The Festival in 2016 comes back in nine rounds!
The organizers have long working to prepare in the best way the third edition of the expected Etnean event. Home of the tournaments will be the **** Biancaneve Hotel in Nicolosi (CT) that will ensure a comfortable stay, professional service, magnificent playing halls and analysis halls and a very good cuisine.
Big news this year will be the A Open, in nine rounds, valid for international norms.
It will begin on December 3rd with the major open while the open B and C will start Sunday, December 4 in the afternoon. Invited Chess Players GM Sergey Volkov RUS 2618 GM Oleg Korneev SPA 2582 GM Yuri Solodovnichenko UKR 2573 GM Popovic Dusan SRB 2534 GM Artur Jakubiec POL 2488 WIM Edyta Jakubiec POL 2237 WGM Sanja Vuksanovic SRB 2194 Registered chess masters FM Alessandro Santagati ITA 2291 M Michel Bifulco ITA 2234 M Andrea Favaloro ITA 2170 M Riccardo Marzaduri ITA 2119 M Girolamo Valguarnera ITA 2087 FM Giuseppe Fabiano ITA 2048 Download the official event flyer

The Festival includes three tournaments:
- Open A > 1900 master level
- Open B <1900 amateur level
- Open C <1600 recommended to beginners and to the youngest.
The playing venue The tournaments will take place in air-conditioned and beautifully furnished rooms in the modern structure of the Biancaneve 4 stars hotel, on the slopes of Etna in the natural park, unique in the world for the beauty of its places and the extraordinary spectacular eruptions of huge volcano.
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November 9th The Serbian GM dusan Popovic with us!
October 31st The Serbian WGM Sanja Vuksanovic will paly in Nicolosi for the third edition of our chess festival!
October 1st The Ukrainian GM Yuri Solodovnichenko invited in Etna! September 15th The polish spouses Artur (GM) ed Edyta Jakubiec (WIM) will play in Nicolosi.
September 1st The GM's Oleg Korneev (2581) and Sergey Volkov (2609) are invited in Etna!!
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