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October First Saturday has started. There are 5 groups total. GM and IM groups are small and will be double round robins. The 3 FM groups include 6 players from Kuwait.
GM Group
Codenotti Marco 1. FM ITA 2334
Horvath David 2. IM HUN 2386
Kantor Gergely 3. FM HUN 2310
Berczes David 4. GM HUN 2528
Lalic Bogdan 5. GM CRO 2488
Todorovic Goran M 6. SRB 2491
IM Group
Hou Qiang 1. FM CHN 2339
Nguyen Huynh Minh Huy 2. IM VIE 2438
Lengyel Bela 3. IM HUN 2252
Szeberenyi Adam 4. IM HUN 2365
Gajek Radoslaw 5. POL 2208
Kojima Shinya 6. FM JPN 2307
FMA1
Tessedik Karoly HUN 1. 1868
Darazs Zoltan HUN 2. 2124
Szalanczy Emil IM HUN 3. 2256
Wanger Tamas HUN 4. 1932
Maquseed Nasser CM KUW 5. 2065
Juracsik Jozsef HUN 6. 2164
Henrichsen Jens DEN 7. 1908
Nasser Bader KUW 8. 2021
Borda Lajos HUN 9. 2120
Gal, Hanna Krisztina HUN 10. 2012
FMA2
Farkas Richard HUN 2112
Koczo Kristof HUN 2221
Jensen Leif DEN 2050
Simkin Alexander RUS 1871
Kaufmann Attila HUN 1941
Al-Hageri Badr KUW 1978
Neuer Thomas GER 2098
Havaskori Laszlo HUN 1933
Molnar Tibor HUN 2002
Laza Szabolcs HUN 2005
FMB
Alsubair Ahmad KUW
Lukacs Albert HUN 1859
Mihajlova Diana ENG 1454(Budapest resident)
Mayer Istvan FM HUN 2074
Goldie Thomas SUI 1722
Czipp Janos HUN 1460
Nemeth Otto HUN 1802
Alamiri Adel KUW
Lakat Gyula HUN 1893
Al-Shorafaa Hazza KUW
Gruz Janos HUN 1845
Bella Zsolt HUN 1358
This months participation in the GM and IM groups is weak. There has been the odd month in past times where tournaments have been cancelled. FM group participation is higher than I have seen recently. There are other foreign players living in the city who also do not play in FS but play other events instead.
I tried to make it clear in a previous post on the October BCN that in the FM groups, there is a two-pricing scheme where Hungarian players are given substantial discounts(around 75% off the web price) and this discount is hidden from the visiting players. The pricing practice in the GM-IM groups is unknown to me. Also there are no prizes in FS while all Budapest tournaments have modest prizes. I won cash and a bottle of wine in one small open a couple of times now.
This is my fourth year living in Budapest and I stumbled across this practice by accident and have since stopped playing in FS events. I find this way of doing business quite distasteful and now play in the numerous other events in the city which are priced at very reasonable levels. One chess parent has tried to convince me that FS did not rip me off as I knew the price in advance. However, I don't share this opinon as the process of hiding player discounts based on country of origin is at the minimum deliberate trickery.
I don't think it's worth the hassle of haggling with the organiser over what is a fair price every time to play(the local price is also quite flexible) and all the other events I play in the organizsers have advertised and fixed prices and are no trouble at all to participate in.
FS is the only tournament in Budapest with a two-tier pricing scheme. Everyone else is quite honest. It just takes a bit of effort go through the Hungarian Federation tournament listing and decipher Hungarian ads.
For this reason I DO NOT recommend FS to anyone unless you don't mind being gouged and are desperate to play in a RR. I play the same players in other events so its no bother to skip FS.
There is a full summary of entry fees in the Oct BCN.
I hope this information is useful if anyone is planning a trip to Europe.
GM Group
Codenotti Marco 1. FM ITA 2334
Horvath David 2. IM HUN 2386
Kantor Gergely 3. FM HUN 2310
Berczes David 4. GM HUN 2528
Lalic Bogdan 5. GM CRO 2488
Todorovic Goran M 6. SRB 2491
IM Group
Hou Qiang 1. FM CHN 2339
Nguyen Huynh Minh Huy 2. IM VIE 2438
Lengyel Bela 3. IM HUN 2252
Szeberenyi Adam 4. IM HUN 2365
Gajek Radoslaw 5. POL 2208
Kojima Shinya 6. FM JPN 2307
FMA1
Tessedik Karoly HUN 1. 1868
Darazs Zoltan HUN 2. 2124
Szalanczy Emil IM HUN 3. 2256
Wanger Tamas HUN 4. 1932
Maquseed Nasser CM KUW 5. 2065
Juracsik Jozsef HUN 6. 2164
Henrichsen Jens DEN 7. 1908
Nasser Bader KUW 8. 2021
Borda Lajos HUN 9. 2120
Gal, Hanna Krisztina HUN 10. 2012
FMA2
Farkas Richard HUN 2112
Koczo Kristof HUN 2221
Jensen Leif DEN 2050
Simkin Alexander RUS 1871
Kaufmann Attila HUN 1941
Al-Hageri Badr KUW 1978
Neuer Thomas GER 2098
Havaskori Laszlo HUN 1933
Molnar Tibor HUN 2002
Laza Szabolcs HUN 2005
FMB
Alsubair Ahmad KUW
Lukacs Albert HUN 1859
Mihajlova Diana ENG 1454(Budapest resident)
Mayer Istvan FM HUN 2074
Goldie Thomas SUI 1722
Czipp Janos HUN 1460
Nemeth Otto HUN 1802
Alamiri Adel KUW
Lakat Gyula HUN 1893
Al-Shorafaa Hazza KUW
Gruz Janos HUN 1845
Bella Zsolt HUN 1358
This months participation in the GM and IM groups is weak. There has been the odd month in past times where tournaments have been cancelled. FM group participation is higher than I have seen recently. There are other foreign players living in the city who also do not play in FS but play other events instead.
I tried to make it clear in a previous post on the October BCN that in the FM groups, there is a two-pricing scheme where Hungarian players are given substantial discounts(around 75% off the web price) and this discount is hidden from the visiting players. The pricing practice in the GM-IM groups is unknown to me. Also there are no prizes in FS while all Budapest tournaments have modest prizes. I won cash and a bottle of wine in one small open a couple of times now.
This is my fourth year living in Budapest and I stumbled across this practice by accident and have since stopped playing in FS events. I find this way of doing business quite distasteful and now play in the numerous other events in the city which are priced at very reasonable levels. One chess parent has tried to convince me that FS did not rip me off as I knew the price in advance. However, I don't share this opinon as the process of hiding player discounts based on country of origin is at the minimum deliberate trickery.
I don't think it's worth the hassle of haggling with the organiser over what is a fair price every time to play(the local price is also quite flexible) and all the other events I play in the organizsers have advertised and fixed prices and are no trouble at all to participate in.
FS is the only tournament in Budapest with a two-tier pricing scheme. Everyone else is quite honest. It just takes a bit of effort go through the Hungarian Federation tournament listing and decipher Hungarian ads.
For this reason I DO NOT recommend FS to anyone unless you don't mind being gouged and are desperate to play in a RR. I play the same players in other events so its no bother to skip FS.
There is a full summary of entry fees in the Oct BCN.
I hope this information is useful if anyone is planning a trip to Europe.