Wednesday, February 08, 2012

2nd Schoenenwerd Open in Switzerland


2nd Schoenenwerd Open in Switzerland

The 2nd Schoenenwerd Weekend CHessOpen is set tot ake place from 10th to 12th February at the Hotel Storchen, Oltnerstrasse 16, CH-5012 Schönenwerd, Switzerland.

The tournament will be played over 5 rounds of Swiss pairings with the time control of 100 min + 30 sec increment for the whole game.

The prizes will be distributed as follows: CHF 1200,00; 1000,00; 800,00; 600,00; 500,00; 400,00; 300,00; 250,00; 200,00; 150,00; <2000 ELO: CHF 200,00

Besides the top seeded Grandmasters Evgeny Romanov and Vladimir Sergeev, there is also a group of strong Brazilian players led by GM Krikor Sevag Mekhitarian.

The 1st Schoenenwerd Open was held in October 2011.

Players list (top seeds):

1 GM Romanov Evgeny RUS 2628
2 GM Sergeev Vladimir UKR 2510
3 GM Mekhitarian Krikor Sevag BRA 2487
4 IM Barbosa Evandro Amorim BRA 2416
5 IM Molina Roberto Junio Brito BRA 2415

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

NOt bad money.