The IX International Chess Festival “Baltic Pearl” is taking place from June 29th to July 7th at the Holiday Resort “Breeze” in Lazy, ul. T-2, 76-032 Lazy K / Koszalin, West – Poland.
The event is a 9 round Swiss open with a time control of 90 minutes and 30 seconds increments per move. There will be four groups for different ratings groups. For players with an Elo rating above 1800 (groups A, B and C), the tournament will be FIDE rated.
The first prizes for group A will be given out as follows: 1st – 3.000 Polish zloty; 2nd – 2.500 PLN; 3rd – 2.000 PLN, etc.
Ukrainian GM Vadim Shishkin is the first seed among the 45 registered players.
The first tables
The playing hall
Photos by Tomasz Kamieniecki
Participants:
| 1 | GM | SHISHKIN, Vadim | UKR | 2502 |
| 2 | IM | WARAKOMSKI, Tomasz | POL | 2488 |
| 3 | IM | KANAREK, Marcel | POL | 2478 |
| 4 | IM | SIECIECHOWICZ, Marcin | POL | 2462 |
| 5 | IM | URBAN, Klaudiusz | POL | 2462 |
| 6 | IM | CHOJNACKI, Krzysztof | POL | 2442 |
| 7 | k+ | WEICHHOLD, Paweł | POL | 2382 |
| 8 | WGM | MAJDAN-GAJEWSKA, Joanna | POL | 2375 |
| 9 | IM | ALIAVDIN, Nikolai | BLR | 2349 |
| 10 | k | JARMUŁA, Paweł | POL | 2174 |
| 11 | k | BUGALSKI, Michał | POL | 2161 |
| 12 | k | NOWICKI, Bartosz | POL | 2157 |
| 13 | I++ | ZIELIŃSKI, Wojciech | POL | 2145 |
| 14 | k | JACEK, Krystian | POL | 2139 |
| 15 | I++ | REZA, Wojciech | POL | 2122 |
| 16 | I++ | EGGINK, Ryszard | POL | 2121 |
| 17 | WFM | BEDNARSKA-BZDĘGA, Małgorzata | POL | 2115 |
| 18 | WFM | ADAMOWICZ, Katarzyna | POL | 2104 |
| 19 | k | KOVALEV, Egor | RUS | 2099 |
| 20 | k | PIETRUSZEWSKI, Marcin | POL | 2099 |
| 21 | k | STANKIEWICZ, Paweł | POL | 2070 |
| 22 | I+ | POŚWIATOWSKI, Michał | POL | 2067 |
| 23 | k | BĘTKOWSKI, Andrzej | POL | 2066 |
| 24 | k | KACZOROWSKI, Piotr | POL | 2058 |
| 25 | I++ | SZEWCZYK, Mariusz | POL | 2047 |
| 26 | I | EGGINK, Mateusz | POL | 2044 |
| 27 | I++ | ADAMOWICZ, Maciej | POL | 2036 |
| 28 | k | KRAIŃSKI, Sławomir | POL | 2035 |
| 29 | k | MAZALON, Mariusz | POL | 2029 |
| 30 | k | TSELKOVSKIY, Kirill | RUS | 2027 |
| 31 | I+ | PRAŻMOWSKI, Bartosz | POL | 2025 |
| 32 | k | IVANOVA, Karina | RUS | 2014 |
| 33 | k | NOWAK, Ryszard | POL | 2010 |
| 34 | I | NOWAK, Maciej | POL | 2010 |
| 35 | I++ | SULIBORSKI, Jakub | POL | 2007 |
| 36 | I | WĄSIK, Piotr | POL | 1990 |
| 37 | k | GALAKTIONOV, Artem | RUS | 1943 |
| 38 | I+ | JANIK, Igor | POL | 1930 |
| 39 | I | KARWOWSKI, Kacper | POL | 1930 |
| 40 | I | KOWALSKI, Maciej | POL | 1908 |
| 41 | I++ | SMAL, Tobiasz | POL | 1893 |
| 42 | II+ | MAŁACZEK, Mateusz | POL | 1849 |
| 43 | I | ŚMIESZEK, Wojciech | POL | 1843 |
| 44 | I++ | JACEK, Roksana | POL | 1835 |
| 45 | I+ | JANUSZKIEWICZ, Wojciech | POL | 1830 |
