International Chess Tournament Sport Summer 2008

Despite the loss in the last round, Sasa Jevtic earned his first IM norm thanks to the convenient rating distribution. He slipped though to the third place in the final standings. Talented youngster from FYROM Filip Pancevski and Paracin resident FM Mladen Milenkovic snatched necessary wins in the last round to fulfill their own six-points IM norms and tie the first place at the tournament. Pancevski was declared winner on better additional criteria.

Winner on better tiebreak – Filip Pancevski

The top seeded players didn’t force too much and allowed FMs to fight among themselves for the norms. Boroljub Zlatanovic was in good position to stay on the top, but he couldn’t recover after losing to Jevtic. Mihailo Vujic played in a series of events prior to Paracin and finally run out of steam, dropping a couple of perspective games. Selected games are bellow, full PGN and more photos can be found on the tournament page hosted by Serbian Chess Federation.

Final standings:

1-2. Pancevski Filip MKD 2407 and FM Milenkovic Mladen SRB 2343 – 6.0

3. Jevtic Sasa SRB 2206 – 5.5

4-5. GM Popchev Milko BUL 2410 and IM Vojinovic Goran SRB 2468 – 5.0

6-7. FM Zlatanovic Boroljub SRB 2386 and IM Andonov Bogomil BUL 2326 – 4.5

8. FM Brankovic Dejan SRB 2398 – 3.5

9-10. FM Dinev Dejan MKD 2312 and FM Vujic Mihailo SRB 2340 – 2.5

Round 8 on 2008/07/12 at 10.00

FM Brankovic Dejan 2398 1 – 0 FM Vujic Mihailo 2340

IM Vojinovic Goran 2468 ½ – ½ Pancevski Filip 2407

FM Dinev Dejan 2312 0 – 1 FM Milenkovic Mladen 2343

FM Zlatanovic Boroljub 2386 ½ – ½ GM Popchev Milko 2410

Jevtic Sasa 2206 ½ – ½ IM Andonov Bogomil 2326

Round 9 on 2008/07/13 at 09.00

IM Andonov Bogomil 2326 ½ – ½ FM Brankovic Dejan 2398

GM Popchev Milko 2410 1 – 0 Jevtic Sasa 2206

FM Milenkovic Mladen 2343 1 – 0 FM Zlatanovic Boroljub 2386

Pancevski Filip 2407 1 – 0 FM Dinev Dejan 2312

FM Vujic Mihailo 2340 ½ – ½ IM Vojinovic Goran 2468

Group photo