The Reykjavik Open 2024 has finished. Lets get up a final summary and some pictures of the winners and the winners of the various categories! At the end of the day, Romanian tournament #1 seed Bogdan-Daniel Deac lived up to his pre-tournament ranking and emerged as the sole winner with 7.5 points out of the 9 rounds, remaining undefeated!
Lets see who else did well, starting with various rating category prizes!
Rating performance:
This prize is given to the players with the best performance when their own rating is deducted from their rating performance. For Indian U16 player Susanth Kamabathula (1918) an IM norm meant he performed over 500 points above his own rating. Quite the feat indeed!
Category prize 0-2000 rating:
- Susanth Kamabathula (1918) from India with 6,5 points
- Snorri Vikanes Bjarnason (1875) from Norway with 5,5 points
- Sachi Jain (1992) from India with 5,5 points
Stigaflokkur 2001-2200 stig
- Arnar Milutin Heiðarsson (2037) from Iceland with 6,5 points
- Harry Li (2107) from England with 6 points.
- Keith Mackinnon (2164) from Canada with 6 points.
Stigaflokkur 2201-2400 stig
- Peter Large (2262) from England with 6,5 points
- Sidhant Mohapatra (2379) from India with 6.5 points
- Benedikt Dauner (2366) from Germany with 6,5 points
Juniors U16
- Jakub Seemann (2451) from Polland with 6,5, points
- Susanth Kamabathula (1918) from India with 6.5 points
- Patryk Cieslak (2325) from Polland with 6,5, points
Seniors 65+
- Peter Large (2262) from England with 6,5 points
- Bragi Halldórsson (2056) from Iceland with 5,5 points
- Nigel Povah (2202) from England with 5,5 points
Female Prizes
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- Leya Garifullina (2413) playing under FIDE flag with 6,5 points
- Nurgyul Salimova (2426) from Bulgaria with 6,5 points
- Jiner Zhu (2467) from China with 6,5 points
- Miaoyi Lu (2392) from China with 6 points
Topp 10 á mótinu urðu eftirfarandi
10. Jakub Seemann (2451) from Polland with 6,5 points
9. Emre Can (2551) from Turkey with 6,5 points
8. Héðinn Steingrímsson (2477) from Iceland with 7 points
7. Guðmundur Kjartansson (2468) from Iceland with 7 points
6. Matthew Wadsworth (2450) from England with 7 points
5. Vahap Sanal (2558) from Turkey with 7 points
4. Praveen Balakrishnan (2490) from USA with 7 points
3. Paulius Pultinevicius (2575) from Lithuania with 7 points
2. Sebastien Maze (2551) from France with 7 points
- Bogdan-Daniel Deac (2690) from Romania with 7,5 points
Photoalbum from the closing ceremony (Hallfríður Sigurðardóttir)
Games were live and can be replayed here:
- Europe-Echecs – áhugavert útlit!
- Lichess – nýtt útlit mjög flott!
- Chess.com
- ChessbaseThis year there was a record number of streamers with a total of 8 players streaming their games live.
- Anna Cramling streams on Twitch and Youtube with Pia Cramling commentary.
- The Botez sisters Alexandra og Andrea are also live on Twitch and on Youtube with Jon Ludvig Hammer providing commentary.
- WGM Dina Belenkaya is onTwitch and on Youtube with Ben Finegold commenting
- Zachary Saine „The Chessnerd“ is onTwitch
- Tallulah Roberts „Lularobs“ is o Twitch
- Anna-Maja Kazarian is on Twitch and on Youtube
- Alexandra Prado is on Twitch
