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The Graz Chess Festival took place 17th-24th February 2019. The top seeds in the open were Dmitry Kryakvin, Maxim Turov, Johan-Sebastian Christiansen, Andrei Istratescu etc but it was Viktor Gazik who won with a fine score of 8/9. In a 6 game match alongside the open Markus Ragger was a resounding 4.5-1.5 winner against Boris Gelfand.

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Graz Open A 2019 Graz AUT Sun 17th Feb 2019 - Sun 24th Feb 2019 Leading Final Round 9 Standings:
Rk	SNo	Name	Ti	FED	Rtg	Pts	TB1
1	7	Gazik Viktor	IM	SVK	2512	8.0	2764
2	1	Kryakvin Dmitry	GM	RUS	2588	7.0	2609
3	2	Turov Maxim	GM	RUS	2585	6.5	2585
4	35	Szotkowski Jakub	IM	CZE	2345	6.5	2580
5	4	Istratescu Andrei	GM	ROU	2555	6.5	2546
6	15	Haldorsen Benjamin	IM	NOR	2450	6.5	2524
7	9	Sanal Vahap	GM	TUR	2497	6.5	2499
8	12	Loiseau Quentin	IM	FRA	2452	6.5	2466
9	16	Teclaf Pawel	CM	POL	2450	6.0	2525
10	17	Markoja Boris	IM	SLO	2440	6.0	2483
11	6	Stefansson Hannes	GM	ISL	2514	6.0	2467
12	3	Christiansen Johan-Sebastian	GM	NOR	2559	6.0	2464
13	18	Xiang Zeyu	IM	CHN	2436	6.0	2458
14	5	Sebenik Matej	GM	SLO	2542	6.0	2449
15	29	Low Zhen Yu Cyrus	IM	SGP	2377	6.0	2447
16	11	Goh Wei Ming Kevin	IM	SGP	2477	6.0	2435
17	21	Nguyen Piotr	IM	POL	2420	6.0	2406
18	22	Radovanovic Nikola	IM	SRB	2418	5.5	2489
19	25	Ertan Can	FM	TUR	2405	5.5	2463
20	19	Tomazini Zan	IM	SLO	2432	5.5	2444
21	44	Pranav Anand	FM	IND	2303	5.5	2436
22	13	Ankit R. Rajpara	GM	IND	2451	5.5	2421
	14	Perske Thore	IM	GER	2451	5.5	2421
24	23	Drazic Sinisa	GM	SRB	2408	5.5	2412
25	41	Leisch Lukas		AUT	2313	5.5	2411
26	33	Lewicki Miroslaw	CM	POL	2346	5.5	2357
27	71	Suta Andraz		SLO	2168	5.5	2356
28	10	Cvitan Ognjen	GM	CRO	2496	5.5	2354
29	92	Milikow Elie		ISR	2115	5.5	2349
30	72	Poormosavi Seyed Kian		IRI	2167	5.5	2341
31	34	Kozak Antoni		POL	2346	5.5	2321
32	70	Murko David		SLO	2168	5.5	2267
33	43	Molnar Bela	IM	HUN	2307	5.5	2211
34	32	Navalgund Niranjan	FM	IND	2359	5.0	2434
35	40	Liu Zhaoqi		CHN	2323	5.0	2400
36	56	Frank Emanuel		AUT	2248	5.0	2347
37	38	Rudolf Michal	FM	POL	2331	5.0	2343
38	27	Eggleston David J	IM	ENG	2390	5.0	2341
39	78	Poysti Nathanael		GER	2151	5.0	2324
40	66	Rebers Eugene	FM	NED	2188	5.0	2319
41	8	Diermair Andreas	GM	AUT	2502	5.0	2305
42	54	Gazik Igor	IM	SVK	2249	5.0	2303
43	37	Danner Georg	IM	AUT	2333	5.0	2299
44	48	Khalakhan Jurij	CM	AUT	2277	5.0	2291
45	46	Kravanja Georg		AUT	2286	5.0	2276
46	90	Makhija Aashna	WFM	IND	2091	5.0	2269
47	117	Thaga Sheriff M		IND	1804	5.0	2257
48	52	Alinasab Mobina	WIM	IRI	2256	5.0	2215
49	20	Drnovsek Gal	IM	SLO	2421	5.0	2211
50	36	Lin Yi		CHN	2345	4.5	2377
122 players

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Graz Match 2019 Graz AUT Sun 17th Feb 2019 - Sun 24th Feb 2019 Leading Final Round 6 Standings:
Rk	Name	Ti	FED	Rtg	1	2	3	4	5	6	Pts
1	Ragger, Markus	GM	AUT	2683	1	1	=	=	=	1	4.5
2	Gelfand, Boris	GM	ISR	2669	0	0	=	=	=	0	1.5
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