„FIRST SATURDAY”- 
Budapest , HUNGARY 
monthly chess tournament series for 
IGM-, IM-norms and ELO-rating 
Organizer: Nagy László
 Phone/fax: (36-1)-263-2859         E-mail: firstsat@hu.inter.net 
mobile:(36)-30-230-1914               www.firstsaturday.hu
Programme for the year  2008 
Tournament 
type
Grandmaster 
Cat. VI-VII-VIII.
International 
master
FIDE master FM candidate
Average ELO Above 2381 Above 2231 above 2050  1850 – 2050
No. of rounds 9   –  1  3   g  a  m  e  s
Starting dates   2nd of February, 1st of March, 5th of April, 3rd of May, 7th of June, 
5th of July, 2nd of August, 6th of September, 
4th of October, 1st of November,  6th of December
Time control
120 min for the whole game, + 30 sec.increments after each 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 Written certificates about the participation in the tournament
Venue Hungarian Chess Federation, Falk Miksa Str.10. 2nd floor, 
close to the red metro station KOSSUTH square
 ELO/EURO below 2301/300 
2301-2350/275 
2351-2400/250 
2401-2450/225 
2451-2500/175 
above 2501/150
2150-2200/250 
2201-2250/225 
2251-2300/200 
2301-2350/175 
2351-2400/150 
above 2401/125
nonrated      200 
below 2051/140 
2051-2100/120 
2101-2200/100 
2201-2250/  80 
2251-2300/  60 
above 2301/ 40 
nonrated     200 
below 1900/140 
1901-2000/120 
2001-2050/  100 
2101-2150/  80 
  above 2151/  60 
Licence to play 
in HUN
The HUN CHESS FEDERATION  takes yearly 6 EURO fee 
for the playing licence from every player, who plays in Hungary. 
1 EURO about = 260 Ft – 1st of March.2008 rate/, 
15 EURO fee for tournament registration
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 2006: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/,   GUSEINOV, Gadir /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/, NGUYEN, Ngoc Truongson /VIE/, BUI, Vinh /VIE/, BÉRCZES, Dávid /HUN/, BOROS,Dénes /HUN/, PROHÁSZKA, Péter /HUN/.