GM Naiditsch wins Neckar Chess Open, joins 2700+ club

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Congratulations to Grandmaster Arkadij Naiditsch for joining the 2700 Elo plus club by winning the 15th International Neckar Open. He scored 8.5/9, finishing a full point ahead of GM Arik Braun and GM David Baramidze. The group of players with 7.0/9 included Cappelle La Grande winner GM Grzegorz Gajewski, and Hungarian talents Viktor Erdös and Peter Prohaszka plus others. The best woman player prize went Joanna Majdan-Gajewska. 

More than 400 played the A group from among the 753 at the chess festival. Starting with the May rating list GM Arkadij Naiditsch will be with his highest ever ELO - 2701 points. This ELO includes the EICC and the Bundesliga games, Neckar finished just 5 days before the rating list and if included the ELO of Naiditsch will be 2716. Here are the top standings: 


1 Naiditsch,Arkadij 2684 8.5 
2 Braun,Arik 2542 7.5 
3 Baramidze,David 2554 7.5 
4 Huschenbeth,Nicla 2465 7 
5 Erdo"s,Viktor 2597 7 
6 Greenfeld,Alon 2571 7 
7 Gajewski,Grzegorz 2567 7 
8 Shytaj,Luca 2475 7 
9 Schneider,Ilja 2511 7 
10 Epishin,Vladimir 2567 7 
11 Prohaszka,Peter 2545 7 
12 Piorun,Kacper 2521 7 
13 Svetushkin,Dmitri 2543 7 
14 Heimann,Andreas 2491 7

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