GM Boris Chatalbashev emerged as the winner of the 2024 Danish Championship. The 50-year-old successfully defended his last-year national title, scoring an impressive 8\/9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 2024 Danish Chess Championship, a 10-player round-robin tournament with classical time controls, was held in Svendborg from March 23 to April 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chatalbashev got off to a fantastic start, winning the first five games and taking the lead early on. Going into the final round a half-point ahead of his main rival GM Jesper Sondergaard Thybo, he convincingly outplayed FM Mikkel Manosri Jacobsen and clinched the title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jesper Thybo (pictured below)\u00a0started with two draws but then picked up steam and stayed in the race for gold to the very end. Just like the champion, the runner-up completed the event unbeaten, netting 7.5\/9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
M Filip Boe Olsen and GM Bjorn Moller Ochsner both scored 5.5\/9 and tied for third place, with the former completing the podium thanks to better tiebreaks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Final standings<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n GM Boris Chatalbashev emerged as the winner of the 2024 Danish Championship. The 50-year-old successfully defended his last-year national title, scoring an impressive 8\/9. The 2024 Danish Chess Championship, a 10-player round-robin tournament with classical time controls, was held in Svendborg from March 23 to April 1. Chatalbashev got off to a fantastic start, winning…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":8722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"yoast_head":"\n1<\/td> GM<\/td> Boris Chatalbashev<\/td> 2448<\/td> 8<\/td><\/tr> 2<\/td> GM<\/td> Jesper Thybo<\/td> 2542<\/td> 7\u00bd<\/td><\/tr> 3<\/td> IM<\/td> Filip Boe Olsen<\/td> 2456<\/td> 5\u00bd<\/td><\/tr> 4<\/td> GM<\/td> Bjorn Ochsner<\/td> 2518<\/td> 5\u00bd<\/td><\/tr> 5<\/td> IM<\/td> Nikolaj Borge<\/td> 2379<\/td> 4<\/td><\/tr> 6<\/td> FM<\/td> Casper Liu<\/td> 2283<\/td> 4<\/td><\/tr> 7<\/td> IM<\/td> Martin Haubro<\/td> 2436<\/td> 3\u00bd<\/td><\/tr> 8<\/td> FM<\/td> Jens Ramsdal<\/td> 2378<\/td> 3<\/td><\/tr> 9<\/td> FM<\/td> Mikkel Jacobsen<\/td> 2367<\/td> 1\u00bd<\/td><\/tr> 10<\/td> IM<\/td> Jens Fries-Nielsen<\/td> 2364<\/td> 1\u00bd<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"