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12e Internationaal Open Damtoernooi in SALOU 24 mei - 1 juni 2009 | |
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10 April 2010: Just like in former years the participants list contains more than 130 (actually 144) names. From now on a subscription stop is announced. This means, that new subscribers are placed on a waiting list and in the first week of May, these people will hear from me if they can participate in the tournament. Of course, it is possible to come to Salou for a good holiday, and maybe you are lucky and can play; last year some people came to Salou, not knowing if participation was possible and after all they could play. In the last three weeks before the start of the tournament in 2009 there were 23 cancellations. It can happen again, but I don't think so. On the actual list are 144 names from 24 different countries. 22 players don't have a FMJD-rating. The other 122 have an average rating of 2062, which is pretty high. 23 >2200 53 2000 - 2200 46 1700 - 2000 22 0 If you want to see the complete list, and you want it to be sorted in several ways, have a look at this link: http://fmjd.org/salou/ (thanks to Alexander Presman!). I write this 6 weeks before the start of the tournament. I'm very positive that Salou-2010 will be a great event. In this years' tournament it is for the first time somebody from Uganda will play and two players from Costa Rica. Maybe one participant from Brazil will come. From China comes only one player, but also a managerial delegation. Also from China is our lovely assistant-referee Junyan Yang. Francis Huijsen from The Netherlands (also lovely) is assistant-referee as well. They will assist our main referee Johan Demasure from Belgium. India will play with two promising young girls. And again players from Azerbaijan will be in Salou (two of them played in 2008). From Yakoetsk (Russia) were four players in 2009. This year they come with 12 participants (4 men and 8 women). From France is the delegation much bigger than usual (a lot of new players in Salou). In other years the percentage of players from The Netherlands was about 60%-70%. In 2010 this is at the moment 46%, which means that Salou is a real INTERNATIONAL tournament, in which people from all over the world participate. I'm very looking forward to the tournament, which will start at Sunday May the 23rd. Peter Pippel (Organiser of Salou-2010) |      All rights salou-open.nl |