The International Chess Festival “Mikhail Chigorin Memorial” 2014 is taking place on 17-26th October 2014 at Hotel “Park” in Saint Petersburg, the second largest city in Russia.
The event is a 9-round Swiss Open with prize fund in the amount of 1.800.000 RUB (nearly 35.000 €).
The preliminary list of players consists of 412 players with top seeded GM Maxim Matlakov (2692), GM Evgeny Alekseev (2682), GM Denis Khismatullin (2681), GM Maxim Rodshtein (2578), GM Boris Grachev (2673), GM Sanan Sjugirov (2664), GM Ilia Smirin (2655).
