43rd Rilton Cup in Stockholm, Sweden

The Stockholm Chess Federation welcomes all chess players to the 43rd Rilton Cup, which will be held from 27th December 2013 to 5th January 2014.
The tournament will be played in three groups: Rilton Cup, Rilton Elo and Rilton Open (the Open is only for Nordic players with a national rating lower than 1800).
Rilton Cup and Rilton Elo will be rated with FIDE and played over 9 rounds of Swiss system. The first round starts at 3:00 p.m. on 27th December. Round 2–8 start the same time. The last, 9th round starts at noon on 5th January. The 31st December (New Year’s Eve) is free of play.
Rilton Open is played on 28th December 2013 – 4th January 2014 as a 7 rounds FIDE-Swiss.
The winner of the previous Rilton Cup was Polish Grandmaster Michal Krasenkow.
The playing venue is at Clarion Hotel Stockholm, Ringvägen 98, Stockholm. Metro station Skanstull, green line.

Clarion Hotel Stockholm

Rilton Cup
Rilton Cup is open for players with an ELO-rating or National rating of at least 2200.
Prizes: 1st 20 000 SEK, 2nd 15 000 SEK, 3rd 12 000 SEK, 4th 10 000 SEK, 5th 8 000 SEK, 6th 6 000 SEK, 7th 5 000 SEK, 8th 4 000 SEK, 9th 3 000 SEK, 10th 3 000 SEK
Rating prizes: 3 000 SEK, 2 000 SEK and 1 000 SEK per rating-group
Rilton Elo
Open for all players with an ELO-rating or national rating less than 2200
Prizes: 1st 7 000 SEK, 2nd 5 000 SEK, 3rd 3 000 SEK, 4th 2 000 SEK, 5th 1 000 SEK, 6th 1 000 SEK
Rating prizes: 3 000 SEK, 2 000 SEK and 1 000 SEK per rating-group
Rilton Open
Open for Nordic players with a national rating less than 1800
Prizes: 1st 5 000 SEK, 2nd 3 000 SEK, 3rd 2 000 SEK, 4th 1 000 SEK, 5th 1 000 SEK
Rating prizes: 3 000 SEK, 2 000 SEK and 1 000 SEK per rating-group
Official website www.rilton.se
Rilton Cup participants:
1 GM Socko Bartosz POL 2657
2 GM Smirin Ilya ISR 2642
3 GM Krasenkow Michal POL 2633
4 GM Volkov Sergey RUS 2623
5 GM Hammer Jon Ludvig NOR 2612
6 GM Goganov Aleksey RUS 2581
7 GM Grandelius Nils SWE 2576
8 GM Piorun Kacper POL 2560
9 GM Hillarp-Persson Tiger SWE 2551
10 GM Tikkanen Hans SWE 2548
11 GM Lintchevski Daniil RUS 2541
12 GM Johannessen Leif Erlend NOR 2528
13 GM Cramling Pia SWE 2525
14 GM Blomqvist Erik SWE 2519
15 IM Urkedal Frode NOR 2492
16 IM Semcesen Daniel SWE 2488
17 IM Hansen Torbjørn Ringdal NOR 2473
18 IM Mihok Oliver HUN 2466
19 GM Åkesson Ralf Dr SWE 2448
20 GM Socko Monika POL 2440
21 IM Eggleston David ENG 2434
22 GM Yagupov Igor RUS 2427
23 IM Sjodahl Pontus SWE 2420
24 IM Smirnov Artem RUS 2418
25 IM Bejtovic Jasmin BIH 2402
26 IM Tsyhanchuk Stanislav BLR 2398
27 GM Bellon Juan ESP 2382
28 FM Sagit Rauan SWE 2369
29 IM Furhoff Johan SWE 2318
30 Englert Fabian GER 2316
31 Jacobsen Bo DEN 2302
32 FM Lindgren Philip SWE 2301
33 IM Kolbus Dietmar GER 2300
34 FM Krupenski Jüri EST 2300
35 IM Poley Vladimir BLR 2300
36 FM Arman Deniz TUR 2295
37 FM Luukkonen Tommi FIN 2285
38 FM Henriksson Johan SWE 2266
39 Johansson Gunnar SWE 2257
40 Cederstam Barsk Carl SWE 2256
41 Nielsen Rógvi Egilstoft FAI 2252
42 FM Ramondino Renzo ITA 2242
43 FM Hammar Bengt SWE 2234
44 Kiselev Pavel RUS 2233
45 krantz christopher SWE 2233
46 FM Annenkov Kirill RUS 2232
47 Janse Love SWE 2231
48 FM Trygstad Kristian Dahle NOR 2228
49 NM Ask Josef SWE 2209
50 Evertsson Lennart SWE 2186
51 Adler Bo SWE 2168
52 NM Marzano Carlo ITA 2166
53 Norlin Egor SWE 2125
54 Lochte Thomas – GER 2110
55 Puzko Danila RUS 2100
56 Kassani Sam SWE 2095
57 Jonsson Emil SWE 2076
58 Olofsson Dolk Mattis SWE 2070
59 Arovén Mikael SWE 2045
60 Merkesvik Sondre NOR 2039
61 Jogstad Martin SWE 1941
62 Bit-Narva David SWE 1882