4th International Chess Open Avenida de Canarias

4th International Chess Open Avenida de Canarias
GM Salgado Lopez top seeded, strong women participation

The 4th International Chess Open Avenida de Canarias will take place 18th to 25th of July, 2010 in Vecindario, Santa Lucia, Gran Canaria. A total of 30 titled players have signed up, led by the Spanish young talent GM Ivan Salgado Lopez. There is strong international participation with players like GM Bojan Kurajica, GM Reynaldo Vera Gonzalez-Quevedo, and GM Dragan Barlov, as well as some of the top world female players – IM Tania Sachdev, WGM Anna Rudolf, and WGM Sabrina Vega Gutierrez.

The tournament is a 9 rounds Swiss event with time control 90 minutes for 40 moves + 30 minutes for the rest of the game and 30 seconds increment per move.

Here are some of the top seeds:

1 GM Salgado Lopez Ivan ESP 2606
2 GM Kurajica Bojan BIH 2548
3 GM Vera Gonzalez-Quevedo Reynaldo CUB 2515
4 GM Barlov Dragan SRB 2488
5 IM Munoz Pantoja Miguel PER 2476
6 IM Larino Nieto David ESP 2461
7 IM Garcia Padron Jose ESP 2447
8 IM Campos Gambuti Luis Maria ESP 2446
9 IM Vidarte Morales Arturo ESP 2409
10 IM Martinez Martin David ESP 2403
11 IM Tania Sachdev IND 2398
12 IM Ortega Hermida Daniel ESP 2382
13 IM Cabrera Trujillo Jorge ESP 2361
14 IM Tatai Stefano ITA 2357
15 FM Fernandez Siles Luis ESP 2352
16 WGM Rudolf Anna HUN 2344
17 WGM Vega Gutierrez Sabrina ESP 2330
18 IM Hernando Rodrigo Jose Maria ESP 2328
19 FM Pile Richard FRA 2317
20 FM Robin Samy FRA 2317