23 Round Robin Tournaments in Nancy

16-22 February 2009 in Nancy, France

The 7th International Chess Festival of Meurthe et Moselle is taking place on 16-22 February 2009 in Nancy, France. Following the last year's success, when 140 participants competed in 14 ten-player round robin tournaments, the Festival is extended to 23 (15x10, 8x8) tournaments with possibility of taking a short 4-day schedule (8 players, 7 rounds).

The main Grandmaster tournament is sporting an average elo of 2556, thus rating this event as 13th Category FIDE. Young French players will be given a chance to fight against experienced opposition and earn GM norms. Chessdom commentator GM Christian Bauer won the last year event.

Thanks to Mr. Alexander Kentler of e3e5.com for correction!

GM Christian Bauer

Grandmaster "A" Group:

GM Pentala Harikrishna 2673 India
GM Pavel Tregubov 2647 Russia
GM Michal Krasenkow 2620 Poland
GM Christian Bauer 2610 France
GM Georg Meier 2608 Germany
IM Romain Edouard 2562 France
GM Sébastien Feller 2525 France
IM Yannick Gozzoli 2503 France
IM Nicolas Brunner 2413 France
IM Mustapha Nezar 2399 France

IM "B" Group:

IM Nikolai Ninov 2526 Bulgaria
IM Cyril Marzolo 2484 France
IM Oleg Gladyszev 2423 Russia
FM Maxime Lagarde, 2343 France
FM Olivier Pucher 2338 France
FM Alain Spielmann 2324 France
FM Cédric Paci 2300 France
FM Tom E Wiley 2293 England
FM Alban Delorme 2251 France
Johannes Sondermann 2152 Germany

More information on the official website