Romanian Grand Prix 2022 – Stage 2

The 2nd leg of the Romanian Grand Prix 2022 will take place from 4-11 June in Targu Mures.
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The city of Targu Mures will simultaneously host two tournaments: A (part of the Romanian Grand Prix for players rated 2200+) and B (Targu Mures Open for players rated U2200). Both events will be played in 9 rounds, swiss system, with time control: 90 minutes + 30 sec/move starting from the first move.
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The total prize fund of the events will be 100.000 Romanian lei (20.000 euros), with 75.000 lei reserved for the Grand Prix and 25.000 for the Targu Mures Open. The Winner of the 2nd Romanian Grand Prix event will win the prize of 25.000 lei (5.000 euros) with the best ranked women player winning 5.000 lei (1.100 euros).

Best chess tournament in June: 04-11.06 ♟🏆️
Location: Targu-Mures, Romania
Excellent prizes: 5000 eur 1st, 1100 eur 1st woman
Nice organisers and great support from our federation!

There are still some invitations left, for GM and WGM playershttps://t.co/aclr8qdevZ pic.twitter.com/UxSq45A22X

— Irina Bulmaga (@IrinaBulmaga) May 14, 2022

Starting list of participants currently gathers 33 players from 7 countries, including 27 titled players. The top seeds are GM Constantin Lupulescu, GM Martin Petrov, GM Vlad-Cristian Jianu.

No.		Name	FED	Rtg
1	GM	Lupulescu Constantin	ROU	2623
2	GM	Petrov Martin	BUL	2545
3	GM	Jianu Vlad-Cristian	ROU	2527
4	GM	Miron Lucian-Costin	ROU	2510
5	GM	Nevednichy Vladislav	ROU	2496
6	GM	Swayams Mishra	IND	2489
7	IM	Schitco Ivan	MDA	2484
8	GM	Manolache Marius	ROU	2481
9	IM	Macovei Andrei	MDA	2453
10	IM	Baltag Iulian	MDA	2411
11	IM	Bulmaga Irina	ROU	2397
12	IM	Filip Lucian-Ioan	ROU	2385
13	IM	Vasiesiu Dan	ROU	2385
14	IM	Soltanici Ruslan	MDA	2379
15	IM	Manea Alexandru	ROU	2360
16	FM	Secheres Adrian-Simion	ROU	2360
17	IM	Brunello Marina	ITA	2349
18	FM	Samani Yamac	TUR	2336
19	FM	Yordanov Lachezar	BUL	2306
20	WIM	Terbe Julianna	HUN	2304
21	IM	Petre Nad-Titus	ROU	2297
22	WGM	Cosma Elena-Luminita	ROU	2277
23	WGM	Sandu Mihaela	ROU	2270
24	CM	Cnejev Vladimir-Alexandru	ROU	2187
25	FM	Pribeanu Mihail-Dacian	ROU	2175
26	FM	Rusan Paul-Cristian	ROU	2114
27	I	Veress Armand	ROU	2100
28	I	Saioc David	ROU	1897
29	I	Nagy-Elek Tamas	ROU	1880
30	I	Negrean Andrei	ROU	1846
31	WCM	Puia Alexia-Teodora	ROU	1787
32	I	Bira Andrada-Paraschiva	ROU	1685
33	I	Stefan Iulia-Cristiana	ROU	1646