David Navara wins Ordix Open
David Navara has won the super strong rapid tournament Ordix Open in Mainz, after dominating the event on the last day. His incredible score of 9,5 out of 10 was already enough to win the tournament because although he lost in the last round, which allowed Mchedlishvili and Sasikiran to join him with 9,5 out of 11, David's progressive score was by far the best of course. ChessVibes is happy with this Ordix Open winner since we've been a fan of this friendly young boy from the Czech Republic for a while. After the prize giving I had an interview with him.
OK, David Navara, congratulations with your win in the rapid tournament Ordix Open!Thank you very much.You had a wonderful tournament I think, playing mostly on board one on the second day. Can you mention some opponents you beat today?I won against grandmasters Mamdyarov, Akopian, and for instance Harikrishna but then I had a big, big luck. He lost on time in a completely winning position. That sometimes happens, it's unpleasant but it's not my fault simply. The only thing I can do is show at the clock. Yeah, that's true. So I think you were leading with a point in the last round right, 9,5 out of 10?Yes.That's a fantastic score. So what happened in the last game against Sasikiran?Yes I played it badly simply, I blundered a piece. Then it was completely hopeless. It sometimes happens to me that I play badly in last rounds and unfortunately not only in last rounds as I many times managed to prove. I would rather not have proved such a thing but OK, I was probably nervous and... I don't know but... OK I make mistakes in every tournament and I also always blunder anything...Yeah, well, luckily anyone makes mistakes in the whole tournament so I think you can still win a tournament with some mistakes during...Yes.Of course you qualified for next year for the big finals. Do you look forward too that?Yes, of course I do!And how did you score in the Chess960 tournament?I had 9 points out of 11 but I did not play on the top boards; I had a good finish.Aha, OK. And what do you think about this chess variant 960?I like it very much because it is more creative and there is not so much theory and so on, so I probably even prefer it to classical chess but there are not so many opportunities to play this 960.Yeah, that's true. What do you think of this tournament?Yes, I'm very satisfied with my result and the organisation was very good.Yes, OK, and what is your next tournament you're going to play?I'm going to play... do you mean serious tournament or...Yeah well, any.OK, as for serious tournaments I'm going to play in Karlovy Vary / Karlsbad, in the Czech Republic, it should be an eight players round-robin with grandmasters Shirov, Akopian, Ponomariov, Kortchnoi, Timman, Movsesian, Laznicka and me.That's a very interesting field!Yes.All right, well, I wish you good luck and enjoy your victory over here!Thank you very much.Thank you!A very interesting game was David's win with Black against Tigran Petrosian. Tigran showed an excellent sense of humor by forking two queens and a king and resigning at the same time!All games can be downloaded (PGN) here.Final standings:
1. GM Navara,David 2656 9,5 2. GM Mchedlishvili,Mikhail 2624 9,5 3. GM Sasikiran,Krishnan 2674 9,5 4. GM Petrosian,Tigran L. 2613 9,0 5. GM Bologan,Victor 2650 9,0 6. GM Pentala,Harikrishna 2664 9,0 7. GM Almasi,Zoltan 2682 9,0 8. GM Drozdovskyy,Yuriy 2572 9,0 9. GM Moiseenko,Alexander 2641 9,0 10. GM Nielsen,Peter-Heine 2638 9,0 11. GM Volokitin,Andrej 2698 9,0 12. IM Seel,Christian 2495 9,0 13. GM Khenkin,Igor 2602 8,5 14. GM Ivantschuk,Vassili 2766 8,5 15. GM Karjakin,Sergey 2678 8,5 16. GM Horvath,Adam 2491 8,5 17. GM Bareev,Evgeny 2653 8,5 18. GM Kamsky,Gata 2717 8,5 19. GM Lalic,Bogdan 2509 8,5 20. IM Schaefer,Markus 2411 8,5 21. GM Vogt,Lothar 2473 8,5 22. IM Smerdon,David 2461 8,5 23. FM Becking,Stephan 2387 8,5 24. GM Sargissian,Gabriel 2667 8,0 25. GM Burmakin,Vladimir 2592 8,0 26. GM Gyimesi,Zoltan 2607 8,0 26. GM Lysyj,Igor 2578 8,0 28. GM Iljin,Artem 2569 8,0 29. GM Meier,Georg 2552 8,0 30. GM D?ɬ?ttling,Fabian 2537 8,0 31. ... (a total of 762 players!)Full final standings here.
Sasikiran and Navara discussing their last round game in the hall.
The numbers 1, 2 and 3 of the combined standings (Chess960 and classical chess): 1. Bologan, 2. Navara and 3. Sasikiran.
Peter Doggers joined a chess club a month before turning 15 and still plays for it. He used to be an active tournament player and holds two IM norms. Peter has a Master of Arts degree in Dutch Language & Literature. He briefly worked at New in Chess, then as a Dutch teacher and then in a project for improving safety and security in Amsterdam schools. Between 2007 and 2013 Peter was running ChessVibes, a major source for chess news and videos acquired by Chess.com in October 2013. As our Director News & Events, Peter writes many of our news reports. In the summer of 2022, The Guardian’s Leonard Barden described him as “widely regarded as the world’s best chess journalist.”
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