Cappelle La Grande 2011

Cappelle La Grande 2011
The 27th edition of the strong open to start in France

The 27th edition of Cappelle La Grande will feature over 100 Grandmasters and 300 titled players. Top seeded is GM Krishnan Sasikiran (India), who will be aiming at the 2700 club once again. His main competition comes from 12 more players over 2600 ELO, among which GM Zhigalko, GM Kryvoruchko, GM Macieja, GM Delchev, GM Mareco, GM Gurevich, GM Vuckovic, GM Pantsulaia, GM Burmakin, and GM Iturrizaga.

The tournament is organized by “ L’Echiquier Cappellois ” chess club and takes place at the Palais des Arts in Cappelle-la-Grande, France. The tournament dates are Saturday 26th of February (round 1) to Saturday 5th of March (round 9). There is no zero default time, but players are expected to play minimum 20 moves before a draw is agreed.

The pairings will be made according to the accelerated Swiss system using the D.A.S. Method for the 7 first rounds, which once more adds to an exciting start.

Players over 2500:

1 g SASIKIRAN Krishnan 2690 F IND
2 g ZHIGALKO Sergei 2671 F BLR
3 g HARIKRISHNA P. 2667 F IND
4 g KRYVORUCHKO Yuriy 2640 F UKR
5 g MACIEJA Bartlomiej 2636 F POL
6 g DELCHEV Aleksander 2629 F BUL
7 g MARECO Sandro 2627 F ARG
8 g VUCKOVIC Bojan 2623 F SRB
9 g GUREVICH Mikhail 2613 F TUR
10 g ITURRIZAGA Eduardo 2611 F VEN
11 g PANTSULAIA Levan 2610 F GEO
12 g BURMAKIN Vladimir 2603 F RUS
13 g ZAKHARTSOV Viacheslav V. 2602 F RUS
14 g GOPAL G.N. 2597 F IND
15 g RADULSKI Julian 2590 F BUL
16 g SPASOV Vasil 2590 F BUL
17 g DZIUBA Marcin 2589 F POL
18 g GRIGORIANTS Sergey 2581 F RUS
19 g GEORGIEV Vladimir 2579 F MKD
20 g ARUTINIAN David 2578 F GEO
21 g SOLODOVNICHENKO Yuri 2577 F UKR
22 g RYCHAGOV Andrey 2575 F RUS
23 g SPRAGGETT Kevin 2575 F CAN
24 g FIER Alexandr 2571 F BRA
25 g GAJEWSKI Grzegorz 2569 F POL
26 g TIMOSHENKO Georgy 2568 F UKR
27 g KRAVTSIV Martyn 2566 F UKR
28 g ZHIGALKO Andrey 2566 F BLR
29 g LEON HOYOS Manuel 2565 F MEX
30 g ZHEREBUKH Yaroslav 2565 F UKR
31 g JANKOVIC Alojzije 2564 F CRO
32 g MIRZOEV Azer 2563 F AZE
33 g KOVCHAN Alexander 2561 F UKR
34 g SANIKIDZE Tornike 2559 F GEO
35 g HEBDEN Mark L 2558 F ENG
36 g VOROBIOV Evgeny E. 2556 F RUS
37 g BRODSKY Michail 2554 F UKR
38 g KHARITONOV Alexandr 2552 F RUS
39 g LE ROUX Jean-Pierre 2551 F FRA
40 g TIKKANEN Hans 2550 F SWE
41 g MASTROVASILIS Athanasios 2547 F GRE
42 g CORNETTE Matthieu 2544 F FRA
43 g LUTHER Thomas 2543 F GER
44 g PROHASZKA Peter 2542 F HUN
45 g MAIOROV Nikita 2540 F BLR
46 g VOVK Yuri 2539 F UKR
47 g IBRAHIMOV Rasul 2538 F AZE
48 g BERCZES David 2535 F HUN
49 g PETROV Marijan 2535 F BUL
50 g APICELLA Manuel 2531 F FRA
51 g KANEP Meelis 2531 F EST
52 g NYZHNYK Illya 2530 F UKR
53 g MEKHITARIAN Krikor Sevag 2528 F BRA
54 g VOVK Andrey 2528 F UKR
55 g KISELEV Vitaliy 2526 F RUS
56 g TESKE Henrik 2520 F GER
57 m HARIKA Dronavalli 2520 F IND
58 g SHNEIDER Aleksandr 2518 F UKR
59 g VERA GONZALEZ-QUEVED Reynaldo 2518 F CUB
60 g SZABO Krisztian 2517 F HUN
61 g JOJUA Davit 2515 F GEO
62 g FARGERE Francois 2512 F FRA
63 m IPATOV Alexander 2512 F ESP
64 g HASANGATIN Ramil 2508 F RUS
65 g TODOROV Todor 2507 F BUL
66 g PETKOV Vladimir 2506 F BUL
67 g DURARBEYLI Vasif 2504 F AZE

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