Expect the Third Festival of the ChessBomb Tour 2017

THE TOURNAMENT IS CANCELED

OPEN CHESS GRAND PRIX IN BLITZ OUTDOORS 

ChessBomb Tour 2017

Bulgaria

Organizers: the chess portal ChessBomb.com and the Chess Club ChessBomb - Plovdiv

With the support of the municipalities of Sofia, Plovdiv, Varna, Burgas and Vidin

             

The chain will include four festivals. Each festival will include qualification tournaments:

• Tournaments of Group A - for international players with ELO> 2100
• Tournaments of Group B - for players with an international ELO <2200
• Tournaments of Group C - for children up to 16 years (born after 01.01.2001)  

The Festivals will be held according to the following schedule:

• Festival I on 06.05.2017, in the town of Sofia - tournaments A1, B1, C1
• Festival II on 03.06.2017, in the town of Plovdiv - tournaments A2, B2, C2
• Festival III on 01.06.2017, in the town of Varna - canceled
• Festival IV on 05.08.2017, in the town of Bourgas - tournaments AB4, C4
• Festival III on 09.09.2017, in the town of Vidin - tournaments AB3, C3
• Final tournament in the town of Plovdiv.

In the Final tournament will take part those 20 chess players who ranked:

• among the first 3 in one of the the tournament A1-A4 - 12 finalists;
• first in one of the tournaments B1-B4 and C1-C4 - 8 finalists.

The 10 participants, invited by the organizers, will also take part in the Final tournament. They will be ten of the best chess players in the world chess elite. They will play with the participants in the Final tournament.

All 30 participants in the Final tournament will be awarded.

REGULATION OF THE QUALIFICATION TOURNAMENT IN VIDIN

• The tournament AB3 - open - Group A and B
• The tournaments of Group C will be for children up to 16 years (born after 01.01.2001)

The Festival III will be held in VIDIN, near the Gallery of art Nikola Petrov.

The right to participate in tournament AB3 and C3 have all the players who declare their participation in the tournament till 08.09.2017 and pay the tournament fee. Preliminary applications are accepted on email: aleksandar.delchev@gmail.com and on phone: +359 877657700 Emilia Djingirova

IMPORTANT! Preliminary applications pay  tournament tax reduced with 5 leva.

PROGRAMME OF TOURNAMENTS:

11:00 am to 1:00 pm. - Registration of participants
1.00 pm - Announcing the participants for the three tournaments and Technical Conference
1.30 pm - Opening of the Festival
2.00 pm - I Round
2.30 pm - II Round
3.00 pm - III Round
3:30 pm - IV Round
4.00 pm - V Round
4.30 pm - VI Round
Pause
5.30 pm - VII round
6.00 pm - VIII Round
6.30 pm - IX Round
7.00 pm -  Closing Tournaments and awarding the winners

CONTROL AND SYSTEM OF A PLAY

• The tournament AB will be held in 13 rounds following the Swiss system, according to the FIDE tournament rules and FIDE Regulation from 1.07.2014. (Appendix В. Bliz - В4). The playing couples will be determined using the Swiss Manager software
• The tournament C will be held in 9 rounds following the Swiss system, according to the FIDE tournament rules and FIDE Regulation from 1.07.2014(Appendix В. Bliz - В4) . The playing couples will be determined using the Swiss Manager software.

The time control of all tournaments will be 5 minutes per player until the end of the game with the increment of three (3) seconds per move starting from the first.

TIE-BREAK
The ranking of players whose finishing points are equal is determined by:
(A) The result of the games between players in the same group;
(B) Reduced Buchholz-1;
(C) Buchholz;
(D) Number of games won.

You can learn more for the First festival of the ChessBomb Tour 2017 and for the Second festival of the ChessBomb Tour 2017  in the ChessBomb blog.

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Varna Open 2014

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Watch the 8th International Varna Open 2014 tournament with computer analysis:
Varna 2014

Official webpage

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The international chess tournament Varna Open was held in Varna, Bulgaria from 19th until 27th June 2014, despite the adverse weather conditions in Varna, which unfortunately took 13 victims. The winner of Varna Open 2014 is GM Hovhannes Gabuzyan of Armenia.

Alongside Varna Open, another two tournaments were held. Over 100 children from Bulgaria, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, and Azerbaijan took part in the Eleventh edition of 'The Hopes of the World'. The tournament 'The Fans of Chess' was for players with FIDE rating below 2250.

 

Photo: http://chessvarna.com

Final results

Rk.				Name			FED	RtgI	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1			GM	Gabuzyan Hovhannes			ARM	2537	7.5	49.5	45.5	6
2			GM	Dobrov Vladimir			RUS	2515	6.5	47.0	43.0	5
3			IM	Dimitrov Radoslav			BUL	2450	6.5	45.0	42.0	5
4			IM	Bernadskiy Vitaliy			UKR	2541	6.0	49.0	45.0	5
5			GM	Drenchev Petar			BUL	2487	6.0	47.0	44.5	5
6			IM	Nikolov Sasho			BUL	2358	6.0	43.5	40.5	5
7			IM	Khusenkhojaev Muhammad			TJK	2381	5.5	51.0	47.5	4
8			GM	Janev Evgeni			BUL	2439	5.0	47.5	43.5	5
9			IM	Santiago Yago De Moura			BRA	2466	5.0	47.0	43.0	4
10			FM	Deac Bogdan-Daniel			ROU	2391	5.0	46.0	44.0	2
11			IM	Borisenko Andrei			RUS	2413	5.0	45.0	42.0	3
12			IM	Barbosa Evandro Amorim			BRA	2471	5.0	41.5	38.5	5
13			GM	Nikolov Momchil			BUL	2518	5.0	41.5	38.5	3
14			IM	Panbukchian Valentin			BUL	2335	5.0	40.0	37.0	4
15				Pradeep Kumar R.A.			IND	2268	4.5	37.5	34.5	4
16				Gaafar Mahmoud			EGY	2115	4.5	33.5	31.5	4
17			FM	Tonkov Boyan			BUL	2289	4.0	47.0	43.0	3
18			FM	Rudakov Aleksandr			RUS	2310	4.0	40.0	38.0	3
19			IM	Kukov Velislav			BUL	2410	4.0	40.0	37.5	3
20			GM	Spassov Liuben			BUL	2322	4.0	38.0	35.0	2
21				Asgarov Mushfig			AZE	2192	4.0	37.5	35.5	3
22				Surendran N.			IND	2268	4.0	37.5	34.5	2
23				Gurvich Vitaly			RUS	2129	4.0	35.5	32.5	3
24				Zymberi Astrit			ALB	2120	4.0	33.5	31.0	2
25				Galunova Tsveta			BUL	2049	4.0	32.5	30.5	2
26				Semsiu Agim			MKD	2030	3.0	38.5	36.0	1
27				Sidorov Anton			RUS	1993	2.5	35.5	33.0	1
28				Janev Pavel			BUL	2257	2.5	34.0	32.0	2
29				Lotfy Abdel Rahman			EGY	2154	2.5	32.5	30.5	2
30				Ilieva Hristina			BUL	2091	2.5	31.5	29.5	1
31				Haskel Jeffrey			USA	2241	1.5	34.5	32.0	1
32				Hristov Petar			BUL	2005	1.5	31.0	29.0	0

 

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