The Sidney International Open 2013 is taking place on 2nd – 7th April at the Parramatta Town Hall in the Australian city.
It is one of the biggest chess tournaments in Australia. It attracts beginners to grandmasters from all parts of Australia and from several other countries around the world.
The tournament has two categories (1) Open, in which anyone with any rating can play, and (2) Challengers, in which only those with ACF ratings lower then 1900 can play.
It is a 9-round Swiss open with a time control of 90 minutes for the first 40 moves followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game plus 30 seconds per move from move 1.
A lot of players that participated in the Doeberl Cup are taking part, including champion Li Chao. Joining him in the battle for the 4,000 USD first prize are GM Loek van Wely, last year winner GM Vajda Levente, Doeberl Cup runner-up GM Jiri Stocek, and 8 other GMs.
Participants:
| 1 | GM | Li Chao B | CHN | 2686 |
| 2 | GM | Van Wely Loek | NED | 2684 |
| 3 | GM | Vajda Levente | ROU | 2632 |
| 4 | GM | Heberla Bartlomiej | POL | 2562 |
| 5 | GM | Stocek Jiri | CZE | 2544 |
| 6 | GM | Sethuraman S.P. | IND | 2541 |
| 7 | GM | Zhao Zong-Yuan | AUS | 2537 |
| 8 | GM | Horvath Adam | HUN | 2509 |
| 9 | GM | Czebe Attila | HUN | 2479 |
| 10 | GM | Varga Zoltan | HUN | 2472 |
| 11 | IM | Palit Somak | IND | 2449 |
| 12 | IM | Stany G.A. | IND | 2432 |
| 13 | GM | Johansen Darryl K. | AUS | 2430 |
| 14 | GM | Laxman R.R. | IND | 2429 |
| 15 | FM | Cheng Bobby | AUS | 2425 |
| 16 | IM | Lane Gary W. | AUS | 2412 |
| 17 | IM | Akshat Khamparia | IND | 2393 |
| 18 | IM | Solomon Stephen J. | AUS | 2387 |
| 19 | FM | Bjelobrk Igor | AUS | 2329 |
| 20 | Li Zuhao Luke | NZL | 2287 | |
| 21 | Hu Xi | CHN | 2280 | |
| 22 | Tan Justin | AUS | 2249 | |
| 23 | Lei Tingjie | CHN | 2232 | |
| 24 | Rishi Sardana | IND | 2232 | |
| 25 | Dale Ari | AUS | 2222 | |
| 26 | FM | Nakauchi Gene | AUS | 2221 |
| 27 | Ayvazyan Armen | AUS | 2211 | |
| 28 | Smirnov Anton | AUS | 2194 | |
| 29 | WFM | Otgonjargal Sengeravdan | MGL | 2171 |
| 30 | Nazari Sattar | IRI | 2163 | |
| 31 | Setiawan A. | INA | 2160 | |
| 32 | Charles Gareth | AUS | 2156 | |
| 33 | Castor David | AUS | 2116 | |
| 34 | Ferozkohi Ihsan | GER | 2107 | |
| 35 | Wei Michael | AUS | 2104 | |
| 36 | Broekhuyse Paul | AUS | 2076 | |
| 37 | Lee Kah Meng Elgin | MAS | 2068 | |
| 38 | Camer Angelito | AUS | 2054 | |
| 39 | Fuatai Fuatai | NZL | 2021 | |
| 40 | Lester George E | AUS | 2012 | |
| 41 | Marner Gavin | NZL | 1995 | |
| 42 | Rad Farzin | IRI | 1989 | |
| 43 | Spuler David | AUS | 1987 | |
| 44 | Ilic Ilija | AUS | 1981 | |
| 45 | Mallari Donato | AUS | 1978 | |
| 46 | Abbott Peter | AUS | 1975 | |
| 47 | Cabilin Jeff | AUS | 1950 | |
| 48 | Kuan Julian | HKG | 1948 | |
| 49 | Hagist Fred M | AUS | 1944 | |
| 50 | Davis Tony J | AUS | 1922 | |
| 51 | Puccini Jack | AUS | 1891 | |
| 52 | Selnes Hamish | AUS | 1886 | |
| 53 | Christensen Joshua | AUS | 1859 | |
| 54 | Zheng Shucheng | AUS | 1852 | |
| 55 | Press Harry | AUS | 1845 | |
| 56 | Yermolenko Taras | UKR | 1816 | |
| 57 | Wan Dennis | AUS | 1798 | |
| 58 | Buciu Aurel-John | AUS | 1783 | |
| 59 | Kuan Ying Fatt | HKG | 1781 | |
| 60 | Myers Stephen P | AUS | 1777 | |
| 61 | William Lee Kah Howe | MAS | 1759 | |
| 62 | Willathgamuwa Kevin | AUS | 1729 | |
| 63 | Bellingham John | AUS | 1729 | |
| 64 | Brockman Roland | AUS | 1708 | |
| 65 | Willathgamuwa Rowan | AUS | 1683 | |
| 66 | Dibley Shane E | AUS | 1671 | |
| 67 | Lam Ross | AUS | 1661 | |
| 68 | Sewell Bob | AUS | 1472 | |
