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136th MGU Open Sofia to be held in February

logo MGU SofiaThe 136th MGU Open 2015 is scheduled to take place on 14-15th February, 2015, at Chess Club MGU, in Sofia, capital and largest city of Bulgaria.

The event is organized in honor of the first World champion for women Vera Menchik (born 16th February, 1906, in Moscow, Russia).

The event will be organized by FA Dimitar Iliev under the auspices of the University of mining and geology “St Ivan Rilski” Sofia,  Chess Club “An Pasan” and “Zora” Trading Company in a 6-round Swiss FIDE format, open to all players rated below 2200 and it will be valid for FIDE and national rating.

The tempo of play is 60′ + 30″.

Contacts:
FA Dimitar Iliev
Tel.: +359 888 955 542
E-mail: mitkoiliev@gmail.com

 

 

Tournament schedule:

Saturday, 14tht January, 2015
11:30 – 11:45
11:45 Technical meeting
12:00 – 15:00 Round 1
15:01-18:01 Round 2
18:02 – 21:02 Round 3

Sunday, 15th February, 2015
11:00 – 14:00 Round 4
14:01 – 17:01 Round 5
17:02 – 20:02 Round 6
20:05 Closing ceremony and blitz tournament

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Preliminary list of players:

1 Metev Martin BUL 2004
2 Bozilov Dragan SRB 1951
3 NM Andreev Dobrotich BUL 1945
4 Mladenov Andrey BUL 1843
5 Iliev Alexandar BUL 1735
6 Kosturkov Krasimir BUL 1700
7 Petrov Anton BUL 1625
8 Georgiev Nikolay BUL 1606
9 Grabcheva Natalia BUL 1545
10 Tenev Bogdan BUL 1332
11 Neycheva Monika Vladimirova USA 0
12 Hadzhiev Ognyan BUL 0
13 Damyanov Boris BUL 0
14 Markov Ivan BUL 0
15 Stathopoulos Fotios GRE 0

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