Praggnanandhaa wins Norway Chess Open 2022
India’s boy wonder Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa is the Winner of the Norway Chess Open 2022. After an outstanding performance in his last event – Chessable Masters where Pragg defeated Magnus Carlsen and Anish Giri, the 16-year-old today lifts the trophy of the 2022 Norway Chess Open.
Praggnanandhaa scored unbeaten 7.5/9 points to be the sole Winner of the event, emerging on the top with a full point advantage over the runner-ups IM Marsel Efroimski and IM Jung Min Seo. Efroimski and Seo tied for the second place with 6.5 points, each, but Marsel had better tiebreaks to claim silver while Jung Min Seo came third. With the second place on the overall standings, Marsel Efroimski was the best-ranked woman player in the event. (scroll down for final rankings)
Final rankings – Norway Chess Open 2022:
| 1 | GM R Praggnanandhaa | 2642 | 7,5 | 37,0 | 43,0 | 47,5 | 2676 (+6,30) | |
| 2 | IM Marsel Efroimski | 2442 | 6,5 | 38,0 | 44,0 | 48,0 | 2512 (+14,30) | |
| 3 | IM Jung Min Seo | 2479 | 6,5 | 37,0 | 43,0 | 47,5 | 2513 (+4,00) | |
| 4 | FM Mukhiddin Madaminov | 2404 | 6,0 | 39,0 | 46,5 | 50,0 | 2547 (+18,00) | |
| 5 | IM Nikolas Wachinger | 2422 | 6,0 | 38,5 | 45,0 | 48,5 | 2545 (+15,90) | |
| 6 | CM Vuppala Prraneeth | 2447 | 6,0 | 36,0 | 43,5 | 47,0 | 2489 (+6,90) | |
| 7 | GM Alessio Valsecchi | 2504 | 6,0 | 36,0 | 42,5 | 46,0 | 2493 (+1,10) | |
| 8 | GM Vitaly Kunin | 2529 | 5,5 | 39,0 | 46,5 | 50,5 | 2509 (-1,40) | |
| 9 | GM Boris Chatalbashev | 2529 | 5,5 | 38,5 | 46,0 | 50,5 | 2444 (-8,40) | |
| 10 | Andre Gjestemoen-VonHirsch | 2236 | 5,5 | 36,5 | 42,5 | 46,5 | 2454 (+104,00) | |
| 11 | FM Semen Mitusov | 2369 | 5,5 | 34,5 | 42,0 | 45,0 | 2400 (+9,20) | |
| 12 | FM Aksel Bu Kvaloy | 2270 | 5,5 | 34,5 | 41,0 | 43,5 | 2345 (+19,20) | |
| 13 | GM Alexander Fishbein | 2413 | 5,5 | 34,0 | 40,5 | 44,0 | 2375 (-2,40) | |
| 14 | IM Justin Sarkar | 2348 | 5,5 | 34,0 | 39,5 | 42,5 | 2417 (+9,00) | |
| 15 | Shazil Shehzad | 2252 | 5,5 | 31,5 | 37,5 | 39,5 | 2302 (+22,00) | |
| 16 | GM Victor Mikhalevski | 2551 | 5,0 | 41,0 | 48,5 | 52,0 | 2443 (-11,40) | |
| 17 | GM Alon Greenfeld | 2501 | 5,0 | 35,0 | 41,0 | 45,0 | 2407 (-10,50) | |
| 18 | CM Alexander Oye-Stromberg | 2288 | 5,0 | 32,5 | 39,0 | 41,0 | 2287 (-0,40) | |
| 19 | Nicolai Maxime Ostensen | 2113 | 5,0 | 30,5 | 35,5 | 39,0 | 2299 (+71,20) | |
| 20 | WGM Jovana Eric | 2301 | 5,0 | 26,0 | 31,5 | 33,5 | 2160 (-29,60) | |
| 21 | Sondre Melaa | 2178 | 4,5 | 37,0 | 43,5 | 47,0 | 2315 (+30,20) | |
| 22 | IM Tor Fredrik Kaasen | 2456 | 4,5 | 36,0 | 43,5 | 47,0 | 2357 (-8,10) | |
| 23 | WIM Marina Gajcin | 2281 | 4,5 | 33,5 | 40,0 | 43,5 | 2238 (-9,60) | |
| 24 | Mukhammadzokhid Suyarov | 2093 | 4,5 | 32,0 | 39,5 | 42,5 | 2291 (+73,60) | |
| 25 | WIM Tea Gueci | 2266 | 4,5 | 31,5 | 37,0 | 39,5 | 2211 (-11,80) | |
| 26 | FM Mathias Unneland | 2257 | 4,5 | 30,5 | 38,0 | 41,0 | 2241 (-6,00) | |
| 27 | Mathias Lind Schouten | 2118 | 4,5 | 30,0 | 36,5 | 38,5 | 2210 (+38,00) | |
| 28 | CM Tykhon Cherniaiev | 2197 | 4,5 | 28,0 | 33,5 | 36,0 | 2180 (-10,80) | |
| 29 | FM Elham Abdrlauf | 2471 | 4,0 | 36,0 | 42,0 | 45,5 | 2384 (-6,00) | |
| 30 | FM Nicolai Kistrup | 2342 | 4,0 | 33,0 | 38,5 | 41,5 | 2196 (-32,40) | |
| 31 | WFM Ellen Fredericia Nilssen | 2147 | 4,0 | 31,0 | 36,5 | 39,5 | 2146 (-5,40) | |
| 32 | Laurin Perkampus | 2069 | 4,0 | 27,5 | 33,5 | 35,5 | 2103 (-0,20) | |
| 33 | Mitch Fishbein | 2067 | 3,5 | 31,5 | 37,5 | 40,5 | 2101 (+3,60) | |
| 34 | Lukas Iskos | 2074 | 3,5 | 30,0 | 36,0 | 38,5 | 2080 (-2,00) | |
| 35 | Abyl Kizatbay | 2109 | 3,5 | 30,0 | 35,0 | 37,5 | 2155 (+8,20) | |
| 36 | Karl-Emil Elmer Nielsen-Refs | 1984 | 3,5 | 27,0 | 32,5 | 36,0 | 2047 (+27,20) | |
| 37 | CM Zi Han Goh | 2113 | 3,5 | 27,0 | 32,5 | 34,5 | 2058 (-30,40) | |
| 38 | Sverre Lye | 2033 | 3,5 | 22,0 | 27,0 | 29,0 | 1989 (-23,60) | |
| 39 | FM Gustav Torngren | 2282 | 3,0 | 32,5 | 38,0 | 40,0 | 2220 (-11,20) | |
| 40 | Afras Mansoor | 2054 | 3,0 | 28,5 | 34,0 | 36,0 | 2028 (-14,40) | |
| 41 | Peder Marcus Aamodt | 2055 | 3,0 | 26,0 | 31,5 | 33,5 | 1983 (-37,60) | |
| 42 | CM Guillaume Machin | 2167 | 3,0 | 26,0 | 31,0 | 33,0 | 2074 (-19,00) | |
| 43 | Hallvard Haug Flatebo | 1907 | 3,0 | 25,5 | 30,5 | 32,5 | 1989 (+15,80) | |
| 44 | Emil Zander | 2053 | 3,0 | 21,5 | 26,0 | 28,0 | 1929 (-61,60) | |
| 45 | August Jalving | 2032 | 2,5 | 22,0 | 27,0 | 28,5 | 1828 (-80,80) | |
| 46 | Torbjorn Valvag | 1979 | 2,0 | 27,0 | 32,5 | 35,5 | 1953 (-12,00) | |
| 47 | Noah Krug Wahlgreen | 2015 | 2,0 | 26,0 | 31,0 | 33,0 | 1898 (-53,60) | |
| 48 | Aleksander Omtvedt | 1914 | 1,5 | 27,0 | 32,0 | 34,0 | 1827 (-9,80) | |
| 49 | Tallak U. Narland | 2165 | 1,5 | 25,5 | 30,5 | 33,0 | 1994 (-8,60) | |
| 50 | Lars Tormod Haugen | 1728 | 0,0 | 21,0 | 27,5 | 28,5 | 1742 (-1,60) | |
| 51 | IM Rautela Saksham | 2480 | 0,0 | 21,0 | 26,0 | 27,0 | 0000 (+0,00) |
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