The XXI Open Internacional Ciutat de Montcada will take place from June 25th to July 3rd at the Ciutat de Montcada Hotel. c/. Verdi 12. Centro Comercial El Punt. Montcada i Reixac. Estación Renfe Montcada Ripollet.
The event is a part of the X Catalan Chess Circuit and is qualified as a “Superior A” tournament.
The tournament will be divided in two groups. Group A for players with an Elo rating over 2000, and Group B for players that do not meet this criterion. It will be a 9-rounds Swiss open, valid for FIDE, FEDA and FCDE.
The time control will be 90 minutes for the whole game with 30 seconds increments from move 1.
First prizes in Group A: 1.200 € / 700 € / 600 € / 500 € / 400 €.
The registration deadline is June 24th.
A strong group of GMs has already registered to participate. First seeds are Romanian Liviu-Ditier Nisipeanu, Argentinian Fernando Peralta, Cuban Isán Ortiz, defending champion Vladimir Burmakin and Georgian Levan Aroshidze.
42 players are signed up to participate in the B group.
Registered players – A Group:
1 | GM | Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter | ROU | 2665 |
2 | GM | Peralta Fernando | ARG | 2622 |
3 | GM | Ortiz Suarez Isan Reynaldo | CUB | 2612 |
4 | GM | Burmakin Vladimir | RUS | 2575 |
5 | GM | Aroshidze Levan | GEO | 2568 |
6 | GM | Gleizerov Evgeny | RUS | 2553 |
7 | GM | Sanikidze Tornike | GEO | 2553 |
8 | GM | Cori Jorge | PER | 2549 |
9 | GM | Ulibin Mikhail | RUS | 2523 |
10 | GM | Bacallao Alonso Yusnel | CUB | 2519 |
11 | GM | Cabrera Alexis | ESP | 2516 |
12 | IM | Pancevski Filip | MKD | 2513 |
13 | IM | Guerra Mendez Jose Angel | CUB | 2505 |
14 | IM | Gomez Garrido Camilo Ernesto | CUB | 2504 |
15 | GM | Cruz Cristhian | PER | 2499 |
16 | GM | Perez Mitjans Orelvis | ESP | 2496 |
17 | GM | Flores Rios Mauricio | CHI | 2492 |
18 | IM | Moreno Ruiz Javier | ESP | 2486 |
19 | GM | Cuartas Jaime Alexander | COL | 2484 |
20 | IM | Asis Gargatagli Hipolito | ESP | 2482 |
21 | GM | Bakre Tejas | IND | 2470 |
22 | IM | Escobar Forero Alder | COL | 2468 |
23 | GM | Deepan Chakkravarthy J. | IND | 2468 |
24 | IM | Narayanan Srinath | IND | 2464 |
25 | GM | Neelotpal Das | IND | 2461 |
26 | GM | Munoz Pantoja Miguel | ESP | 2459 |
27 | IM | Fernandez Cardoso Alexey | CUB | 2459 |
28 | GM | Herraiz Hidalgo Herminio | ESP | 2447 |
29 | IM | Saptarshi Roy | IND | 2447 |
30 | IM | Alarcon Casellas Rolando | CUB | 2438 |
31 | WGM | Cori T. Deysi | PER | 2437 |
32 | IM | Valdes Leonardo | CRC | 2436 |
33 | FM | Ducarmon Quinten | NED | 2436 |
34 | IM | Panelo Marcelo | ARG | 2428 |
35 | IM | Lorenzo De La Riva Lazaro | ESP | 2424 |
36 | IM | Aloma Vidal Robert | ESP | 2421 |
37 | GM | Mateo Ramon | DOM | 2413 |
38 | IM | Matnadze Ana | ESP | 2412 |
39 | IM | Gagare Shardul | IND | 2407 |
40 | FM | Sanchez Ibern Marc | ESP | 2401 |
41 | FM | Anurag Mhamal | IND | 2401 |
42 | GM | Laxman R.R. | IND | 2397 |
43 | IM | Del Rey Diego | ESP | 2376 |
44 | FM | Camacho Collados Jose | KOR | 2371 |
45 | IM | Rios Cristhian Camilo | COL | 2360 |
46 | FM | Espinoza Palomino Willyam | PER | 2337 |
47 | WGM | Arribas Robaina Maritza | CUB | 2331 |
48 | IM | Vehi Bach Victor Manuel | ESP | 2321 |
49 | FM | Ruiz Aguilar Pablo Alexander | COL | 2307 |
50 | FM | Martinez Ramirez Erik | ESP | 2306 |
51 | CM | Arjun Bharat | IND | 2298 |
52 | WIM | Nicolas Zapata Irene | ESP | 2283 |
53 | Abhishek Kelkar | IND | 2274 | |
54 | FM | Gomez Jurado Luis Alberto | ESP | 2273 |
55 | FM | Garcia Eduardo | COL | 2254 |
56 | FM | Cruz Lledo Pablo | ESP | 2248 |
57 | FM | Capellades Subirana Marc | ESP | 2245 |
58 | FM | Thakur Akash | IND | 2215 |
59 | Navarrete Espi Samuel | ESP | 2214 | |
60 | WIM | Salazar Aura Cristina | COL | 2200 |
61 | MK | Carrasco Rodriguez Jesus | ESP | 2183 |
62 | WIM | Zapata Karen | PER | 2180 |
63 | Dalo Hermes | VEN | 2148 | |
64 | Aryan Chopra | IND | 2122 | |
65 | MK | Gutierrez Anso Jose | ESP | 2096 |
66 | Jaramillo Ochoa Mateo | COL | 2095 | |
67 | Santos Morales Natalia Andrea | COL | 2081 | |
68 | FM | Huguet Sergio | HON | 2080 |
69 | WIM | Fandino Reyes Roquelina | CUB | 2067 |
70 | Castellanos Bogalo Antonio | ESP | 2066 | |
71 | Kalinin Oleksandr | UKR | 2065 | |
72 | WIM | Real Pereyra Diana Carime | MEX | 2062 |
73 | WIM | Moreno Garcia Elizabeth Paola | VEN | 2025 |
74 | Ducarmon Renzo | NED | 2020 | |
75 | Sakhatskyi Oleksandr | UKR | 2016 | |
76 | Saez Coma Alejandro | ESP | 2005 | |
77 | NM | Ridameya Tatche Jose Miguel | ESP | 1991 |
78 | MK | Castells Briones Miquel | ESP | 1978 |
79 | MK | Severri Arrese Carlos | ESP | 1894 |
Registered players – B Group:
1 | Soler Rionegro Andres | ESP | 1946 | |
2 | Oset Teixidor Guerau | ESP | 1937 | |
3 | Nadal Fajardo Ricard | ESP | 1932 | |
4 | Parayre Soguero Jordi | ESP | 1920 | |
5 | Barragan Hernandez Manel | ESP | 1909 | |
6 | Colom Andres Xavier | ESP | 1907 | |
7 | Gil Gil Antoni | ESP | 1869 | |
8 | Sole Bove Josep | ESP | 1861 | |
9 | Fernandez Pintado Xavier | ESP | 1854 | |
10 | Oliva Anell Judith | ESP | 1819 | |
11 | Vicente Soriano Josep | ESP | 1815 | |
12 | Peguero Peralta Jesus | ESP | 1744 | |
13 | Mas Sayos Lluis | ESP | 1734 | |
14 | Caro Martinez Ramon | ESP | 1734 | |
15 | Nin Serres Pere | ESP | 1699 | |
16 | Breen Anthony | IRL | 1675 | |
17 | Orteu Capdevila Max | ESP | 1644 | |
18 | Febrero Perez Lluis | ESP | 1638 | |
19 | Siegel Rainer | GER | 1638 | |
20 | Izquierdo Morato Jaume | ESP | 1635 | |
21 | Miquel Juan Marcelo | ESP | 1634 | |
22 | Sanchez Viana Jordi | ESP | 1591 | |
23 | Las Heras Aixandri Guillem | ESP | 1581 | |
24 | Guinjoan Fradera Joan | ESP | 1547 | |
25 | Teixido Ponce Alfred | ESP | 1541 | |
26 | Gonzalez Saguillo Oriol | ESP | 1533 | |
27 | Pico Garcia Antoni | ESP | 1532 | |
28 | Nicolas Zapata Gines | ESP | 1494 | |
29 | Castellvi Albareda Joaquim | ESP | 1460 | |
30 | Sogues Tena Pilar | ESP | 1455 | |
31 | Orts Gonzalez Rafael | ESP | 1286 | |
32 | Jove Barroso Arnau | ESP | 1234 | |
33 | Abhinav Bharat | IND | 0 | |
34 | Alves Garcia Eric | ESP | 0 | |
35 | Escola Bargues Francesc | ESP | 0 | |
36 | Escola Bargues Jordi | ESP | 0 | |
37 | Escola Dominguez Francesc | ESP | 0 | |
38 | Grau Pere | ESP | 0 | |
39 | Lopera Reig Dario | ESP | 0 | |
40 | Lopera Reig Nadia | ESP | 0 | |
41 | Orriach Moreno Juan Manuel | ESP | 0 | |
42 | Roman Ruiz Andres | ESP | 0 | |
