The 88th Championnat d’Echecs de Paris takes place on 6th – 14th July at the Stade Louis Lumiere, 30 rue Louis Lumière 75020 PARIS.
The FIDE Open is available for players with an Elo rating over 2200. The first prize in this event amounts to 3.000 Euros. It is a 9 rounds Swiss open with a time control of 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, plus 30 minutes to finish the game and 30 seconds increments from move 1.
45 players have signed up to participate, including 10 GMs and 12 IMs. French GM Jean-Pierre Le Roux is the first seed, followed by Azerbaijani Namig Guliyev and French Maxime Lagarde.
The Hort system will be used to divide the prizes.
Sergey Fedorchuk won the previous edition
Participants (top seeds):
1 g LE ROUX Jean-Pierre 2595 F FRA
2 g GULIYEV Namig 2569 F AZE
3 g LAGARDE Maxime 2526 F FRA
4 g SHCHEKACHEV Andrei 2517 F FRA
5 g SANCHEZ Joseph 2516 F PHI
6 g RENET Olivier 2479 F FRA
7 m DOURERASSOU Jonathan 2476 F FRA
8 g CHABANON Jean-Luc 2468 F FRA
9 m DEMUTH Adrien 2463 F FRA
10 m SOCHACKI Christophe 2459 F FRA
11 g BESHUKOV Sergei 2449 F RUS
12 g BARLOV Dragan 2449 F SRB
13 f COTONNEC Melkior 2437 F FRA
14 m SHIRAZI Kamran 2411 F FRA
15 g TODORCEVIC ANTIC Miodrag 2410 F ESP
No top French guys?