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Biel Chess Festival

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The Biel International Chess Festival is an annual chess tournament that takes place in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland. It consists of two events, the Grandmaster Tournament, held with the round-robin system, and the Master Open Tournament (MTO), held with the Swiss system. The Grandmaster Tournament has taken place since 1977.[1][2] The city of Biel hosted three Interzonal Tournaments, in 1976, 1985 and 1993.

Winners

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# Year Grandmaster Tournament Master Open Tournament
1 1968  Edwin Bhend (Switzerland)
2 1969  Jan Timman (Netherlands)
3 1970  Predrag Ostojic (Yugoslavia)
4 1971  Stanimir Nikolic (Yugoslavia)
5 1972  Milan Vukic (Yugoslavia)
6 1973  Milan Vukic (Yugoslavia)
 János Flesch (Hungary)
7 1974  Bela Soos (Romania)
8 1975  Mišo Cebalo (Yugoslavia)
 John Pigott (England)
 David Parr (Australia)
9 1976  Bent Larsen (Denmark) (Interzonal)  Dragutin Sahovic (Yugoslavia)
 Radovan Govedarica (Yugoslavia)
10 1977  Tony Miles (England)  Miguel Quinteros (Argentina)
11 1978  Charles Partos (Switzerland)
12 1979  Viktor Korchnoi (Switzerland)  Yehuda Gruenfeld (Israel)
 Jean Hébert (Canada)
13 1980  Yehuda Gruenfeld (Israel)  Israel Zilber (United States)
 Josip Rukavina (Yugoslavia)
 Beat Züger (Switzerland)
 Peter Scheeren (Netherlands)
14 1981  Eric Lobron (West Germany)
 Vlastimil Hort (Czechoslovakia)
 Nathan Birnboim (Israel)
 Laszlo Karsa (Hungary)
 Ron Henley (United States)
 Eduard Meduna (Czechoslovakia)
15 1982  John Nunn (England)
 Florin Gheorghiu (Romania)
 Ivan Nemet (Yugoslavia)
16 1983  Tony Miles (England)
 John Nunn (England)
 Jaan Eslon (Sweden)
17 1984  Vlastimil Hort (West Germany)
 Robert Hübner (West Germany)
 Carlos Garcia-Palermo (Argentina)
18 1985  Rafael Vaganian (Soviet Union) (Interzonal)  Ian Rogers (Australia)
 Alon Greenfeld (Israel)
19 1986  Lev Polugaevsky (Soviet Union)
 Eric Lobron (West Germany)
 Daniel Cámpora (Argentina)
20 1987  Boris Gulko (United States)  Lev Gutman (Israel)
21 1988  Ivan Sokolov (Yugoslavia)
 Boris Gulko (United States)
 Gennadi Kuzmin (Soviet Union)
22 1989  Vassily Ivanchuk (Soviet Union)  Matthias Wahls (West Germany)
23 1990  Anatoly Karpov (Soviet Union)  Viktor Gavrikov (Soviet Union)
24 1991  Alexei Shirov (Latvia)  Zurab Sturua (Soviet Union)
25 1992  Anatoly Karpov (Russia)  Alexander Shabalov (Latvia)
26 1993  Boris Gelfand (Belarus) (Interzonal)  Vadim Milov (Israel)
27 1994  Viktor Gavrikov (Switzerland)  Utut Adianto (Indonesia)
28 1995  Alexey Dreev (Russia)  Igor Glek (Germany)
29 1996  Anatoly Karpov (Russia)  Zurab Sturua (Georgia)
30 1997  Viswanathan Anand (India)  Ildar Ibragimov (Russia)
31 1998  Mladen Palac (Croatia)  Milos Pavlovic (Yugoslavia)
32 1999  Jeroen Piket (Netherlands)  Vadim Milov (Switzerland)
33 2000  Peter Svidler (Russia)  Boris Avrukh (Israel)
34 2001  Viktor Korchnoi (Switzerland)  Boris Avrukh (Israel)
35 2002  Ilya Smirin (Israel)  Milos Pavlovic (Yugoslavia)
36 2003  Alexander Morozevich (Russia)  Mikhail Ulibin (Russia)
37 2004  Alexander Morozevich (Russia)  Christian Bauer (France)
38 2005  Boris Gelfand (Israel)
 Andrei Volokitin (Ukraine)
 Mikhail Kobalia (Russia)
39 2006  Alexander Morozevich (Russia)  Bartosz Soćko (Poland)
40 2007  Magnus Carlsen (Norway)  Mikhail Ulibin (Russia)
41 2008  Evgeny Alekseev (Russia)  Vladimir Belov (Russia)
42 2009  Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France)  Boris Grachev (Russia)
43 2010  Fabiano Caruana (Italy)  Alexander Riazantsev (Russia)
44 2011  Magnus Carlsen (Norway)  Ni Hua (China)
45 2012  Wang Hao (China)  Igor Kurnosov (Russia)
46 2013  Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France)  Pentala Harikrishna (India)
47 2014  Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France)  Baskaran Adhiban (India)
48 2015  Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France)  Emil Sutovsky (Israel)
49 2016[a]  Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France)  Samuel Shankland (United States)
50 2017  Hou Yifan (China)  Mateusz Bartel (Poland)
51 2018  Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan)  Suri Vaibhav (India)
52 2019  Vidit Gujrathi (India)  Amin Tabatabaei (IRI)
53 2020  Radosław Wojtaszek (Poland)  Christian Bauer (France)
54 2021  Gata Kamsky (United States)  Salem Saleh (United Arab Emirates)
55 2022  Lê Quang Liêm (Vietnam)  Mahammad Muradli (Azerbaijan)
56 2023  Lê Quang Liêm (Vietnam)  Bu Xiangzhi (China)
57 2024  Lê Quang Liêm (Vietnam)  Rinat Jumabayev (Kazakhstan)

Event results

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2023

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The 2023 event invited 8 players to play a triathlon of time control formats: single round-robin in 15 5 rapid time controls, single round-robin in classical time controls with colors reversed from Rapid, and double round-robin in 3 2 blitz time controls. Points are given each game according to time controls: 4-1½-0 for classical, 2-1-0 for rapid, and 1-½-0 for blitz.[3] This event was included for the 2023 FIDE Circuit, but only the classical section results were used for circuit points calculation.

2023 Biel Masters Triathlon, 14-25 July, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
Player Rapid Blitz Classical Total
1  Lê Quang Liêm (Vietnam) 5 19 32½
2  Vincent Keymer (Germany) 10 5 16½ 31½
3  David Navara (Czech Republic) 10 13 30½
4  Arjun Erigaisi (India) 5 10½ 10 25½
5  Yu Yangyi (China) 9 24
6  Jules Moussard (France) 6 7 10½ 23½
7  Bassem Amin (Egypt) 8 20
8  Bogdan-Daniel Deac (Romania) 3 9 18½
2023 Biel Masters Triathlon – Rapid, 16 July, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland[4]
Player Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Points
T-1  Vincent Keymer (Germany) 2617 Does not appear 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 10
T-1  David Navara (Czech Republic) 2689 0 Does not appear 1 2 1 2 2 2 10
3  Yu Yangyi (China) 2734 1 1 Does not appear 1 2 2 0 2 9
4  Bassem Amin (Egypt) 2588 1 0 1 Does not appear 1 2 2 1 8
5  Jules Moussard (France) 2605 0 1 0 1 Does not appear 0 2 2 6
T-6  Arjun Erigaisi (India) 2714 0 0 0 0 2 Does not appear 2 1 5
T-6  Lê Quang Liêm (Vietnam) 2661 1 0 2 0 0 0 Does not appear 2 5
8  Bogdan-Daniel Deac (Romania) 2634 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 Does not appear 3
2023 Biel Masters Triathlon – Classical, 18–26 July, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland[5]
Player Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Points Circuit
1  Lê Quang Liêm (Vietnam) 2728 Does not appear 0 4 4 4 4 19 19.91
2  Vincent Keymer (Germany) 2690 4 Does not appear 0 4 4 16½ 15.93
3  David Navara (Czech Republic) 2689 Does not appear 4 13 13.94
4  Jules Moussard (France) 2654 Does not appear 10½ 11.95
5  Arjun Erigaisi (India) 2710 0 4 Does not appear 0 10
6  Bogdan-Daniel Deac (Romania) 2693 0 Does not appear 9
7  Bassem Amin (Egypt) 2694 0 0 0 4 Does not appear
8  Yu Yangyi (China) 2735 0 0 Does not appear
2023 Biel Masters Triathlon – Blitz, 22 July, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland[6]
Player Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Points
1  Arjun Erigaisi (India) 2710 Does not appear 1 1 1 ½ ½ 1 1 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 10½
2  Lê Quang Liêm (Vietnam) 2643 0 0 Does not appear 1 0 1 ½ 1 0 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1
T-3  David Navara (Czech Republic) 2675 0 ½ 0 1 Does not appear 1 0 ½ 1 0 1 0 ½ 1 1
T-3  Yu Yangyi (China) 2770 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 1 Does not appear ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½
5  Jules Moussard (France) 2626 0 1 0 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ Does not appear ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 1 7
6  Bogdan-Daniel Deac (Romania) 2644 ½ 0 0 ½ 1 0 0 ½ ½ 1 Does not appear 1 0 1 ½
7  Vincent Keymer (Germany) 2669 ½ 0 ½ 0 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 Does not appear 0 0 5
8  Bassem Amin (Egypt) 2670 ½ 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 ½ 1 1 Does not appear
Master Tournament Open
2023 Biel Masters Tournament, 17–27 July, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland[7]
Player Rating Points TB1 TB2 Circuit
1  Bu Xiangzhi (China) 2676 8/10 60 503 10.38
2  Aryan Chopra (India) 2626 7½/10 58½ 504 8.30
3  Liu Yan (China) 2542 7/10 57½ 490 5.38
4  Peng Xiongjian (China) 2489 7/10 56½ 489 4.86
5  Nguyễn Ngọc Trường Sơn (Vietnam) 2645 7/10 56½ 488 4.34
6  Nico Chasin (United States) 2455 7/10 55½ 484 3.83
7  V.S. Rathanvel (India) 2463 7/10 54½ 469 3.31
8  Read Samadov (Azerbaijan) 2482 7/10 53½ 477½ 2.79
9  Robert Shlyakhtenko (United States) 2401 7/10 48 456 1.75
10  Georg Seul (Germany) 2376 7/10 46½ 449 1.75
Total entries: 98 players

2024

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The 2024 event had 2 invitational sections, Masters and Challengers, with 6 players each. Each section played the same triathlon format from the previous event with the same point distribution, except that after all three phases are played, top 3 in total points, along with 4th place if they are within 12 points from first place, will continue play with a second classical round-robin.[8]

2024 Biel Masters Triathlon, 14-25 July, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
Player Rapid Classical 1 Blitz Classical 2 Total
1  Lê Quang Liêm (Vietnam) 5 12½ 7 31
2  Haik M. Martirosyan (Armenia) 7 25½
3  R Praggnanandhaa (India) 5 7 7 24½
4  Abhimanyu Mishra (United States) 4 12½ 3 22
5  Vincent Keymer (Germany) 5 2 15½
6  Sam Shankland (United States) 4 3 12½
2024 Biel Masters Triathlon – Rapid, 14 July, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland[9]
Player Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 Points
1  Haik M. Martirosyan (Armenia) 2599 Does not appear 2 1 1 1 2 7
T-2  Vincent Keymer (Germany) 2645 0 Does not appear 0 2 2 1 5
T-2  R Praggnanandhaa (India) 2709 1 2 Does not appear 1 1 0 5
T-2  Lê Quang Liêm (Vietnam) 2659 1 0 1 Does not appear 1 2 5
T-5  Abhimanyu Mishra (United States) 2604 1 0 1 1 Does not appear 1 4
T-5  Sam Shankland (United States) 2622 0 1 2 0 1 Does not appear 4
2024 Biel Masters Triathlon – Classical, 16–20 July, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland[10]
Player Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 Points
T-1  Abhimanyu Mishra (United States) 2604 Does not appear 4 4 12½
T-1  Lê Quang Liêm (Vietnam) 2731 Does not appear 4 4 12½
3  Vincent Keymer (Germany) 2721 0 Does not appear 4
4  Haik M. Martirosyan (Armenia) 2661 Does not appear
5  R Praggnanandhaa (India) 2757 0 0 Does not appear 4 7
6  Sam Shankland (United States) 2683 0 0 0 Does not appear 3
2024 Biel Masters Triathlon – Blitz, 21 July, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland[11]
Player Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 Points
1  R Praggnanandhaa (India) 2680 Does not appear 1 ½ ½ 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 7
T-2  Lê Quang Liêm (Vietnam) 2700 0 ½ Does not appear ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1
T-2  Haik M. Martirosyan (Armenia) 2716 ½ 1 ½ ½ Does not appear 0 1 1 ½ 1 ½
4  Sam Shankland (United States) 2648 0 1 0 ½ 1 0 Does not appear ½ ½ 1 1
5  Abhimanyu Mishra (United States) 2449 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ Does not appear ½ 0
6  Vincent Keymer (Germany) 2607 0 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 1 Does not appear 2
2024 Biel Masters Triathlon – Final, 23–25 July, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland[12]
Player Rating 1 2 3 4 Points
1  Lê Quang Liêm (Vietnam) 2731 Does not appear 4 7
2  R Praggnanandhaa (India) 2757 0 Does not appear 4
3  Haik M. Martirosyan (Armenia) 2661 Does not appear
4  Abhimanyu Mishra (United States) 2604 0 Does not appear 3
2024 Biel Challengers Triathlon, 14-25 July, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
Player Rapid Classical 1 Blitz Classical 2 Total
1  Salem Saleh (United Arab Emirates) 6 15 9 35½
2  Alexander Donchenko (Germany) 7 11 5 28½
3  R Vaishali (India) 5 15 0 22½
4  Jonas Buhl Bjerre (Denmark) 5 3 17½
5  Marc'Andria Maurizzi (France) 4 3 12½
6  Ihor Samunenkov (Ukraine) 3 5
2024 Biel Challengers Triathlon – Rapid, 14 July, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland[13]
Player Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 Points
1  Alexander Donchenko (Germany) 2574 Does not appear 2 0 2 2 1 7
2  Salem Saleh (United Arab Emirates) 2659 0 Does not appear 2 2 0 2 6
T-3  Jonas Buhl Bjerre (Denmark) 2523 2 0 Does not appear 1 0 2 5
T-3  R Vaishali (India) 2359 0 0 1 Does not appear 2 2 5
5  Marc'Andria Maurizzi (France) 2445 0 2 2 0 Does not appear 0 4
6  Ihor Samunenkov (Ukraine) 2428 1 0 0 0 2 Does not appear 3
2024 Biel Challengers Triathlon – Classical, 16–20 July, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland[14]
Player Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 Points
T-1  Salem Saleh (United Arab Emirates) 2638 Does not appear 4 4 4 15
T-1  R Vaishali (India) 2488 Does not appear 4 4 4 15
3  Alexander Donchenko (Germany) 2644 0 Does not appear 4 4 11
4  Jonas Buhl Bjerre (Denmark) 2653 0 0 Does not appear 4 4
5  Marc'Andria Maurizzi (France) 2620 0 0 0 Does not appear 3
6  Ihor Samunenkov (Ukraine) 2535 0 0 0 0 Does not appear
2024 Biel Challengers Triathlon – Blitz, 21 July, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland[15]
Player Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 Points
1  Salem Saleh (United Arab Emirates) 2654 Does not appear 1 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 1 9
2  Marc'Andria Maurizzi (France) 2443 0 0 Does not appear 1 ½ 1 0 1 1 1 0
T-3  Alexander Donchenko (Germany) 2569 0 ½ 0 ½ Does not appear 1 ½ 0 1 1 ½ 5
T-3  Ihor Samunenkov (Ukraine) 2471 0 ½ 0 1 0 ½ Does not appear 0 1 1 1 5
5  Jonas Buhl Bjerre (Denmark) 2519 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 Does not appear 0 1 3
6  R Vaishali (India) 2366 0 0 0 1 0 ½ 0 0 1 0 Does not appear
2024 Biel Challengers Triathlon – Final, 23–25 July, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland[16]
Player Rating 1 2 3 Points
T-1  Salem Saleh (United Arab Emirates) 2638 Does not appear 4
T-1  Alexander Donchenko (Germany) 2633 Does not appear 4
3  R Vaishali (India) 2488 0 0 Does not appear 0
Master Tournament Open
2024 Biel Masters Tournament, 15–25 July, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland[17]
Player Rating Points SB Circuit
1  Rinat Jumabayev (Kazakhstan) 2565 7½/10 47 8.32
2  Leon Luke Mendonca (India) 2615 7½/10 45 7.38
3  Ayush Sharma (India) 2342 7½/10 44¾ 6.91
4  Mukhiddin Madaminov (Uzbekistan) 2512 7½/10 44¼ 6.45
5  Krishnan Sasikiran (India) 2581 7/10 42½ 3.44
6  Aryan Chopra (India) 2632 7/10 42 2.97
7  Xue Haowen (China) 2452 7/10 41½ 2.50
8  Aldiyar Ansat (Kazakhstan) 2458 7/10 40 2.03
9  Arseniy Nesterov (FIDE) 2602 7/10 39½ 1.09
10  Sugaryn Gan-Erdene (Mongolia) 2407 7/10 38½ 1.09
Total entries: 128 players

Notes

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  1. ^ In 2016 a match between Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Peter Svidler took place instead of the traditional round-robin Grandmaster Tournament.

References

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  1. ^ International Chess Festival Biel – Previous winners
  2. ^ Torneo Biel
  3. ^ "Regulations". Archived from the original on 2023-12-11.
  4. ^ "Grand Master Triathlon (GMT) - Rapid Biel International Chess Festival 2023".
  5. ^ "Grand Master Triathlon (GMT) - Classical Biel International Chess Festival 2023".
  6. ^ "Grand Master Triathlon (GMT) - Blitz Biel International Chess Festival 2023".
  7. ^ "Master Tournament (MTO) Biel International Chess Festival".
  8. ^ "Regulations". Retrieved 26 July 2024.
  9. ^ "Biel Chess Festival 2024 - Masters Rapid". 14 July 2024.
  10. ^ "Biel Chess Festival 2024 - Masters Qualifier". 20 July 2024.
  11. ^ "Biel Chess Festival 2024 - Masters Blitz". 21 July 2024.
  12. ^ "Biel Chess Festival 2024 - Masters Final". 25 July 2024.
  13. ^ "Biel Chess Festival 2024 - Masters Rapid". 14 July 2024.
  14. ^ "Biel Chess Festival 2024 - Challengers Qualifier". 20 July 2024.
  15. ^ "Biel Chess Festival 2024 - Challengers Blitz". 21 July 2024.
  16. ^ "Biel Chess Festival 2024 - Challengers Final". 25 July 2024.
  17. ^ "Biel Chess Festival 2024 - Master tournament".
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