A view of the beach and hotel complexes
The 2nd edition of the Grand Europe Golden Sands Open 2013 is set to take place on 10th-18th June at the Golden Sands resort in Bulgaria.
The event will begin right after the Grand Europe Open 2013. A big amount of GMs will take this chance to participate in both events.
The event, organized by the Chess Club Bankya and the Bulgarian Chess Federation, will be a 9 round Swiss open with a time control of 90 min. with an increment of 30 seconds per move, starting from move one. It will be valid for GM/IM norms.
The prize fund amounts to 40,000 Euros guaranteed regardless of the number of participants. It will be distributed as follows: 1st place – 6,000 Euros; 2nd place – 4,500 Euros; 3rd place – 3,500 Euros, etc.
Nine GMs and eight IMs have already signed up to participate. The first seeds so far are Bulgarian Ivan Cheparinov, Indian Abhijeet Gupta, Argentinian Sandro Mareco, Bulgarian Boris Chatalbasev and Brazilian champion Krikor Sevag Mekhitarian.
Registered players:
| 1 | GM | Cheparinov Ivan | BUL | 2702 |
| 2 | GM | Gupta Abhijeet | IND | 2591 |
| 3 | GM | Mareco Sandro | ARG | 2580 |
| 4 | GM | Chatalbashev Boris | BUL | 2553 |
| 5 | GM | Mekhitarian Krikor Sevag | BRA | 2548 |
| 6 | GM | Sveshnikov Evgeny | LAT | 2534 |
| 7 | GM | Drenchev Petar | BUL | 2490 |
| 8 | IM | Kohlweyer Bernd | GER | 2476 |
| 9 | IM | Ashwin Jayaram | IND | 2472 |
| 10 | IM | Smith Bryan G | USA | 2465 |
| 11 | IM | Mammadov Zaur | AZE | 2446 |
| 12 | IM | Galinsky Timofey | UKR | 2416 |
| 13 | GM | Sanduleac Vasile | MDA | 2410 |
| 14 | IM | Molina Roberto Junio Brito | BRA | 2402 |
| 15 | WGM | Sukandar Irine Kharisma | INA | 2388 |
| 16 | GM | Spassov Liuben | BUL | 2335 |
| 17 | FM | Friedrichs Klaus | GER | 2291 |
| 18 | FM | Abdalla Luiz Guilherme Aurell | BRA | 2288 |
| 19 | IM | Todorov Ognjan | BUL | 2285 |
| 20 | WGM | Dolzhikova Olga | NOR | 2270 |
| 21 | WGM | Velcheva Maria | BUL | 2262 |
| 22 | Yakimenko Alexander A. | RUS | 2221 | |
| 23 | Tscharotschkin Michael | GER | 2217 | |
| 24 | Limbourg Philipp Dr. | GER | 2206 | |
| 25 | FM | Kiselev Alexander S. | RUS | 2204 |
| 26 | Mladenov Emil | BUL | 2119 | |
| 27 | IM | Matorin Evgeny | RUS | 2099 |
| 28 | Mihoubi Saad | ALG | 2088 | |
| 29 | Memarian Milad | IRI | 2057 | |
| 30 | Taylor Robert Graham | WLS | 1966 | |
| 31 | Drogovoz Irina | RUS | 1965 | |
| 32 | Mammadova Narmin | AZE | 1953 | |
| 33 | Drogovoz Maria | RUS | 1879 | |
| 34 | Galinskyi Mykhalo | UKR | 1477 | |
| 35 | Swapnil S. Dhopade | IND | 0 | |
