The 26th edition of the HIT Open will take place from 16-22 September 2022 in Nova Gorica, Slovenia. The tournament will be played 2 sections: A (for players rated 1500+) and B (for players rated U1600), in 9 rounds, swiss system, with time control 90 minutes for the entire game, plus a 30-second increment starting from move one.
The total prize fund of the event is 5560 euros, with 1.000 euros reserved for the Winner of the A tournament. GM Lorenzo Lodici, GM Francesco Sonis and GM Jesper Sondergaard Thybo will headline the field of the A section. Scroll down for starting rank list of players
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Starting rank list of players – 26th HIT Chess Open A:
| No. | Name | FED | Rtg | |
| 1 | GM | Lodici Lorenzo | ITA | 2559 |
| 2 | GM | Sonis Francesco | ITA | 2542 |
| 3 | GM | Thybo Jesper Sondergaard | DEN | 2516 |
| 4 | IM | Seo Jung Min | SWE | 2516 |
| 5 | GM | Beliavsky Alexander G | SLO | 2505 |
| 6 | IM | Subelj Jan | SLO | 2505 |
| 7 | GM | Diermair Andreas | AUT | 2468 |
| 8 | GM | Pavlovic Milos | SRB | 2468 |
| 9 | IM | Stefansson Vignir Vatnar | ISL | 2452 |
| 10 | IM | Kaasen Tor Fredrik | NOR | 2442 |
| 11 | IM | Ghazarian Kirk | USA | 2440 |
| 12 | IM | Wadsworth Matthew J | ENG | 2423 |
| 13 | GM | Davies Nigel R | ENG | 2420 |
| 14 | FM | Agdelen Huseyin Can | TUR | 2416 |
| 15 | FM | Royal Shreyas | ENG | 2412 |
| 16 | FM | Holtel Jasper | GER | 2406 |
| 17 | IM | Schreiner Peter | AUT | 2405 |
| 18 | GM | Fercec Nenad | CRO | 2403 |
| 19 | IM | Willow Jonah B | ENG | 2385 |
| 20 | IM | Nyysti Sampsa | FIN | 2363 |
| 21 | IM | Thavandiran Shiyam | CAN | 2363 |
| 22 | FM | Panesar Vedant | IND | 2336 |
| 23 | FM | Brilej Jaka | SLO | 2329 |
| 24 | GM | Drazic Sinisa | SRB | 2327 |
| 25 | FM | Samani Yamac | TUR | 2326 |
| 26 | FM | Tisaj Domen | SLO | 2325 |
| 27 | IM | Rakesh Kumar Jena | IND | 2321 |
| 28 | FM | Van Dael Siem | NED | 2316 |
| 29 | Goroshkov Maksym | UKR | 2315 | |
| 30 | FM | Sharan Rao | IND | 2312 |
| 31 | FM | Marn Jan | SLO | 2307 |
| 32 | FM | Mostbauer Florian | AUT | 2295 |
| 33 | FM | Guid Matej | SLO | 2292 |
| 34 | Lavrencic Matic | SLO | 2274 | |
| 35 | FM | Stevanic David | SLO | 2261 |
| 36 | IM | Manish Anto Cristiano F | IND | 2249 |
| 37 | FM | Ronka Erik | FIN | 2248 |
| 38 | Thuesen Mogens | DEN | 2242 | |
| 39 | Zamar Kodelja Jurij | SLO | 2241 | |
| 40 | FM | Chkhaidze Nikoloz | GEO | 2239 |
| 41 | Acimovic Vasja | SLO | 2237 | |
| 42 | Garsky Vladyslav | UKR | 2229 | |
| 43 | Karlusic Luka | CRO | 2215 | |
| 44 | WIM | Zubova Mariya | UKR | 2214 |
| 45 | CM | Bauer Thomas | AUT | 2200 |
| 46 | Saypuri Srithan | IND | 2199 | |
| 47 | Gschiel Alexander | AUT | 2196 | |
| 48 | Marchesich Giovanni | ITA | 2189 | |
| 49 | CM | Lohia Sohum | ENG | 2185 |
| 50 | Gregoric Andraz | SLO | 2182 | |
| 51 | Leitner Gerald | AUT | 2181 | |
| 52 | Bashirov Kemal | UKR | 2178 | |
| 53 | WFM | Pandey Srishti | IND | 2173 |
| 54 | Herega Nejc | SLO | 2146 | |
| 55 | WFM | Schloffer Jasmin-Denise | AUT | 2127 |
| 56 | Acimovic Sergej | SLO | 2114 | |
| 57 | Krivenko Dion | EST | 2113 | |
| 58 | WFM | Rozman Monika | SLO | 2111 |
| 59 | Centrih Aleks | SLO | 2095 | |
| 60 | Devnani Kush | IND | 2095 | |
| 61 | Callsen Niklas | GER | 2079 | |
| 62 | CM | Debevec Blaz | SLO | 2056 |
| 63 | Verbin Valentina | MDA | 2049 | |
| 64 | Markocic Tine | SLO | 2034 | |
| 65 | Mihelic Vesna | SLO | 2031 | |
| 66 | Walker Samuel A | ENG | 2028 | |
| 67 | WFM | Hercog Nusa | SLO | 2019 |
| 68 | Teo Hong Ming | SGP | 2013 | |
| 69 | Bajo Tin | SLO | 1999 | |
| 70 | Kepplinger Lukas | AUT | 1994 | |
| 71 | Charaus Florian | AUT | 1993 | |
| 72 | Vah Denis | SLO | 1988 | |
| 73 | Cirkvencic Franci | SLO | 1987 | |
| 74 | Both Aaron | CAN | 1963 | |
| 75 | Goroshkova Liudmila | UKR | 1961 | |
| 76 | Pirs Matjaz | SLO | 1943 | |
| 77 | Labrovic Jakov | CRO | 1882 | |
| 78 | Alexandrova Angelina | HUN | 1842 | |
| 79 | Azinovic Igor | SLO | 1814 | |
| 80 | Markocic Spela | SLO | 1814 | |
| 81 | Di Lascio Savino | ITA | 1793 | |
| 82 | Vidmar Klara | SLO | 1788 | |
| 83 | Fiolo Costanza | ITA | 1768 | |
| 84 | Ivsek Cveto | SLO | 1763 | |
| 85 | Novak Rok | SLO | 1763 | |
| 86 | Rigatti Giorgio | ITA | 1763 | |
| 87 | Papler Peter | SLO | 1750 | |
| 88 | Zlatanovic Srdjan | SLO | 1740 | |
| 89 | Bajec Borut | SLO | 1732 | |
| 90 | Hellsten Uffe | DEN | 1732 | |
| 91 | Budai Federico | ITA | 1712 | |
| 92 | Diachek Andriy | UKR | 1704 | |
| 93 | Gamal Alaa | ENG | 1693 | |
| 94 | Novak Simona | SLO | 1692 | |
| 95 | Cokan Mirko | SLO | 1683 | |
| 96 | Budai Leonardo | ITA | 1676 | |
| 97 | Mocic Ivano | CRO | 1672 | |
| 98 | Mihelj Edvard | SLO | 1657 | |
| 99 | Vicic Mark | SLO | 1641 | |
| 100 | Savoia Serge | ITA | 1636 | |
| 101 | Zlatanovic Marcus | SLO | 1636 | |
| 102 | Oestmann Lukas | SUI | 1620 | |
| 103 | Juvan Vid | SLO | 1564 | |
| 104 | Guid Taja | SLO | 1511 |
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