The 21st World Senior Chess Championships
will be held in Opatija, Croatia, from November 14, 2011 (arrival of the participants) until November 27, 2011 (day of departure).

The Championship is organized by the Chess club “Rijeka” in agreement with Croatian Chess Federation, under the auspices of the Mountain-litoral County, the City of Rijeka and the City of Opatija.

The 21st World Senior Chess Championship for men and women is open to all players representing the FIDE Chess Federations, regardless of their title or rating, providing that the male tournament participants were born in 1951 or before, and that the female tournament participants were born in 1961 or before. There is no limit to the number of participants per federation.

The championship will be based on 11 rounds of Swiss system in accordance with the FIDE Tournament Rules and FIDE Rules of Chess.

The playing time will be 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an increment of 30 seconds per move, starting from move one.

The Article 6.6. of the Rules of Chess will be applied – each player being late at the beginning of his match will loose the game.

The women play their own tournament to determine the Women World Senior Champion 2011.

WGM Tamar Khmiadashvili (four times World Senior Champion) and GM Anatoly Vaisser are coming back to defend their last year titles. The 2009 Champions GM Miso Cebalo and GM Nona Gaprindashvili (former World Champion and twice World Senior Champion), and reigning European Senior Champion GM Mihai Suba will also compete.

The total prize fund amounts to 15.000,00 euro, of which 12.000,00 will be paid to the male players, while 3.000,00 euro will be reserved for female players.

The prizes for the male tournament will be handed over as follows:
1. prize 2.100,00 €, trophy and gold medal
2. prize 1.700,00 € and silver medal
3. prize 1.500,00 € and bronze medal
4. prize 1.200,00 €
5. prize 1.000,00 €
6. prize 900,00 €
7. prize 800,00 €
8. prize 700,00 €
9. prize 600,00 €
10. prize 500,00 €
11. prize 400,00 €
12. prize 300,00 €
13. prize 200,00 €
14. prize 100,00 €

The prizes for the female tournament will be handed over as follows:
1. prize 800,00 €, trophy and gold medal
2. prize 700,00 € and silver medal
3. prize 600,00 € and gold medal
4. prize 400,00 €
5. prize 300,00 €
6. prize 200,00 €

The entire prize fund in the amount of 15.000,00 € will be paid by the Organiser to FIDE prior to the end of the championship. FIDE will effect the payment of prizes to the players. The players who will be awarded the prizes are obliged to contact the Organiser and provide their bank account details in order to receive payment by FIDE.

21st World Senior Chess Championship – women section top 10 seeds:

1 GM Gaprindashvili Nona GEO 2360
2 WGM Fatalibekova Elena RUS 2285
3 WGM Kozlovskaya Valentina RUS 2281
4 WIM Strutinskaya Galina N RUS 2277
5 WGM Saunina Ludmila RUS 2274
6 WIM Fomina Tatyana EST 2215
7 Zaitseva Tamara RUS 2183
8 WGM Khmiadashvili Tamar GEO 2166
9 WFM Miednikova Swietlana RUS 2165
10 WIM Bilunova Rimma I RUS 2151

21st World Senior Chess Championship (top 25 seeds):

1. GM Vaisser Anatoly FRA 2536
2. GM Kurajica Bojan BIH 2524
3. GM Rashkovsky Nukhim N RUS 2517
4. GM Timoscenko Gennadij SVK 2483
5. GM Cebalo Miso CRO 2478
6. GM Jansa Vlastimil CZE 2478
7. GM Suba Mihai ROU 2471
8. GM Vasiukov Evgeni RUS 2455
9. IM Fradkin Boris RUS 2445
10. IM Okhotnik Vladimir FRA 2445
11. IM Blechzin Igor RUS 2442
12. GM Balashov Yuri S RUS 2439
13. Kuyindzhi Alexander A RUS 2435
14. IM Rukavina Josip CRO 2431
15. IM Zhelnin Vladimir V RUS 2430
16. IM Shvedchikov Anatoli I RUS 2422
17. IM Danner Georg AUT 2408
18. IM Trofimov Sergey RUS 2408
19. FM Mishuchkov Nikolai M RUS 2407
20. GM Pushkov Nikolai RUS 2404
21. GM Chernikov Oleg L RUS 2402
22. GM Rantanen Yrjo A FIN 2400
23. GM Butnorius Algimantas LTU 2388
24. IM Klundt Klaus GER 2385
25. IM Katalymov Boris KAZ 2374

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