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The Sunway Sitges Online Open tournament finally got underway on 19th April 2020 after a few teething problems, the event ran until the 28th April on the chess.com server. What made this tournament interesting to me is that it's an attempt to play a fully fledged open online, with standard time controls. I don't believe it will be possible to organise large international opens for a long time because of the conornavirus crisis. Inessential international travel and rooms with large numbers of people sat in close proximity to each other don't sound like things we will want to be doing for quite some time. This will leave a huge hole to be filled. Playing such events online, with all the well known problems they have, seems like the only alternative. Leading players: Vitaliy Bernadskiy, Ahmed Adly, Axel Bachmann, Kirill Shevchenko, Jesper Sondergaard Thybo, Alexandr Fier etc. Ahmed Adly won the tournament after winning the 16 player blitz tie-break beating Liam Vrolijk. Rodrigo Vasquez Schroeder finished 3rd.

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Sunway Sitges Online Open chess.com INT Fri 17th Apr 2020 - Mon 27th Apr 2020 Leading Final Round 9 Standings:
Rk	SNo	Name	Ti	FED	Rtg	Pts	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	4	Shevchenko Kirill	GM	UKR	2592	7.0	50.5	55.5	42.25
2	3	Bachmann Axel	GM	PAR	2599	7.0	49.5	53.5	39.75
3	37	Mehar Chinna Reddy C.H.	IM	IND	2422	7.0	49.0	52.5	39.00
4	2	Adly Ahmed	GM	EGY	2615	7.0	48.5	52.5	39.50
5	22	Sattarov Bobir		UZB	2459	7.0	45.5	49.5	37.00
6	33	Das Sayantan	IM	IND	2431	7.0	45.5	49.0	35.75
7	28	Vasquez Schroeder Rodrigo	GM	CHI	2441	7.0	44.5	48.5	36.50
8	23	Yoo Christopher Woojin	IM	USA	2455	7.0	44.0	47.5	37.25
9	43	Kopylov Michael	IM	UKR	2407	7.0	44.0	47.0	34.25
10	7	Nasuta Grzegorz	GM	POL	2558	6.5	49.0	53.5	37.25
11	13	Vrolijk Liam	IM	NED	2502	6.5	46.5	50.5	34.00
12	47	Espinoza Palomino Willyam	IM	PER	2400	6.5	46.5	50.0	33.25
13	5	Thybo Jesper Sondergaard	GM	DEN	2590	6.5	46.0	51.0	36.00
14	56	Kopylov Daniel		GER	2348	6.5	45.5	47.0	31.75
15	11	Anisimov Pavel	GM	RUS	2527	6.5	44.0	48.5	33.50
16	39	Reimanis Ritvars	FM	LAT	2421	6.5	43.5	48.0	32.50
17	66	Navalgund Niranjan	FM	IND	2289	6.5	42.0	46.0	31.50
18	41	Srihari L R	FM	IND	2414	6.5	40.0	43.5	29.75
19	34	Vlasenko Miroslav	IM	RUS	2431	6.5	39.5	43.0	29.25
20	100	Rudovskii Filipp		RUS	2158	6.0	46.0	50.5	32.50
21	157	Nguyen Thanh Thuy Tien	WIM	VIE	1971	6.0	44.0	46.0	27.50
22	48	Baskin Robert	IM	GER	2390	6.0	43.5	46.5	27.75
23	68	Carrasco Miranda Andres		CHI	2285	6.0	43.0	46.5	28.75
24	104	Samunenkov Ihor		UKR	2142	6.0	42.5	45.5	26.50
25	118	Ansh M Shah		IND	2095	6.0	42.0	45.0	28.25
26	32	Molina Roberto Junio Brito	IM	BRA	2434	6.0	41.5	45.0	29.00
27	49	Dudin Gleb	FM	RUS	2387	6.0	40.0	43.5	27.25
28	58	Talukdar Rohan	FM	CAN	2341	6.0	39.5	42.5	26.00
29	65	Ohanyan Emin	FM	ARM	2291	6.0	39.0	40.5	24.25
30	31	Bharath Subramaniyam H	IM	IND	2437	6.0	38.5	42.0	27.25
31	76	Matthiesen Martin	FM	DEN	2260	6.0	38.0	40.5	23.50
32	25	Polivanov Anatoliy	IM	UKR	2452	6.0	34.5	38.0	25.50
33	9	Sindarov Javokhir	GM	UZB	2557	5.5	51.0	55.5	32.00
34	8	Tsydypov Zhamsaran	GM	RUS	2558	5.5	47.0	50.5	28.00
35	35	Borsuk Konstantin	FM	UKR	2431	5.5	46.5	49.5	27.50
36	14	Caspi Israel	IM	ISR	2489	5.5	46.0	50.0	28.75
37	80	Mahitosh Dey	FM	IND	2254	5.5	43.5	46.5	24.75
38	73	Gluhovsky Mark		RUS	2271	5.5	43.0	46.5	23.75
39	116	Badillo Ramos Steve		ESP	2102	5.5	42.0	43.0	23.25
40	70	Gavilan Diaz Mario	FM	ESP	2278	5.5	41.5	43.0	22.50
41	74	Papadiamandis Elliot		FRA	2269	5.5	41.0	44.0	25.00
42	64	Randazzo Adrian	FM	ITA	2293	5.5	41.0	43.5	25.50
43	102	Albu George		ROU	2142	5.5	40.5	44.0	26.00
44	67	Kakabayev Mergen	FM	TKM	2285	5.5	40.5	41.0	20.50
45	89	Tsaknakis Zisis		GRE	2217	5.5	40.0	42.5	21.50
46	148	Lopez Idarraga Daniel Eduardo	FM	COL	2009	5.5	38.5	41.5	22.25
47	61	Miciano John Marvin	IM	PHI	2332	5.5	38.5	40.5	20.25
48	77	Sterck Arno	FM	BEL	2259	5.5	37.0	40.5	24.00
49	120	Namitbir Singh Walia		IND	2093	5.5	36.5	39.5	20.00
50	63	Haring Viktor	FM	SVK	2298	5.5	36.5	38.0	22.00
224 players

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Sunway Sitges Online KO chess.com INT Sun 19th Apr 2020 - Mon 27th Apr 2020 Leading Final Round 4 Standings:
Rk	Name	Pts
	Final
1	Adly, Ahmed	2.0
2	Vrolijk, Liam	0.0
	3rd-4th
3	Vasquez Schroeder, Rodrigo	2.0
4	Yoo, Christopher Woojin	0.0
	5th-6th
5	Shevchenko, Kirill	2.0
6	Bachmann, Axel	0.0
	7th-8th
7	Mehar, Chinna Reddy C.H.	2.0
8	Sattarov, Bobir	0.0
	Semi-final
1	Adly, Ahmed	2.0
2	Yoo, Christopher Woojin	1.0
1	Vrolijk, Liam	1.5
2	Vasquez Schroeder, Rodrigo	0.5
	5th-8th
1	Shevchenko, Kirill	2.0
2	Sattarov, Bobir	0.0
1	Bachmann, Axel	2.0
2	Mehar, Chinna Reddy C.H.	0.0
	Quarter-final
1	Yoo, Christopher Woojin	2.0
2	Shevchenko, Kirill	1.0
1	Adly, Ahmed	2.0
2	Sattarov, Bobir	0.0
1`	Vrolijk, Liam	2.0
2	Mehar, Chinna Reddy C.H.	1.0
1	Vasquez Schroeder, Rodrigo	2.0
2	Bachmann, Axel	0.0
	Round 1
1	Shevchenko, Kirill	2.0
2	Reimanis, Ritvars	0.0
1	Yoo, Christopher Woojin	2.0
2	Kopylov, Michael	1.0
1	Adly, Ahmed	1.5
2	Thybo, Jesper Sondergaard	0.5
1	Sattarov, Bobir	2.0
2	Espinoza Palomino, Willyam	0.0
1	Mehar, Chinna Reddy C.H.	1.5
2	Kopylov, Daniel	0.5
1	Vrolijk, Liam	2.0
2	Das, Sayantan	0.0
1	Vasquez Schroeder, Rodrigo	1.5
2	Nasuta, Grzegorz	0.5
1	Bachmann, Axel	2.0
2	Anisimov, Pavel2	0.0
48 players

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