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 U18 section of the tournament top seeded players are IM Javier Habans Aguerrea (2407), IM Diego Macias Pino (2348), FM Kristof Pal Kolimar (2341), IM Laurenz Borrmann (2311), FM Lorenzo Perea Fruet (2309), FM Vladyslav Fishchuk (2288), CM Mateusz Kusiak (2271), CM Hubert Zieba (2268), CM Rafail Antoniou (2245), FM Rudi Olenik Campa (2234), FM Nik Javornik (2233), CM Nejc Herega (2207), FM Julian Leitgeb (2175), Javier Jimenez Carrazoni (2144), Stefanos Magkalakis (2137). Scroll down for the full participants list.
Categories : Girls U18 / Open U16 / 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 U18 Participants
| Title | Name | FED | Rtg |
| IM | Habans Aguerrea Javier | ESP | 2407 |
| IM | Macias Pino Diego | ESP | 2348 |
| FM | Kolimar Kristof Pal | HUN | 2341 |
| IM | Borrmann Laurenz | AUT | 2311 |
| FM | Perea Fruet Lorenzo | ESP | 2309 |
| FM | Fishchuk Vladyslav | UKR | 2288 |
| CM | Kusiak Mateusz | POL | 2271 |
| CM | Zieba Hubert | POL | 2268 |
| CM | Antoniou Rafail | CYP | 2245 |
| FM | Olenik Campa Rudi | SLO | 2234 |
| FM | Javornik Nik | SLO | 2233 |
| CM | Herega Nejc | SLO | 2207 |
| FM | Leitgeb Julian | AUT | 2175 |
| Jimenez Carrazoni Javier | ESP | 2144 | |
| Magkalakis Stefanos | GRE | 2137 | |
| Bourg Nicolas | LUX | 2130 | |
| Schellenberg Simon | SUI | 2077 | |
| Aleksanyan Davit | ARM | 2074 | |
| Tsarsitalidis Christos | GRE | 2063 | |
| AIM | Dutre Wonder | BEL | 2047 |
| FM | Rappazzo Johannes | SUI | 2044 |
| Iankin Arseni | SVK | 2022 | |
| Frankiv Oleksandr | UKR | 2001 | |
| Kovalskyi Roman | UKR | 1994 | |
| Dovhan Artem | UKR | 1993 | |
| Ivanov Taras | UKR | 1986 | |
| Tagkaloglou Savvas Stefanos | GRE | 1980 | |
| CM | Heron Andrew | LIE | 1953 |
| Hakobyan Allen | ARM | 1919 | |
| AIM | Steiner Daniel | GER | 1915 |
| FM | Kalogridis Themistoklis | GRE | 1886 |
| Pihl William | DEN | 1877 | |
| Rustan Elias Buschmann | NOR | 1813 | |
| Blagoev Denislav | BUL | 1764 | |
| ACM | Hachaduryan Vartan | BUL | 1677 |
| Samorukov Egor | MNC | 1541 |
