The Prague Open 2026 will take place from January 09 to January 16 in Prague, Czech Republic. This tournament has 2 categories – Open A and Open B. The Open A section is a 9-round Swiss systemtournament with time control of 90 min/40 moves + 30 min + 30 sec/move. For more events from the Czech Republic, check out The European Chess Calendar, which is part of The Chess Calendar.
The top-seeded players are Luca Jr Moroni (2560), Saha Neelash (2474), Valentyn Prokofiev (2464), Hagen Poetsch (2441), Oleg Korneev (2427), Dawid Dobosiewicz (2391), Mihajlo Stojanovic (2388), Tobias Kuegel (2388), Bogdan Lalic (2320), Vladislav Lukiyanchuk (2299), Maksym Pankiv (2296), Artjoms Tolmacevs (2293), Tomas Kulhanek (2286), Kacper Karwowski (2267), Sebastian Mueer (2206), Stephen R Mannion (2202), Tomas Andre (2202), Vit Vilimek (2192), Dominik Svadlenka (2185), Yunus Emre Gunebakan (2182). Scroll down for the full participants list.
Categories: Open B
More: Summer Prague Open 2025 – A Participants / Summer Prague Open 2025 – B Participants
Prague Open 2026 – IM Open A Participants
| No. | Name | FED | Rtg | |
| 1 | GM | Moroni, Luca Jr | ITA | 2560 |
| 2 | IM | Neelash, Saha | IND | 2474 |
| 3 | IM | Prokofiev, Valentyn | UKR | 2464 |
| 4 | GM | Poetsch, Hagen | GER | 2441 |
| 5 | GM | Korneev, Oleg | ESP | 2427 |
| 6 | FM | Dobosiewicz, Dawid | POL | 2391 |
| 7 | GM | Stojanovic, Mihajlo | SRB | 2388 |
| 8 | IM | Kuegel, Tobias | GER | 2388 |
| 9 | GM | Lalic, Bogdan | CRO | 2320 |
| 10 | Lukiyanchuk, Vladislav | UKR | 2299 | |
| 11 | FM | Pankiv, Maksym | UKR | 2296 |
| 12 | FM | Tolmacevs, Artjoms | LAT | 2293 |
| 13 | IM | Kulhanek, Tomas | CZE | 2286 |
| 14 | CM | Karwowski, Kacper | POL | 2267 |
| 15 | Mueer, Sebastian | GER | 2206 | |
| 16 | IM | Mannion, Stephen R | SCO | 2202 |
| 17 | CM | Andre, Tomas | SVK | 2202 |
| 18 | FM | Vilimek, Vit | CZE | 2192 |
| 19 | FM | Svadlenka, Dominik | CZE | 2185 |
| 20 | Gunebakan, Yunus Emre | TUR | 2182 | |
| 21 | WFM | Ricken, Katharina | NED | 2180 |
| 22 | Krivanek, Vladimir | CZE | 2179 | |
| 23 | Terhuven, Patrick | GER | 2167 | |
| 24 | Lihotsky, Lukas | CZE | 2135 | |
| 25 | Ouaki, Mark | BEL | 2128 | |
| 26 | IM | Alexikov, Alexander | UKR | 2125 |
| 27 | Novotny, David | CZE | 2093 | |
| 28 | Ocelak, David | CZE | 2076 | |
| 29 | CM | Klys, Kacper | POL | 2076 |
| 30 | Lieberwirth, Kasimir | GER | 2071 | |
| 31 | Zienkiewicz, Geoffroy | FRA | 2070 | |
| 32 | Ghazaryan, Raffi | ARM | 2063 | |
| 33 | WFM | Ejsymont, Blanka | POL | 2051 |
| 34 | Pogorelskiy, Boris | CZE | 2050 | |
| 35 | IM | Dovzhenko, Viktor | UKR | 2050 |
| 36 | Kampus, Andrej | SLO | 2045 | |
| 37 | Legrand, Hugo | FRA | 2045 | |
| 38 | Lysenko, Volodymyr | UKR | 2043 | |
| 39 | Didmanidze, Tengiz | GEO | 2042 | |
| 40 | Tolmacevs, Romans | LAT | 2035 | |
| 41 | Ivanov, Sergei V. | FID | 2029 | |
| 42 | Rutkowski, Feliks | POL | 2028 | |
| 43 | Blazek, Matej | CZE | 2023 | |
| 44 | Engert, Marvin | GER | 2023 | |
| 45 | Peglau, Paul David | GER | 2022 | |
| 46 | Keyser, Philipp | GER | 2021 | |
| 47 | Stromhaug, Kristoffer Wang | NOR | 2019 | |
| 48 | Serafin, Franciszek | POL | 2012 | |
| 49 | Temirbek, Amirali | CZE | 2011 | |
| 50 | Mojzis, Jan | CZE | 2008 | |
| 51 | Govers, Marc | NED | 2008 | |
| 52 | Jiricek, Jakub | CZE | 2006 | |
| 53 | Bacak, Petr | CZE | 2002 | |
| 54 | WFM | Badenhorst, Chloe | RSA | 1997 |
| 55 | Munier, Alexis | FRA | 1996 | |
| 56 | ACM | Markovic, Kosta | SRB | 1991 |
| 57 | Mikhno, Artem | CZE | 1989 | |
| 58 | WGM | Suleimanova, Ava | UKR | 1984 |
| 59 | Marcinkowski, Adam | POL | 1983 | |
| 60 | Korniichuk, Oleksandra | CZE | 1980 | |
| 61 | ACM | Ejsymont, Eryk | POL | 1979 |
| 62 | WFM | Strade, Arita | GCI | 1978 |
| 63 | Kapolkova, Greta | SVK | 1972 | |
| 64 | Sedmihradsky, Tomas | CZE | 1968 | |
| 65 | Bartak, Josef | CZE | 1963 | |
| 66 | Sedlak, Milan | CZE | 1957 | |
| 67 | Maly, Jiri | CZE | 1957 | |
| 68 | Vavruska, Antonin | CZE | 1954 | |
| 69 | Bohatyrov, Mykola | CZE | 1953 | |
| 70 | Kolar, Edvard | CZE | 1950 | |
| 71 | Cote, Frederic | FRA | 1948 | |
| 72 | Budil, Vaclav | CZE | 1947 | |
| 73 | Lutskiy, Mikhail | CZE | 1946 | |
| 74 | Steiner, Juraj | CZE | 1946 | |
| 75 | Beroun, Libor | CZE | 1942 | |
| 76 | Tuetuencue, Emirhan | AUT | 1939 | |
| 77 | Willemsen, Jasper | NED | 1927 | |
| 78 | AFM | Derypasko, Oleksii | UKR | 1922 |
| 79 | Barkasheva, Sofia | EST | 1921 | |
| 80 | Novak, Josef Jan | CZE | 1920 | |
| 81 | Picek, Miroslav | CZE | 1915 | |
| 82 | Kolar, Dan | CZE | 1912 | |
| 83 | Surnak, Peter | CZE | 1912 | |
| 84 | WFM | Tolmaceva, Alona | LAT | 1909 |
| 85 | WFM | Park, Sunwoo | KOR | 1908 |
| 86 | Simakhin, Martin | CZE | 1906 | |
| 87 | Lee, Younggyu | KOR | 1905 | |
| 88 | Munkhbayar, Unurbayar | CZE | 1902 | |
| 89 | Bouton, Christophe | FRA | 1895 | |
| 90 | WCM | Nicolas, Nika Juris | PHI | 1893 |
| 91 | Smisek, Robin | CZE | 1892 | |
| 92 | IM | Chubar, Vladimir | UKR | 1888 |
| 93 | Kapolka, Juraj | SVK | 1887 | |
| 94 | Migalko, Dmitriy | CZE | 1883 | |
| 95 | Zapalowska, Wiktoria | POL | 1882 | |
| 96 | Brandl, Michael | AUT | 1880 | |
| 97 | Alshnaiber, Yazeed | KSA | 1877 | |
| 98 | Brida, Lukas | SVK | 1877 | |
| 99 | Koper, Stefan | CZE | 1868 | |
| 100 | Artamonov, Mikhail | CZE | 1863 | |
| 101 | AFM | Kravchenko, Andrey | CZE | 1849 |
| 102 | Stefaniv, Vladislav | CZE | 1844 | |
| 103 | Dubsky, Lukas | CZE | 1842 | |
| 104 | Macakova, Bianka | SVK | 1841 | |
| 105 | Malkhasyan, Andrey | USA | 1841 | |
| 106 | CM | Bongo Akanga Ndjila, Barthelemy | GAB | 1840 |
| 107 | Sulcova, Tereza Radmila | CZE | 1839 | |
| 108 | Marsalek, Dan | CZE | 1832 | |
| 109 | Tsyrulnikov, Andrey | ISR | 1829 | |
| 110 | Conradie, Dirk Cornelis Uys | RSA | 1828 | |
| 111 | Rubin, Andrej | CZE | 1826 | |
| 112 | Mojzisova, Barbora | CZE | 1825 | |
| 113 | Borecky, Andrej | CZE | 1816 | |
| 114 | AFM | Havlik, David | CZE | 1814 |
| 115 | Barabas, Ales | CZE | 1811 | |
| 116 | Rawlings, Benjamin | CZE | 1811 | |
| 117 | Rendl, Lubos | CZE | 1807 | |
| 118 | AFM | Lickova, Anna | CZE | 1806 |
| 119 | Almutairi, Abdullah Mohammed | KSA | 1793 | |
| 120 | Horslund, Mikael | DEN | 1793 | |
| 121 | Markina, Sofiia | CZE | 1790 | |
| 122 | Bukovskij, Dmitri | CZE | 1784 | |
| 123 | Badenhorst, Daniel | RSA | 1777 | |
| 124 | Hosova, Sandra | CZE | 1769 | |
| 125 | AGM | Kalvach, Ladislav | CZE | 1765 |
| 126 | Rabiej, Mateusz | POL | 1765 | |
| 127 | Cabart, Pavel | CZE | 1760 | |
| 128 | Sboev, Kirill | CZE | 1758 | |
| 129 | Kammova, Katerina | CZE | 1757 | |
| 130 | Kosem, Rok | SLO | 1731 | |
| 131 | Cerny, Zbysek | CZE | 1724 | |
| 132 | Chkhartishvili, Lazare | GEO | 1722 | |
| 133 | Hlynsky, Bogdan | UKR | 1720 | |
| 134 | Lee, Onbin | KOR | 1708 | |
| 135 | Repe, Jure | SLO | 1706 | |
| 136 | Stepankova, Linda | CZE | 1703 | |
| 137 | Magerl, Zan | SLO | 1702 | |
| 138 | Andersen, Peter 1967 | SWE | 1692 | |
| 139 | Han, Yongsu | KOR | 1691 | |
| 140 | Woytitzki, Maja | POL | 1678 | |
| 141 | Kralik, Jan | CZE | 1670 | |
| 142 | Vanacek, Jan | CZE | 1667 | |
| 143 | Woytitzki, Sophie | POL | 1656 | |
| 144 | Amloyan, Haig | USA | 1650 | |
| 145 | ACM | Slusarczyk, Agnieszka | POL | 1643 |
| 146 | Glaser, Jan | CZE | 1617 | |
| 147 | Havlin, Milan | CZE | 1609 | |
| 148 | Dickson, Eric | USA | 1535 | |
| 149 | Parsch, Marek | CZE | 1517 | |
| 150 | Krasnyi, Timofei | GER | 0 |

