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Leaderboard at the European Individual Chess Championships Budva, Montenegro 1 20 GM Inarkiev Ernesto 2656 RUS 5½ 2 14 GM Volokitin Andrei 2671 UKR 5 3 53 GM Meier Georg 2608 GER 5 4 33 GM Navara David 2638 CZE 5 5 38 GM Fedorchuk Sergey A 2633 UKR 4½ 6 98 GM Sjugirov Sanan 2562 RUS 4½ 7 3 GM Naiditsch Arkadij 2693 GER 4½ 8 75 GM Banikas Hristos 2582 GRE 4½ 9 64 GM Bartel Mateusz 2594 POL 4½ 10 91 GM Shomoev Anton 2567 RUS 4½

Results of the European Rapid Championships at Warsaw, Poland: 1 Aleksej Aleksandrov 2 Tomasz Markowski 3 Fernando Peralta 4 Wojciech Moranda 5 Adam Tukhaev 6 Mateusz Bartel 7 Vladimir Malaniuk 8 Hristos Banikas 9 Dimitros Mastrovasilis 10 Wojciech Przybylski 11 Csaba Balogh 12 Artur Jakubiec 13 Aleksander Miśta 14 Namig Guliyev 15 Mikhail Gurevich 16 Aleksander Moiseenko

Five players were tied for the first place at the Groningen Chess Festival. Stelios Halkias won the title on tie-break. The final standings after round 9 in the Harmonie Open A category at Groningen 2007: 1 GM Halkias, Stelios 6.5 GRE 2 GM Mastrovasilis, Dimitrios 6.5 GRE 3 GM Ernst, Sipke 6.5 NED 4 GM Adly, Ahmed 6.5 EGY 5 IM Lobzhanidze, Davit 6.5 GEO 6 GM Banikas, Hristos 6.0 GRE 7 GM Li, Shilong 6.0 CHN 8 IM Hoffmann, Michael 6.0 GER 9 GM Nijboer, Friso 5.5 NED 10 GM Rotstein, Arkadij 5.5 GER 11 IM Swinkels, Robin 5.5 NED 12 IM Pruijssers, Roeland 5.5 NED 13 FM Burg, Twan 5.5 NED 14 GM Reinderman, Dimitri 5.0 NED 15 IM Simutowe, Amon 5.0 ZAM 16 IM Spoelman, Wouter 5.0 NED 17 IM Hendriks, Willy 5.0 NED 18 IM Van Oosterom, Chiel 5.0 NED 19 FM De Jong, Migchiel 5.0 NED 20 FM Clemens, Adrian 5.0 NED

The 8th round of the A section of the Harmonie open has been completed. The top ten in this tournament are: 1 Mastrovasilis, Dimitrios 6.0 2 Ernst, Sipke 6.0 3 Li, Shilong 6.0 4 Adly, Ahmed 6.0 5 Banikas, Hristos 5.5 6 Halkias, Stelios 5.5 7 Rotstein, Arkadij 5.5 8 Lobzhanidze, Davit 5.5 9 Hoffmann, Michael 5.5 10 Nijboer, Friso 5.0

Banikas upset the in-form Li Shilong at the Groningen Chess festival in the fourth round. Standings after Round 4: 1 GM Banikas, Hristos 3.5 GRE 2 GM Ernst, Sipke 3.5 NED 3 GM Mastrovasilis, Dimitrios 3.0 GRE 4 GM Nijboer, Friso 3.0 NED 5 GM Reinderman, Dimitri 3.0 NED 6 GM Li, Shilong 3.0 CHN 7 GM Adly, Ahmed 3.0 EGY 8 IM Lobzhanidze, Davit 3.0 GEO 9 IM Hoffmann, Michael 3.0 GER 10 IM Simutowe, Amon 3.0 ZAM