European Rapid Chess Championship 2011
The European Rapid Chess Championship will take place in Warsaw 17th -18th of December 2011, with the participation of 790 chess players.
The European Rapid Chess Championship is organized by Warsaw Foundation for Chess Development in cooperation with the Polish Chess Federation, under the auspices of the European Chess Union. The total prize fund of the event is 20 000 eur as 4000 eur are for the winner.
There will be a parallel blitz chess championship on December 16th, see the participants list in blitz here.
Live games with analysis will be daily on Chessdom.com
Participants (top seeds)
1 GM Nepomniachtchi, Ian RUS 2730
2 GM Bacrot, Etienne FRA 2714
3 GM Naiditsch, Arkadij GER 2712
4 GM Polgar, Judit HUN 2710
5 GM Riazantsev, Alexander RUS 2710
6 GM Movsesian, Sergei ARM 2710
7 GM Dreev, Aleksey RUS 2710
8 GM Shirov, Alexei ESP 2705
9 GM Wojtaszek, Radoslaw POL 2705
10 GM Volokitin, Andrei UKR 2695
11 GM Potkin, Vladimir RUS 2684
12 GM Jobava, Baadur GEO 2678
13 GM Azarov, Sergei BLR 2667
14 GM Kryvoruchko, Yuriy UKR 2666
15 GM Bologan, Viktor MDA 2665
16 GM Korobov, Anton UKR 2660
17 GM Timofeev, Artyom RUS 2659
18 GM Bartel, Mateusz POL 2653
19 GM Zhigalko, Sergei BLR 2651
20 GM Belov, Vladimir RUS 2641
21 GM Landa, Konstantin RUS 2639
22 GM Jones, Gawain C B ENG 2635
23 GM Socko, Bartosz POL 2635
24 GM Howell, David W L ENG 2633
25 GM Romanov, Evgeny RUS 2627
26 GM Erdos, Viktor HUN 2623
27 GM Sjugirov, Sanan RUS 2622
28 GM Mastrovasilis, Dimitrios GRE 2621
29 GM Andriasian, Zaven ARM 2619
30 GM Gajewski, Grzegorz POL 2616
31 GM Melkumyan, Hrant ARM 2615
32 GM Markowski, Tomasz POL 2606
33 GM Kempinski, Robert POL 2603
34 GM Kravtsiv, Martyn UKR 2601
Very strong field.
Looks like Ian is regretting what he had for lunch.