Curaçao Chess Festival 2010 is taking place from 23rd July to 1st August 2010 at Veneto Casino Holiday Beach Resort where the games will take place in the meeting & banquet rooms Giorgio and Mini Giorgio.
The tournament consists of a Open and Youth (under 19) section. The event will be a 9 rounds Swiss System run under the FIDE rules of chess. Players will be paired accordingly to the FIDE regulations using the Swiss Master program. The time control is 1 hour 30 minutes for the whole game with incremental time of 30 seconds per move from move 1.
GM Joel Benjamin hosted a chess workshop on the evening of 22nd July, while IM Robert Ris played a simul earlier that day.
Official websiteThe Curaçao Chess Festival was initiated in 2001 by the Curaçao Chess Players’ Foundation in a new set up for the international chess tournaments that the CCPF had organized since 1993. International grand masters and masters were invited to come to Curaçao to participate.
The first Curaçao Chess Festival was held in the Van der Valk Plaza hotel, in the same hotel where the 1962 candidate tournament was held, which was then part of the Intercontinental hotel chain. Famous grand masters, such as Bobby Fischer, Tigran Petrosjan, Michael Tal, Paul Keres and Viktor Kortsnoj played in that memorable tournament for the right to play the world champ (at that time Michael Botvinnik).
