Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Sao Paulo Tournament

Torneio Internacional Prefeitura da Cidade de São Paulo was held on November 11th-19th in Sao Paulo, Brasil. IM Alexandr Fier scored his final GM norm and he should appear 2500+ on the next rating list. Brasilian chess organizers are very active lately, see their chess federation website. Prize fund was nice round number of 15.000 USD.


Final standings:
1-2. GM Giovanni Vescovi (BRA 2592) and GM Andrés Rodriguez (URU 2496) with 8.0/11
3. GM Rafael Leitão (BRA 2601) 7.5
4. IM Alexandr Fier (BRA 2490) 7.0
5-6. GM Ruben Felgaer (ARG 2591) and GM Gilberto Milos Jr. (BRA 2563) 6.0
7-8. IM Axel Bachmann (PAR 2473) and GM Darcy Lima (BRA 2466) 5.0
9. GM Jaime Sunye Neto (BRA 2503) 4.0
10-11. FM André Diamant (BRA 2396) and FM Felipe El Debs (BRA 2325) 3.5
12. Diego Berardino (BRA 2370) 2.5


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