The International Chess Championship of Malopolska is taking place from April 28th until May 5th at the Europejski Hotel in Krakow, Poland.
The main group of the event is a 9 round Swiss open with a time control of 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 minutes to finish the game and 30 seconds increments from move 1.
There will be monetary prizes distributed as follows: 1st – 1.500 PLN; 2nd – 1.000 PLN; 3rd – 750 PLN, etc.
31 players signed up to participate. GM Artur Jakubiec is the first seed.
Hotel Europejski
Participants:
| 1 | GM | Jakubiec Artur | POL | 2531 |
| 2 | IM | Mikrut Dariusz | POL | 2361 |
| 3 | FM | Tokarski Lukasz | POL | 2270 |
| 4 | Barski Radoslaw | POL | 2238 | |
| 5 | Tyukhanov Alexey | RUS | 2237 | |
| 6 | WIM | Jakubiec Edyta | POL | 2237 |
| 7 | Gbyl Andrzej | POL | 2225 | |
| 8 | FM | Shilov Sergej | UKR | 2217 |
| 9 | Szuper Paul | USA | 2188 | |
| 10 | Mucha Roman | POL | 2177 | |
| 11 | Foglia Maurizio | ITA | 2144 | |
| 12 | Kumor Lukasz | POL | 2120 | |
| 13 | Watorek Marcin | POL | 2109 | |
| 14 | Betkowski Andrzej | POL | 2088 | |
| 15 | Bus Konrad | POL | 2077 | |
| 16 | Gawronski Lukasz | POL | 2063 | |
| 17 | Zajac Mateusz | POL | 2060 | |
| 18 | Kondopoulos Dimitrios | GRE | 2031 | |
| 19 | Gora Jan | POL | 1958 | |
| 20 | Chmiel Marcin | POL | 1956 | |
| 21 | Knapik Andrzej | POL | 1930 | |
| 22 | Knapik Lucjan | POL | 1889 | |
| 23 | Kyc Jerzy | POL | 1880 | |
| 24 | Blasiak Miroslaw | POL | 1879 | |
| 25 | Zaboklicki Zbigniew | POL | 1835 | |
| 26 | Molenda Marcin | POL | 1823 | |
| 27 | Zadlo Maciej | POL | 1814 | |
| 28 | Ociepka Tomasz | POL | 1812 | |
| 29 | Kasperek Krzysztof | POL | 1810 | |
| 30 | Klementys Jerzy | POL | 1800 | |
| 31 | Lis Mateusz | POL | 1687 | |
