10th European Individual Chess Championship

The 10th European Individual Chess Championship
March 5-19, 2009, Budva, Montenegro

ТOURNAMENT REGULATIONS

ORGANIZERS
The Montenegro Chess Federation under the auspices of the City of Budva and the European Chess Union.

VENUE, DATE, SCHEDULE
The Championship will be held in Budva, Montenegro from March 5th  (day of arrival) until March 19th  (day of departure) 2009. The tournament hall is Congress hall in “Splendid spa & resort hotel”.

Thursday	05.03.2009.		Arrival of participants
Thursday	05.03.2009.	20.00	Opening ceremony
Thursday	05.03.2009.	22.30	Technical Meeting
Friday	06.03.2009.	15.00	1st round
Saturday	07.03.2009.	15.00	2nd round
Sunday	08.03.2009.	15.00	3rd round
Monday	09.03.2009.	15.00	4th round
Tuesday	10.03.2009.	15.00	5th round
Wednesday	11.03.2009.	15.00	6th round
Thursday	12.03.2009.	15.00	7th round
Friday	13.03.2009.		Rest day
Saturday	14.03.2009.	15.00	8th round
Sunday	15.03.2009.	15.00	9th round
Monday	16.03.2009.	15.00	10th round
Tuesday	17.03.2009.	15.00	11th round
Tuesday	17.03.2009.	22.30	Technical meeting for tie-breaks
Wednesday	18.03.2009.	10.00	Tie-breaks
Wednesday	18.03.2009.	20.00	Closing Ceremony
Thursday	19.03.2009.		Departures

Players List

No.			Name	FED	Rtg
1	ESP	GM	Vallejo Pons Francisco	ESP	2702
2	ARM	GM	Akopian Vladimir	ARM	2700
3	GER	GM	Naiditsch Arkadij	GER	2693
4	RUS	GM	Malakhov Vladimir	RUS	2692
5	RUS	GM	Dreev Alexey	RUS	2688
6	MDA	GM	Bologan Viktor	MDA	2687
7	RUS	GM	Vitiugov Nikita	RUS	2687
8	NED	GM	Tiviakov Sergei	NED	2685
9	BUL	GM	Cheparinov Ivan	BUL	2679
10	RUS	GM	Motylev Alexander	RUS	2676
11	ROU	GM	Nisipeanu Liviu-Dieter	ROU	2675
12	UKR	GM	Areshchenko Alexander	UKR	2673
13	RUS	GM	Timofeev Artyom	RUS	2671
14	UKR	GM	Volokitin Andrei	UKR	2671
15	GEO	GM	Jobava Baadur	GEO	2669
16	FRA	GM	Fressinet Laurent	FRA	2666
17	RUS	GM	Tomashevsky Evgeny	RUS	2664
18	AZE	GM	Guseinov Gadir	AZE	2661
19	NED	GM	Sokolov Ivan	NED	2657
20	RUS	GM	Inarkiev Ernesto	RUS	2656
21	RUS	GM	Grachev Boris	RUS	2655
22	RUS	GM	Savchenko Boris	RUS	2654
23	ISR	GM	Postny Evgeny	ISR	2652
24	HUN	GM	Berkes Ferenc	HUN	2651
25	GER	GM	Fridman Daniel	GER	2650
26	BIH	GM	Predojevic Borki	BIH	2650
27	ISR	GM	Rodshtein Maxim	ISR	2650
28	RUS	GM	Bocharov Dmitry	RUS	2647
29	SLO	GM	Beliavsky Alexander G	SLO	2646
30	ITA	GM	Caruana Fabiano	ITA	2646
31	GER	GM	Khenkin Igor	GER	2644
32	FIN	GM	Nyback Tomi	FIN	2644
33	RUS	GM	Lastin Alexander	RUS	2643
34	AZE	GM	Mamedov Rauf	AZE	2638
35	CZE	GM	Navara David	CZE	2638
36	BLR	GM	Aleksandrov Aleksej	BLR	2636
37	BUL	GM	Georgiev Kiril	BUL	2634
38	RUS	GM	Kobalia Mikhail	RUS	2634
39	RUS	GM	Riazantsev Alexander	RUS	2634
40	UKR	GM	Fedorchuk Sergey A	UKR	2633
41	SRB	GM	Ivanisevic Ivan	SRB	2628
42	RUS	GM	Nepomniachtchi Ian	RUS	2628
43	RUS	GM	Belov Vladimir	RUS	2627
44	NED	GM	Van Wely Loek	NED	2625
45	BIH	GM	Nikolic Predrag	BIH	2623
46	ARM	GM	Petrosian Tigran L	ARM	2623
47	RUS	GM	Khalifman Alexander	RUS	2622
48	ARM	GM	Pashikian Arman	ARM	2621
49	RUS	GM	Lysyj Igor	RUS	2620
50	BLR	GM	Fedorov Alexei	BLR	2619
51	GEO	GM	Mchedlishvili Mikheil	GEO	2619
52	RUS	GM	Sakaev Konstantin	RUS	2619
53	RUS	GM	Potkin Vladimir	RUS	2613
54	GRE	GM	Papaioannou Ioannis	GRE	2609
55	ROU	GM	Lupulescu Constantin	ROU	2608
56	GER	GM	Meier Georg	GER	2608
57	ISR	GM	Mikhalevski Victor	ISR	2608
58	POL	GM	Wojtaszek Radoslaw	POL	2608
59	POL	GM	Macieja Bartlomiej	POL	2607
60	SWE	GM	Berg Emanuel	SWE	2606
61	ROU	GM	Parligras Mircea	ROU	2605
62	GRE	GM	Kotronias Vasilios	GRE	2603
63	NED	GM	L'ami Erwin	NED	2603
64	ISR	GM	Huzman Alexander	ISR	2602
65	RUS	GM	Kurnosov Igor	RUS	2602
66	BLR	GM	Azarov Sergei	BLR	2599
67	POL	GM	Bartel Mateusz	POL	2594
68	CRO	GM	Kozul Zdenko	CRO	2594
69	MDA	GM	Svetushkin Dmitry	MDA	2593
70	SRB	GM	Sedlak Nikola	SRB	2592
71	CRO	GM	Stevic Hrvoje	CRO	2592
72	SRB	GM	Damljanovic Branko	SRB	2587
73	BLR	GM	Zhigalko Sergei	BLR	2587
74	SWE	GM	Hillarp Persson Tiger	SWE	2586
75	GEO	GM	Gagunashvili Merab	GEO	2585
76	MDA	GM	Iordachescu Viorel	MDA	2584
77	HUN	GM	Erdos Viktor	HUN	2583
78	GRE	GM	Banikas Hristos	GRE	2582
79	NED	GM	Timman Jan H	NED	2582
80	GRE	GM	Mastrovasilis Dimitrios	GRE	2580
81	RUS	GM	Smirnov Pavel	RUS	2579
82	CRO	GM	Bosiocic Marin	CRO	2578
83	GRE	GM	Halkias Stelios	GRE	2578
84	FRA	GM	Maze Sebastien	FRA	2578
85	RUS	GM	Yemelin Vasily	RUS	2578
86	RUS	GM	Romanov Evgeny	RUS	2576
87	SRB	GM	Vuckovic Bojan	SRB	2576
88	RUS	GM	Khairullin Ildar	RUS	2574
89	BLR	GM	Zhigalko Andrey	BLR	2572
90	SWE	GM	Andersson Ulf	SWE	2571
91	CRO	GM	Jankovic Alojzije	CRO	2571
92	SRB	GM	Pikula Dejan	SRB	2570
93	ARM	GM	Kotanjian Tigran	ARM	2568
94	SRB	GM	Perunovic Milos	SRB	2568
95	RUS	IM	Chadaev Nikolai	RUS	2568
96	RUS	GM	Shomoev Anton	RUS	2567
97	RUS	GM	Deviatkin Andrei	RUS	2566
98	CRO	GM	Saric Ivan	CRO	2566
99	RUS	GM	Grigoriants Sergey	RUS	2565
100	ARM	GM	Andriasian Zaven	ARM	2564
101	RUS	GM	Iljushin Alexei	RUS	2564
102	AZE	GM	Safarli Eltaj	AZE	2564
103	RUS	GM	Sjugirov Sanan	RUS	2562
104	RUS	GM	Popov Valerij	RUS	2561
105	UKR	GM	Neverov Valeriy	UKR	2560
106	NED	GM	Nijboer Friso	NED	2559
107	CRO	GM	Jovanovic Zoran	CRO	2558
108	HUN	GM	Ruck Robert	HUN	2558
109	RUS	GM	Maletin Pavel	RUS	2557
110	ARM	GM	Minasian Artashes	ARM	2557
111	SRB	GM	Milanovic Danilo	SRB	2552
112	CRO	GM	Brkic Ante	CRO	2550
113	MNE	GM	Blagojevic Dragisa	MNE	2548
114	SLO	GM	Lenic Luka	SLO	2547
115	GER	GM	Kunin Vitaly	GER	2546
116	RUS	GM	Evdokimov Alexander A	RUS	2545
117	SRB	GM	Kovacevic Aleksandar	SRB	2543
118	CRO	GM	Cvitan Ognjen	CRO	2542
119	RUS	GM	Maslak Konstantin	RUS	2541
120	RUS	GM	Popov Ivan	RUS	2541
121	ESP	GM	Lopez Martinez Josep Manuel	ESP	2540
122	AUT	GM	Ragger Markus	AUT	2540
123	ITA	GM	Godena Michele	ITA	2537
124	MNE	GM	Drasko Milan	MNE	2533
125	HUN	GM	Hera Imre Jr	HUN	2527
126	CRO	GM	Jovanic Ognjen	CRO	2527
127	SRB	GM	Savic Miodrag R	SRB	2525
128	RUS	GM	Novikov Stanislav	RUS	2523
129	GEO	GM	Sanikidze Tornike	GEO	2522
130	CRO	GM	Saric Ante	CRO	2514
131	HUN	GM	Berczes David	HUN	2513
132	ENG	GM	Wells Peter K	ENG	2513
133	ESP	IM	Ibarra Jerez Jose Carlos	ESP	2513
134	HUN	IM	Prohaszka Peter	HUN	2512
135	RUS	GM	Dobrov Vladimir	RUS	2510
136	CRO	GM	Cebalo Miso	CRO	2509
137	HUN	IM	Szabo Krisztian	HUN	2508
138	ROU	IM	Nanu Ciprian-Costica	ROU	2506
139	ROU	IM	Szabo Gergely-Andras-Gyula	ROU	2506
140	UKR	IM	Nyzhnyk Illya	UKR	2503
141	SRB	GM	Lajthajm Borko	SRB	2502
142	HUN	IM	Banusz Tamas	HUN	2501
143	MNE	GM	Djukic Nikola	MNE	2500
144	SRB	GM	Antic Dejan	SRB	2495
145	SUI	IM	Ekstroem Roland	SUI	2495
146	MKD	GM	Stanojoski Zvonko	MKD	2493
147	CZE	IM	Simacek Pavel	CZE	2493
148	NED	IM	Spoelman Wouter	NED	2493
149	ESP	IM	Larino Nieto David	ESP	2489
150	SLO	IM	Skoberne Jure	SLO	2489
151	SVK	IM	Vavrak Peter	SVK	2489
152	RUS	IM	Anisimov Pavel	RUS	2488
153	ROU	GM	Badea Bela	ROU	2485
154	GRE	GM	Mastrovasilis Athanasios	GRE	2485
155	ROU	IM	Chirila Ioan-Cristian	ROU	2485
156	RUS	IM	Levin Evgeny A	RUS	2484
157	RUS	IM	Lintchevski Daniil	RUS	2481
158	SUI	GM	Gallagher Joseph G	SUI	2480
159	BUL	IM	Nikolov Momchil	BUL	2478
160	CRO	IM	Doric Darko	CRO	2477
161	SRB	IM	Arsovic Zoran	SRB	2475
162	POL	IM	Swiercz Dariusz	POL	2472
163	SRB	GM	Todorovic Goran M	SRB	2471
164	TUR	IM	Can Emre	TUR	2471
165	ROU	IM	Sofronie Iulian	ROU	2471
166	SRB	IM	Pap Misa	SRB	2469
167	BIH	IM	Stojanovic Dalibor	BIH	2469
168	ITA	IM	Bruno Fabio	ITA	2460
169	MNE	IM	Kalezic Blazo	MNE	2460
170	ISR	IM	Bykhovsky Anatoly	ISR	2459
171	TUR	IM	Erdogdu Mert	TUR	2459
172	GRE	IM	Dembo Yelena	GRE	2456
173	GRE	GM	Papadopoulos Ioannis K	GRE	2455
174	UKR	GM	Pogorelov Ruslan	UKR	2451
175	TUR	IM	Haznedaroglu Kivanc	TUR	2451
176	RUS	IM	Smirnov Artem	RUS	2450
177	ENG	IM	D`Costa Lorin A R	ENG	2445
178	ARM	IM	Chibukhchian Artur	ARM	2444
179	GRE	IM	Kapnisis Spyridon	GRE	2440
180	AZE	IM	Durarbeyli Vasif	AZE	2439
181	ENG	IM	Devereaux Maxim L	ENG	2437
182	ROU		Valeanu Eduard-Andrei	ROU	2432
183	AUT	IM	Schroll Gerhard	AUT	2430
184	RUS	IM	Matsenko Sergei	RUS	2429
185	BIH	IM	Savanovic Aleksandar	BIH	2428
186	CRO	IM	Martinovic Sasa	CRO	2427
187	SRB	IM	Arsovic Goran	SRB	2426
188	UKR	IM	Klenburg Mikhail	UKR	2426
189	POL	IM	Lubczynski Rafal	POL	2423
190	SRB	IM	Maksimovic Branimir	SRB	2423
191	POR	GM	Fernandes Antonio	POR	2422
192	BIH	IM	Jakovljevic Vlado	BIH	2420
193	CRO	IM	Rukavina Josip	CRO	2417
194	GER	IM	Solomunovic Igor	GER	2416
195	SUI	IM	Kurmann Oliver	SUI	2415
196	SRB	IM	Nestorovic Nikola	SRB	2415
197	MDA	IM	Vedmediuc Serghei	MDA	2414
198	SUI	IM	Zueger Beat	SUI	2408
199	SRB		Panic Nenad	SRB	2408
200	SRB	IM	Cvetkovic Srdjan	SRB	2407
201	CZE	IM	Talla Vladimir	CZE	2407
202	ENG	IM	Ferguson Mark	ENG	2404
203	CRO	IM	Golubovic Boris	CRO	2403
204	SRB	IM	Kojovic Dragan	SRB	2403
205	TUR	FM	Yilmaz Mustafa	TUR	2399
206	AZE		Abasov Nijat Azad Oglu	AZE	2397
207	MNE		Nikac Predrag	MNE	2395
208	AUT	FM	Kreisl Robert	AUT	2394
209	TUR	IM	Atakisi Umut	TUR	2393
210	AUT	IM	Pilaj Herwig	AUT	2393
211	BUL	FM	Berbatov Kiprian	BUL	2392
212	RUS	FM	Pankov German	RUS	2392
213	MNE	IM	Lekic Dusan	MNE	2391
214	AZE	FM	Rasulov Vugar	AZE	2391
215	SRB	IM	Todorovic Goran N	SRB	2389
216	BIH	FM	Tomic Bosko	BIH	2384
217	GRE	IM	Georgiadis Ioannis	GRE	2383
218	ROU		Schmidt Raul	ROU	2382
219	RUS	IM	Reutsky Sergei	RUS	2381
220	RUS	IM	Chudinovskikh Alexander M	RUS	2379
221	FRA	IM	Lamoureux Charles	FRA	2374
222	TUR	IM	Erturan Yakup	TUR	2372
223	RUS	IM	Onoprienko Vladimir	RUS	2372
224	SRB	IM	Masic Predrag	SRB	2371
225	ISR		Sidorenko Ilya	ISR	2370
226	MNE	IM	Kontic Djordjije	MNE	2368
227	RUS	IM	Ogloblin Nikolay	RUS	2362
228	POL	FM	Leniart Arkadiusz	POL	2360
229	RUS	FM	Zolotukhin Valery	RUS	2358
230	SLO	IM	Krumpacnik Domen	SLO	2356
231	NED	FM	Van Eijk Sander	NED	2355
232	CRO	FM	Plenkovic Zdenko	CRO	2354
233	ISR	FM	Porat Ido	ISR	2354
234	SLO	IM	Polajzer Danilo	SLO	2353
235	RUS		Serov Maksim	RUS	2352
236	LUX	IM	Berend Fred	LUX	2351
237	ROU		Anton Teodor	ROU	2350
238	UKR	IM	Pesotsky Vitaly	UKR	2342
239	AZE		Aleskerov Faik	AZE	2340
240	ROU		Bonte Andrei-Mihai	ROU	2335
241	MNE	WIM	Vojinovic Jovana	MNE	2331
242	SUI	FM	Vulevic Vjekoslav	SUI	2325
243	SRB	FM	Vujic Mihailo	SRB	2321
244	SRB	FM	Sekulic Dusan	SRB	2316
245	MNE		Mrsevic Miroslav	MNE	2315
246	GRE		Simeonidis Ioannis	GRE	2303
247	MNE		Mijovic Stefan	MNE	2300
248	SRB	IM	Misailovic Nebojsa	SRB	2293
249	GRE		Tassopoulos Marios	GRE	2293
250	CRO		Djurovic Goran	CRO	2279
251	GRE		Pavlidis Antonios	GRE	2278
252	SRB		Sorgic Dragan	SRB	2277
253	MNE	FM	Brajovic Radovan	MNE	2275
254	SRB		Andrejic Vladica	SRB	2275
255	SRB	FM	Petakov Uros	SRB	2269
256	MKD		Veleski Robert	MKD	2269
257	POL		Wieczorek Oskar	POL	2265
258	CRO	WIM	Franciskovic Borka	CRO	2261
259	MNE	FM	Vucinic Pero	MNE	2257
260	SRB	FM	Spiric Igor	SRB	2254
261	ENG		Chapman Terry P D	ENG	2251
262	CRO		Plenca Julijan	CRO	2248
263	MNE	WIM	Drljevic Ljilja	MNE	2244
264	GRE		Ketzetzis Georgios	GRE	2243
265	CRO	IM	Medancic Rikard	CRO	2242
266	EUR		Ajvazi Ramadan	EUR	2240
267	CRO		Susak Zeljko	CRO	2229
268	RUS		Maevsky Nikolay	RUS	2223
269	MNE		Pejovic Jovan	MNE	2214
270	MNE		Anicic Vuko	MNE	2212
271	SRB		Mikavica Mirko	SRB	2211
272	SRB		Nestorovic Lazar	SRB	2207
273	SRB		Civric Zdravko	SRB	2206
274	CRO	WIM	Solic Kristina	CRO	2203
275	LUX		Schartz Alain	LUX	2202
276	SRB		Pantic Ivica	SRB	2193
277	BLR		Elkin Leonid	BLR	2191
278	ITA	FM	Valenti Giuseppe	ITA	2183
279	MNE		Bajkovic Nikola	MNE	2180
280	SRB		Rajcevic Stevan	SRB	2161
281	MNE		Jakic Vidan	MNE	2154
282	MNE		Ceranic Miodrag	MNE	2147
283	HUN		Papp Petra	HUN	2134
284	NED		Becic Said	NED	2131
285	SRB		Zdravkovic Dragan S	SRB	2130
286	MNE		Durutovic Dragutin	MNE	2123
287	CRO		Filipovic Miroslav	CRO	2121
288	MNE		Todorovic Ranko	MNE	2116
289	AUT		Bozinovic Boban	AUT	2094
290	MNE		Rakocevic Zeljko	MNE	2086
291	MNE		Scekic Veljko	MNE	2084
292	CRO	WFM	Berke Ana	CRO	2081
293	SLO		Gazvoda Franc	SLO	2065
294	SRB		Simic Vladica	SRB	2064
295	CRO		Dinter Brian	CRO	2055
296	MNE		Vukovic Krsto	MNE	2055
297	CRO		Kruljac Petra	CRO	2052
298	MNE		Petovic Luka	MNE	2052
299	SUI		Mikavica Dragoljub	SUI	2034
300	MNE		Karisik Nenad	MNE	2023
301	ROU		Malureanu Costin-George	ROU	2013
302	MNE		Draskovic Luka	MNE	1983
303	BIH		Kadric Denis	BIH	1981
304	MNE		Ljubisa Mitar	MNE	1976
305	CRO		Vrhovnik Damir	CRO	1976
306	MNE		Stamatovic Vladimir	MNE	1974
307	MNE		Dedic Slavko	MNE	1969
308	MNE		Vlaovic Slobodan	MNE	1949
309	MNE		Pecurica Milos	MNE	1934
310	CRO		Kanceljak Dalia	CRO	1917
311	GER		Kopischke Maik	GER	1910
312	SRB		Gagic Miroljub	SRB	1880
313	MNE		Bubanja Masan	MNE	0
314	MNE		Cenic Dusan	MNE	0
315	MNE		Jovicic Zoran	MNE	0
316	MNE		Mitrovic Stevan	MNE	0
317	MNE		Trkulja Vojislav	MNE	0