Cannes International Chess Festival 2023

The Cannes International Chess Festival kicked off yesterday in France. The Open A tournament gathers 127 players, and it’s played in 9 rounds, swiss system, with the time control of 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 minutes until the end of the game, and increment of 30 seconds for each move, starting from move one.

After two played rounds as many as 18 players scored the maximum 2/2 points, including some of the top seeds: Alexander Motylev, Daniel Dardha, and Diptayan Ghosh.

Cannes Chess Festival 2023 – live games

Rankings after two played rounds:

1	MOTYLEV Alexander	2624F		2
2	DARDHA Daniel	2612F		2
3	GHOSH Diptayan	2553F		2
4	MAURIZZI Marc Andria	2523F		2
5	DIMITROV Radoslav	2501F		2
6	NIKOLOV Momchil	2480F		2
7	DAS Sayantan	2468F		2
8	SOUSA Andre Ventura	2466F		2
9	BOYER Mahel	2453F		2
10	ERDOGMUS Yagiz Kaan	2452F		2
11	CAPPELLETTO Joshuaede	2274F		2
12	LOISEAU Quentin	2441F		2
13	LUCAS Arthur	2415 F		2
14	SAMBUEV Bator	2407F		2
15	HOLLAN-Martin	2371F		2
16	MATERIA Marco	2410F		2
17	CLERY Nicolas	2343F		2
18	PHILIP William	2362F		2
19	LAMARD Guillaume	2526F		1½
20	SAYA Ethan	2150F		1½
21	DEL GIOVANE Fabio	2111F		1½
22	THEON Pierre	2102F		1½
23	PASZEWSKI Mateusz	2254F		1½
24	EMMENECKER Pierre-Antoine	2304F		1½
25	PODETTI Davide	2291F		1½
26	KLIMKOWSKI Jan	2461F		1½
27	RODRIGUE-LEMIEUX Shawn	2457F		1½
28	RODRIGUEZ Adrian	2287F		1½
29	KRZYZANOWSKI Marcin	2539 F		1½
30	VENKATESH Mr.	2452F		1½
31	SEEMANN Jakub	2425F		1½
32	DROIN Augustine	2436F		1½
33	GODENA Michele	2462F		1½
34	Fischer Daniel	2385F		1½
35	LAMAZE Simon	2372F		1½
36	PIGEAT Alexandre	2365F		1½
37	PETROSYAN Armen	2380F		1½
38	KRISHNA TEJA N	2333F		1½
39	CHAN Kim Yew	2351 F		1½
40	CLARKE Brandon GI	2473F		1½
41	DESLANDES Pascal	2302 F		1½
42	TRAVADON Loic	2466F		1½
43	TERMINAL Niels	2223F		1
44	LACROIX Roman	2198 F		1
45	PRAVEEN KUMAR C	2194 F		1
46	JANZELJ Lara	2173F		1
47	MAYRHUBER Nikola	2120F		1
48	PANDEY SRISHTI	2142F		1
49	KOCHARIN Timur	2156F		1
50	DALAUD Dorian	2343F		1
51	MEKHANE Adam	2255F		1
52	DEFROMONT Benjamin	2343F		1
53	MAMMADHUSEYN Djeyhun	2123F		1
54	MULLON Jean-Baptiste	2319F		1
55	SELBES Tarik	2255F		1
56	PIPIRAS Filipa Fortuna	2110F		1
57	DUDOGNON Thibault	2311F		1
58	LEVER Erwan	2225F		1
59	IPEK Egehan	2135F		1
60	BIFULCO Michel	2307F		1
61	CHIKU-RATTE Olivier-Kenta	2307F		1
62	OUELLET Maili-Jade	2222F		1
63	LORANS Sylvain	2093 F		1
64	NURGALIYEV Sauat	2291F		1
65	PLAYER Edmund C	2201F		1
66	SCHLEGEL Igor	2289 F		1
67	ROUX Baptiste	2199F		1
68	BAT Bilgun	2191F		1
69	URH Zala	2288F		1
70	PIMPALKHARE VEDANT	2282F		1
71	BY BALMANN Marc	2168F		1
72	DEMUTH Adrien	2473F		1
73	BARBOT Pierre	2446F		1
74	RAZAFINDRATSIMA Timothy	2455F		1
75	ROYAL Shreyas	2452F		1
76	DAS Arghyadip	2403F		1
77	FLEAR Glenn C	2414F		1
78	BODER Jan	2319F		1
79	LASINSKAS Povilas	2146F		1
80	DEVNANI KUSH	2135F		1
81	MULLER-MOINGT Bastien	2001 F		1
82	Urbani Gabriel	2166F		½
83	Deshpande Aniruddha	2204F		½
84	DERIGE KANE Yan	2167F		½
85	CASSAM-CHENAI Antoine	2191F		½
86	CASADIO Niccolo’	2152 F		½
87	OHLER Julius	2161F		½
88	AVANESYAN Davit	2143F		½
89	MANTOVANI Renzo	2267F		½
90	HERCEGOVAC Neven	2133F		½
91	GANDHI Anish	2124F		½
92	SAHITHI VARSHINI M	2250F		½
93	Lim Zhuo Ren	2253F		½
94	JEANNE Michael	2117F		½
95	NAGARE AKHILESH	2086 F		½
96	ZIENKIEWICZ Jan	2115F		½
97	CALISTR Tristan	2229F		½
98	FRICK Christoph	2095F		½
99	MATSUMURA ​​Cocoro	2073F		½
100	BOULOS Paul	2093 F		½
101	LEFEBVRE Herve	2180F		½
102	MOTA Pankit	2024 F		½
103	GHAZARIAN Kirk	2471F		½
104	VLACHOS Anatole	2454F		½
105	PANESAR VEDANT	2385F		½
106	KUHN Clement	2304F		½
107	PASCAL COUPET	2223F		½
108	LAFORTUNE Emerick	2159F		½
109	DELORME Laurie	2106F		½
110	GRUNDMAN Anatole	2118F		½
111	ALLARD Thomas	2060F		½
112	BORGO Giulio	2342F		½
113	JRADE Willis	2159F		0
114	PIERI Pierre-Louis	2151 F		0
115	THANKE Bror	2126F		0
116	VERNEUIL Pascal	2118F		0
117	BENSDORP-DE LABACA Marlies	2241F		0
118	MANUKONDA ARUN	2102F		0
119	DEODHAR Vrushali Umesh	2082F		0
120	UTRERA Ludovic	2045F		0
121	EMMENECKER Philippe	2032 F		0
122	MORACCHINI Margaux	2032 F		0
123	LILONI Francesco Mattia	2012 F		0
124	ARANOVITCH Emiliano	2358F		0
125	SBARRA Marco	2207F		0
126	VIGNESH B	2382F		0
127	SALONIKA Saina	2223F		0