The 15th edition of the International Chess Festival Paracin 2022 starts tomorrow and will be played from 8 – 16 July at the Pool Prestige Hotel in Paracin. Just two days after the end of one of the biggest European Open chess events in Novi Sad, Paracin hosts another massive and strong event.
The festival features two classical open events: A (for players rated 2100+) and B (for players rated U2100), 18th Memorial Chess Rapid Tournament “Uros Dinic” (July 10th) and Open Blitz Tournament (July 15th). Events attracted more than 300 entries coming from 32 countries, and the top seeds of the main A event are: GM Alexandr Predke, GM Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa and GM Nikita Petrov. Scroll down for starting rank lists
The total prize fund of the events is ~8.500 euros (5450 euros for Open A, 2050 euros for Open B, 600 euros for rapid tournament and 400 euros for blitz tournament).
Starting rank list of participants: Paracin A Open 2022:
| No. | Name | FED | Rtg | |
| 1 | GM | Predke Alexandr | FID | 2688 |
| 2 | GM | Praggnanandhaa R | IND | 2648 |
| 3 | GM | Petrov Nikita | RUS | 2558 |
| 4 | IM | Makarian Rudik | RUS | 2533 |
| 5 | GM | Zanan Evgeny | ISR | 2521 |
| 6 | GM | Santiago Yago De Moura | BRA | 2513 |
| 7 | IM | Pranav V | IND | 2512 |
| 8 | GM | Gundavaa Bayarsaikhan | MGL | 2503 |
| 9 | GM | Arjun Kalyan | IND | 2499 |
| 10 | IM | Song Raymond | TPE | 2499 |
| 11 | GM | Makhnev Denis | KAZ | 2492 |
| 12 | IM | Koustav Chatterjee | IND | 2485 |
| 13 | IM | Aditya Mittal | IND | 2480 |
| 14 | IM | Suleymenov Alisher | KAZ | 2467 |
| 15 | IM | Nitish Belurkar | IND | 2460 |
| 16 | IM | Agmanov Zhandos | KAZ | 2459 |
| 17 | IM | Sturt Raven | USA | 2457 |
| 18 | IM | Neelash Saha | IND | 2446 |
| 19 | FM | Nogerbek Kazybek | KAZ | 2437 |
| 20 | GM | Zajic Milan | SRB | 2431 |
| 21 | IM | Srihari L R | IND | 2431 |
| 22 | FM | Samant Aditya S | IND | 2431 |
| 23 | IM | Urazayev Arystanbek | KAZ | 2430 |
| 24 | IM | Gan-Erdene Sugar | MGL | 2428 |
| 25 | GM | Savic Miodrag R | SRB | 2418 |
| 26 | IM | Menezes Christoph | AUT | 2417 |
| 27 | FM | Amartuvshin Ganzorig | MGL | 2409 |
| 28 | IM | Shahil Dey | IND | 2402 |
| 29 | IM | Muthaiah Al | IND | 2401 |
| 30 | IM | Harshavardhan G B | IND | 2397 |
| 31 | IM | Harikrishnan.A.Ra | IND | 2396 |
| 32 | FM | Damjanovic Vuk | SRB | 2393 |
| 33 | FM | Pavlov Mark | RUS | 2385 |
| 34 | IM | Anuj Shrivatri | IND | 2383 |
| 35 | IM | Djordjevic Vuk | SRB | 2382 |
| 36 | Utsab Chatterjee | IND | 2377 | |
| 37 | FM | Erdogmus Yagiz Kaan | TUR | 2373 |
| 38 | FM | Pasti Aron | HUN | 2365 |
| 39 | Sapenov Daniyal | KAZ | 2362 | |
| 40 | CM | Kushagra Mohan | IND | 2359 |
| 41 | IM | Mazi Leon | SLO | 2358 |
| 42 | IM | Ohanyan Emin | ARM | 2354 |
| 43 | FM | Sharan Rao | IND | 2342 |
| 44 | FM | Isik Alparslan | TUR | 2341 |
| 45 | FM | Rohith Krishna S | IND | 2326 |
| 46 | GM | Pikula Dejan | SRB | 2325 |
| 47 | Lu Miaoyi | CHN | 2322 | |
| 48 | FM | Jocev Milan | SRB | 2317 |
| 49 | FM | Yordanov Lachezar | BUL | 2316 |
| 50 | FM | Anand Batsukh | MGL | 2312 |
| 51 | FM | Taspinar Yanki | TUR | 2311 |
| 52 | WIM | Vishwa Vasnawala | IND | 2305 |
| 53 | Todorovic Nenad I | SRB | 2302 | |
| 54 | FM | Martic Ivan | SRB | 2300 |
| 55 | GM | Ristic Nenad | SRB | 2293 |
| 56 | FM | Han Yichen | NED | 2286 |
| 57 | FM | Stankovic Boris | SRB | 2286 |
| 58 | Vafiadis Kleanthis | GRE | 2286 | |
| 59 | WIM | Arpita Mukherjee | IND | 2281 |
| 60 | IM | Rabrenovic Vladan | SRB | 2277 |
| 61 | FM | Antova Gabriela | BUL | 2275 |
| 62 | WIM | Nurmanova Alua | KAZ | 2275 |
| 63 | FM | Zemlyanskii Ivan | RUS | 2269 |
| 64 | Tsaknakis Zisis | GRE | 2266 | |
| 65 | FM | Ibadov Dashgyn | FID | 2262 |
| 66 | IM | Sredojevic Ivan | SRB | 2254 |
| 67 | Ojas Kulkarni | IND | 2244 | |
| 68 | FM | Baasansuren Erdene | MGL | 2243 |
| 69 | FM | Ristic Luka | SRB | 2243 |
| 70 | CM | Cilek Bora | TUR | 2238 |
| 71 | Konyves Almos | HUN | 2229 | |
| 72 | FM | Mitev Valentin | BUL | 2228 |
| 73 | FM | Toncheva Nadya | BUL | 2228 |
| 74 | FM | Durak Can | TUR | 2221 |
| 75 | WIM | Chitlange Sakshi | IND | 2216 |
| 76 | Gavrilov Maxim | RUS | 2216 | |
| 77 | Saurabh Anand | IND | 2215 | |
| 78 | FM | Kecskemeti Arpad | SRB | 2210 |
| 79 | Triantos Konstantinos | GRE | 2210 | |
| 80 | Sanket Chakravarty | IND | 2209 | |
| 81 | WGM | Srija Seshadri | IND | 2208 |
| 82 | Veselov Yaroslav | RUS | 2206 | |
| 83 | WIM | Balabayeva Xeniya | KAZ | 2198 |
| 84 | Radojicic Aleksandar M | SRB | 2188 | |
| 85 | FM | Efremov Vladislav | RUS | 2185 |
| 86 | CM | Gokcek Kursat Bugra | TUR | 2185 |
| 87 | Lever Erwan | FRA | 2178 | |
| 88 | IM | Granovskiy Alexandr | KAZ | 2177 |
| 89 | FM | Citak Selim | TUR | 2176 |
| 90 | Andreev Konstantin | FID | 2174 | |
| 91 | Vaibhav Jayant Raut | IND | 2169 | |
| 92 | Ilijic Mihajilo | AUT | 2167 | |
| 93 | Karadzhov Ivan | BUL | 2167 | |
| 94 | FM | Bozinovic Bogdan | CRO | 2165 |
| 95 | Prokhorov Ivan | RUS | 2162 | |
| 96 | FM | Kurmangaliyeva Liya | KAZ | 2157 |
| 97 | CM | Aaditya Dhingra | IND | 2156 |
| 98 | Ciric Pavle | SRB | 2155 | |
| 99 | WFM | Loskutova Viktoriya | RUS | 2153 |
| 100 | Ilamparthi A R | IND | 2153 | |
| 101 | Joshua A P | IND | 2153 | |
| 102 | Makridis Dimitrios | GRE | 2152 | |
| 103 | IM | Mohota Nisha | IND | 2148 |
| 104 | FM | Jain Kashish Manoj | IND | 2147 |
| 105 | Bazyrtsyrenov Kirill | RUS | 2147 | |
| 106 | Papaioannou Dimitrios | GRE | 2142 | |
| 107 | Marjanovic Rastko | SRB | 2140 | |
| 108 | Nikolov Yavor | BUL | 2138 | |
| 109 | Ufimtsev Egor | RUS | 2137 | |
| 110 | WIM | Srdanovic Jovana | SRB | 2136 |
| 111 | Radisavljevic Dalibor | SRB | 2135 | |
| 112 | WFM | Kairbekova Amina | KAZ | 2133 |
| 113 | Al Atarji Sami | SRB | 2128 | |
| 114 | Phatak Aanjaneya | IND | 2128 | |
| 115 | Akin Yagiz Cinar | TUR | 2125 | |
| 116 | Panda Sambit | IND | 2123 | |
| 117 | CM | Borgaonkar Akshay | IND | 2122 |
| 118 | CM | Ozturk Efe Hakan | TUR | 2115 |
| 119 | Mroczek Mathias | GER | 2114 | |
| 120 | Aakash Sharadchandra Dalvi | IND | 2110 | |
| 121 | Nikolic Zoran S | SRB | 2107 | |
| 122 | FM | Radosavljevic Slobodan D | SRB | 2102 |
| 123 | Bhattacharyya Soham | IND | 2099 | |
| 124 | WFM | Munkhzul Davaakhuu | MGL | 2095 |
| 125 | Micic Aleksa | SRB | 2092 | |
| 126 | FM | Danaci Ege | TUR | 2088 |
| 127 | Kolbert Engelbert | SRB | 2084 | |
| 128 | Ahmad Khagan | AZE | 2081 | |
| 129 | Poupalos Nikolaos | GRE | 2064 | |
| 130 | Bogdanov Artyom | KAZ | 2059 | |
| 131 | Ignat Matei-Marius | ROU | 2055 | |
| 132 | Shoshin Kirill | RUS | 2055 | |
| 133 | Thrish Karthik | IND | 2055 | |
| 134 | Atanasov Margarit | BUL | 2043 | |
| 135 | CM | Kadam Om Manish | IND | 2037 |
| 136 | Farkas Sandor I | SRB | 2034 | |
| 137 | Csernyik Mark | HUN | 2022 | |
| 138 | Koudounis Vasileios | GRE | 2018 | |
| 139 | CM | Korkmaz Necmettin | TUR | 2016 |
| 140 | Gkavardinas Antonios | GRE | 2010 | |
| 141 | Gusev Mikhail | SRB | 2010 | |
| 142 | Gordon Evgeny | ISR | 2009 | |
| 143 | Renganayaki Venkatesh | IND | 1991 | |
| 144 | Niharika Ch | IND | 1988 | |
| 145 | WFM | Vujcic Milena | SRB | 1987 |
| 146 | Cuzovic Ognjen | SRB | 1987 | |
| 147 | Aditya Varun Gampa | IND | 1980 | |
| 148 | Doraszelski Alexander | GER | 1946 | |
| 149 | Zheng Harry Z | ENG | 1946 | |
| 150 | Anacak Hasan Gunes | TUR | 1939 | |
| 151 | Randjelovic Nenad | SRB | 1925 | |
| 152 | WFM | Nikulina Alena | RUS | 1923 |
| 153 | Temizer Umut | TUR | 1921 | |
| 154 | Zhdanov Petr | RUS | 1919 | |
| 155 | Nikolakis Panagiotis Marios | GRE | 1905 | |
| 156 | Georgoulias Dionisios | GRE | 1904 | |
| 157 | Teo Hong Ming | SGP | 1898 | |
| 158 | CM | Tenuunbold Battulga | MGL | 1893 |
| 159 | Anirudh Daga | IND | 1878 | |
| 160 | Zhorayev Almas | KAZ | 1873 | |
| 161 | Aditya Chatterjee | IND | 1848 | |
| 162 | Tamhankar Siddhant | IND | 1811 | |
| 163 | Watarkar Yash | IND | 1792 |
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Starting rank list of participants: Paracin B Open 2022:
| No. | Name | FED | Rtg | |
| 1 | MK | Miljkovic Miroslav M | SRB | 2096 |
| 2 | FM | Zlatanovic Zoran | SRB | 2069 |
| 3 | MK | Tosic Nebojsa | SRB | 2053 |
| 4 | MK | Ostojic Milos R | SRB | 2042 |
| 5 | MK | Pestek Elvis | BIH | 2031 |
| 6 | MK | Stankovic Andrej | CRO | 2029 |
| 7 | MK | Tisma Ivan | SRB | 2016 |
| 8 | I | Milosevic Goran R | SRB | 2015 |
| 9 | WIM | Petrovic Marija | SRB | 2013 |
| 10 | MK | Mladenov Emil | BUL | 1976 |
| 11 | MK | Milosevic Rade | SRB | 1957 |
| 12 | MK | Akat Elifnaz | TUR | 1948 |
| 13 | MK | Grozdanovic Anastasia | SRB | 1945 |
| 14 | I | Cosic Jovan | SRB | 1940 |
| 15 | MK | Radojkovic Stefan | SRB | 1935 |
| 16 | MK | Radovanovic Miroljub B | SRB | 1928 |
| 17 | MK | Dragojevic Dragan | SRB | 1926 |
| 18 | MK | Jovanovic Anja | SRB | 1926 |
| 19 | MK | Tamas Christian-Arrydan | ROU | 1913 |
| 20 | MK | Lukic Sasa | SRB | 1896 |
| 21 | MK | Mixakis Evangelos | GRE | 1883 |
| 22 | MK | Arandjelovic Aleksandar Z | SRB | 1871 |
| 23 | MK | Jakovljevic Dejan | SRB | 1861 |
| 24 | MK | Janjic Nikola | BIH | 1859 |
| 25 | MK | Mijajlovic Jovan | SRB | 1854 |
| 26 | MK | Tomic Slobodan | SRB | 1852 |
| 27 | MK | Nadj Vanja | SRB | 1851 |
| 28 | MK | Ilic Sladjan | SRB | 1840 |
| 29 | MK | Dinic Nenad | SRB | 1832 |
| 30 | MK | Knjazev Artem | RUS | 1823 |
| 31 | MK | Simovic Zoran | SRB | 1823 |
| 32 | MK | Markovic Rade A | BIH | 1818 |
| 33 | MK | Glisic Tomislav | SRB | 1806 |
| 34 | I | Demelkas Ioannis | GRE | 1797 |
| 35 | I | Dristellas Neoklis | GRE | 1796 |
| 36 | MK | Opacic Alexandar | ITA | 1793 |
| 37 | MK | Guseva Oksana | FID | 1788 |
| 38 | I | Galiev Ernest | RUS | 1786 |
| 39 | I | Maglovski Dario | SRB | 1786 |
| 40 | I | Karademir Bugra | TUR | 1784 |
| 41 | I | Velikov Nikola | BUL | 1771 |
| 42 | I | Pasti Zsombor | HUN | 1766 |
| 43 | I | Yildiz Talat | TUR | 1765 |
| 44 | I | Pasula Milos | SRB | 1757 |
| 45 | I | Moravkic Miroljub | SRB | 1754 |
| 46 | I | Novakovic Aleksandar S | SRB | 1751 |
| 47 | MK | Milutinovic Bojan | SRB | 1747 |
| 48 | I | Velikic Vule | SRB | 1746 |
| 49 | I | Zheng Jerry Z | ENG | 1745 |
| 50 | MK | Jovanovic Ivan M | SRB | 1741 |
| 51 | I | Dakic Marta | SRB | 1736 |
| 52 | I | Mustu Hatice Asli | TUR | 1734 |
| 53 | MK | Orlic Vukasin | SRB | 1720 |
| 54 | MK | Petrovic Dusan Z | SRB | 1718 |
| 55 | I | Mrkovic Nikola | BIH | 1714 |
| 56 | I | Colic Milos | SRB | 1707 |
| 57 | I | Balik Ali | GER | 1702 |
| 58 | WCM | Gasimova Samra | AZE | 1701 |
| 59 | I | Bolat Inayat | KAZ | 1699 |
| 60 | I | Radovanovic Danko | SRB | 1694 |
| 61 | I | Sovetbekova Nurai | KGZ | 1693 |
| 62 | I | Guleryuz Kuzey | TUR | 1685 |
| 63 | I | Rakic Ognjan | SRB | 1681 |
| 64 | I | Yildiz Egehan | TUR | 1677 |
| 65 | I | Gagic Miroljub | SRB | 1675 |
| 66 | I | Karaca Yigit | TUR | 1675 |
| 67 | I | Vujic Nedeljko | SRB | 1675 |
| 68 | II | Rasic Milovan | SRB | 1673 |
| 69 | MK | Zdravkovic Filip | SRB | 1671 |
| 70 | I | Vortmeier Jan | GER | 1667 |
| 71 | MK | Tsintsar Zoran | GER | 1666 |
| 72 | MK | Milosavljevic Delimir | SRB | 1658 |
| 73 | I | Liashkevich Lizaveta | BLR | 1655 |
| 74 | MK | Cirkovic Vuk | SRB | 1652 |
| 75 | I | Milutinovic Dalibor | SRB | 1641 |
| 76 | I | Rajic Milovan | SRB | 1641 |
| 77 | I | Alagoz Zumra Meryem | TUR | 1640 |
| 78 | I | Golubovic Miljana | BIH | 1637 |
| 79 | I | Kamenov Valentin | BUL | 1637 |
| 80 | I | Demirkol Kerim Calvelo | TUR | 1632 |
| 81 | MK | Pavlovic Slobodan Z | SRB | 1629 |
| 82 | I | Mirza Gabriel | IRL | 1626 |
| 83 | I | Kellner Nikolaus | AUT | 1613 |
| 84 | I | Medic Relja | SRB | 1609 |
| 85 | I | Gjorgjevski Mosha | MKD | 1608 |
| 86 | I | Pusara Mihailo | MNE | 1604 |
| 87 | I | Mitsiou Konstantinos | GRE | 1590 |
| 88 | II | Milosavljevic Radosav | SRB | 1582 |
| 89 | I | Lazovic Emilija | SRB | 1575 |
| 90 | I | Vuljanic Ana | CRO | 1568 |
| 91 | I | Zaires Karanasios Konstantinos | GRE | 1568 |
| 92 | I | Stefanovic Dragan D | SRB | 1562 |
| 93 | I | Mishin Matvey | RUS | 1560 |
| 94 | I | Stamenkovic Petar | SRB | 1556 |
| 95 | I | Lausevic Gorazd | MNE | 1539 |
| 96 | I | Shadyev Damir | RUS | 1526 |
| 97 | I | Chen Jocelyn | USA | 1508 |
| 98 | II | Papandreou Georgios 38347 | GRE | 1504 |
| 99 | I | Kabinazar Nurmukhammed | KAZ | 1501 |
| 100 | II | Atanasovski Goran | SRB | 1491 |
| 101 | II | Sprewitz Ingo | GER | 1488 |
| 102 | I | Brankovic Slavoljub | SRB | 1483 |
| 103 | II | Karaca Mert | TUR | 1483 |
| 104 | II | Kuandykuly Danis | KAZ | 1483 |
| 105 | II | Theodoridis Charalampos | GRE | 1476 |
| 106 | III | Jevtic Lazar | SRB | 1471 |
| 107 | II | Fabijan Mateja | SRB | 1470 |
| 108 | II | Voronaya Eva | RUS | 1466 |
| 109 | II | Basdar Atakan | TUR | 1464 |
| 110 | II | Adzic Jovan | MNE | 1456 |
| 111 | II | Ramadugu Akshay | IND | 1452 |
| 112 | II | Udovenko Daniel | USA | 1442 |
| 113 | II | Ivanovic Andjela | BIH | 1434 |
| 114 | II | Ivanovic Vasika | BIH | 1427 |
| 115 | II | Pogodin Nikolay | RUS | 1409 |
| 116 | II | Ulukan Kutay | TUR | 1409 |
| 117 | I | Nedeljkovic Velja | SRB | 1399 |
| 118 | II | Dushatov Timur | KAZ | 1397 |
| 119 | III | Lukic Vasilije | SRB | 1385 |
| 120 | II | Tsampas Charalampos | GRE | 1377 |
| 121 | II | Ciric Sava | SRB | 1373 |
| 122 | II | Milovic Ilija | MNE | 1373 |
| 123 | III | Milicevic Dunja | SRB | 1366 |
| 124 | II | Susin Derya Defne | TUR | 1363 |
| 125 | II | Oyungerel Sharavdorj | MGL | 1342 |
| 126 | II | Bogdanovic Vera | SRB | 1317 |
| 127 | II | Mimic Lazar | BIH | 1309 |
| 128 | III | Miladinovic Mihajlo | SRB | 1297 |
| 129 | II | Zol-Uchral Erdenesaikhan | MGL | 1284 |
| 130 | II | Mimic Sofija | BIH | 1236 |
| 131 | II | Svrkota Milos | MNE | 1206 |
| 132 | II | Theodoridou Maria | GRE | 1136 |
| 133 | II | Kuzmenko Aleksandr | RUS | 1107 |
| 134 | II | Avyaay Garg | IND | 1061 |
| 135 | II | Yilmaz Azra | TUR | 1049 |
| 136 | II | Eremin Ivan | RUS | 1002 |
| 137 | I | Stojanovic Dusan Z | SRB | 0 |
| 138 | II | Colovic Vuk | SRB | 0 |
| 139 | II | Djokic Masa | SRB | 0 |
| 140 | II | Simovic Uros | SRB | 0 |
| 141 | III | Batbaatar Baatar | MGL | 0 |
| 142 | III | Brankovic Djordje | SRB | 0 |
| 143 | III | Djordjevic Dragan T | SRB | 0 |
| 144 | III | Mitsiou Anna Maria | GRE | 0 |
| 145 | III | Petrovic Branko | SRB | 0 |
| 146 | III | Petrovic Neda | SRB | 0 |
| 147 | III | Rohmann Jakob | GER | 0 |
| 148 | III | Rohmann Johann | GER | 0 |
| 149 | III | Sevinc Nil | TUR | 0 |
| 150 | III | Stojadinovic Martin | SRB | 0 |
| 151 | III | Stosic Teodora | SRB | 0 |
| 152 | III | Tantabaeva Mira | KGZ | 0 |
| 153 | III | Zikic Milivoje | SRB | 0 |
