The Albanian Chess Federation is organizing the International Chess Tournament Durres 2013 that will be played from 4 to 11 May 2013.
It will be a 9-round Swiss System open in the Conference hall of Bleart Hotel in Durres, Albania.
The prize fund is € 8,650 and it will be divided into 15 regular and 10 special prizes: 1st place – € 1,50o; 2nd place – € 1,20o; 3rd place – € 80o, etc.
The prizes are divided according to the Hort system of progressive distribution and may not be accumulated.
The rate of play will be 90 minutes for 40 moves + 30 minutes for the rest of the game with the increment of 30 seconds per move starting from move one.
Durres seen from above
Registered players:
| 1 | GM | Dervishi Erald | ALB | 2546 |
| 2 | GM | Dobrov Vladimir | RUS | 2541 |
| 3 | GM | Blagojevic Dragisa | MNE | 2520 |
| 4 | GM | Kosic Dragan | MNE | 2512 |
| 5 | GM | Dizdarevic Emir | BIH | 2511 |
| 6 | IM | Pancevski Filip | MKD | 2500 |
| 7 | GM | Bakre Tejas | IND | 2488 |
| 8 | GM | Starostits Ilmars | LAT | 2481 |
| 9 | GM | Genov Petar | BUL | 2471 |
| 10 | GM | Drasko Milan | MNE | 2468 |
| 11 | GM | Drazic Sinisa | SRB | 2461 |
| 12 | IM | Mehmeti Dritan | ALB | 2413 |
| 13 | IM | Seitaj Ilir | ALB | 2392 |
| 14 | GM | Kosanovic Goran A | SRB | 2369 |
| 15 | Rudakov Aleksandr | RUS | 2144 | |
