52nd Rilton Chess Cup starts in Stockholm, Sweden

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The 52nd edition of the traditional Rilton Chess Cup starts tomorrow in Stockholm, Sweden. The event is played from 27 December to 5 January at the Scandic Continental Hotel and gathers 124 entries in the main Cup section.

The total prize fund of the Rilton Cup 2024 exceeds 10.000 EUR, with 22.000 SEK (~1.900 euros) reserved for the Winner of the event. The tournament follows Sofia rule, with forbidden draw offers before the move 30th.

GM Bassem Amin (Egypt, 2652) headlines the field as the top-seeded player, with GM Bharath Subramaniyam (India, 2561), GM Leon Livaic (Croatia, 2560), GM Kaido Kulaots (Estonia, 2521), and GM Bartlomiej Heberla (Poland, 2503) among the top seeds.

The event will be played in 9 rounds, swiss system, with the time control of 90 minutes for 40 moves, plus 30 minutes until the end of the game, with 30-second increment for each move starting from move one.

Official website of the event
Starting list, pairings, results & standings

Starting list of players – Rilton Chess Cup 2024:

No.		Name	FED	Rtg
1	GM	Amin, Bassem	EGY	2652
2	GM	Subramaniyam, Bharath	IND	2561
3	GM	Livaic, Leon	CRO	2560
4	GM	Kulaots, Kaido	EST	2521
5	GM	Heberla, Bartlomiej	POL	2503
6	IM	Costa, Leonardo	GER	2498
7	GM	Sundar, Shyam	IND	2496
8	GM	Kantans, Toms	LAT	2495
9	IM	S, Aswath	IND	2491
10	IM	Seemann, Jakub	POL	2487
11	GM	Blomqvist, Erik	SWE	2483
12	IM	Tarhan , Adar	TUR	2483
13	IM	A R, Ilamparthi	IND	2461
14	GM	Hillarp Persson, Tiger	SWE	2459
15	IM	Kucuksari, Kaan	SWE	2455
16	IM	Pantzar, Milton	SWE	2453
17	FM	Bilovil, Bogdan	UKR	2452
18	IM	Durak, Can	TUR	2446
19	IM	Raczek, Krzysztof	POL	2443
20	IM	Trost, Edvin	SWE	2443
21	IM	Çelik , Hasan Huseyin	TUR	2432
22	IM	Baenziger, Fabian	SUI	2430
23	IM	Docx, Stefan	BEL	2429
24	FM	Dotzer, Lukas	AUT	2425
25	GM	Oratovsky, Michael	ISR	2422
26	IM	Begmuratov, Khumoyun	UZB	2416
27	IM	Sorensen, Hampus	SWE	2415
28	IM	Johansson, Linus	SWE	2412
29	IM	Krishna, G.V. Sai	CAN	2409
30	GM	Petursson, Margeir	ISL	2409
31	FM	Wong Zhenyong, Jayden	SGP	2406
32	FM	Diaz Rosas, Julio Cesar	MEX	2401
33	FM	Khripachenko, Alexander	FID	2400
34	IM	Schmider, Niklas	GER	2393
35	FM	Cieslak, Patryk	POL	2388
36	FM	Falkevall, Axel	SWE	2378
37	IM	Olsson, William	SWE	2369
38	IM	Altini, Nicola	ITA	2366
39	IM	Eggleston, David	ENG	2345
40	FM	Fecker, Noah	SUI	2345
41	FM	Gomez Aguirre, Juan Alberto	ESP	2343
42	IM	Ippolito, Dean	USA	2343
43	FM	Sari, Yasin	TUR	2343
44	IM	Lindberg, Bengt	SWE	2340
45	FM	Wartiovaara, Oliver	FIN	2340
46	FM	Bottazzi, Ulysse	FRA	2339
47	FM	Östlund, Joar	SWE	2339
48	FM	Hollan, Martin	CZE	2338
49	GM	Åkesson, Ralf	SWE	2336
50	WGM	Baskar, Savitha Shri B	IND	2329
51	FM	Tulchynskyi, Feliks	UKR	2325
52	FM	Ruiz Buendia, Miguel	ESP	2317
53	IM	Cramling, Dan	SWE	2316
54	CM	Fiskaaen, Martin Holten	NOR	2311
55	FM	Luukkonen, Tommi	FIN	2311
56	FM	Cederstam, Carl	SWE	2310
57	FM	Kashish Manoj, Jain	IND	2308
58	FM	Sinz, Bernhard	GER	2308
59	FM	Bagwe, Gaurang	IND	2302
60	FM	Fiedorek, Michał	POL	2301
61	FM	Arnold, Rhys	NED	2300
62	FM	Lögdahl, Harald	SWE	2300
63	FM	Pang, Ethan	ENG	2300
64	GM	Romanishin, Oleg M	UKR	2293
65	CM	MD, Reyan	IND	2291
66	FM	Batsukh, Anand	MGL	2290
67	FM	Kush, Bhagat	IND	2288
68	WGM	Ravi, Rakshitta	IND	2287
69	GM	Bellon Lopez, Juan Manuel	SWE	2281
70	IM	Del Rey, Diego	ESP	2276
71	CM	Binu, Devdutt	IND	2274
72	FM	Chan, Kim Yew	MAS	2274
73	IM	Hedman , Erik	SWE	2269
74	FM	Mattenberger, Matthias	SUI	2267
75	FM	Kenneskog, Karl Anton Theodor	SWE	2266
76	FM	Zakin, Ilay	ISR	2258
77		Golecki, Jan	POL	2256
78	FM	Kejna, Piotr	POL	2249
79	FM	Haitin, Ilja	EST	2248
80	WIM	Kantane, Anna	POL	2248
81		Religa, Marek	SWE	2248
82	FM	Mahitosh, Dey	IND	2245
83	IM	Swaminathan, Soumya	IND	2243
84		Kienböck, Benjamin	AUT	2238
85	FM	Otsuka, Shou	JPN	2235
86	CM	Myagmarsuren, Evsuld	NOR	2229
87	FM	Nagarkatte , Vedant	IND	2228
88	FM	Acikel, Mert	GER	2221
89	FM	Ferro, Mario	ITA	2219
90	CM	Nerurkar , Aansh Nandan	IND	2216
91	CM	lindberg, theodor	SWE	2214
92		Mårdell, Jimmy	SWE	2211
93		Gkavardinas, Antonios	GRE	2208
94	WIM	Kazarian, Anna-Maja	NED	2206
95	NM	Gallagher, Daniel	ENG	2203
96	IM	Sameer, Loay	JOR	2203
97	CM	Aravindhan, Achyuth	NED	2200
98		Dingertz, Erik	SWE	2200
99	CM	Frank, Anton	SWE	2200
100	WIM	Goossens, Hanne	BEL	2200
101		Kingsley, Elias	SWE	2200
102		Kukushkin, Ivan	LAT	2200
103		Ljung, Harald	SWE	2200
104		Nilsson, Oliver	SWE	2200
105		Ral Lustig, Melvin	SWE	2200
106	FM	Rasti, Arvin	SWE	2200
107		Seiger, Vidar	SWE	2200
108		Seo, Jung Hyun	SWE	2200
109	WFM	Shatil, Or	SUI	2200
110		Tripathi, Pratyush	SWE	2200
111		Arsenie, Cristian Marc	SUI	2194
112		Francs, Marats	LAT	2194
113		Valcu, Lavinia	SWE	2185
114	FM	Pipiras, Filipa Fortuna	POR	2178
115	CM	Adamovics, Aleksejs	LAT	2176
116	WIM	Pujari, Rucha	IND	2160
117		Schmitt, Daniel	GER	2153
118		Jain, Kushagra	IND	2150
119	WFM	Kuznecova, Marija	LAT	2137
120		Kliashtornyi, Arkadii	UKR	2132
121		Liskiewicz, Jakub	POL	2104
122	CM	OKTEM, EGE TUNA	TUR	2067
123	CM	Matsumura, Cocoro	JPN	2036
124	WFM	Hertlein, Irena	POL	1982