The 47th edition of the Ilmar Raud Memorial is taking place on July 1st-7th at the Viljandi Sports Center in Vaksali, Estonia. The event is played in memorial of the 100th birthday of member of the Estonian team that scored 3rd at the Chess Olympiad in Buenos Aires.
Individual Swiss system tournament in one group with 9 rounds. Each player will have 1 hour 30 minutes for the first 40 moves and 15 minutes for the rest of the game + 30 additional seconds after each move.
The event will be submitted for FIDE and Estonian Elo ratings.
The prizes are as following: 1st – 1.500 Euros; 2nd – 1.000 Euros; 3rd – 700 Euros; 4th – 400 Euros, etc.
A total amount of 70 players are participating, they come from nine different countries. Ten grandmasters and eight International Masters are among them. Veterans Alexander Khalifman and Jaan Ehlvest are the first seeds.
Jaan Ehlvest (photo by Michael Atkins)
Participants:
| 1 | GM | Khalifman Alexander | RUS | 2630 |
| 2 | GM | Ehlvest Jaan | USA | 2623 |
| 3 | GM | Kulaots Kaido | EST | 2581 |
| 4 | IM | Kovalev Vladislav | BLR | 2558 |
| 5 | GM | Neiksans Arturs | LAT | 2554 |
| 6 | GM | Miezis Normunds | LAT | 2549 |
| 7 | GM | Kanep Meelis | EST | 2512 |
| 8 | GM | Volodin Aleksandr | EST | 2485 |
| 9 | GM | Kveinys Aloyzas | LTU | 2479 |
| 10 | IM | Krivonosov Oleg | LAT | 2471 |
| 11 | GM | Shvyrjov Igor | EST | 2461 |
| 12 | IM | Sepp Olav | EST | 2442 |
| 13 | GM | Sriram Jha | IND | 2437 |
| 14 | IM | Agopov Mikael | FIN | 2429 |
| 15 | IM | Sipila Vilka | FIN | 2423 |
| 16 | IM | Lauk Ular | EST | 2403 |
| 17 | IM | Berzinsh Roland | LAT | 2400 |
| 18 | IM | Seeman Tarvo | EST | 2376 |
| 19 | FM | Shishkov Andrei | EST | 2375 |
| 20 | Ladva Ottomar | EST | 2310 | |
| 21 | FM | Narva Jaan | EST | 2300 |
| 22 | Krupenski Juri | EST | 2299 | |
| 23 | Bernotas Arturs | LAT | 2281 | |
| 24 | Soskov Vjatsheslav | EST | 2278 | |
| 25 | WIM | Fomina Tatyana | EST | 2222 |
| 26 | Korstin Maris | EST | 2222 | |
| 27 | Valner Uku | EST | 2215 | |
| 28 | Kukk Sander | EST | 2201 | |
| 29 | Dubrovin Robert | EST | 2197 | |
| 30 | Kanep Siim | EST | 2183 | |
| 31 | Koop Vyacheslav | EST | 2181 | |
| 32 | Kuusk Andres | EST | 2154 | |
| 33 | Starcevs Dmitrijs | LAT | 2139 | |
| 34 | Soot Margus | EST | 2116 | |
| 35 | WIM | Tsiganova Monika | EST | 2110 |
| 36 | WCM | Narva Triin | EST | 2083 |
| 37 | Tuul Tarmo | EST | 2062 | |
| 38 | Teemae Leo | EST | 2052 | |
| 39 | WFM | Narva Regina R. | EST | 2048 |
| 40 | Sirosh Ilja | EST | 2033 | |
| 41 | Tominga Eke | EST | 1993 | |
| 42 | Kastelijn Toine | NED | 1971 | |
| 43 | Bondarenko Dmitry | RUS | 1952 | |
| 44 | Petrov Dmitri | EST | 1889 | |
| 45 | Chukavin Kirill | EST | 1871 | |
| 46 | Narva Mai | EST | 1854 | |
| 47 | Golubeva Marija | LAT | 1817 | |
| 48 | Lumiste Rene | EST | 1768 | |
| 49 | Bouwmans Erik | NED | 1763 | |
| 50 | Akkanen Timo | FIN | 1751 | |
| 51 | Saag Enith Li | EST | 1715 | |
| 52 | Telenius Kimmo | FIN | 1682 | |
| 53 | Nero Georg | EST | 1666 | |
| 54 | Peebo Kalle | EST | 0 | |
| 55 | Taliharm Andrus | EST | 0 | |
| 56 | Ruus Rein | EST | 0 | |
| 57 | Luht Vello | EST | 0 | |
| 58 | Raudsepp Teet | EST | 0 | |
| 59 | Viikmaa Karmen | EST | 0 | |
| 60 | Urgas Jaan | EST | 0 | |
| 61 | Tobre Andres | EST | 0 | |
| 62 | Tominga Ago | EST | 0 | |
| 63 | Komlev Heino | EST | 0 | |
| 64 | Staub Madis | EST | 0 | |
| 65 | Polendik Tiina | EST | 0 | |
| 66 | Tonso Liina | EST | 0 | |
| 67 | Pedoson Georg Aleksander | EST | 0 | |
| 68 | Orlov Roman | EST | 0 | |
| 69 | Vainula Rene | EST | 0 | |
| 70 | Merendi Elisabeth | EST | 0 | |
