„FIRST SATURDAY”- Budapest , HUNGARY
chess tournament series for IGM-, IM-, FM-norms and ELO-rating
Organizer: Nagy László
Office address: 1101 H-Budapest, Hungária krt. 5-7. XI. ép. I. em. 
Phone/fax: (36-1)-263-2859         E-mail: firstsat@hu.inter.net
mobile:(36)-30-230-1914               www.firstsaturday.hu
Programme for the years 2004 - 2005 
Tournament
type
Grandmaster International
master
FIDE master FM candidate
Average ELO Above 2381 Above 2231 2100 - 2300 1900 – 2100
No. of rounds 9   –  1  3   g  a  m  e  s
Starting dates 2004 -  4th of September, 2nd of October, 6th of November, 4th of December, 2005  -  5th of February, 5th of March, 2nd of April, 7th of May, 4th of June, 2nd of July, 6th of August, 3rd of September, 1st of October, etc.
Time control
120 min for the whole game, + 30 sec.increments after all moves
Start of the rounds First day at 14:00, the other days at 16:00, last day usually from 10:00 a.m.
but declared before the 3rd round
Prizes Declared before the first round
Venue Hungarian Chess Federation, Falk Miksa Str.10.2nd floor,
close to the red metro station KOSSUTH square
 ELO/EURO below 2301/275
2301-2350/250
2351-2400/225
2401-2450/200
2451-2500/175
above 2501/150
2150-2200/225
2201-2250/200
2251-2300/175
2301-2350/150
2351-2400/125
above 2401/100
nonrated      200
below 2051/140
2051-2100/120
2101-2200/100
2201-2250/  80
2251-2300/  60
above 2301/ 40 
nonrated     200
below 1900/120
1901-2000/100
2001-2100/  80
2101-2150/  60
  above 2151/  40 *
Licence to play
in HUN
The HUN CHESS FED takes yearly 1350,-Ft fee
for the playing licence from every player.
1 EURO about = 250 Ft – 1st of July 2004 rate/
Payment In cash, before the first round, preferable in Ft,
according to the buying rate of the Western Union  organisation.
Phone No. of them: 00-(361)-311-1610
There are many famous chessplayers, who reached grandmaster norms in the FIRST SATURDAY tournaments in Budapest from the start 1992 until 2003: LÉKÓ, Péter /HUN/, DAO, Thien Hai /VIE/,  LISS, Eran /ISR/,  BEIM, Valery /ISR/, MEDVEGY, Zoltán /HUN/,   ÁCS, Péter /HUN/,   MIKHALEVSKI, Viktor /ISR/, MIKHALEVSKI, Alexander /ISR/,   SADLER, Matthew /ENG/,   BERKES, Ferenc /HUN/, JAKAB, Attila /HUN/,   RADJABOV, Teimour /AZE/,   MCDONALD, Neil /ENG/,  STOCEK, Jiri /CZE/,   MILOV, Vadim /SWZ /, YEMELIN, Aleksei /RUS/,  VARAVIN, Viktor /RUS/, NISIPIANU /ROM/,  GODENA, Michele /ITA/, KEITLINGHAUS, Ludger /GER/, LUGOVOI, Aleksei /RUS/.
* The entry fee system can be changed according to our contract with the HUN CHESS FED.