The 75th Spanish Absolute Individual Chess Championship is being played as 9-rounds Swiss open with 114 players, on 4-12th August, at La Pirámide, Avenida de las Palmeras, El Sauzal, Tenerife.

CajaCanarias Chess Center is organizing the Championship on the occasion of celebration of its one hundredth anniversary.

Top 15 finishers will receive awards, with first place amounting to 4.000 EUR, and there are 12 special prizes for rating groups (U2200 and U2000), Canario and Tenerife players.

11 Grandmasters are taking participation: Francisco Vallejo Pons 2697, Ivan Salgado Lopez 2595, Miguel Illescas Cordoba 2591, Jordi Magem Badals 2589, Marc Narciso Dublan 2553, Julen Luis Arizmendi Martinez 2540, Daniel Alsina Leal 2523, Pablo San Segundo Carrillo 2511, Herminio Herraiz Hidalgo 2480, Miodrag Todorcevic 2434 (top rated local player) and Sabrina Vega Gutierrez 2368.

Live games every day from 16:00 CET at the Spanish Chess Federation website