The Cyprus Open 2026 will take place from January 16 to February 08 in Limassol, Cyprus. It is a 19-round Swiss system tournament with time control of 90 min/40 moves + 30 min + 30 sec/move. For more events from Cyprus, check out The European Chess Calendar, which is part of The Chess Calendar.
The top-seeded players are FM Konstantinos Michaelides (2270), IM Artem Sadovsky (2268), FM Alexandros Isaakidis (2255), CM Rafail Antoniou (2227), Evgeny Sidorovsky (2111), Konstantinos Konstantinidis (2076), Artyom Safonov (1986), Samuel Johannes Constantinou (1957), WFM Marina Cherkasova (1935), CM Panikos Savva (1923), Daniil Daniil (1909), Panagiotis Chiras (1897), Michalis Florentiades (1897), Savvas Konstantinides (1884), Loukas Kefalas (1874), Vasilis Theocharous (1868), Alexander D Grigoriev (1837), AIM Andreas Hadjinicolaou (1821), Nikolaos Tsakas (1817), Kyriakos Skouroupathis (1808). Scroll down for the full participants list.
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Cyprus Open 2026 Participants
No.
Name
FED
Rtg
1
FM
Michaelides, Konstantinos
CYP
2270
2
IM
Sadovsky, Artem
FID
2268
3
FM
Isaakidis, Alexandros
CYP
2255
4
CM
Antoniou, Rafail
CYP
2227
5
Sidorovsky, Evgeny
FID
2111
6
Konstantinidis, Konstantinos
CYP
2076
7
Safonov, Artyom
FID
1986
8
Constantinou, Samuel Johannes
CYP
1957
9
WFM
Cherkasova, Marina
CYP
1935
10
CM
Savva, Panikos
CYP
1923
11
Daniil, Daniil
CYP
1909
12
Chiras, Panagiotis
CYP
1897
13
Florentiades, Michalis
CYP
1897
14
Konstantinides, Savvas
CYP
1884
15
Kefalas, Loukas
CYP
1874
16
Theocharous, Vasilis
CYP
1868
17
Grigoriev, Alexander D
FID
1837
18
AIM
Hadjinicolaou, Andreas
CYP
1821
19
Tsakas, Nikolaos
GRE
1817
20
Skouroupathis, Kyriakos
CYP
1808
21
AIM
Aristotelous, Vassilis
CYP
1790
22
Abatzidis, Stelios
CYP
1777
23
AFM
Amvrosiadis, Themistoklis
CYP
1771
24
Daniil, Christodoulos
CYP
1770
25
WCM
Mikhailina, Olga
FID
1736
26
Saridis, Pantelis
CYP
1727
27
Lazaris, Stelios
CYP
1723
28
WCM
Sokolova, Larisa
CYP
1722
29
Kourouyiannis, Fivos
CYP
1720
30
Hadjidemetriou, Evangelos
CYP
1719
31
WFM
Markidou, Christianna
CYP
1711
32
WCM
Sokolova, Victoria
CYP
1699
33
WCM
Paunescu, Aida
CYP
1690
34
Hadjiyiannis, Costas
CYP
1688
35
Karaolis, Andreas
CYP
1686
36
Komodromos, Renos
CYP
1643
37
Lomadze, Alexandr
CYP
1630
38
Bouzana, Christina
CYP
1626
39
Bannoura, Daniel
CYP
1619
40
ACM
Odysseos, Ioannis
CYP
1618
41
Kyriakides, Andreas
CYP
1602
42
Markides, Markellos
CYP
1580
43
Murali, Aurik
CYP
1580
44
Mylonas, Fotis
CYP
1577
45
Sarkisian, Aikaterina
CYP
1560
46
Reznikov, Andrey
FID
1559
47
Belyaev, Ivan
ISR
1553
48
ACM
Klesnins, Daniils
LAT
1538
49
Biskas, Georgios
CYP
1533
50
Aaryan, Shah
IND
1516
51
Picolos, Antonios
CYP
1510
52
Zacharopoullos, Christoforos
CYP
1494
53
Klesnins, Artemijs
LAT
1491
54
Staicovici, Marc-Albert
ROU
1479
55
Alichanides, Ioannis
CYP
1478
56
Lomadze, Nikolai
CYP
1477
57
Katsikidis, Ioannis
CYP
1474
58
ACM
Constantinou, Paris
CYP
1471
59
Sorokos, Konstantinos
GRE
1471
60
Staicovici, Alice Amelie
ROU
1464
61
Malysheva, Liudmila
CYP
1462
62
Stefanou, Athina
CYP
1440
63
Korelidou, Maria
CYP
1427
64
Georgiou, Katerina
CYP
1425
65
Konnaris, Ploutarchos
CYP
1424
66
Uljaseva, Arina
EST
1411
67
Kakouris, Giorgos
CYP
1401
68
Agridiotis, Fotios
CYP
0
69
Alexandrou, Emilio
CYP
0
70
Alexandrou, Nicholas
CYP
0
71
Angelidou, Pinelopi
CYP
0
72
Avdeev, Fedor Teodor
FID
0
73
Avyukt, Vilok Sharma
IND
0
74
Bannoura, Husam
CYP
0
75
Boikov, Ivan
FID
0
76
Boikov, Semen
FID
0
77
Criganuta, Alexander
CYP
0
78
Dobrinskiy, Ivan
FID
0
79
Gurfov, Amir
FID
0
80
Kalashnikov, Sebastian
FID
0
81
Kostalias, Aristotelis
CYP
0
82
Markevych, Oleksandr
UKR
0
83
Neofytou, Giorgos
FID
0
84
Netepenko, Maxim
CYP
0
85
Nicolaides, Olivia
CYP
0
86
Nicolaou, Rafaella
CYP
0
87
Pafitis, Christos
CYP
0
88
Pankrashkina, Maria
FID
0
89
Posnagkidis, Loukas
CYP
0
90
Riakhov, Andrei
FID
0
91
Rishik, Lalith Murali
IND
0
92
Saridis, Tzortz
GRE
0
93
Sazonov, Vasilii
FID
0
94
Semeniuk, Nikita
UKR
0
95
Sotiriou, Georgios
CYP
0
96
Stavridis, Andreas
CYP
0
97
Symeou, Symeon
CYP
0
98
Vasileva, Anna
FID
0
99
Wu, Wenrui
CHN
0
100
Yurchenko, Philippe
CAN
0
101
Zournatzis Michail, Michalis
CYP
0