The XXXVI Abierto Internacional de Barberá del Vallés will be played on 4th – 12th July at the chess club of this Catalan city, C/ Torre d´en Gorgs Nº 40.
The event will be a 9-rounds Swiss open. The games will be played at 17:00 local time. The time control is 90 minutes for the game plus 30 seconds increments per move.
There will be three groups. Group A is reserved for players with an Elo rating over 2150; Group B for players in the range between 1850 and 2149; and Group C for the ones that do not meet the minimal criteria of 1850 Elo points.
The tournaments will be valid for FIDE, FEDA and FCE.
Group A counts with 11 grandmasters and 22 international masters among the participants. The first seeds are Cuban GM Isán Ortiz, young Turkish talent Alexander Ipatov and Armenian Karen Grigoryan. The local representatives are headed by Josep Manuel Lopez, Marc Narciso and Alexis Cabrera. The recent champion of the Montcada Open, Chilean Mauricio Flores is also in the lineup.
Participants:
| 1 | GM | Ortiz Suarez Isan Reynaldo | CUB | 2612 |
| 2 | GM | Ivanov Sergey | RUS | 2555 |
| 3 | GM | Grigoryan Karen H. | ARM | 2550 |
| 4 | GM | Lopez Martinez Josep Manuel | ESP | 2547 |
| 5 | GM | Narciso Dublan Marc | ESP | 2536 |
| 6 | GM | Cabrera Alexis | ESP | 2525 |
| 7 | GM | Cruz Cristhian | PER | 2499 |
| 8 | GM | Perez Mitjans Orelvis | ESP | 2495 |
| 9 | GM | Flores Rios Mauricio | CHI | 2492 |
| 10 | IM | Asis Gargatagli Hipolito | ESP | 2487 |
| 11 | GM | Hayrapetyan Hovik | ARM | 2486 |
| 12 | IM | Narayanan Srinath | IND | 2475 |
| 13 | IM | Escobar Forero Alder | COL | 2466 |
| 14 | IM | Satyapragyan Swayangsu | IND | 2464 |
| 15 | IM | Saptarshi Roy | IND | 2447 |
| 16 | IM | Fluvia Poyatos Jordi | ESP | 2445 |
| 17 | IM | Valdes Leonardo | CRC | 2444 |
| 18 | IM | Vassallo Barroche Mauricio | ESP | 2434 |
| 19 | IM | Lorenzo De La Riva Lazaro | ESP | 2433 |
| 20 | IM | Tania Sachdev | IND | 2430 |
| 21 | IM | Prasca Sosa Rafael | VEN | 2426 |
| 22 | IM | Aloma Vidal Robert | ESP | 2421 |
| 23 | IM | Alonso Moyano Jonathan | ESP | 2420 |
| 24 | IM | Gagare Shardul | IND | 2419 |
| 25 | FM | Anurag Mhamal | IND | 2418 |
| 26 | IM | Pulvett Daniel | VEN | 2405 |
| 27 | GM | Laxman R.R. | IND | 2401 |
| 28 | IM | Perpinya Rofes Lluis Maria | ESP | 2400 |
| 29 | IM | Bergez Luc | FRA | 2395 |
| 30 | IM | Sequera Paolini Jose | VEN | 2394 |
| 31 | IM | Van Riemsdijk Herman C. | BRA | 2367 |
| 32 | IM | Rios Cristhian Camilo | COL | 2360 |
| 33 | IM | Sanchez Guirado Francisco | ESP | 2339 |
| 34 | FM | Martynov Pavel | RUS | 2321 |
| 35 | MK | Rishi Sardana | IND | 2316 |
| 36 | FM | Plukkel Sjoerd | NED | 2314 |
| 37 | IM | Vehi Bach Victor Manuel | ESP | 2308 |
| 38 | MK | Perez Manas Benjamin | ESP | 2307 |
| 39 | FM | Ruiz Aguilar Pablo Alexander | COL | 2307 |
| 40 | FM | Martinez Ramirez Erik | ESP | 2306 |
| 41 | MK | Obon Temprano Sergi | ESP | 2301 |
| 42 | CM | Arjun Bharat | IND | 2298 |
| 43 | Abhishek Kelkar | IND | 2274 | |
| 44 | FM | Gomez Jurado Luis Alberto | ESP | 2273 |
| 45 | FM | Larsen Karsten | DEN | 2270 |
| 46 | MK | Gonzalez Fuente Carlos | ESP | 2269 |
| 47 | FM | Capellades Subirana Marc | ESP | 2260 |
| 48 | FM | Cruz Lledo Pablo | ESP | 2258 |
| 49 | FM | Avila Jimenez Xavier | ESP | 2242 |
| 50 | FM | Thakur Akash | IND | 2234 |
| 51 | MK | Diaz Camallonga Carles | ESP | 2216 |
| 52 | Navarrete Espi Samuel | ESP | 2214 | |
| 53 | WIM | Bivol Alina | RUS | 2207 |
| 54 | WIM | Salazar Aura Cristina | COL | 2200 |
| 55 | Smith Thijmen | NED | 2193 | |
| 56 | Iagar Razvan-Gabriel | ROU | 2190 | |
| 57 | MK | Carrasco Rodriguez Jesus | ESP | 2183 |
| 58 | Molina Morena Antonio | ESP | 2174 | |
| 59 | MK | Lacasta Palacio Joaquim | ESP | 2171 |
| 60 | MK | Amores Gago Javier | ESP | 2167 |
| 61 | Bijlsma Nick | NED | 2166 | |
| 62 | Jordan Arenas Manuel | ESP | 2153 | |
| 63 | Dalo Hermes | VEN | 2148 | |
| 64 | MK | Fernandez Diaz Cristian | ESP | 2144 |
| 65 | Sanchez Dengra Jose Maria | ESP | 2134 | |
| 66 | Basencyan Mark | ARM | 2130 | |
| 67 | Aryan Chopra | IND | 2122 | |
| 68 | Sayrol Clols Josep Maria | ESP | 2117 | |
| 69 | Jareno Badenas Aleix | ESP | 2114 | |
| 70 | Porta Tovar Oriol | ESP | 2113 | |
| 71 | FM | Yakushev Vladimir | RUS | 2111 |
| 72 | MK | Campos Cayuelas Marc | ESP | 2106 |
| 73 | WFM | Raghavi N. | IND | 2097 |
| 74 | Jaramillo Ochoa Mateo | COL | 2074 | |
| 75 | Garriga Cazorla Pere | ESP | 2071 | |
| 76 | MK | Gutierrez Anso Jose | ESP | 2068 |
| 77 | WIM | Real Pereyra Diana Carime | MEX | 2062 |
| 78 | Ventura Bolet Maxim | ESP | 2045 | |
| 79 | Saez Coma Alejandro | ESP | 2025 | |
| 80 | Garcia Playa David | ESP | 2005 | |
| 81 | NM | Ridameya Tatche Jose Miguel | ESP | 1991 |
| 82 | MK | Castells Briones Miquel | ESP | 1959 |
| 83 | Varela La Madrid Maria | VEN | 1927 | |
