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Suárez gets a grandmaster norm
There were big rating favourites both in the IM and the WGM tournaments, while the strongest, the GM event, did not have a player clearly above the rest rating-wise. Noël Studer from Switzerland was the top seed, but losses in rounds 1, 5 and 6 left him out of the podium with a 5/9 score.
It was second seed Alexandr Fier, from Brazil, who ended up atop the standings tied with IM Julio Suárez Gómez — the latter obtained a grandmaster norm. The young player from Galicia won four games and only lost against Vladislav Nevednichy to get as many points as Fier — he also had a better second tiebreaker (the first one, direct confrontation, was tied as they drew their game).