The 7th edition of the Leer Chess Open tournament is taking place from October 31 to November 3 in the eponymous city in Germany. Group A has 116 participants who will be competing in 7 rounds Swiss. The top players include Daniel Kopylov, Mees van Osch, Michael Kopylov, Dusan Nedic and Johannes Tschernatsch. Scroll down for the list of participants.
Previous events in Germany: German Blitz Chess Championship 2024 / German Women Rapid Chess Championship 2024 / German Rapid Amateur Championship 2024
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Participants Leer Chess Open
| No. | Name | FED | Rtg | |
| 1 | FM | Kopylov, Daniel | GER | 2369 |
| 2 | FM | van Osch, Mees | NED | 2362 |
| 3 | IM | Kopylov, Michael | UKR | 2340 |
| 4 | Nedic, Dusan | GER | 2339 | |
| 5 | FM | Tschernatsch, Johannes | GER | 2319 |
| 6 | FM | Höffer, David | GER | 2304 |
| 7 | IM | Bracker, Frank | GER | 2297 |
| 8 | CM | Nechitaylo, Nikita | GER | 2289 |
| 9 | FM | Schulze, Lara | GER | 2275 |
| 10 | GM | Gutman, Lev | GER | 2264 |
| 11 | de Voogt, Jürgen | GER | 2245 | |
| 12 | Popvasilev, Kaloyan | GER | 2237 | |
| 13 | FM | Hintze, Helge | GER | 2230 |
| 14 | Keyser, Robin | GER | 2225 | |
| 15 | CM | Wagner, Benjamin | GER | 2217 |
| 16 | Weidemann, Jakob | GER | 2217 | |
| 17 | FM | Hansch, Karsten | GER | 2209 |
| 18 | FM | Ritscher, Jan-Paul | GER | 2208 |
| 19 | Ngo, Quang Thai | VIE | 2195 | |
| 20 | CM | De Boer, Bas | NED | 2174 |
| 21 | FM | Spiric, Igor | SRB | 2171 |
| 22 | CM | Kaeding, Rainer | GER | 2155 |
| 23 | Helms, Finn | GER | 2149 | |
| 24 | Peters, Tom | GER | 2148 | |
| 25 | FM | Hebbinghaus, Holger | GER | 2147 |
| 26 | Böhme, Arne | GER | 2137 | |
| 27 | Wagner, Jan | GER | 2137 | |
| 28 | Vandenhole, Kobe | BEL | 2128 | |
| 29 | Brandes, Stephan | GER | 2125 | |
| 30 | Hulshof, Peter | NED | 2120 | |
| 31 | Skembris, Simon Max | GER | 2119 | |
| 32 | Sommer, Justus | GER | 2114 | |
| 33 | Issing, Peter | GER | 2112 | |
| 34 | Lippert, Daniel | GER | 2112 | |
| 35 | zur Brügge, Carsten | GER | 2107 | |
| 36 | Reuter, Julian-Frank | GER | 2101 | |
| 37 | Gremmel, Jonas Simon | GER | 2100 | |
| 38 | Thiercelin, Jérôme | FRA | 2084 | |
| 39 | Aden, Tammo | GER | 2082 | |
| 40 | Giel, Olaf | GER | 2076 | |
| 41 | Mix, Clemens | GER | 2076 | |
| 42 | FM | Kummerow, Heiko | GER | 2074 |
| 43 | Jakob, Matthias | GER | 2070 | |
| 44 | Dornieden, Jonas | SUI | 2064 | |
| 45 | Meiwes, Thore | GER | 2059 | |
| 46 | Rolf, Marco | GER | 2059 | |
| 47 | CM | Hansch, Torsten | GER | 2057 |
| 48 | Bösel, Alexander | GER | 2045 | |
| 49 | Dorendorf, Mika | GER | 2045 | |
| 50 | Udelnov, Valentin | GER | 2045 | |
| 51 | Tymura, Achim | GER | 2035 | |
| 52 | Eivazly, Ilkin | UKR | 2033 | |
| 53 | Wiege, Andre | GER | 2031 | |
| 54 | Langenberg, Magnus | GER | 2026 | |
| 55 | Capelja, Christian | GER | 2023 | |
| 56 | Jonnek, Thomas | GER | 2012 | |
| 57 | Lau, Udo | GER | 2010 | |
| 58 | Kort, Felix | GER | 2005 | |
| 59 | Schnelting, Michael | GER | 2003 | |
| 60 | Freitag, Christian | GER | 2000 | |
| 61 | Langedijk, Ardjan | NED | 2000 | |
| 62 | Tarasenko, Nazar | GER | 2000 | |
| 63 | Wolf, Pablo | GER | 2000 | |
| 64 | Budzyn, Matthias | GER | 1986 | |
| 65 | Nönnig, Jakob | GER | 1986 | |
| 66 | Heutling, Elina | GER | 1983 | |
| 67 | Porth, Hartmut | GER | 1982 | |
| 68 | Schumann, Steffen | GER | 1981 | |
| 69 | Roth, Thorsten | GER | 1980 | |
| 70 | WFM | Müller-Ludwig, Kristin | GER | 1971 |
| 71 | Goldmann, David | GER | 1969 | |
| 72 | Hans, Julian | GER | 1969 | |
| 73 | WFM | Sickmann, Lisa | GER | 1965 |
| 74 | Kirschbaum, Gunnar | GER | 1965 | |
| 75 | Herzwurm, Robert | GER | 1955 | |
| 76 | Bundan, Edward | GER | 1952 | |
| 77 | Meyer, Thorsten | GER | 1950 | |
| 78 | Thomas, Jeremy | GER | 1948 | |
| 79 | Cordes, Jule | NED | 1945 | |
| 80 | Lehmann, Edwin | GER | 1942 | |
| 81 | Bauer, Timon | GER | 1938 | |
| 82 | de Vries, Carsten | GER | 1932 | |
| 83 | Heinemann, Lars | GER | 1916 | |
| 84 | Theile-Rasche, Ingo | GER | 1916 | |
| 85 | Schäfer, Maik | GER | 1914 | |
| 86 | Stoy, Ulf | GER | 1910 | |
| 87 | Wilmink, Anna | GER | 1908 | |
| 88 | Van Coppenolle, Lander | BEL | 1907 | |
| 89 | Kovalskyy, Alicia | GER | 1906 | |
| 90 | Leppert, Stefan | GER | 1904 | |
| 91 | Piepenhagen, Eric | GER | 1901 | |
| 92 | Aden, Keno | GER | 1885 | |
| 93 | Schreiber, Ralf | GER | 1884 | |
| 94 | Wiethüchter, Samuel | GER | 1883 | |
| 95 | Schier, Richard | GER | 1881 | |
| 96 | Jamal Jameel, Mahmoon | GER | 1879 | |
| 97 | Hielscher, Fabian | GER | 1872 | |
| 98 | Aden, Dagmar | GER | 1865 | |
| 99 | Arnz, Tom Niklas | GER | 1865 | |
| 100 | Dorr, Jörg | GER | 1865 | |
| 101 | Sharma, Rishi | GER | 1863 | |
| 102 | Gütschow, Christian | GER | 1861 | |
| 103 | Direk, Oguzhan | GER | 1860 | |
| 104 | Vollmer, Andreas | GER | 1857 | |
| 105 | Goldenstein, Arnd | GER | 1856 | |
| 106 | Braun, Julian | GER | 1851 | |
| 107 | Weirauch, Kevin | GER | 1850 | |
| 108 | Schöne, Finn | GER | 1847 | |
| 109 | Gerhardt, Dirk | GER | 1832 | |
| 110 | Goes, Carsten | GER | 1826 | |
| 111 | Kutlar, Aras | TUR | 1822 | |
| 112 | Haertel, Leon | GER | 1816 | |
| 113 | Möller, Tom | GER | 1812 | |
| 114 | Körber, Uwe | GER | 1807 | |
| 115 | Kutz, Ida Klara | GER | 1802 | |
| 116 | Wolf, Vincent | GER | 1754 |
