The 12th Avicenna International Open Chess Tournament took was organized by the Hamedan Chess Association and Iranian Chess Federation from September 2-9, 2015, in the Iranian city of Hamedan.
The event was an 11-round Swiss open with time control 90′ + 30″.
GM Oleg Korneev from Spain emerged a sole winner with 9.5/11 points, leaving the runner-up, 2015 Iranian champion GM Ehsan Ghaem Maghami, half a point behind.
The 15-year-old Parham Maghsoodloo clinched the bronze medal on a superior tie-break score, after sharing 3-7th place with 8.5 points.
Maghsoodloo has just qualified for the FIDE World Cup 2015 that starts today and he will face GM Wesley So in the first knockout match.
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Final standings:
1 GM Korneev Oleg 2578 ESP 9.5
2 GM Ghaem Maghami Ehsan 2596 IRI 9
3 Maghsoodloo Parham 2447 IRI 8.5
4 FM Mousavi Seyed Khalil 2427 IRI 8.5
5 Mosadeghpour Masoud 2416 IRI 8.5
6 Dalir Alireza 2297 IRI 8.5
7 IM Asgarizadeh Ahmad 2402 IRI 8.5
8 GM Toufighi Homayoon 2400 IRI 8
9 Sedaghati Mehrdad 2238 IRI 8
10 Faghirnavaz Ali 2298 IRI 8
11 Aghaei Alireza 2178 IRI 8
12 FM Hosseinipour Mehdi 2243 IRI 8
13 Akhgari Reza 2060 IRI 8
14 Roohi Abdolmajid 2149 IRI 8
15 Gholami Orimi Mahdi 2058 IRI 8
16 GM Kotanjian Tigran 2495 ARM 7.5
17 Bolourchifard Farzad 2229 IRI 7.5
18 FM Sadeh Shahin 2273 IRI 7.5
19 Delavari Amirali 2049 IRI 7.5
20 Bagheri Maziar 2252 IRI 7.5
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