Dibyendu Barua Chess Academy and Allsport Management are organizing the 2nd International Grandmasters Chess Tournament from 15-24th March at the Indian Council For Cultural Relations, 9A Ho Chi Minh Sarani, Kolkata-71, India.

The total prize fund is INR 10,00,000/- (approx 15,000 EUR).

The tournament will be conducted as per FIDE Laws Of Chess and FIDE Swiss System of 9 rounds. The time control will be 90 minutes plus 30 seconds increment from move 1 for entire game.

131 players from 11 countries are taking part in the event. Among them are 31 Grandmasters and 26 International Masters.

Official website

Participants (top seeds):

1 GM Short Nigel ENG 2664
2 GM Kokarev Dmitry RUS 2638
3 GM Quesada Perez Yuniesky CUB 2637
4 GM Ortiz Suarez Isan Reynaldo CUB 2625
5 GM Ganguly Surya Shekhar IND 2603
6 GM Gopal G.N. IND 2575
7 GM Lu Shanglei CHN 2570
8 GM Sandipan Chanda IND 2569
9 GM Kotsur Pavel KAZ 2567
10 GM Sengupta Deep IND 2567
11 GM Stupak Kirill BLR 2567
12 GM Lalith Babu M.R. IND 2556
13 GM Kovalev Vladislav BLR 2531
14 GM Abdulla Al-Rakib BAN 2521
15 GM Oral Tomas CZE 2519
16 IM Wang Chen CHN 2500
17 GM Rahman Ziaur BAN 2496
18 GM Shyam Sundar M. IND 2491
19 GM Kunte Abhijit IND 2485
20 GM Ankit R. Rajpara IND 2477
21 GM Deepan Chakkravarthy J. IND 2476
22 GM Kostenko Petr KAZ 2466
23 IM Das Arghyadip IND 2461
24 IM Narayanan Srinath IND 2459
25 GM Bakre Tejas IND 2458
26 IM Swapnil S. Dhopade IND 2450
27 IM Lin Chen CHN 2448
28 GM Neelotpal Das IND 2446
29 Xu Yinglun CHN 2443
30 IM Swayams Mishra IND 2440
31 GM Hossain Enamul BAN 2437
32 IM Das Sayantan IND 2433
33 IM Himanshu Sharma IND 2432
34 GM Roy Chowdhury Saptarshi IND 2422
35 IM Gagare Shardul IND 2417
36 IM Shyam Nikil P. IND 2417
37 IM Rathnakaran K. IND 2411
38 GM Sriram Jha IND 2409
39 Ravi Teja S. IND 2401
40 IM Satyapragyan Swayangsu IND 2394
41 Visakh Nr IND 2389
42 IM Stany G.A. IND 2380
43 GM Laxman R.R. IND 2375
44 WGM Soumya Swaminathan IND 2366
45 Vignesh Nr IND 2365
46 IM Konguvel Ponnuswamy IND 2362
47 IM Kulkarni Vikramaditya IND 2354
48 FM Thakur Akash IND 2348
49 Abhishek Kelkar IND 2343
50 Gusain Himal IND 2343

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