On Saturday, May 20th the first edition of the ETH Chess Championship took place in the Alumni Pavillon, with the titles of ETH Chess King and ETH Chess Queen at stake.
This has been an exciting event with 73 participants. The competition was tough with no less than 5 titled players! Before the break, only two players had scored full points: Mateo and Kirill. They faced each other in a high-stakes game as the winner would take a serious option on the tournament’s victory. After a well-fought battle, Mateo had to resign making Kirill the sole leader. He then safely secured two draws in rounds 7 and 8 against the two favorites of the tournament and went on to win the last game to claim the title of ETH Chess King! Mateo and Noah complete the podium. Congratulation to all three of them!
Numerous prizes have been awarded beyond the podium. Special mention to Anna, who becomes the ETH Chess Queen as the first woman on the final ranking.
- ETH Chess King: Kirill Zaitsev
- ETH Chess Queen: Anna Adzic
- Silver Medalist: Mateo Rodriguez Polo
- Bronze Medalist: Noah Fecker
- Best Bachelor Student: Theo Stijve
- Best Master Student: Markus Fasching
- Best PhD Student: Nagaarjhuna Arumuga Kani
- Best UZH Student: Amir Alizade
- Best Performance: Raphael Larisch
- Best U1400: Giovanni Ottobonni
- Best U1700: Josef Zoller
- Best U2000: Serafin Jacob
- Lucky winners: Giacomo Colombo, Paul Linder
This tournament has been an incredible experience and we wish to again thank all the participants. We also wish to thank our partners: the VSETH, the Rektorat, and chess.com, for helping us bring this event to life.
The echoes of this year’s Championship have barely subsided, but our sights are already set on the horizon. We are looking forward to seeing you all next year and until then have fun!
Below you can find the full ranking and other pictures taken during the event. Credits for the pictures go to Danilo Đorđević!
Rank Name Rating Score Buc1 BucT
1 Kirill Zaitsev 2320 8.0 49.0 52.5
2 Mateo Rodriguez Polo 2400 7.5 51.5 56.5
3 Noah Fecker 2625 7.5 48.5 51.5
4 Stijve Theo 2600 7.0 50.0 54.5
5 Yun Pan 2178 7.0 41.0 45.0
6 Nagaarjhuna Arumuga Kani 2355 6.5 44.5 48.0
7 Jan Buzek 2203 6.5 43.5 47.5
8 Matej Jusup 2400 6.0 52.0 57.0
9 Vincent Lou 2300 6.0 48.5 51.5
10 Serafin Jacob 1972 6.0 45.5 47.0
11 Marcus Imris 1940 6.0 44.5 47.0
12 Igor Szymanowski 2183 6.0 44.0 47.5
13 Gary Hoppeler 0 6.0 42.5 46.0
14 Lorenzo Vettor 2200 6.0 42.0 46.0
15 Jingqiu Ding 2200 6.0 42.0 45.0
16 Markus Fasching 2150 6.0 42.0 45.0
17 Janis Lutz 2005 5.5 50.0 53.0
18 Ritvik Radhakrishnan 2200 5.5 45.0 49.0
19 Adam Rahemtulla 2027 5.5 44.5 47.5
20 Tim Distel 2050 5.5 43.0 47.0
21 Marco Kammermann 1950 5.5 37.5 41.0
22 Anton Künzi 2031 5.0 45.5 49.0
23 Giacomo Colombo 2050 5.0 45.0 48.0
24 Sinan Deveci 2150 5.0 43.5 47.0
25 Apiram Vinayagamoorthy 2050 5.0 43.5 46.0
26 Anna Adzic 2135 5.0 41.5 45.5
27 Jan Černý 1800 5.0 40.0 42.5
28 Ivan Baburin 2200 5.0 39.5 43.5
29 Piraveen Selvakumar 1940 5.0 39.0 42.0
30 Frank Oberson 2000 5.0 39.0 40.5
31 Anton De Ruig 1735 5.0 38.5 40.0
32 Fionn Smith 1750 5.0 35.5 37.0
33 Mattia Wirth 1865 5.0 33.5 36.5
34 Alexander Seidl 1923 5.0 33.5 34.0
35 Raffael Insam 2069 5.0 31.0 32.5
36 Amir Alizade 0 4.5 41.5 45.5
37 Gioacchino Greber 1840 4.5 40.5 43.0
38 Ana Marija Vego 1800 4.5 39.0 41.5
39 Elia Steinfeld 1967 4.5 34.5 37.5
40 Giovanni Ottoboni 1395 4.5 32.0 33.5
41 Veit Billinger 1865 4.0 40.0 43.0
42 Frehner Thomas 1715 4.0 38.5 41.5
43 Josef Zoller 1406 4.0 38.0 41.0
44 Giorgio Tonetti 1600 4.0 38.0 38.5
45 Gilles Rossier 1905 4.0 37.5 40.5
46 Kevin Wu 1700 4.0 37.5 38.5
47 Yannick Neuffer 1600 4.0 37.0 40.0
48 Pascal Linder 1630 4.0 36.0 37.5
49 Silvio Bianchi 1685 4.0 35.0 37.5
50 Laura Alilovic 1550 4.0 34.5 35.0
51 Martin Zahariev 1485 4.0 34.0 36.5
52 Dimitrios Prasakis 0 4.0 31.0 32.0
53 Paul Uriarte 2005 3.5 43.5 44.5
54 Andrin Zoller 1560 3.5 40.0 43.0
55 Eric Liu 1500 3.5 38.5 41.5
56 Maximilian Lipowsky 1000 3.5 31.0 33.5
57 Ricardo Nicosia 1485 3.0 34.5 35.0
58 Nicolas Lazaro 1830 3.0 33.0 35.5
59 Raghu Raman Ravi 1524 3.0 33.0 35.5
60 Alec Tarashev 1415 3.0 33.0 34.0
61 Noe Keusch 1395 3.0 32.5 33.0
62 Ricardo Rodriguez 1485 3.0 32.0 32.5
63 Thomas Blattmann 0 3.0 30.5 31.5
64 Matthieu Croci 1295 3.0 29.5 30.5
65 Paul Linder 0 3.0 29.0 30.5
66 Raphaël Larisch 789 3.0 27.5 28.0
67 Yan Florian 1145 3.0 24.0 25.0
68 Egor Gubenko 1545 3.0 23.5 24.5
69 Adrian Porras 1700 2.0 31.5 33.0
70 Yannis Kafantaris 1200 2.0 30.5 31.0
71 Alessandro Bianchi 1145 2.0 29.5 31.5
72 Danilo Djordjevic 0 1.0 27.0 28.5
73 Adriano Airaldi 1285 1.0 26.0 28.5
