The 22nd Open International Tournament of Kavala is set to take place on 6-13th August at the Foyer of Kavala Prefecture Amphitheatre in Kavala, Greece.
The tournament is organized by the Kavala Chess Club and East Macedonia & Thrace Chess Union.
There will be three playing groups: Open A (for players rated over 1900), Open B (U2000 elo) and Open C (U1050 elo and U13 years of age). All groups will be played over nine rounds of Swiss system.
The total prize fund is 8500 EUR. Top prizes are EUR 2000, 1200, 750, 500, 400 etc.
Last year winner was GM Abhijeet Gupta
Participants Open A:
1 GM Mastrovasilis Dimitrios GRE 2606
2 GM Nevednichy Vladislav ROU 2603
3 GM Svetushkin Dmitry MDA 2603
4 GM Nabaty Tamir ISR 2579
5 GM Kovchan Alexander UKR 2577
6 GM Vidit Santosh Gujrathi IND 2554
7 GM Rychagov Andrey RUS 2544
8 GM Kharitonov Alexandr RUS 2538
9 GM Paichadze Luka GEO 2537
10 GM Vaibhav Suri IND 2528
11 GM Firman Nazar UKR 2526
12 GM Gopal G.N. IND 2525
13 GM Mastrovasilis Athanasios GRE 2523
14 IM Nigalidze Gaioz GEO 2497
15 IM Benidze Davit GEO 2495
16 GM Kosic Dragan MNE 2490
17 IM Azaladze Shota GEO 2481
18 IM Pavlidis Antonios GRE 2473
19 GM Antic Dejan SRB 2470
20 GM Danielian Elina ARM 2470
21 IM Ashwin Jayaram IND 2470
22 IM Javakhadze Zurab GEO 2455
23 FM Lilov Valeri BUL 2434
24 IM Ankit R. Rajpara IND 2421
25 GM Papadopoulos Ioannis K. GRE 2415
26 IM Firat Burak TUR 2414
27 WGM Batsiashvili Nino GEO 2405
28 WGM Bulmaga Irina ROU 2403
29 Kourousis Epaminondas GRE 2391
30 IM Kanmazalp Ogulcan TUR 2384
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