After the conclusion of the Chennai Grandmaster Open and FIDE World Chess Championship Match, the action is moving 500 km north to Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh state.
The 2nd Hyderabad Open International Grandmasters Chess Tournament 2013 is taking place from 25th November to 3rd December at the Kotla Vijaya Bhaskar Reddy Indoor Stadium in Yousufguda, Hyderabad.
The tournament is organized by the Cyber Chess Academy, under the auspices of Andhra Pradesh Chess Association and All India Chess Federation.
124 players from 14 federations, including 28 Grandmasters and 25 International Masters, are competing.
The tournament format is 11-round Swiss and the total prize fund is 18,000 EUR.
Participants:
1 GM Popov Ivan RUS 2652
2 GM Pantsulaia Levan GEO 2595
3 GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi IND 2582
4 GM Lalith Babu M.R. IND 2570
5 GM Sengupta Deep IND 2570
6 GM Ter-Sahakyan Samvel ARM 2568
7 GM Borovikov Vladislav UKR 2558
8 GM Dzhumaev Marat UZB 2557
9 GM Gagunashvili Merab GEO 2556
10 GM Sanikidze Tornike GEO 2553
11 GM Sethuraman S.P. IND 2553
12 GM Greenfeld Alon ISR 2545
13 GM Arun Prasad S. IND 2529
14 GM Mirzoev Azer AZE 2519
15 GM Babujian Levon ARM 2510
16 GM Papin Vasily RUS 2510
17 IM Stopa Jacek POL 2510
18 GM Neverov Valeriy UKR 2508
19 IM Mozharov Mikhail RUS 2508
20 GM Vishnu Prasanna. V IND 2505
21 IM Ashwin Jayaram IND 2487
22 GM Kunte Abhijit IND 2476
23 GM Hayrapetyan Hovik ARM 2472
24 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J. IND 2471
25 GM Drazic Sinisa SRB 2469
26 IM Rzayev Bahruz AZE 2466
27 IM Swapnil S. Dhopade IND 2454
28 IM Thejkumar M. S. IND 2452
29 IM Gagare Shardul IND 2449
30 GM Neelotpal Das IND 2445
31 IM Karthikeyan Murali IND 2444
32 GM Yagupov Igor RUS 2440
33 IM Nolte Rolando PHI 2436
Nice field.