World Chess Open 2010
45 titled players in Leon
The 2nd World Chess Open tournament will take place 1-3 January, 2010, in Leon, Spain. 45 titled players, of which 17 GMs will collect for this year’s edition of the tournament.
The 2010 Wolrd Chess Open is 9 rounds FIDE Swiss tournament with 2 games friday, 2 games saturday morning, 3 games saturday afternoon, and 2 games sunday morning. Every game has time control 35 minutes and 3 additional seconds by move. The total prize fund is over 30,000 eur.
Here is the confirmed list of participants for 2010.
1 GM Georgiev Kiril BUL 2672
2 GM Krasenkow Michal POL 2656
3 GM Granda Zuniga Julio E PER 2640
4 GM Huebner Robert Dr GER 2603
5 GM Nikolic Predrag BIH 2603
6 GM Gurevich Mikhail TUR 2597
7 GM Andersson Ulf SWE 2582
8 GM Salgado Lopez Ivan ESP 2562
9 GM Del Rio De Angelis Salvador G ESP 2544
10 GM Movsziszian Karen ARM 2541
11 GM San Segundo Carrillo Pablo ESP 2541
12 GM Gulko Boris F USA 2535
13 GM Ubilava Elizbar ESP 2526
14 GM Cifuentes Parada Roberto ESP 2525
15 GM Kurajica Bojan BIH 2517
16 IM Llaneza Vega Marcos ESP 2514
17 GM Romanishin Oleg M UKR 2510
18 IM Recuero Guerra David ESP 2494
19 IM Ipatov Alexander ESP 2487
20 IM Larino Nieto David ESP 2467
21 IM Moreno Ruiz Javier ESP 2459
22 IM Pilgaard Kim DEN 2435
23 IM Pena Gomez Manuel ESP 2432
24 IM Guerra Bastida Diego ESP 2429
25 GM Hoffman Alejandro ARG 2426
More information here: http://previews.chessdom.com/world-chess-open-2010
Impressive field.