| Magistral Ciutat de Barcelona 2015 |
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| Monday, 26 October 2015 10:28 |
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Participants  Alexander Morozevich, RUS Born in 1977 ELO 2711 World´s 2nd ranked in 2008 Two time Russian Champion Qualified two times for the World Candidates´ Championships Participated seven times at the World Chess Olympiad with the Russian National Team and won it three times Winner at Lloyds Bank (1994), Pamplona (1994, 1998, 2006), Melody Amber (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008), Biel (2003, 2004, 2006), Sarajevo (2008), Saratov (2011), Vladimir Petrov Memorial (2012), Karpov Poikovsky (2014)  Csaba Balogh, HUN Born in 1987 ELO 2657 IM in 2002 and GM in 2004 Winner of the U-16 section of the 2003 European Youth Chess Championship Member of the national team that won both the U-16 World Team Championships 2003 and the U-18 European Team Championship in 2003 In 2011 he tied for 2nd-5th with Parimarjan Negi, Murtas Kazhgaleyev and Jon Ludvig Hammer in the 13th Dubai Open Chess Championship The game Balogh describes as one of his "most memorable", is a win over Viktor Korchnoi, at the 5th Gyorgy Marx Memorial (2007) Winner of the Magistral Casino Barcelona – Ciutat de Barcelona 2013 and 2014 Bronze medal on the second board on the European Team Championship in Warszaw 2013 Qualified to the World Cup from the European Individual Championship in Yerevan, 2014 Double silver medal in the Olympiad Tromsö, 2014. 2nd place with the Team and 2nd place on the 2nd board  Karen H. Grigoryan, ARM Born in 1995 ELO 2600 GM in 2013 Champion of Armenia U14 (2008) European Champion U16 (2010) Winner of Memorial G. Kasparyan – Young Masters 2010 Winner of the Youth Stars Tournament 2011 Winner of Albena Open (2012) Winner of Open Internacional Escacs Vila de Sitges 2013 Champion of Armenia in 2011 and 2013 Winner of the Open Internacional Badalona 2014 Winner of the Open Internacional Barberá 2015 Winner of the Catalan Chess Circuit in 2014 and 2015  Axel Bachmann, PAR Born in 1989 ELO 2593 Champion of Paraguay (2004) Pan-American Champion U16 Participated five times at the World Chess Olympiad with the National Team of Paraguay Winner at Magistral Mercosur (2007), Rochefort (2014), Capelle La Grande (2014), Lasi (2014), Golden Sans (2014), Figueres (2015), Rhodes (2015) Iberoamerican Champion 2014  GM Marc Narciso Dublán, ESP Born in 1974 ELO 2529 GM in 2003 5th place at the World Youth Championships in Timisoara, 1988 Member of the Spanish National Team at Turin Olympiad in 2006 Winner of the Open International Barberà and Open de Sants. 2006 Winner of the Catalan Circuit in 2006 and 2007 Catalonian Club Champion with "Montcada" and “Foment Martinenc “ Vice-Champion at OBERT INTERNACIONAL ILLES MEDES 2009 Vice-Champion at CAMPIONAT DE CATALUNYA DE RÀPIDES 2010 Champion of Catalonia 2011 Winner of OPEN INTERNACIONAL ACTIU DE VALLFOGONA DE BALAGUER 2011 1st Catalan Player at the Catalonian Chess Circuit in 2011 3rd at the General and 1st Catalan at the Catalonian Chess Circuit in 2014 y 2015  Hipólito Asis Gargatagli, ESP Born in 1986 ELO 2483 MI since 2006 One GM Norm, 2013 Spanish National Champion U18 in 2004 Champion of Catalonia U18 in 2003 and 2004 |
It´s a great pleasure for me, to announce a new edition of the Chess Magistral Ciutat de Barcelona to the chess world. The Catalonian Chess Federation just beat its all-time record: for the first time we have reached 7.500 licenses. This big news, associated to the traditional dynamism of the catalan chess clubs as for organizing different chess events, makes Catalonia the World´s most active chess place. And its capital - Barcelona, indeed deserves to have a prestigious international tournament, such as the Magistral Ciutat de Barcelona, which will be celebrating its 20th edition now. The last twelve editions have been Round Robin ones, composed of strong GMs and IMs.