The 2nd edition of the Renato Didoni Memorial was played on 20th-25th April at the Accademia Scacchi Milano,Via De Amicis 17 in Milan, Italy.
The A Group was open for players with an Elo rating higher than 1800. It was a 7 rounds Swiss open with a time control of 100 minutes for 40 moves plus 15 minutes to finish the game, with 30 seconds increments from the first move.
Czech GM Joseph Sanchez finished first with 5/7 points. Serbian GM Miroljub Lazic obtained the same amount of points but had a worse Buchholz score. Third place went to local IM Duilio Collutiis.
Sanchez took 700 Euros home for his efforts.
The playing hall
Final Standings:
| 1 | GM | Sanchez, Joseph | 2544 | 5.0 |
| 2 | GM | Lazic Miroljub | 2476 | 5.0 |
| 3 | IM | Collutiis Duilio | 2473 | 4.5 |
| 4 | IM | Martinez Rolly | 2439 | 4.5 |
| 5 | GM | Novik Maxim | 2449 | 4.5 |
| 6 | IM | Aleksic Nenad | 2353 | 4.5 |
| 7 | IM | Sotsky Alexander | 2396 | 4.5 |
| 8 | WGM | Sudakova Irina | 2340 | 4.5 |
| 9 | IM | Blechzin Igor | 2440 | 4.5 |
| 10 | GM | Salvador, Roland | 2469 | 4.0 |
| 11 | IM | Laketic Gojko | 2420 | 3.5 |
| 12 | IM | Vezzosi Paolo | 2282 | 3.5 |
| 13 | — | Miracola Giorgia | 1859 | 3.5 |
| 14 | — | Cazzaniga Walter | 2139 | 3.0 |
| 15 | — | Brociner Beniamino | 1996 | 3.0 |
| 16 | — | Robertsen Thomas | 2242 | 3.0 |
| 17 | — | Miracola Massimilian | 2118 | 3.0 |
| 18 | — | Bozzali Ermanno | 2035 | 3.0 |
| 19 | — | D`Avino Gianfranco | 1851 | 3.0 |
| 20 | — | Monticone Sonia | 1883 | 3.0 |
| 21 | — | Falchi Claudio | 1906 | 2.0 |
| 22 | — | Boer Stefan | 1825 | 2.0 |
| 23 | — | Nepi Ezio (W) | 1977 | 1.0 |
