The 24th European Youth Rapid & Blitz Championship 2025 is taking place August 05 – August 08 in Thessaloniki, Greece. The Rapid tournament is separated in 12 categories – Open U18. Girls U18, Open U16, Girls U16, Open U14, Girls U14, Open U12, Girls U12, Open U10, Girls U10, Open U8 and Girls U8.. It is a 9 round Swiss system tournament with time control 15 min + 10 sec / move. For more events from Greece, check out The European Chess Calendar, which is part of The Chess Calendar.
In Open U16 section of the tournament top seeded players are FM Havard Haug (2414), FM Daniel Tabuenca Mendataurigoitia (2374), FM Alex Villa Tornero (2367), FM Robert Ernst (2324), FM Maksym Dubnevych (2318), IM Lukas Dotzer (2313), FM Peter Balint (2305), Andriy Artemov (2267), CM Oleksii Karvatskyi (2264), FM Vache Hovakimyan (2248), FM Kamil Warchol (2238), FM Jernej Kozlovic (2224), Vasileios Dim Katsanis (2221), CM Augustinas Bazilius (2207), CM Nazar Sokhor (2192), Apostolos Lafkidis (2168), FM Aron Csontos (2144). Scroll down for the full participants list.
Categories : Open U18 / Girls U18 / Girls U16 / Open U14 / Girls U14 / Open U12 / Girls U12 / Open U10 / Girls U10 / Open U8 / Girls U8.
More : European Youth Team Chess Championship 2025 / European School Chess Championship 2025
24th European Youth Rapid & Blitz Championship 2025 – Rapid Open U16 Participants
| Title | Name | FED | Rtg |
| FM | Haug Havard | NOR | 2414 |
| FM | Tabuenca Mendataurigoitia Daniel | ESP | 2374 |
| FM | Villa Tornero Alex | ESP | 2367 |
| FM | Ernst Robert | AUT | 2324 |
| FM | Dubnevych Maksym | UKR | 2318 |
| IM | Dotzer Lukas | AUT | 2313 |
| FM | Balint Peter | AUT | 2305 |
| Artemov Andriy | UKR | 2267 | |
| CM | Karvatskyi Oleksii | UKR | 2264 |
| FM | Hovakimyan Vache | ARM | 2248 |
| FM | Warchol Kamil | POL | 2238 |
| FM | Kozlovic Jernej | SLO | 2224 |
| Katsanis Vasileios Dim | GRE | 2221 | |
| CM | Bazilius Augustinas | LTU | 2207 |
| CM | Sokhor Nazar | UKR | 2192 |
| Lafkidis Apostolos | GRE | 2168 | |
| FM | Csontos Aron | HUN | 2144 |
| FM | Boci Mateu | ALB | 2134 |
| CM | Gyurjinyan Valter | ARM | 2128 |
| AIM | Mantazis Georgios Rafail | GRE | 2114 |
| Lehinovych Maksym | UKR | 2093 | |
| Gay Lukas | SVK | 2066 | |
| AIM | Sergooris Danail Jurgen | ESP | 2065 |
| Perea Fruet Federico | ESP | 2008 | |
| Skodras Marios Konstantinos | GRE | 1998 | |
| CM | Den Roover Nikolay Jorgensen | NOR | 1992 |
| Vadkerti Vince | HUN | 1926 | |
| AFM | Tsimpourakis Dimitrios | GRE | 1919 |
| Sepahpour Shervine | FRA | 1911 | |
| Yankiv Bohdan | UKR | 1867 | |
| Burykin Roman | UKR | 1864 | |
| Ortiz Bogdanov Santiago | LUX | 1863 | |
| Boutikos Eleftherios | GRE | 1858 | |
| Kasa Barnabas | HUN | 1787 | |
| Karakotsios Konstantinos | GRE | 1784 | |
| Shtiza Brendon | ALB | 1753 | |
| Theodosiou Apostolos | GRE | 1621 | |
| Georgiadis Georgios Eleftherios | GRE | 1601 | |
| Nikitonok Matvii | UKR | 1586 | |
| Sivan Guy | ISR | 1573 | |
| Kotarbinski Przemyslaw | POL | 1545 | |
| Brodsky Yoav | ISR | 1510 | |
| Dziekonski Jan | POL | 0 |
