The winners of Salou Open 2022: A. Domcev (2nd), A.Shvartsman (1st), H.Meijer (3rd)
Best combination of the tournament
M.Kosters - G. Zalitis
Black is close to win. He just had to play 52...4-10! 53.30-24 32-37! 54.31x42 22-27 55.21x32 13-19 56.24x13 12-18 57.13x22 17x48X
But black played 52...22-28? 53.33x22 17x28 And everything turned around. 54.21-17! 11x22 55.39-33 28x39 56.34x43 25x23 57.31-27 22x31 58. 26x6 X
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INTRO 2022
UPDATE 10-03-2022
INTRO
Dear friends,
The war is terrible and also affects the tournament.
It certainly affects us as an organization and personally (where we also have close friendly and family ties with Ukraine). We all hope that this horrible war will soon end and we will see our draughts friends fighting only on the draughts board.
Life is going on even in these difficult times.
And so is our tournament, as a symbol of peace and a friendly, multicultural society.
The Corona measures are being released more and more. We hope that within the remaining 2 months there will be very little left. But as we always mention - if there are some requirements (for example vaccination or testing), we as an organization and guests must respect these.
We also kindly ask our participants and guests who have not yet done so to send us the missing information regarding arrival and stay.
We started the invoicing and for several participants we are still missing the necessary information.
202223rd International Open Draughts Tournament in SALOU.
22 - 30 May 2022
We are glad to invite you to participate in our 23rd International Open draughts tournament in Salou (Spain), which will be played from Sunday, May the 22nd until Monday May the 30st, 2022.
The tournament will be played in the Swiss system with 9 rounds (with rating). The complete program is shown below. The tournament was and will remain a great event.
After the stable success of many years, we can be sure that the participants and companions will have a great time guaranteed by the combination of a beautiful location near to the beach (50 m), a fine hotel accommodation and a spectacular draughts tournament where excellent draughts players competing together with the amateurs.
Just as in the previous years we will try to get the best male and female players of the world to play in Salou. We find this to be a great challenge for all other participants.
For the 18th time, the accommodation for the tournament is the 4 stars Hotel Cala Font in Salou.
The subscriptions in the last few years exceeded the maximum number of 140 participants. The later subscriptions will be put on a waiting list. So the early subscription is highly recommended.
The participation fee for the tournament is € 60,--. The money prizes (in number and amounts) will depend on the number of participants. The first prize will be at least € 800,--. Other prizes will be set for the highest classifications, the best women, best seniors (over 55 years), best youth players and best combination or best game and a “prize-surprise” for some of the weaker players.
Hotel-accommodation (full board) is available for the price of € 450,-- per person (including the tournament fee) and is based on a bed in a double room (Full board: breakfast, lunch, and dinner are included) for 10 nights ( arrival on Saturday 21 May an departure on Tuesday 31 May) .
For persons who don’t participate in the draughts tournament, the price is € 415,--.
A single room supplement (for ten days) is € 240,--.
The reduction of 5% will be given to the people who already participated in one of the former tournaments in Salou.
Extra days in the hotel before the tournament cost per person € 39,-- (based on a bed in a double room) and € 63,00 in a single room.
Extra days in the hotel after the tournament cost per person € 49,-- (based on a bed in a double room) and € 83,00 in a single room.
Tourist tax - 9 Euro per person.
There will be transfers organized from the airport of Barcelona to Salou and the airport of Reus to Salou on Saturday, May the 21st and from Salou to Barcelona and Reus on Tuesday, May the 31st. The price for both transfers (together) is for the airport of Barcelona € 40,-- per person and for the airport of Reus € 20,--.
WARNING: No transfers from Girona (GRO).
Contact mail: info@salou-open.nl
Website: https://www.salou-open.nl
Friday, May 27 is a day off.
There will be a blitz-tournament on Friday, May the 27th. Start: 20.00.
The tournament will be played with FMJD-rules with the rating (1 hour and 20 minutes per person plus 1 minute per move).
After subscription you will receive your personal link to the tournament system where you can find and maintain all your personal information ( names, booking, flights, transfers, financial issues, visa information) .
NO SALOU OPEN IN 2021
First of all we’d like to thank everybody who reacted to our survey.
In the past months we also thoroughly analyzed the latest developments around Covid-19 (vaccination, new mutations, permissions and limitations per countries, visum problematics etc.) and collected the opinions about the possible extra edition of Salou-2021 in September.
The conclusion we finally came to is (regrettably) that we won’t organize the Salou Open in September.
There is at the moment still too much uncertainty while we are already close to these dates. We all would like to be a part of our Salou Open “as it was” without restrictions and with large international representation, therefore we just have to wait for it till May 2022.
We already see a lot of interest for Salou Open 2022 expressed from different countries and continents. And we are very excited expecting this edition to become the greatest one ever. As soon as we obtain the hotel conditions for the next year we will announce it and start the inscription.
So no Salou 2021. But most important - stay safe and healthy and we see you all in May 2022 in "our" Salou!
Many of you would like to know if Salou Open will be held in September 2021.
We announced earlier that we are investigating the possibility to hold the tournament in the period 19-29 September (or 18-28 September if the start of Dutch team competition will be postponed) .
The problem is that we simply can't give the definitive answer.
We don't need to explain the whole situation, you are aware of it.
But there are two factors.
First, Salou Open is not just a draughts tournament. It is the vacation, feest, meeting old friends and making new ones. Salou Open is for many people a kind of top point of the year. They often start to wait for the next edition the next day after the previous finish. This passion shared by the organization is the main reason why we'd like to do the best still to have the tournament in 2021.
From the other hand the situation is not so stable yet that we could say now that we certainly can hold it. Almost every day we get news and changes. Vaccination is going faster and faster but not in all countries. Will the vaccination passport be ready on time, what will be the rules on location? These are still the open questions.
We would be grateful if you could express your opinion
1) I would certainly like to participate in Salou 2021 if it will be organised in September
2) I would like to participate in Salou 2021 if it will be organised in September but I’m not ready to make a decision now
3) I will wait for May 2022
4) Other (please explain)
Please send your opinion by PM or chant at the https://salou-open.nl or by e-mail to info@salou-open.nl
We will make the final decision in the middle of June.
UPDATE 22/06/2021
Dear friends,First of all we’d like to thank everybody who reacted to our survey.
In the past months we also thoroughly analyzed the latest developments around Covid-19 (vaccination, new mutations, permissions and limitations per countries, visum problematics etc.) and collected the opinions about the possible extra edition of Salou-2021 in September.
The conclusion we finally came to is (regrettably) that we won’t organize the Salou Open in September.
There is at the moment still too much uncertainty while we are already close to these dates. We all would like to be a part of our Salou Open “as it was” without restrictions and with large international representation, therefore we just have to wait for it till May 2022.
We already see a lot of interest for Salou Open 2022 expressed from different countries and continents. And we are very excited expecting this edition to become the greatest one ever. As soon as we obtain the hotel conditions for the next year we will announce it and start the inscription.
So no Salou 2021. But most important - stay safe and healthy and we see you all in May 2022 in "our" Salou!
UPDATE 18/05/2021
Dear friends,Many of you would like to know if Salou Open will be held in September 2021.
We announced earlier that we are investigating the possibility to hold the tournament in the period 19-29 September (or 18-28 September if the start of Dutch team competition will be postponed) .
The problem is that we simply can't give the definitive answer.
We don't need to explain the whole situation, you are aware of it.
But there are two factors.
First, Salou Open is not just a draughts tournament. It is the vacation, feest, meeting old friends and making new ones. Salou Open is for many people a kind of top point of the year. They often start to wait for the next edition the next day after the previous finish. This passion shared by the organization is the main reason why we'd like to do the best still to have the tournament in 2021.
From the other hand the situation is not so stable yet that we could say now that we certainly can hold it. Almost every day we get news and changes. Vaccination is going faster and faster but not in all countries. Will the vaccination passport be ready on time, what will be the rules on location? These are still the open questions.
We would be grateful if you could express your opinion
1) I would certainly like to participate in Salou 2021 if it will be organised in September
2) I would like to participate in Salou 2021 if it will be organised in September but I’m not ready to make a decision now
3) I will wait for May 2022
4) Other (please explain)
Please send your opinion by PM or chant at the https://salou-open.nl or by e-mail to info@salou-open.nl
We will make the final decision in the middle of June.
THE WINNER OF COMBINATION PRICE 2019
E.Wiskerke - D.Marynenko , 9th round
33. 37-32? 27-31! 34. 36x27 12-18 35. 23x12 03-08 36. 12x03 20-25 37. 03x20 25x34 38. 40x29 15x31 0-2 Full game
