The 21st Kavala International Open Tournament is set to take place from 25th July to 1st August in Kavala, Greece. The tournament is organized by the Kavala Chess Club and East Macedonia & Thrace Chess Union.
The players will be divided in three groups – Open A for those rated above 1900, Open B for the U2000 participants and Open C for U1050 and juniors born after 1.1.2000.
The playing venue is Foyer of Kavala Prefecture Amphitheatre (15 Erithrou Stavrou Str). Open A and Open B will be held over 9 rounds of Swiss system.
Top prizes in the Open A are 2.500 EUR, 1.500, 800, 500, 400, 300 etc. The total prize fund is 10.000 EUR.
Pre-registered (top seeds) players (Open A):
1 Gupta Abhijeet GM IND 2644
2 Saric Ivan GM CRO 2632
3 Ganguly Surya Shekhar GM IND 2627
4 Volkov Sergey GM RUS 2623
5 Sanikidze Tornike GM GEO 2616
6 Mastrovasilis Dimitrios GM GRE 2612
7 Atalik Suat GM TUR 2608
8 Papaioannou Ioannis GM GRE 2597
9 Svetushkin Dmitry GM MDA 2597
10 Jankovic Alojzije GM CRO 2564
11 Gopal G.N. GM IND 2562
12 Maiorov Nikita GM BLR 2561
13 Bosiocic Marin GM CRO 2555
14 Margvelashvili Giorgi GM GEO 2552
15 Damljanovic Branko GM SRB 2548
16 Sethuraman S.P. GM IND 2546
17 Antic Dejan GM SRB 2518
18 Benidze Davit IM GEO 2516
19 Azaladze Shota IM GEO 2489
20 Paichadze Luka IM GEO 2480
21 Maghalashvili Davit IM GEO 2478
22 Ashwin Jayaram IM IND 2471
23 Saric Sinisa IM SRB 2470
24 Marjanovic Slavoljub GM SRB 2466
25 Nigalidze Gaioz IM GEO 2465
26 Neelotpal Das GM IND 2456
27 Akshayraj Kore IM IND 2454
28 Pavlidis Antonios IM GRE 2446
29 Swapnil S. Dhopade IM IND 2445
30 Nitin S. IM IND 2417
An Indian will win it.