The 45th Capablanca Memorial is taking place on 9th-22nd June in Havana, Cuba. The Elite Group is a six-player double round robin with Vassily Ivanchuk  as top seed. This is Ivanchuk's fourth participation in Havana, after he won the tournament back in 2005, 2006 and 2007.

Russia is represented by Evgeny Alekseev and Ian Nepomniatchi, top Cuban players Leinier Dominguez and Lazaro Bruzon present the local challenge and Nigel Short of England is also participating.

Ivanchuk started the campaign with two victories - against Short and Alekseev. These were the only decided games as the rest of the field was relatively peaceful.






In addition, there is also Premier Group, a ten-player round robin. This event is featuring GM Almeida Quintana Omar CUB 2541, GM Quesada Perez Yuniesky CUB 2582, IM Ortiz Suarez Isan Reynaldo CUB 2544, GM Corrales Jimenez Fidel CUB 2590, GM Nogueiras Santiago Jesus CUB 2570, GM Khairullin Ildar RUS 2617, GM Cordova Emilio PER 2552, GM Hernandez Holden CUB 2543, GM Bachmann Axel PAR 2563 and GM Potkin Vladimir RUS 2634.

A number of other Cuban Grandmasters are playing the Open tournament, with 107 participants, top rated among them being Yuri Gonzalez Vidal.

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