Yu Yangyi, Francisco Vallejo Pons and Hans Niemann are the top seeds at the 3rd El Llobregat Open

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The 3rd edition of the El Llobregat Open Chess Tournament 2022 will be played from November 30 to December 8 in Sant Boi de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain. The event is played in 9 rounds, swiss system, with time control of 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the end of the game, with 30 seconds increment for each move, starting from the move one.

A prize pool of 29.500 euros attracted 179 entries coming from 43 countries with some of world’s top grandmasters headlining the field. GM Francisco Vallejo Pons, GM Yu Yangyi and GM Hans Niemann are the top seeds, followed by GM Ivan Cheparinov, GM Vladimir Fedoseev, GM Kirill Alekseenko, GM Jaime Santos Latasa, GM Aryan Tari, GM Amin Tabatabaei, GM Matthias Bluebaum and GM Kirill Shevchenko on the starting rank. Scroll down to see the complete starting rank list of players

3rd El Llobregat Open – LIVE games / Round 1 pairings

The Winner of the 3rd El Llobregat Open A will pocket the money prize of 10.000 euros, and besides 10 regular money prizes (for the best-ranked 10 players of the event) the organizers provided 3.000eur prize fund for the best-ranked female players, 1.500eur prize fund for the best Seniors 50+ and 1500eur prize fund for the best Seniors 65+.

Along with the main Open A tournament, the festival features Open B (for players rated U2100) with the prize fund of 3.150eur, Blitz Masters tournament which will take place on Friday, 2nd December, and Women’s Blitz Masters event which will be played on Saturday with 3.100eur prize fund.

Starting rank list of players – El Llobregat Chess Open A:

No.		Name	FED	Rtg
1	GM	Vallejo Pons Francisco	ESP	2716
2	GM	Yu Yangyi	CHN	2716
3	GM	Niemann Hans Moke	USA	2699
4	GM	Cheparinov Ivan	BUL	2694
5	GM	Fedoseev Vladimir	FID	2688
6	GM	Alekseenko Kirill	FID	2687
7	GM	Santos Latasa Jaime	ESP	2665
8	GM	Tari Aryan	NOR	2660
9	GM	Tabatabaei M. Amin	IRI	2655
10	GM	Bluebaum Matthias	GER	2651
11	GM	Shevchenko Kirill	UKR	2649
12	GM	Donchenko Alexander	GER	2645
13	GM	Nguyen Thai Dai Van	CZE	2645
14	GM	Aryan Chopra	IND	2629
15	GM	Bartel Mateusz	POL	2627
16	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	IND	2623
17	GM	Puranik Abhimanyu	IND	2620
18	GM	Svane Rasmus	GER	2619
19	GM	Safarli Eltaj	AZE	2616
20	GM	Bernadskiy Vitaliy	UKR	2615
21	GM	Sanal Vahap	TUR	2590
22	GM	Yuffa Daniil	ESP	2587
23	GM	Lagarde Maxime	FRA	2573
24	GM	Svane Frederik	GER	2568
25	GM	Meshkovs Nikita	LAT	2563
26	GM	Tin Jingyao	SGP	2562
27	GM	Pultinevicius Paulius	LTU	2561
28	GM	Dragnev Valentin	AUT	2551
29	GM	Kaidanov Gregory	USA	2549
30	IM	Sosa Tomas	ARG	2548
31	GM	Krzyzanowski Marcin	POL	2538
32	IM	Kacharava Nikolozi	GEO	2532
33	GM	Petkov Momchil	BUL	2531
34	GM	Alsina Leal Daniel	ESP	2527
35	GM	Arjun Kalyan	IND	2526
36	GM	Maurizzi Marc`andria	FRA	2526
37	IM	Beerdsen Thomas	NED	2520
38	GM	Vasquez Schroeder Rodrigo	CHI	2515
39	GM	Dvirnyy Danyyil	ITA	2514
40	GM	Kulaots Kaido	EST	2511
41	IM	Seo Jung Min	SWE	2507
42	GM	Basso Pier Luigi	ITA	2503
43	IM	Ioannidis Evgenios	GRE	2496
44	GM	Lopez Martinez Josep Manuel	ESP	2493
45	IM	Gines Esteo Pedro Antonio	ESP	2492
46	GM	Arizmendi Martinez Julen Luis	ESP	2491
47	IM	Clarke Brandon G I	ENG	2489
48	IM	Dudin Gleb	FID	2489
49	GM	Sankalp Gupta	IND	2488
50	IM	Samunenkov Ihor	UKR	2488
51	IM	Aditya Mittal	IND	2486
52	IM	Can Isik	TUR	2486
53	IM	Lubbe Nikolas	GER	2486
54	GM	Yankelevich Lev	GER	2481
55	GM	Movsziszian Karen	ARM	2477
56	IM	Zwirs Nico	NED	2476
57	GM	Velten Paul	FRA	2471
58	IM	Gokerkan Cem Kaan	TUR	2470
59	IM	Wadsworth Matthew J	ENG	2470
60	IM	Samant Aditya S	IND	2467
61	GM	Sochacki Christophe	FRA	2459
62	GM	Nijboer Friso	NED	2452
63	FM	Samadov Read	AZE	2450
64	GM	Narciso Dublan Marc	ESP	2448
65	IM	Woodward Andy	USA	2447
66	IM	Kaasen Tor Fredrik	NOR	2444
67	GM	Stefanova Antoaneta	BUL	2442
68	IM	Poormosavi Seyed Kian	IRI	2442
69	IM	Garcia Ramos Daniel	ESP	2439
70	FM	Royal Shreyas	ENG	2435
71	FM	Grieve Harry	ENG	2431
72	FM	Bilych Olexiy	UKR	2429
73	IM	Ladron De Guevara Pinto Paolo	ESP	2425
74	IM	Minzer Claudio Javier	ARG	2423
75	IM	Moksh Amit Doshi	IND	2420
76	FM	Vitier Vazquez Cristian	CUB	2419
77	IM	Ceres Dragos	MDA	2412
78	IM	Anuj Shrivatri	IND	2411
79	IM	Sammed Jaykumar Shete	IND	2408
80	GM	De Vreugt Dennis	NED	2407
81	IM	Bournel Antoine	FRA	2404
82	IM	Maltsevskaya Aleksandra	POL	2402
83	FM	Leisch Lukas	AUT	2395
84	IM	Mullick Raahil	IND	2388
85	WGM	Injac Teodora	SRB	2385
86	IM	Suarez Uriel Adrian	ESP	2384
87	IM	Vassallo Barroche Mauricio	ESP	2384
88	IM	Hernandez Cristian Andres	COL	2384
89	FM	Celik Hasan Huseyin	TUR	2376
90	FM	Seemann Jakub	POL	2375
91	IM	Ootes Lars	NED	2370
92	IM	Fitzsimons David	IRL	2368
93	IM	Valenzuela Gomez Fernando	CHI	2368
94	FM	Adarsh Tripathi	IND	2361
95	IM	Valmana Canto Jaime	ESP	2358
96	FM	Aarav Dengla	IND	2357
97	IM	Gungl Theo	GER	2352
98	IM	Peelen Piet	NED	2350
99	FM	Cesar Maestre Bernardo	ESP	2344
100	IM	Jerez Perez Alfonso	ESP	2343
101	IM	Nyysti Sampsa	FIN	2338
102	WGM	Divya Deshmukh	IND	2338
103	FM	Giannoulakis Lampros	GRE	2338
104	FM	Hagner Bennet	GER	2336
105	WGM	Pourkashiyan Atousa	USA	2322
106	FM	Habans Aguerrea Javier	ESP	2321
107	FM	Esplugas Esteve Vicenc	ESP	2321
108	WGM	Priyanka Nutakki	IND	2320
109	WGM	Heinemann Josefine	GER	2316
110	WGM	Klek Hanna Marie	GER	2315
111	WGM	Lubbe Melanie	GER	2314
112	FM	Dedebas Emre Emin	TUR	2312
113	FM	Tarhan Adar	TUR	2312
114	FM	Bhambure Shantanu	IND	2306
115	FM	Dixit Nikhil	IND	2306
116	FM	Kristoferitsch Daniel	AUT	2303
117	WGM	Enkhtuul Altan-Ulzii	MGL	2302
118	FM	Jain Kashish Manoj	IND	2300
119	IM	Srinath Rao S.V.	IND	2296
120	FM	Lim Zhuo Ren	MAS	2296
121	WGM	Navrotescu Andreea	FRA	2294
122	WGM	Doluhanova Evgeniya	UKR	2294
123	FM	Yordanov Lachezar	BUL	2294
124	FM	Becerra Juan David	COL	2292
125	FM	Jirasek Pavel	CZE	2291
126	GM	Pogorelov Ruslan	UKR	2288
127	FM	Kouskoutis Georgios-Alexandros	GRE	2279
128		Hilverda Alexander	GER	2275
129	FM	Domene Mulyukov Alexander	ESP	2271
130	FM	Durak Can	TUR	2266
131	FM	Ruiz Buendia Miguel	ESP	2260
132	FM	Gombocz Ferenc Jr.	HUN	2260
133	FM	Lye Lik Zang	MAS	2258
134	FM	Ronka Erik	FIN	2258
135		Lever Erwan	FRA	2250
136	CM	Ince Taylan Ruzgar	TUR	2247
137	CM	Vaibhav Jayant Raut	IND	2247
138	IM	Gonzalez Rodriguez Jorge A.	COL	2246
139		Joshua A P	IND	2246
140	FM	Alvarez Albiol Victor	ESP	2240
141	FM	Ventura Bolet Maxim	ESP	2238
142	WGM	Arribas Robaina Maritza	CUB	2232
143	IM	Sai Agni Jeevitesh J	IND	2226
144	IM	Martin Gonzalez Angel	ESP	2225
145	FM	Jimenez Ruano Adrian	ESP	2223
146	CM	Dahale Atul	IND	2222
147	FM	Ochedzan Tymon	POL	2209
148	FM	Webb Laurence E	ENG	2201
149	CM	Ribera Veganzones Serni	AND	2199
150	WFM	Cosman Andreea-Marioara	ROU	2199
151		Castro Quijano Eduardo	ESP	2195
152		Gasic Merino Franco	CHI	2190
153	CM	Lacroix Romain	FRA	2189
154		De Boer Bas	NED	2183
155	CM	Wong Zhenyong Jayden	SGP	2181
156	FM	Martin Barcelo Carles	ESP	2176
157	WIM	Llaneza Vega Patricia	ESP	2174
158	CM	Ribera Veganzones Josep Maria	AND	2167
159		Perez Ordonez Jose Ramon	ESP	2164
160		De La Puerta Cresis Javier	ESP	2161
161	FM	Weeks Manuel	AUS	2160
162		Fanninger Leon	AUT	2152
163	WFM	Pipiras Filipa Fortuna	POR	2149
164		Androutsopoulos-Agiotatos Vasil	GRE	2149
165		Perea Fruet Lorenzo	ESP	2141
166	FM	Jeet Jain	IND	2139
167	FM	Mahitosh Dey	IND	2134
168		Nunez Miranda Adrian	ESP	2122
169	FM	Arvelo Leo Gian Carlo	DOM	2120
170	CM	Bauer Thomas	AUT	2118
171	FM	Ayza Ballester Jordi	ESP	2116
172		Iglesias Leon Francisco Javier	ESP	2109
173	AIM	Gomez Aguirre Juan Alberto	ESP	2108
174	WFM	Guadamuro Torrente Anabel	ESP	2086
175		Giacomini Hector	FRA	2082
176		Jinan Jomon	IND	2056
177	AIM	Villa Tornero Alex	ESP	2050
178	FM	Montero Martinez Cristhian	CHI	2007
179		Safarian Alek	AUS	1991