</SPAN></SPAN> 18th OPEN INTERNATIONAL CHESS TOURNAMENT of KAVALA, Greece: 1 - 8 August 2009, PLAYING SYSTEM : FIDE Swiss 9 rounds. This is a strong tournament, top group 170 players, 38 GM and IM over 2500 elo. Official site: http://www.chesskavala.gr/ Live games </SPAN></SPAN>
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Standings after round 8 top 10 Rk. Name FED Rtg Pts.  TB1   TB2   TB3  1 GM DAVID ALBERTO LUX 2565 6,5 0,0 33,0 0,0 2 GM SANDIPAN CHANDA IND 2585 6,5 0,0 32,0 0,0 3 GM GUPTA ABHIJEET IND 2565 6,5 0,0 30,5 0,0 4 GM NEVEDNICHY VLADISLAV ROU 2570 6,5 0,0 28,5 0,0 5 GM MELKUMYAN HRANT ARM 2530 6,0 0,0 29,5 0,0 6 GM ANDRIASIAN ZAVEN ARM 2585 6,0 0,0 28,5 0,0 7 GM ARUN PRASAD S IND 2556 6,0 0,0 27,5 0,0 8 GM MARKUS ROBERT SRB 2587 6,0 0,0 27,5 0,0 9 GM BANIKAS HRISTOS GRE 2570 6,0 0,0 27,5 0,0 10 GM VOLKOV SERGEY RUS 2607 6,0 0,0 27,0 0,0
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> The Arctic Chess Challenge takes place in Tromso 1st-9th August 2009. 120 players, Official site: http://www.arcticchess.org/ Live games</SPAN></SPAN>
Standings after round 8 top 10</SPAN></SPAN> 1 GM Monika Socko W 2449 6.0 2 IM Marijan Petrov 2479 6.0 3 IM Ray Robson Jr 2491 6.0 4 GM Julian Radulski 2539 5.5 5 GM Sarunas Sulskis 2559 5.5 6 IM Luca Shytaj 2455 5.5 7 GM Jon Ludvig Hammer Jr 2582 5.5 8 GM Emanuel Berg 2610 5.5 9 GM Allan Stig Rasmussen 5.5 10 GM Igor Khenkin 2634 5.5
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