4th ENCI Limburg Open

Maastricht, 21 till 24 may 2010 (Whitsunday weekend)

ENCI Limburg Open Forum launched

The ENCI Limburg Open now has it's own forum. Participate in the forum and talk about the tournament, about chess in general or about any other topic you are interested in. Click in the menu on the left on "Forum" to visit our new forum

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The ENCI Limburg Open is one of the largest chess tournament of The Netherlands, the tournament is also the (81st) official provincial championship of Limburg.
Everyone can participate, from starter to grandmaster.

Group A: for players with a rating of at least 2000 (7 rounds according to the swiss system)
Group B: for players with a rating of at least 1700 and 2050 at the most (7 rounds according to the swiss system)
Group C: for players with a rating of 1750 at the highest (7 rounds according to the swiss system)
Veterans: for players born in 1949 or earlier (5 rounds)

The prize total has remained the same. The total amount of prizes is € 10.000,-
The first prize is € 2.250,-

The winners of the first 3 editions:
2007 IGM Leonid Kritz
2008 IGM Friso Nijboer, IGM Gawain Jones, IM Robin Swinkels and IM Sergei Klimov
2009 IGM Emanuel Berg, GM Yuri Solodovnichenko, GM Sipke Ernst en IM Wouter Spoelman