Compared to our previous, and first, major Open Tournament, the DB Blitz last December, we are glad to see now double the amount of players will be joining on July 13. In total 47 players have signed up, 19 participants playing for the Open prizes, 15 playing for the Youth P4-P6 prizes and 13 for the P1-P3 prizes.

Some interesting observations:

• The champion of the December 2012 DB Blitz is playing
• Two other prize winners from that tournament will also play
• We have 8 players traveling in from Shenzhen, among which  4 Chinese youth players and 4 adult players from diverse international background: Australian, Ukrainian, Italian, Chinese
• 9 Caissa players (go, boys and girls, go!)
• The National Champion U10, the National Champion U7, the National Blitz Champion U8 and from the National Championship U8 group we have numbers 2, 3 and 4 playing
• We have the best girl of National Championship U8 playing, who is also the number 5 of the World Championship Schools in Girls U7 category
• Number 6 of the Hong Kong Finals is playing
• The only person to hold a draw in the simul against Junior World Champion IGM Alexander Ipatov is playing too …

You can figure out all names for yourself from below list!