Underdogs show their strength in the 1st round of the El Llobregat Open 2022

The 3rd edition of the El Llobregat Open Chess Tournament 2022 kicked off yesterday in Saint Boi de Llobregat, Barcelona. A very strong field with 179 entries is led by GM Francisco Vallejo Pons, GM Yu Yangyi, GM Hans Niemann, GM Ivan Cheparinov, GM Vladimir Fedoseev, GM Kirill Alekseenko, GM Jaime Santos Latasa, GM Aryan Tari, GM Amin Tabatabaei, GM Matthias Bluebaum, GM Kirill Shevchenko etc. 

However, not all the favorites managed to score a full point in the first round. GM Yu Yangyi drew against IM Lars Ootes having Black pieces, GM Vladimir Fedoseev had Whites and drew to FM Tripathi Adarsh, GM Aryan Tari played a draw against IM Gungl Theo and GM Kirill Shevchenko scored 0.5 points against IM Jerez Perez Alfonso. FM Javier Habans Aguerrea made the biggest surprise in the first round defeating GM Abhimanyu Puranik with Black pieces.

3rd El Llobregat Open – LIVE games / Round 2 pairings

Round 1 results:

Bo.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg
1	GM	Vallejo Pons Francisco	2716	0	1 – 0	0	FM	Seemann Jakub	2375
2	IM	Ootes Lars	2370	0	½ – ½	0	GM	Yu Yangyi	2716
3	GM	Niemann Hans Moke	2699	0	1 – 0	0	IM	Fitzsimons David	2368
4	IM	Valenzuela Gomez Fernando	2368	0	0 – 1	0	GM	Cheparinov Ivan	2694
5	GM	Fedoseev Vladimir	2688	0	½ – ½	0	FM	Adarsh Tripathi	2361
6	IM	Valmana Canto Jaime	2358	0	0 – 1	0	GM	Alekseenko Kirill	2687
7	GM	Santos Latasa Jaime	2665	0	1 – 0	0	FM	Aarav Dengla	2357
8	IM	Gungl Theo	2352	0	½ – ½	0	GM	Tari Aryan	2660
9	GM	Tabatabaei M. Amin	2655	0	1 – 0	0	IM	Peelen Piet	2350
10	FM	Cesar Maestre Bernardo	2344	0	0 – 1	0	GM	Bluebaum Matthias	2651
11	GM	Shevchenko Kirill	2649	0	½ – ½	0	IM	Jerez Perez Alfonso	2343
12	IM	Nyysti Sampsa	2338	0	0 – 1	0	GM	Donchenko Alexander	2645
13	FM	Giannoulakis Lampros	2338	0	0 – 1	0	GM	Aryan Chopra	2629
14	GM	Bartel Mateusz	2627	0	½ – ½	0	FM	Hagner Bennet	2336
15	WGM	Pourkashiyan Atousa	2322	0	0 – 1	0	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	2623
16	GM	Puranik Abhimanyu	2620	0	0 – 1	0	FM	Habans Aguerrea Javier	2321
17	FM	Esplugas Esteve Vicenc	2321	0	½ – ½	0	GM	Svane Rasmus	2619
18	GM	Safarli Eltaj	2616	0	1 – 0	0	WGM	Priyanka Nutakki	2320
19	WGM	Heinemann Josefine	2316	0	+ – –	0	GM	Bernadskiy Vitaliy	2615
20	GM	Sanal Vahap	2590	0	½ – ½	0	WGM	Klek Hanna Marie	2315
21	WGM	Lubbe Melanie	2314	0	0 – 1	0	GM	Yuffa Daniil	2587
22	GM	Lagarde Maxime	2573	0	1 – 0	0	FM	Dedebas Emre Emin	2312
23	FM	Tarhan Adar	2312	0	0 – 1	0	GM	Svane Frederik	2568
24	GM	Meshkovs Nikita	2563	0	1 – 0	0	FM	Bhambure Shantanu	2306
25	FM	Dixit Nikhil	2306	0	0 – 1	0	GM	Tin Jingyao	2562
26	GM	Pultinevicius Paulius	2561	0	1 – 0	0	FM	Kristoferitsch Daniel	2303
27	WGM	Enkhtuul Altan-Ulzii	2302	0	0 – 1	0	GM	Dragnev Valentin	2551
28	GM	Kaidanov Gregory	2549	0	½ – ½	0	FM	Jain Kashish Manoj	2300
29	IM	Srinath Rao S.V.	2296	0	0 – 1	0	IM	Sosa Tomas	2548
30	GM	Krzyzanowski Marcin	2538	0	½ – ½	0	FM	Lim Zhuo Ren	2296
31	WGM	Navrotescu Andreea	2294	0	0 – 1	0	IM	Kacharava Nikolozi	2532
32	GM	Petkov Momchil	2531	0	1 – 0	0	WGM	Doluhanova Evgeniya	2294
33	FM	Yordanov Lachezar	2294	0	½ – ½	0	GM	Alsina Leal Daniel	2527
34	GM	Arjun Kalyan	2526	0	1 – 0	0	FM	Becerra Juan David	2292
35	FM	Jirasek Pavel	2291	0	0 – 1	0	GM	Maurizzi Marc`andria	2526
36	IM	Beerdsen Thomas	2520	0	1 – 0	0	GM	Pogorelov Ruslan	2288
37	FM	Kouskoutis Georgios-Alexandros	2279	0	½ – ½	0	GM	Vasquez Schroeder Rodrigo	2515
38	GM	Dvirnyy Danyyil	2514	0	1 – 0	0		Hilverda Alexander	2275
39	FM	Domene Mulyukov Alexander	2271	0	1 – 0	0	GM	Kulaots Kaido	2511
40	IM	Seo Jung Min	2507	0	1 – 0	0	FM	Durak Can	2266
41	FM	Ruiz Buendia Miguel	2260	0	0 – 1	0	GM	Basso Pier Luigi	2503
42	IM	Ioannidis Evgenios	2496	0	½ – ½	0	FM	Gombocz Ferenc Jr.	2260
43	FM	Lye Lik Zang	2258	0	½ – ½	0	GM	Lopez Martinez Josep Manuel	2493
44	IM	Gines Esteo Pedro Antonio	2492	0	1 – 0	0	FM	Ronka Erik	2258
45		Lever Erwan	2250	0	0 – 1	0	GM	Arizmendi Martinez Julen Luis	2491
46	IM	Clarke Brandon G I	2489	0	1 – 0	0	CM	Ince Taylan Ruzgar	2247
47	CM	Vaibhav Jayant Raut	2247	0	0 – 1	0	IM	Dudin Gleb	2489
48	GM	Sankalp Gupta	2488	0	1 – 0	0	IM	Gonzalez Rodriguez Jorge A.	2246
49		Joshua A P	2246	0	0 – 1	0	IM	Samunenkov Ihor	2488
50	IM	Aditya Mittal	2486	0	1 – 0	0	FM	Alvarez Albiol Victor	2240
51	FM	Ventura Bolet Maxim	2238	0	0 – 1	0	IM	Can Isik	2486
52	IM	Lubbe Nikolas	2486	0	1 – 0	0	WGM	Arribas Robaina Maritza	2232
53	IM	Sai Agni Jeevitesh J	2226	0	1 – 0	0	GM	Yankelevich Lev	2481
54	GM	Movsziszian Karen	2477	0	1 – 0	0	IM	Martin Gonzalez Angel	2225
55	FM	Jimenez Ruano Adrian	2223	0	0 – 1	0	IM	Zwirs Nico	2476
56	GM	Velten Paul	2471	0	1 – 0	0	CM	Dahale Atul	2222
57	FM	Ochedzan Tymon	2209	0	½ – ½	0	IM	Gokerkan Cem Kaan	2470
58	IM	Wadsworth Matthew J	2470	0	1 – 0	0	FM	Webb Laurence E	2201
59	CM	Ribera Veganzones Serni	2199	0	0 – 1	0	IM	Samant Aditya S	2467
60	GM	Sochacki Christophe	2459	0	1 – 0	0	WFM	Cosman Andreea-Marioara	2199
61		Castro Quijano Eduardo	2195	0	0 – 1	0	GM	Nijboer Friso	2452
62	FM	Samadov Read	2450	0	1 – 0	0		Gasic Merino Franco	2190
63	CM	Lacroix Romain	2189	0	½ – ½	0	GM	Narciso Dublan Marc	2448
64	IM	Woodward Andy	2447	0	1 – 0	0		De Boer Bas	2183
65	CM	Wong Zhenyong Jayden	2181	0	0 – 1	0	IM	Kaasen Tor Fredrik	2444
66	GM	Stefanova Antoaneta	2442	0	1 – 0	0	FM	Martin Barcelo Carles	2176
67	WIM	Llaneza Vega Patricia	2174	0	0 – 1	0	AIM	Gomez Aguirre Juan Alberto	2108
68	IM	Garcia Ramos Daniel	2439	0	½ – ½	0	CM	Ribera Veganzones Josep Maria	2167
69		Perez Ordonez Jose Ramon	2164	0	0 – 1	0	FM	Royal Shreyas	2435
70	FM	Grieve Harry	2431	0	1 – 0	0		De La Puerta Cresis Javier	2161
71	FM	Weeks Manuel	2160	0	0 – 1	0	FM	Bilych Olexiy	2429
72	IM	Ladron De Guevara Pinto Paolo	2425	0	½ – ½	0		Fanninger Leon	2152
73	WFM	Pipiras Filipa Fortuna	2149	0	0 – 1	0	IM	Minzer Claudio Javier	2423
74	IM	Moksh Amit Doshi	2420	0	½ – ½	0		Androutsopoulos-Agiotatos Vasil	2149
75		Perea Fruet Lorenzo	2141	0	1 – 0	0	FM	Vitier Vazquez Cristian	2419
76	IM	Ceres Dragos	2412	0	1 – 0	0	FM	Jeet Jain	2139
77	FM	Mahitosh Dey	2134	0	0 – 1	0	WGM	Divya Deshmukh	2338
78	IM	Sammed Jaykumar Shete	2408	0	1 – 0	0		Nunez Miranda Adrian	2122
79	FM	Arvelo Leo Gian Carlo	2120	0	0 – 1	0	GM	De Vreugt Dennis	2407
80	IM	Bournel Antoine	2404	0	1 – 0	0	CM	Bauer Thomas	2118
81	FM	Ayza Ballester Jordi	2116	0	0 – 1	0	IM	Maltsevskaya Aleksandra	2402
82	FM	Leisch Lukas	2395	0	1 – 0	0		Iglesias Leon Francisco Javier	2109
83	WGM	Injac Teodora	2385	0	1 – 0	0	WFM	Guadamuro Torrente Anabel	2086
84		Giacomini Hector	2082	0	1 – 0	0	IM	Suarez Uriel Adrian	2384
85	IM	Vassallo Barroche Mauricio	2384	0	1 – 0	0		Jinan Jomon	2056
86	AIM	Villa Tornero Alex	2050	0	0 – 1	0	IM	Hernandez Cristian Andres	2384
87	FM	Celik Hasan Huseyin	2376	0	1 – 0	0	FM	Montero Martinez Cristhian	2007
88		Safarian Alek	1991	0	1			bye