Ivan Ivanisevic crushes opposition to defend the last year’s title
Grandmaster Ivan Ivanisevic drew a difficult last round game with GM Boban Bogosavljevic and convincingly won the Serbian Chess Championship, his second in a row. With ten wins and only three draws against very strong opposition, Ivanisevic left GM Sinisa Drazic and two-times national champion GM Milos Perunovic lagging three points behind.
Drazic firmly held the second place through the later stage of the tournament, but the last round defeat in the hands of ultra-sharp Branko Damljanovic allowed another player to catch him and share the position. Grandmasters Vuckovic and Pikula have signed wins with Black pieces to complete the tournament on shared 4-5th place.
The Championship took place on 2-15th April in Hotel “Šumarice” in the city of Kragujevac. Technical organizer was chess club “Radnički”.
New-Old champion – Ivan Ivanisevic
Bright future for Serbian chess – GM Boban Bogosavljevic
Round 12 on 2009/04/14 at 15.30
GM Sedlak Nikola 2572 1 – 0 FM Popovic Aleksandar M 2325
GM Pikula Dejan 2568 1 – 0 GM Antic Dejan 2513
GM Vuckovic Bojan 2572 ½ – ½ GM Perunovic Milos 2580
Sarenac Ivan 2320 1 – 0 IM Zlatic Mihailo 2463
GM Rajkovic Dusan 2486 1 – 0 GM Damljanovic Branko 2573
GM Drazic Sinisa 2533 1 – 0 GM Bogosavljevic Boban 2526
GM Ivanisevic Ivan 2625 1 – 0 GM Miladinovic Igor 2571
Round 13 on 2009/04/13 at 10.30
GM Miladinovic Igor 2571 ½ – ½ GM Sedlak Nikola 2572
GM Bogosavljevic Boban 2526 ½ – ½ GM Ivanisevic Ivan 2625
GM Damljanovic Branko 2573 1 – 0 GM Drazic Sinisa 2533
IM Zlatic Mihailo 2463 ½ – ½ GM Rajkovic Dusan 2486
GM Perunovic Milos 2580 1 – 0 Sarenac Ivan 2320
GM Antic Dejan 2513 0 – 1 GM Vuckovic Bojan 2572
FM Popovic Aleksandar M 2325 0 – 1 GM Pikula Dejan 2568
Final standings:
1. GM Ivanisevic Ivan 2625 – 11.5
2-3. GM Perunovic Milos 2580 and GM Drazic Sinisa 2533 – 8.5
4-5. GM Vuckovic Bojan 2572 and GM Pikula Dejan 2568 – 8.0
6-7. GM Bogosavljevic Boban 2526 and GM Miladinovic Igor 2571 – 7.0
8. GM Antic Dejan 2513 – 6.5
9. GM Damljanovic Branko 2573 – 5.5
10-11. GM Rajkovic Dusan 2486 and GM Sedlak Nikola 2572 – 5.0
12-13. Sarenac Ivan 2320 and IM Zlatic Mihailo 2463 – 4.5
14. FM Popovic Aleksandar M 2325 – 1.5
GM Bojan Vuckovic in front of Hotel “Šumarice”
Organizer IM Zoran Novoselski and GM Ivan Ivanisevic
GM Nikola Sedlak
GM Dusan Rajkovic
GM Dejan Pikula – IM Mihailo Zlatic
The lake inside the memorial park Šumarice
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