Bamberg Open 2018

The Bamberg Open (Prof. Dr. Robert Pfleger Memorial) is a 7-round Swiss tournament taking place between 9th and 13th of May 2018 in Bamberg, Germany.

Time control: the players receive 90 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 15 minutes to the end of the game, plus a 30-second increment starting from move one.

The prize pool is 10,000 Euro, with 1,500 Euro for first place.

The players: 220 players from 15 nations are plaing in groups A and B. In the tournament take part famous playes as: the 20-year-old GM Aleksander Donchenko and GM Boris Chatalbashev from Bulgaria and the German Grandmaster Vitaly Kuninq as well as the young stars - the 13-year-old international champion Vincent Keymer, winner in the Karlsruhe Grenke Open and the 17-year-old international champion Roven Vogel, winner in the U16 World Championship 2016.

Official site

Schedule: (UTC)

Round 1    May 9, 2018    16:00 
Round 2    May 10, 2018    08:00 
Round 3    May 10, 2018    14:00 
Round 4    May 11, 2018    15:30 
Round 5    May 12, 2018    08:00 
Round 6    May 12, 2018    15:00 
Round 7    May 13, 2018    07:00   

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