section outright with 9.5 points.

The 13th World Senior Championship was held 16-29 November 2003 in Bad Zwischenahn, Germany.IM Yuri Shabanov (Russia) won the 272-player open section 9.0/11 on tie-break over GM Janis Klovans (Latvia) and IM Vladimir Bukal (Croatia), and was therefore awarded the Grandmaster title. Khmiadashvili (Georgia) won the 22-player women's section 7.5/9 on tie-break