Paris Chess Championship 2012

Sunday, 08 July 2012 18:55

The 87th Paris Chess Championship is taking place from 7th to 15th July at the Stade Pierre de Coubertin, 82 avenue Georges Lafont 75016 Paris. The Championship is played in 4 Groups and is open to all players of FIDE federations. - FIDE Open: 9 rounds with rating above 2200 (1st prize 3 000 €) - A Open: 9 rounds with rating from 1800 to 2300 (1st prize 1 500 €) - B Open: 9 rounds with rating from 1400 to 1900 (1st prize 1 000 €) - C Open: 9 rounds with rating under 1500 (1st prize 600 €) Rate of play in all tournaments: Fischer 90 min / 40 moves + 30 min + 30s/move from the first move Last year 633 participants from 35 countries competed. GM Arun Prasad won the main tournament. Top rated players: 1 GM FEDORCHUK Sergey A. 2630 UKR 2 GM STRIKOVIC Aleksa 2559 SRB 3 GM LE ROUX Jean-Pierre 2559 FRA 4 GM GULIYEV Namig 2539 AZE 5 GM SHCHEKACHEV Andrei 2528 FRA 6 GM CHABANON Jean-Luc 2481 FRA 7 GM RENET Olivier 2472 FRA 8 IM DEMUTH Adrien 2460 FRA 9 IM DOURERASSOU Jonathan 2460 FRA 10 GM WIRIG Anthony 2452 FRA 11 IM D'COSTA Lorin A R 2434 ENG 12 IM ZHOU Yang-Fan 2427 ENG 13 IM ROSER Kevin 2423 FRA 14 IM SHIRAZI Kamran 2417 FRA 15 IM MOUSSARD Jules 2412 FRA 16 IM SOCHACKI Christophe 2406 FRA Official website