XXXV Abierto Internacional Ciudad de Sevilla
19 GMs at the Sevilla Chess Open
Report by Chessdom.com

225 players, among which 19 grandmasters, will participate at XXXV Abierto Internacional Ciudad de Sevilla. The competition, 9 round swiss event, starts in Spain on January 8th and will continue until the 16th of January. The games will be played at Hotel Al-Andalus Palace and start daily at 17:30 local time. The time control is 120 min + 30 sec per move.

Here are the top 25 seeds:

1 GM Hamdouchi Hicham FRA 2601
2 GM Mirzoev Azer AZE 2594
3 GM Lopez Martinez Josep Manuel ESP 2593
4 GM Burmakin Vladimir RUS 2590
5 GM Spraggett Kevin CAN 2586
6 GM Andersson Ulf SWE 2575
7 GM Korneev Oleg RUS 2573
8 GM Hickl Joerg GER 2572
9 GM Vazquez Igarza Renier ESP 2560
10 GM Matamoros Franco Carlos S ECU 2545
11 GM Lemos Damian ARG 2544
12 GM Bhat Vinay S USA 2540
13 GM Franco Ocampos Zenon PAR 2535
14 GM Rizouk Aimen ALG 2532
15 GM Rivas Pastor Manuel ESP 2531
16 GM Lalic Bogdan CRO 2494
17 GM Campora Sivori Daniel H. ARG 2483
18 GM Pogorelov Ruslan UKR 2474
19 IM Tissir Mohamed MAR 2472
20 IM Starostits Ilmars LAT 2471
21 IM Fernandez Romero Ernesto ESP 2458
22 IM Berbatov Kiprian BUL 2455
23 GM Komljenovic Davorin CRO 2431
24 IM Razmyslov Alexander UKR 2431
25 IM Barria Zuñiga Daniel CHI 2430

Full list here.

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