Open d’Avoine 2013 is set to take place on 20-28th July at the Salle de spectacles de l’espace culturel in d’Avoine, France.
The event is organized by the “Club d’Echecs d’Avoine” and tournament director is Jean-Louis Salvaing. Around 350 players are signed up to compete in the nine-round swiss open.
The prize fund of 11,000 EUR will be split into main, elo, women and veteran prizes. Top prizes are 1200 €/1000 €/800 €/700 €/600 €/500 € etc.
Last year winner was Maxime Lagarde.
Top players:
1 GM JIANU Vlad-Cristian 2560
2 IM MIRON Lucian-Costin 2544
3 GM LAGARDE Maxime 2526
4 GM DGEBUADZE Alexandre 2520
5 IM HAUB Thorsten Michael 2471
6 IM DEMUTH Adrien 2463
7 IM VEDMEDIUC Serghei 2460
8 IM SHIRAZI Kamran 2411
9 GM LAZAREV Vladimir 2410
10 IM COLIN Vincent 2402
11 IM MANEA Alexandru 2389
12 FM BRAEUNING Rudolf Wilhelm 2385
13 IM PETRE Nad-Titus 2371
14 IM NAVROTESCU Catalin 2363
A beautiful region.