{"id":27553,"date":"2024-07-15T11:51:39","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T11:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1090.fide.com\/?p=27553"},"modified":"2024-07-22T12:16:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T12:16:03","slug":"belgian-championship-daniel-dardha-wins-fourth-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/belgian-championship-daniel-dardha-wins-fourth-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgian Championship: Daniel Dardha wins fourth title"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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GM Daniel Dardha emerged victorious in the 2024 Belgian Championship, capturing his fourth national title.<\/p>

The 2024 Belgian Championship, which included an invitational 10-player round-robin (expert tournament) and an open tournament, took place in the large refectory of the Sint-Gummarus College in Liege from July 06-13.<\/p>

The 18-year-old Dardha confirmed his status as a pre-tournament favorite to win the expert event, but it was a very close race with IM Stefan Beukema that came down to the wire.<\/p>

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Going into the final round, Dardha and Beukema shared the lead with 6.5\/8 each. Stefan made a quick draw with IM Steven Geirnaert, while Daniel jumped on this opportunity and defeated IM Alexander Alienkin with black pieces to clinch the title. The champion and the runner-up became the only unbeaten players in the event.<\/p>

Mher Hovhannisyan and Sim Maerevoet scored 5.5\/9 and tied for third place, with the former completing the podium thanks to better tiebreak. \u00a0<\/p>

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

1<\/p><\/td>

GM<\/p><\/td>

Dardha, Daniel<\/p><\/td>

2629<\/p><\/td>

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

2<\/p><\/td>

IM<\/p><\/td>

Beukema, Stefan<\/p><\/td>

2411<\/p><\/td>

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

3<\/p><\/td>

GM<\/p><\/td>

Hovhannisyan, Mher<\/p><\/td>

2405<\/p><\/td>

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

4<\/p><\/td>

IM<\/p><\/td>

Maerevoet, Sim<\/p><\/td>

2436<\/p><\/td>

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

5<\/p><\/td>

IM<\/p><\/td>

Alienkin, Aleksander<\/p><\/td>

2331<\/p><\/td>

5<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

6<\/p><\/td>

IM<\/p><\/td>

Geirnaert, Steven<\/p><\/td>

2438<\/p><\/td>

4<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

7<\/p><\/td>

GM<\/p><\/td>

Dgebuadze, Alexandre<\/p><\/td>

2442<\/p><\/td>

4<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

8<\/p><\/td>

FM<\/p><\/td>

De Waele, Warre<\/p><\/td>

2365<\/p><\/td>

3<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

9<\/p><\/td>

\u00a0<\/td>

Ruzhansky, Elias<\/p><\/td>

2242<\/p><\/td>

2<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

10<\/p><\/td>

FM<\/p><\/td>

Dreelinck, Jacob<\/p><\/td>

2310<\/p><\/td>

1\u00bd<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>


Photos: official website<\/p>

Official website:\u00a0bk.schaakliga-antwerpen.be\/en\/main-event\/<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GM Daniel Dardha emerged victorious in the 2024 Belgian Championship, capturing his fourth national title. The 2024 Belgian Championship, which included an invitational 10-player round-robin (expert tournament) and an open tournament, took place in the large refectory of the Sint-Gummarus College in Liege from July 06-13. The 18-year-old Dardha confirmed his status as a pre-tournament favorite to win the expert event, but it was a very close race with IM Stefan Beukema that came down to the wire. Going into the final round, Dardha and Beukema shared the lead with 6.5\/8 each. Stefan made a quick draw with IM Steven Geirnaert, while Daniel jumped on this opportunity and defeated IM Alexander Alienkin with black pieces to clinch the title. The champion and the runner-up became the only unbeaten players in the event. Mher Hovhannisyan and Sim Maerevoet scored 5.5\/9 and tied for third place, with the former completing the podium thanks to better tiebreak. \u00a0 Final standings: 1 GM Dardha, Daniel 2629 7\u00bd 2 IM Beukema, Stefan 2411 7 3 GM Hovhannisyan, Mher 2405 5\u00bd 4 IM Maerevoet, Sim 2436 5\u00bd 5 IM Alienkin, Aleksander 2331 5 6 IM Geirnaert, Steven 2438 4 7 GM Dgebuadze, Alexandre 2442 4 8 FM De Waele, Warre 2365 3 9 \u00a0 Ruzhansky, Elias 2242 2 10 FM Dreelinck, Jacob 2310 1\u00bd Photos: official website Official website:\u00a0bk.schaakliga-antwerpen.be\/en\/main-event\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[59,49],"regular":[],"sticky-post":[],"class_list":["post-27553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chess-news","tag-belgium","tag-national-championships"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27553","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=27553"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27558,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27553\/revisions\/27558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27553"},{"taxonomy":"regular","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regular?post=27553"},{"taxonomy":"sticky-post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sticky-post?post=27553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}