The 2nd edition of the Bruhl International Chess Open will take place from 2-4 February in Bruhl, Germany. The event will be played in 5 rounds, swiss system, with the prize fund of 7.000 euros, and two rating categories: Open A for players rated 1800+ and Open B for players rated U2000. The time control is 90 minutes for 40 moves, plus 30 minutes for the rest of the game, with a 30-second increment for each move.
Already nearly 300 players registered for the event, and the top seeds of the A tournament are: GM Chongsheng Zeng (China, 2597), GM Vitaly Kunin (Germany, 2534), and GM Hagen Poetsch (Germany, 2471). The complete starting link of players can be seen below.
Detailed information about the event are available on the official webpage.
Bruhl Chess Open 2024 – Starting list of players:
| Nr | Name | Tit. | ELO | Nat. |
| 1 | Zeng, Chongsheng | GM | 2597 | CHN |
| 2 | Kunin, Vitaly | GM | 2534 | GER |
| 3 | Poetsch, Hagen | GM | 2471 | GER |
| 4 | Chen, Qi b | IM | 2467 | CHN |
| 5 | Bogdanov, Egor | IM | 2396 | UKR |
| 6 | Chatalbashev, Boris | GM | 2458 | DEN |
| 7 | Bagrationi, Alexander | GM | 2443 | ISR |
| 8 | Petrovskyi, Vadym | IM | 2430 | UKR |
| 9 | Barp, Alberto | IM | 2437 | ITA |
| 10 | Dauner, Benedikt | FM | 2383 | GER |
| 11 | Razin, Vadim | 2372 | UKR | |
| 12 | Langheinrich, Ferenc | IM | 2347 | GER |
| 13 | Hirneise, Jens | FM | 2270 | GER |
| 14 | von Mettenheim, Johannes | 2284 | GER | |
| 15 | Gluma, Christian | 2256 | GER | |
| 16 | Keller, Thomas | 2253 | GER | |
| 17 | Stolwijk, Colin | 2249 | NED | |
| 18 | Weber, Samuel | FM | 2237 | GER |
| 19 | Popvasilev, Kaloyan | 2208 | GER | |
| 20 | Sohlmann, Jan-Henning | 2235 | GER | |
| 21 | Imnadze, Nato | WIM | 2228 | GEO |
| 22 | Asadzade, Idris | 2211 | GER | |
| 23 | Grรผnter, Martin | 2231 | GER | |
| 24 | Gramb, Marius | 2227 | GER | |
| 25 | Michalczak, Thomas | FM | 2205 | GER |
| 26 | Korten, Lando | 2193 | GER | |
| 27 | Huhndorf, Arnold | FM | 2075 | GER |
| 28 | Korchynskyi, Mykola | CM | 2196 | GER |
| 29 | Marcziter, Dmitrii | FM | 2192 | GER |
| 30 | Fox, Daniel | 2185 | GER | |
| 31 | Bilenko, Yaroslav | 2088 | UKR | |
| 32 | Kรถllner, Aaron Noah | CM | 2165 | GER |
| 33 | Peters, Alex | 2172 | GER | |
| 34 | Runte, Moritz | 2167 | GER | |
| 35 | Blasek, Ralph | FM | 2169 | GER |
| 36 | Stemmler, Fabian | 2135 | GER | |
| 37 | Xue, Luka | 2167 | GER | |
| 38 | Poysti, Nathanael | 2163 | GER | |
| 39 | Riemland, Arnold | 2149 | GER | |
| 40 | Nied, Pascal | 2107 | GER | |
| 41 | Bastians, Felix | 2157 | GER | |
| 42 | Iolis, Oleg | 2150 | BEL | |
| 43 | Rybarczyk, Klaus | 2141 | GER | |
| 44 | Zhang, Xiao | CHN | ||
| 45 | Gรผlsen, Taylan | CM | 2136 | GER |
| 46 | Ismail, Tamer | 2136 | BEL | |
| 47 | Sydykov, Bayastan | KGZ | ||
| 48 | Klaska, Philipp Leon | 2062 | GER | |
| 49 | Spilles, Matthias | 2105 | GER | |
| 50 | Koehler, Ronald | 2081 | GER | |
| 51 | Weidemann, Jakob | 2082 | GER | |
| 52 | Gallasch, Robin | 2086 | GER | |
| 53 | Menzel, Maximilian | 2115 | GER | |
| 54 | Restorff, Felix | 2094 | GER | |
| 55 | Akhmatovski, Maxim | 2100 | GER | |
| 56 | Kamp, Adrian | 2055 | GER | |
| 57 | Kruse, Victor | 1997 | GER | |
| 58 | Nezhyvenko, Mykhaylo | 1954 | GER | |
| 59 | Gudok, Viktor | IM | 2077 | UKR |
| 60 | Cramer, Volker | 2045 | GER | |
| 61 | Henrich, David | 2072 | GER | |
| 62 | Weber, Olaf | 2062 | GER | |
| 63 | Rahimi, Rahim | 2056 | GER | |
| 64 | Diduh, Ihor | 2030 | UKR | |
| 65 | Vanduyfhuys, Igor | 2052 | BEL | |
| 66 | Rosol, Philip | 2042 | POL | |
| 67 | Kutzner, Stephen | 2013 | GER | |
| 68 | Vlasov, Igor | 2034 | GER | |
| 69 | Klugstedt, Vincent | 1995 | GER | |
| 70 | Chitsazian, Daniel | 2014 | GER | |
| 71 | Meuer, David | 2030 | GER | |
| 72 | Kliashtornyi, Arkadii | 1978 | UKR | |
| 73 | Nasirov, Ruslan | 2021 | UKR | |
| 74 | Neurohr, Jรผrgen | 1983 | GER | |
| 75 | Kreutz, Jonas | 2006 | GER | |
| 76 | Slowik, Martin | 1957 | GER | |
| 77 | Vladov, Arsenii | 1997 | UKR | |
| 78 | Rauch, Sรถren | 1940 | GER | |
| 79 | Neubauer, Jรผrgen | 1995 | GER | |
| 80 | Magold, Victor | 1991 | ROU | |
| 81 | Langlois-Remillard, Alexis | 1990 | CAN | |
| 82 | Tomasjan, Samuel | 1955 | GER | |
| 83 | Nopper, Louis | 1736 | GER | |
| 84 | Schmidt, Kai-Uwe | 1979 | GER | |
| 85 | Uhlmann, Tim | 1934 | GER | |
| 86 | Bertram, Karsten | 1942 | GER | |
| 87 | Sheng, Ming | 1855 | GER | |
| 88 | Dr. Masius, Patrick | 1928 | GER | |
| 89 | Browning, Rebecca | 1906 | GER | |
| 90 | Marcziter, Alex | 1843 | GER | |
| 91 | Damm, Yannic | 1948 | GER | |
| 92 | Dr. Dรถnitz, Christian | 1917 | GER | |
| 93 | Lenz, Joshua | 1929 | GER | |
| 94 | de Vries, Leon | 1935 | NED | |
| 95 | Notz, Lukas | 1928 | GER | |
| 96 | Weiler, Wolfgang | 1932 | GER | |
| 97 | Pick, Max | 1904 | GER | |
| 98 | Bezhenar, Georgy | 1873 | GER | |
| 99 | Jopek, Eugen | 1924 | GER | |
| 100 | Hรถfer, Severin Paul | 1902 | GER | |
| 101 | Hotan, Darion | 1906 | ENG | |
| 102 | Thiemann, Marc | 1871 | GER | |
| 103 | Boos, Philipp | 1894 | GER | |
| 104 | Speck, Stefan | 1866 | GER | |
| 105 | Holzwarth, Felix | 1662 | GER | |
| 106 | Scholz, Alexander | 1880 | GER | |
| 107 | Zhuikov, Edgard | 1801 | UKR | |
| 108 | Bondarchuk, Vadim | 1877 | GER | |
| 109 | Langenberg, Magnus | 1876 | GER | |
| 110 | Heiligtag, Matthias | 1751 | GER | |
| 111 | Billaudelle, Frank | 1860 | GER | |
| 112 | Kuhn, Andreas | 1855 | GER | |
| 113 | Shivkumar, Siddharth | 1803 | GER | |
| 114 | Mรถller, Tom | 1677 | GER | |
| 115 | Dr. Mรผller, Irakli | 1647 | GER | |
| 116 | Belin, Anton | 1771 | GER | |
| 117 | Mainka, Ingmar | 1695 | GER | |
| 118 | Feldhaus, Thomas | 1849 | GER | |
| 119 | Brรคuer, Karl-Heinz | 1841 | GER | |
| 120 | Wenzke, Elias | 1840 | GER | |
| 121 | Schelhorn, Paul | 1821 | GER | |
| 122 | Fischermann, Simon | 1718 | GER | |
| 123 | Bui, Alestiel | 1759 | GER | |
| 124 | Metin, Altug | 1827 | GER | |
| 125 | Tariverdiyev, Elman | 1763 | GER | |
| 126 | Schulze, Manfred | 1828 | GER | |
| 127 | Matzner, Julian | 1657 | GER | |
| 128 | Devenney, Martin | 1814 | SWE | |
| 129 | Vieira, Daniel | 1784 | USA | |
| 130 | Chaus, Maria | 1799 | RUS | |
| 131 | Zimmermann, Michael | 1797 | GER | |
| 132 | Alnafkhosh, Nashaat | 1790 | GER | |
| 133 | Tokmak, Tugay | GER | ||
| 134 | Bochynek, Josua Peter | 1689 | GER | |
| 135 | Mรผller, Dennis | 1762 | GER | |
| 136 | Zhong, Xianghui | 1754 | GER | |
| 137 | Schรถne, Finn | 1626 | GER | |
| 138 | Zisimou, Dimitrios | GER | ||
| 139 | Plitzner, Hans Joachim | 1695 | GER | |
| 140 | Kamper, Marco | 1582 | GER | |
| 141 | Potrafke, Lukas | 1755 | GER | |
| 142 | Stockhardt, Claus | GER | ||
| 143 | Dieckerhoff, Stefan | 1739 | GER | |
| 144 | Freiknecht, Axel | 1684 | GER | |
| 145 | Rabiya, Karim | 1742 | GER | |
| 146 | Cheng, Noah | 1684 | GER | |
| 147 | Hitz, Ben | 1739 | GER | |
| 148 | Hepting, Frank | 1636 | GER | |
| 149 | Ross, Udo | GER | ||
| 150 | Direk, Oguzhan | 1657 | GER | |
| 151 | Bock, Jรผrgen | 1702 | GER | |
| 152 | Bรผdenbender, Hermann | 1707 | GER | |
| 153 | Schรคde, Maximilian | 1661 | GER | |
| 154 | Dornreiter, Michael | 1694 | GER | |
| 155 | Baumgรคrtner, Jens | 1693 | GER | |
| 156 | Tibi, Anwar | 1622 | GER | |
| 157 | Mรผller, Konstantin | 1686 | GER | |
| 158 | Lichtblau, Ernst | 1683 | GER | |
| 159 | Mรผnch, Carsten | GER | ||
| 160 | Hartwig, Eric-Jordan | 1638 | GER | |
| 161 | Kohlhaw, Marc | GER | ||
| 162 | Niebel, Guido | 1656 | GER | |
| 163 | Fels, Mattis | 1572 | GER | |
| 164 | Mรผller, Jรผrgen | 1652 | GER | |
| 165 | Abboud, Rabia | 1586 | GER | |
| 166 | Amini, Yusuf | GER | ||
| 167 | Dรถnitz, Julian | 1473 | GER | |
| 168 | Asadzade, Muhammed | 1648 | GER | |
| 169 | Schmitz, Constantin | 1544 | GER | |
| 170 | Jaskolla, Oswald | GER | ||
| 171 | Gellrich, Harald | 1624 | GER | |
| 172 | Kupke, Jonas | 1438 | GER | |
| 173 | Erhardt, Daniel | 1470 | GER | |
| 174 | Gail, Edgar | 1614 | GER | |
| 175 | Marzec, Witold | 1612 | GER | |
| 176 | Wacker, Nikolaj | GER | ||
| 177 | Clauร, Annika | 1546 | GER | |
| 178 | Shivkumar, Shreyas | 1484 | GER | |
| 179 | Weber, Andreas | 1567 | GER | |
| 180 | Zimmer, Elmar | 1590 | GER | |
| 181 | Georgopoulos, Nicolas | GER | ||
| 182 | Schulz, Robin | 1444 | GER | |
| 183 | Atar, Efecan | 1557 | GER | |
| 184 | Mohebbi, Sam | 1567 | GER | |
| 185 | Stuch, Hans-Ferdinand | 1563 | GER | |
| 186 | Breuer, Achim | 1549 | GER | |
| 187 | Brauer, Julian | 1477 | GER | |
| 188 | Datta, Anupam | 1546 | GER | |
| 189 | Mรผller, Thorsten | GER | ||
| 190 | Geschke, David | 1416 | GER | |
| 191 | Skorupa, Hans-Ingo | 1532 | GER | |
| 192 | Pfening, Richard | 1523 | GER | |
| 193 | Neumair, Dorian | 1524 | GER | |
| 194 | Leopold, Patrick | 1522 | GER | |
| 195 | Wirtjes, Edzard | 1493 | GER | |
| 196 | Kramer, Lars | 1518 | GER | |
| 197 | Lรผders Vega, Iago Ernst | 1399 | GER | |
| 198 | Brandt, Greta | 1477 | GER | |
| 199 | Gรถb, Franziska | 1316 | GER | |
| 200 | Liu, Jonas | 1488 | GER | |
| 201 | Baumann, Simon | 1442 | GER | |
| 202 | Cadet, Halil Emre | 1474 | TUR | |
| 203 | Prenzel, Thomas | 1460 | GER | |
| 204 | Philipp, Josua | 1455 | GER | |
| 205 | Kuhle, Heinrich | 1451 | GER | |
| 206 | Shynkar, Daria | 1339 | UKR | |
| 207 | Esmer, Kemal Eymen | 1446 | LUX | |
| 208 | Verlage, Niklas | GER | ||
| 209 | Reifenschneider, Timo | GER | ||
| 210 | Filis, Fotios | 1107 | GER | |
| 211 | Noack, Benjamin | GER | ||
| 212 | Geschke, Jonathan | 1424 | GER | |
| 213 | Elshof, Torge | 1399 | GER | |
| 214 | Gulsen, Askin | 1421 | TUR | |
| 215 | Langauer, Mihael | GER | ||
| 216 | Jeuken, Thomas | 1391 | GER | |
| 217 | Geier, Jakob | 1415 | GER | |
| 218 | Brandt, Marc | 1405 | GER | |
| 219 | Ziegler, Arndt Henning | 1403 | GER | |
| 220 | Atar, Semih Akif | 1400 | GER | |
| 221 | Muschalek, Ingo | GER | ||
| 222 | Wallat, Joel | 1389 | GER | |
| 223 | Steinberg, Matthew | 1385 | USA | |
| 224 | Mรผller, Kilian | 1383 | GER | |
| 225 | Kowalski, Hans-Ludwig | 1378 | GER | |
| 226 | Gupta, Akul | 1378 | NED | |
| 227 | Stolzenwald, Frank | 1316 | GER | |
| 228 | Micka, Matthias | GER | ||
| 229 | Becker, Samuel | 1346 | GER | |
| 230 | Ramien, Eva | 1324 | GER | |
| 231 | Fischermann, Charlotte | 1248 | GER | |
| 232 | Krenzel, Christoph | GER | ||
| 233 | Ctistis, Alexander | GER | ||
| 234 | Esmer, Hamza | 1226 | LUX | |
| 235 | Fehlker, Felix | GER | ||
| 236 | Bartsch, Karl-Heinz | GER | ||
| 237 | Schรคfer, Markus | GER | ||
| 238 | Hingst, Dieter Max Otto | 1205 | GER | |
| 239 | Frenzel, Qorianka | 1194 | BEL | |
| 240 | Filis, Leon | GER | ||
| 241 | Pieper, Johannes | GER | ||
| 242 | Gritz, Theodor | GER | ||
| 243 | Staudt, Merle | GER | ||
| 244 | Labib Iskander, Marcus | GER | ||
| 245 | Nagel, Simon | GER | ||
| 246 | Slowik, Anna | GER | ||
| 247 | Brandt, Hilda | GER | ||
| 248 | Weber, Luke | GER | ||
| 249 | Kranz, Kilian | GER | ||
| 250 | Mercan, Emre Furkan | TUR | ||
| 251 | Hopperdietzel, Jรผrgen | GER | ||
| 252 | Friedel, Jonas | GER | ||
| 253 | Einsweiler, Michel | LUX | ||
| 254 | Meyer, Noah Franziskus | GER | ||
| 255 | Weber, Sophia | GER | ||
| 256 | Weber, Marcel | GER | ||
| 257 | Vukelic, Lukas | GER | ||
| 258 | Meyer, Tobias Benjamin | GER | ||
| 259 | Braun, Michael | GER | ||
| 260 | Oelsen, Eric | GER | ||
| 261 | Dr. Kleinschmidt, Christoph | GER | ||
| 262 | Kรถnnecke, Jan | GER | ||
| 263 | Bilal, Zahir | GER | ||
| 264 | Besthorn, Kaspar | GER | ||
| 265 | Kup, Yagiz Bilgehan | TUR | ||
| 266 | Jรคckle, Ulrich | GER | ||
| 267 | Langer, David | GER | ||
| 268 | Ganser, Anton | GER |
