Tepe SIgeman & Co Chess Tournament can today present two more players in this year’s starting field: David Navara, Czech Republic and Alexei Shirov, Spain.
It is already known that Nils Grandelius, Sweden and Jorden van Foreest, Holland will participate in this year’s tournament.
Four additional players will be introduced in the coming weeks.
Tepe Sigeman & Co Chess tournament can today present two participants out of the eight who will participate in this year’s tournament. This year’s tournament will once again be played in Malmö Live from the third of May to the 9th of May.
Back to the players that were to be presented, GM Jorden van Foreest from Holland and Sweden’s highest-ranked player GM Nils Grandelius. Both participated in last year’s tournament. GM Jorden van Foreest won the tournament last year so he is probably looking forward to visiting Malmö again.
Grandelius and Short failed to make up any ground on Jorden Van Foreest and with one round to go we already have a champion! A very impressive display by the dutchman.
Grandelius-Jones
Interesting theoretical duel in the anti-Berliner of the Ruy Lopez. Grandelius tried to put some pressure on Jones, but it soon fizzled out into a draw.
Van Foreest-Bjerre
The Grand Prix attack with very sharp play. Bjerre had some chances in the beginning, for instance 13…axb5 would have been a very interesting sacrifice. Soon after the position swung Van Foreest’s way and the dutchman could clinch the tournament win in a determined fashion.
Bacrot-Sarin
Nihal Sarin got a promising position in an interesting Ruy Lopez. But after an exchange of queens Bacrot had no problem in securing the draw.
Short- Keymer
A battle between Keymer’s bishop pair and Short’s two knights. With little time left on the clock Keymer lost a pawn, but could still hold on to a draw without too much trouble.
Wednesday September 29th 12.00 CET
Jonas Buhl Bjerre – Etienne Bacrot
Gawain Jones – J Van Foreest
Vincent Keymer – Nils Grandelius
Nihal Sarin – Nigel Short