Biel Young Grandmaster Super Tournament
Ten young Grandmasters will be the stars of the 43rd edition of the Biel Chess Festival. The list is headed by last year’s winner Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and he is joined by Evgeny Tomashevsky, Fabiano Caruana, Wesley So, Dmitry Andreikin, Anish Giri, Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son, Parimarjan Negi, Maxim Rodhstein and David Howell, who together form the category 17 tournament with average rating of 2657 ELO.
The first round of Biel / Bienne Chess 2010 will be played 19th July 2010.
Round 1 – 19th of July
Round 2 – 20th of July
Round 3 – 21st of July
Round 4 – 22nd of July
Round 5 – 23rd of July
Round 6 – 24th of July
Rest day – 25th of July
Round 7 – 26th of July
Round 8 – 27th of July
Round 9 – 28th of July
Besides the Young Grandmaster Super Tournament, this year’s Biel features many open tournaments, Swiss Chess960 Championship, and the traditional Chess-Tennis Tournament. The main open tournament of Biel 2010 will be yet another strong event of the festival, with 7 players above 2600.
GM Alexander Riazantsev
2674
GM Boris Grachev
2667
GM Michael Roiz
2664
GM Igor Lysyi
2631
GM Leonid Kritz
2618
GM Victor Mikhalevski
2614
GM Christian Bauer
2607
GM Yannick Pelletier
2596
GM Sebastien Feller
2593
GM Vitaly Golod
2585
GM Evgeny Gleizerov
2578
GM Sebastien Maze
2564
GM Stanislav Novikov
2558
WGM Nadezhda Kosintseva
2553
GM Milos Pavlovic
2540
GM Falko Bindrich
2539
GM Mikhail Ulibin
2532
GM Arnaud Hauchard
2526
GM Miso Cebalo
2500
IM Lalith Babu M.R
2493
IM Sasha Kaplan
2422
IM Vadim Faibisovich
2410
Vasyl Nedilko
2409
IM Anatoly Donchenko
2395
IM Etienne Mensch
2364
Nitin Suri
2347
IM Vladimir Onoprienko
2343
IM Dietmar Kolbus
2343
IM Alexandre Domont
2337
IM Nicolas GIFFARD
2333
Lars Ootes
2318
WGM Nazi Paikidze
2317
FM Franco Misiano
2316
FM Volker Meier
2304
Ton van der Heijden
2284
FM Niels Borne
2284
IM Nedeljko Kelecevic
2280
Matthias Kiese
2267
FM Holger Rasch
2264
Vladimiro Satta
2255
Jonas Wyss
2253
Simone De Filomeno
2250
Ewoud de Groote
2239
IM Neboisa Illijin
2222
Damian Karrer
2179
Thomas Kuhn
2176
Axel Partenheimer
2174
Marco Codenotti
2163
Lennart Ootes
2156
Romain Blaeser
2147
Norbert Stull
2144
Stephan Arounopoulos
2141
Benoi^t Perruchoud
2140
Corrado Astengo
2136
Nicolas Duport
2132
Hans-Gerhard Pernutz
2108
jonas lampert
2105
Lucien Altyzer
2104
Klaus Kleibaumhu”ter
2097
Alexander Donchenko
2094
Pierre Perruchoud
2086
HEINIS Vincent
2085
Boris Friesen
2080
Richard Valet
2078
Nikita Petrov
2072
fernando de andres gonalons
2068
Benjamin Seitz
2065
Piergiorgio Battaggia
2059
Amindo Naarden
2057
IM Aleksandr Elfert
2053
Claudio/Thomas Gloor/Tscherrig
2051
Paul Isherwood
2034
Alexis Skouvaklis
2029
Heinz Ernst
2024
Mathias Paul
2023
Gerhard Janasik
2020
Alexander Greve
2001
Hans-Ju”rgen Weyer
1993
Nigora Djalalova
1980
Siegmund Haug
1928
krishnamurthy ganesan
1928
Carlo Sto”cklin
1925
Vincent Bonnard
1895
Alexander Valet
1895
Volodymyr Vdovenko
1882
Wolfgang Wiesebach
1855
Christoph Baier
1841
Andrew Saint
1841
Fernand Pellaton
1823
Pratik Vaidya
1821
Timotej Alexander Rosebrock
1815
Urs Forster
1800
Julien Girardet
1794
Reinhold Na”pflin
1793
Ju”rgen Heyse
1783
Werner Tschirky
1761
Thomas Klein
1755
Ruth Huber
1722
timm lampert
1696
william desmond gill
1686
Marcin Muller
1677
lasse lampert
1666
Vasyl Vdovenko
1597
Laurenz Albicker
1532
IYER SHABARINATH SUBRAMANIAN
1403
Gabriel Ga”hwiler
2257
Bernhard Meyer
2189
Robin Angst
2059
rudolf pleininger
2010
Philippe Leick
1877
Maurus Meier
1827
Daniel Meier
1806
Natale Deagostini
1783
Richard Bisig
1755
Christophe Burri
1732
Rene’ Genne’
1725
Markus Marti
1714
Alexander Dybov
1691
Volker Meise
1637
Martin Lachat
1633
Kevin Mutter
1624
Janusz Barczyk
1613
Jon Florin
1605
Yao-Linti Grillon
1587
Willem Koppen
1575
Harry Brooks
1552
Peter Blaser
1552
Eckart Grabe
1518
Paul Lincke
1510
Hans Birbaum
1496
Arnaud Chanex
1403
Jean-Marc Caracciolo
Blaise Javet
paul martinez
paul martinez
Jean-Marc Caracciolo
Werner LEU
Markus+Jesse Angst
Maxime Radermecker
Alexey Karpov
Jouri Semenov
Robert Ullmann
Marcel Vollmer
Previous winners of Biel Chess Festival
1977 Anthony Miles (ENG)
1979 Viktor Kortchnoi (SUI)
1980 Yehuda Grunfeld (ISR)
1981 Eric Lobron (GER); Vlastimil Hort (TCH)
1982 John Nunn (ENG); Florin Gheorghiu (ROM)
1983 Anthony Miles (ENG); John Nunn (ENG)
1984 Vlastimil Hort (TCH); Robert Hubner (GER)
1986 Lev Polugajevski (URS); Eric Lobron (GER)
1987 Boris Gulko (USA)
1988 Ivan Sokolov (YUG); Boris Gulko (USA)
1989 Vassily Ivantschuk (URS)
1990 Anatoly Karpov (URS)
1991 Alexej Shirov (LAT)
1992 Anatoly Karpov (RUS)
1994 Viktor Gavrikov (SUI)
1995 Alexej Dreev (RUS)
1996 Anatoly Karpov (RUS)
1997 Viswanathan Anand (IND)
1998 Mladen Palac (CRO)
1999 Jeroen Piket (NED)
2000 Peter Svidler (RUS)
2001 Viktor Kortchnoi (SUI)
2002 Ilya Smirin (ISR)
2003 Alexander Morozevich (RUS)
2004 Alexander Morozevich (RUS)
2005 Boris Gelfand (ISR); Andrei Volokitin (UKR)
2006 Alexander Morozevich (RUS)
2007 Magnus Carlsen (NOR)
2008 Evgeny Alekseev (RUS)
2009 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (FRA)
