{"id":23556,"date":"2023-10-18T10:06:57","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T10:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1090.fide.com\/?p=23556"},"modified":"2023-10-31T14:57:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T14:57:15","slug":"marcin-tazbir-triumphs-at-ibca-world-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/marcin-tazbir-triumphs-at-ibca-world-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcin Tazbir triumphs at IBCA World Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Marcin Tazbir is the new IBCA World Champion. The Polish GM completed the World Championship for Blind and Visually Impaired undefeated with an excellent score of 8 points in 9 games. Congratulations!<\/p>

The defending champion, IM Predrag Nikac (Montenegro), took second place with 7.5 points, while bronze went to FM Alexey Streltsov (Israel) after a six-person tiebreak.<\/p>

The nine-round Swiss tournament featured 82 players from 29 countries. Among them were one GM, five IMs and three FMs, making it one of the strongest IBCA World Championships ever.<\/p>

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

1<\/p><\/td>

GM<\/p><\/td>

Tazbir, Marcin<\/p><\/td>

POL<\/p><\/td>

2499<\/p><\/td>

8<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

2<\/p><\/td>

IM<\/p><\/td>

Nikac, Predrag<\/p><\/td>

MNE<\/p><\/td>

2283<\/p><\/td>

7\u00bd<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

3<\/p><\/td>

FM<\/p><\/td>

Streltsov, Alexey<\/p><\/td>

ISR<\/p><\/td>

2343<\/p><\/td>

6\u00bd<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

4<\/p><\/td>

\u00a0<\/td>

Djakashov, Kuralbay<\/p><\/td>

UZB<\/p><\/td>

2133<\/p><\/td>

6\u00bd<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

5<\/p><\/td>

\u00a0<\/td>

Kolpakov, Vladyslav<\/p><\/td>

UKR<\/p><\/td>

2238<\/p><\/td>

6\u00bd<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

6<\/p><\/td>

CM<\/p><\/td>

Jandric, Damjan<\/p><\/td>

SRB<\/p><\/td>

2090<\/p><\/td>

6\u00bd<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

7<\/p><\/td>

\u00a0<\/td>

Bibikov, Yuriy<\/p><\/td>

KAZ<\/p><\/td>

2050<\/p><\/td>

6\u00bd<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

8<\/p><\/td>

\u00a0<\/td>

Adiyaman, Rene<\/p><\/td>

GER<\/p><\/td>

2122<\/p><\/td>

6\u00bd<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

9<\/p><\/td>

IM<\/p><\/td>

Stachanczyk, Jacek<\/p><\/td>

POL<\/p><\/td>

2066<\/p><\/td>

6<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

10<\/p><\/td>

IM<\/p><\/td>

Dukaczewski, Piotr<\/p><\/td>

POL<\/p><\/td>

2088<\/p><\/td>

6<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>


Complete results<\/a><\/p>

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The closing ceremony of the event turned into a great night with the prize awards to the winners and a spectacular show of traditional Greek music with local singers and dancers.<\/p>

The cups and medals to the winners were presented by the Deputy Mayor of Rhodes,\u00a0Konstantinos Taraslias<\/strong>, the President of the Aegean Consumers Association,\u00a0Georgios Avgerinos<\/strong>\u00a0and the newly elected President of IBCA,\u00a0J\u00f6rgen Magnusson<\/strong>.<\/p>

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Everyone is already looking forward to the next IBCA World Championship in 2025!<\/p>

Photo highlights of the event:
facebook.com\/media\/set\/?vanity=chessingreece&set=a.802210368367921<\/a><\/p>

IBCA official website:\u00a0ibca-info.org<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>

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Marcin Tazbir is the new IBCA World Champion. The Polish GM completed the World Championship for Blind and Visually Impaired undefeated with an excellent score of 8 points in 9 games. Congratulations! The defending champion, IM Predrag Nikac (Montenegro), took second place with 7.5 points, while bronze went to FM Alexey Streltsov (Israel) after a six-person tiebreak. The nine-round Swiss tournament featured 82 players from 29 countries. Among them were one GM, five IMs and three FMs, making it one of the strongest IBCA World Championships ever. Final standings: 1 GM Tazbir, Marcin POL 2499 8 2 IM Nikac, Predrag MNE 2283 7\u00bd 3 FM Streltsov, Alexey ISR 2343 6\u00bd 4 \u00a0 Djakashov, Kuralbay UZB 2133 6\u00bd 5 \u00a0 Kolpakov, Vladyslav UKR 2238 6\u00bd 6 CM Jandric, Damjan SRB 2090 6\u00bd 7 \u00a0 Bibikov, Yuriy KAZ 2050 6\u00bd 8 \u00a0 Adiyaman, Rene GER 2122 6\u00bd 9 IM Stachanczyk, Jacek POL 2066 6 10 IM Dukaczewski, Piotr POL 2088 6 Complete results The closing ceremony of the event turned into a great night with the prize awards to the winners and a spectacular show of traditional Greek music with local singers and dancers. The cups and medals to the winners were presented by the Deputy Mayor of Rhodes,\u00a0Konstantinos Taraslias, the President of the Aegean Consumers Association,\u00a0Georgios Avgerinos\u00a0and the newly elected President of IBCA,\u00a0J\u00f6rgen Magnusson. Everyone is already looking forward to the next IBCA World Championship in 2025! Photo highlights of the event:facebook.com\/media\/set\/?vanity=chessingreece&set=a.802210368367921 IBCA official website:\u00a0ibca-info.org\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[74,182,73],"regular":[],"sticky-post":[],"class_list":["post-23556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chess-news","tag-chess-for-impaired","tag-greece","tag-ibca"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23556","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=23556"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23561,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23556\/revisions\/23561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23556"},{"taxonomy":"regular","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regular?post=23556"},{"taxonomy":"sticky-post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sticky-post?post=23556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}