After round 5 Nils has 2,5 points. 2 wins and 1 draw against lower ranked and two losses against higher ranked players.
With six rounds left to play the Swede has big chances to make up for the 4-elo points he has lost.
The two games that are available with Nils do you find below .
The European Championship has started in Polish Legnica with the participation of Nils Grandelius. Nils started with a win against Andrei Matsenko, Russia.
In round 2, played today at 15:00 CET Nils is paired against Grandmaster Sergei Zhigalko from Belarus on table 18, which means that the game is broadcasted live.
Links: Website
Live Broadcast
This year the tournaments results will be uploaded to Chess-Results: http://chess-results.com/tnr100034.aspx?lan=1
The participant that has increased the most is the tournament's youngest participant, Richard Rapport from Hungary.He added 20 points to his elo where most of them came from the recently completed German Bundesliga.On the page with this year's participants you will find the participants with updated ratings .It can be found here.
Fide published the ratings for April yesterday.Richard Rapport and Emanuel Berg has increased there ratings while Short and Van Wely's ratings are unchanged. The other participants has lost some elo points.
| Elo April | +/- | |
|---|---|---|
| GM Nigel Short | 2697 | 0 |
| GM Loek Van Wely | 2684 | 0 |
| GM Richard Rapport | 2654 | +8 |
| GM Ivan Sokolov | 2643 | -1 |
| GM Emanuel Berg | 2579 | +5 |
| GM Hans Tikkanen | 2552 | -21 |
| GM Nils Grandelius | 2542 | -24 |
| GM Jonny Hector | 2510 | -29 |
