Swiss System 9 rounds, invitational FIDE rated tournament, 70-80 players, minimum required FIDE rating 2200 (women 2000), GM & IM title norms possible, FIDE time-control (90 minutes for 40 moves followed by 30 minutes until the end of the game plus increment of 30 seconds per move from move 1). A player who has not arrived one hour after the start of the round is forfeited.
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Sad accident yesterday – a greek player died of heart-attack during the first round. His opponent Dan Zoler withdrew from the tournament
In al the tournaments in greece they are ignoring the instant forfeit rule. When they declared the rule as invalid for those tournaments, the players all started applauding 🙂