The 1st Chessable Sunway Formentera Chess Festival starts tomorrow in Formentera – the smallest Spanish Balearic island in the Mediterranean Sea. The Festival takes place from April 29 to May 8 with a total prize fund of 20.500 euros and a wide range of events.
The main events are Open tournaments: A and B, being played in 10 rounds, swiss system. 51 players from 20 countries will compete in the A tournament, including 33 titled players.
Starting rank list 1st Chessable Sunway Open A:
1
GM
Santos Latasa Jaime
2293307
ESP
2656
2
GM
Sasikiran Krishnan
5004985
IND
2650
3
GM
Sargsyan Shant
13306766
ARM
2639
4
GM
Gukesh Dommaraju
46616543
IND
2637
5
GM
Martirosyan Haik M.
13306553
ARM
2633
6
GM
Santos Ruiz Miguel
22291482
ESP
2597
7
GM
Cuenca Jimenez Jose Fernando
2255570
ESP
2558
8
GM
Narciso Dublan Marc
2201500
ESP
2477
9
IM
Vrolijk Liam
1048333
NED
2474
10
IM
Yankelevich Lev
24684074
GER
2468
11
GM
Batsiashvili Nino
13602993
GEO
2463
12
GM
Jarmula Lukasz
1160664
POL
2434
13
GM
Romanishin Oleg M
14100088
UKR
2415
14
FM
Park Evan
30931142
USA
2397
15
FM
Papadiamandis Elliot
36074160
FRA
2385
16
FM
Eugene Floryan
20694784
FRA
2375
17
IM
Song Julien
659487
FRA
2373
18
IM
Chiku-Ratte Olivier-Kenta
2614782
CAN
2364
19
WIM
Alinasab Mobina
12528897
IRI
2355
20
WGM
Tsatsalashvili Keti
13603434
GEO
2331
21
IM
Soham Das
35026763
IND
2303
22
FM
Chkhaidze Nikoloz
13601750
GEO
2301
23
IM
Garcia Martin Marta
32084030
ESP
2299
24
FM
Mouhamad Joachim
656410
FRA
2297
25
FM
Real Thibault
205559
BEL
2252
26
FM
Neiman Emmanuel
601616
FRA
2248
27
Grutter Tim
1057472
NED
2246
28
Lever Erwan
20640099
FRA
2239
29
Dukic Zachary
2617188
CAN
2226
30
FM
Louis Thibault
681369
FRA
2181
31
Bernard Jacques
616176
FRA
2122
32
WIM
Kovacs Klara
733210
HUN
2117
33
WFM
Vanduyfhuys Daria
246336
BEL
2080
34
Ribeiro Jose
1901796
POR
2076
35
Perkampus Laurin
16232283
GER
2061
36
FM
Al-Hajiri Bader
10300163
KUW
2046
37
WFM
Buiza Prieto Eihartze
22250220
ESP
2045
38
Prodhomme Boris
640034
FRA
2045
39
Cafolla Peter
2500884
IRL
1948
40
WFM
Galvan Cipriani Viviana
32041144
ESP
1937
41
Fox Anthony
2500736
IRL
1936
42
Fabregas Oliver
4609719
GER
1935
43
Aledo Yanguas David
22287108
ESP
1926
44
Munoz Suarez Luis Alberto
2287820
ESP
1905
45
Follana Albelda Lucia
24516937
ESP
1898
46
CM
Hashem Khaled
10300201
KUW
1838
47
Liessens Tom
264580
BEL
1836
48
Parker Keith
444596
ENG
1815
49
Buivys Martynas
12803855
LTU
1806
50
Liekens Ronny
218553
BEL
1740
51
Shamir Shahar
2859912
ISR
0
The Open tournaments of the festival are accompanied by blitz events, simultaneous exhibitions, conferences with grandmasters, a variety of workshops (tapas workshop, tortilla workshop…), a beach volleyball championship, table football tournament, ping pong event…