Eight edition of Dos Hermanas starts tonight

The world’s biggest internet tournament will have its eigth edition starting tonight. The tournament, which was won last year by GM Fabian Doettling (before e.g. Carlsen and Kamsky) traditionally exists of twelve seperate twelve-round Swiss qualifiers using the Fischer System playing rate: 4 minutes + 1 seconds. The 12 qualifier winners plus the 20 best scores qualify to the 32 KO final. All qualifiers are open for everyone, you only have to sign-up for a free trial-account(!). The tournament has a prize-fund of 7700 EUR and the winner takes EUR 1800.

On the participants list we can see already some interesting names, but as you can apply until the last day of the qualifiers there’s always a hotshot showing up last-minute. For now we have spotted:

Shahriyar Mamedyarov (2754)
Gata Kamsky (2705)
Hikaru Nakamura (2651)
Zhang Zhong (2618)
Alexey Korotylev (2615)
Ian Nepomniachtchi (2587)

Hopefully this year less people will try to cheat. As last year’s original winner, GM Ni Hua was disqualified after the tournament for cheating.

If you want to prepare for this year’s event, last year’s games can be found here.

We’ll keep you updated!