The 27th International Chess Winter Open at Cannes will take place from February 25th to March 3rd at the playing venue Lerins, which is overlooking the bay of Cannes.
There will be three sections:
– Tournament A for players with a 2200+ Elo rating
– Tournament B for players with a rating lower than 2100 (The players with a rating between 2100 and 2200 can choose to participate on Tournament A or B)
– Tournament C for players with a rating lower than 1600
There are 50 registered players for the main Open. French GM Vladislav Tkachiev is top rated and he will be joined by another 10 strong Grandmasters. Among them Viorel Iordachescu, Eltaj Safarli, Ruben Felgaer, Michele Godena, etc.
The winner of the tournament will take home 2,200 Euros.
Last year winner was GM Evgeny Romanov
Registered players – Tournament A:
1 | g | TKACHIEV Vladislav | 2659 | FRA |
2 | g | IORDACHESCU Viorel | 2637 | MDA |
3 | g | SAFARLI Eltaj | 2626 | AZE |
4 | g | DEGRAEVE Jean-Marc | 2584 | FRA |
5 | g | FELGAER Ruben | 2571 | ARG |
6 | g | SANCHEZ Joseph | 2533 | PHI |
7 | g | DOBROV Vladimir | 2524 | RUS |
8 | g | GODENA Michele | 2519 | ITA |
9 | g | ORATOVSKY Michael | 2510 | ISR |
10 | g | SKORCHENKO Dmitriy | 2507 | RUS |
11 | g | FLEAR Glenn C | 2479 | ENG |
12 | m | AKSHAYRAJ Kore | 2463 | IND |
13 | m | ROMBALDONI Axel | 2449 | ITA |
14 | m | BATTAGLINI Gabriel | 2442 | FRA |
15 | m | PRASANNA RAGHURAM RA | 2419 | IND |
16 | m | LEKIC Dusan | 2411 | MNE |
17 | f | VELTEN Paul | 2392 | FRA |
18 | m | PHILIPPE Christophe | 2391 | FRA |
19 | m | BEJTOVIC Jasmin | 2387 | BIH |
20 | GIROYAN Gary | 2382 | FRA | |
21 | m | DEBRAY Christopher | 2366 | FRA |
22 | ABELLO Sebastien | 2355 | FRA | |
23 | f | CODENOTTI Marco | 2352 | ITA |
24 | MIDOUX Sebastien | 2327 | FRA | |
25 | f | BRESSAC Stephane | 2304 | FRA |
26 | f | FAVAREL Antoine | 2303 | FRA |
27 | f | DIMITROV Christo | 2289 | FRA |
28 | PULITO Alberto | 2277 | ITA | |
29 | FRICK Christoph | 2264 | GER | |
30 | f | KHOURI Ibrahim Mohamed | 2252 | UAE |
31 | f | ROBIN Samy | 2250 | FRA |
32 | f | LAMARD Guillaume | 2246 | FRA |
33 | AGHAYEV Miragha | 2245 | ITA | |
34 | BARLETTA Mauro | 2233 | ITA | |
35 | mf | SIROTKINA Nina | 2224 | RUS |
36 | PESCE Gabriele | 2219 | ITA | |
37 | SARDO Gabriele | 2198 | ITA | |
38 | VILLEGAS Pierre | 2190 | MNC | |
39 | MALKA Samuel | 2181 | FRA | |
40 | GELAS Christophe | 2179 | FRA | |
41 | f | WEILL Roland | 2172 | FRA |
42 | mf | FLEAR Christine | 2156 | FRA |
43 | IAGAR Razvan-Gabriel | 2149 | ROU | |
44 | IVANOVA Tatiana | 2149 | RUS | |
45 | SORCINELLI Francesco | 2134 | ITA | |
46 | MALEKI Nicolas | 2118 | FRA | |
47 | MURATET Lucas | 2118 | FRA | |
48 | ff | UTA Adeline-Ramona | 2064 | ROU |
49 | CAYLA Jonathan | 2042 | FRA | |
50 | LEVESQUE Thomas | 2041 | FRA |
