The 34th edition of Benasque International Chess Tournament is taking place from 4th to 12th July 2014 in Benasque, a town in the heart of the Spanish Pyrenees.
The event is a 9-round Swiss, valid for FIDE and FEDA rankings, and provides the opportunity of winning title norms. The time control will be 90 minutes for the whole game + 30 seconds per move starting from move 1.
First seed is GM Julio Granda Zuniga (Peru).
The top prizes will be as follows:
1. 4.000 € + Cup
2. 3.000 € + Cup
3. 2.000 € + Cup
4. 1.000 € + Cup
5. 800 € + Cup
6. 700 € + Cup
7. 600 € + Cup
8. 500 € + Cup
9. 400 € + Cup
10. 400 € + Cup
Last year winner was GM Eduardo Iturrizaga
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Starting list (top players)
1 GM Granda Zuniga Julio E. PER 2674
2 GM BACHMANN Axel PAR 2652
3 GM MELKUMYAN Hrant ARM 2647
4 GM ANTON GUIJARRO David ESP 2631
5 GM POPOV Ivan RUS 2618
6 GM CORI Jorge PER 2608
7 GM ILLESCAS CORDOBA Miguel ESP 2607
8 GM SANDIPAN Chanda IND 2597
9 GM BURMAKIN Vladimir RUS 2590
10 GM DURARBAYLI Vasif AZE 2590
11 GM MARIN Mihail ROU 2579
12 GM NARODITSKY Daniel USA 2577
13 GM CRUZ Cristhian PER 2563
14 GM VASQUEZ SCHROEDER Rodrigo CHI 2551
15 GM STOCEK Jiri CZE 2545
16 GM GOPAL G.N. IND 2544
17 GM MOZHAROV Mikhail RUS 2540
18 IM FORCEN ESTEBAN Daniel ESP 2535
19 GM ANDERSSON Ulf SWE 2526
20 GM MOVSZISZIAN Karen ARM 2520
21 GM RAHMAN Ziaur BAN 2515
22 GM ZOLER Dan ISR 2513
23 GM LEVIN Felix GER 2507
24 GM UBILAVA Elizbar ESP 2496
25 IM GOMEZ GARRIDO Camilo Ernesto CUB 2495
26 GM DE LA VILLA GARCIA Jesus Maria ESP 2482
27 GM LALIC Bogdan CRO 2482
28 IM CASTELLANOS RODRIGUEZ Renier ESP 2479
29 IM MATSENKO Sergei RUS 2474
30 GM ARUN PRASAD S. IND 2472
31 GM GOMEZ ESTEBAN Juan Mario ESP 2466
32 GM VISHNU Prasanna. V IND 2459
33 MA Zhonghan CHN 2459
34 IM GONZALEZ ACOSTA Bernal CRC 2458
35 IM PARDO SIMON David ESP 2457
36 GM JANSA Vlastimil CZE 2453
37 LEI Tingjie CHN 2450
38 GM NAUMKIN Igor RUS 2445
39 IM ANTOLI ROYO Joaquin Miguel ESP 2443
40 IM BAE Torstein NOR 2435
Fantastic tournament.