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The 15th Rouen Open took place Tue 26th to Fri 29th Dec 2023. It's an event I've never covered in TWIC before. Alireza Firouzja played in this 7 round Swiss in a final, final attempt to qualify for the Candidates. Rouen is different to Chartres and will in my view be rated, this is a regular scheduled Swiss, Firouzja withdrew from the World Rapid and Blitz knew going in he would have to score 7/7. In round 6 he defeated his main obstacle, Gata Kamsky. He then beat fellow Iranian expat IM Kamran Shirazi in the final round. Shirazi has lived in France for many years and is a frequent competitor in the Paris Championship. Now Firouzja has won this event with 7/7 and gained enough points to overtake Wesley So on the rating list. This event has already been rated on the FIDE website. The controversial Chartres matches do not seem to have been rated, they don't appear but a final fourth match not involving Firouzja has been rated. My suspicion is that this will be the last time straight rating will be a route to the Candidates but in the end Firouzja did it over the board in a regular tournament and that's surely fine.

Just in 31st Dec. Firouzja rated for the Sinquefield Cup and Rouen only and beats Wesley So by a couple of rating points to the final Candidates place. The whole three matches in Chartres thing proved a massive waste of everyone's time.

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15th Rouen Open 2023 Rouen FRA Tue 26th Dec 2023 - Fri 29th Dec 2023 Leading Final Round 7 Standings:
Rk	Name	Ti	Rtg	Pts	TB1	TB2	Perf
1	FIROUZJA Alireza	g	2763	7	30½	28	3114
2	PENG Li Min	g	2562	5½	32	24	2510
3	KAMSKY Gata	g	2634	5½	30	24	2545
4	TIRARD Hugo	m	2413	5½	30	23½	2387
5	BAT Bilguun	f	2302	5½	28½	24½	2410
6	DECOSSE Jean-Fabien		2124	5½	23½	21½	2150
7	SHIRAZI Kamran	m	2275	5	27	23	2262
8	RINGUET Noe		2226	5	25	20	2124
9	MARIE Maxime		2219	5	23½	19	2103
10	THEREZE Ludovic		1858	5	20½	18	1866
11	BAT Anu		1711	4½	27	21	1962
12	CORNILEAU Raphael		1841	4½	26½	17	1866
13	LEFRANCOIS Jean		1738	4½	26	20	1868
14	GRATTON Alexandre		1964	4½	25½	20	1925
15	JOSLIN Jerome		2011	4½	25	18	1917
16	LEPROUX Tristan		1523	4½	24	16	1844
17	ARJOL-CONDE David		1702	4½	22	18	1809
18	KONIDAKIS Alex		1858	4	29	19	1990
19	YOUSSOUPOV Moissei	f	2127	4	25½	19	1995
20	LEJEUNE Gael		1958	4	25½	19	1966
21	MBOTTA ELIMBI William		1963	4	23	16	1721
22	CHELHOD Victor		1638	4	23	14	1827
23	LELONG Eric		1818	4	22½	15	1769
24	OURADOU Frederic		1614	4	21½	13	1727
25	GULIYEV Tofig		1738	4	21	14	1724
26	DELILLE Victor		1447	4	21	11	1668
27	ZANIN Clement		1797	3½	24	16½	1758
28	MENOLASCINA Francesco		1812	3½	24	16	1771
29	TAVARES-RIBEIRO Victor		1600	3½	24	12	1664
30	ANDRIEU Philippe		1686	3½	22	13	1652
31	LEHERICEY Fabrice		1804	3½	21	16	1713
32	DAMAMME Maxime		1278	3½	20½	13	1581
33	JOLLY Arthur		1509	3½	17½	10½	1586
34	BAT Sodcetsen		1836	3	28	16	1862
35	LEVESQUE Thomas		1817	3	26	15	1757
36	LELEU Andre		1744	3	24½	16	1706
37	QUET Jean-Francois		1643	3	23½	11	1615
38	JAVOR Besim		1743	3	22½	14	1548
39	DIDAOUI Romain		1570	3	21½	11	1530
40	VIGNERON Frederic		1577	3	21	11	1499
41	PACE Jules		1331	3	20½	12	1607
42	M'BONZO Quentin		1551	3	20½	10	1558
43	PLE Laurent		1424	3	17½	9	1495
44	RIMBERT Bradley		1311	3	15½	8	1488
45	BOULET Philippe		1975	2½	23½	15	1675
46	DETIVAUD Esteban		1199	2½	23	12½	1603
47	CANON Adrien		1199	2½	21	7½	1388
48	SERANO Vincent		1520	2½	17½	8	1469
49	KONIDAKIS Nicolas		1379	2½	17	7½	1424
50	TRONC Patrick		1454	2	23	11	1556
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