The 2012 edition of the Spanish club chess championship CECLUB Division de Honor is starting today in Leon, Spain. A total of 85 players and 8 clubs, with more than 60 titled players are participating. Top rated are Grandmasters Ruslan Ponomariov, Leinier Dominguez, Anish Giri, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Ivan Cheparinov, Laurent Fressinet, and Etienne Bacrot, all of them in the 2700 club. Other top players include Rustam Kasimdzhanov, Pentala Harikrishna, Loek Van Wely, Romain Edouard, Gabriel Sargissian, Eduardo Iturrizaga, Christian Bauer, Mikheil Mchedlishvili, Parimarjan Negi, Hicham Hamdouchi, Surya Shekhar Ganguly, Alexandr Shimanov, Anton Kovalyov, etc.
Full list of participants here
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