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6th Paul Keres Memorial Festival 2025 - Blitz Tournament

SwissBlitz

134 players participated in this 11-round tournament, held on 16 Aug 2025 in Parnu, Estonia. 44 titled players from 8 federations. Top 10 Elo average was 2473, and top seed was Toivo Keinanen (🇫🇮 FIN, IM, 2624).

Valery Kazakouski (🇱🇹 LTU, GM, 2508) won with 9.5/11, ahead of Arturs Neiksans (8.5) and Toivo Keinanen (8.5). Kazakouski shared the lead from round 6 and won solo starting round 7.

The biggest upset came in round 4: Illia Voropaiev (1715) beat Yury Lapshun (IM, 2309), a +594-point gap.

Location
🇪🇪Parnu, Estonia
Dates
16 Aug 2025
Time control
Blitz: 3 minutes for game with 2 seconds increment from move 1
System
Swiss · 11 rounds
Top seed
🇫🇮IMToivo Keinanen2624
Avg top 10
2,473
Participants
134
Titled players · 44
GM×8
IM×10
FM×12
CM×4
WGM×2
WIM×2
WFM×3
WCM×3
Federations · 8 represented
🇪🇪Estonia×55
🇱🇻Latvia×25
🇱🇹Lithuania×14
🇩🇪Germany×7
🇺🇦Ukraine×6
🇵🇱Poland×3
🇮🇳India×3
🇫🇮Finland×3
Top 3

How it unfolded

Top 6 · 11 rounds

GM Valery Kazakouski led from R7; +1.0-point edge over the runner-up. Title race converged from 7 co-leaders at R4 to 1 by R7.

Co-leaders
64
30
15
7
3
3
1
1
1
1
1
35.58.511R1R2R3R4R5R6R7R8R9R10R11
R7–R11 · LEAD HELD

GM Valery Kazakouski never relinquished the lead after R7; final gap +1.0 over the runner-up.

R9 · HEAD-TO-HEAD · WINNER VS 2ND

GM Valery Kazakouski drew with GM Tomas Laurusas (White).

WIN STREAKS · 3 top finishers

GM Valery Kazakouski 4+3 wins (R1–R4, R6–R8)GM Tomas Laurusas 4 wins (R1–R4)GM Arturs Neiksans 5 wins (R1–R5)

Key matchups · top 4

Head-to-head between the four finishers
Player1234
1GMValery Kazakouski*
½
1
2GMTomas Laurusas
½
*
0
3GMArturs Neiksans
0
1
*
1
4FMKarol Kacprzak
0
*

Grille américaine

#PlayerEloFedR1R2R3R4R5R6R7R8R9R10R11PtsBu C1BuSBPerfΔ
1Kazakouski, ValeryGM2508LTU+76B+12N+20B+31N=19B+2N+11B+6N=4B+8N=3B9.577.082.070.002631+17.3
2Neiksans, ArtursGM2535LAT+109N+45B+35N+10B+4N1B+5N+3B7N=9B+13N8.579.083.061.502577+8.4
3Keinanen, ToivoIM2624FIN+50B+15N+39B5N+21B+33N+8B2N+19B+6N=1N8.577.083.061.252542-5.5
4Laurusas, TomasGM2480LTU+75N+52B+33N+14B2B+19N+31B=11N=1N+7B=9N8.575.080.059.002482+3.9
5Kacprzak, KarolFM2366POL+65N+30B+26N+3B+6B=11N2B=19N=31B+32N+23B8.573.579.060.002507+42.4
6Fridman, DanielGM2514GER+70N+69B+24N+7B5N+45B+32N1B+35N3B+20N8.073.078.552.002456-4.0
7Kacprzak, KacperFM2279POL+79B+57N+62B6N+42B+22N19B+12N+2B4N+29B8.071.576.553.002362+26.8
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134Lumiste, Sade Marie0EST53B83N101B126N128N133B132NF131N117B122B0.034.534.50.007910.0

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