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Sunway Sitges Open (2021) The 8th Sunway Sitges Open (Group A) was a 275-player 10-round Swiss tournament held at Hotel Sunway Playa Golf & Spa in Sitges, Spain, 13-23 December 2021. Rest day: 18 December (before Round 6). 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. No draw until move 31 without the consent of the arbiter. If equal number of points after 10 rounds, the top 8 Buchholz ranked players to play elimination matches (two 5'+ 3" Blitz games + eventually an Armageddon game 6 vs 5 min) for the standings. Prize fund: 21,000 euros, with 5,000 euros to the winner. Rounds 1-9 started at 4:30 pm, Round 10 at 10 am local time. Chief organizer: Oskar Stober Blazquez. Tournament director: Francesc Gonzalez Alonso. Chief arbiter: Nuno Filipe Andrade. Number of games played: 1312 Classical + 16 Blitz + 2 Armageddon = 1330. Nodirbek Abdusattorov won with 8/10, after beating Kollars (2nd) 1½-½ in the final Blitz playoff match. Puranik (3rd) beat Cheparinov (4th) 2-1 in the final Blitz + Armageddon playoff match for 3rd place. See Sunway Sitges Tiebreaks (2021). Official site: https://www.sunwaychessfestival.com... Regulations 1: https://www.sunwaychessfestival.com... Regulations 2: https://www.sunwaychessfestival.com... Chess-Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr577676.... ChessBase: https://en.chessbase.com/post/sitge... chess24: https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-t... TWIC: https://theweekinchess.com/chessnew... FIDE: https://ratings.fide.com/tournament... Previous: Sunway Sitges Open (2020)  page 1 of 26; games 1-25 of 634  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. A Korobov vs N Benmesbah 1-0 27 2021 Sunway Sitges Open A46 Queen's Pawn Game 2. Vladan Nikolic vs I Cheparinov 0-1 53 2021 Sunway Sitges Open E69 King's Indian, Fianchetto, Classical Main line 3. N Sarin vs T Chopra   1-0 37 2021 Sunway Sitges Open D43 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 4. M A Tabatabaei vs Aituar Zhukenov   1-0 30 2021 Sunway Sitges Open E73 King's Indian 5. M Carbonell Sancho vs N Abdusattorov   0-1 53 2021 Sunway Sitges Open B87 Sicilian, Fischer-Sozin with ...a6 and ...b5 6. M Karthikeyan vs D Minko   1-0 31 2021 Sunway Sitges Open C65 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense 7. Karthi Rajarishi vs A Erigaisi   0-1 20 2021 Sunway Sitges Open D31 Queen's Gambit Declined 8. D Kollars vs Mrithyunjay Mahadevan 1-0 15 2021 Sunway Sitges Open B23 Sicilian, Closed 9. O Kulkarni vs Vocaturo   0-1 50 2021 Sunway Sitges Open B13 Caro-Kann, Exchange 10. S P Sethuraman vs Ethan Saya 1-0 25 2021 Sunway Sitges Open E21 Nimzo-Indian, Three Knights 11. J Alboredo vs A Puranik   0-1 43 2021 Sunway Sitges Open E15 Queen's Indian 12. M Cornette vs Cesar Alcala Gonzalez   1-0 30 2021 Sunway Sitges Open B13 Caro-Kann, Exchange 13. N Toncheva vs E Safarli   0-1 37 2021 Sunway Sitges Open E49 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Botvinnik System 14. A Fier vs D Movileanu 1-0 44 2021 Sunway Sitges Open B84 Sicilian, Scheveningen 15. M van Foreest vs D Kadric   0-1 48 2021 Sunway Sitges Open B06 Robatsch 16. A De Santis vs S Megaranto   1-0 32 2021 Sunway Sitges Open A01 Nimzovich-Larsen Attack 17. L Livaic vs A Abbasov   1-0 41 2021 Sunway Sitges Open A46 Queen's Pawn Game 18. Daniel Savchenko vs A Kelires   0-1 38 2021 Sunway Sitges Open B93 Sicilian, Najdorf, 6.f4 19. S Maze vs Koosha Jaferian   1-0 27 2021 Sunway Sitges Open B12 Caro-Kann Defense 20. P Iniyan vs P Nutakki   0-1 38 2021 Sunway Sitges Open A07 King's Indian Attack 21. R Sharan vs K Arjun   1-0 42 2021 Sunway Sitges Open A06 Reti Opening 22. A Suleymanli vs Enzo Federzoni   1-0 43 2021 Sunway Sitges Open D85 Grunfeld 23. Babak Jafarli vs D Dardha 0-1 63 2021 Sunway Sitges Open B52 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack 24. L van Foreest vs S Dhananjay   1-0 46 2021 Sunway Sitges Open D43 Queen's Gambit Declined Semi-Slav 25. Simon Knudsen vs K Kulaots   ½-½ 51 2021 Sunway Sitges Open B91 Sicilian, Najdorf, Zagreb (Fianchetto) Variation  page 1 of 26; games 1-25 of 634    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)   Dec-17-21    offramp: Sunway Meltwater Goldmoney. Dec-18-21    HeMateMe: is this an online event? Dec-18-21    siggemannen: <HeMateMe> The front page says: "VIII SUNWAY SITGES INTERNATIONAL CHESS FESTIVAL (OVER-THE-BOARD TOURNAMENT)" Dec-18-21    PawnSac: < (OVER-THE-BOARD TOURNAMENT) > I think we can reasonably assume this is NOT an online event. And I'm really fine with that! We need more live face to face events so children and young players can experience the excitement of meeting and watching masters play. we need NORMALCY Dec-19-21    HeMateMe: If we had more normalcy we'd have more norms! Dec-19-21    offramp: 50% of people are stupider than you. Dec-19-21    HeMateMe: My phone version of this page doesn't show anything about the tournament except a list of participants--stupid. Dec-21-21    Albertan: Games from this tournament can be watched line here: https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-t... Dec-22-21    Albertan: Sitges:Eight players share the lead: https://en.chessbase.com/post/sitge... Dec-25-21    Albertan: Sitges:Abdusatttorov clinches first place in thrilling playoff: https://en.chessbase.com/post/sitge... The winner is a GM with an elo rating of 2633.He lives in Uzbek.In 2014 he defeated 2 GM’s when he was 9 years old!!!! (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nodir...) Magnus Carlsen watch out for this guy!!! Here some other websites about him: https://geniuses.club/genius/nodirb... Here is a link to his Chessbase Player profile: https://players.chessbase.com/en/pl... Here is the link to his Chessgames player page: Nodirbek Abdusattorov Here is a link to his Sunway Chess Festival page: https://www.sunwaychessfestival.com... Dec-25-21    chancho: He's only 17 years old. I think he'll be among the elite in the not too distant future. Dec-25-21    perfidious: I, for one would not care to lay odds agin it. This kid will be heard from at the highest levels. Dec-29-21    siggemannen: Now the "kid" won world rapid, so i guess we heard from him a bit earlier than even perfidious could predict Dec-29-21    siggemannen: Btw, the link in the tourney description is broken as well as the standings. <chessgames> admins, could someone take a look mayhaps? Jan-03-22    Tabanus: <siggemannen> Perhaps they'll do it next time. 18 of the 29 players on the list have all 10 games. Di Berardino has six games and two others 7 games, the rest 8 or 9 games. The missing games are not in chess24. Jan-18-22    siggemannen: Looks pretty good now. Thanks <chessgames> and <Tabanus>! NOTE: Create an account today to post replies and access other powerful features which are available only to registered users. Becoming a member is free, anonymous, and takes less than 1 minute! If you already have a username, then simply login login under your username now to join the discussion. Please observe our posting guidelines: No obscene, racist, sexist, or profane language. 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