Closing Ceremony

     The tournament is over and the most of us already got home.
     My finish wasn't very successful, as I lost the last 2 rounds... Well, the most important thing- getting over 2400 has been achieved anyways, but still- it left me with a bitter taste.
     The new European Champion is Alexander Moiseenko of Ukraine, with 8p/11. He lost against Ian Nepomniachtchi in the last round, but it made no difference. Nine other players got the same number of points, but they were worse on coeffcient:

1		GM	MOISEENKO Alexander	UKR	2698	8.0	2643	71.5	72.0	6	2714	10	13.4
2		GM	ALEKSEEV Evgeny	RUS	2700	8.0	2639	72.0	76.0	5	2800	10	13.9
3		GM	ROMANOV Evgeny	RUS	2640	8.0	2637	73.0	78.5	6	2789	10	21.8
4		GM	BELIAVSKY Alexander G	SLO	2628	8.0	2629	68.5	73.5	5	2783	10	22.5
5		GM	LUPULESCU Constantin	ROU	2634	8.0	2624	69.5	74.5	5	2778	10	21.0
6		GM	VALLEJO PONS Francisco	ESP	2695	8.0	2613	68.0	73.5	5	2776	10	11.0
7		GM	MOVSESIAN Sergei	ARM	2693	8.0	2606	66.0	71.0	5	2769	10	10.3
8		GM	NEPOMNIACHTCHI Ian	RUS	2710	8.0	2596	65.0	70.0	5	2763	10	6.8
9		GM	DREEV Aleksey	RUS	2654	8.0	2594	68.0	73.0	5	2754	10	13.9
10		GM	MELKUMYAN Hrant	ARM	2622	8.0	2551	64.5	69.0	6	2709	10	12.5

     Constantin Lupulescu had a very good performance- sharing the 1st place, but being a bit unlucky and taking the 5th place. It is the best result which he has achieved so far and I wish him a lot of luck in the World Cup, which will take place in Norway, in August.

     Here are some photos from the closing ceremony:

While listening to the anthem of Ukraine- Alexander had some tears in his eyes

Taking photos during the closing ceremony

Katerina Pavlidou, Anna Iwanow and me (from right to left)

A very interesting dancing performance by some local artists

The trophees waiting for their winners

Katerina and Anna

Alexander Moiseenko, Evgeny Alekseev and Evgeny Romanov-getting their medals and checks

Anna Iwanow receiving a Performance prize 

Bogdan Deac- getting the 4th prize in the Performance category

      Here you can find the final results of all the Romanians:

21	GM	NISIPEANU Liviu-Dieter	2679	ROU	0	1	1	½	½	½	½	0	1	½	1	6.5	83	2574	10	-14.40
54	GM	LUPULESCU Constantin	2634	ROU	½	1	1	½	1	1	½	1	½	½	½	8.0	5	2778	10	21.00
102	GM	PARLIGRAS Mircea-Emilian	2570	ROU	½	1	0	1	1	½	½	½	0	0	1	6.0	110	2531	10	-4.60
112	GM	JIANU Vlad-Cristian	2555	ROU	1	½	0	1	½	½	0	1	½	½	½	6.0	98	2588	10	5.30
142	IM	ARDELEAN George-Catalin	2510	ROU	1	0	1	½	0	½	1	0	1	0	½	5.5	154	2465	10	-5.40
175	IM	ANTON Teodor	2441	ROU	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	0	1	1	½	5.5	160	2418	10	-3.10
199	WGM	BULMAGA Irina	2393	ROU	0	1	0	1	½	1	0	½	1	0	0	5.0	174	2432	15	10.05
201	IM	MANEA Alexandru	2389	ROU	½	0	1	½	½	0	½	0	½	1	0	4.5	203	2394	10	0.10
211	IM	PETRISOR Adrian-Marian	2378	ROU	0	1	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	½	0	4.5	212	2337	10	-3.90
219	FM	POSEDARU Bogdan	2339	ROU	½	0	0	0	½	0	1	0	1	0	1	4.0	249	2143	15	-42.00
220		STANCIU Alexandru-Ovidiu	2335	ROU	1	0	0	0	½	1	½	1	0	0	1	5.0	185	2385	15	10.80
259		DEAC Bogdan-Daniel	2183	ROU	0	0	½	½	1	½	1	1	0	0	½	5.0	186	2403	15	43.35

     I enjoyed the tournament a lot and I wish I would have the possibility to play only these kind of strong tournaments. I think that this is the best way to get a stronger player and this is the thing I want the most- to become a really strong GM!

xoxo from Romania ;)