Cash and non-cash prizes

Prizes

Prizes	Group A	Group B	Group C
1st place	€ 2.500	€ 600	€ 400
2nd place	€ 2.000	€ 500	€ 300
3rd place	€ 1.500	€ 400	€ 200
4th place	€ 1.250	€ 350	€ 150
5th place	€ 1.000	€ 300	€ 100
6th place	€ 800	€ 250	€ 100
7th place	€ 650	€ 200	€ 100
8th place	€ 500	€ 200	€ 50
9th place	€ 400	€ 150	€ 50
10th place	€ 300	€ 150	€ 50
11th place	€ 300	€ 100	€ 50
12th place	€ 300	€ 100	€ 50

Category prizes

Prizes	Group A	Sequence of categories
1st place	€ 300	♦ Elo 2200-2299
2nd place	€ 200	♦ Elo 2100-2199
3rd place	€ 100	♦ Elo 2000-2099
		♦ Seniors (year ≤ 1959)
		♦ Women
		♦ U18 (year ≥ 2001)

Natural prizes

Natural prizes are awarded for place 1-3 of each category in group B & C according to the ranking after round 7.

Group B	Group C
♦ Elo 1800-1899	♦ Elo 1800-1899
♦ Elo 1700-1799	♦ Elo 1700-1799
♦ Elo 1600-1699	♦ Elo 1600-1699
♦ Seniors (year ≤ 1959)	♦ Seniors (year ≤ 1959)
♦ Women	♦ Women
♦ U18 (year 2001-2002)	♦ U18 (year 2001-2002)
♦ U16 (year 2003-2004)	♦ U16 (year 2003-2004)
♦ U14 (year 2005-2006)	♦ U14 (year 2005-2006)
♦ U12 (year ≥ 2007)	♦ U12 (year ≥ 2007)
♦ Best per Austrian state	♦ Best per Austrian state

Special prizes Austrian Championship

The Austrian championships – open class and women – are organized within group A of the Vienna Chess Open.

The prizes of these championships are paid additionally to the prize fund of the Vienna Chess Open.

Entitled to participate are Austrian citizens and players with Austrian FIDE-ID. Female players need an Elo Rating ≥ 1900 and shall declare before the begin of the tournament in which class they want to be evaluated.

Special prizes	Open class	Women
1st place	€ 2.000	€ 1.000
2nd place	€ 1.500	€ 750
3rd place	€ 1.000	€ 500
4th place	€ 750	€ 350
5th place	€ 550	€ 250
6th place	€ 450	€ 150
7th place	€ 300
8th place	€ 200
9th place	€ 150
10th place	€ 100