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50th Rilton Cup

The 50th edition of the Rilton Cup, Sweden’s biggest open tournament, will take place from December 27 to January 5 in Stockholm, Sweden. The event will be part of the FIDE Circuit, a new qualification path to the Candidates Tournament.

The Rilton Cup 2022/2023 will be played in 9 rounds, swiss system, with the following time control: 40 moves in 90 min, followed by 30 min for the rest of the game, with an increment of 30 sec/move. The event is open for players with Elo rating of at least 2200 on the December rating list. Exceptions are female players as well juniors born 2002 or later who have had an Elo rating of at least 2100 on any FIDE Elo-list before the start of the tournament.

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Already around 150 players registered for the event with GM Krishnan Sasikiran, GM Ilia Smirin and GM Leon Livaic headlining the field. The current starting list of players can be seen below:

No. NameFEDRtg
1GMSasikiran KrishnanIND2635
2GMSmirin IliaISR2596
3GMLivaic LeonCRO2572
4GMMeshkovs NikitaLAT2566
5GMJacobson BrandonUSA2551
6GMBlomqvist ErikSWE2544
7GMKrasenkow MichalPOL2541
8GMUrkedal Frode Olav OlsenNOR2536
9IMGalperin PlatonUKR2530
10GMHillarp Persson TigerSWE2523
11IMAbdrlauf ElhamNOR2518
12GMThybo Jesper SondergaardDEN2515
13GMKulaots KaidoEST2513
14IMKeinänen ToivoFIN2508
15GMKhenkin IgorGER2508
16IMHorvath DominikAUT2502
17IMSeo Jung MinSWE2502
18IMKucuksari KaanSWE2492
19IMGarriga Cazorla PereCAT2490
20IMMiyyal AdityaIND2479
21GMWesterberg JonathanSWE2476
22IMMunirethinam  Pranesh IND2475
23IMParkhov YairISR2470
24IMWadsworth MatthewENG2470
25IMGorshtein IdoISR2469
26IMDann MatthiasGER2465
27IMPantzar MiltonSWE2465
28GMParagua MarkPHI2465
29IMZumsande MartinGER2465
30IMSardana  Rishi AUS2460
31GMRajavaram  Raja Rithvik IND2453
32IMSörensen HampusSWE2442
33GMMiezis NormundsLAT2441
34FMAlonso García AarónESP2439
35FMKoelle TobiasGER2439
36GMPetursson MargeirISL2437
37IMWiedenkeller MichaelLUX2435
38FMMilikow  ElieISR2427
39IMVuppala PrraneethIND2427
40GMOratovsky MichaelISR2422
41IMMilikow  YoavISR2416
42FMRichter NilsGER2416
43IMSokolovsky YahliISR2415
44IMMoksh Amit  DOSHIIND2414
45IMPercivaldi MartinDEN2412
46FMAdelard BaiTPE2411
47WIMBaskar Savitha ShriIND2411
48IMSouleidis GeorgiosGRE2410
49IMWillow JonahENG2409
50GMAkesson RalfSWE2404
51FMDerakhshani BornaENG2400
52FMBegmuratov KhumoyunUZB2399
53FMThörn EricSWE2397
54IMKilgus GeorgAUT2389
55IMLopez Mulet IñigoESP2389
56IMVestby-Ellingsen MadsNOR2389
57FMPeyrer KonstantinAUT2380
58FMTrost EdvinSWE2380
59FMWagh SuyogIND2376
60FMSawatzki FrankGER2369
61IMPark EvanUSA2362
62IMEggleston DavidENG2359
63FMRietze ClemensGER2359
64WGMP V NandhidhaaIND2358
65FMDengla  Aarav IND2357
66IMSharma DushyantIND2355
67IMGungl TheoGER2352
68IMKoykka PekkaFIN2351
69IMLindberg BengtSWE2349
70FMvan Dael SiemNED2345
71IMSarkar JustinUSA2343
72IMNyysti SampsaFIN2341
73IMMohapatra Sidhant IND2337
74 A R IlamparthiIND2336
75FMLahdelma HenriFIN2332
76FMKupervaser ErezISR2331
77FMDubkov AndrejGER2330
78FMChopra TanmayIND2329
79IMKaravade EeshaIND2325
80FMDeuer MariusGER2324
81FMCrevatin LeoSWE2319
82GMBellon Lopez Juan ManuelSWE2314
83FMDixit NikhilIND2306
84IMJena Rakesh KumarIND2303
85FMKononenko DmitryUKR2301
86IMCramling DanSWE2298
87IMSV SrinathIND2296
88FMShohat YotamISR2294
89FMKalogridis AntoniosGRE2293
90IMKolbus DietmarIOM2292
91FMOlsson William SWE2290
92CMShaik Sumer ArshIND2290
93FMFalkevall AxelSWE2287
94FMDravid ShaileshIND2286
95CMImran MohammadIND2279
96FMCederstam CarlSWE2276
97FMTryggestad AndreasNOR2276
98FMTörngren GustavSWE2275
99FMLetchumanan Nagappan RamaravindIND2272
100FMMertanen JanneFIN2269
101FMSchenderowitsch MichaelGER2269
102 Stefanou  Dimitrios GRE2266
103FMValkama EeroFIN2263
104FMRuiz Buendia MiguelESP2257
105FMVagman RoyISR2255
106FMWernberg  HugoSWE2255
107CMKukreja SankalpIND2254
108GMWesterinen Heikki M.J.FIN2253
109CMPein JonathanENG2252
110WIMMuetsch Annmarie GER2251
111 Gampa Aditya VarunIND2249
112IMOrnstein AxelSWE2249
113 Rasti ArvinSWE2249
114FMLarsen KarstenDEN2248
115CMİNCE Taylan RüzgarTUR2247
116WIMRavi RakshittaIND2242
117 Lever ErwanFRA2241
118FMLik Zang LyeMAS2241
119FMAcikel  MertGER2234
120FMDobrikov MarcoGER2228
121WFMMichelle KatkovISR2220
122 Johnson DanielSWE2219
123FMBuchenau FrankGER2218
124CMÖstlund JoarSWE2212
125CMA Chullikkad AdithyaIND2206
126NMMittelberger PeterAUT2206
127FMAsk JosefSWE2202
128FMSathiesh HarshadIND2202
129CMSöderström AdrianSWE2202
130 Ganta Joel PaulIND2183
131 Levi NetanelISR2179
132 Seo JungHyunSWE2156
133IMAbuYahya LoayJOR2153
134WIMK PriyankaIND2146
135 Tulchynskyi FeliksUKR2135
136FMMahitosh Dey DeyIND2134
137CMGoh Zi HanSGP2126
138MKMierins Emils JanisLAT2118
139 Sadekov MaksimEST2113
140 Chethan Anand ArhanIND2112
141AIMGomez Aguirre Juan AlbertoESP2108
142 Delgerdalai BayarjavkhlanCZE2100
143CMLohia SohumENG2096
144 Grahn VidarSWE1980
145WFMGuillo Longares CeciliaESP1941
146 Persson Sebastian 2007SWE1727

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