Final standings
The two top boards in the GM-group both ended with short draws in the last round. This led to six players topping the table with 6.5 points.
GM Mads Andersen of Denmark had the best tie-break and won the tournament ahead of IM Elham Amar of Norway and GM Guha Mitrabha of India.
Also with 6.5 points, but outside top-3, we find GM Kaido Kulaots of Estonia, GM Ido Gorshtein of Israel and GM Eltaj Safarli of Azerbaijan.
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Mads Andersen won the GM-group (Photo: Tom Eriksen) |
The two highest-rated players finished at the top in the Open group. Terje Lund and Trond M. Thorgersen both finished with 7 points, but Lund had better tie-break and got first place. Sebastian Lien had a stong finish with two wins, and ended in third place as the only player with 6.5 points. The seven highest placed players in the Open were all Norwegian.
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Lien, Lund and Thorgersen (Photo: Tom Eriksen) |