The Absolute Zonal Championship of Zone 2.4 will be held from April 27th to May 3rd 2013 at the Hotel Tropical, Ponta Negra Manaus – Brazil.
The countries that belong to this zone are Brazil, Bolivia and Peru. The tournament will provide two spots at the next World Cup.
The event will be a 9-round Swiss open. The time control will be 90 minutes for the game plus 30 seconds increments per move starting from move 1.
69 players are already registered to participate. Most of the players are from Brazil, and they are headed by GM Rafael Leitao, GM Alexandr Fier and current national champion GM Krikor Sevag Mekhitarian. Peru will be represented by four participants, including GM Jorge Cori and ex-junior world champion WGM Deysi Cori. Bolivia will only send one player, FM Jorge Molina.
GM Krikor Sevag Mekhitarian
Registered players:
| 1 | GM | Leitao Rafael | BRA | 2618 |
| 2 | GM | Fier Alexandr | BRA | 2604 |
| 3 | GM | Mekhitarian Krikor Sevag | BRA | 2548 |
| 4 | GM | Cori Jorge | PER | 2546 |
| 5 | IM | Di Berardino Diego Rafael | BRA | 2499 |
| 6 | WGM | Cori T. Deysi | PER | 2430 |
| 7 | FM | Supi Luis Paulo | BRA | 2321 |
| 8 | FM | Quintiliano Pinto Renato R. | BRA | 2315 |
| 9 | FM | Cavalcanti Francisco De Assis | BRA | 2296 |
| 10 | CM | Proudian Armen | BRA | 2271 |
| 11 | FM | Brito Luismar | BRA | 2263 |
| 12 | FM | Reis Renan Do Carmo | BRA | 2243 |
| 13 | NM | Costa Carlos Evanir | BRA | 2237 |
| 14 | Gallo Ponce Elbert | PER | 2233 | |
| 15 | Miranda Jr Roberto Calheiros | BRA | 2200 | |
| 16 | FM | Andrade Roberto Luiz Costa | BRA | 2198 |
| 17 | Carvalho Herbert Abreu | BRA | 2182 | |
| 18 | Sztokbant Bernardo Vainzoff | BRA | 2181 | |
| 19 | Borges Wagner Da Silva | BRA | 2178 | |
| 20 | Souza Rafael Cabral De | BRA | 2170 | |
| 21 | Souza Neves Andrey M. | BRA | 2159 | |
| 22 | WFM | Chumpitaz Ann | PER | 2155 |
| 23 | FM | Molina Jorge | BOL | 2153 |
| 24 | Patroclo Arthur Ruiz | BRA | 2132 | |
| 25 | Ferreira Kleber Victor | BRA | 2118 | |
| 26 | Zallio Luciano De Souza | BRA | 2116 | |
| 27 | Baeta Marcio Netto | BRA | 2113 | |
| 28 | Lima Endson Dos Santos | BRA | 2076 | |
| 29 | Lopes Janio Ribeiro | BRA | 2076 | |
| 30 | Farias Sergio Roberto Alves | BRA | 2061 | |
| 31 | Barbosa Celio Oliveira | BRA | 2056 | |
| 32 | Macedo Jr Levy Salviano De | BRA | 2041 | |
| 33 | De Oliveira Victor Gabriel C. | BRA | 2027 | |
| 34 | Moraes Admir Gomes De | BRA | 2019 | |
| 35 | Da Paz Leonardo Gadelha | BRA | 2004 | |
| 36 | Rocha Roberto Da Costa | BRA | 2001 | |
| 37 | Da Silva Mikhail Zoltan Iwano | BRA | 1998 | |
| 38 | Rezende Guilherme Vilela | BRA | 1994 | |
| 39 | Stone Ronnie Frank Pires | BRA | 1993 | |
| 40 | Zimmermann Kleber Renato P. | BRA | 1984 | |
| 41 | Souza Santos Carlos Roberto | BRA | 1977 | |
| 42 | WFM | Chang Suzana | BRA | 1972 |
| 43 | Bezerra Fabiano De Oliveira | BRA | 1955 | |
| 44 | Minelli Fausto | BRA | 1940 | |
| 45 | Pessoa Hudson Anselmo | BRA | 1930 | |
| 46 | Ferreira Jose Carlos | BRA | 1912 | |
| 47 | Gutierrez Enrique Alberto Soto | BRA | 1904 | |
| 48 | Lima Marcos Antonio Dos Santos | BRA | 1900 | |
| 49 | Borensztajn David | BRA | 1886 | |
| 50 | De Oliveira Freitas Reinier Al | BRA | 1881 | |
| 51 | Boabaid Jorge Alberto Duardes | BRA | 1866 | |
| 52 | De Pontes E Souza Jose Geraldo | BRA | 1834 | |
| 53 | Benayon Elismar Da Silva | BRA | 1808 | |
| 54 | Arruda Filho Ivo Pereira De | BRA | 1795 | |
| 55 | Da Silva Filho Ibernon Luiz | BRA | 1721 | |
| 56 | Farias Igor Borge Cardoso | BRA | 1702 | |
| 57 | Bidigaray Marcio | BRA | 1692 | |
| 58 | Farias Sergio Luiz Cardoso | BRA | 1537 | |
| 59 | Bernardino Hugo Barros | BRA | 0 | |
| 60 | Braga Neto Antenor De Carvalh | BRA | 0 | |
| 61 | Da Silva Lucivaldo Freire | BRA | 0 | |
| 62 | Dos Santos Jessica Souza | BRA | 0 | |
| 63 | Dos Santos Wesley Cesar Reis | BRA | 0 | |
| 64 | Guerreiro Alexandre Vieira | BRA | 0 | |
| 65 | Silva Gustavo Da Nobrega | BRA | 0 | |
| 66 | Silva Leandro Da Nobrega | BRA | 0 | |
| 67 | Silva Miguel Zadorosny | BRA | 0 | |
| 68 | Silveira Lorensen Willer Soar | BRA | 0 | |
| 69 | Souza De Melo Hecio | BRA | 0 | |
