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The rooms of the Hotel Meliá Benidorm are excellent for playing chess tournaments: entrances, exterior and interior lighting, carpet, height, design, comfort of the furniture…

However, for the Benidorm Chess Open organization, the current situation of the pandemic still worries. That is why we wish to maintain the distance and safety measures that have characterized chess competitions for the past year, even as restrictions are continually being relaxed.

We know about the quality of the facilities and their size, but we do not want to focus on the number of players, but on their well-being. In view of these circumstances, we are going to limit in principle the number of players per Open to 200 participants, in strict order of registration.

Likewise, the Lions of Chess tournament for Young Chess Talents will be limited to 200 participants in total by adding the four categories (under-16, under-14, under-12 and under-10).

The management of the Benidorm Chess Open has closed the hiring of the Spanish GM Manuel Pérez Candelario to participate very actively during the days of competition.

On Thursday, December 9 and Saturday, December 11, the Grand Master will give two simultaneous sessions, one each day, to 20 players staying at the Meliá Benidorm hotel and who are enrolled in opens A or B.

In addition to these simultaneous, on the 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th, which correspond to the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th rounds, from 6:30 pm. until 9:30 p.m. The Spanish Grand Master will analyze the game of the day of any fan who wishes in the Reproduction Room.

The player will bring his form and will be able to know how a GM would have thought about his position. We hope that this service will be well used by the fans participating in this chess event that we are preparing with so much love.

Chess24.com, the number one portal in the Spanish-speaking chess world, will be the official portal where you can follow the first table games of the Open A of the Benidorm Chess Open 2021.

Also on the same date as the Benidorm Chess Open 2021, the World Championship Final between Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi will be held in Dubai, from November 24 to December 16. The organization had prepared the presence of David Martínez and Pepe Cuenca at the event but they will be in Dubai.

From the Chess Fun Zone you can follow the World Cup live on the giant screens installed and connected to Chess24.com.

One of the best attractions of the Benidorm Chess Open is the hotel where it is held.

Amateur chess already deserved to upgrade its awards, quality and organizational capacity and, above all, to find a great hotel where the food and services are up to what CHESS deserves.

The Hotel Meliá Benidorm is an emblem of quality in all its services.

On this occasion, and because the event is in December, the water on the beach may be a bit cold … but surely the temperature of the heated pool is to the liking of the vast majority of chess players.

We will play blitz in their lounges, we will compete in well-lit and comfortable rooms and we will bathe in December at the Meliá Benidorm.

The Benidorm Chess Open organization is going to offer a service that will surely be highly appreciated by the fans who come to compete in this great event. Some GMs and MIs will be hired so that at the end of the day’s round, or the next day during the morning, the fans can show them their game and thus receive a personalized class on what their mistake was, if the opening was correct, if you missed some tactical trick …

When a chess Grandmaster shares his thoughts with an amateur, the ability to improve our understanding of the game is accelerated. That is why we hope this free service will be to the liking of the participants.

Currently, waiting for his agenda, we are about to confirm a Top Ten in Spain, Manuel Pérez Candelario from Extremadura, one of the best players in Spain, coach and trainer of elite players, and Director of the excellent school of chess from the Magic Chess Club of Mérida.