The Chessfestival Groningen 2025 will take place from December 21 to December 30 in Groningen, Netherlands. This tournament has 3 categories – Open A, Open B, and Compact. The Open A section is a 9-round Swiss system tournament with a time control of 90 min/40 moves + 30 min + 30 sec/move. For more events from the Netherlands, check out The European Chess Calendar, which is part of The Chess Calendar.
The top-seeded players are GM Valery Kazakouski (2585), GM Thomas Beerdsen (2526), GM Vitaliy Bernadskiy (2522), GM N R Vignesh (2488), GM Vuppala Prraneeth (2469), IM Vugar Manafov (2438), IM Eelke De Boer (2436), FM Elias Ruzhansky (2432), IM Shiroghlan Talibov (2431), IM Bala Chandra Prasad Dhulipalla (2430), FM Mykola Korchynskyi (2418), IM Nick Maatman (2408), GM Nikhil P Shyaam (2400), Rick Lahaye (2390), IM Yueheng Jin (2387). Scroll down for the full participants list.
Categories: Open B / Compact
More events from the Netherlands: Amsterdam Chess Open 2025 / Hoogeveen 2025 – Crown Group / Hoogeveen 2025 – Open
Chessfestival Groningen 2025 Open A Participants
| No. | Name | FED | Rtg | |
| 1 | GM | Kazakouski, Valery | LTU | 2585 |
| 2 | GM | Beerdsen, Thomas | NED | 2526 |
| 3 | GM | Bernadskiy, Vitaliy | UKR | 2522 |
| 4 | GM | Vignesh, N R | IND | 2488 |
| 5 | GM | Prraneeth, Vuppala | IND | 2469 |
| 6 | IM | Martins, David Pires Tavares | POR | 2443 |
| 7 | IM | Manafov, Vugar | AZE | 2438 |
| 8 | IM | De Boer, Eelke | NED | 2436 |
| 9 | FM | Ruzhansky, Elias | BEL | 2432 |
| 10 | IM | Talibov, Shiroghlan | AZE | 2431 |
| 11 | IM | Dhulipalla, Bala Chandra Prasad | IND | 2430 |
| 12 | FM | Korchynskyi, Mykola | GER | 2418 |
| 13 | IM | Elmi, Saad Abobaker | NOR | 2409 |
| 14 | IM | Maatman, Nick | NED | 2408 |
| 15 | GM | Shyaam, Nikhil P | IND | 2400 |
| 16 | Lahaye, Rick | NED | 2390 | |
| 17 | IM | Jin, Yueheng | CHN | 2387 |
| 18 | FM | Rosh, Jain | IND | 2383 |
| 19 | FM | Maris, Ivo | NED | 2370 |
| 20 | FM | Elgersma, Onno | NED | 2366 |
| 21 | FM | Sydykov, Bayastan | KGZ | 2366 |
| 22 | IM | Panda, Sambit | IND | 2364 |
| 23 | IM | Atakishiyev, Elmar | AZE | 2362 |
| 24 | FM | Albers, Sasa | NED | 2345 |
| 25 | FM | Suleymanli, Suleyman | AZE | 2344 |
| 26 | FM | Aayush, Bhattacherjee | IND | 2333 |
| 27 | WGM | Van Foreest, Machteld | NED | 2328 |
| 28 | IM | Van Assendelft, Floris | NED | 2319 |
| 29 | IM | Utsab, Chatterjee | IND | 2312 |
| 30 | FM | Meissner, Felix | GER | 2312 |
| 31 | FM | Prishita, Gupta | IND | 2309 |
| 32 | FM | Koster, Ramon | NED | 2307 |
| 33 | FM | Smeets, Kobe | NED | 2301 |
| 34 | FM | Van Roon, Sjoerd | NED | 2284 |
| 35 | Zheng, Harry Z | ENG | 2270 | |
| 36 | Dordevic, Tom | GER | 2268 | |
| 37 | FM | Krishnan, Ritvik | IND | 2265 |
| 38 | IM | De Jong, Migchiel | NED | 2263 |
| 39 | FM | Schuricht, Emil Frederick | GER | 2262 |
| 40 | FM | Jake, Shanty | IND | 2252 |
| 41 | Grooten, Tommy | NED | 2217 | |
| 42 | CM | Filindash, Nikita | CZE | 2210 |
| 43 | Feldmann, Johannes | GER | 2204 | |
| 44 | Keuning, Selwin | NED | 2196 | |
| 45 | FM | Advaitt, Srikant Koduri | IND | 2192 |
| 46 | IM | Grooten, Herman | NED | 2176 |
| 47 | FM | Rebers, Eugene | NED | 2174 |
| 48 | FM | Labruyere, Roger | NED | 2173 |
| 49 | Edwardss, Dylan | NED | 2165 | |
| 50 | CM | De Jong, Lode | NED | 2160 |
| 51 | Kamphuis, Jasper | NED | 2158 | |
| 52 | Krylov, Philippe | NED | 2151 | |
| 53 | Gurubaran, Raghuraman | IND | 2149 | |
| 54 | FM | Duijker, Rick | NED | 2148 |
| 55 | Sanjay, Narayanan P S | IND | 2142 | |
| 56 | Bakija, Alan | NED | 2139 | |
| 57 | CM | Aravindhan, Achyuth | NED | 2122 |
| 58 | Athvik, M | IND | 2117 | |
| 59 | Boeren, Jurriaan | NED | 2117 | |
| 60 | CM | Yekeler, Kerem Sarp | TUR | 2116 |
| 61 | Kleibeuker, Mika | NED | 2116 | |
| 62 | De Wit, Evan | NED | 2114 | |
| 63 | CM | Khandhadia, Nivaan Rathin | IND | 2112 |
| 64 | Tanish, Ragavan S | IND | 2108 | |
| 65 | Chua, Ethan | NED | 2089 | |
| 66 | Lopes, Samuel | NED | 2077 | |
| 67 | Bruggink, Tycho | NED | 2072 | |
| 68 | IM | Marusenko, Petr | UKR | 2057 |
| 69 | Den Heijer, Rolinde | NED | 2052 | |
| 70 | WFM | Shivika, Rohilla | IND | 2048 |
| 71 | Blok, Xaveer | NED | 1973 |
