The 42nd International Chess Tournament Bosna is scheduled to take place from 5th to 11th May, 2012, at the Hotel Saraj in Sarajevo, BIH.
The players will be divided in two groups – Open A (elo 2200 and higher) and Open B (U2300). Both groups will be played over 9 rounds of Swiss system.
The total prize fund is 19.895 EUR. Open A will offer 15.950 EUR (1st place 4.200 EUR, 2.700, 2.000, 1.500, 1.000, 800 etc), Open B 2.370 EUR (750, 500, 300, 250, 200 etc), women prizes 1.150 EUR and special prizes 425 EUR.
Entry fees are 25 and 30 EUR, players rated above 2450 elo do not pay.
The organizers offer HB double room to players rated 2550-2599 and HB single room to players rated 2600 and higher. Preliminary list bellow.
Preliminary list (Open A top seeds):
1. GM Postny Evgeny ISR 2662
2. GM Predojevic Borki BIH 2636
3. GM Erdos Viktor HUN 2631
4. GM Beliavsky Alexander G SLO 2630
5. GM Melkumyan Hrant ARM 2628
6. GM Kozul Zdenko CRO 2602
7. GM Palac Mladen CRO 2593
8. GM Brkic Ante CRO 2587
9. GM Banusz Tamas HUN 2583
10. GM Ipatov Alexander TUR 2561
11. GM Popovic Dusan SRB 2561
12. GM Kovacevic Aleksandar SRB 2557
13. GM Miladinovic Igor SRB 2555
14. GM Jankovic Alojzije CRO 2553
15. IM Yilmaz Mustafa TUR 2530
Where’s Kosteniuk? Why she wasn’t invited for this one?
After “Bosna” tournament chess career is on the rise among all players:
Magnus Carlsen: age 15, performance 2700
19.05.2006 – This week the Bosna 2006 tournament was held in Sarajevo, Bosnia, with six players averaging 2659 Elo points. It was won by three players who scored 5.5/10, amongst them a 15-year-old boy, whose performance was very close to the 2700 level. This could well be a record for anyone of his age. Report and games and a correction!
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Kasparov rose quickly through the FIDE (World Chess Federation) rankings. Starting with an oversight by the Russian Chess Federation, he participated in a Grandmaster tournament in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina (then part of Yugoslavia), in 1979 while still unrated (He was a replacement for Viktor Korchnoi who was originally invited but withdrew due to threat of boycott from the Soviet). He won this high-class tournament, emerging with a provisional rating of 2595, enough to catapult him to the top group of chess players (at the time, number 15 in the World[14]).