Hotel “Park” in St. Petersburg will once again be a host of a strong open tournament, and once again the event will be honoring a chess legend. The Chigorin Memorial will take place October 27 – November 4 as part of the Russian Cup competitions. It will be s Swiss tournament with time control 90 minutes for 40 moves, 30 seconds increment per move from move 1.

A total of 105 titiled players, 63 of them Grandmasters, and 4 over 2700 ELO will participate in the event. Top seeded is the Latvian GM Alexei Shirov, who will have as strongest opponent the winner of the previous SPB major event, the Botvinnik Memorial winner GM Alexander Areshchenko. The other two members of the 2700 club participating are the bronze medalist from ETCC 2011 GM Zoltan Almasi and the gold medalist from the Chess Olympiad in Istanbul GM Vladimir Akopian. 

Other top players in the Chigorin Memorial 2012 are GM Nikita Vitiugov, GM Evgeny Alekseev, GM Pavel Eljanov, GM Krisnan Sasikiran, GM Vadim Zvjaginsev, GM Boris Grachev, GM Maxim Matlakov, GM Parimarjan Negi, GM Ildar Khairullin, GM Denis Khismatullin, GM Ilia Smirin, GM Viorel Iordachescu, GM Mateusz Bartel, etc. Scroll down for the full list of players.

All games will be live on Chessdom.com with computer analysis

Participants (top seeds)

1 GM Shirov Alexei LAT 2718
2 GM Areshchenko Alex UKR 2710
3 GM Almasi Zoltan HUN 2707
4 GM Akopian Vladimir ARM 2703
5 GM Vitiugov Nikita RUS 2691
6 GM Eljanov Pavel UKR 2681
7 GM Sasikiran Krishnan IND 2680
8 GM Zvjaginsev Vadim RUS 2678
9 GM Grachev Boris RUS 2672
10 GM Matlakov Maxim RUS 2665
11 GM Negi Parimarjan IND 2657
12 GM Khairullin Ildar RUS 2639
13 GM Khismatullin Denis RUS 2638
14 GM Smirin Ilia ISR 2638
15 GM Iordachescu Viorel MDA 2637
16 GM Bartel Mateusz POL 2635
17 GM Timofeev Artyom RUS 2631
18 GM Lysyj Igor RUS 2628
19 GM Socko Bartosz POL 2619
20 GM Lenderman Aleksandr USA 2614
21 GM Popov Ivan RUS 2614
22 GM Hovhannisyan Robert ARM 2610
23 IM Demchenko Anton RUS 2610
24 GM Swiercz Dariusz POL 2609
25 GM Andriasian Zaven ARM 2604
26 GM Shimanov Aleksandr RUS 2599
27 GM Vorobiov Evgeny E. RUS 2598
28 GM Kovalyov Anton ARG 2593
29 GM Gabrielian Artur RUS 2592
30 GM Ipatov Alexander TUR 2591
31 GM Solak Dragan TUR 2590
32 GM Durarbayli Vasif AZE 2584
33 GM Zhigalko Andrey BLR 2582
34 GM Halkias Stelios GRE 2581
35 GM Burmakin Vladimir RUS 2579
36 GM Grigoriants Sergey RUS 2578
37 GM Popov Valerij RUS 2577
38 GM Epishin Vladimir RUS 2574
39 GM Grigoryan Avetik ARM 2572
40 GM Shomoev Anton RUS 2571
41 GM Brodsky Michail UKR 2563
42 GM Lintchevski Daniil RUS 2562
43 GM Malakhatko Vadim BEL 2558
44 GM Onischuk Vladimir UKR 2558
45 GM Ionov Sergey RUS 2550
46 GM Jumabayev Rinat KAZ 2545
47 GM Yevseev Denis RUS 2545
48 GM Savchenko Boris RUS 2540
49 GM Vocaturo Daniele ITA 2534
50 GM Alsina Leal Daniel ESP 2528
51 IM Goganov Aleksey RUS 2526
52 GM Cori Jorge PER 2522
53 GM Stupak Kirill BLR 2520
54 GM Levin Evgeny A. RUS 2516
55 GM Makarov Marat RUS 2516
56 GM Al-Sayed Mohammed QAT 2511
57 IM Baryshpolets Andrey UKR 2510
58 GM Soffer Ram ISR 2506
59 IM Mozharov Mikhail RUS 2505
60 GM Ajrapetjan Yuriy UKR 2502
61 IM Rozum Ivan RUS 2498
62 GM Portisch Lajos HUN 2495
63 GM Neverov Valeriy UKR 2494
64 IM Stukopin Andrey RUS 2494
65 IM Eliseev Urii RUS 2486
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Susan Polgar October 27, 2012 General News, Major Tournaments Leave a comment
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