018 Sunway Sitges Open B04 Alekhine's Defense, Modern 2. R Praggnanandhaa vs David Suthandram R Manu   ½-½ 50 2018 Sunway Sitges Open B32 Sicilian 3. D Movileanu vs X Xu   ½-½ 49 2018 Sunway Sitges Open B62 Sicilian, Richter-Rauzer 4. Indjic vs P Roy   ½-½ 65 2018 Sunway Sitges Open A40 Queen's Pawn Game 5. D Gordievsky vs V Baghdasaryan   ½-½ 56 2018 Sunway Sitges Open B20 Sicilian 6. A Liang vs R Pogorelov   ½-½ 42 2018 Sunway Sitges Open B11 Caro-Kann, Two Knights, 3...Bg4 7. J Santos Latasa vs V Lillo Castany   ½-½ 38 2018 Sunway Sitges Open D02 Queen's Pawn Game 8. D Garcia Ramos vs Keymer   ½-½ 71 2018 Sunway Sitges Open B90 Sicilian, Najdorf 9. A Stella vs J Ortega Ruiz   ½-½ 125 2018 Sunway Sitges Open E46 Nimzo-Indian 10. D Maloberti vs O Minko   ½-½ 50 2018 Sunway Sitges Open D23 Queen's Gambit Accepted 11. R Edouard vs V Dragnev   ½-½ 19 2018 Sunway Sitges Open E54 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Gligoric System 12. I Blechzin vs Paul Gluckman   ½-½ 38 2018 Sunway Sitges Open D78 Neo-Grunfeld, 6.O-O c6 13. R Pogorelov vs X Xu ½-½ 44 2018 Sunway Sitges Open D85 Grunfeld 14. Romanishin vs D Gordievsky   ½-½ 71 2018 Sunway Sitges Open A40 Queen's Pawn Game 15. F Peralta vs R R Raja   ½-½ 36 2018 Sunway Sitges Open E44 Nimzo-Indian, Fischer Variation, 5.Ne2 16. E Romanov vs B Ahlander   ½-½ 48 2018 Sunway Sitges Open A01 Nimzovich-Larsen Attack 17. D Gordievsky vs A Gual Pascual   ½-½ 42 2018 Sunway Sitges Open E94 King's Indian, Orthodox 18. F Cruz vs Romanishin   ½-½ 37 2018 Sunway Sitges Open E15 Queen's Indian 19. N Pogonina vs J Sarkar   ½-½ 43 2018 Sunway Sitges Open E16 Queen's Indian 20. V Esplugas Esteve vs L de La Fuente   ½-½ 32 2018 Sunway Sitges Open A84 Dutch 21. D Kadric vs R Pogorelov ½-½ 75 2018 Sunway Sitges Open B12 Caro-Kann Defense 22. J Santos Latasa vs R Vasquez Schroeder   ½-½ 10 2018 Sunway Sitges Open A33 English, Symmetrical 23. V Dragnev vs F Peralta   ½-½ 31 2018 Sunway Sitges Open A13 English 24. A Stella vs R Edouard   ½-½ 15 2018 Sunway Sitges Open E47 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3 25. Vocaturo vs K Kulaots   ½-½ 65 2018 Sunway Sitges Open B52 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack  page 1 of 4; games 1-25 of 94    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)     There is no kibitzing for this page, yet.   NOTE: Create an account today to post replies and access other powerful features which are available only to registered users. 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