Information and Regulations
of the International Chess Open Festival “AEROFLOT OPEN 2010”
and the Qualification Tournament for the World Blitz Championship 2010.
General information of the festival:
The International Chess Festival “Aeroflot Open 2010” will be held in Moscow from 8 February (the day of arrival) to 19 February 2010 (the day of departure).
The Aeroflot Open Chess Festival, which is popular throughout the world, will be held in February 2010 for the ninth time running. This major event is open to chess players of most varied qualification: from unrated to having a very high rating. As before, the festival is held “under the wings” of our leading air company – Aeroflot. For the fifth year running the festival will take place in the major tourist complex “Izmailovo” – hotel “Gamma – Delta”, where the participants of the previous festivals so liked to stay and to play. This time the festival has the same prize fund as in 2009 amounting to EUR 180 000 (taking into account the prizes for the World Blitz Qualification Tournament).
Four Open Tournaments (A1,A2, B and C) are made up according to the rating of the participants. Naturally, the gratest interest is aroused by A1 tournament, requiring from a participant a rating above 2550 and usually boasting a number of extra class players.
This time, the Qualification Tournament for the World Blitz Championship will be held within the festival, in addition to four open tournaments.
The official hotel and tournament venue is the hotel “Gamma-Delta” belonging to the Tourist Complex “Ismailovo”.
The Organizers of the Festival are the “Aeroflot-Russian Airlines”, the Association of Chess Federations and the Russian Chess Federation in cooperation with the Committee on Tourism of the Municipality of Moscow.
Official website: http://www.aeroflotchess.com
How come the USCF can’t put together a tournament like this?