Cambridge Chess Open 2024 – All information

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The 2nd edition of the Cambridge International Chess Open will be held from Monday 19th February to Saturday 24th February in Cambridge, England.

The event will be played in 9 rounds, swiss system, with time control of 90 minutes + 30 seconds increment for each move. The total prize fund of the event is £4.425, with £1.500 reserved for the Winner. 120 players from 22 countries registered for the tournament, and the registrations are now closed as the event has reached the capacity of the venue.

GM Michael Adams (England, 2661), GM Francesco Sonis (Italy, 2577) and GM Sipke Ernst (NED, 2540) headline the field which includes 37 titled players. The complete starting list of players can be found below. Live games can be followed here.

The 2nd Cambridge Chess Open is organized by English Chess Federation, with support by University Arms Hotel, Cambridge and The Chess Trust. Detailed information can be found on the tournament webpage.

The 2nd Cambridge Chess Open – Starting list of players:

No.		Name	FED	Rtg
1	GM	Adams, Michael	ENG	2673
2	GM	Sonis, Francesco	ITA	2570
3	GM	Tiviakov, Sergei	NED	2534
4	GM	Fernandez, Daniel H	ENG	2526
5	IM	Ghasi, Ameet K	ENG	2509
6	GM	Gasanov, Eldar	UKR	2494
7	IM	Royal, Shreyas	ENG	2483
8	GM	Turner, Matthew J	SCO	2447
9	IM	Willow, Jonah B	ENG	2445
10	IM	Wadsworth, Matthew J	ENG	2444
11	IM	Wachinger, Nikolas	GER	2432
12	IM	Hanley, Craig A	ENG	2431
13	IM	Roberson, Peter T	ENG	2426
14	IM	Haubro, Martin	DEN	2421
15	GM	Hebden, Mark L	ENG	2416
16	IM	Pert, Richard G	ENG	2413
17	FM	Derakhshani, Borna	ENG	2377
18	IM	Akshat, Khamparia	IND	2371
19	GM	Wells, Peter K	ENG	2343
20	FM	York-Weaving, Richard	ENG	2343
21	IM	Golubovic, Boris	CRO	2342
22	FM	Gourlay, Iain	SCO	2301
23	FM	Vardanyan, Aras	LTU	2299
24	FM	Pozzari, Simone	ITA	2290
25	FM	Dishman, Stephen	ENG	2273
26	IM	Bradbury, Neil H	ENG	2234
27		Shafi, Declan	SCO	2231
28		Mcclement, Andrew	SCO	2221
29		Gluma, Christian	GER	2219
30	FM	Martyn, Rafe	ENG	2206
31	FM	Karamsetty, Jeevan	USA	2188
32	FM	Sowray, Peter J	ENG	2187
33		Santhosh, Abhyuday	IND	2167
34		Denderski, Piotr	POL	2155
35		Orton, Stephen La	ENG	2154
36		Mihalik, Agoston	HUN	2146
37	FM	Martin, Lewis	ENG	2144
38		Fava, Lorenzo	ITA	2140
39	CM	Banerjee, Supratit	SCO	2137
40		Crocker, Philip J	ENG	2137
41		Ismail, Mohammed Aayan	ENG	2111
42		Waller, Dan	ENG	2110
43		Okhai, Shabir	ENG	2104
44		Southcott-Moyers, Indy	ENG	2100
45	IM	Borsos, Bogdan	UKR	2094
46		Payne, Matthew J	ENG	2089
47		Brett, Andrew R	ENG	2085
48		Pert, Max P	ENG	2082
49		Bharat Kumar, Balahari	ENG	2060
50		Rushbrooke, Remy	ENG	2049
51		Ward, Ieuan C	ENG	2028
52	CM	Golubovic, Erik	CRO	2025
53		Homer, Stephen J	ENG	2021
54	CM	Blauhut, Holger	NOR	2016
55		Davison, Chris	ENG	2013
56	WCM	Pert, Nina P	ENG	2010
57		Mocic, Ivano	CRO	2008
58		Hutchinson, Paul A	ENG	2005
59		Saine, Zachary	CAN	2005
60		Kovalskyi, Roman	UKR	2004
61		Underwood, Jonathan Wr	ENG	1993
62		Asgarova, Turan	AZE	1988
63		Volovich, Julia	ENG	1983
64		Woltery, Nicolai	ENG	1979
65	WFM	Hagesather, Nina	NOR	1973
66		Iyengar, Ilya	ENG	1972
67		Redman, David J	ENG	1971
68		Jermy, Jaden	ENG	1968
69		Hutchinson, Norman A	ENG	1962
70		Myall, Ivan J	ENG	1951
71		Reynolds, D Ian W	ENG	1951
72		Smart, Michael R	ENG	1943
73		Cole, James	ENG	1940
74		Dierssen Garcã­a-Barredo, Guillermo	ESP	1937
75		Hanache, Kai	ENG	1926
76		Keohane, Benedict A	ENG	1926
77		Mata, Adilson	POR	1924
78		Gooding, Ian	ENG	1910
79	WCM	Sivanandan, Bodhana	ENG	1898
80		Nawalaniec, Adam	POL	1896
81	AGM	Skettos, Nicolas	CYP	1894
82	AIM	Mclean, Robert	ENG	1882
83		Simpson, Benjamin K	ENG	1873
84		Pichugov, Andrey	ENG	1867
85		Samarakoon, Vivash	SRI	1864
86		Wheatley, Wilfred	ENG	1864
87		Mcmahon, Paul	ENG	1862
88		De Coverly, Roger D	ENG	1852
89		Lazarus, Simon E	ENG	1845
90		Gardiner, Eric D	ENG	1837
91		Woods, Yannick	IRL	1817
92		Yu, Rock	ENG	1817
93		Baguley, John	ENG	1790
94		Alderson, John Ka	ENG	1788
95		Lenton, Oliver J	ENG	1787
96	AIM	Lim, Mark	ENG	1776
97		Rida, Ruqayyah	ENG	1770
98		Gardner, Phillip K	ENG	1769
99		Spanton, Tim R	ENG	1766
100		Zhang, Junyi	ENG	1763
101		Bowers, Francis J	ENG	1732
102		O’shea, Colm	ENG	1729
103		Sasikumar, Srivathsan	ENG	1719
104		Wynarczyk, Raymond	ENG	1712
105		Takvorian, Sebouh	ENG	1705
106		Maton, Emily	ENG	1703
107		Pereslavtsev, Alexandr	ENG	1696
108		Gaffney, Samuel	ENG	1689
109	AFM	Latypova, Olga L	ENG	1684
110		Chan, Michelle Ngo Yu	ENG	1681
111		Kenning, Paul H	ENG	1681
112		Bay-Petersen, Ole	ENG	1672
113		Berkley, Stephen W	ENG	1667
114		Evans, Ruben Nangalia	ENG	1647
115	AFM	Jefremov, Aivar	LAT	1645
116		Prince, Alan R	ENG	1641
117		Chiang, Richard	ENG	1609
118		Blauhut, Anna	NOR	1532