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.
The playing hall during last year's edition
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 |
