The 8th Tashkent International Open – Memorial of Georgy Agzamov, the first grandmaster of Uzbekistan, will be held on 14-24th May in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
The tournament is a 9-round Swiss with the time control 90 min + 30 sec increment from move one. The total prize fund is 20,000 US dollars.
The tournament is organized by the Uzbekistan Chess Federation, in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture and Sports of Uzbekistan.
Last year winner was GM Pavel Maletin
Participants (top seeds):
1 GM Zhigalko Sergei BLR 2675
2 GM Kuzubov Yuriy UKR 2648
3 GM Pashikian Arman ARM 2626
4 GM Smirnov Pavel RUS 2626
5 GM Mchedlishvili Mikheil GEO 2621
6 GM Filippov Anton UZB 2619
7 GM Gupta Abhijeet IND 2619
8 GM Korneev Oleg ESP 2618
9 GM Hovhannisyan Robert ARM 2613
10 GM Zhigalko Andrey BLR 2600
11 GM Volkov Sergey RUS 2584
12 GM Khusnutdinov Rustam KAZ 2495
13 GM Barsov Alexei UZB 2489
14 IM Khamrakulov Djurabek UZB 2449
15 WGM Charochkina Daria RUS 2411
16 IM Egin Vladimir UZB 2395
17 GM Ziatdinov Raset USA 2387
18 FM Faizulaev Akmal UZB 2379
19 WGM Muminova Nafisa UZB 2338
20 FM Tillyaev Ulugbek UZB 2337
Strong tournament.