Dmitry Jakovenko is the defending champion and first seed
The European Individual Chess Championship 2013 will be held in Legnica, Poland from May 4 (day of arrival) until May 17 (day of departure) 2013. The tournament will be held at Qubus Hotel 4*.
You can expect live games with computer analysis and daily reports on Chessdom.com.
The applications to participate are already closed. A total of 237 titled players are registered, including 142 GMs and 66 IMs. See list of participants below.
It is a qualification event for the next World Cup. According to FIDE regulations and the decision of the ECU Board, 23 players will qualify.
The championship will be organized in 11-round Swiss system in accordance with the ECU Tournament Rules and FIDE Laws of Chess. The rate of play will be 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an increment of 30 seconds per move, starting from move one.
Players may only agree to a draw after the 40th move has been made by black. Zero–tolerance rule will be applied for each round.
The prize fund amounts to 100.000 Euros, with 14.000 Euros reserved for the winner.
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
Registered players:
| 1 | GM | JAKOVENKO Dmitry | RUS | 2734 |
| 2 | GM | TOMASHEVSKY Evgeny | RUS | 2722 |
| 3 | GM | VACHIER-LAGRAVE Maxime | FRA | 2722 |
| 4 | GM | NEPOMNIACHTCHI Ian | RUS | 2708 |
| 5 | GM | ARESHCHENKO Alexander | UKR | 2707 |
| 6 | GM | NAVARA David | CZE | 2706 |
| 7 | GM | AKOPIAN Vladimir | ARM | 2704 |
| 8 | GM | ELJANOV Pavel | UKR | 2703 |
| 9 | GM | MOISEENKO Alexander | UKR | 2703 |
| 10 | GM | CHEPARINOV Ivan | BUL | 2702 |
| 11 | GM | WOJTASZEK Radoslaw | POL | 2700 |
| 12 | GM | KOROBOV Anton | UKR | 2698 |
| 13 | GM | EFIMENKO Zahar | UKR | 2697 |
| 14 | GM | ALEKSEEV Evgeny | RUS | 2695 |
| 15 | GM | MOVSESIAN Sergei | ARM | 2695 |
| 16 | GM | GRACHEV Boris | RUS | 2693 |
| 17 | GM | ALMASI Zoltan | HUN | 2689 |
| 18 | GM | NISIPEANU Liviu-Dieter | ROU | 2677 |
| 19 | GM | MOTYLEV Alexander | RUS | 2676 |
| 20 | GM | BERKES Ferenc | HUN | 2674 |
| 21 | GM | LAZNICKA Viktor | CZE | 2674 |
| 22 | GM | SUTOVSKY Emil | ISR | 2671 |
| 23 | GM | SARGISSIAN Gabriel | ARM | 2666 |
| 24 | GM | POTKIN Vladimir | RUS | 2665 |
| 25 | GM | PETROSIAN Tigran L. | ARM | 2663 |
| 26 | GM | RAGGER Markus | AUT | 2663 |
| 27 | GM | MAMEDOV Rauf | AZE | 2662 |
| 28 | GM | KHAIRULLIN Ildar | RUS | 2660 |
| 29 | GM | ZVJAGINSEV Vadim | RUS | 2658 |
| 30 | GM | GEORGIEV Kiril | BUL | 2657 |
| 31 | GM | SJUGIROV Sanan | RUS | 2657 |
| 32 | GM | ZHIGALKO Sergei | BLR | 2656 |
| 33 | GM | DREEV Aleksey | RUS | 2654 |
| 34 | GM | GAJEWSKI Grzegorz | POL | 2653 |
| 35 | GM | IVANISEVIC Ivan | SRB | 2653 |
| 36 | GM | FRIDMAN Daniel | GER | 2652 |
| 37 | GM | MEIER Georg | GER | 2652 |
| 38 | GM | SOCKO Bartosz | POL | 2651 |
| 39 | GM | KURNOSOV Igor | RUS | 2649 |
| 40 | GM | BALOGH Csaba | HUN | 2648 |
| 41 | GM | ISTRATESCU Andrei | FRA | 2648 |
| 42 | GM | SAFARLI Eltaj | AZE | 2644 |
| 43 | GM | LYSYJ Igor | RUS | 2641 |
| 44 | GM | RODSHTEIN Maxim | ISR | 2639 |
| 45 | GM | SHIMANOV Aleksandr | RUS | 2639 |
| 46 | GM | BELIAVSKY Alexander G | SLO | 2637 |
| 47 | GM | POSTNY Evgeny | ISR | 2635 |
| 48 | GM | L’AMI Erwin | NED | 2634 |
| 49 | GM | MELKUMYAN Hrant | ARM | 2634 |
| 50 | GM | TKACHIEV Vladislav | FRA | 2632 |
| 51 | GM | STEVIC Hrvoje | CRO | 2631 |
| 52 | GM | NYZHNYK Illya | UKR | 2630 |
| 53 | GM | HRACEK Zbynek | CZE | 2627 |
| 54 | GM | POPOV Ivan | RUS | 2627 |
| 55 | GM | LUPULESCU Constantin | ROU | 2626 |
| 56 | GM | GUSEINOV Gadir | AZE | 2623 |
| 57 | GM | ROIZ Michael | ISR | 2623 |
| 58 | GM | BARTEL Mateusz | POL | 2619 |
| 59 | GM | LENIC Luka | SLO | 2617 |
| 60 | GM | VALLEJO PONS Francisco | ESP | 2617 |
| 61 | GM | GRIGORYAN Avetik | ARM | 2616 |
| 62 | GM | KOZUL Zdenko | CRO | 2616 |
| 63 | GM | SARIC Ivan | CRO | 2616 |
| 64 | GM | TIMOFEEV Artyom | RUS | 2616 |
| 65 | GM | DUBOV Daniil | RUS | 2614 |
| 66 | GM | KHALIFMAN Alexander | RUS | 2614 |
| 67 | GM | ANDRIASIAN Zaven | ARM | 2608 |
| 68 | GM | MASTROVASILIS Dimitrios | GRE | 2608 |
| 69 | GM | HOVHANNISYAN Robert | ARM | 2607 |
| 70 | GM | ROMANOV Evgeny | RUS | 2606 |
| 71 | GM | NYBACK Tomi | FIN | 2604 |
| 72 | GM | PELLETIER Yannick | SUI | 2604 |
| 73 | GM | PASHIKIAN Arman | ARM | 2603 |
| 74 | GM | MAMEDOV Nidjat | AZE | 2602 |
| 75 | GM | PARLIGRAS Mircea-Emilian | ROU | 2602 |
| 76 | GM | SALGADO LOPEZ Ivan | ESP | 2602 |
| 77 | GM | SOLAK Dragan | TUR | 2602 |
| 78 | GM | IORDACHESCU Viorel | MDA | 2599 |
| 79 | GM | KEMPINSKI Robert | POL | 2599 |
| 80 | GM | DURARBAYLI Vasif | AZE | 2597 |
| 81 | GM | KRAVTSIV Martyn | UKR | 2595 |
| 82 | GM | PONKRATOV Pavel | RUS | 2593 |
| 83 | GM | VOLKOV Sergey | RUS | 2593 |
| 84 | GM | RAKHMANOV Aleksandr | RUS | 2591 |
| 85 | GM | ZHIGALKO Andrey | BLR | 2590 |
| 86 | GM | BABULA Vlastimil | CZE | 2589 |
| 87 | GM | SVETUSHKIN Dmitry | MDA | 2588 |
| 88 | GM | GRIGORIANTS Sergey | RUS | 2585 |
| 89 | GM | ONISCHUK Vladimir | UKR | 2584 |
| 90 | GM | BRUNELLO Sabino | ITA | 2582 |
| 91 | GM | KULAOTS Kaido | EST | 2582 |
| 92 | GM | KOTRONIAS Vasilios | GRE | 2580 |
| 93 | GM | PAPP Gabor | HUN | 2580 |
| 94 | GM | KULJASEVIC Davorin | CRO | 2579 |
| 95 | GM | IPATOV Alexander | TUR | 2578 |
| 96 | GM | BRKIC Ante | CRO | 2575 |
| 97 | GM | RUCK Robert | HUN | 2573 |
| 98 | GM | ARIZMENDI MARTINEZ Julen Luis | ESP | 2572 |
| 99 | GM | KISLINSKY Alexey | CZE | 2565 |
| 100 | GM | MISTA Aleksander | POL | 2565 |
| 101 | GM | SANIKIDZE Tornike | GEO | 2559 |
| 102 | IM | GRIGORYAN Karen H. | ARM | 2559 |
| 103 | GM | MARKOWSKI Tomasz | POL | 2558 |
| 104 | GM | ESEN Baris | TUR | 2557 |
| 105 | GM | MIRZOEV Azer | AZE | 2557 |
| 106 | GM | HANDKE Florian | GER | 2556 |
| 107 | GM | JIANU Vlad-Cristian | ROU | 2555 |
| 108 | IM | TAZBIR Marcin | POL | 2555 |
| 109 | GM | MORANDA Wojciech | POL | 2554 |
| 110 | GM | OLEKSIENKO Mikhailo | UKR | 2554 |
| 111 | GM | ZOLER Dan | ISR | 2553 |
| 112 | IM | GOGANOV Aleksey | RUS | 2552 |
| 113 | GM | GRITSAK Orest | UKR | 2549 |
| 114 | GM | HALKIAS Stelios | GRE | 2549 |
| 115 | IM | PRIZANT Jaroslav | RUS | 2549 |
| 116 | GM | JOJUA Davit | GEO | 2548 |
| 117 | GM | SHENGELIA David | AUT | 2546 |
| 118 | GM | ZONTAKH Andrey | UKR | 2546 |
| 119 | GM | GULIYEV Namig | AZE | 2544 |
| 120 | GM | STOCEK Jiri | CZE | 2544 |
| 121 | GM | SHOMOEV Anton | RUS | 2543 |
| 122 | GM | GRANDELIUS Nils | SWE | 2542 |
| 123 | IM | DVIRNYY Danyyil | ITA | 2538 |
| 124 | GM | KRAEMER Martin | GER | 2537 |
| 125 | GM | MAIOROV Nikita | BLR | 2535 |
| 126 | GM | PAP Gyula | HUN | 2535 |
| 127 | GM | GORDON Stephen J | ENG | 2533 |
| 128 | GM | GABUZYAN Hovhannes | ARM | 2532 |
| 129 | GM | SEBENIK Matej | SLO | 2527 |
| 130 | GM | CYBOROWSKI Lukasz | POL | 2524 |
| 131 | IM | KOVALEV Vladislav | BLR | 2523 |
| 132 | GM | BUKAVSHIN Ivan | RUS | 2522 |
| 133 | GM | MASTROVASILIS Athanasios | GRE | 2514 |
| 134 | GM | HOLZKE Frank | GER | 2512 |
| 135 | GM | GODENA Michele | ITA | 2511 |
| 136 | IM | ARDELEAN George-Catalin | ROU | 2510 |
| 137 | GM | PETR Martin | CZE | 2508 |
| 138 | GM | GALLAGHER Joseph G. | SUI | 2507 |
| 139 | GM | ROMANISHIN Oleg M | UKR | 2504 |
| 140 | GM | AJRAPETJAN Yuriy | UKR | 2498 |
| 141 | GM | RASULOV Vugar | AZE | 2497 |
| 142 | IM | DUDA Jan-Krzysztof | POL | 2497 |
| 143 | GM | NEVEROV Valeriy | UKR | 2496 |
| 144 | GM | TRATAR Marko | SLO | 2492 |
| 145 | IM | DRAGUN Kamil | POL | 2492 |
| 146 | IM | SIMACEK Pavel | CZE | 2492 |
| 147 | IM | MATINIAN Nikita | RUS | 2491 |
| 148 | GM | USHENINA Anna | UKR | 2488 |
| 149 | GM | FODOR Tamas Jr. | HUN | 2485 |
| 150 | IM | MUZYCHUK Mariya | UKR | 2483 |
| 151 | IM | KANAREK Marcel | POL | 2482 |
| 152 | IM | MATSENKO Sergei | RUS | 2482 |
| 153 | PREDKE Alexandr | RUS | 2481 | |
| 154 | IM | PAEHTZ Elisabeth | GER | 2479 |
| 155 | IM | PAVLIDIS Antonios | GRE | 2479 |
| 156 | GM | DANIELIAN Elina | ARM | 2478 |
| 157 | GM | CAN Emre | TUR | 2477 |
| 158 | IM | ANTIPOV Mikhail Al. | RUS | 2473 |
| 159 | IM | BLUEBAUM Matthias | GER | 2471 |
| 160 | IM | EKSTROEM Roland | SUI | 2471 |
| 161 | IM | PACHER Milan | SVK | 2469 |
| 162 | IM | CERNOUSEK Lukas | CZE | 2468 |
| 163 | IM | KADRIC Denis | BIH | 2465 |
| 164 | IM | WAGNER Dennis | GER | 2464 |
| 165 | IM | NIGALIDZE Gaioz | GEO | 2456 |
| 166 | IM | PETENYI Tamas | SVK | 2452 |
| 167 | IM | SIPILA Vilka | FIN | 2452 |
| 168 | GM | THORHALLSSON Throstur | ISL | 2449 |
| 169 | IM | FAULAND Alexander | AUT | 2449 |
| 170 | IM | MAMMADOV Zaur | AZE | 2446 |
| 171 | FM | AGHASARYAN Robert | ARM | 2445 |
| 172 | IM | KJARTANSSON Gudmundur | ISL | 2443 |
| 173 | FM | MERIBANOV Vitaly | BLR | 2442 |
| 174 | IM | STACHOWIAK Kamil | POL | 2441 |
| 175 | IM | ANTON Teodor | ROU | 2438 |
| 176 | IM | PERUNOVIC Miodrag | SRB | 2434 |
| 177 | FM | SCHACHINGER Mario | AUT | 2433 |
| 178 | IM | DROZDOWSKI Kacper | POL | 2432 |
| 179 | IM | DIERMAIR Andreas | AUT | 2431 |
| 180 | IM | SKYTTE Rasmus | DEN | 2431 |
| 181 | IM | DONCHENKO Alexander | GER | 2428 |
| 182 | IM | KHAETSKY Roman | UKR | 2426 |
| 183 | IM | FIRAT Burak | TUR | 2421 |
| 184 | IM | KOLOSOWSKI Mateusz | POL | 2420 |
| 185 | SVANE Rasmus | GER | 2420 | |
| 186 | IM | LUBCZYNSKI Rafal | POL | 2419 |
| 187 | IM | GERBER Richard | SUI | 2416 |
| 188 | IM | CAPRIO Guido | ITA | 2413 |
| 189 | IM | PEDERSEN Nicolai Vesterbaek | DEN | 2413 |
| 190 | IM | RZAYEV Bahruz | AZE | 2411 |
| 191 | GOUMAS Georgios | GRE | 2410 | |
| 192 | IM | KANOVSKY David | CZE | 2409 |
| 193 | IM | KANTER Eduard | RUS | 2408 |
| 194 | IM | ZUEGER Beat | SUI | 2403 |
| 195 | IM | MAZUR Stefan | SVK | 2402 |
| 196 | IM | HAGEN Andreas Skytte | DEN | 2400 |
| 197 | IM | HNYDIUK Aleksander | POL | 2400 |
| 198 | IM | ZUDE Erik Dr. | GER | 2398 |
| 199 | IM | NEDILKO Vasily | UKR | 2396 |
| 200 | IM | BUTKIEWICZ Lukasz | POL | 2395 |
| 201 | IM | ARNGRIMSSON Dagur | ISL | 2392 |
| 202 | IM | MANEA Alexandru | ROU | 2389 |
| 203 | WGM | BULMAGA Irina | ROU | 2389 |
| 204 | FM | KRIEBEL Tadeas | CZE | 2389 |
| 205 | GM | ERNST Thomas | SWE | 2387 |
| 206 | IM | PETRISOR Adrian-Marian | ROU | 2387 |
| 207 | IM | ERTURAN Yakup | TUR | 2386 |
| 208 | IM | KREISL Robert | AUT | 2383 |
| 209 | IM | SCHROLL Gerhard | AUT | 2383 |
| 210 | IM | PASIEV Rakhim | RUS | 2379 |
| 211 | IM | MORCHIASHVILI Bachana | GEO | 2377 |
| 212 | WGM | ZAWADZKA Jolanta | POL | 2376 |
| 213 | LOMSADZE Davit | GEO | 2370 | |
| 214 | FM | IZZAT Kanan | AZE | 2367 |
| 215 | IM | VEDDER Henk | NED | 2365 |
| 216 | IM | KANTORIK Marian | SVK | 2364 |
| 217 | FM | PAVLIDIS Anastasios | GRE | 2360 |
| 218 | FM | TOMAZINI Zan | SLO | 2357 |
| 219 | STANCIU Alexandru-Ovidiu | ROU | 2356 | |
| 220 | FM | RINDLISBACHER Lars | SUI | 2352 |
| 221 | FM | ANTAL Tibor Kende | HUN | 2348 |
| 222 | FM | POSEDARU Bogdan | ROU | 2339 |
| 223 | WGM | YILDIZ Betul Cemre | TUR | 2325 |
| 224 | FM | BUCHAL Stephan | GER | 2325 |
| 225 | IM | VUILLEUMIER Alexandre | SUI | 2324 |
| 226 | FM | SZWED Jacek | POL | 2324 |
| 227 | FM | MAEVSKY Nikolay | RUS | 2323 |
| 228 | FM | SELBES Tarik | TUR | 2314 |
| 229 | WIM | WOREK Joanna | POL | 2312 |
| 230 | GOLUB Dan | MDA | 2305 | |
| 231 | WGM | TOMA Katarzyna | POL | 2304 |
| 232 | NASUTA Grzegorz | POL | 2299 | |
| 233 | IM | CHUDINOVSKIKH Alexander M | RUS | 2296 |
| 234 | WGM | PRZEZDZIECKA Marta | POL | 2286 |
| 235 | WGM | CHEREDNICHENKO Svetlana | UKR | 2274 |
| 236 | GAEHWILER Gabriel | SUI | 2273 | |
| 237 | DUMAN Aydin | TUR | 2265 | |
| 238 | FM | TATE Alan | SCO | 2258 |
| 239 | MUSIALKIEWICZ Jan | POL | 2256 | |
| 240 | SVANA Peter | SVK | 2255 | |
| 241 | FM | MINKO Vladimir | RUS | 2252 |
| 242 | PAPASIMAKOPOULOS Alexandros | GRE | 2242 | |
| 243 | FM | NIKOLAIDIS Konstantinos | GRE | 2238 |
| 244 | FM | SIMEONIDIS Ioannis | GRE | 2237 |
| 245 | ERDEN Kadir | TUR | 2232 | |
| 246 | RINDLISBACHER Jan | SUI | 2229 | |
| 247 | LEWTAK Damian | POL | 2224 | |
| 248 | YAKIMENKO Alexander A. | RUS | 2221 | |
| 249 | DUBINSKI Mateusz | POL | 2219 | |
| 250 | GOLUCH Piotr | POL | 2215 | |
| 251 | WIM | IWANOW Anna | POL | 2209 |
| 252 | WIM | PAVLIDOU Ekaterini | GRE | 2209 |
| 253 | SABUK Piotr | POL | 2206 | |
| 254 | LEIBER Bernard | GER | 2200 | |
| 255 | SZUMILAS Piotr | POL | 2198 | |
| 256 | HRISTODOULOU Panagiotis | GRE | 2197 | |
| 257 | MATSENKO Andrei | RUS | 2191 | |
| 258 | MARJANOVIC Dejan | BIH | 2186 | |
| 259 | HUBER Martin Christian | AUT | 2182 | |
| 260 | DEAC Bogdan-Daniel | ROU | 2169 | |
| 261 | WFM | CHEREDNICHENKO Elena | UKR | 2168 |
| 262 | MUSIALKIEWICZ Pawel | POL | 2160 | |
| 263 | SNIHUR Piotr | POL | 2157 | |
| 264 | MACHAN Jan | CZE | 2148 | |
| 265 | XYLOGIANNOPOULOS Antonios | GRE | 2147 | |
| 266 | GEBIGKE Martin | GER | 2139 | |
| 267 | POGOSIAN Vladimir | ARM | 2132 | |
| 268 | TWORZYDLO Piotr | POL | 2132 | |
| 269 | WENZEL Birger | GER | 2109 | |
| 270 | HENSELER Jorgen | NED | 2102 | |
| 271 | KHOMERIKI Giorgi | GEO | 2100 | |
| 272 | ULANOWSKI Karol | POL | 2091 | |
| 273 | KULAS Szymon | POL | 2064 | |
| 274 | WFM | KHOMERIKI Nino | GEO | 2062 |
| 275 | PAPPELIS Dimitrios | GRE | 2055 | |
| 276 | IM | CHUBAR Vladimir | UKR | 2053 |
| 277 | OJAGVERDIYEV Zaur | AZE | 2043 | |
| 278 | ZEMLICKA Vit | CZE | 2041 | |
| 279 | PAVLICEK Miroslav | CZE | 2024 | |
| 280 | WOLFF Peter | GER | 1972 | |
| 281 | GUZEWICZ Rafal | POL | 1942 | |
| 282 | WALTER Szymon | POL | 1925 | |
| 283 | SKYTTE Torill | NOR | 1922 | |
| 284 | ZAHARIEV Ognyan | BUL | 1913 | |
| 285 | SZOSTKO Jakub | POL | 1858 | |
| 286 | VDOVENKO Volodymyr | UKR | 1734 | |
| 287 | RYABENKO Denis | CZE | 1675 | |
| 288 | D`ASTE Federico | ITA | 1501 | |
| 289 | Bajram Hyseni | EUR | 0 | |
| 290 | Naim Sahitaj | EUR | 0 | |
| 291 | Perparim Makolli | EUR | 0 | |
