50th Doeberl Cup
With the sad announcement that Linares is cancelled for another year, it is worth celebrating a tournament which reaches its unbroken half-century this year.
The 50th Doeberl Cup in Canberra, Australia runs from 5-9 April. The main event is the 'Premier' 9-round Swiss which has attracted 80 entrants, led by top seed Levente Vajda of Romania.
The full schedule can be found here (times are UTC+10 hours) and live games will be broadcast here. Major and Minor tournaments and other events will also take place.
The top players in the Premier:
| Name | Title | Fed | Elo | |
| 1 | Vajda, Levente | GM | ROU | 2597 |
| 2 | Zhao, Zong-Yuan | GM | AUS | 2568 |
| 3 | Sengupta, Deep | GM | IND | 2562 |
| 4 | Szabo, Gergely | GM | ROU | 2553 |
| 5 | Horvath, Adam | GM | HUN | 2487 |
| 6 | Czebe, Attila | GM | HUN | 2477 |
| 7 | Xie, George | IM | AUS | 2456 |
| 8 | Rodriguez, Amador | GM | ESP | 2441 |
| 9 | Khamparia, Akshat | IM | IND | 2414 |
| 10 | Johansen, Darryl | GM | AUS | 2403 |
| 11 | Kantholi, Ratnakaran | IM | IND | 2403 |
| 12 | Ly, Moulthun | IM | AUS | 2402 |
| 13 | Pandian, Karthikeyan | IM | IND | 2402 |
| 14 | Zeng, Chongsheng | IM | CHN | 2400 |
| 15 | Solomon, Stephen | IM | AUS | 2375 |
| 16 | Lane, Gary | IM | AUS | 2368 |
| 17 | Yang, Kaiqi | IM | CHN | 2360 |
| 18 | Chan, Yi Ren Daniel | FM | SIN | 2359 |
| 19 | Morris, James | IM | AUS | 2354 |
| 20 | Illingworth, Max | FM | AUS | 2352 |
| 21 | Ikeda, Junta | FM | AUS | 2349 |
| 22 | Cheng, Bobby | FM | AUS | 2344 |
| 23 | Kumar, Praveen | IM | IND | 2338 |
| 24 | Dragicevic, Domagoj | FM | AUS | 2328 |
| 25 | Bjelobrk, Igor | FM | AUS | 2326 |
| 26 | Sukandar, Irene | WGM | INA | 2325 |
| 27 | Stojic, Dusan | FM | AUS | 2296 |
| 28 | Sandler, Leonid | IM | AUS | 2284 |
| 29 | Caoili, Arianne | WIM | AUS | 2269 |
| 30 | Wallis, Christopher | FM | AUS | 2265 |
