An 18-year old International Master from Saint Petersburg Sergei Lobanov won the National Cup stage among men of Moscow Open 2020. Having won three games in a row in the final straight, he gained 7,5 points and could break away from the competitors by half a point.
Eight participants fell behind the winner by half a step. The best tie-break indicators allowed the Grandmaster Daniil Lintchevski (Leningrad region) become the second; a Bronze medal went to the Grandmaster Zhamsaran Tsydypov (Republic of Buriatia).
The rest of the table is the following: José Eduardo Martinez Alcantara (Peru), Javokhir Sindarov (Uzbekistan), Aleksei Pridorozhni (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug), Emil Mirzoev (Ukraine), Sergei Savitksiy (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug) and Vitaly Kunin (Germany).
We would like to mention that the tournament hosted 214 chess players from 15 countries.
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