The 34th edition of the International Chess Tournament “Open Pula 2022” will take place from 18-26 June at Park Plaza Histria Hotel in Pula, Croatia. Almost 200 players from 28 countries registered for the event which will be played in 9 rounds, swiss system, featuring the prize fund of 6.250 euros with 1.000 euros reserved for the Winner of the event.
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The time control will be: 90 minutes with 30 second increment from move one. The top seeds are GM Nenad Fercec, GM Nebojsa Nikcevic, and FM Milan Popovic. (scroll down for starting rank list of players)
34th Open Pula 2022 – Starting rank list of participants:
| No. | Name | FED | RtgI | |
| 1 | GM | Fercec Nenad | CRO | 2416 |
| 2 | GM | Nikcevic Nebojsa | MNE | 2387 |
| 3 | FM | Popovic Milan S | SRB | 2383 |
| 4 | IM | Berezjuk Sergej | CZE | 2382 |
| 5 | IM | Lindgren Philip | SWE | 2379 |
| 6 | IM | Zufic Miroslav | CRO | 2366 |
| 7 | IM | Franic Milan | CRO | 2365 |
| 8 | WGM | Marjanovic Annamaria | HUN | 2353 |
| 9 | IM | Filipovic Branko | SUI | 2329 |
| 10 | IM | Maki-Uuro Miikka | FIN | 2327 |
| 11 | FM | Jahncke Giso Dr. | GER | 2300 |
| 12 | FM | Pastar Slaven | BIH | 2300 |
| 13 | IM | Maier Christian | GER | 2299 |
| 14 | FM | Cupic Lovro | CRO | 2295 |
| 15 | Novosel Lovro | CRO | 2293 | |
| 16 | FM | Lim Zhuo Ren | MAS | 2290 |
| 17 | IM | Lanc Alois | SVK | 2285 |
| 18 | FM | Stankovic Boris | SRB | 2283 |
| 19 | FM | Milekic Daniel | SRB | 2280 |
| 20 | FM | Rubil Marko | CRO | 2280 |
| 21 | FM | Hadzovic Amir | BIH | 2270 |
| 22 | CM | Boucquet Emile | BEL | 2270 |
| 23 | Bochnicka Vladimir | SVK | 2262 | |
| 24 | De Vleeschauwer Maarten | BEL | 2255 | |
| 25 | FM | Gelle Istvan | HUN | 2250 |
| 26 | FM | Sterck Arno | BEL | 2248 |
| 27 | IM | Jusic Zdenko | CRO | 2246 |
| 28 | FM | Dahl Trygve | NOR | 2242 |
| 29 | Starcevic Ante Leon | CRO | 2237 | |
| 30 | Jurakic Lukas | CRO | 2232 | |
| 31 | IM | Petran Peter | SVK | 2228 |
| 32 | FM | Cvitan Ena | CRO | 2228 |
| 33 | FM | Makovec Bruno | CRO | 2217 |
| 34 | FM | Babic Drasko | BIH | 2205 |
| 35 | FM | Ghersinich Enrico | CRO | 2193 |
| 36 | FM | Vatter Hans-Joachim | GER | 2193 |
| 37 | FM | Rohacek Miroslav | SVK | 2188 |
| 38 | WGM | Medic Mirjana | CRO | 2180 |
| 39 | FM | Kolesar Milan | SVK | 2178 |
| 40 | Balinski Damian | POL | 2174 | |
| 41 | WIM | Berke Ana | CRO | 2171 |
| 42 | FM | Seres Bela | HUN | 2164 |
| 43 | FM | Tonndorf Matthias | GER | 2154 |
| 44 | CM | Kekic Armin | BIH | 2149 |
| 45 | Lavrencic Matic | SLO | 2148 | |
| 46 | IM | Medancic Rikard | CRO | 2145 |
| 47 | FM | Voscilla Adriano | CRO | 2140 |
| 48 | FM | Ragger Anna-Christina | AUT | 2139 |
| 49 | Compel Daniel | SVK | 2138 | |
| 50 | Terryn Ezra | BEL | 2137 | |
| 51 | Vasic Bosko | CRO | 2132 | |
| 52 | De Block Yordi | BEL | 2121 | |
| 53 | CM | Olenik Campa Rudi | SLO | 2119 |
| 54 | Jurman Roberto | CRO | 2117 | |
| 55 | Waldmann Gerald | AUT | 2106 | |
| 56 | Grahn Vidar | SWE | 2102 | |
| 57 | FM | Grbac Boris | CRO | 2099 |
| 58 | WFM | Teuschler Barbara | AUT | 2097 |
| 59 | Karlusic Luka | CRO | 2084 | |
| 60 | Stewart Ashley | ENG | 2084 | |
| 61 | Andronescu Madalin | ROU | 2076 | |
| 62 | Stueckler Ferdinand | AUT | 2065 | |
| 63 | Marjanovic Gyorgy | HUN | 2063 | |
| 64 | Shtivelband Dmitry | RUS | 2061 | |
| 65 | WFM | Kejzar Petra | SLO | 2057 |
| 66 | Klaric Zoran | GER | 2056 | |
| 67 | Konic Zlatko | CRO | 2054 | |
| 68 | CM | Hinteregger Arthur | AUT | 2045 |
| 69 | Partoens Remi | BEL | 2045 | |
| 70 | Sandor Martin | SVK | 2042 | |
| 71 | Zinchenko Vladimir | UKR | 2042 | |
| 72 | Fizer Marek | CZE | 2035 | |
| 73 | WFM | Nikanova Ekaterina | ROU | 2033 |
| 74 | Rakovsky Jakub | SVK | 2025 | |
| 75 | De Block Fabio | BEL | 2023 | |
| 76 | Petrek Dominik | SVK | 2021 | |
| 77 | Tomic Stjepan | CRO | 2018 | |
| 78 | Salgovic Simon | SVK | 2017 | |
| 79 | Walter Ema | SVK | 2017 | |
| 80 | Novak Ivo | CRO | 2010 | |
| 81 | Natter Markus | AUT | 2007 | |
| 82 | Lagrotteria Salvatore | ITA | 1991 | |
| 83 | WFM | Puuska Heini | FIN | 1988 |
| 84 | Crnkovic Zdravko | CRO | 1968 | |
| 85 | Privitera Franco | ITA | 1961 | |
| 86 | Saradjen Janko | SLO | 1959 | |
| 87 | Ladisic Alex-Sacha | FRA | 1952 | |
| 88 | Mihelic Vesna | SLO | 1952 | |
| 89 | Vincenzi Marco | ITA | 1952 | |
| 90 | Tomcikova Dominika | SVK | 1947 | |
| 91 | FM | Tomcik Milan | SVK | 1945 |
| 92 | Siljan Milorad | CRO | 1939 | |
| 93 | WFM | Svaljek Radmila | CRO | 1936 |
| 94 | Khandhar Kaushal | MAS | 1936 | |
| 95 | Mrkaljevic Jakub | CRO | 1933 | |
| 96 | Samblic Silvano | CRO | 1929 | |
| 97 | Marjanovic Alex | HUN | 1924 | |
| 98 | Striskova Lucia | SVK | 1924 | |
| 99 | Bonaca Dario | CRO | 1923 | |
| 100 | Kulenovic Adnan | GER | 1923 | |
| 101 | Balen Teo | CRO | 1920 | |
| 102 | Racnik Tone | SLO | 1920 | |
| 103 | Paluska Karol | SVK | 1919 | |
| 104 | Bochnickova Simona | SVK | 1887 | |
| 105 | Fattorich Igor | CRO | 1885 | |
| 106 | Lauda Alexandr | MDA | 1884 | |
| 107 | Dotlic Zdravko | CRO | 1882 | |
| 108 | Perusko Niko | CRO | 1869 | |
| 109 | Hrdina Karl | AUT | 1861 | |
| 110 | Neubauer Anton | AUT | 1859 | |
| 111 | Marceta Milan | CRO | 1855 | |
| 112 | Klement Dubravko | CRO | 1844 | |
| 113 | Sosovickova Jana | SVK | 1843 | |
| 114 | Becking Franz Josef | GER | 1833 | |
| 115 | Tomcikova Zuzana | SVK | 1831 | |
| 116 | Karall Lorenz | AUT | 1823 | |
| 117 | Malano Francesco | ITA | 1820 | |
| 118 | Moric Ivan | CRO | 1819 | |
| 119 | Mrdjen David | CRO | 1819 | |
| 120 | Kocevar Tugomir | SLO | 1818 | |
| 121 | Kapolka Juraj | SVK | 1802 | |
| 122 | Lovrinic Vlatko | CRO | 1802 | |
| 123 | Labrovic Jakov | CRO | 1798 | |
| 124 | Turicar Goran | CRO | 1780 | |
| 125 | Weber Harald | AUT | 1778 | |
| 126 | Klasinc Kristjan | SLO | 1776 | |
| 127 | Murlasits Martin III | AUT | 1774 | |
| 128 | Ghersinich Giuseppe | CRO | 1773 | |
| 129 | Saric Husnija | CRO | 1772 | |
| 130 | Peric Davor | CRO | 1771 | |
| 131 | Ljubotina Lazo | FRA | 1763 | |
| 132 | Pirvulescu Adrian | ROU | 1762 | |
| 133 | Schnepel Thomas | GER | 1749 | |
| 134 | Zhezhov Emil | MKD | 1742 | |
| 135 | Orlovic Branislav | CRO | 1741 | |
| 136 | Pretnar Bostjan | SLO | 1737 | |
| 137 | Kapolkova Greta | SVK | 1734 | |
| 138 | WCM | Sosovickova Martina | SVK | 1731 |
| 139 | Durana Jonas | SVK | 1713 | |
| 140 | Jedrinovic Vitomir | SUI | 1698 | |
| 141 | Fizerova Lucie | CZE | 1693 | |
| 142 | Pahljina Ivo | CRO | 1688 | |
| 143 | Cvetkovic Erik | CRO | 1683 | |
| 144 | Foo Jiu Weir Brien | MAS | 1676 | |
| 145 | Dzudovic Ivica | SLO | 1669 | |
| 146 | Petkovic Nenad | CRO | 1668 | |
| 147 | Hadzipasic Suad | CRO | 1663 | |
| 148 | Unger Eva | AUT | 1631 | |
| 149 | Uhlarz Joerg | GER | 1628 | |
| 150 | Purkic Ruza | CRO | 1620 | |
| 151 | Kekic Naid | BIH | 1618 | |
| 152 | Pasztor-Turak Peter | HUN | 1608 | |
| 153 | Gulan Dane | CRO | 1588 | |
| 154 | Nikolic Miroslav | CRO | 1581 | |
| 155 | Plemelj Matevz | SLO | 1576 | |
| 156 | Beber Anja | SLO | 1558 | |
| 157 | Cesar Zlatko | CRO | 1534 | |
| 158 | Kubikova Nina | SVK | 1495 | |
| 159 | Andreini Gigliola | ITA | 1444 | |
| 160 | Novakovic Anja | CRO | 1438 | |
| 161 | Mucic Lovro | CRO | 1381 | |
| 162 | Hasala Richard | SVK | 1369 | |
| 163 | Rybiansky Jergus | SVK | 1365 | |
| 164 | Tomcani Jan | SVK | 1355 | |
| 165 | Sosic Zvan | CRO | 1331 | |
| 166 | Nenchev Georgi | BUL | 1327 | |
| 167 | Tomcaniova Lucia | SVK | 1251 | |
| 168 | Kekic Ahmed | BIH | 1241 | |
| 169 | Nikolic Lara | CRO | 1223 | |
| 170 | Ammar Rabah | ALG | 0 | |
| 171 | Boudjelaba Mohamed | ALG | 0 | |
| 172 | Drescher Michaela | AUT | 0 | |
| 173 | Gasprotic Neo | CRO | 0 | |
| 174 | Ibrisagic Enio | CRO | 0 | |
| 175 | Mandalinic David | CRO | 0 | |
| 176 | Muskovic Ivan | CRO | 0 | |
| 177 | Sosic Vid | CRO | 0 | |
| 178 | Stojkovic Andrej | CRO | 0 | |
| 179 | Zhabinskii Fedor | FID | 0 |
