2025 XTX Markets London Chess Classic Open-Velimir Ivić osvojio drugo mjesto

U devetom kolu vodeći Praggnanandhaa je remizirao sa Smirinom što je omogućilo Velimiru Iviću i Ahmeetu Ghasiju da ga stignu na vrhu tabele po broju poena (sva trojica imaju po 7 poena). Po dodatnim kriterijima prvo mjesto osvojio je indijski šahista Praggnanandhaa, drugi je Velimir Ivić, a treći Ahmeet Ghasi. Prva nagrada iznosi 10.000 funti, druga 5.000 funti, a treća 3.000 funti (ipak prema pravilniku, ukoliko igrači imaju isti broj poena, nagradni fond će biti ravnomjerno podijeljen između svih igrača koji dijele mjesto).
Ovim rezultatom Velimir Ivić je ostavio iza sebe 24 velemajstora i 24 internacionalna majstora (i 23 FM) i dobio 12,6 rejting poena.

Rezultati 9.kola 2025/12/03 u 16:00

Bo.		White	Rtg	Result		Black	Rtg
1	GM	Smirin, Ilya	2554	½ – ½	GM	Praggnanandhaa, R	2768
2	GM	Ivic, Velimir	2618	1 – 0	GM	Cornette, Matthieu	2517
3	GM	Fernandez, Daniel H	2501	0 – 1	GM	Ghasi, Ameet K	2500
4	GM	Iniyan, P	2601	½ – ½	GM	Pranav, Anand	2581
5	IM	Chasin, Nico	2512	½ – ½	GM	Yuffa, Daniil	2618
6	GM	Fodor, Tamas Jr	2508	1 – 0	GM	Jumabayev, Rinat	2560
7	GM	Sanal, Vahap	2546	½ – ½	GM	Mikhalevski, Victor	2504
8	FM	Kazarian, Anna-Maja *)	2224	½ – ½	GM	Greenfeld, Alon	2465
9	GM	Gavrilescu, David	2542	½ – ½	IM	Kanyamarala, Tarun	2376
10	GM	Wadsworth, Matthew J	2487	1 – 0	GM	Maze, Sebastien	2534
11	IM	Aizenberg, Benny	2444	+ – –	GM	Kraemer, Martin	2571
12	IM	Rozen, Eytan	2515	½ – ½	GM	Kovchan, Alexander	2440
13	IM	Schmider, Niklas	2423	½ – ½	GM	Royal, Shreyas	2495
14	IM	Travadon, Loic	2492	½ – ½	IM	Mahadevan, Siva	2424
15	IM	Bazakutsa, Svyatoslav	2478	1 – 0		Vu Dinh, Adrien	2281
16	IM	Czopor, Maciej	2463	1 – 0	WIM	Kanyamarala, Trisha	2149
17	GM	Conquest, Stuart C	2521	½ – ½	FM	Bhagat, Kush	2381
18	IM	Grieve, Harry	2491	½ – ½	FM	Korshunov, Sergey	2377
19	GM	Flear, Glenn C	2376	0 – 1	IM	Willow, Jonah B	2472
20	IM	Magold, Filip	2465	1 – 0	GM	Wells, Peter K	2321
21	GM	Gasanov, Eldar	2447	1 – 0	FM	Coicev, Matei-Andrei	2332
22	FM	Haydon, David L	2284	0 – 1	IM	Harvey, Marcus R	2438
23		Xian, Junhao	2166	0 – 1	IM	Wang, Hao	2424
24	FM	Tulchynskyi, Feliks	2409	1 – 0		Han, Qixiang	2104
25		Pollack, Oscar	2099	0 – 1	IM	Efroimski, Marsel	2384
26	GM	Gordon, Stephen J	2465	½ – ½		Gallana, Marco	2225
27	IM	Brunner, Nicolas	2420	½ – ½	IM	Balaji, Aaravamudhan	2305
28	FM	Vijayakumar, Rishi	2300	1 – 0	FM	Willems, Niels	2368
29	GM	Hebden, Mark L	2355	1 – 0	CM	Khoo-Thwe, Louis	2225
30		Li, Guohao	2348	½ – ½	NM	Roe, Simon J	2172
31	FM	Negrean, Andrei	2334	1 – 0		Hagesaether, Arne	1975
32	FM	Krishnan, Ritvik	2265	0 – 1	FM	Banerjee, Supratit	2323
33	IM	Houska, Jovanka	2320	1 – 0		Panda, Barnabas	2099
34	IM	Kanov, Nikola	2418	½ – ½	FM	Harley, Andrew D	2182
35		Vortmeier, Jan	2152	½ – ½	FM	Badacsonyi, Stanley	2316

Itd.

Konačno stanje posle 9.kola

Rk.		Name	Rtg	Pts.
1	GM	Praggnanandhaa, R	2768	7
2	GM	Ivic, Velimir	2618	7
3	GM	Ghasi, Ameet K	2500	7
4	GM	Pranav, Anand	2581	6,5
5	GM	Smirin, Ilya	2554	6,5
6	GM	Fodor, Tamas Jr	2508	6,5
7	GM	Wadsworth, Matthew J	2487	6,5
8	IM	Aizenberg, Benny	2444	6,5
9	GM	Yuffa, Daniil	2618	6
10	GM	Iniyan, P	2601	6
11	GM	Sanal, Vahap	2546	6
12	GM	Gavrilescu, David	2542	6
13	GM	Cornette, Matthieu	2517	6
14	IM	Chasin, Nico	2512	6
15	GM	Mikhalevski, Victor	2504	6
16	GM	Fernandez, Daniel H	2501	6
17	IM	Bazakutsa, Svyatoslav	2478	6
18	IM	Czopor, Maciej	2463	6
19	IM	Kanyamarala, Tarun	2376	6
20	GM	Jumabayev, Rinat	2560	5,5
21	GM	Maze, Sebastien	2534	5,5
22	IM	Rozen, Eytan	2515	5,5
23	GM	Royal, Shreyas	2495	5,5
24	IM	Travadon, Loic	2492	5,5
25	IM	Willow, Jonah B	2472	5,5
26	GM	Greenfeld, Alon	2465	5,5
27	IM	Magold, Filip	2465	5,5
28	GM	Gasanov, Eldar	2447	5,5
29	GM	Kovchan, Alexander	2440	5,5
30	IM	Harvey, Marcus R	2438	5,5
31	IM	Mahadevan, Siva	2424	5,5
32	IM	Wang, Hao	2424	5,5
33	IM	Schmider, Niklas	2423	5,5
34	FM	Tulchynskyi, Feliks	2409	5,5
35	IM	Efroimski, Marsel	2384	5,5
36	FM	Kazarian, Anna-Maja	2224	5,5
37	GM	Kraemer, Martin	2571	5
38	GM	Conquest, Stuart C	2521	5
39	IM	Grieve, Harry	2491	5
40	FM	Bhagat, Kush	2381	5
41	FM	Korshunov, Sergey	2377	5
42	GM	Hebden, Mark L	2355	5
43	FM	Negrean, Andrei	2334	5
44	FM	Banerjee, Supratit	2323	5
45	IM	Houska, Jovanka	2320	5
46	FM	Vijayakumar, Rishi	2300	5
47		Vu Dinh, Adrien	2281	5
48		Gallana, Marco	2225	5
49	WIM	Kanyamarala, Trisha	2149	5

Impresivna pobjeda Ivića, protiv velemajstora Cornette-a, koji se u vrlo oštroj borbi branio hladnokrvno i manevrom kralja podsjetio na najljepše pobjede Morfija, Kapablanke i Štajnica.

Ivic,Velimir (2618) – Cornette,Matthieu (2517) [C50]
15th London Classic Open London ENG (9.2), 03.12.2025

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.d3 Bc5 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bh4 d6 7.c3 a5 8.Nbd2 Ba7 9.0–0 Bd7 10.Rc1 Qe7 11.a3 g5 12.Bg3 0–0–0 13.d4 h5 14.h4 gxh4 15.Bxh4 Rdg8 16.Re1 Rg4 17.b4 Rhg8 18.Bf1 exd4