According to the website
www.chess-results.com, Bruzon will be the highest
ranked-player in the competition with an ELO rating of 2,689
points.
In all, 79 players have registered for the 10-round event, which
will be
played using the Swiss system.
Other players with an ELO rating over 2,600 attending the
contest include
Dutch GM Sergei Tiviakov (2,647), Venezuelan GM Eduardo
Iturrizaga
(2,640), also Cuban GM Yuniesky Quesada (2,635), and Polish GM
Bartlomiej
Macieja (2,613).
Other GMs competing in Bogota will be Costa Rican Alejandro
Ramirez
(2,595), Peruvian Emilio Cordova (2,560), and Cuban Isam Ortiz
(2,555).
Cuba’s delegation will be completed by GM Luis Manuel Perez
(2,479), and
International Masters (IM) Camilo Gomez (2,533), Maikel Gongora
(2,428)
and Rodney Perez (2,424), as well as female GM Yanira Vigoa
(2,206).