Belt and Road Open 2025 (Aksu) – Group A

The Belt and Road Open 2025 (Aksu) will take place August 20 – August 25 in Aksu, China. This tournament is separated in 2 categories – Group A and Group B. The Group A section is a 9-round Swiss system tournament with time control 90 min + 30 sec /move. For more events from China, check out The Asian Chess Calendar, which is part of The Chess Calendar.

The top-rated player is GM Arseniy Nesterov (2604), followed by GM Rinat Jumabayev (2556) and GM Qingnan Liu (2548). Top 15 is completed by GM Sergei Lobanov (2537), GM Abhijeet Gupta (2535), GM Misratdin Iskandarov (2530), GM Xiongjian Peng (2518), GM Vugar Rasulov (2512), GM Saparmyrat Atabayev (2492), GM Emin Ohanyan (2489), Xiangrui Kong (2479), Renjie Huang (2478), GM Tao Pang (2469), IM Qi Chen (2468), IM Chenxi Zhao (2465). Scroll down for the full participants list.

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Belt and Road Open 2025 (Aksu) – Group A Participants

No.		Name	FED	Rtg	RtgI
1	GM	Nesterov, Arseniy	FID	2604	2604
2	GM	Jumabayev, Rinat	KAZ	2556	2556
3	GM	Liu, Qingnan	CHN	2548	2548
4	GM	Lobanov, Sergei	FID	2537	2537
5	GM	Gupta, Abhijeet	IND	2535	2535
6	GM	Iskandarov, Misratdin	AZE	2530	2530
7	GM	Peng, Xiongjian	CHN	2518	2518
8	GM	Rasulov, Vugar	AZE	2512	2512
9	GM	Atabayev, Saparmyrat	TKM	2492	2492
10	GM	Ohanyan, Emin	ARM	2489	2489
11		Kong, Xiangrui	CHN	2479	2479
12		Huang, Renjie	CHN	2478	2478
13	GM	Pang, Tao	CHN	2469	2469
14	IM	Chen, Qi b	CHN	2468	2468
15	IM	Zhao, Chenxi	CHN	2465	2465
16		Zhang, Di	CHN	2465	2465
17	IM	Zou, Chen	CHN	2449	2449
18	IM	Xie, Kaifan	CHN	2440	2440
19	IM	Wang, Shixu B	CHN	2436	2436
20	IM	Nie, Xinyang	CHN	2406	2406
21	GM	Nguyen, Duc Hoa	VIE	2396	2396
22		Peng, Hongchi	CHN	2378	2378
23	IM	Llaneza Vega, Marcos	ESP	2362	2362
24	IM	Chen, Hongsen	CHN	2361	2361
25	AGM	Yuan, Qingyu	CHN	2343	2343
26	WIM	Mkrtchyan, Mariam	ARM	2316	2316
27		Zhang, Zhi	CHN	2291	2291
28	WIM	Yan, Tianqi	CHN	2290	2290
29	WGM	Li, Xueyi	CHN	2268	2268
30	IM	Li, Bo	CHN	2230	2230
31		Yu, Shi	CHN	2206	2206
32	IM	Lu, Ming	USA	2202	2202
33	CM	Zhou, Yuxu	CHN	2197	2197
34		Shao, Shuai	CHN	2179	2179
35		Shen, Fuyan	CHN	2153	2153
36		Huang, Zhi	CHN	2102	2102
37		Zhang, Haoxuan(ZJ)	CHN	2102	2102
38		Totonchyfardmotlagh, Ali	IRI	2008	2008
39		Teo, Hong Ming	SGP	1943	1943
40		Jin, Ruijun	CHN	1938	1938