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🏆 Xtracon Chess Open (2017)

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The 2nd Xtracon Chess Open (formerly known as Politiken Cup) took place in Helsingør (Elsinore), Denmark, July 22-30. With over 800 participants, the top seeds included Nikita Vitiugov, Baadur Jobava, Krishnan Sasikiran, Nigel Short, Alexander Motylev, Ivan Sokolov, Jon Ludvig Hammer, Ivan Saric, Jan Timman, Alexander Shabalov, Johann Hjartarson, Simen Agdestein, Tiger Hillarp Persson, et al. ... [more]

Player: Arghyadip Das

 page 1 of 1; 10 games  PGN Download 
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. A Das vs B Fossan  1-0392017Xtracon Chess OpenB25 Sicilian, Closed
2. K Andersson vs A Das  0-1482017Xtracon Chess OpenB43 Sicilian, Kan, 5.Nc3
3. A Das vs M Thuesen  1-0172017Xtracon Chess OpenC00 French Defense
4. M Bosiocic vs A Das 1-0502017Xtracon Chess OpenD85 Grunfeld
5. A Das vs C Schroeder  1-0332017Xtracon Chess OpenB23 Sicilian, Closed
6. A C Taylor vs A Das ½-½422017Xtracon Chess OpenA04 Reti Opening
7. A Das vs J Hartung-Nielsen  1-0312017Xtracon Chess OpenB01 Scandinavian
8. Shabalov vs A Das  ½-½252017Xtracon Chess OpenC81 Ruy Lopez, Open, Howell Attack
9. A Das vs J Solberg 1-0122017Xtracon Chess OpenB07 Pirc
10. Timman vs A Das  ½-½612017Xtracon Chess OpenC45 Scotch Game
  REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2) | Das wins | Das loses  

Kibitzer's Corner
Jul-28-17  diagonal: Good overview of this tournament series (former Politiken Cup): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xtrac...
Jul-28-17  PhilFeeley: I wonder why #3 played twice as many games as everybody else. Maybe there are two of them?
Jul-28-17  Fish55: <Phil Feeley> There are 16 different opponents in the 16 games. You are probably right about there being two of them.
Jul-29-17  soldal: Rasmussen is one of the most common surnames in Denmark (and you have no chance of becoming prime minister with another name). In this tournament there are nine Rasmussens, two of them called Morten Rasmussen, both on 3.5/8. (There are 13 Nielsens.)

http://chess-results.com/tnr293258....

Jul-30-17
Premium Chessgames Member		  Tabanus: 10 Morten Rasmussen slips sent. There are three of them..
Jul-31-17
Premium Chessgames Member		  moronovich: Kudos to <Morten Rasmussen> !
Jul-31-17  diagonal: The Georgian Grandmaster Baadur Jobava won Xtracon Chess Open 2017 outright with 8.5/10 points ahead of eight GM's (including Krishnan Sasikiran as best second placed player on tie-break, and also Nigel Short) who all scored 8 points.

The Revival of the Sunglasses goes on :)

Jabova recently plays a lot with sunglasses
http://www.malmoschack.com/jobava-g...

So with sunglasses winning at Leon (Rapid) 2017: https://chess24.com/en/read/news/we...

Jul-31-17
Premium Chessgames Member		  Tabanus: I updated the standings table for those with 7 points or more according to http://www.xtraconchessopen.dk/inde....
Aug-01-17
Premium Chessgames Member		  HeMateMe: hey, Nigel Short went +6 here and finished just a half point out of first place. Well done!
Sep-22-17  thegoodanarchist: <HeMateMe: hey, Nigel Short went +6 here and finished just a half point out of first place. Well done!>

Yes, I noticed that and thought the same thing - well done.

Of course, congrats to Baadur Jobava for winning it all.

Sep-22-17  thegoodanarchist: <Tabanus: I updated the standings table for those with 7 points or more according to http://www.xtraconchessopen.dk/inde....>

Give that man a cookie! He deserves it.

Apr-18-25
Premium Chessgames Member		  FSR: Ironically, everyone else in the tournament played Baadur than Jobava did.

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