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Arun Prasad Wins Paris Championship
The 2011 Paris Chess Championships were held from 2-10 July, and the winner was Indian Grandmaster and popular Chess.com columnist Arun Prasad.
Arun won the main Open competition, a nine round Swiss for players rated minimum 2200 Elo, with a score of 7/9. His only loss occurred in round four, to his compatriot and frequent Chess.com collaborator GM Magesh Panchanathan!
Arun Prasad receiving his prize (picture from the official website)
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The top standings are below. Full results can be found here.
1 | ARUN PRASAD S. | 2489 | IND | 7.0 | 39.0 |
2 | FEDORCHUK Sergey A. | 2618 | UKR | 6.5 | 43.0 |
3 | FELGAER Ruben | 2573 | ARG | 6.5 | 39.5 |
4 | PANCHANATHAN Magesh Chandran | 2556 | IND | 6.0 | 44.0 |
5 | ARNOLD Marc T | 2445 | USA |
6.0 | 42.0 |
6 | SOCHACKI Christophe | 2358 | FRA | 6.0 | 40.5 |
7 | SETHURAMAN S.p. | 2529 | IND | 6.0 | 40.5 |
8 | GULIYEV Namig | 2549 | AZE | 6.0 | 38.0 |
9 | BATTAGLINI Gabriel | 2407 | FRA | 6.0 | 36.0 |
10 |
ROSER Kevin | 2446 | FRA | 6.0 | 30.5 |
11 | DAVID Alberto | 2609 | LUX | 5.5 | 39.5 |
12 | KALEGIN Evgenij | 2477 | RUS | 5.5 | 34.0 |
13 | MOUSSARD Jules | 2426 | FRA | 5.0 | 40.5 |
14 | DOURERASSOU Jonathan | 2413 | FRA | 5.0 | 38.0 |
15 | ZYSK Robert | 2437 | GER | 5.0 | 37.5 |
16 | DEBRAY Christopher | 2364 | FRA | 5.0 | 37.0 |
17 | WIRIG Anthony | 2510 | FRA | 5.0 | 35.5 |
18 | GUILLEUX Fabien | 2388 | FRA | 5.0 | 34.0 |
19 | ALFRED Nathan S W | 2275 | ENG | 5.0 | 33.5 |
20 | BAJARANI Ulvi | 2424 | AZE | 5.0 | 33.0 |
A selection of Arun's games from the event are below. More information is available at the official website (in French).