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Himal Gusain wins 14th Vaujany Open 2023

by Shahid Ahmed - 31/07/2023

IM Himal Gusain and GM FT Hicham Hamdouchi scored 7.5/9 at the main category (>1800) of 14th Vaujany Open 2023 International Chess Festival. Himal won the tournament on tie-breaks,Hicham was placed second. Despite losing the sixth round game to Hicham, Himal bounced back by winning the last three games to win the tournament and become champion. GM Neelotpal Das and IM Anwesh Upadhyaya are the only two other Indians to make a top ten finish. Their penultimate round encounter ended in a draw. They scored 6.5/9 and 6/9 each respectively to secure fourth and seventh place respectively. The total prize fund of the event was €5400. The first prize was €1200 + trophy. Photos: J P Lees / Promoechecs

Himal's third tournament triumph of the year

IM Himal Gusain started the year by winning Surya Trophy Rating Open 2022. Then he won 19th Caspian Cup 2023 in Iran. After winning this event, Himal went to Spain where he won the 9th Ciudad de Oviedo Open 2023 scoring an unbeaten 7.5/9. We will mention it in detail in a separate post.

Top 3 - 3rd GM Jean-Marc Degraeve (FRA) 6.5/9, 1st IM Himal Gusain 7.5/9 and 2nd GM FT Hicham Hamdouchi (MAR) 7.5/9

4th GM Neelotpal Das 6.5/9

5th WGM FT Monica Calzetta Ruiz (ESP) 6.5/9

6th IM Remy Degraeve (FRA) 6/9

7th IM Anwesh Upadhyaya 6/9

10th GM Joszef Horvath (HUN) 5.5/9

IM Himal Gusain in action at various rounds

IM Himal Gusain scored 7.5/9 and performed at 2578

The penultimate round battle between IM Anwesh Upadhyaya and GM Neelotpal Das ended in a draw

Photo Gallery

Players analyzing their games

Beautiful vistas of Vaujany

Players with their trophies with waterfalls and greenery as their background

Players, parents and accompanying persons at the closing ceremony

The beautiful trophies for the prize winners

Espace Loisirs in Vaujany, France was the venue for the tournament

The tournament hall

Thanks to the organizer, J P Lees for sharing beautiful high quality photos of the tournament. To view more of them, please click here.

 

A total of 62 players including 4 GMs, 7 IMs, a WGM and a WIM took part from 12 countries across the world in the Main category (>1800). The nine-day nine round Swiss League Rating tournament. It was organized by Jean-Pierre Lees at Espace Loisirs in Vaujany, France from 13th to 21st July 2023. The time control of the event was 40 moves in 100 minutes + 40 minutes + 30 seconds increment from move no.1.

Replay Round 1-9 Main tournament games

Final standings

Pl NomEloCat.FedeLigueR 1R 2R 3R 4R 5R 6R 7R 8R 9PtsTr.Perf
1m
GUSAIN Himal
2399 FSenM+ 44N+ 24B+ 12N+ 10B=  6N-  2N+ 11B+  3B+  5N42½2578
2g
HAMDOUCHI Hicham
2521 FSepMIDF+ 23N= 27B+ 19N+ 18B+  4N+  1B=  3N=  5B+  6N42½2564
3g
DEGRAEVE Jean-Marc
2466 FSepMIDF+ 36N+ 11B=  4N+  8B= 10N+  6B=  2B-  1N+ 13B44½2490
4g
NEELOTPAL Das
2362 FSenM+ 52B+  9N=  3B+ 20N-  2B= 15N+ 28B=  7N+ 14B422407
5gf
CALZETTA RUIZ Monica
2164 FSepF+ 47B=  7N= 13B+ 14N= 12N+ 18B+ 27B=  2N-  1B642½2393
6m
DEGRAEVE Remy
2467 FJunMPAC+ 37B= 20N+ 16B+ 27N=  1B-  3N+ 15B+ 21N-  2B642½2391
7m
ANWESH Upadhyaya
2356 FSenM+ 25N=  5B-  8N= 37N+ 33B+ 38B= 14N=  4B+ 21N638½2247
8 
VALLEE Louis
2161 FMinMEST+ 54B= 13N+  7B-  3N- 27B+ 52N= 10N+ 36B+ 24B6372325
9 
MILANOVIC Dino
2075 FSenMARA+ 60N-  4B+ 25N- 12B+ 39N+ 43B= 13B+ 20N= 11B6372269
10g
HORVATH Jozsef
2432 FSepM+ 53B+ 21N+ 14B-  1N=  3B- 27N=  8B= 17N+ 26B412296

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