Bulgaria Chess Championships 2014 begins

Hello chess lovers, it's soon going to be the Chess Olympiad season so plenty of national chess championships happening. The most recent is the Bulgarian Individual Chess Championships for men and women being held from May 10-18 in the city of Kozloduy, according to a FIDE update.

Top seed Ivan Cheparinov - Find great portraits of world's top chess players at www.chesspics.com.

The tournaments are 10 player round robin with time control 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the rest of the game plus 30 second per move starting from move 1.

The top three players in the 78th Bulgarian Chess Championship for men will be awarded 3000 BGN, 2300 BGN, 1800 BGN, while the best women will receive 1800 BGN, 1300 BGN, 1000 BGN, respectively. Of course, the the Olympiad teams would also be selected.

Men:
1. GM Ivan Cheparinov 2686
2. GM Kiril Georgiev 2632
3. GM Atanas Kolev 2579
4. GM Momchil Nikolov 2523
5. GM Petar Drenchev 2487
6. GM Petar Arnaudov 2464
7. IM Radoslav Dimitrov 2445
8. IM Ivajlo Enchev 2437
9. IM Dimitar Marholev 2348
10. Lyubomir Danov 2257

Women:
1. WIM Elitsa Raeva 2352
2. WGM Iva Videnova 2323
3. WGM Adriana Nikolova 2319
4. WGM Margarita Voiska 2292
5. WIM Svetla Yordanova 2084
6. Simoneta Ivanova 2079
7. Tsveta Galunova 2030
8. WFM Tanja Baninska 2029
9. Maria Vasova 1978
10. WCM Viktorija Radeva 1906