The II Open Internacional Chess Menorca will take place from 11-16 April 2023 in Ciutadella (Menorca), Spain. More than 190 players are registered for now, among them top seeded are Gukesh and Hans Niemann. Additionally, we will see GM Jorden Van Forrest, GM Maksim Chigaev, GM Max Varmerdam, GM Vitaliy Bernadskiy, GM Thai Dai Van Nguyen, GM Rinat Jumabayev, GM Harsha Bharathakoti, GM Aryan Chopra, GM Alexandr Fier, etc. Scroll down for the full participants list. Chessdom will provide daily coverage with live games with analysis here and all the fun happening in our #TweetOftheDay section
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The time control is 90 minutes plus a 30-second increment starting from move one. The total prize fund of 2023’s edition of the tournament is 16 000 EUR with 3000 EUR plus trophy for the winner.
Menorca Chess 2023 participants
1 | GM | Gukesh D | IND | 2730 |
2 | GM | Niemann Hans Moke | USA | 2706 |
3 | GM | Van Foreest Jorden | NED | 2680 |
4 | GM | Fedoseev Vladimir | FID | 2674 |
5 | GM | Nguyen Thai Dai Van | CZE | 2649 |
6 | GM | Bernadskiy Vitaliy | UKR | 2619 |
7 | GM | Chigaev Maksim | FID | 2617 |
8 | GM | Jumabayev Rinat | KAZ | 2609 |
9 | GM | Harsha Bharathakoti | IND | 2608 |
10 | GM | Aryan Chopra | IND | 2607 |
11 | GM | Warmerdam Max | NED | 2605 |
12 | GM | Fier Alexandr | BRA | 2599 |
13 | GM | Can Emre | TUR | 2594 |
14 | GM | Santos Ruiz Miguel | ESP | 2590 |
15 | GM | Xu Xiangyu | CHN | 2587 |
16 | GM | Albornoz Cabrera Carlos Daniel | CUB | 2586 |
17 | GM | Sanal Vahap | TUR | 2582 |
18 | GM | Jacobson Brandon | USA | 2556 |
19 | GM | Cuenca Jimenez Jose Fernando | ESP | 2553 |
20 | GM | Visakh N R | IND | 2552 |
21 | GM | Kobo Ori | ISR | 2549 |
22 | GM | Pranav V | IND | 2545 |
23 | GM | Sosa Tomas | ARG | 2544 |
24 | IM | Iermito Sebastian | ARG | 2533 |
25 | GM | Pultinevicius Paulius | LTU | 2532 |
26 | GM | Pranav Anand | IND | 2525 |
27 | IM | Beerdsen Thomas | NED | 2523 |
28 | IM | Koustav Chatterjee | IND | 2520 |
29 | GM | Karthik Venkataraman | IND | 2516 |
30 | GM | Iniyan P | IND | 2515 |
31 | GM | Krzyzanowski Marcin | POL | 2511 |
32 | GM | Henderson De La Fuente Lance | AND | 2506 |
33 | GM | Xu Yi | CHN | 2505 |
34 | IM | Aditya Mittal | IND | 2505 |
35 | IM | Tiglon Bryce | USA | 2502 |
36 | IM | Vignesh N R | IND | 2497 |
37 | IM | Chen Qi B | CHN | 2493 |
38 | GM | Solodovnichenko Yuri | UKR | 2489 |
39 | IM | Gurel Ediz | TUR | 2489 |
40 | IM | Shyaamnikhil P | IND | 2476 |
41 | GM | Raja Rithvik R | IND | 2472 |
42 | IM | Sousa Andre Ventura | POR | 2470 |
43 | IM | Sokolovsky Yahli | ISR | 2464 |
44 | IM | Fernandez Guillen Ernesto J. | CUB | 2461 |
45 | GM | Firat Burak | TUR | 2456 |
46 | FM | Panda Sambit | IND | 2452 |
47 | GM | Cabrera Alexis | ESP | 2450 |
48 | IM | Rozen Eytan | ISR | 2450 |
49 | GM | Del Rio De Angelis Salvador G. | ESP | 2449 |
50 | IM | Zhao Yuanhe | CHN | 2447 |
51 | IM | Dhulipalla Bala Chandra Prasad | IND | 2441 |
52 | IM | Pajeken Jakob Leon | GER | 2441 |
53 | FM | Seemann Jakub | POL | 2439 |
54 | IM | Prraneeth Vuppala | IND | 2437 |
55 | IM | Low Zhen Yu Cyrus | SGP | 2425 |
56 | IM | Ramoutar Alan-Safar | TTO | 2425 |
57 | Chen Peng | CHN | 2425 | |
58 | Jinan Jomon | IND | 2421 | |
59 | IM | Poormosavi Seyed Kian | IRI | 2418 |
60 | FM | Montoliu Cervero Francisco | ESP | 2418 |
61 | FM | Shivakumar Shawnak | USA | 2418 |
62 | WGM | Vantika Agrawal | IND | 2407 |
63 | IM | Kushagra Mohan | IND | 2400 |
64 | FM | Trost Edvin | SWE | 2398 |
65 | IM | Mohammad Fahad Rahman | BAN | 2396 |
66 | IM | Siddharth Jagadeesh | SGP | 2393 |
67 | WGM | Injac Teodora | SRB | 2391 |
68 | IM | Padmini Rout | IND | 2388 |
69 | IM | Ajay Krishna S | IND | 2382 |
70 | IM | Sidhant Mohapatra | IND | 2376 |
71 | FM | Dahl Christoph | GER | 2374 |
72 | WGM | Nandhidhaa P V | IND | 2362 |
73 | FM | Panesar Vedant | IND | 2362 |
74 | IM | Eggleston David J | ENG | 2360 |
75 | FM | Dubkov Andrej | GER | 2357 |
76 | FM | Aarav Dengla | IND | 2349 |
77 | FM | Kalogridis Antonios | GRE | 2342 |
78 | WIM | Kamalidenova Meruert | KAZ | 2342 |
79 | WGM | Alinasab Mobina | IRI | 2334 |
80 | Sanket Chakravarty | IND | 2327 | |
81 | FM | Karthik Rajaa | IND | 2302 |
82 | Liu Zhaoqi | CHN | 2301 | |
83 | FM | Barzen Pascal | GER | 2300 |
84 | FM | Bizhigitov Zhangir | KAZ | 2285 |
85 | FM | Zwahr Paul | GER | 2266 |
86 | FM | Sourath Biswas | IND | 2265 |
87 | FM | Sahithi Varshini M | IND | 2260 |
88 | WIM | Olde Margareth | EST | 2244 |
89 | FM | Schenderowitsch Michael | GER | 2237 |
90 | Jojic Oliver | FRA | 2235 | |
91 | IM | Contin Daniel | ITA | 2230 |
92 | Oberoi Shelev | USA | 2226 | |
93 | WIM | Nurmanova Alua | KAZ | 2224 |
94 | FM | Laurent Julien G. | FRA | 2223 |
95 | FM | Borne Niels | FRA | 2212 |
96 | Fernandez Gil Marco Antonio | ESP | 2208 | |
97 | De Groote Ewoud | NED | 2207 | |
98 | CM | Chinguun Bayaraa | MGL | 2203 |
99 | WIM | Pujari Rucha | IND | 2195 |
100 | WIM | Balabayeva Xeniya | KAZ | 2191 |
101 | IM | Mannion Stephen R | SCO | 2190 |
102 | Aguado Doncel Pablo Luis | ESP | 2189 | |
103 | Gruenter Martin | GER | 2187 | |
104 | Campins Machado Francesc | ESP | 2176 | |
105 | WIM | Pandey Srishti | IND | 2174 |
106 | CM | Fernandez Garcia Gumersindo | ESP | 2172 |
107 | CM | Villiers Thomas | ENG | 2160 |
108 | FM | Mahitosh Dey | IND | 2154 |
109 | Shundi Matias | USA | 2145 | |
110 | Martinez Piqueras Carlos | ESP | 2143 | |
111 | Sanroman Costas Mauro | ESP | 2132 | |
112 | Marin Ferragut Pau | ESP | 2131 | |
113 | Salvador Lopez Daniel | ESP | 2128 | |
114 | Tripodi Enzo | ITA | 2120 | |
115 | Lauer Marius | GER | 2119 | |
116 | Saunders Aron | ENG | 2117 | |
117 | Halmeenmaki Tuomo | FIN | 2114 | |
118 | Pennica Andrea | ITA | 2110 | |
119 | Fiol Abrines Antonio | ESP | 2098 | |
120 | Maloberti David | FRA | 2085 | |
121 | Grahn Vidar | SWE | 2079 | |
122 | Hobson Kenneth | ENG | 2077 | |
123 | Manukonda Arun | IND | 2072 | |
124 | Phatak Aanjaneya | IND | 2070 | |
125 | Aguilo Benejam Alfredo | ESP | 2064 | |
126 | Queirolo Perez Manuel | ESP | 2064 | |
127 | Balzer Lars | GER | 2054 | |
128 | CM | Tulendinov Dinmukhammed | KAZ | 2048 |
129 | Muellneritsch Anton | AUT | 2047 | |
130 | Shearsby Jude | ENG | 2041 | |
131 | Sommer Justus | GER | 2024 | |
132 | Planas Gene Juan | ESP | 2019 | |
133 | Follana Albelda Lucia | ESP | 2018 | |
134 | Garcia Elio Juan | ESP | 2012 | |
135 | Krishnasing Ashley | NED | 2009 | |
136 | Perez Travieso Saul | ESP | 2007 | |
137 | WFM | Aydin Gulenay | TUR | 2001 |
138 | Fraga Pons Albert Borja | ESP | 2000 | |
139 | Vanduyfhuys Igor | BEL | 1999 | |
140 | Ponseti Lluch Joan | ESP | 1997 | |
141 | Green Michael | ENG | 1988 | |
142 | Montesinos Diaz Luis | ESP | 1987 | |
143 | Filipovich David | CAN | 1986 | |
144 | Perez Aleman Pedro Tomas | ESP | 1986 | |
145 | Bergero Simone | ITA | 1985 | |
146 | Adam Rafael | CAN | 1981 | |
147 | Sereinig Eduard | AUT | 1981 | |
148 | Fathallah Joe | WLS | 1980 | |
149 | Zhu Yaoyao | ENG | 1968 | |
150 | Moll Gener Joan | ESP | 1965 | |
151 | Hansen Anders Bork | DEN | 1941 | |
152 | Oliver Amengual Adria | ESP | 1938 | |
153 | Garcia Martinez Josep | ESP | 1935 | |
154 | Clotet Mas Dan | ESP | 1907 | |
155 | Hoebarth Guenter | AUT | 1907 | |
156 | Vihan Shourya | GER | 1907 | |
157 | Suez-Panama Gilles | FRA | 1903 | |
158 | Camps Abadia Arnau | ESP | 1901 | |
159 | Jukes Sam | WLS | 1900 | |
160 | Paragua Megan Althea | USA | 1900 | |
161 | Machin Arbelo Pedro Alexis | ESP | 1897 | |
162 | Coll Fullana Pau | ESP | 1891 | |
163 | Krauchi Romero Martin | ESP | 1889 | |
164 | Vicens Company Maria Antonia | ESP | 1888 | |
165 | Dicen Elis Denele | ENG | 1872 | |
166 | Antich Fernandez Marta Isabel | ESP | 1860 | |
167 | Hafner Bernhard | AUT | 1860 | |
168 | Sandhu Manvith | ENG | 1860 | |
169 | Pal Rohan | ENG | 1849 | |
170 | Liu Tianyi (Jack) | ENG | 1847 | |
171 | Egli Urs | SUI | 1842 | |
172 | AGM | Roig Roig Marc | FRA | 1840 |
173 | Patel Zain | ENG | 1833 | |
174 | Ferenczi Robert Frank | ESP | 1826 | |
175 | Borne Felix | FRA | 1821 | |
176 | Garcia Feore Daniel James | ESP | 1812 | |
177 | Cemborain Oricain Alfonso | ESP | 1795 | |
178 | Kumar Sanjit S | ENG | 1795 | |
179 | Vinent Juanico Marc | ESP | 1794 | |
180 | Nguyen Khoi | BEL | 1792 | |
181 | Smith Steve | WLS | 1792 | |
182 | Sureda Gonzalez Miquel | ESP | 1792 | |
183 | Pelling Kyle | ENG | 1789 | |
184 | Umaran Del Campo Enrique | ESP | 1780 | |
185 | Moll Pons Jana | ESP | 1779 | |
186 | AFM | Srivatsan Karthikeyan | IND | 1777 |
187 | Murawski Jan | ENG | 1757 | |
188 | Bagur Moll Guillem Uriel | ESP | 1753 | |
189 | Nieto Foresti Julian | ESP | 1739 | |
190 | Sureda Gonzalez Cristina | ESP | 1735 | |
191 | Perano Simone | ITA | 1728 | |
192 | Fellowes Billy | ENG | 1721 | |
193 | Mize Dylan | USA | 1714 | |
194 | Jakhria Kushal | ENG | 1708 | |
195 | Ribon Calabia Mariano | ESP | 1708 | |
196 | Miguel Alain | FRA | 1705 | |
197 | Salord Guillen Joan | ESP | 1680 | |
198 | Da Silva Jose Carlos Peixoto M. | BRA | 1606 |
