GM Sergey Volkov
System of Play:
The tournament will be conducted as per FIDE Laws of Chess and FIDE Swiss System with 9 rounds. Accelerated pairing should be done for the first two rounds.
Time Control: 90 minutes plus 30 second increment from move 1 for entire game.
Godavari Village Resort is the official venue of Kathmandu Open International GM Chess Tournament 2018. This resort is located on the south-east part of Kathmandu valley, which is only about 13 kilometers from Tribhuwan International Airport.
Top seeded are GM Sergey Volkov, GM Deep Sengupta, GM Suri Vaibnhav etc…
starting rank Kathmandu Open
1 GM Volkov Sergey
2 GM Sengupta Deep
3 GM Vaibhav Suri
4 GM Greenfeld Alon
5 GM Kiriakov Petr
6 GM Mirzoev Azer
7 GM Kasparov Sergey
8 IM Gusain Himal
9 IM Das Arghyadip
10 IM Harsha Bharathakoti
11 IM Llaneza Vega Marcos
12 IM Prince Bajaj
13 GM Fominyh Alexander
14 FM Rajdeep Sarkar
15 GM Sriram Jha
16 Kaustuv Kundu
17 IM L’ami Alina
18 IM Deshmukh Anup
19 CM Thing Bibek
20 IM Sharma Dinesh K.
21 IM Suvrajit Saha
22 Ramaraju N
23 FM Mohammed Abdul Malek
24 Sahil Tickoo
25 Sonkalan Bharati
26 FM Jaiswal Rupesh
27 Aaryan Varshney
28 AGM Nik Nik Ahmad Farouqi
29 Saptorshi Gupta
30 FM Hamal Manish
31 Kavinda Akila
32 CM Niraula Bhupendra
33 Punit Indora
34 Suvradeepta Das
35 Ganguly Ritabroto
36 AFM Choubey Saurabh
37 Sayantan Chandra
38 Dangi Mani Raj
39 Pandit Suraj
40 WIM Ranasinghe S D
41 Pradhan Saurav Prasad
42 Chaudhary Sushil
43 Aneek Das
44 Garv Gaur
45 Pradhan Mohan Singh
46 ACM Gudka Paras
47 Rajendra Singh
48 Raghavendra Kumar Shukla
49 Ravi Palsule
50 Debarpan Saha
51 Dahal Ram Chandra
