The Golden Prague Festival 2013 is taking place on 23rd-30th June at the Karlínské Spektrum, Karlínské náměstí 7, Praha 8 – Karlín, Czech Republic.
It is organized by the Chess Club Holdia DP Prague and the Chess Academy Club in cooperation with DDM Prague.
The event is divided in six groups, separated by playing strength and age categories, besides a rapid tournament and an IM-norms closed championship.
The main attraction is the A group which will be open for all the players. It will be played under the Swiss system with 9 rounds.
Rate of play: 90 minutes in 40 moves + 30 minutes untill the end of the game + 30 seconds for each move starting from the beginning of the game.
The playing hall
The pairings in the first 2 rounds will be made using the accelerated system.
Prizes: 1st prize 10 000 CZK, 2nd prize 8 000 CZK, 3rd prize 6 000 CZK, 4th prize 4 000 CZK, 5th prize 3 000 CZK, 6th prize 2 000 CZK, 7th prize 1 000 CZK, 8th prize 800 CZK, 9th prize 600 CZK, 10th prize 300 CZK.
Participants – A group:
| 1 | GM | Sergeev Vladimir | UKR | 2436 |
| 2 | FM | Kočiščák Jiří | CZE | 2407 |
| 3 | GM | Meduna Eduard | CZE | 2397 |
| 4 | FM | Sharashenidze Akaki | CZE | 2354 |
| 5 | FM | Jüptner Jan | CZE | 2328 |
| 6 | IM | Přibyl Josef | CZE | 2318 |
| 7 | FM | Gregor Jiří | CZE | 2295 |
| 8 | WGM | Ptáčníková Lenka | ISL | 2255 |
| 9 | FM | Stigar Petter | NOR | 2255 |
| 10 | Postupa Pavel | CZE | 2229 | |
| 11 | FM | Van Hoolandt Patrick | MNC | 2204 |
| 12 | Liuba Volodymyr | UKR | 2198 | |
| 13 | Schnitzer Peter | GER | 2185 | |
| 14 | Trapl Dalibor | CZE | 2176 | |
| 15 | Kratochvíl Jakub | CZE | 2153 | |
| 16 | Pospíšil Evžen | CZE | 2131 | |
| 17 | Rut Vojtěch | CZE | 2105 | |
| 18 | Mišičko Ján | CZE | 2091 | |
| 19 | Pick Štěpán | CZE | 2089 | |
| 20 | Hadžala Daniel | CZE | 2088 | |
| 21 | Kovář Josef | CZE | 2077 | |
| 22 | Ragaa Hassan | EGY | 2077 | |
| 23 | Šišák Richard | CZE | 2051 | |
| 24 | Plášek Zdeněk | CZE | 2044 | |
| 25 | Kučera Tomáš | CZE | 2043 | |
| 26 | Janáček Jaroslav | CZE | 2042 | |
| 27 | Rous František | CZE | 2041 | |
| 28 | Mohd A. Altaher | UAE | 2040 | |
| 29 | Szirmai Emil | CZE | 2037 | |
| 30 | Stojkovič Andreja | CRO | 2034 | |
| 31 | Čáp Adam | CZE | 2025 | |
| 32 | Vavřinec Tomáš | CZE | 2024 | |
| 33 | Žemlička Vít | CZE | 2016 | |
| 34 | Plašil Petr | CZE | 2016 | |
| 35 | Svedberg Hans | SWE | 2011 | |
| 36 | Al-Kaabi Abdulla | UAE | 1968 | |
| 37 | Green Per | SWE | 1967 | |
| 38 | Sargsyan Karen | ARM | 1963 | |
| 39 | Fišer Jiří | CZE | 1962 | |
| 40 | Vladyka Václav | CZE | 1959 | |
| 41 | Picek Miroslav | CZE | 1953 | |
| 42 | Poghosyan Tigran | GER | 1945 | |
| 43 | Šlechta Karel | CZE | 1936 | |
| 44 | Kaiser Rudolf | CZE | 1933 | |
| 45 | Plicka Petr | CZE | 1920 | |
| 46 | Hollan Petr | CZE | 1917 | |
| 47 | Hollan Martin | CZE | 1906 | |
| 48 | Plchot Miroslav | SCO | 1890 | |
| 49 | Walid Anwar | UAE | 1887 | |
| 50 | Pokorný Jan | CZE | 1875 | |
| 51 | Schuster Jan | CZE | 1859 | |
| 52 | Vítek Jan | CZE | 1824 | |
| 53 | Vavřínek Tomáš | CZE | 1814 | |
| 54 | Štěpánek Svatopluk | CZE | 1811 | |
| 55 | Krejčík Miroslav | CZE | 1807 | |
| 56 | Nový Filip | CZE | 1803 | |
| 57 | Kučera Josef | CZE | 1774 | |
| 58 | Vystrčil Martin | CZE | 1768 | |
| 59 | Strakoš Tomáš | CZE | 1761 | |
| 60 | Ali Rashid Ghanem | UAE | 1754 | |
| 61 | Plesnivý Martin | CZE | 1732 | |
| 62 | Macková Veronika | CZE | 1719 | |
| 63 | Růžička Václav | CZE | 1688 | |
| 64 | Přívozník Luboš | CZE | 1676 | |
| 65 | Malý Petr | CZE | 1676 | |
| 66 | Haase Pavel | CZE | 1661 | |
| 67 | Daňhel Lukáš | CZE | 1654 | |
| 68 | Žáček Petr | CZE | 1649 | |
| 69 | Jorgensen Orla Eilegaard | DEN | 1629 | |
| 70 | CM | Al-Zaruoni Fahad | UAE | 1602 |
| 71 | Hein Jacob | DEN | 1501 | |
| 72 | Přibylová Sofie | CZE | 1437 | |
| 73 | Jirasek Ladia Rayne | USA | 0 | |
| 74 | Katzer Radovan | CZE | 0 | |
| 75 | Bartoň Milan | CZE | 0 | |
| 76 | Kučera Jan | CZE | 0 | |
