GM Pier Luigi Basso wins HIT Chess Open 2024

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It’s been a great start of the year for GM Pier Luigi Basso who yesterday clinched his second consecutive Open tournament victory! Pier Luigi Basso emerged as the Winner of the 28th HIT Chess Open right after triumphing at the Sevilla Chess Open 2024.

With a draw in the last round, GM Pier Luigi Basso scored 7/9 points and secured the trophy at the HIT Chess Open. Basso finished the event unbeaten and earned 11.1 ELO points. He was half a point ahead of GM Ferenc Berkes and WIM Zsoka Gaal who scored 6.5 points (each) to tie for the second place.

16-year-old WIM Zsoka Gaal stole the show at the tournament with her impressive performance. After a bad start with only 0.5/2 points, Gaal had a huge come-back and scored 6/7 points to place herself on the winners podium. The final standings can be found below.

HIT Chess Open 2024 – Final standings:

Rk.		Name	FED	RtgI	Pts.
1	GM	Basso, Pier Luigi	ITA	2482	7
2	GM	Berkes, Ferenc	HUN	2613	6.5
3	WIM	Gaal, Zsoka	HUN	2341	6.5
4	IM	Csonka, Balazs	HUN	2479	6
5	IM	Ceres, Dragos	MDA	2438	6
6	GM	Sebenik, Matej	SLO	2536	6
7	IM	Kulkarni, Bhakti	IND	2364	6
8	FM	Goroshkov, Maksym	SLO	2338	6
9	GM	Beliavsky, Alexander G	SLO	2475	6
10		Skrbec, Leon	SLO	2218	6
11		Kozlovic, Jernej	SLO	2174	6
12	IM	Doric, Darko	CRO	2456	5.5
13	IM	Karacsonyi, Gellert	HUN	2398	5.5
14	FM	Ashwath, R.	IND	2284	5.5
15	FM	Bodrogi, Bendeguz	HUN	2261	5.5
16	GM	Fercec, Nenad	CRO	2410	5.5
17	CM	Marchesich, Giovanni	ITA	2210	5.5
18	FM	Furlan, Miha	SLO	2287	5.5
19	GM	Djuric, Stefan	SRB	2220	5.5
20	FM	Ongut, Tamas Gunes	HUN	2310	5.5
21	GM	Cvitan, Ognjen	CRO	2422	5.5
22		Zupancic, Jernej	SLO	2211	5.5
23		Centrih, Aleks	SLO	2082	5.5
24	GM	Drazic, Sinisa	SRB	2270	5
25		Szegedy, Matyas	HUN	2129	5
26	GM	Davies, Nigel R	ENG	2349	5
27	FM	Perossa, Nicolas	ITA	2277	5
28	FM	Stevanic, David	SLO	2294	5
29		Plaskan, Jure	SLO	2262	5
		Zupancic, Urban	SLO	2025	5
31	FM	Lavrencic, Matic	SLO	2299	5
32		Herega, Nejc	SLO	2257	5
33		Gregoric, Andraz	SLO	2217	5
34		Pirs, Matjaz	SLO	1965	5
35	WCM	Dorokhina, Elizaveta	FID	1994	5
36		Budai, Leonardo	ITA	1847	5
37	WFM	Kejzar, Petra	SLO	2025	5
38	CM	Bazilius, Augustinas	LTU	2030	5
39		Budai, Federico	ITA	1861	5
40	WIM	Hrescak, Ivana	SLO	2117	4.5
41		Siraj, Svit	SLO	2182	4.5
42		Jalovec, Igor	SLO	1703	4.5
43		Caruso, Augusto	ITA	2159	4.5
44		Privitera, Franco	ITA	1919	4.5
45		Markocic, Tine	SLO	2055	4.5
46	CM	Garsky, Vladyslav	UKR	2186	4.5
47		Capaliku, Aleks	ITA	1913	4.5
48		Barbir, Petar	CRO	1738	4.5
49		Tonel, Giulia	ITA	1851	4.5
50		Pagnutti, Lorenzo	ITA	1859	4.5
51		Pagano, Sergio	ITA	1821	4.5
52	FM	Ceschia, Ivano	ITA	2183	4
53	CM	Debevec, Blaz	SLO	2077	4
54		Mazzi, Leonardo	ITA	1647	4
55		Trybus, Daniel	POL	2039	4
56		Veselic, Maks	SLO	1874	4
57		Kukushkin, Ivan	LAT	1890	4
58		Orsatti, Marcello	ITA	1918	4
59		Zlatanovic, Srdjan	SLO	1675	4
60		Petrosino, Germano	ITA	1715	4
61		Rigatti, Giorgio	ITA	1749	4
62		Ivsek, Cveto	SLO	1711	4
63		Labrovic, Jakov	CRO	1925	4
64		Beber, Anja	SLO	1606	4
65		Horvath, Andras	HUN	1901	4
66		Hozjan, Erik	SLO	1897	4
67		Kekic, Urban	SLO	1885	4
68		Novak, Rok	SLO	1777	3.5
69		Gergolet, Jan	ITA	1632	3.5
70		Mestek, Igor	SLO	2080	3.5
71		Belyaletdinov, Leonard	SLO	1581	3.5
72		Racnik, Tone	SLO	1849	3.5
73		Atakay, Mustafa	USA	1889	3.5
		Gricnik, Tine	SLO	1758	3.5
75		Vodnik, Val	SLO	1661	3.5
76		Guid, Taja	SLO	1698	3.5
77		Cortese, Lina	ITA	1582	3.5
78		Mulec, Dejan	SLO	1577	3.5
79		Zlatanovic, Marcus	SLO	1745	3.5
80		Trybus, Dominika	POL	1530	3
81		Vicic, Mark	SLO	1729	3
82		Milicevic, Zoran	ITA	1550	3
83		Papler, Peter	SLO	1691	3
84		Gratton, Damjan	SLO	1691	3
85		Petrovcic, Cvetko	SLO	1611	2.5
86		Mihelj, Edvard	SLO	1618	2.5
87		Bajec, Borut	SLO	1703	2.5
88		Cokan, Mirko	SLO	1614	2.5
89		Cziko, Eduard-Carol	ROU	1946	0.5
90		Deschi, Leonardo Simone	ITA	1639	0.5