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ChessVista.com is the website of chess photographer Frits Agterdenbos. The site provides the international chess community with high quality chess photos and chess news of chess players from international chess events. There will be visual reports and an album with chess photo collections showing all the visual aspects of the chess world.16.03.2008 The Hypercube Blitz Chess Tournament 2008 (rate of play: 5 minutes per person per game) took place on Saturday 15 March in Utrecht (Netherlands). The event was organised by Chess Club Utrecht and sponsored by Hypercube Business Innovation. The tournament attracted 128 participants including 9 GMs (Daniel Fridman 2627, Vadim Malakhatko 2600, Felix Levin 2563, Stanislav Savchenko 2558, Michael Feygin 2554, Alexandre Dgebuadze 2512, Mihail Saltaev 2502, Harmen Jonkman 2438, Dennis De Vreugt 2390) and 7 IMs. The first part of the tournament was the qualification phase in which the participants were divided in 8 qualifying groups (all play all) to qualify for the final groups in the second part of the tournament, the final phase. Final group A: 8 numbers one + 8 numbers two + 4 numbers three, making 20 players in total. Prize money in Final Group A (20 player all play all): 1000 euro (first prize), 600, 250, 100, 50. GM Daniel Fridman won the 1000 euro first prize on 15.5/19 points, followed by GM Vadim Malakhatko on 15.0 points and IM Andrey Orlov on 13.0 points. The Dutch blitz specialist IM Manuel Bosboom finished fourth. Big photo report with portraits of all 20 final group A players by Frits Agterdenbos. > Tournament report by Robert Beekman (in Dutch) > Hypercube Business Innovation (sponsor) Playing hall, the tournament took place in NDC Den Hommel Armageddon games Armageddon games The numbers one and two of each qualifying group qualified for the final group A The 8 numbers three of the 8 qualifying groups had to play a play off (one Armageddon game). The four winners (Malakhatko, Bosboom, Karstens and Bogoevski) also qualified for the final group A. Daniel Fridman 1st place Vadim Malakhatko 2nd place Harmen Jonkman and Viesturs Meijers (round 2) Andrey Orlov 3rd place Manuel Bosboom 4th place Manuel Bosboom (right) - Harmen Jonkman (round 6) Mihail Saltaev 5th place Aleksander Alienkin 6th place Standings round 8 Ekrem Cekro 7th place Dharma Tjiam 8th place Pieter Nieuwenhuis - sponsor, organiser and participant Robin Swinkels 9th place Stanislav Savchenko 10th place Anna Zatonskih - Daniel Fridman (round 7) Anna Zatonskih 11th place Viesturs Meijers 12th place Jos Nooijen, organiser Anish Giri 13th place Alexandre Dgebuadze 14 place Robin Swinkels (right) - Daniel Fridman (round 17) Felix Levin 15th place Harmen Jonkman 16th place Pieter Nieuwenhuis - 4th place in final group C Alexander Izrailev 17th place Remco Sprangers 18th place Group A (round 19) Bart Karstens 19th place Jani Bogoevski 20th place Daniel Fridman & Anna Zatonskih