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Surez outscores Rozman

The Closed A tournament in Madrid saw famed streamer Levy Rozman becoming the sole leader at the halfway mark after kicking off the event with 3 wins and 2 draws. Also known as Gotham Chess, the US representative ended the tournament with 3 draws and a critical loss against eventual champion Julio Surez. It was still a remarkable showing by Rozman, who had not played a single official tournament in 2 years.

As reported by Federico Marn, tournament winner Julio Surez is not a professional chess player, since he is now focused on studying Mathematics.

Third place went to Spanish FM Dani Tabuenca, who collected 5 points and finished the event with a better tiebreak score than his compatriot IM Diego Macas, who also scored 5/9.

Julio Surez defeated Levy Rozman with the white pieces in the penultimate round | Photo: chess.com / Federico Marn

The Closed B tournament featured 3 GMs, 4 IMs and 3 FMs, with 10-year-old Faustino Oro from Argentina a special guest in Spains capital. The prodigious boy from Buenos Aires needed to score 5/9 points (or +2) to become the youngest International Master in history. The youngster collected 8 draws and 1 win for a final 5/9 score, falling just short of breaking the record for now, Abhimanyu Mishra continues to be the youngest IM in history.

Oros performance was nonetheless outstanding, as he entered the event as the 8th seed, and showed great maturity throughout the nine rounds. As reported by Infobae, the Messi of chess will get a last chance of getting the record at the Cerrado IM Barcelona, set to take place on June 25-30. Oro will be the third seed in a 10-player round-robin.

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Only a half point above Oro, Venezuelan FM Pedro Martnez and US IM Eric Rosen tied for first place with 5 points each. Martnez was declared the tournament winner on tiebreak criteria. Perhaps more importantly, the 5/9 performance granted Martnez his final IM norm, six years after he had obtained his previous norm. Living in Spain, the tournament winner teaches chess to blind players for ONCE (Spanish National Organization for the Blind).

Pedro Martnez playing white against Faustino Oro (draw) | Photo: chess.com / Federico Marn

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