Sharjah FIDE Grand Prix 2017 (Games and Results)
Sharjah FIDE Grand Prix 2017
Mark Crowther - Monday 27th February 2017
The Sharjah FIDE Grand Prix took place 18th to 27th February 2017.
Players: Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Levon Aronian, Hikaru Nakamura, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Ding Liren, Pavel Eljanov, Michael Adams, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Alexander Grischuk, Li Chao, Evgeny Tomashevsky, Dmitry Jakovenko, Francisco Vallejo Pons, Richard Rapport, Alexander Riazantsev, Saleh Salem, Hou Yifan and Jon-Ludvig Hammer play in this the first of four Grand Prix to decided two Candidates places.
Each Grand Prix is an 18 player 9 round Swiss and players will each appear in three of the four tournaments. Organised by AGON for FIDE.
The remaining players who appear later in the series are: Peter Svidler, Anish Giri, Harikrishna Pentala, Boris Gelfand, Teimour Radjabov and Ernesto Inarkiev.
Alexander Grischuk, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov shared first place after all scored 5.5/9. Although the Grand Prix points (140) and money ($15,667) were the same, chess.com reports medals were awarded to the players by the local organisers in the order I give above.
Sharjah Grand Prix 2017 (Sharjah UAE)
Fri 17th Feb 2017 - Tue 28th Feb 2017 -
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Sharjah Grand Prix 2017 (18 players 9 Rds Swiss Indiv TC:100:50:15+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Games
Sharjah Grand Prix 2017 (18 players 9 Rds Swiss Indiv TC: 100:50:15+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Games
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Sharjah Grand Prix 2017 Sharjah UAE Fri 17th Feb 2017 - Tue 28th Feb 2017
Leading Final Round 9 Standings: |
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Rk | SNo | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 |
1 | 9 | Grischuk Alexander | RUS | 2742 | 5.5 | 1.5 | 2.0 | 0.0 |
2 | 1 | Vachier-Lagrave Maxime | FRA | 2796 | 5.5 | 1.0 | 2.0 | 1.0 |
3 | 4 | Mamedyarov Shakhriyar | AZE | 2766 | 5.5 | 0.5 | 3.0 | 0.0 |
4 | 5 | Ding Liren | CHN | 2760 | 5.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 1.0 |
5 | 7 | Adams Michael | ENG | 2751 | 5.0 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 |
6 | 12 | Jakovenko Dmitry | RUS | 2709 | 5.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
7 | 3 | Nakamura Hikaru | USA | 2785 | 5.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 |
8 | 8 | Nepomniachtchi Ian | RUS | 2749 | 5.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 |
9 | 14 | Rapport Richard | HUN | 2692 | 4.5 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 1.0 |
10 | 6 | Eljanov Pavel | UKR | 2759 | 4.5 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 1.0 |
11 | 10 | Li Chao B | CHN | 2720 | 4.5 | 0.0 | 2.0 | 0.0 |
12 | 13 | Vallejo Pons Francisco | ESP | 2709 | 4.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
13 | 2 | Aronian Levon | ARM | 2785 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
14 | 17 | Hou Yifan | CHN | 2651 | 4.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
15 | 16 | Salem A.R. Saleh | UAE | 2656 | 3.5 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.0 |
16 | 18 | Hammer Jon Ludvig | NOR | 2628 | 3.5 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
17 | 11 | Tomashevsky Evgeny | RUS | 2711 | 3.5 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
18 | 15 | Riazantsev Alexander | RUS | 2671 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
18 players |
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