Albanian Chess Federation is organizing the International Open Chess Tournament “Durres 2014″ on 1-8th November 2014 in the Conference Hall of the Hotel “Bleart”**** in Durres, one of the most ancient and significant cities of Albania, situated on the Adriatic Coast.

More information about the tournament format and prizes here.

The preliminary list of players consists of 20 players from 10 different federations (Albania, Bosna and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, FIDE, Greece, Italy, Former YUG Rep of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia), including 11 GMs, 2 IMs and 1 WGM.

Top seed is Bulgarian GM Kiril Georgiev (2618).

Contacts:
Tournament Director: Mrs. Majlinda Pilinçi
E-mail: pmajlinda@yahoo.com;
Tel.: ++355692589298
Tournament coordinator: Mr. Elton Babamusta
E- mail: ebabamusta@yahoo.com;
Tel: ++355692021300

Official website/ Open Durres 2014/ Open Durres 2013

Preliminary list of participants (top seeds):

1 GM Georgiev Kiril BUL 2618
2 GM Kozul Zdenko CRO 2613
3 GM Dervishi Erald ALB 2569
4 GM Nikolaidis Ioannis GRE 2559
5 GM Brunello Sabino ITA 2552
6 GM Kuljasevic Davorin CRO 2543
7 GM Dizdarevic Emir BIH 2529
8 GM Kovacevic Aleksandar SRB 2512
9 GM Blagojevic Dragisa MNE 2495
10 IM Pancevski Filip MKD 2482
11 GM Drasko Milan MNE 2434
12 GM Drazic Sinisa SRB 2426
13 IM Mehmeti Dritan ALB 2423
14 WGM Videnova Iva BUL 2388
15 Pasko Llambi ALB 2303

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