The 50th Annual World Chess Open takes place from June 30th to July 4th at Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown. The event is played in 8 sections, with the total prize fund of more than 100.000$ and participation of around 1100 players.
The top seeds of the main Open event are: GM Lazaro Bruzon Batista, GM Mikhail Antipov and GM Aleksandr Lenderman, and the winner of the event will pocket the money prize of 20.000$. Chessdom.com will daily broadcast the top-board games.
The event is played in 9 swiss rounds, with time control of 90 minutes for 40 moves + 30 minutes for the rest of the game, plus 30 seconds of an increment per each move, starting from the move one.
The 1st round is schedule to start today at 19:00 GMT-4.
