Sammour-Hasbun, 28, who lives in Massachusetts, the only untitled player among the seven-strong grandmasters in the eight-player final, yet defied the odds again to win the title and $3,000+ first prize in the strongest internet chess tournament - Internet Chess Club's annual Dos Hermanas.
En route to the title, he beat IM Anton Kovalyov, GM Timur Gareev, GM Jobava Baadur and GM Dmitry Kononenko, before defeating his good friend, GM Ronen Har-Zvi, by a score of 4-1, to take the top prize and online blitz bragging rights for the two years running.
Knock out results and all final participants:
| ยค | 1/16 Final | 1/8 Final | 1/4 Final | 1/2 Final | Final | 1
32 | Smallville (3.0)
BlackHorse96 (0.0) | Smallville (3.0)
denmanisgod (0.0) | Smallville (2.5)
ZavenGrozny (3.5) | ZavenGrozny (2.5)
Indiana-Jones (3.5) | Indiana-Jones (1.0)
NECF-InSchools (4.0) | 16
17 | O-Almeida (1.0)
denmanisgod (3.0) | 8
25 | ZavenGrozny (4.0)
RLH2 (2.0) | ZavenGrozny (3.0)
EX (0.0) | 9
24 | Fier (1.5)
EX (2.5) | 4
29 | TIGRANO (3.0)
HuevosDeLeon (0.0) | TIGRANO (0.0)
Indiana-Jones (3.0) | Indiana-Jones (3.0)
MEGAYARICK (0.0) | 13
20 | Indiana-Jones (3.0)
Psycho-Cowboy (0.0) | 5
28 | Serghik (2.5)
Aedes (0.5) | Serghik (1.5)
MEGAYARICK (2.5) | 12
21 | MEGAYARICK (3.0)
Iturrizaga (1.0) | 2
31 | Oligarkh (3.0)
Federicov (0.0) | Oligarkh (3.0)
Pchyolka (1.0) | Oligarkh (0.0)
NECF-InSchools (3.0) | NECF-InSchools (2.5)
Dako (0.5) | 15
18 | olimpus (3.5)
Pchyolka (4.5) | 7
26 | UzbekDragon (4.5)
Tourney-Player (3.5) | UzbekDragon (0.0)
NECF-InSchools (3.0) | 10
23 | kava (0.5)
NECF-InSchools (2.5) | 3
30 | zhong (0.5)
RENATEX (2.5) | RENATEX (0.5)
Dako (2.5) | Dako (2.5)
M-Godena (1.5) | 14
19 | MINOTAVR (1.0)
Dako (3.0) | 6
27 | M-Godena (4.0)
AZ79 (2.0) | M-Godena (3.5)
General1 (2.5) | 11
22 | General1 (5.0)
RealChatin (4.0) |
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| № | Username | Title | Name | FIDE |
|---|
| 1 | Smallville | GM | Hikaru Nakamura | 2670 |
| 2 | Oligarkh | GM | Baadur Jobava | 2643 |
| 3 | zhong | GM | Zhang Zhong | 2617 |
| 4 | TIGRANO | GM | Tigran L. Petrosyan | 2606 |
| 5 | Serghik | GM | Azarov Sergei | 2594 |
| 6 | M-Godena | GM | Michele Godena | 2559 |
| 7 | UzbekDragon | GM | Timur Gareev | 2557 |
| 8 | ZavenGrozny | GM | Andriasian Zaven | 2532 |
| 9 | Fier | GM | Alexandr Fier | 2528 |
| 10 | kava | IM | Kovalyov Anton | 2525 |
| 11 | General1 | GM | Vysochin Spartak | 2519 |
| 12 | MEGAYARICK | GM | Yaroslav Zinchenko | 2516 |
| 13 | Indiana-Jones | GM | Ronen Har-Zvi | 2512 |
| 14 | MINOTAVR | IM | Grigorian Avetik | 2509 |
| 15 | olimpus | GM | Axel Bachmann | 2505 |
| 16 | O-Almeida | GM | Omar Almeida Quintana | 2500 |
| 17 | denmanisgod | GM | Daniel Gormally | 2495 |
| 18 | Pchyolka | IM | Melkumyan Hrant | 2485 |
| 19 | Dako | GM | Dmitry Kononenko | 2484 |
| 20 | Psycho-Cowboy | IM | Simon Kim Williams | 2482 |
| 21 | Iturrizaga | IM | Eduardo Iturrizaga | 2470 |
| 22 | RealChatin | IM | Miguel Munoz | 2464 |
| 23 | NECF-InSchools | - | Jorge Sammour-Hasbun | 2460 |
| 24 | EX | IM | Rustam Khusnutdinov | 2452 |
| 25 | RLH2 | IM | Robert Hess | 2445 |
| 26 | Tourney-Player | IM | Jon Ludvig Hammer | 2441 |
| 27 | AZ79 | IM | Antti Pihlajasalo | 2440 |
| 28 | Aedes | IM | Guillermo Soppe | 2426 |
| 29 | HuevosDeLeon | - | Leonardo F.Tristan Pierantozzi | 2345 |
| 30 | RENATEX | FM | Renato Terry Lujan | 2259 |
| 31 | Federicov | FM | Federico Perez Ponsa | 2235 |
| 32 | BlackHorse96 | - | Alexandr Bortnik | 2153 |
