Here are the results from the second round:
Table | Points | White | Rating | Result | Black | Rating | Points |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | [1] | FRESSINET Laurent | 2696 | 1 - 0 | GIROYAN Gary | 2318 | [1] |
2 | [1] | SAADA Julien | 2313 | 0 - 1 | SASIKIRAN Krishnan | 2689 | [1] |
3 | [1] | MAMEDOV Rauf | 2660 | 1 - 0 | MAMEDJAROVA Zeinab | 2314 | [1] |
4 | [1] | JONES Gawain C B | 2624 | 1 - 0 | COLEMAN Teddy | 2312 | [1] |
5 | [1] | MASSONI Michael | 2304 | 0 - 1 | MELKUMYAN Hrant | 2619 | [1] |
6 | [1] | GRIGORYAN Avetik | 2614 | 1 - 0 | WEISBUCH Udi | 2304 | [1] |
7 | [1] | INANTS Aghasi | 2288 | X - X | TREGUBOV Pavel V. | 2602 | [1] |
8 | [1] | GHAEM MAGHAMI Ehsan | 2583 | 1 - 0 | BERTHELOT Yannick | 2286 | [1] |
9 | [1] | PESOTSKYI Vitalii | 2268 | 1 - 0 | SULAVA Nenad | 2540 | [1] |
10 | [1] | DURARBEYLI Vasif | 2526 | 1 - 0 | MAMEDJAROVA Turkan | 2277 | [1] |
11 | [1] | RIBREAU Herve | 2233 | 0 - 1 | ARNOLD Marc T | 2505 | [1] |
12 | [1] | BARON Tal | 2505 | 1 - 0 | HUMEAU Cyril | 2261 | [1] |
13 | [1] | DUPORT Nicolas | 2220 | 0 - 1 | FLEAR Glenn C | 2471 | [1] |
14 | [1] | BATTAGLINI Gabriel | 2452 | 1 - 0 | IVANOV Stojan Emilov | 2221 | [1] |
15 | [1] | DAURELLE Herve | 2209 | X - X | DEMUTH Adrien | 2440 | [1] |
16 | [1] | DIMITROV Radoslav | 2424 | 1 - 0 | GIUA Frederic | 2193 | [1] |
17 | [1] | EGOZI Nadav | 2173 | 0 - 1 | BEDOUIN Xavier | 2406 | [1] |
18 | [1] | DEBRAY Christopher | 2402 | 1 - 0 | GIDEL Jean-Louis | 2150 | [1] |
Official site: http://www.opencorsica.com/
But also check out the French Federation site:
Live games: http://www.echecs.asso.fr/Toma.aspx?Tournoi=Corsican%20Circuit
Gawain Jones from England is the fifth seed in this year's tournament. In 2010 he lost out in the Blitz play-off, to the eventual winner Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, in the quarter-finals.
On the second day of the event, throughout the day dozens of young players from all over the island were playing their own tournament at the theatre. There were excellent prizes (computers, a home cinema, ipads, game consoles and so on), plus the top twenty will get the chance to play in a simultaneous display against Pavel Tregubov and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov on Thursday.
Overall, the main organizer, Léo Battesti, and his team have managed to get 120 diverse corporate sponsors on board. This must be something of a record!
Here he is below (that's him on the left!) along with my favourite chess-inspired advertisement from the event.