Municipality Veliko Gradište, Chess Club VGSK, Chess Federation of Central Serbia and Danubia Hotels are warmly welcoming all participants and guests to the Chess Festival “Silver Lake 2022″. The Chess Festival will take place from 19-26th June, 2022, at the Silver Lake “Sports hall” and “Great hall” of Danubia Park Hotel.
The Organizing Committee is preparing a rich programme for all ages and playing levels:
– Open “A” tournament for players rated over 2100 FIDE
– Open “B” tournament for players rated under 2200 FIDE
– Blitz FIDE rated tournament
Both Open A and Open B tournaments will be played in 9 rounds, swiss system, with time control: 90 minutes + 30 seconds of increment, starting from the move one. The total prize fund of the events will be 574.000 RSD (around 5.000 euros), with 375.000 RSD (3.150 euros) for the Open A, 167.000 RSD (1.400 euros) for the Open B and 32.000 RSD (270 euros) for the Blitz tournament.
More than 120 players coming from 21 countries already registered for the Festival, including 6 grandmasters and 10 international masters. GM Leon Luke Mendonca, GM Evgeny Zanan and GM Aleksa Strikovic are the top seeds of the main Open A section. (scroll down for starting rank lists of both events).
Throwback: Kiril Georgiev is the winner at Silver Lake 2018
Silver Lake Open A – Starting rank list of participants:
| No. | Name | FED | Rtg | |
| 1 | GM | Zanan Evgeny | ISR | 2533 |
| 2 | GM | Strikovic Aleksa | SRB | 2499 |
| 3 | GM | Stremavicius Titas | LTU | 2495 |
| 4 | GM | Sadikhov Ulvi | AZE | 2491 |
| 5 | IM | Song Raymond | TPE | 2485 |
| 6 | IM | Ramoutar Alan-Safar | TTO | 2480 |
| 7 | GM | Damljanovic Branko | SRB | 2469 |
| 8 | IM | Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh | IND | 2447 |
| 9 | IM | Radovanovic Nikola | SRB | 2423 |
| 10 | IM | Krstulovic Alex | HUN | 2413 |
| 11 | IM | Tadic Stefan | SRB | 2373 |
| 12 | IM | Anuj Shrivatri | IND | 2356 |
| 13 | FM | Martic Ivan | SRB | 2314 |
| 14 | IM | Markovic Zoran S | SRB | 2313 |
| 15 | IM | Govedarica Radovan | SRB | 2291 |
| 16 | WGM | Manakova Maria | SRB | 2278 |
| 17 | Saurabh Anand | IND | 2260 | |
| 18 | IM | Maksimovic Branimir | SRB | 2229 |
| 19 | Ojas Kulkarni | IND | 2226 | |
| 20 | CM | Arias Gaviria Mario Alexis | PER | 2209 |
| 21 | Lever Erwan | FRA | 2209 | |
| 22 | Lazic Emanuel | BIH | 2203 | |
| 23 | CM | Creanga Robert-Ionut | ROU | 2201 |
| 24 | FM | Djokic Mihailo | SRB | 2194 |
| 25 | Tyurin Artem | RUS | 2174 | |
| 26 | Herega Nejc | SLO | 2173 | |
| 27 | CM | Jandric Damjan | SRB | 2145 |
| 28 | Phatak Aanjaneya | IND | 2145 | |
| 29 | Petrovic Dragan R | SRB | 2143 | |
| 30 | WIM | Srdanovic Jovana | SRB | 2127 |
| 31 | FM | Efremov Vladislav | FID | 2125 |
| 32 | FM | Furman Boris | FID | 2121 |
| 33 | CM | Mamedov Edgar | KAZ | 2114 |
| 34 | Poupalos Nikolaos | GRE | 2107 | |
| 35 | Thrish Karthik | IND | 2095 | |
| 36 | Papaioannou Dimitrios | GRE | 2078 | |
| 37 | Tisma Ivan | SRB | 2062 | |
| 38 | Kandjolas Konstantin | SRB | 2031 | |
| 39 | IM | Manish Anto Cristiano F | IND | 2027 |
| 40 | WFM | Hng Mei-En Emmanuelle | SGP | 2000 |
| 41 | Jevtic Miroljub | SRB | 1986 | |
| 42 | AGM | Renganayaki Venkatesh | IND | 1967 |
| 43 | Shoshin Kirill | FID | 1938 | |
| 44 | Doraszelski Alexander | GER | 1898 | |
| 45 | Shivika Rohilla | IND | 1897 | |
| 46 | CM | Botea David-Alexandru | ROU | 1888 |
| 47 | Tamas Christian-Arrydan | ROU | 1884 | |
| 48 | Mitrovic Stefan | SRB | 1866 | |
| 49 | Teo Hong Ming | SGP | 1850 | |
| 50 | Moerlien Puwit | USA | 1806 | |
| 51 | Hng Mei-Xian Eunice | SGP | 1800 | |
| 52 | Divitt Arora | IND | 1694 | |
| 53 | Aarush Agrawal | IND | 0 |
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Silver Lake Open B – Starting rank list of participants:
| No. | Name | FED | Rtg | |
| 1 | FM | Joksimovic Dragoljub | SRB | 2186 |
| 2 | FM | Dinic Dragan | SRB | 2136 |
| 3 | FM | Jeremic Milan | SRB | 2111 |
| 4 | Petrovic Nikola V | SRB | 2110 | |
| 5 | FM | Jevtic Miodrag | SRB | 2101 |
| 6 | FM | Kostic Milutin B | SRB | 2090 |
| 7 | IM | Radulovic Dragan B | SRB | 2077 |
| 8 | Tosic Nebojsa | SRB | 2059 | |
| 9 | Vlajkovic Goran | SRB | 2059 | |
| 10 | FM | Brajic Miloje | SRB | 2014 |
| 11 | WFM | Arsovic Jelena | SRB | 1994 |
| 12 | Adzic Mitar | BIH | 1981 | |
| 13 | Grozdanovic Anastasia | SRB | 1970 | |
| 14 | Markovic Zoran Ran | SRB | 1966 | |
| 15 | Beric Zoran | SRB | 1931 | |
| 16 | Slavkovic Uros | SRB | 1930 | |
| 17 | Davidov Lazar | SRB | 1923 | |
| 18 | Djuretanovic Ivan | SRB | 1913 | |
| 19 | Tomic Slobodan | SRB | 1887 | |
| 20 | Jakovljevic Dejan | SRB | 1883 | |
| 21 | Matic Dragan | SRB | 1879 | |
| 22 | Popov Jovan | SRB | 1872 | |
| 23 | Vujicic Dragisa | BIH | 1869 | |
| 24 | Brankovan Mario | SRB | 1864 | |
| 25 | Stoimenidis Dimitrios | GRE | 1861 | |
| 26 | Arandjelovic Aleksandar Z | SRB | 1839 | |
| 27 | CM | Popovic Dobrivoj | SRB | 1836 |
| 28 | Mihajlovic Pavle | SRB | 1832 | |
| 29 | Bajic Petar | SRB | 1826 | |
| 30 | Gligorijevic Bojan | SRB | 1808 | |
| 31 | Cirjan Daniel | ROU | 1805 | |
| 32 | Milutinovic Lazar | SRB | 1796 | |
| 33 | Milunovic Sasa | SRB | 1795 | |
| 34 | Stefanovic Bosko | SRB | 1786 | |
| 35 | Bobusic Milan | SRB | 1784 | |
| 36 | Tomic Stefan | SRB | 1723 | |
| 37 | Gagic Miroljub | SRB | 1715 | |
| 38 | Njaguljevic Dragan | SRB | 1713 | |
| 39 | Simonovic Milomir | SRB | 1680 | |
| 40 | Bhillva Nilaya K E K | IND | 1648 | |
| 41 | Fenerli Salim | TUR | 1638 | |
| 42 | FM | Matovic Petar | SRB | 1635 |
| 43 | Smajic Ervin | BIH | 1634 | |
| 44 | Medic Relja | SRB | 1623 | |
| 45 | Demirkol Kerim Calvelo | TUR | 1618 | |
| 46 | Alexandri Dimitra | GRE | 1605 | |
| 47 | Senel Hayri Beyhun | TUR | 1603 | |
| 48 | Bashtavenko Aleksey | USA | 1595 | |
| 49 | Petrovic Dusan Z | SRB | 1595 | |
| 50 | Bagas Ana | SRB | 1584 | |
| 51 | Cirkovic Vuk | SRB | 1578 | |
| 52 | Pasula Milos | SRB | 1573 | |
| 53 | Merkouropoulos Dionysios | GRE | 1495 | |
| 54 | Matejic Petar | SRB | 1491 | |
| 55 | Strbac Dusan | SRB | 1490 | |
| 56 | Alexandri Vasiliki | GRE | 1465 | |
| 57 | Mihailovic Selena | SRB | 1459 | |
| 58 | Erakovic Bogdan | SRB | 1424 | |
| 59 | Brajic Boris | SRB | 1405 | |
| 60 | Andjelkovic Aleksandar M | SRB | 1399 | |
| 61 | Stojadinovic Aleksandra | SRB | 1386 | |
| 62 | Milovanovic Jana | SRB | 1372 | |
| 63 | Zikic Goran | AUT | 1350 | |
| 64 | Zivanovic Lazar | SRB | 1327 | |
| 65 | Brajic Andrej | SRB | 1310 | |
| 66 | Zelenovic Ognjen | SRB | 1279 | |
| 67 | Ilic Mia | SRB | 1265 | |
| 68 | Chalkias Michail Panagiotis | GRE | 1256 | |
| 69 | Mitic Aleksandar | SRB | 1222 | |
| 70 | Arsic Lazar S | SRB | 0 | |
| 71 | Bastovanovic Stefan M | SRB | 0 | |
| 72 | Cicmil Mijat S | SRB | 0 | |
| 73 | Delevic Danilo A | SRB | 0 | |
| 74 | Dhawan Rudelle | SGP | 0 | |
| 75 | Djuricic Ema | SRB | 0 | |
| 76 | Gajic Anja | SRB | 0 | |
| 77 | Jeremic Dimitrije D | SRB | 0 | |
| 78 | Krinulovic Andjela | SRB | 0 | |
| 79 | Krizak Kosta S | SRB | 0 | |
| 80 | Lazic Ana | SRB | 0 | |
| 81 | Lazic Andrej B | SRB | 0 | |
| 82 | Lazic Arsenije | SRB | 0 | |
| 83 | Matejic Elena | SRB | 0 | |
| 84 | Mijic Lazar G | SRB | 0 | |
| 85 | Ninkovic Jovan I | SRB | 0 | |
| 86 | Rakocevic Sava | SRB | 0 | |
| 87 | Ristovic Dimitrije | SRB | 0 | |
| 88 | Ruzicic Jakov | SRB | 0 | |
| 89 | Stanojlovic Pavle | SRB | 0 | |
| 90 | Stojanovic Irina | SRB | 0 | |
| 91 | Zivkovic Lazar B | SRB | 0 |
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