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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: Simen Agdestein

 page 1 of 1; 10 games  PGN Download 
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. S Agdestein vs A Mansoor  1-0602017Xtracon Chess OpenB13 Caro-Kann, Exchange
2. J Chittka vs S Agdestein 0-1322017Xtracon Chess OpenE20 Nimzo-Indian
3. S Agdestein vs S Stojanovski  1-0362017Xtracon Chess OpenD30 Queen's Gambit Declined
4. F Sonis vs S Agdestein  ½-½372017Xtracon Chess OpenA30 English, Symmetrical
5. S Agdestein vs K Holm 1-0492017Xtracon Chess OpenD02 Queen's Pawn Game
6. E Rosen vs S Agdestein 1-0282017Xtracon Chess OpenD00 Queen's Pawn Game
7. S Agdestein vs P Papp  1-0882017Xtracon Chess OpenA00 Uncommon Opening
8. J Ikeda vs S Agdestein  0-1292017Xtracon Chess OpenE20 Nimzo-Indian
9. S Agdestein vs T Hillarp Persson  1-0822017Xtracon Chess OpenE94 King's Indian, Orthodox
10. Short vs S Agdestein 1-0522017Xtracon Chess OpenE00 Queen's Pawn Game
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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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