The 2014 edition of Miguel Najdorf International Chess Festival is taking place from 14th to 20th July 2014, at the Palace of Culture and Science in the Polish capital Warsaw.
The event is organized by gen. Kazimierz Sosnkowski Chess Foundation, in co-operation with the Polish Chess Federation, under the auspices of the President of Warsaw Ms Hanna Gonkiewicz-Waltz.
The event is split into 4 tournaments
– Open A – for players rated over 2200
– Open B – for players rated 1600-2199
– Open C – for players below 1600 and unrated
– Open D – tournament of chess prodigies, open to children born 2004 and later
The main sponsor of the tournament MetLife provides the hefty prize fund in the amount of 30.000 €. The top prizes in Section A are as follows: 5.000 €/ 3.000 €/ 2.000 €/ 1.500 €/ 1.000 €/ 900 €/ 850 €/ 800 €/ 750 €/ 700 €.
Official website / LIVE games with analysis
Starting list (top seeds):
1 GM Areshchenko, Alexander UKR UKR 2701
2 GM Cheparinov, Ivan BUL BUL 2690
3 GM Fedoseev, Vladimir RUS RUS 2668
4 GM Melkumyan, Hrant ARM ARM 2647 2
5 GM Shimanov, Aleksandr RUS RUS 2644
6 GM Ragger, Markus AUT AUT 2639
7 GM Agdestein, Simen NOR NOR 2637
8 GM Beliavsky, Alexander G SLO SLO 2631
9 GM Petrosian, Tigran L. ARM ARM 2629
10 GM Krasenkow, Michal POL POL 2623
11 GM Soćko, Bartosz POL POL 2616
12 GM Miśta, Aleksander POL POL 2609
13 GM Macieja, Bartłomiej POL POL 2607
14 GM Rozentalis, Eduardas LTU LTU 2603
15 GM Kempinski, Robert POL POL 2597
16 GM Sandipan, Chanda IND IND 2597
17 GM Vovk, Yuri UKR UKR 2591
18 GM Durarbayli, Vasif AZE AZE 2590
19 GM Zhigalko, Andrey BLR BLR 2585
20 GM Duda, Jan-krzysztof POL POL 2580
21 GM Heberla, Bartłomiej POL POL 2578
22 GM Piorun, Kacper POL POL 2577
23 GM Markowski, Tomasz POL POL 2572
24 GM Olszewski, Michał POL POL 2553
25 IM Bernadskiy, Vitaliy UKR UKR 2550
26 GM Tomczak, Jacek POL POL 2547
27 GM Indjic, Aleksandar SRB SRB 2542
28 GM Jakubowski, Krzysztof POL POL 2537
29 GM Dragun, Kamil POL POL 2518
30 GM Romanishin, Oleg M UKR UKR 2502
31 GM Popilski, Gil ISR ISR 2500
32 IM Raznikov, Danny ISR ISR 2500
33 GM Debashis, Das IND IND 2484
34 IM Kanarek, Marcel POL POL 2471
35 IM Givon, Asaf ISR ISR 2452
36 Lei, Tingjie CHN CHN 2450
37 IM Luch, Michał POL POL 2447
38 IM Krysztofiak, Marcin POL POL 2423
39 IM Matuszewski, Michal POL POL 2416
40 Mu, Ke CHN CHN 2409
Good tournament.