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VPHS_NEVA OPEN December 2025-2 Standard A

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18 players participated in this 7-round tournament, held from 27 Dec 2025 to 29 Dec 2025 in St. Petersburg, Russia. 2 federations represented. Top 10 Elo average was 1611, and top seed was Aleksei Solovev (🇱🇺 LUX, 1775).

Aleksey Kaplan (🇷🇺 RUS, 1672) won with 6.5/7, ahead of Sergey Lapitsky (5.0) and Yaroslav Tsepennikov (5.0). Kaplan won solo starting round 5.

The biggest upset came in round 6: Taisiya Zabolotnova (1408) beat Aleksei Solovev (1775), a +367-point gap.

Location
🇷🇺St. Petersburg, Russia
Dates
27 Dec 2025 → 29 Dec 2025
Time control
Standard: All Moves in 30 Min. Del. 30 Sec. / /
System
Swiss · 7 rounds
Top seed
🇱🇺Aleksei Solovev1775
Avg top 10
1,611
Participants
18
Federations · 2 represented
🇷🇺Russia×14
🇱🇺Luxembourg×2
Top 3

How it unfolded

Top 6 · 7 rounds

Aleksey Kaplan led from R5; +1.5-point edge over the runner-up. Title race converged from 2 co-leaders at R4 to 1 by R5.

Co-leaders
8
4
2
2
1
1
1
23.55.57R1R2R3R4R5R6R7
Kaplan6.5Lapitsky5Egorychev5Tsepennikov5Solovev4Egorychev4
R5–R7 · LEAD HELD

Aleksey Kaplan never relinquished the lead after R5; final gap +1.5 over the runner-up.

R5 · HEAD-TO-HEAD · WINNER VS 2ND

Aleksey Kaplan beat Sergey Lapitsky (White).

WIN STREAKS · 2 top finishers

Aleksey Kaplan 3+3 wins (R1–R3, R5–R7)Georgy Egorychev 3 wins (R1–R3)

Key matchups · top 4

Head-to-head between the four finishers
Player1234
1Aleksey Kaplan*
1
½
1
2Sergey Lapitsky
0
*
0
1
3Georgy Egorychev
½
1
*
0
4Yaroslav Tsepennikov
0
0
1
*

Grille américaine

#PlayerEloFedR1R2R3R4R5R6R7PtsBu C1BuSBPerfΔ
1Kaplan, Aleksey1672RUS+10B+14N+3B=4N+2B+5B+6N6.526.028.526.001935+28.8
2Lapitsky, Sergey1758RUS+7N+5B−4N+8B−1N+3B+11N5.028.531.520.001740-1.6
3Tsepennikov, Yaroslav1520RUS+9N+8B−1N+7B+4B−2N+10B5.028.031.019.501738+69.2
4Egorychev, Georgy1543RUS+18B+16N+2B=1B−3N+12B=5N5.025.525.515.251738+59.6
5Kosheleva, Alesya1502RUS+17B−2N+13N+12B=6B−1N=4B4.026.527.511.501511+3.6
6Shelepkova, Vera1495RUS−16N=9B+18N+13B=5N+7B−1B4.023.023.010.751539+12.4
7Egorychev, Ivan1712RUS−2B+18N+14B−3N+11B−6N+15B4.022.022.08.001472-61.2
8Solovev, Nikolai1582LUX+11B−3N+10B−2N=15B=14N+12N4.021.524.011.501540-12.0
9Zabolotnova, Taisiya1408RUS−3B=6N=15B−11N=13N+16B+14B3.520.022.09.251547+33.6
10Demchuk, Ivan0RUS−1N+17B−8N+16B−12N+13B−3N3.023.524.56.0013620.0
11Kaplan, Boris1552RUS−8N−13B+17N+9B−7N+15N−2B3.022.023.07.001423-27.2
12Kondratieva, Mariya Aleks1459RUS−14B+15N+16B−5N+10B−4N−8B3.021.023.07.501321-35.2
13Broev, David0RUS=15B+11N−5B−6N=9B−10N+18N3.020.020.06.0013950.0
14Kulakov, Ilya Ig1452RUS+12N−1B−7N−15N+17B=8B−9N2.523.524.56.0014180.0
15Tsyplenkov, Mark1463RUS=13N−12B=9N+14B=8N−11B−7N2.520.523.07.7513960.0
16Solovev, Aleksei1775LUX+6B−4B−12N−10N+18B−9NF2.018.518.54.001280-48.0
17FIDE 5700030920—−5N−10N−11B+18B−14NFF1.012.512.50.006840.0
18FIDE 5700031060—−4N−7B−6B−17N−16NF−13B0.019.019.00.008270.0

Key insights

Biggest movers and upsets — the story behind the numbers.

Top rating gainers
Top rating losers
Biggest upsets