13-year-old Jiang Haochen surprises at Prestige Chess Open 2024

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The Winter Chess Festival Paracin 2024 took place from 15-23 January in Paracin, Serbia with two events on the schedule: Prestige Open A, and Prestige Open B.

13-year-old Jiang Haochen (China, 2117) seeded 29th on the starting rank list, won the tournament with impressive score of 7 points. The young Chinese went unbeaten and earned 177.2 rating points, winning his first International master norm. Three players tied for the second place scoring 6.5 points, each, but GM Suat Atalik (Serbia, 2439) had the best tiebreak criteria to clinch silver, GM Nikola Sedlak (Serbia, 2463) came third and FM Suresh Harsh (India, 2361) finished the event in the fourth place.

Prestige Chess Open 2024 – Final standings:

Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.
1		Jiang, Haochen	CHN	2117	7
2	GM	Atalik, Suat	SRB	2439	6.5
3	GM	Sedlak, Nikola	SRB	2463	6.5
4	FM	Harsh, Suresh	IND	2361	6.5
5	IM	Isanzhulov, Arystan	KAZ	2414	6
6		Davudov, Tunar	AZE	2046	6
7		Abdulkarimli, Eljan	AZE	1913	6
8	GM	Kosic, Dragan	MNE	2380	6
9		Zhukenov, Aituar	KAZ	2214	6
10	GM	Bryakin, Mikhail	SRB	2494	6
11	IM	Dvalishvili, Pavel S.	RUS	2383	6
12	FM	Jocev, Milan	SRB	2376	5.5
13	WCM	Buyankhishig, Batpelden	MGL	1698	5.5
14	FM	Schlegel, Igor	SUI	2239	5.5
15	CM	Sahin, Sarp	TUR	2067	5.5
16	FM	Barrish, Daniel	RSA	2347	5
17	FM	Afanasiev, Vadim	RUS	2198	5
18		Tsydendambaev, Artur	FID	2011	5
19		Slugin, Alexander	RUS	2130	5
20		Rzayev, Chingiz	AZE	2144	5
21	WIM	Srdanovic, Jovana	SRB	2121	5
22	FM	Sutormin, Danila	RUS	2353	5
23		Abdsattar, Alisher	KAZ	1945	5
24	IM	Sredojevic, Ivan	SRB	2253	4.5
25	IM	Sultan, Ibrahim	UAE	2117	4.5
26	WIM	Pogorelskikh, Sofia	SRB	2198	4.5
27		Karpenko, Anton	FID	1906	4.5
28		Tolstykh, Viktor	FID	1986	4.5
29		Emujin, Enkh-Amgalan	MGL	1500	4.5
30		Obolonin, Filipp	EST	1970	4.5
31	FM	Pogorelskikh, Sergey	SRB	2155	4.5
32		Ali, Abdulaziz	UAE	1950	4.5
33		Chaitanya, Sairam Mogili	IND	1938	4.5
34		Deniz, Mustafa Ali	TUR	1978	4.5
35		Ciric, Pavle	SRB	2159	4.5
36	IM	Brankovic, Dejan	SRB	2257	4
37		Krstic, Andrija Marko	SRB	2113	4
38		Phatak, Aanjaneya	IND	1974	4
39		Niharika, Challa	IND	1982	4
40		Kishore, Kumar Jaganathan	IND	2096	3.5
41		Sri, Sai Baswanth P	IND	2096	3.5
42	WFM	Mayrhuber, Nikola	AUT	2009	3.5
43	FM	Ahmed, Fareed	UAE	1978	3.5
44		Banov, Boil	BUL	2004	3.5
45		Rindhiya, V	IND	1879	3.5
46		Velikov, Nikola	BUL	1919	3.5
47	FM	Xie, Felix	NZL	2249	3
48		Vanden Bussche, Steven	BEL	2113	3
49	FM	Popovic, Dragan B	SRB	2231	3
50		Pasti, Zsombor	HUN	1956	3
51	WIM	Tejaswini, Sagar	IND	1966	3
52		Khassenov, Mansur	KAZ	1768	3
53	WCM	Enkhrii, Enkh-Amgalan	MGL	1877	3
54		Lednicky, Martin	SVK	2049	2.5
55	IM	Raahul, V S	IND	2356	2.5
56		Pasti, Anna	HUN	2017	2.5
57		Winartha, Muhammad Abdillah Fatih	INA	1976	2
58	WFM	Lu, Lillian	AUS	1794	2
59	WFM	Karaivanova, Petya	BUL	1940	2
60	CM	Stanojevic, Ilija	SRB	2206	1.5
61	IM	Vujakovic, Branko	CRO	2235	0.5
	IM	Medancic, Rikard	CRO	2163	0.5