The 28th Open International du Tourquet took place from October 26th to November 1st at the hotel de Ville in Le Tourquet-Paris-Plage.
The event was a 9-rounds Swiss open with a classical time control of 90 minutes for the first 40 moves plus 30 minutes to finish the game and 30 seconds increments from move one.
Lithuanian GM Aloyzas Kveinys took first place with 7.5/9 points after edging rating favorite GM Sergey Fedorchuk on tiebreaks.
Local GM Jean-Marc Degraeve finished in sole third place on 7/9.
Final Standings:
1 g KVEINYS Aloyzas 2511 F 7½
2 g FEDORCHUK Sergey A. 2656 F 7½
3 g DEGRAEVE Jean-Marc 2588 F 7
4 m SOLTANICI Ruslan 2388 F 6½
5 g IVANOV Mikhail M 2347 F 6
6 m PAYEN Arnaud 2310 F 6
7 f PICEU Tom 2330 F 6
8 BIANCHI Guillaume 2204 F 6
9 f WANTIEZ Fabrice 2279 F 5½
10 g SHISHKIN Vadim 2488 F 5½
11 m MARHOLEV Dimitar 2320 F 5½
12 m PYTEL Krzysztof 2315 F 5½
13 m BERNARD Christophe 2250 F 5½
Any GM norm?