Albanian Chess Federation is organizing the International Open Chess Tournament “Durres 2014″ on 1-8th November 2014 in the Conference Hall of the Hotel “Bleart”**** in Durres, one of the most ancient and significant cities of Albania, situated on the Adriatic Coast.

More information about the tournament format and prizes here.

The preliminary list of players consists of 61 players from 10 different federations (Albania, Bosna and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, FIDE, Greece, Italy, Former YUG Rep of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia), including 11 GMs, 2 IMs and 1 WGM.

Top seed is Serbian GM Milos Perunovic (2620).

Contacts:
Tournament Director: Mrs. Majlinda Pilinçi
E-mail: pmajlinda@yahoo.com;
Tel.: ++355692589298
Tournament coordinator: Mr. Elton Babamusta
E- mail: ebabamusta@yahoo.com;
Tel: ++355692021300

Official website/ Open Durres 2014/ Open Durres 2013

Preliminary list of participants:

1 GM Perunovic Milos SRB 2620
2 GM Georgiev Kiril BUL 2618
3 GM Kozul Zdenko CRO 2613
4 GM Dervishi Erald ALB 2569
5 GM Nikolaidis Ioannis GRE 2559
6 GM Brunello Sabino ITA 2552
7 GM Bosiocic Marin CRO 2548
8 GM Kuljasevic Davorin CRO 2543
9 GM Dizdarevic Emir BIH 2529
10 GM Kovacevic Aleksandar SRB 2512
11 GM Blagojevic Dragisa MNE 2495
12 GM Milanovic Danilo SRB 2485
13 IM Pancevski Filip MKD 2482
14 GM Drasko Milan MNE 2434
15 GM Drazic Sinisa SRB 2426
16 IM Mehmeti Dritan ALB 2423
17 WGM Videnova Iva BUL 2388
18 IM Antunac Goran CRO 2378
19 IM Seitaj Ilir ALB 2371
20 FM Rama Lorenc ALB 2316

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