24th Pula Open Chess Tournament

24th Pula Open Chess Tournament
19-26th June at the hotel Histria in Pula, Croatia

The 24th Pula Open chess tournament is taking place on 19-26th June at the hotel “Histria”, under management of the Croatian Chess Federation and local Chess Club “Pula”. The competition will be held over nine rounds of Swiss system and with time control of 90 min + 30 sec increment.

Already more than 230 players have registered to take participation and among them are nine Grandmasters. Borki Predojevic from BIH is top-seeded, followed by the Argentinian GM Ruben Felgaer. Former World Champion Boris Spassky will be special guest of the tournament. The prize fund of 11.000 EUR will be distributed within many rating and age categories.

Here are some of the top registered seeds up to May 30:

1 GM Predojevic Borki BIH 2628
2 GM Felgaer Ruben ARG 2585
3 IM Kuljasevic Davorin CRO 2539 (Texas Tech Knight Raider)
4 GM Zelcic Robert CRO 2538
5 GM Cvitan Ognjen CRO 2534
6 GM Drazic Sinisa SRB 2531
7 IM Martinovic Sasa CRO 2515
8 GM Fercec Nenad CRO 2492
9 GM Likavsky Tomas SVK 2473
10 IM Kovacevic Blazimir CRO 2471

Full list here: http://previews.chessdom.com/2010/pula-open-chess-tournament