The International Open Tournament Llucmajor 2013 will take place from April 28th to May 5th at the Club Náutico de LLucmajor, 8 kms away from the Palma de Mallorca International Airport, Spain.

It is a 9-rounds Swiss open with a time control of 90 minutes for the whole games plus 30 seconds increments from the first move.

There will be over 4.600 Euros in prizes, distributed as follows: 1st – 1.200 Euros; 2nd – 800 Euros; 3rd – 600 Euros, etc. There will also be category prizes for players with ratings under 2400, 2300, 2150, 2000, 1850 and 1700.

A whopping 108 players from 15 countries registered to participate, including 11 GMs and 13 IMs. Bulgarian GM Vladimir Petkov is the first seed, followed by two Spanish representatives, Alexis Cabrera and David Larino.

Tournament website

Participants (top seeds):

1 GM Petkov Vladimir BUL 2566
2 GM Cabrera Alexis ESP 2529
3 GM Lariño Nieto David ESP 2508
4 GM Levin Felix GER 2507
5 IM Arribas Lopez Angel ESP 2494
6 GM Galego Luis POR 2488
7 GM Savchenko Stanislav UKR 2487
8 GM Del Rio De Angelis Salvador G ESP 2484
9 GM Krivoshey Sergei UKR 2483
10 GM Kasparov Sergey BLR 2478
11 GM Movsziszian Karen ARM 2475
12 IM Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi IND 2471
13 IM Zaragatski Ilja GER 2469
14 IM Satyapragyan Swayangsu IND 2463
15 IM Almagro Llamas Pablo ESP 2442
16 IM Vassallo Barroche Mauricio ESP 2442
17 IM Beikert Guenther Dr. GER 2432
18 IM Panelo Marcelo ARG 2429
19 GM Pogorelov Ruslan UKR 2413
20 IM Alonso Moyano ESP 2409

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