57th Biel Chess Festival starts in Switzerland

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The 57th edition of the Biel Chess Festival kicks off today in Switzerland with more than 10 different tournaments on the programme.

The main events are Masters and Challengers Triathlons which will be played as 6-player round-robin tournaments. The Triathlons are played in all time controls, with additional final phase of the event this year. The most crucial innovation in the Triathlon is that after the round robins in classical, rapid, and blitz games, the four best players play each other again in the classical time control with reversed colors.

The GMT Masters features a very strong line-up with the average rating of players 2700+. The field is headlined by GM Praggnanandhaa and includes GM Vincent Keymer, GM Liem Quang Le, GM Javokhir Sindarov, GM Haik Martirosyan, and GM Mishra Abhimanyu.

GM Jonas Buhl Bjerre is the top-seed in the GMT Challengers tournament, and the field includes GM Alexander Donchenko, GM Saleh Salem, GM Marc’Andria Maurizzi, GM Ihor Samunenkov, and GM Vaishali Rameshbabu.

In parallel with the Triathlon events, the Concert Hall of the Biel Congress Center will host the Open tournaments, with the Masters Open as the main battlefield. The event features the prize fund of 28.000 CHF and a tough field of 174 players. GM Chopra Aryan, GM Leon Luke Mendonca and GM Arseniy Nesterov are among the top-rated players.

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Starting list of players – Masters Chess Open 2024:

#		Name	FED	Elo STD
1	GM	Aryan, Chopra	IND	2632
2	GM	Mendonca, Leon Luke	IND	2615
3	GM	Nesterov, Arseniy	FID	2602
4	GM	Ganguly, Surya Shekhar	IND	2592
5	GM	Sethuraman, S.P.	IND	2589
6	GM	Sasikiran, Krishnan	IND	2581
7	GM	Quesada Perez, Luis Ernesto	CUB	2576
8	GM	Moiseenko, Alexander	UKR	2570
9	GM	Bharathakoti, Harsha	IND	2569
10	GM	Jumabayev, Rinat	KAZ	2565
11	GM	Gavrilescu, David	ROU	2540
12	GM	Iniyan, Pa	IND	2533
13	GM	Kobo, Ori	ISR	2529
14	GM	Koustav, Chatterjee	IND	2525
15		Xiao, Tong	CHN	2518
16	IM	Sokolovsky, Yahli	ISR	2516
17	GM	Kelires, Andreas	GRE	2516
18	GM	Priasmoro, Novendra	INA	2513
19	IM	Madaminov, Mukhiddin	UZB	2512
20	GM	Balakrishnan, Praveen	USA	2503
21	GM	Valsecchi, Alessio	ITA	2488
22	IM	Royal, Shreyas	ENG	2487
23	IM	Macovei, Andrei	MDA	2479
24	IM	Assaubayeva, Bibisara	KAZ	2472
25	IM	Deuer, Marius	GER	2458
26	GM	Bilguun, Sumiya	MGL	2458
27	IM	Ansat, Aldiyar	KAZ	2458
28	IM	Materia, Marco	FRA	2453
29		Xue, Haowen	CHN	2452
30	GM	Holzke, Frank	GER	2450
31	IM	Garifullina, Leia	FID	2449
32	IM	Razafindratsima, Timothe	FRA	2449
33	IM	Fromm, Marius	GER	2448
34	IM	Saraci, Nderim	KOS	2447
35	IM	Nitish, Belurkar	IND	2442
36	IM	Petkidis, Anthony	GER	2428
37	IM	Amartuvshin, Ganzorig	MGL	2427
38	IM	Gan-Erdene, Sugar	MGL	2407
39	IM	Juksta, Karolis	LTU	2400
40	IM	Tahay, Alexis	FRA	2392
41		Kalogridis, Antonios	GRE	2391
42	IM	Vantika, Agrawal	IND	2390
43	IM	Thavandiran, Shiyam	CAN	2387
44		Boldoo, Erdenepurev	MGL	2385
45		Karthik, Rajaa	IND	2382
46		Chinguun, Sumiya	MGL	2377
47		Dotzer, Lukas	AUT	2375
48	IM	Rosen, Eric	USA	2374
49	IM	Sammed Jaykumar, Shete	IND	2373
50		Yaniv, Yuval	ISR	2370
51		Hafiz, Arif Abdul	INA	2367
52	IM	Ajay Krishna, S	IND	2364
53		Narayanan, Samrug	USA	2361
54	IM	Batkhuyag, Munguntuul	MGL	2356
55	WGM	Alinasab, Mobina	IRI	2354
56		Dhruva, Thota	IND	2350
57	IM	Padmini, Rout	IND	2348
58	IM	Ayush, Sharma	IND	2342
59	IM	Sukandar, Irine	INA	2338
60	IM	Shahil, Dey	IND	2336
61	IM	Ritviz, Parab	IND	2334
62		Smeets, Kobe	NED	2324
63	IM	Haimovich, Tal	ISR	2324
64		Emmenecker, Pierre-Antoine	FRA	2318
65		Otsuka, Shou	JPN	2312
66		Jain, Kashish Manoj	IND	2308
67		Gloeckler, Christian	GER	2304
68		Toktomushev, Teimur	SUI	2300
69		Bagwe, Gaurang	IND	2281
70		Shoshin, Kirill	FID	2277
71		Mattenberger, Matthias	SUI	2275
72	WGM	Cervantes Landeiro, Thalia	USA	2271
73	IM	Saravanan, V	IND	2266
74	WIM	Nurman, Alua	KAZ	2266
75	WIM	Peycheva, Gergana	BUL	2261
76		Collin, Moritz Valentin	SUI	2255
77	WGM	Munkhzul, Turmunkh	MGL	2250
78		Krishnan, Ritvik	IND	2246
79		Song, Ethan	CAN	2244
80		Arutla, Aditya	USA	2243
81		Winkelman, Albert	AUS	2243
82		Jaggy, Matteo	SUI	2241
83		Follesa, Enrico	BEL	2241
84	WGM	Srija, Seshadri	IND	2241
85	IM	Kolbus, Dietmar	INM	2230
86		Kurmangaliyeva, Liya	KAZ	2230
87	WIM	Gueci, Tea	ITA	2228
88		Papaux, Steve	SUI	2228
89		Mostertman, Milan	NED	2220
90	WIM	Balabayeva, Xeniya	KAZ	2210
91		Xi, Qi	CHN	2209
92		Pappier, Carlos	ARG	2202
93	WIM	Mahalakshmi, M	IND	2199
94		Vijayakumar, Rishi	SCO	2198
95		Ajay, Santhosh Parvathareddy	IND	2193
96		Ohler, Julius	GER	2188
97		Federer, Colin	SUI	2187
98	IM	Kersten, Uwe	GER	2186
99		Sriansh, Das	IND	2184
100	WIM	Monnisha, G K	IND	2182
101	WIM	Demchenko, Svitlana	CAN	2176
102		Imran , Mohammad	IND	2170
103		Rappazzo, Johannes	SUI	2169
104		Dushatov, Timur	KAZ	2168
105	WGM	Frayna, Janelle Mae	PHI	2164
106		Vincenti, Leonardo	ITA	2163
107		Malli, Suvirr	SUI	2160
108		Asllani, Dorian	SUI	2159
109		Vemparala, Nikash	USA	2150
110		Coles, Ruben	FRA	2141
111		Schnell, Simon	SUI	2141
112	WIM	Bommini, Mounika Akshaya	IND	2140
113		Woong, Zhi Wei William	SIN	2139
114		Nurgaliyeva, Zarina	KAZ	2135
115		Arsenie, Cristian Marc	SUI	2131
116		Harish, Neeraj	USA	2123
117		Gemelli, Romain	SUI	2120
118		Kaiser, Elmar	GER	2116
119		Smirnov, Mark	KAZ	2111
120		Erne, Raphael	SUI	2108
121	WIM	Altantuya, Boldbaatar	MGL	2107
122		Gortemaker, Lucas	NED	2097
123		Talwalkar, Vedant	USA	2094
124		Aravindhan, Achyuth	NED	2094
125		Lyutsinger, Iren	FID	2088
126		Emery, Stéphane	SUI	2084
127		Coles, Robin	FRA	2084
128		Kuandykuly, Danis	KAZ	2082
129	WIM	Tarini, Goyal	IND	2079
130		Borner, Daniel	SUI	2075
131	WIM	Fronda, Jan Jodilyn	PHI	2072
132		Panda, Barnabas	HUN	2067
133		Haugner, Jan	GER	2067
134		Perreard, Nicolas	SUI	2066
135		Khulan, Enkhsaikhan	MGL	2065
136		Udipi , Kala Kishan	SUI	2065
137		Inhoven, Stefan	GER	2062
138		Monteverde, Jonathan	SUI	2059
139		Saine, Zachary	CAN	2058
140		Ganta, Joel Paul	IND	2056
141		Rana, Rounaiv	IND	2043
142		Aarav, Sarbalia	IND	2042
143		Kwiatkowski, Jakub	SUI	2031
144		Chen, Muxi	CHN	2030
145		Artan, Tamir	SUI	2027
146		Selinga, Jan	SUI	2023
147		Matsumura, Cocoro	JPN	2022
148		Pisan, Kai	USA	2016
149		Woltery, Nicolai	ENG	2016
150		Arbinger, Roland	GER	2013
151		Niharika, Challa	IND	2012
152		Shahmammadli, Safkhan	SUI	2008
153		Tellarini, Lorenzo	ITA	2002
154	WIM	Nasybullina, Alfiia	KAZ	1997
155		Douguet, Claude	SUI	1994
156		Hartmann, Wolfgang	GER	1983
157		Hornung, Dr. Hans-Martin	GER	1977
158		Mata, Adilson	POR	1973
159		Dinesh, Rajan M	IND	1967
160		Udelnov, Valentin	GER	1965
161		Tkhoruk, Roman	SUI	1965
162		Ishvi, Aggarwal	IND	1958
163		Pouly, Ivan	SUI	1958
164		Stevens, Christian	FRA	1954
165		Stefan, Iulia-Cristiana	ROU	1953
166		Padilla García , Cecilia Xasive	MEX	1950
167		Mattenberger, Dominik	SUI	1943
168		Liu, Kimberly	USA	1941
169		Pinelli, Gian	SUI	1929
170		Kheerthi, Ganta	IND	1917
171		Malli, Shiivesh Sunil	SUI	1916
172		Cordes, Jule	NED	1900
173		Anishka, Vikram	IND	1900
174		Winartha, Muhammad Abdillah Fatih	INA	1855