After his recent excellent display at European Team Championship, GM Loek Van Wely has proved high class once again in the "Liepajas Rokade" tournament. The annual chess festival was held in Liepajas, the beautiful city on latvian coast.
It was an interesting race between Van Wely and GM Fridman, but the Dutchman scored 2/3 on the final day to secure an comfortable win. Afterwards the winner gave an express interview.
Besides the supertournament, this festival also included open, blitz and team tournaments and big Latvia versus Lithuania match.
Final standings:
1.VAN WELY, Look (NED 2655) 11 2.FRIDMANS, Daniels (LAT 2566) 9.5 3.STAROSTITS, Ilmars (LAT 2474) 7.5 4.KHALIFMAN, Aleksandr (RUS 2653) 7.5 5.KENGIS, Edvins (LAT 2534) 7.5 etc.
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