14th Open Internacional d’Escacs Vila de Salou

The 14th Open Internacional d’Escacs Vila de Salou is organized by the Club Escacs Salou on 3-11th May at Cala de la Font, in Salou, Tarragona, Spain.

The tournament will be a nine-round Swiss event and a part of the 9th Catalan Chess Circuit.

Seven Grandmasters are registered to take participation, top seeded is Sergey Fedorchuk of Ukraine. The prize fund amounts to 4100 EUR, first place brings 1200 EUR.

Official website

Players list (top seeds):

1 GM Fedorchuk Sergey A UKR 2634
2 GM Burmakin Vladimir RUS 2586
3 GM Aroshidze Levan GEO 2582
4 GM Moskalenko Viktor UKR 2532
5 IM Ibarra Jerez Jose Carlos ESP 2523
6 GM Cabrera Alexis ESP 2510
7 IM Asis Gargatagli Hipolito ESP 2473
8 IM Larino Nieto David ESP 2469
9 IM Franco Alonso Alejandro ESP 2463
10 GM Pogorelov Ruslan UKR 2408
11 IM Aloma Vidal Robert ESP 2402
12 GM Ivanov Mikhail M RUS 2395
13 IM Valdes Leonardo CRC 2375
14 IM Vehi Bach Victor Manuel ESP 2359
15 IM Strebkovs Andrejs LAT 2354

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