Club champion again: Tom Wiley
The 2014-2015 club championship, played again as a 9-round rapid tournament under the organisation of tournament director Jesper Abrahamsen, was again a great success, attracting 35 players. It ended with a convincing victory of Tom Wiley. Having lost the title in 2014 just in a play-off against Georgi Tomov, Tom won back the trophy with a fabulous score of 8/9, being the only player to stay unbeaten in the championship. One full point behind Pere Moles Palleja finished 2nd, losing only to Tom and Georgi. Tim Binham came 3rd with 6.5 points, followed by 4 players with 6 points: Frank Hoffmeister, Christophe Keller, defending champion Georgi Tomov and Martin Müller, who started with 1/4, but recovered in style with 5 wins in a row.
Even though they are not in the Top Ten, special mention should be made of some players that clearly performed higher than their rating, e.g. Luis Busquets (5/9, including draws against Tom and Tim!), Vladimir Dedobbeleer (4.5/9), who started with two wins against stronger players, and Ventsislav Petrov (4.5/9).
Final standings:
Elo Pts Perf
1 Thomas Wiley (2208) 8.0/9 2385
2 Pere Moles Palleja (2117) 7.0/9 2230
3 Timothy Binham (2295) 6.5/9 2257
4 Frank Hoffmeister (2247) 6.0/9 2181
5 Christophe Keller (2140) 6.0/9 2156
6 Georgi Tomov (2296) 6.0/9 2150
7 Martin Muller (2084) 6.0/9 1886
8 Mattias Johansson (1978) 5.5/9 1891
9 Johannes Bertram (1980) 5.5/9 1973
10 Jose Maria Ramos Florido (1863) 5.5/9 1841
11 Luis Carlos Busquets Pérez (1741) 5.0/9 2006
12 Ismo Ulvila (2035) 5.0/9 1916
13 Øyvind Bø (1700) 5.0/9 1967
14 Jeno Czuczai (2064) 5.0/9 1829
15 Athanasios Gkionis (1450) 5.0/9 1654
16 Jesper Abrahamsen (1773) 4.5/9 1787
17 Serge Le Gal (1729) 4.5/9 1785
18 Vladymyr Dedobbeleer (1625) 4.5/9 1802
19 Luis Parreira (1880) 4.5/9 1764
20 Ventsislav Petrov (1656) 4.5/9 1818
21 Georges Vassilakis (1935) 4.5/9 1789
22 Nikolaos Zaimis (1500) 4.5/9 1548
23 Piotr Rapacz (1683) 4.5/9 1658
24 Bruno Gatta (1350) 4.0/9 1581
25 Jeremy Rand (1652) 4.0/9 1759
26 Paolo Garzotti (1682) 3.5/9 1547
27 Paris Sansoglou (1451) 3.5/9 1447
28 Alex Amelotti (1530) 3.0/9 1548
29 Dario Maiorani (1679) 3.0/9 1570
30 Alessandro D'Alfonso (1500) 3.0/9 1411
31 Barend Verachtert (1561) 2.0/9 1534
32 Adrian Filoteanu (1500) 2.0/8 1456
33 Luis Bobo (1500) 2.0/9 855
34 Nora Bednarski (1200) 1.0/8 860
35 Remi Pierot (1500) 0.0/2 1380