Donostia Chess Festival

Ten strong international players will play the category XI KUTXA Tournament.  Many of these strong players have played for the organizer Gros Xake Taldea such as Loek Van Wely, Christian Bauer or Roberto Cifuentes. A local player, MI Iñigo Argandoña will play this tournament and other basque player, GM Jose Luis Fernández will be preset to. This tournament has 2524 of FIDE rating average.

KUTXA is the the local Savings Bank which promotes sports in Gipuzkoa

LOEK VAN WELY

• GM, 2655
• 1972/10/7 in Heesch, Netherlands
• Netherlands Champion between 2000 and 2005
• We was in the Top Ten in 2001

CHRISTIAN BAUER

• France, GM, 2602
• 1977/1/11 Forbach, France
• French Champion in 1996

HICHEM HAMDOUCHI

• GM, 2589
• 1972/10/8 in Tanger, Marocco
• Marocco Champion 11 times
• African Champion in 2001

ELIZBAR UBILAVA

• GM, 2547
• Born in 1950 in Georgia, now he plays for Spain
• Spanish Rapid Champion in 2005
• He was Viswanathan Anand and Anatoly Karpov’s second.

JORDI MAGEM BADALS

• GM, 2534
• Born in 1967 in Catalonia
• Spanish Champion in 1990

ROBERTO CIFUENTES PARADA

• GM, 2539
• Born in Chile, now he plays for Spain
• Chile Champion 5 times
• Dutch Women Team’s Trainer in 2000-2001

JOSE LUIS FERNANDEZ GARCIA

• GM, 2465
• Bilbao, 1954
• Spanish Champion in 1989

ANTONIO FERNANDES

• GM, 2415
• 1962, Portugal

  
  

IÑIGO ARGANDOÑA RIVEIRO

• MI, 2364
• Born in 1981 in San Sebastián

ARNAUD HAUCHARD

• GM, 2528
• France, 1971