This tournament is being held in Barcelona from august 27th till september 4th. Last round derby GM Zhy Chen (2494) - GM Mohamad Al-Modiahki (2570) will most likely decide the winner. Main group has 319 and group B has 174 players.
As usual, Spain is very active with chess events during the summer. Spanish team chess championship is also in progress but I failed to find english website. I`ll try to post some games at least.
European chess champion GM Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu, togheter with his colleagues from Romania, is also participating in this tourney.
Standings after round 8:
1-2. GM Mohamad Al-Modiahki (QAT 2570) and GM Chen Zhu (CHN 2494) 7 points
3-12. GM Mircea Parligras (ROM 2571), IM Jose Gonzalez Garcia (MEX 2478), GM Marc Narciso Dublan (ESP 2476), GM Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu (ROM 2679), Tirta Chandra Purnama (INA 2337), GM Viktor Moskalenko (UKR 2534), GM George-Gabriel Grigore (ROM 2479), GM Florian Handke (GER 2460), GM Juan Borges Mateos (CUB 2467) and WGM Ana Matnadze (GEO 2389) with 6,5 points
GM`s Fernando Peralta, Mihail Marin and Susanto Megaranto have scored 6 points. GM Felix Levin has 5,5 and GM Sergey Zagrebelny has 5 points.
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