Unicorn Open 2008
The tournament of Chemie Weißensee in cooperation with the Gewerbepark Georg Knorr
Statistics 2008:
- 210 participants - 132 of it with FIDE-ELO (62%) - 22 titleholders (10%) -
The list is stated from:
- GM Robert Rabiega (ELO 2560)
- GM Sergej Kalinitschew (ELO 2469)
- IM Martin Krämer (ELO 2436)
- IM Ilja Brener (ELO 2422)
- IM Michael Richter (ELO 2411)
- FM Ismael Karim (ELO 2394)
- IM Ulf von Herman (ELO 2354)
- FM Jovica Radovanovic (ELO 2349)
- FM Norman Thielsch (ELO 2325)
- FM Werner Reichenbach (ELO 2319)
- The average the ELO top 10 lies at the moment with 2404.
- Last year he lay with 2410.
- From abroad there come the following 18 chess players:
- FM Ismael Karim (ELO 2394 - MAR)
- FM Jovica Radovanovic (ELO 2349 - SRB)
- Patrick Scharrer (ELO 2254 - ITA)
- Ludwig Rettore (ELO 2216 - ITA)
- Daiva Batyte (ELO 2209 - LTU - W)
- Nikita Meskovs (ELO 2158 - LAT - Y)
- Toms Kantans (ELO 2144 - LAT - Y)
- Gérard Montavon (ELO 2109 - SUI)
- Colin A. Costello (ELO 2026 - ENG)
- Heinz Jünger (ELO 2016 - AUT)
- Emmanouil Kazakos (ELO 1995 - GRE - Y)
- Jamie Mollison (ELO 1910 - SCO)
- Nikolaos Boutsioukis (ELO 1845 - GRE - Y)
- Zsigmond Szajbély (ELO 1636 - HUN - Y)
- Dimitrios Boutsioukis (ELO 1541 - GRE)
- Edvin Ramadani (NWZ 1500 - SLO)
- Sarah Ramadani (NWZ 1500 - SLO - W/Y)
- Øivind Jakobsen (NWZ 1257 - NOR)
- In addition, there come 12 chess players with foreign passport who play for German associations.:
- FM Jan Lundin (ELO 2284 - SWE - SF Berlin 1903)
- FM Boris Gruzmann (ELO 2283 - RUS - SK Zehlendorf)
- Ahmed Anibar (ELO 2208 - MAR - SV Glück auf Rüdersdorf)
- Adam Steiner (ELO 2200 - HUN - SF Berlin 1903)
- Jared Becker (ELO 2071 - USA - SG Tarrasch 45 München)
- Shenja Slepuschkin (ELO 2030 - RUS - SK Zehlendorf)
- Ayush Batzaya (NWZ 1972 - MGL - SV Berolina Mitte)
- Fabrizio Grassi (ELO 1954 - SUI - SV Berlin-Friedrichstadt)
- Mathieu Pouydesseau (NWZ 1821 - FRA - SV Berlin-Friedrichstadt)
- Joop Gilijamse (NWZ 1741 - NED - SC Kreuzberg)
- Alexis Chilton (NWZ 1708 - ENG - SV Berolina Mitte)
- Tomas Segerberg (without ELO/NWZ - SWE - SG Narva Berlin)
- With it the following 20 nations are represented with the Unicorn Open in 2008:
- Austria (AUT - 1), England (ENG - 2), France (FRA - 1), Germany (GER - 180), Greece (GRE - 3)
- Hungary (HUN - 2), Italia (ITA - 2), Latvia (LAT - 2), Lithuania (LTU - 1), Mongolia (MGL - 1)
- Morocco (MAR - 2), Netherlands (NED - 1), Norway (NOR - 1), Russia (RUS - 2), Scotland (SCO - 1)
- Serbia (SRB - 1), Slovenia (SLO - 2), Sweden (SWE - 2), Switzerland (SUI - 2),
United States of America (USA - 1)