Balaguer open chess tournament in Spain collects over 40 titled players

GM Balkan, GM Burmakin, and GM Delchev are top seeded

Over 100 players, 40 of which titled, started playing in Ciutat de Balaguer open tournament this week. GM Balkan, GM Burmakin, and GM Delchev are top seeded from a strong field.

After round 2 GM Balkan, GM Bruzon, GM Delchev, GM Gupta, IM Corrales, IM Sanches, and 20 more players have full score 2,0/2. The top pairings of round 3 are IM Guliev - GM Delchev, IM Kovacevic - GM Gupta, and GM Bruzon - IM Van Riemsdijk.

The tournament will be 10 rounds Swiss system, with rate of play 90 mins for 40 moves + 30 mins to the end and time increment 30 sec. The total prize fund is 13 000 eur.

Balaguer open participants

1 GM Baklan Vladimir UKR
2 GM Burmakin Vladimir RUS
3 GM Delchev Aleksander BUL
4 GM Kurnosov Igor RUS
5 GM Bruzon Batista Lazaro CUB
6 GM Mirzoev Azer AZE
7 GM Levin Felix GER
8 GM Gupta Abhijeet IND
9 GM Aroshidze Levan GEO
10 IM Corrales Jimenez Fidel CUB
11 GM Kasparov Sergey BLR
12 IM Sanchez Joseph PHI
13 GM Babaev Rashad AZE
14 IM Bhat Vinay S USA
15 IM Colovic Aleksandar MKD
16 GM Pogorelov Ruslan UKR
17 IM Sengupta Deep IND
18 IM Roeder Matthias GER
19 IM Guliev Logman AZE
20 Ipatov Alexander UKR
21 IM Kovacevic Slobodan SRB
22 IM Van Riemsdijk Herman C BRA
23 Swapnil S Dhopade IND
24 Mihailovs Jurijs LAT
25 FM Rubio Mejia Luis Ignacio ESP
26 FM Bruned Yvain ESP
27 FM Lorenzo De La Riva Lazaro ESP
28 IM Vilela De Acuna Jose Luis CUB
29 Prasanna Vishnu IND
30 WIM Gomes Mary Ann IND
31 FM Ramon Perez Jose Luis ESP
32 WGM Djingarova Emilia BUL
33 Lalith Babu M R IND
34 FM Adel Lahchaichi Oussama ESP
35 WIM Guramishvili Sopiko GEO
36 WIM Soumya Swaminathan IND
37 WFM Tsatsalashvili Keti GEO
38 Abhay T IND
39 FM Colas Longares Rafael P ESP
40 CM Martinez Lopez Ivan ESP
41 WIM Ortiz Nadya Karolina COL
42 WIM Nadig Kruttika IND
43 Bruned Boris ESP
44 CM Trepat Herranz Joan ESP
45 WIM Garcia Vicente Nieves ESP
46 Ramoneda Rumi Aitor ESP
47 wfm Mariam Danelia GEO
48 WIM Kasparova Tatiana BLR
49 CM Codina Garcia Jose ESP
50 FM Sai krishna G.V. IND
51 Gabarro Sole Ramon ESP
52 Sicilia Ruiz Manuel ESP
53 Sanuy Moncasi Albert ESP
54 Aranzana Areste Alberto ESP
55 Sanclemente Carrasquer Ignacio ESP
56 Devangi Patankar IND
57 Parramon Guillaumet Jaime ESP
58 Gensana Berzunces Joan ESP
59 Frances Cuscullola Oriol ESP
60 Bedoya Ribo Jordi ESP
61 Verdes Nadal Ramon ESP