The 2nd International Chess Festival Riga Technical University Open will take place on August 5th-11th 2013. The event will be played in the mentioned University, located at 1 Kalku Street, Riga, Latvia (City Centre, Old Town).
The total prize fund is planned to be 7 700 LVL (11 000 EUR) for all tournaments.
There will be four tournaments played simultaneously:
Tournament A: Swiss System, 9 rounds, August 5-11, open for all players. The tournament will have GM, IM, WGM and WIM norms. The time control will be 90 minutes per game per player + 30 seconds per move starting from move 1.
Tournament B: Swiss System, 9 rounds, August 5-11, open for players with an Elo rating below 2099 and a Latvian rating below 2199.
Tournament C will be an amateur event and Tournament D a blitz event that will be played on August 11th.
Last year winner was GM Jan Markos.
Registered players:
1 | GM | Mchedlishvili Mikheil | GEO | 2640 |
2 | GM | Miezis Normunds | LAT | 2596 |
3 | GM | Kulaots Kaido | EST | 2587 |
4 | GM | Popovic Dusan | SRB | 2574 |
5 | GM | Burmakin Vladimir | RUS | 2565 |
6 | GM | Sedlak Nikola | SRB | 2562 |
7 | GM | Kunin Vitaly | GER | 2525 |
8 | IM | Popilski Gil | ISR | 2518 |
9 | IM | Raznikov Danny | ISR | 2469 |
10 | IM | Carlstedt Jonathan | GER | 2357 |
11 | FM | Kantans Toms | LAT | 2355 |
12 | FM | Lavendelis Egons | LAT | 2340 |
13 | WGM | Rogule Laura | LAT | 2306 |
14 | Kalnins Kristaps | LAT | 2280 | |
15 | WIM | Skinke Katrina | LAT | 2207 |
16 | WGM | Erneste Inguna | LAT | 2189 |
17 | Mierins Eriks | LAT | 2105 |
