The 2012 edition of the International chess festival M.Botvinnik Memorial will take place August 25 – September 2 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The classical tournament is a stage of the Russian Cup and a week before the start includes more than 40 Grandmasters.

Top seeded are GM Areshchenko, GM Inarkiev, GM Tiviakov, GM Zvjaginsev, GM Matlakov, GM Timofeev, GM Khismatullin, GM Khairullin, GM Lysyj, GM Khalifman, GM Hovhanissyan.

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The prize fund of the M. Botvinnik Memorial is 700000 rubles from which 100000 are for the winner.

The time control of the tournament is 90 minutes for 40 moves, 30 seconds increment per move from move 1. Players who are late for the game for 30 minutes get loss by default. No draw offer can be made before move 41. A total of 9 round Swiss system will be played, valid for FIDE rating and international norms. The venue of the M. Botvinnik Memorial is hotel “Park” (metro station “Krestovsky ostrov”, Severnaya doroga 12, St. Petersburg, Russia).

More entries are accepted this week by email and phone, or from 9:30 till 20:00 on August 24, from 9:30 till 12:45 on August 25 at the playing hall. There will be an additional pairing for the players registered on August 25 from 12:45 till 16:45.

More information:
spbchessfederation@yahoo.com, +7 (921) 441 8 144 – Irina Sudakova

Participants

Name Elo Titile Fed b-year
1 Areshchenko, Alexander 2691 g UKR 1986
2 Inarkiev, Ernesto 2683 g RUS 1985
3 Tiviakov, Sergey 2674 g NED 1973
4 Zvjaginsev, Vadim 2671 g RUS 1976
5 Matlakov, Maxim 2663 g RUS 2663
6 Timofeev, Artyom 2639 g RUS 1985
7 Khismatullin, Denis 2636 g RUS 1984
8 Khairullin, Ildar 2633 g RUS 1990
9 Lysyj, Igor 2624 g RUS 1987
10 Khalifman, Alexander 2621 g RUS 1966
11 Hovhanissyan, Robert 2612 g ARM 1991
12 Demchenko, Anton 2603 m RUS 1987
13 Andriasian, Zaven 2600 g ARM 1989
14 Aleksandrov, Aleksej 2597 g BLR 1973
15 Bocharov, Dmitry 2597 g RUS 1982
16 Romanov, Evgeny 2595 g RUS 1988
17 Ponkratov, Pavel 2589 g RUS 1988
18 Maletin, Pavel 2587 g RUS 1986
19 Kovalenko, Igor 2586 g UKR 1988
20 Yemelin, Vasily 2579 g RUS 1976
21 Grigoryan, Avetik 2579 g ARM 1989
22 Kovchan, Alexander 2576 g UKR 1983
23 Epishin, Vladimir 2576 g RUS 1965
24 Kryakvin, Dmitry 2570 g RUS 1984
25 Popov, Valerij 2557 g RUS 1974
26 Yevseev, Denis 2535 g RUS 1973
43 Dvoirys, Semen I. 2533 g RUS 1958
27 Pridorozhni, Aleksei 2533 g RUS 1981
28 Ovetchkin, Roman 2526 g RUS 1973
29 Yakovich, Yuri 2525 g RUS 1962
30 Goganov, Aleksey 2525 m RUS 1991
31 Rogozenco, Dorian 2504 g ROU 1973
32 Kabanov, Nikolai 2501 g RUS 1980
33 Cherniaev, Alexander 2486 g RUS 1969
34 Predke, Alexandr 2483 RUS 1994
35 Kalegin, Evgenij 2480 m RUS 1954
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