With such a strong Russian field it was certainly a surprise that the relatively unknown Vietnamese Quang Liem Le finished ahead of the pack.
However as a fore-runner of this result he also excelled himself in the Moscow open from earlier this month.
He must be winning a sackful of Elo points!
Quang Liem Le | (6) | VIE | 2647 | 1-0 | Ian Nepomniachtchi | (5.5) | RUS | 2658 |
Anton Korobov | (5.5) | UKR | 2648 | 1-0 | Ngoc Truong Son Nguyen | (6) | VIE | 2616 |
Boris Grachev | (5.5) | RUS | 2653 | 0.5-0.5 | Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | (5) | FRA | 2730 |
Alexey Dreev | (5) | RUS | 2650 | 0.5-0.5 | Etienne Bacrot | (5) | FRA | 2713 |
Krishnan Sasikiran | (5) | IND | 2653 | 0-1 | Alexander Motylev | (5) | RUS | 2697 |
Artyom Timofeev | (5) | RUS | 2652 | 0.5-0.5 | Gabriel Sargissian | (5) | ARM | 2680 |
Evgeny Bareev | (5) | RUS | 2643 | 0.5-0.5 | Xiangzhi Bu | (5) | CHN | 2673 |
Boris Savchenko | (5) | RUS | 2638 | 0.5-0.5 | Ivan Cheparinov | (5) | BUL | 2660 |
Jianchao Zhou | (5) | CHN | 2632 | 1-0 | Giovanni Vescovi | (5) | BRA | 2660 |
Eduardo Iturrizaga | (5) | VEN | 2616 | 0.5-0.5 | Wesley So | (5) | PHI | 2656 |
Korobov also won in the last round and thus managed to overtake his opponent and thus with 6.5/7 finished second alone. Motylev, Zhou, Grachev and Nguyen Truong Son were third equal with 6 points.
Only two Russians in the top six places.
Full name | Country | Rating | Points |
Quang Liem Le | VIE | 2647 | 7 |
Anton Korobov | UKR | 2648 | 6.5 |
Ngoc Truong Son Nguyen | VIE | 2616 | 6 |
Jianchao Zhou | CHN | 2632 | 6 |
Alexander Motylev | RUS | 2697 | 6 |
Boris Grachev | RUS | 2653 | 6 |
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