5th International Chess Festival Riga Technical University Open

Riga Technical University and Latvian Chess Federation have the honour to announce the 5th “Riga Technical University Open”, which will take place on August 10th - 16th in the spacious international exhibition centre “Kipsala” (8 Kipsalas Street, Riga, Latvia).

Last year there were more than 400 players from around 40 countries participating in the festival including 120 titled players. The biggest names of the festival were GMs with ELO 2700+ Alexei Shirov (LAT) and Richard Rapport (HUN). Many other strong GMs participated, including Eduardo Iturrizaga Bonelli (VEN), Igor Kovalenko (LAT), Daniel Fridman (GER) and Hrant Melkumyan (ARM), who was the winner of the main tournament.

This year the program of the festival will feature four ELO tournaments and a blitz tournament. The planned prize fund for the 5th edition of the festival is 20 000 EUR and the 1st prize of the tournament A is planned to be 2500 EUR, there will also be special prizes for women, juniors, seniors and rating prizes.

Tournament A Grandmaster Tournament
Swiss System, 9 rounds, August 10th - 16th, open for all players. The tournament will have GM, IM, WGM and WIM norms. Time limit: 90 minutes per game per player + 30 seconds per move starting from the move 1.

Tournament B Amateur ELO Tournament
Swiss System, 9 rounds, August 10th - 16th, Open tournament for players with ELO until 2299 and Latvian rating until 2399. Time limit: 90 minutes per game per player + 30 seconds per move starting from the move 1.

Tournament C Weekend Amateur ELO Tournament
Swiss System, 7 rounds, August 13th - 16th, open for players with ELO until 2199 and Latvian rating 2299. Time limit: 60 minutes per game per player + 30 seconds per move starting from the move 1.

Tournament D Amateur open ELO Tournament
Swiss System, 7 rounds, August 13th - 16th, open for players with ELO until 1799 and Latvian rating 1899. Time limit: 60 minutes per game per player + 30 seconds per move starting from the move 1.

Tournament E Open Blitz Tournament
Open blitz tournament, 16.08, 19:00, Swiss system, 11 rounds.

List of already registered participants can be found here http://rtuopen.lv/en/content/tournament. Early entries for the ELO tournaments and accommodation requests should be sent before 20th of July. Special prices for hotels are available till this date as well. More detailed information about schedule, accommodation and registration can be found in the official homepage of the tournament http://rtuopen.lv/.

On behalf of the organizers I would like to invite all chess players to participate in the Riga Technical University Open and all together develop the biggest tournament of classical chess in Latvia! Hope to see you in Riga!

Tournament director
IO Egons Lavendelis
Contact information:
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Phone: +371 29876891

REGULATIONS (pdf)