{"id":18790,"date":"2020-02-22T17:12:24","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T17:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1090.fide.com\/?p=18790"},"modified":"2023-10-30T07:38:51","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T07:38:51","slug":"prague-chess-festival-firouzja-overtakes-vidit-in-a-dramatic-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/prague-chess-festival-firouzja-overtakes-vidit-in-a-dramatic-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"Prague Chess Festival: Firouzja overtakes Vidit in a dramatic finale"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The final round of the Prague International Chess Festival turned into a real thriller. With the games Duda vs. Vidit and Shankland vs. Vitiugov finishing with the decisive results, and Firouzja surviving against Anton, there was a 5-way tie for the 1st place. Despite losing to Duda, the tournament leader\u00a0Vidit Gijrathi\u00a0<\/strong>had the best tie-break and he was to play against\u00a0Alireza Firouzja<\/strong>. The Indian lost the play-off with 2-0, which harldly\u00a0come as a surprise since it was already very difficult to play after losing two final games. What could have been one of the best performances of his life, in the end, turned out to be a horror ending for Vidit, who could not keep up with the pressure.\u00a0<\/p>

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After starting with 5 draws,\u00a0Jorden Van Foreest<\/strong>\u00a0(Netherlands) scored 3.5 out of the last four rounds and became the clear winner of the Challengers tournament. In the final round, he defeated Hannes Stefansson and with 6.5 points won the event, and more importantly, qualified for the next edition of PICF Masters tournament.<\/p>

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There was a tie for the second place between\u00a0Nijat Abasov<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Andrey Esipenko<\/strong>. Thanks to the tie-break, the top seed from Azerbaijan finished second and the 17-year-old Russia came third.\u00a0<\/p>

This year besides the regular prizes, the organizers of the Prague ChessFestival included one special trophy. The Vugar Gashimov Prize for Fair Play was awarded in person by the brother of late Azerbaijani Grandmaster, Mr. Sarkan Gashimov. The prize in the Challengers went to\u00a0Mateusz Bartel<\/strong>, while in Masters section the winner was Grandmaster\u00a0David Navara<\/strong>.<\/p>

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A local hero\u00a0Vaclav\u00a0Finek<\/strong>\u00a0triumphed in the Futures tournament, the newest addition to the Prague Chess Festival. He defeated Roy Vagman from Israel, while the\u00a0tournament leader, Ediz Gurel from Turkey lost to Mongolian Chinguun. They both ties for the 1st place with 6 points, but Finek had better tie-breaks. The third place went to another Czech player Jachym Nemec with 5 points.<\/p>

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Text: Official site<\/p>

Official site:\u00a0https:\/\/praguechessfestival.com\/<\/a><\/p>

Photo: Petr Vrabec and Vladimir Jagr<\/p>

Final standings Masters<\/strong><\/p>

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*Tiebreak Vidt Santosh Gujrathi – Alireza Firouza: 0-2<\/p>

Final standings Challengers<\/strong><\/p>

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Final standings Futures<\/strong><\/p>

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The final round of the Prague International Chess Festival turned into a real thriller. With the games Duda vs. Vidit and Shankland vs. Vitiugov finishing with the decisive results, and Firouzja surviving against Anton, there was a 5-way tie for the 1st place. Despite losing to Duda, the tournament leader\u00a0Vidit Gijrathi\u00a0had the best tie-break and he was to play against\u00a0Alireza Firouzja. The Indian lost the play-off with 2-0, which harldly\u00a0come as a surprise since it was already very difficult to play after losing two final games. What could have been one of the best performances of his life, in the end, turned out to be a horror ending for Vidit, who could not keep up with the pressure.\u00a0 After starting with 5 draws,\u00a0Jorden Van Foreest\u00a0(Netherlands) scored 3.5 out of the last four rounds and became the clear winner of the Challengers tournament. In the final round, he defeated Hannes Stefansson and with 6.5 points won the event, and more importantly, qualified for the next edition of PICF Masters tournament. There was a tie for the second place between\u00a0Nijat Abasov\u00a0and\u00a0Andrey Esipenko. Thanks to the tie-break, the top seed from Azerbaijan finished second and the 17-year-old Russia came third.\u00a0 This year besides the regular prizes, the organizers of the Prague ChessFestival included one special trophy. The Vugar Gashimov Prize for Fair Play was awarded in person by the brother of late Azerbaijani Grandmaster, Mr. Sarkan Gashimov. The prize in the Challengers went to\u00a0Mateusz Bartel, while in Masters section the winner was Grandmaster\u00a0David Navara. A local hero\u00a0Vaclav\u00a0Finek\u00a0triumphed in the Futures tournament, the newest addition to the Prague Chess Festival. He defeated Roy Vagman from Israel, while the\u00a0tournament leader, Ediz Gurel from Turkey lost to Mongolian Chinguun. They both ties for the 1st place with 6 points, but Finek had better tie-breaks. The third place went to another Czech player Jachym Nemec with 5 points. Text: Official site Official site:\u00a0https:\/\/praguechessfestival.com\/ Photo: Petr Vrabec and Vladimir Jagr Final standings Masters *Tiebreak Vidt Santosh Gujrathi – Alireza Firouza: 0-2 Final standings Challengers Final standings Futures<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[222,41],"regular":[],"sticky-post":[],"class_list":["post-18790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chess-news","tag-czechrepublic","tag-tournaments"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18790"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18795,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18790\/revisions\/18795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18790"},{"taxonomy":"regular","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regular?post=18790"},{"taxonomy":"sticky-post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sticky-post?post=18790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}