The 87° Campeonato Argentino Absoluto de Ajedrez 2012 is taking place on 3-14 April at the Círculo de Ajedrez de Villa Martelli, Laprida 3837, Villa Martelli, Vte. López, Bs.As.
The event is a 11-round Swiss open with a time control of 90 minutes for the whole game plus 30 seconds increments from the first move.
The first prizes are distributed as follows (in pesos): 1st – 6.000; 2nd – 4.400; 3rd – 3.600; 4th – 3.200, etc.
First seed is GM Diego Flores, followed by GM Sandro Mareco, GM Diego Valerga, last year champion Martin Lorenzini and GM Federico Perez Ponsa.
53 players have signed up to participate; 26 of them are titled.
Full information at the Spanish/Latin version of Chessdom
Participants:
| 1 | GM | Flores Diego | ARG | 2600 |
| 2 | GM | Mareco Sandro | ARG | 2580 |
| 3 | GM | Valerga Diego | ARG | 2502 |
| 4 | Lorenzini Martin | ARG | 2488 | |
| 5 | GM | Perez Ponsa Federico | ARG | 2476 |
| 6 | IM | Iermito Sebastian | ARG | 2463 |
| 7 | IM | Real De Azua Ernesto | ARG | 2450 |
| 8 | GM | Slipak Sergio | ARG | 2438 |
| 9 | IM | Diaz Hollemaert Nahuel | ARG | 2418 |
| 10 | IM | Dolezal Cristian | ARG | 2415 |
| 11 | IM | Liascovich Lucas | ARG | 2410 |
| 12 | IM | Villanueva Mario | ARG | 2379 |
| 13 | IM | Krysa Leandro | ARG | 2378 |
| 14 | FM | Julia Ernesto | ARG | 2374 |
| 15 | IM | Mahia Gustavo | ARG | 2371 |
| 16 | IM | Lujan Carolina | ARG | 2366 |
| 17 | IM | Giardelli Sergio C. | ARG | 2346 |
| 18 | FM | Fabian Gaston | ARG | 2336 |
| 19 | FM | Pichot Alan | ARG | 2327 |
| 20 | IM | Della Morte German | ARG | 2318 |
| 21 | FM | Cuevas Alex | ARG | 2298 |
| 22 | FM | Perez Maximiliano | ARG | 2298 |
| 23 | IM | Bielicki Carlos | ARG | 2297 |
| 24 | IM | Barrionuevo Pablo | ARG | 2269 |
| 25 | FM | Perez Pietronave Carlos | ARG | 2203 |
| 26 | IM | Malbran Guillermo | ARG | 2198 |
| 27 | Ferrara Alexis | ARG | 2195 | |
| 28 | Pineiro Dario | ARG | 2194 | |
| 29 | Bertaccini Daniel | ARG | 2176 | |
| 30 | Fiori Hector | ARG | 2171 | |
| 31 | Villarreal Hector | ARG | 2169 | |
| 32 | Fiori Alberto Nicolas | ARG | 2128 | |
| 33 | Mayo Raul | ARG | 2112 | |
| 34 | FM | Bulcourf Carlos | ARG | 2106 |
| 35 | Arguinariz Enrique | ARG | 2082 | |
| 36 | Paternoste Martin | ARG | 2076 | |
| 37 | Mansilla Martin | ARG | 2071 | |
| 38 | Montoro Gustavo E. | ARG | 2050 | |
| 39 | Lopez Rebert Pablo | ARG | 2049 | |
| 40 | Franco Gaston | ARG | 2042 | |
| 41 | Galleto Ricardo | ARG | 2014 | |
| 42 | Lopez Sebastian | ARG | 2013 | |
| 43 | Radoszta Armando E. | ARG | 1998 | |
| 44 | Maldonado Marcos | ARG | 1991 | |
| 45 | Tomas Falcon Jesus | ARG | 1896 | |
| 46 | Rivero Raul | ARG | 1892 | |
| 47 | Brea Emanuel | ARG | 1880 | |
| 48 | Leal Jorge | ARG | 1863 | |
| 49 | Ferrara Enzo | ARG | 1800 | |
| 50 | Sanchez Gabriel | ARG | 1686 | |
| 51 | Jorge Hector | ARG | 0 | |
| 52 | Martin Mateo | ARG | 0 | |
| 53 | Nieva Jose Luis | ARG | 2039 |
