The Lüneburg Chess Festival is taking place on 15th – 23rd July at the 4-Star Hotel Seminar, Soltau Strasse 3, D-21335 Lüneburg, Germany. The large event consists of four strong tournaments.
The Open section is a 7-round Swiss tournament with a time control of 120 minutes for the first 40 moves plus 30 minutes to finish the game, without any increment. Top prizes in euros: 1000/ 600/ 500/ 300/ 200/ 100.
The seniors tournament is reserved for men over 60 years old and women over 50 years old. It is a 9 rounds Swiss open with a time control of 90 minutes for the first 40 moves plus 30 minutes to finish the game, without any increment. Top prizes in euros: 400/ 250/ 150/ 100/ 50.
The GM and IM tournaments are single round robins with ten players each. See full list of participants below.
Participants – Open Section:
| 1 | Boris Chatalbashev | GM | 2560 |
| 2 | Igor,Dr. Rausis | GM | 2532 |
| 3 | Arghyadip Das | IM | 2493 |
| 4 | Aleksandr Karpatchev | GM | 2484 |
| 5 | Michael Kopylov | IM | 2454 |
| 6 | Nikolas Lubbe | M | 2451 |
| 7 | Lev Gutman | GM | 2451 |
| 8 | Mikail Ivanov | GM | 2392 |
| 9 | Jens Ove Fries-Nielsen | IM | 2381 |
| 10 | Banerjee Bitan | 2338 | |
| 11 | Melanie Ohme | WGM | 2303 |
| 12 | Josip Gazic | FM | 2282 |
| 13 | Holger Hebbinghaus | FM | 2265 |
| 14 | Evgenij Piankov | IM | 2264 |
| 15 | Hannes Meyner | 2251 | |
| 16 | Christian Schatz | CM | 2232 |
| 17 | Jochen Terhorst | 2182 | |
| 18 | Aleksandar Kaminik | 2174 | |
| 19 | Matthias Wasmuth | 2163 | |
| 20 | Christoph Ramme | 2135 | |
| 21 | Bruno,Dr. Zülle | 2132 | |
| 22 | Hans-Joerg Jantzen | 2131 | |
| 23 | Jens Schmidt-Wilke | 2130 | |
| 24 | Artur Reuber | 2129 | |
| 25 | Lars Schiele | 2097 | |
| 26 | Joachim Bokelmann | 2073 | |
| 27 | Rudolf-Rainer Gehrmann | 2072 | |
| 28 | Detlef Döll | 2065 | |
| 29 | Werner Schirmer | 2028 | |
| 30 | Jürgen Hesse | 2028 | |
| 31 | Timo Oehne | 2027 | |
| 32 | Gerhard Ziese | 2003 | |
| 33 | Hugh Ditmas | 1996 | |
| 34 | Paul-Gerhard Urbanek | 1959 | |
| 35 | Gregor Fabian Seifer | 1943 | |
| 36 | Klaus-Dieter Kühl | 1933 | |
| 37 | Tomas Olsson | 1932 | |
| 38 | Dorit Gehrmann | 1927 | |
| 39 | Frank Kunow | 1920 | |
| 40 | Timo Bücker | 1918 | |
| 41 | Michael Külshammer | 1903 | |
| 42 | Nils Vonhoff | 1842 | |
| 43 | Clemens Levink | 1839 | |
| 44 | Johannes Schmidt | 1808 | |
| 45 | Eric Kloppers | 1788 | |
| 46 | Kai-Ulrich,Dr. Boldt | 1788 | |
| 47 | Anna Nobis | 1757 | |
| 48 | Frederik Svane | 1753 | |
| 49 | Dustin Möller | 1748 | |
| 50 | Joerg Vonhoff | 1747 | |
| 51 | Marcus Bergmann | 1720 | |
| 52 | Helmut Jürgens | 1705 | |
| 53 | Achim Reimers | 1686 | |
| 54 | Peter Raedisch | 1684 | |
| 55 | Elke Andrés Lange | 1664 | |
| 56 | Daniel Kopylov | 1655 | |
| 57 | Simone Bücker | 1640 | |
| 58 | Ben Wito Kowalski | 1623 | |
| 59 | Lennart Meyling | 1621 | |
| 60 | Oliver Stork | 1604 | |
| 61 | Seyed Reza Vahabi | 1567 | |
| 62 | Luis Andrés Lange | 1551 | |
| 63 | Imamali Askerov | 1347 | |
| 64 | Jacob von Estorff | 1338 | |
| 65 | Robert Walter | 836 | |
| 66 | Theo,Prof. Dr. Vogel | ||
Participants – Senior Tournament:
| 1 | Evgenij Piankov | IM | 2268 |
| 2 | Gert Rabeler | FM | 2238 |
| 3 | Christoph Engelbert | 2190 | |
| 4 | Alexandr Kaminik | 2174 | |
| 5 | Christian Schroeder | 2041 | |
| 6 | Kurt Piastowski | 1978 | |
| 7 | Hugh Ditmas | 1966 | |
| 8 | Werner Schatz | 1964 | |
| 9 | Georg Zippert | 1825 | |
| 10 | Johannes Schmidt | 1808 | |
| 11 | Erwin Ast | 1789 | |
| 12 | Peter Raedisch | 1718 | |
| 13 | Prof. Dr. Theo Vogel | ||
Participants – GM Tournament:
| 1 | Lev Gutman | GM | 2467 |
| 2 | Alexander Karpatchev | GM | 2488 |
| 3 | Inkiov Ventzislav | GM | 2465 |
| 4 | Michael Kopylov | IM | 2460 |
| 5 | Aljoscha Feuerstack | IM | 2412 |
| 6 | Rasmus Svane | IM | 2440 |
| 7 | Banerjee Bitan | 2332 | |
| 8 | Malte Colpe | 2302 | |
| 9 | Nikolas Lubbe | 2454 | |
| 10 | Birger Wenzel | 2110 | |
Participants – IM Tournament:
| 1 | Jens-Ove Fries-Nielsen | IM | 2383 |
| 2 | Michael Ivanov | GM | 2392 |
| 3 | Evgenij Piankov | IM | 2259 |
| 4 | Arghyadip Das | IM | 2466 |
| 5 | Matthias Bach | FM | 2251 |
| 6 | Josip Gazic | FM | 2282 |
| 7 | Thorben Koop | 2145 | |
| 8 | Joerg Bathke | 2144 | |
| 9 | Jan Hinrichs | 2072 | |
| 10 | Lars Hinrichs | 1993 | |
