Sweden 27th December 2001 to 5th January 2002
The XXXI Rilton Cup took place 27th December 2001 to 5th January 2002. Evgeny Agrest took first on tie-break from Bogdan Lalic, Tom Wedberg and Valerij Popov all finished on 7/9. There were IM norms for Anton Aeberg and Bengt Lindberg. Information: http://home1.swipnet.se/~w-21958/
Scottish champion GM Jonathan Rowson finished 6th (seeded 17).
XXXI Rilton_cup0102.htm Leading Final (Round 9) Standings
1 Agrest, Evgenij SWE 2563 7.0 39.0
2 Lalic, Bogdan ENG 2522 7.0 36.0
3 Wedberg, Tom SWE 2529 7.0 35.0
4 Popov, Valerij RUS 2578 7.0 33.5
5 Nataf, Igor FRA 2535 6.5 36.5
6 Rowson, Jonathan SCO 2512 6.5 35.0
7 Volzhin, Alexander RUS 2521 6.5 34.5 8 Khenkin, Igor GER 2572 6.5 34.0 9 Mc Shane, Luke ENG 2531 6.5 34.0 10 Hector, Jonny SWE 2528 6.5 34.0 11 Ernst, Thomas SWE 2436 6.5 32.5 12 Ulibin, Michail RUS 2580 6.5 31.5 13 Åberg, Anton SWE 2388 6.5 31.0 14 Gleizerov, Evgenij RUS 2575 6.0 34.0 15 Åkesson, Ralf SWE 2437 6.0 34.0 16 Ivanov, Sergey RUS 2556 6.0 32.0 17 Eriksson, Johan SWE 2415 6.0 31.5 18 Bellon, Juan ESP 2442 6.0 31.0 19 Nybäck, Tomi FIN 2430 6.0 30.0 20 Lindberg, Bengt SWE 2341 6.0 30.0 21 Hunt, Adam ENG 2356 6.0 29.0 22 Guseinov, Gadir AZE 2489 6.0 28.0 23 Ahlander, Björn SWE 2426 6.0 27.0 131 players (From TWIC)