Arctic Chess Challenge
Tromsø, August 1-9, 2009
Official website: http://arcticchess.org/
Here are some of the top seeds:
| GM | Bartosz | Socko | 2656 | ||||
| GM | Igor | Khenkin | 2634 | ||||
| GM | Yuri | Drozdovskij | 2620 | ||||
| GM | Emanuel | Berg | 2610 | ||||
| GM | Mikheil | Mchedlishvili | 2592 | ||||
| GM | Jon Ludvig | Hammer | 2583 | ||||
| GM | Vadim | Malakhatko | 2570 | ||||
| GM | Sarunas | Sulskis | 2559 | ||||
| GM | Julian | Radulski | 2539 | ||||
| GM | Allan Stig | Rasmussen | 2536 | ||||
| GM | Matthew J | Turner | 2517 | ||||
| IM | Ray | Robson | 2491 | ||||
| GM | Amon | Simutowe | 2481 | ||||
| IM | Marijan | Petrov | 2479 | ||||
| IM | Kalle | Kiik | 2475 | ||||
| IM | Stefan | Macak | 2472 | ||||
| IM | Fabio | Bruno | 2455 | ||||
| IM | Luca | Shytaj | 2455 | ||||
| GM | Monika | Socko | 2449 | ||||
| IM | Luis Javier | Bernal Moro | 2446 | ||||
| IM | Torbjørn R. | Hansen | 2440 | ||||
| WGM | Natalia | Zdebskaja | 2412 |
Here is more information about the beautiful city of Tromsø.
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Seems like a very nice city. I hope they’ll get the Olympiad in 2014.
Great. I always wanted to play in this tournament, but I guess it’s quite expensive in total for a student (accomodation, fee etc.). Anyone wants to share his experience?