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Sigeman & Co (2012) The 20th Sigeman & Co tournament was an 8-player single round robin played at the Hipp Theater in Malmö, Sweden, 9-16 May 2012. Rest day: May 12. Rounds 1-6 started at 2 pm, Round 7 at noon local time. Time controls: 2 hours for the first 40 moves, then 1 more hour for the next 20 moves, then 30 more minutes to the end of the game, with no increment. Tournament director: Johan Sigeman. Chief arbiter: IA Anil Surender. Tournament category: XVI (2645). Top seed Fabiano Caruana won with 5.5/7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 Caruana 2770 * ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 5½ 2 Leko 2723 ½ * ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ 5 =3 Grandelius 2556 0 ½ * ½ ½ ½ 1 1 4 =3 Giri 2693 0 ½ ½ * ½ 1 1 ½ 4 5 Li Chao 2703 ½ 0 ½ ½ * 0 ½ 1 3 6 Tikkanen 2566 0 0 ½ 0 1 * 1 0 2½ =7 Berg 2587 ½ 0 0 0 ½ 0 * 1 2 =7 Hector 2560 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 1 0 * 2 Chessdiagonals: http://www.chessdiagonals.ch/402840... Official site: http://www.tepesigemanchess.com/pre... Chess-Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr72411.a... ChessBase: https://en.chessbase.com/post/sigem... TWIC: https://theweekinchess.com/chessnew... FICS: https://www.freechess.org/Events/Re... FIDE: https://ratings.fide.com/tournament... Previous: Sigeman & Co (2011). Next: Sigeman & Co (2013)  page 1 of 2; games 1-25 of 28  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. Caruana vs Giri 1-0 41 2012 Sigeman & Co C65 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense 2. H Tikkanen vs J Hector 0-1 39 2012 Sigeman & Co A09 Reti Opening 3. Leko vs N Grandelius ½-½ 51 2012 Sigeman & Co B78 Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack, 10.castle long 4. E Berg vs C Li   ½-½ 60 2012 Sigeman & Co B32 Sicilian 5. J Hector vs Leko   ½-½ 36 2012 Sigeman & Co A07 King's Indian Attack 6. N Grandelius vs E Berg 1-0 41 2012 Sigeman & Co E61 King's Indian 7. Giri vs C Li   ½-½ 36 2012 Sigeman & Co D11 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 8. Caruana vs H Tikkanen 1-0 33 2012 Sigeman & Co D71 Neo-Grunfeld 9. Leko vs Caruana   ½-½ 39 2012 Sigeman & Co C93 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Smyslov Defense 10. H Tikkanen vs Giri 0-1 44 2012 Sigeman & Co A15 English 11. C Li vs N Grandelius   ½-½ 54 2012 Sigeman & Co B42 Sicilian, Kan 12. E Berg vs J Hector 1-0 47 2012 Sigeman & Co D17 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 13. J Hector vs C Li 0-1 40 2012 Sigeman & Co B56 Sicilian 14. Giri vs N Grandelius ½-½ 15 2012 Sigeman & Co D80 Grunfeld 15. Caruana vs E Berg   ½-½ 42 2012 Sigeman & Co E67 King's Indian, Fianchetto 16. H Tikkanen vs Leko 0-1 40 2012 Sigeman & Co A13 English 17. E Berg vs H Tikkanen 0-1 31 2012 Sigeman & Co C12 French, McCutcheon 18. C Li vs Caruana ½-½ 34 2012 Sigeman & Co D85 Grunfeld 19. Leko vs Giri ½-½ 22 2012 Sigeman & Co C53 Giuoco Piano 20. N Grandelius vs J Hector 1-0 51 2012 Sigeman & Co D17 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 21. Leko vs E Berg 1-0 67 2012 Sigeman & Co E61 King's Indian 22. Caruana vs N Grandelius 1-0 42 2012 Sigeman & Co B52 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack 23. Giri vs J Hector   ½-½ 43 2012 Sigeman & Co D17 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav 24. H Tikkanen vs C Li   1-0 49 2012 Sigeman & Co A15 English 25. N Grandelius vs H Tikkanen   ½-½ 60 2012 Sigeman & Co D31 Queen's Gambit Declined  page 1 of 2; games 1-25 of 28    REFINE SEARCH:   White wins (1-0) | Black wins (0-1) | Draws (1/2-1/2)   May-09-12    Blunderdome: Should be an interesting tournament. Looking forward to Leko's games, especially against Caruana, Giri, and Hector (not quite a world-class player but an exciting attacker). May-10-12    waustad: Thanks! Here is the official site: http://www.sigeman-chess.com/en May-10-12    supy: Caruana beats Giri in young stars battle of Sigeman http://www.chessdom.com/sigeman-co-... now R2 they play Tikanen and Li Chao. May-10-12    waustad: Grandelius beat Berg in a nice KI. May-11-12    Maatalkko: Good to see Leko in his classic form again! May-11-12    DIO: Maatalkko, indeed! I was secretly hoping that Leko would return to the board with a renewed attitude - kinda how Kramnik is not Drawnik any more, but nope ... May-12-12    waustad: Rest day today. May-12-12    waustad: If you look at Leko's games here, there aren't any quick no content games. A dragon Yugoslav attack game that doesn't end up decisive often means that nobody blundered. Both sides are going for it. May-13-12    Karpova: Tikkanen lost his 4th game in a row, this time with White against Leko who is now at +1 like Grandelius and Chao (who beat Hector). May-13-12    waustad: Grandelius held the draw against Giri today and Leko had a nice win over Hector. May-14-12    Illogic: Tikkanen got on the board today with a win over Berg. Grandelius beat Hector. Rest were drawn May-14-12    waustad: Grandelius is tied for the lead with 2 rounds to go. They play in the penultimate round tomorrow an hour after the start of the WCC game (8 am EDT). The final round starts 2 hours earlier than all of the others. May-15-12    waustad: Caruana wins a time trouble nail-biter vs Grandelius today. Nils had seconds on the clock and crumbled. May-15-12    Illogic: Caruana wins a wild one over Grandelius and is now in the driver's seat. Credit to Grandelius to sacking everything but the kitchen sink! May-15-12    kurtrichards: Great play by Nils until he fell into the deep pit called time trouble. Good play Fabiano. Fuerza Italia! May-16-12    waustad: Today, Jonny hector is playing the Vienna Game. May-16-12    waustad: Berg is playing Bird's opening! May-16-12    kurtrichards: Congratulations Fabiano for winning the Sigeman & Co. 2012. May your winning ways continue! :) May-16-12    Karpova: Round 7: Grandelius - Tikkanen 1/2 Li - Leko 0-1 Hector - Caruana 0-1 Berg - Giri 0-1 May-16-12    Shams: Caruana's next tournament will start in ten minutes. May-16-12    waustad: Congrats to Grandelius for giving it his all and coming oh so close in a tournament where he was the lowest rated player. I should, however mention that all 4 Swedes were rated between 2556 and 2587, so it wasn't a huge difference. The foreigners were all rated much higher. May-21-12    HeMateMe: Leko won three games here. Shows he can break out of the drawish style that he has been linked to. May-21-12    Illogic: It doesn't matter, the usual suspects will still be chirping whenever he draws a few games and then go mysteriously silent when he wins some. 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. No spamming, advertising, duplicate, or gibberish posts. No vitriolic or systematic personal attacks against other members. Nothing in violation of United States law. No cyberstalking or malicious posting of negative or private information (doxing/doxxing) of members. No trolling. 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