The “Edoardo Crespi” International tournament in Milano is taking place right now. Crespi founded the club of Milano “Società Scacchistica Milanese” in 1881.
The tournament this year registered a record 296 players! It is the highest number of players among all the tournaments played this year in Italy.
The event is divided into 5 groups. The Master Group (6 GMs and 8 IMs) will conclude on Saturday. Special thanks to Adolivio for the information.
| 1 | GM | Solodovnichenko Yuri | 2563 |  |
6.0 | +44 | +16 | +13 | =4 | +6 | +8 | =2 |
| 2 | — | Herman Matthew J | 2149 | |
5.5 | +7 | –13 | +56 | +28 | +10 | +11 | =1 |
| 3 | GM | Tratar Marko | 2492 | |
5.5 | +34 | =23 | +35 | =14 | +15 | =9 | +5 |
| 4 | GM | Drazic Sinisa | 2524 | |
5.0 | +53 | +24 | +11 | =1 | =9 | -5 | +21 |
| 5 | — | Mertens Heiko | 2320 | |
5.0 | +52 | –9 | +34 | +42 | +14 | +4 | -3 |
| 6 | IM | Colovic Aleksandar | 2457 | |
5.0 | +31 | +28 | =10 | +41 | –1 | =12 | +20 |
| 7 | GM | David Alberto | 2587 | |
5.0 | –2 | +54 | +31 | +33 | –11 | +25 | +9 |
| 8 | GM | Marin Mihail | 2562 | |
5.0 | +46 | =20 | =32 | +24 | +21 | -1 | +22 |
American player Matthew Herman (2149) is performing nearly 2600 after 7 rounds! Full standings here.
http://www.scacchisticamilanese.it
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
foto from Scacchierando:
http://www.scacchierando.net/dblog/articolo.asp?articolo=2124
And Matthew Herman wins the tournament on tiebreaks, clearing the IM Norm by over a point, and just missing out on a GM norm by half a point.
http://www.scacchisticamilanese.it/tornei/crespi10/Magistrale/standing.html