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Ikaros Chess Festival 2007

Grandmasters Aleksandr Shneider and GM Sergey Zagrebelny tied the first place in main tournament

The Ikaros Chess Festival 2007, featuring eight tournaments, took place on 4th-17th July in Agios Kirykos, Ikaria island, Greece. The main event was Aegean Open Championship 2007 with impressive number of 182 participants. Grandmasters Aleksandr Shneider and GM Sergey Zagrebelny tied the first place, but Shneider was declared winner on the better tiebreak. Zagrebelny took his revenge later, when he beat Shneider in the Winners Cup final, a knockout event with 16 players.

Aegean Open final standings:

1-2. GM Aleksandr Shneider (UKR 2537) and GM Sergey Zagrebelny (UZB 2482) 7.5/9
3-9. IM Nikoloz Shavtvaladze (GEO 2386), GM Mihail Saltaev (UZB 2522), IM Nikoloz Managadze (GEO 2433), FM Pablo Garcia Castro (ESP 2405), Georgios Goumas (GRE 2183), David Zakarian (ARM 2344) and Konstantinos Markidis (GRE 2305) 7.0
10-16. FM Miladin Gavric (BIH 2391), WGM Yana Melnikova (RUS 2310), Epaminondas Kourousis (GRE 2076), WIM Kseniya Rybenko (RUS 2245), Alexandros Kostouros (GRE 2223), Georgia Grapsa (GRE 2076) and IM Liubov Kostiukova (UKR 2324) 6.5 etc

For more information, visit the official website.