Swedish GM Brynnel and FM Semcesen wins CCC 2009 af Tom Skovgaard
10. maj 2009 20:28:54

After a tense fight at the top boards in the last round, the Swedish players GM Stellan Brynnel and FM Daniel Semcesen won Copenhagen Chess Challenge 2009 with 7 of 9 points. FM Daniel Semcesen completed his IM title by scoring his third IM-norm, and he even got his first GM-norm with this victory!

All results are found in the result table in the menu above. From this table, the games can be viewed / downloaded by round, by player og for the tournament. Final top standings:

7 point
GM Stellan Brynell
FM Daniel Semcesen

6½ point
GM Krasimir Rusev
IM Nils Grandelius
GM Henrik Danielsen
GM Miroslaw Grabarczyk

6 point
IM Allan Stig Rasmussen
GM Evgeny Janev
IM Jakob Vang Glud
IM Hans Tikkanen
IM Nicolai V. Pedersen
IM Nikolaj Mikkelsen
IM Axel Smith

Top standings before last round af Tom Skovgaard
10. maj 2009 15:10:08

6½ point
GM Stellan Brynell

6 point
IM Allan Stig Rasmussen
GM Henrik Danielsen
FM Daniel Semcesen

5½ point
GM Krasimir Rusev
IM Nils Grandelius
GM Miroslaw Grabarczyk
IM Jakob Vang Glud
IM Klaus Berg
IM Esben Lund
IM Nikolaj Mikkelsen
Daniel Jakobsen Kovachev

Norms before last round af Tom Skovgaard
10. maj 2009 14:54:03

FM Daniel Semcesen has achieved an IM-norm. He can achieve a GM-norm by winning his last game.

Top standings after round 7 af Tom Skovgaard
9. maj 2009 19:39:40

6 point
IM Allan Stig Rasmussen

5½ point
GM Stellan Brynell

5 point
GM Krasimir Rusev
IM Nils Grandelius
GM Henrik Danielsen
GM Mikhail Ivanov
GM Miroslaw Grabarczyk
IM Jakob Vang Glud
IM Esben Lund
FM Daniel Semcesen
FM Andreas Skytte Hagen

Top standings after round 5 af Tom Skovgaard
8. maj 2009 20:10:32

4½ point
IM Allan Stig Rasmussen

4 point
GM Krasimir Rusev
IM Nils Grandelius
GM Mikhail Ivanov
FM Daniel Semcesen
David Bekker-Jensen

3½ point
GM Henrik Danielsen
GM Miroslaw Grabarczyk
GM Stellan Brynell
IM Jakob Vang Glud
IM Klaus Berg
IM Esben Lund
IM Hans Tikkanen
IM Nicolai V. Pedersen
IM Simon Bekker-Jensen
IM Nikolaj Mikkelsen
FM Jacob Carstensen
Bo Garner Christensen
Johnny Veng

Rules for prices af Tom Skovgaard
8. maj 2009 18:13:50

Prices are shared equally between players with the same final score.

CCC 2009 is underway - May, 6th - 10th af Tom Skovgaard
7. maj 2009 16:31:28

The first round of Copenhagen Chess Challenge 2009 started Wednesday evening with a strong international field of 76 players. There is a tuff program with 9 rounds in 5 days, and 12 boards are transmitted live on the net.

The field includes 8 grandmasters, if we also count the young rising Danish star Allan Stig Rasmussen, who took his final GM-norm in the Danish Championship in April a month ago and, now is waiting for his nomination in the near future. The other GMs in the field are Carsten Høi, Denmark, Stellan Brynnel, Sweden, Mikhail Ivanov, Russia, Krasimir Rusev and Evgeny Janev, Bulgaria, Henrik Danielsen, Iceland og Miroslaw Grabarczyk, Poland.

Furthermore the field includes 11 IMs, and among these the two IMs from the organising club BMS Skak, Nikolaj Mikkelsen and Bjarke Sahl. BMS Skak, and the CCC tournament, is situated in Ballerup, 15 kilometers west of Copenhagen. Other title holders are 9 FMs, 1 WIM: Oksana Vovk and 1 WFM: Louise Fredericia.

Besides being an open international tournament, the tournament also counts as the Copenhagen Championship 2009, a title which will be won by the best placed player from the Chess Federation of Copenhagen. The current Copenhagen champion, IM Esben Lund, is also playing in the tournament, and will, thus, try to defend his title.

Results can be seen in the table (cf. link "Results" above), and games can be drawn from the links inside the table - individually or by round etc.

Main sponsor of the event is the Danish investment company "Formuepleje" (cf. the company home page here), while the other sponsors are the Copenhagen Chess Federation, the Danish Chess Federation, the Danish Chess Support Federation and the organising club BMS Skak.