Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta is the winner of the 8th Tashkent International Open – Memorial of Georgy Agzamov, that was held on 14-24th May in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
In the last round Gupta defeated GM Oleg Korneev with black pieces, and with the top two games Kuzubov – Smirnov and Mchedlishvili – Pashikian being drawn, the Indian emerged clear winner with 7,5/9 points.
The tournament had a sensational start when the 10-year old local star FM Nodirbek Abdusattorov, rated only 2057, assumed an early lead with 3/3 points, beating GMs Andrey Zhigalko and Rustam Khusnutdinov in the process.
GM Mikheil Mchedlishvili stopped his fantastic run and Abdusattorov concluded the event with 5/9 points, only narrowly missing a norm.
The tournament was organized by the Uzbekistan Chess Federation, in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture and Sports of Uzbekistan.
The playing format was 9-round Swiss with the total prize fund of 20,000 US dollars.
Final standings (top finishers):
1 GM Gupta Abhijeet IND 2619 – 7.5
2 GM Kuzubov Yuriy UKR 2648 – 7
3 GM Mchedlishvili Mikheil GEO 2621 – 7
4 GM Smirnov Pavel RUS 2626 – 7
5 GM Pashikian Arman ARM 2626 – 7
6 GM Zhigalko Sergei BLR 2675 – 6.5
7 GM Barsov Alexei UZB 2489 – 6.5
8 GM Volkov Sergey RUS 2584 – 6.5
9 GM Hovhannisyan Robert ARM 2613 – 6.5
10 GM Khusnutdinov Rustam KAZ 2495 – 6.5
11 GM Zhigalko Andrey BLR 2600 – 6.5
12 GM Filippov Anton UZB 2619 – 6
13 GM Korneev Oleg ESP 2618 – 6
14 FM Tillyaev Ulugbek UZB 2337 – 6
15 FM Khoroshev Nikita UZB 2320 – 6
16 GM Ziatdinov Raset USA 2387 – 6
17 Sattarov Bobir UZB 2249 – 6
18 IM Egin Vladimir UZB 2395 – 5.5
19 WFM Kurbonboeva Sarvinoz UZB 2207 – 5.5
20 FM Kholmirzaev Bakhodir UZB 2315 – 5.5
Impressive.