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Phoenix Cup 13th ed. - Open

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26 players participated in this 7-round tournament, held from 15 May 2026 to 17 May 2026 in Sarata Monteoru, Romania. 2 titled players from 2 federations. Top 10 Elo average was 1969, and top seed was Sebastian Taran (🇷🇴 ROU, CM, 2173).

Sebastian Taran (🇷🇴 ROU, CM, 2173) won with 5.5/7, ahead of Madalin Andronescu (5.5) and Daniel-Vasilica Popescu (5.0). Taran won on tie-break after catching the field in the final round.

The biggest upset came in round 2: Cosmin-Alex Alexa (1936) beat Sebastian Taran (CM, 2173), a +237-point gap.

Location
🇷🇴Sarata Monteoru, Romania
Dates
15 May 2026 → 17 May 2026
Time control
Standard: 60 minutes with 30 seconds increment from move 1
System
Swiss · 7 rounds
Top seed
🇷🇴CMSebastian Taran2173
Avg top 10
1,969
Participants
26
Titled players · 2
FM×1
CM×1
Federations · 2 represented
🇷🇴Romania×25
🇲🇩Moldova×1
Top 3

How it unfolded

Top 6 · 7 rounds

Tight race until R7; 2 players tied at 5.5/7, decided on Buchholz.

Co-leaders
9
3
1
1
1
1
2
23.55.57R1R2R3R4R5R6R7
Taran5.5Andronescu5.5Popescu5Levay5Fulger5Jega4.5
R7 · TIEBREAK CLUSTER

2 players finish on 5.5/7. Taran takes the title on Buchholz Cut1 (25.5).

WIN STREAKS · 2 top finishers

Madalin Andronescu 3 wins (R3–R5)Daniel-Vasilica Popescu 4 wins (R1–R4)

Key matchups · top 4

Head-to-head between the four finishers
Player1234
1CMSebastian Taran*—
½
—
2Madalin Andronescu—*
½
1
3Daniel-Vasilica Popescu
½
½
*
0
4FMSorin Levay—
0
1
*

Grille américaine

#PlayerEloFedR1R2R3R4R5R6R7PtsBu C1BuSBPerfΔ
1Taran, SebastianCM2173ROU+11N−7B+9N+16B=3N+10B+6N5.525.528.522.002107-15.6
2Andronescu, Madalin2078ROU+12B−8N+19B+18N+4B=3B+7N5.524.026.019.502098+5.6
3Popescu, Daniel-Vasilica1993ROU+13B+6N+8B+5N=1B=2N−4B5.029.532.522.002117+24.6
4Levay, SorinFM2015ROU+10N=9B=7N+17B−2N+16B+3N5.025.528.018.502019+4.6
5Fulger, Ionut-Alexandru1882ROU+20N=17B+15N−3B+8B=6N+12B5.022.524.516.001960+16.6
6Jega, Gabriel1911ROU+23N−3B+26N+9B+7N=5B−1B4.525.526.013.001960+12.6
7Alexa, Cosmin-Alex1936ROU+14B+1N=4B=8N−6B+13N−2B4.027.530.516.001968+8.4
8Tatarciuc, Iuri1959MDA+22N+2B−3N=7B−5N+21B=9N4.025.527.513.501898-6.8
9Bratu, Gheorghe1888ROU+25B=4N−1B−6N+14B+19N=8B4.024.024.510.001880+2.0
10Craciun, Luca-Stefan1736ROU−4B=14N+13B=15N+18B−1N+23B4.022.024.010.501773+10.0
11Mihailiuc, Flavius-Iulian1859ROU−1B−13N+25B+22N+19B=12N=15B4.019.019.57.751767-14.4
12Turcu, Fanel1819ROU−2N+22B−17N+14B+20N=11B−5N3.522.024.09.001764-9.8
13Moldoveanu, Paul1694ROU−3N+11B−10N+26B+17N−7B−16N3.022.523.07.001741+6.8
14Durac, Eugen1598ROU−7N=10B+21B−12N−9N+26B=17N3.020.020.55.751674+11.0
15Dumitrache, Elisa-Andreea1602ROUF+21N−5B=10B−16N+20B=11N3.020.020.08.001741+42.4
16Sandu, Razvan-Nicolae1782ROUFF+24B−1N+15B−4N+13B3.017.517.57.001879+11.0
17Pertea, Ion-Marian1604ROUF=5N+12B−4N−13B=18N=14B2.522.022.08.751700+22.0
18Beganu, Rares-Irinel1546ROUFF+20N−2B−10N=17B+21N2.516.016.05.251694+34.4
19Oncescu, Vlad-Norin1668ROUFF−2N+23B−11N−9B+20N2.017.517.54.001729+5.4
20Truta, Florinel1724ROU−5B+25N−18B+24N−12B−15N−19B2.017.017.51.501488-43.8
21Dumitrache, Dragos-Alexandru1460ROUF−15B−14N+25N+22B−8N−18B2.015.015.02.501486+2.2
22Pila, Denis-Ionut1603ROU−8B−12NF−11B−21N+25N+24B2.015.015.01.501559-19.2
23Grigorescu, Mihai1467ROU−6BFF−19N+25B+24N−10N2.012.012.01.501584+12.4
24Iorgoiu, Minuviu1551ROUFF−16N−20B+26N−23B−22N1.09.59.50.501400-18.6
25Dosoftei, Anastasia-Elisa1457ROU−9N−20B−11N−21B−23N−22B=26N0.516.016.50.251234-56.4
26Butacu, Maria1626ROUFF−6B−13N−24B−14N=25B0.512.012.00.251276-77.2

Key insights

Biggest movers and upsets — the story behind the numbers.

Top rating gainers
Top rating losers
Biggest upsets