The 2022 Chessable Sunway Sitges Chess Festival is taking place from 11-22 December in Sitges, Barcelona, and features two tournaments: Open A and Open B, with a total prize fund of 27.155eur. After seven played rounds, GM Kirill Alekseenko has the sole lead with perfect score of 7/7 points.
The 8th round starts today at 16:30 (local time) and features interesting encounters between the leaders. See the pairings below:
Bo. | No. | Name | Rtg | Pts. | Result | Pts. | Name | Rtg | No. | ||
1 | 10 | GM | Tabatabaei Mohammad Amin | 2660 | 6 | 7 | GM | Alekseenko Kirill | 2672 | 8 | |
2 | 2 | GM | Niemann Hans Moke | 2698 | 5½ | 6 | GM | Aravindh Chithambaram Vr. | 2607 | 23 | |
3 | 15 | GM | Grigoryan Karen H. | 2619 | 5½ | 5½ | GM | Yu Yangyi | 2728 | 1 | |
4 | 5 | GM | Moussard Jules | 2684 | 5½ | 5½ | GM | Puranik Abhimanyu | 2616 | 18 | |
5 | 20 | GM | Durarbayli Vasif | 2612 | 5½ | 5½ | GM | Korobov Anton | 2662 | 9 | |
6 | 21 | GM | Adhiban B. | 2611 | 5½ | 5½ | GM | Demchenko Anton | 2632 | 11 | |
7 | 31 | GM | Sumets Andrey | 2506 | 5½ | 5½ | GM | Petrosyan Manuel | 2621 | 13 | |
8 | 14 | GM | Karthikeyan Murali | 2620 | 5½ | 5½ | IM | Gokerkan Cem Kaan | 2470 | 39 | |
9 | 4 | GM | Cheparinov Ivan | 2688 | 5 | 5 | GM | Firat Burak | 2460 | 47 | |
10 | 40 | IM | Samant Aditya S | 2470 | 5 | 5 | GM | Esipenko Andrey | 2678 | 6 | |
11 | 49 | IM | Woodward Andy | 2457 | 5 | 5 | GM | Ivanchuk Vasyl | 2673 | 7 | |
12 | 12 | GM | Jones Gawain C B | 2630 | 5 | 5 | IM | Nigmatov Ortik | 2439 | 57 | |
13 | 16 | GM | Aryan Chopra | 2618 | 5 | 5 | IM | Ajay Karthikeyan | 2430 | 60 | |
14 | 52 | GM | Goh Wei Ming Kevin | 2452 | 5 | 5 | GM | Bernadskiy Vitaliy | 2617 | 17 | |
15 | 63 | IM | Prraneeth Vuppala | 2427 | 5 | 5 | GM | Safarli Eltaj | 2616 | 19 | |
16 | 22 | GM | Kollars Dmitrij | 2610 | 5 | 5 | FM | Jubin Jimmy | 2376 | 84 | |
17 | 55 | IM | Abdisalimov Abdimalik | 2447 | 5 | 5 | GM | Dardha Daniel | 2606 | 24 | |
18 | 72 | IM | Willow Jonah B | 2409 | 5 | 5 | GM | Sanal Vahap | 2597 | 25 | |
19 | 101 | FM | Dalaud Dorian | 2342 | 5 | 5 | GM | Kraemer Martin | 2583 | 27 | |
20 | 74 | FM | Bilych Olexiy | 2401 | 5 | 5 | GM | Svane Frederik | 2568 | 28 | |
21 | 108 | FM | Jain Kashish Manoj | 2334 | 5 | 5 | GM | Tin Jingyao | 2562 | 29 | |
22 | 30 | GM | Alsina Leal Daniel | 2527 | 5 | 5 | IM | Tahay Alexis | 2400 | 75 | |
23 | 104 | IM | Sidhant Mohapatra | 2337 | 5 | 5 | GM | Arjun Kalyan | 2505 | 32 | |
24 | 114 | FM | Bhambure Shantanu | 2306 | 5 | 5 | GM | Nevednichy Vladislav | 2502 | 33 | |
25 | 35 | GM | Sankalp Gupta | 2485 | 5 | 5 | FM | Harshad S | 2202 | 161 | |
26 | 37 | IM | Aditya Mittal | 2479 | 5 | 5 | IM | Gholami Orimi Mahdi | 2415 | 69 | |
27 | 88 | WGM | Injac Teodora | 2365 | 4½ | 4½ | GM | Van Foreest Jorden | 2690 | 3 | |
28 | 26 | GM | Cheng Bobby | 2583 | 4½ | 4½ | IM | Salimova Nurgyul | 2390 | 79 | |
29 | 90 | WGM | Nandhidhaa P V | 2358 | 4½ | 4½ | GM | Gines Esteo Pedro Antonio | 2500 | 34 | |
30 | 94 | FM | Nawin Jayaprakash Jayavalli | 2351 | 4½ | 4½ | IM | Wadsworth Matthew J | 2470 | 41 | |
31 | 44 | IM | Ayats Llobera Gerard | 2464 | 4½ | 4½ | FM | Kanov Nikola | 2377 | 83 | |
32 | 172 | Sherman Reem | 2179 | 4½ | 4½ | GM | Sochacki Christophe | 2463 | 45 | ||
33 | 46 | IM | Fernandez Guillen Ernesto J. | 2462 | 4½ | 4½ | FM | Mathieu Phileas | 2367 | 87 | |
34 | 48 | IM | Sardana Rishi | 2460 | 4½ | 4½ | FM | Akbas Umut Ata | 2351 | 93 | |
35 | 50 | GM | Raja Rithvik R | 2453 | 4½ | 4½ | IM | Valenzuela Gomez Fernando | 2361 | 89 | |
36 | 121 | Ortega Serra Marc | 2291 | 4½ | 4½ | IM | Erdogmus Yagiz Kaan | 2453 | 51 | ||
37 | 194 | Gugan Govindan | 2126 | 4½ | 4½ | IM | Kaasen Tor Fredrik | 2452 | 53 | ||
38 | 232 | Vignesh Bhuvaneswari | 2032 | 4½ | 4½ | IM | Garcia Ramos Daniel | 2439 | 56 | ||
39 | 58 | IM | Boyer Mahel | 2434 | 4½ | 4½ | WGM | Divya Deshmukh | 2347 | 97 | |
40 | 302 | Prudhvi Kumar V | 1733 | 4½ | 4½ | IM | Sammed Jaykumar Shete | 2430 | 61 | ||
41 | 62 | IM | Fataliyeva Ulviyya | 2428 | 4½ | 4½ | FM | Pablo Mari Alejandro | 2338 | 103 | |
42 | 66 | FM | Saydaliev Saidakbar | 2419 | 4½ | 4½ | Ilamparthi A R | 2336 | 105 | ||
43 | 70 | IM | Moksh Amit Doshi | 2414 | 4½ | 4½ | Mompel Ferruz Xavier | 1953 | 253 | ||
44 | 76 | IM | Abdurakhmonov Mukhammadali | 2397 | 4½ | 4½ | FM | Castellanos Gomez Alejandro | 2277 | 131 | |
45 | 119 | CM | Blasco Coll Andreu | 2294 | 4 | 4 | IM | Clarke Brandon G I | 2484 | 36 | |
46 | 42 | IM | Sousa Andre Ventura | 2466 | 4 | 4 | FM | Shailesh Dravid | 2286 | 126 | |
47 | 124 | GM | Pogorelov Ruslan | 2288 | 4 | 4 | GM | Velten Paul | 2465 | 43 | |
48 | 125 | FM | Kristoferitsch Daniel | 2286 | 4 | 4 | GM | Narciso Dublan Marc | 2448 | 54 | |
49 | 133 | FM | Ram Aravind L N | 2272 | 4 | 4 | IM | Bulmaga Irina | 2432 | 59 | |
50 | 134 | FM | Schneider Jana | 2272 | 4 | 4 | FM | Vitier Vazquez Cristian | 2424 | 65 | |
51 | 150 | WIM | Rakshitta Ravi | 2242 | 4 | 4 | FM | Bai Adelard | 2411 | 71 | |
52 | 154 | CM | Rajarishi Karthi | 2239 | 4 | 4 | FM | Leisch Lukas | 2405 | 73 | |
53 | 77 | IM | Bournel Antoine | 2392 | 4 | 4 | FM | Atanasov Anthony | 2251 | 143 | |
54 | 78 | IM | Dionisi Thomas | 2390 | 4 | 4 | Aditya Varun Gampa | 2249 | 145 | ||
55 | 80 | IM | Sattarov Bobir | 2389 | 4 | 4 | CM | Vaibhav Jayant Raut | 2247 | 147 | |
56 | 211 | Verbin Valentina | 2088 | 4 | 4 | FM | Carbonell Sancho Marc | 2384 | 81 | ||
57 | 82 | IM | Rendle Thomas E | 2381 | 4 | 4 | Lever Erwan | 2241 | 151 | ||
58 | 86 | IM | Song Julien | 2369 | 4 | 4 | CM | Dahale Atul | 2222 | 159 | |
59 | 92 | IM | Fitzsimons David | 2352 | 4 | 4 | IM | Sai Agni Jeevitesh J | 2226 | 157 | |
60 | 96 | IM | Meister Peter | 2347 | 4 | 4 | CM | Nurgaliyev Sauat | 2150 | 179 | |
61 | 99 | IM | Sarkar Justin | 2343 | 4 | 4 | WIM | Priyanka K | 2146 | 182 | |
62 | 245 | Chia Yu Zhe Ashton | 1970 | 4 | 4 | FM | Alexiadis Hristos | 2342 | 100 | ||
63 | 256 | Tudor Henry Edward | 1942 | 4 | 4 | IM | Karavade Eesha | 2325 | 111 | ||
64 | 112 | WGM | Pourkashiyan Atousa | 2321 | 4 | 4 | FM | Kholopov Alexander A. | 2146 | 181 | |
65 | 295 | Kushal O | 1801 | 4 | 4 | WGM | Priyanka Nutakki | 2316 | 113 | ||
66 | 297 | Saravanan Durga | 1784 | 4 | 4 | FM | Dixit Nikhil | 2306 | 115 | ||
67 | 64 | IM | Baenziger Fabian | 2426 | 3½ | 4 | Dietrich Peter | 2015 | 236 | ||
68 | 175 | FM | De Santis Alessio | 2159 | 3½ | 3½ | FM | Wagh Suyog | 2376 | 85 | |
69 | 178 | FM | Voiteanu Gabriel | 2152 | 3½ | 3½ | FM | Krasteva Beloslava | 2350 | 95 | |
70 | 174 | Perkampus Laurin | 2168 | 3½ | 3½ | FM | Van Dael Siem | 2345 | 98 | ||
71 | 102 | GM | Vogt Lothar | 2339 | 3½ | 3½ | Cherniack Alex | 2188 | 167 | ||
72 | 176 | WIM | Hryzlova Sofiia | 2157 | 3½ | 3½ | IM | Borocz Istvan | 2334 | 107 | |
73 | 116 | FM | Lim Zhuo Ren | 2305 | 3½ | 3½ | Van Kessel Wessel | 2145 | 183 | ||
74 | 118 | WIM | Rakhmangulova Anastasiya | 2296 | 3½ | 3½ | Ezquerro Luque Albert | 2134 | 191 | ||
75 | 120 | FM | Yordanov Lachezar | 2294 | 3½ | 3½ | Arhan Chethan Anand | 2112 | 197 | ||
76 | 185 | FM | Jeet Jain | 2141 | 3½ | 3½ | FM | Milat Marcel | 2290 | 122 | |
77 | 123 | CM | Shaik Sumer Arsh | 2290 | 3½ | 3½ | Devnani Kush | 2134 | 193 | ||
78 | 127 | WGM | Enkhtuul Altan-Ulzii | 2285 | 3½ | 3½ | WFM | Yash Jyoti Bir | 2099 | 202 | |
79 | 128 | FM | Schulze Lara | 2284 | 3½ | 3½ | Nikolov Yavor | 2092 | 206 | ||
80 | 129 | FM | Mamedov Edgar | 2283 | 3½ | 3½ | Sarveshwaran Vignesh | 2040 | 227 | ||
81 | 130 | CM | Md Imran | 2279 | 3½ | 3½ | Pousada Garcia Daniel | 1960 | 252 | ||
82 | 196 | Kocak Ediz | 2115 | 3½ | 3½ | WIM | Benmesbah Natacha | 2268 | 138 | ||
83 | 212 | Rodriguez Diaz Javier | 2084 | 3½ | 3½ | WIM | Newrkla Katharina | 2265 | 139 | ||
84 | 140 | CM | Kostov Deyan Samuil | 2260 | 3½ | 3½ | Uber Gracia Hugo | 1931 | 259 | ||
85 | 213 | CM | Korkmaz Necmettin | 2077 | 3½ | 3½ | WIM | Gaboyan Susanna | 2200 | 163 | |
86 | 216 | WFM | Pipiras Filipa Fortuna | 2065 | 3½ | 3½ | Ojas Kulkarni | 2196 | 165 | ||
87 | 110 | IM | Reprintsev Alexander | 2330 | 3 | 3½ | Villa Tornero Alex | 1925 | 261 | ||
88 | 68 | IM | Krastev Alexander | 2416 | 3 | 3 | Stewart Ashley | 2090 | 208 | ||
89 | 214 | WFM | Hapala Elisabeth | 2075 | 3 | 3 | WGM | Gong Qianyun | 2299 | 117 | |
90 | 217 | Raghav Srivathsav V | 2059 | 3 | 3 | FM | Torngren Gustav | 2275 | 132 | ||
91 | 218 | WFM | Rodriguez Redondo Adhara | 2057 | 3 | 3 | FM | Domene Mulyukov Alexander | 2271 | 135 | |
92 | 142 | FM | Ruiz Buendia Miguel | 2257 | 3 | 3 | Salinas Tomas Daniel | 2089 | 209 | ||
93 | 149 | Frederic Clement | 2245 | 3 | 3 | WFM | Galvan Cipriani Viviana | 2088 | 210 | ||
94 | 152 | FM | Lye Lik Zang | 2241 | 3 | 3 | Maloberti David | 2050 | 221 | ||
95 | 220 | Coles Robin | 2051 | 3 | 3 | Arjun Chitrakudam Krishnamachari | 2241 | 153 | |||
96 | 156 | CM | Gulatz Maurice | 2227 | 3 | 3 | Moracchini Margaux | 2046 | 223 | ||
97 | 222 | Sperat Czar Nicolas | 2047 | 3 | 3 | FM | Webb Laurence E | 2201 | 162 | ||
98 | 224 | Assylov Miras | 2044 | 3 | 3 | CM | Ribera Veganzones Serni | 2199 | 164 | ||
99 | 230 | Le Pen Steven | 2038 | 3 | 3 | Gasic Merino Franco | 2195 | 166 | |||
100 | 260 | Patil Harshal | 1928 | 3 | 3 | Joel Paul Ganta | 2183 | 169 | |||
101 | 170 | CM | Wong Zhenyong Jayden | 2181 | 3 | 3 | Schmuck Corentin | 2040 | 228 | ||
102 | 171 | Levi Netanel | 2179 | 3 | 3 | Boixader Arbo Xavier | 2039 | 229 | |||
103 | 173 | Stanetzek Carsten | 2172 | 3 | 3 | Comellas Blanchart Jordi | 2034 | 231 | |||
104 | 258 | Follana Albelda Lucia | 1938 | 3 | 3 | FM | Baert Andy | 2156 | 177 | ||
105 | 286 | Morais Miguel Almeida | 1844 | 3 | 3 | Wecker Martin | 2150 | 180 | |||
106 | 292 | Nesse David | 1809 | 3 | 3 | FM | Saya Ethan | 2138 | 187 | ||
107 | 296 | Krassel Timofei | 1787 | 3 | 3 | Fanninger Leon | 2136 | 189 | |||
108 | 288 | Arvind Ramnath Iyer | 1834 | 3 | 3 | Villar Reymundo Juan Antonio | 2135 | 190 | |||
109 | 192 | FM | Mahitosh Dey | 2134 | 3 | 3 | Karadzhov Ivan | 2024 | 233 | ||
110 | 318 | Barkasheva Sofia | 1588 | 3 | 3 | Koehler Ronald | 2118 | 195 | |||
111 | 198 | Ismail Tamer | 2112 | 3 | 3 | Saveljevs Aleksandrs | 1974 | 244 | |||
112 | 201 | Panjer Sidney | 2100 | 3 | 3 | Hiren K G | 1965 | 247 | |||
113 | 203 | Coles Ruben | 2098 | 3 | 3 | Liu Tianyi (Jack) | 1892 | 273 | |||
114 | 205 | Halegua Dani | 2095 | 3 | 3 | Escudero Ribo Eloi | 1626 | 313 | |||
115 | 207 | Bub Volker | 2091 | 3 | 3 | Bryant Harry | 1510 | 322 | |||
116 | 300 | Sierra Magrazo Lidia | 1755 | 3 | 2½ | FM | Oswaldo Valentin Requejo Cotrin | 2248 | 146 | ||
117 | 272 | Schopf Martin | 1900 | 2½ | 2½ | FM | Garcia Molina Jose | 2357 | 91 | ||
118 | 148 | WIM | Sieber Fiona | 2245 | 2½ | 2½ | Kumar Sanjit S | 1965 | 248 | ||
119 | 184 | Leftheriotis Alexandros | 2143 | 2½ | 2½ | CM | Zhang Kendrick Botong | 1963 | 250 | ||
120 | 186 | Noria Silvestre Joaquin | 2138 | 2½ | 2½ | Verbruggen Samuel | 1963 | 251 | |||
121 | 199 | Itzhaky Shmuel | 2109 | 2½ | 2½ | Jove Albaiges Guillem | 1922 | 263 | |||
122 | 282 | Alzamil Abdulaziz | 1862 | 2½ | 2½ | Chulis Alexander | 2097 | 204 | |||
123 | 225 | CM | Butolo Alexandru-Mircea | 2043 | 2½ | 2½ | Gregersen Hedin | 1912 | 267 | ||
124 | 299 | Patel Zain | 1761 | 2½ | 2½ | Alfonso Pellisa Aaron | 2018 | 235 | |||
125 | 237 | Perez Garcia Jimena | 2014 | 2½ | 2½ | CM | Harish Neeraj | 1902 | 270 | ||
126 | 238 | Ramos Aguilar Jose Manuel | 2008 | 2½ | 2½ | Shreyas Seshadri Nallore | 1849 | 284 | |||
127 | 241 | WCM | Ankitha Goud Palle | 1980 | 2½ | 2½ | Chitre Arush | 1646 | 312 | ||
128 | 317 | Alem Ali Hussain | 1593 | 2½ | 2½ | Renganayaki Venkatesh | 1978 | 242 | |||
129 | 160 | FM | Bach Matthias | 2208 | 2 | 2 | Mashchenko Tamila | 1913 | 266 | ||
130 | 268 | Herman Gamazo Isaac | 1906 | 2 | 2 | FM | Hristodorescu Daniel | 2108 | 200 | ||
131 | 226 | WFM | Jimenez Fernandez Rebeca | 2040 | 2 | 2 | Borrellas Comellas Josep | 1905 | 269 | ||
132 | 239 | Perez Aleman Pedro Tomas | 1996 | 2 | 2 | WCM | Bibilashvili Lali | 1900 | 271 | ||
133 | 240 | Cordova-Lopez Diego Anton | 1985 | 2 | 2 | Labrovic Jakov | 1891 | 274 | |||
134 | 275 | Benseny Martinez Guerau | 1890 | 2 | 2 | Bland David I | 1974 | 243 | |||
135 | 279 | Paricharak Shardul | 1881 | 2 | 2 | Place Nicholas | 1967 | 246 | |||
136 | 326 | Suneth Shyam Keshaav | 1325 | 2 | 2 | Fernandez Climent Albert | 1963 | 249 | |||
137 | 254 | Altisen Palmada Roberto | 1948 | 2 | 2 | Levesque Guillaume | 1887 | 277 | |||
138 | 303 | Senso Moreno Francesc Xavier | 1731 | 2 | 2 | Gayon Benoit | 1941 | 257 | |||
139 | 262 | Bonoo Iwan | 1925 | 2 | 2 | Paricharak Nakul | 1695 | 310 | |||
140 | 264 | Pina Tiago | 1916 | 2 | 2 | Voronaya Eva | 1379 | 325 | |||
141 | 316 | Al Mutlaq Ibrahim A | 1595 | 2 | 2 | Cafolla Peter | 1915 | 265 | |||
142 | 305 | Aadith Rajesh | 1714 | 2 | 1½ | Khandhar Kaushal | 2020 | 234 | |||
143 | 255 | Kotmans Rob | 1948 | 1½ | 1½ | Golsta Ramona | 1719 | 304 | |||
144 | 309 | Amulya Guruprasad | 1699 | 1½ | 1½ | Levy Benyamin | 1888 | 276 | |||
145 | 314 | Steiners Emils | 1626 | 1½ | 1½ | Vallbona Domingo Joan | 1871 | 280 | |||
146 | 287 | Izagirre Alsua Aritz | 1835 | 1½ | 1½ | Gamal Alaa | 1713 | 307 | |||
147 | 293 | Egli Urs | 1806 | 1½ | 1½ | Apaar Saxena | 1578 | 319 | |||
148 | 294 | Fabregas Oliver | 1804 | 1½ | 1½ | Kratz Jonathan | 1514 | 321 | |||
149 | 320 | Sachdeva Ronit | 1571 | 1½ | 1½ | Shaffer Alexander | 1750 | 301 | |||
150 | 315 | Shamir Shahar | 1604 | 1 | 1 | Ramadugu Akshay | 1812 | 289 |
