10th Internet Chess Tournament “Ciudad de Dos Hermanas”

(Internet Chess Club (ICC), March 13th-21st 2009)
 

This year one of the most important cities in Spain celebrates the tenth edition of it's chess tournament. The 10th Internet Chess Tournament "Ciudad de Dos Hermanas" is being held on the ICC Internet Chess Club. With a prize fund of 7.500 euros (first prize 2.000), the event is one of the most important tournaments on the international Internet chess calendar.

In addition to the main cash prizes there are many other smaller cash prizes for rating sections  along with daily ICC memberships raffles and Peon de Rey magazine prizes. Due to the success of the event, year after year, the playing system has remained untouched: 12 qualifiers are played with a 12-round Swiss system. Games are played using the popular 3/0 playing rate.

The latest count gives us 1467 players registered and after the first six qualifiers the following GM's have already qualified for the final: Venezuela's Eduardo Iturrizaga, Armenian's Gabriel Sargissian, Zaven Andriasian and Hrant Melkumyan and the Iranian Ehsan Ghaem Maghami.

Complete standings, game file, PGN game files and other interesting information can be found at the Dos Hermanas web site www.doshermanas.net 

Standings of the first five qualifiers

Qualifier-5 | Manager: Kiebitz | Sunday, March 15 | 15:00 EDT | 485 players

N ICC Username Real name Rating Score #g S.O.S. Opp.Rating
1 Ehsan21 GM Ehsan Ghaem Maghami 3003 11.0 11 98.0 2724
2 Dako GM Kononenko Dmitry 3264 10.5 12 100.5 2805
3 topotun GM Michail Panarin 3101 10.0 12 101.0 2757
4 Imperator15 GM Yuri Vovk 2879 10.0 12 96.0 2649
5 Kastor GM Rodrigo Vasquez 3104 9.5 12 92.5 2685

Qualifier-4 | Manager: Beats20Cents | Saturday, March 14 | 20:00 EDT | 329 players

N ICC Username Real name Rating Score #g S.O.S. Opp.Rating
1 RLH2 IM Robert Hess 2837 11.0 12 96.5 2732
2 Garpun IM Garun Nureev 3039 10.0 12 95.5 2647
3 Inspektor GM Marcin Dziuba 2955 9.5 12 96.0 2767
4 olimpus GM Axel Bachmann 2953 9.5 12 96.0 2655
5 Fier GM Alexandr Fier 3060 9.5 12 95.5 2646

Qualifier-3 | Manager: Lisebeth | Saturday, March 14 | 15:00 EDT | 422 players

N ICC Username Real name Rating Score #g S.O.S. Opp.Rating
1 ARM-AKIBA GM Gabriel Sargissian 3237 11.0 12 97.0 2816
2 JonLudvig GM Jon Ludvig Hammer 3216 10.5 12 98.0 2743
3 DRUID1 GM Bryzgalin Kirill 3025 10.0 11 84.5 2493
4 Pantani GM Pawel Jaracz 3098 9.5 12 94.5 2740
5 Malish-Billy GM Grigoryan Avetik 3108 9.5 12 88.5 2482

Qualifier-2 | Manager: kicksacan | Friday, March 13 | 20:00 EDT | 343 players

N ICC Username Real name Rating Score #g S.O.S. Opp.Rating
1 Pchyolka GM Hrant Melkumyan 3230 10.0 12 96.0 2738
2 Dlugy GM Max Dlugy 3092 10.0 12 95.0 2703
3 Kastor GM Rodrigo Vasquez 3064 9.5 12 98.0 2774
4 DjGajos GM Grzegorz Gajewski 2932 9.5 12 92.5 2672
5 Neurisdr GM Neuris Delgado 3154 9.5 12 85.5 2556

Qualifier-1 | Manager: Kiebitz | Friday, March 13 | 15:00 EDT | 433 players

N ICC Username Real name Rating Score #g S.O.S. Opp.Rating
1 Iturrizaga GM Eduardo Iturrizaga 3304 11.0 12 102.5 2850
2 bani GM Banikas Hristos 3196 10.0 12 101.0 2789
3 Fier GM Alexandr Fier 3050 10.0 12 97.5 2858
4 lodachnik GM Kovalyov Anton 3148 10.0 12 93.5 2688
5 Federicov FM Federico Perez Ponsa 2850 10.0 12 91.0 2747