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.

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 (top seeds):

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