Inching toward the GM title

Texas Tech Knight Raider IM Gabor Papp is closing on his third and final GM norm in Croatia. After 8 (of 9) rounds, his performance is 2642. He needs a draw against GM Brkić Ante with Black in the final round to clinch his GM title.

If he is successful, he would be the 3rd Texas Tech Knight Raider in the past 6 months to become a GM (Davorin Kuljasevic and Gergely Antal).

Here are his results so far:

Kolo	SNo		Ime	RtgI	FED	Bod.	Rez.	we	w-we	K	rtg+/-
1	41	FM	Đurović Goran	2328	CRO	4,0	s 1	0,76	0,24	10	2,40
2	3	GM	Stević Hrvoje	2621	CRO	4,5	w ½	0,37	0,13	10	1,30
3	5	GM	Kovačević Aleksandar	2594	SRB	5,5	s ½	0,41	0,09	10	0,90
4	10	GM	Sedlak Nikola	2546	SRB	5,0	w 1	0,47	0,53	10	5,30
5	1	GM	Berkes Ferenc	2680	HUN	5,5	s 0	0,29	-0,29	10	-2,90
6	2	GM	Predojević Borki	2632	BIH	5,5	w ½	0,36	0,14	10	1,40
7	23	IM	Kovačević Blažimir	2447	CRO	4,0	s 1	0,61	0,39	10	3,90
8	14	GM	Jovanović Zoran	2527	CRO	5,5	w ½	0,50	0,00	10	0,00
9	8	GM	Brkić Ante	2564	CRO	4,5	s

Full tournament results here: http://www.crochess.com/turniri/zadar/10/index.shtm