The Cannes Chess Festival 2024 takes place from 19-25 February at the Cannes’ Salon des Ambassadeurs, in France. The festival features three tournaments: Open A (for players rated 2200+), Open B (for players rated U2100) and Open C (for players rated U1600).
Final results: 16-year-old GM Subramaniyam Bharath wins Cannes Chess Festival 2024
More than 400 players participate the event, with 136 participants in the A tournament. The field is headlined by GM Abhimanyu Puranik (India, 2635), GM Chongsheng Zeng (China, 2597), and GM Krishnan Sasikiran (India, 2585). The complete starting list of players can be found below. Live games can be followed here.
The total prize fund of the festival is 10.000 euros, with 1.800 euros reserved for the winner of the Open A. After two played rounds, as many as 21 players emerged with the perfect score, including the top-seeds. Results, pairings & Rankings can be found here.
Starting list of players – Cannes Open A 2024:
| Nr | Nom | Elo | |
| 1 | g | PURANIK Abhimanyu | 2635 F |
| 2 | g | ZENG Chongsheng | 2597 F |
| 3 | g | SASIKIRAN Krishnan | 2585 F |
| 4 | g | LI Di | 2563 F |
| 5 | g | BHARATH SUBRAMANIYAM | 2515 F |
| 6 | g | PETKOV Momchil | 2504 F |
| 7 | m | LAMARD Guillaume | 2502 F |
| 8 | m | CAN Isik | 2492 F |
| 9 | m | CHEN Qi B | 2466 F |
| 10 | g | DEGRAEVE Jean-Marc | 2465 F |
| 11 | m | NOGERBEK Kazybek | 2463 F |
| 12 | m | ZHAO Yuanhe | 2449 F |
| 13 | m | DEGRAEVE Remy | 2445 F |
| 14 | g | GODENA Michele | 2440 F |
| 15 | m | CELIK Hasan Huseyin | 2436 F |
| 16 | m | MATERIA Marco | 2434 F |
| 17 | m | LOISEAU Quentin | 2429 F |
| 18 | m | BARBOT Pierre | 2426 F |
| 19 | m | GARIFULLINA Leya | 2422 F |
| 20 | m | GATINEAU Yovann | 2417 F |
| 21 | m | TARHAN Adar | 2415 F |
| 22 | BELKAID Sohan | 2414 F | |
| 23 | m | ILAMPARTHI A R | 2414 F |
| 24 | m | VETOKHIN Savva | 2410 F |
| 25 | m | XIANG Zeyu | 2407 F |
| 26 | m | TAHAY Alexis | 2392 F |
| 27 | m | DI NICOLANTONIO Lucas | 2391 F |
| 28 | gf | KAMALIDENOVA Meruert | 2381 F |
| 29 | f | PIGEAT Alexandre | 2363 F |
| 30 | f | ABDILKHAIR Abilmansur | 2357 F |
| 31 | f | BASSINI Emile | 2354 F |
| 32 | f | BON Michael | 2353 F |
| 33 | m | PHILIPPE Guillaume | 2342 F |
| 34 | f | RODRIGUEZ Adrien | 2341 F |
| 35 | f | VAN FOREEST Machteld | 2340 F |
| 36 | f | ISTVANOVSZKI Martin | 2334 F |
| 37 | f | KUHN Clement | 2333 F |
| 38 | m | BORGO Giulio | 2331 F |
| 39 | f | ROUX Baptiste | 2331 F |
| 40 | m | SONG Julien | 2331 F |
| 41 | mf | NURMAN Alua | 2326 F |
| 42 | m | RAAHUL V S | 2324 F |
| 43 | f | KACPRZAK Karol | 2322 F |
| 44 | f | WILLEMS Niels | 2322 F |
| 45 | f | BIFULCO Michel | 2315 F |
| 46 | f | BREUIL Tristan | 2305 F |
| 47 | f | HERCEGOVAC Neven | 2301 F |
| 48 | BREUIL Virgile | 2294 F | |
| 49 | m | PEIN Malcolm | 2289 F |
| 50 | f | GELAS Christophe | 2286 F |
| 51 | LISSILLOUR Baptiste | 2284 F | |
| 52 | f | BARRISH Daniel | 2283 F |
| 53 | g | KARTHIKEYAN P. | 2281 F |
| 54 | f | KACPRZAK Kacper | 2280 F |
| 55 | f | OHLER Julius | 2279 F |
| 56 | f | SENTHIL MARAN K | 2275 F |
| 57 | f | DAAKSHIN ARUN | 2274 F |
| 58 | f | DUBESSAY Bastien | 2261 F |
| 59 | HEREGA Nejc | 2257 F | |
| 60 | f | MICOTTIS Dorian | 2248 F |
| 61 | f | DEGARDIN Sylvain | 2247 F |
| 62 | LUDWIG Remi | 2244 F | |
| 63 | f | DAESCHLER Florian | 2240 F |
| 64 | KRIVENKO Dion | 2239 F | |
| 65 | f | KOSTOV Deyan Samuil | 2236 F |
| 66 | f | PIPIRAS Filipa Fortuna | 2235 F |
| 67 | DERIGE KANE Yan | 2223 F | |
| 68 | DUMAS Charles | 2223 F | |
| 69 | f | MATTENBERGER Matthias | 2221 F |
| 70 | URBANI Gabriel | 2220 F | |
| 71 | ROHIT S | 2215 F | |
| 72 | MIDOUX Sebastien | 2213 F | |
| 73 | ff | SHUKHMAN Anna | 2213 F |
| 74 | f | MALKA Samuel | 2211 F |
| 75 | GODBOLE Atharva | 2209 F | |
| 76 | ff | STAROSTA Martyna | 2205 F |
| 77 | TRABET Mathis | 2205 F | |
| 78 | mf | KAIRBEKOVA Amina | 2204 F |
| 79 | CANDIAN Lorenzo | 2202 F | |
| 80 | m | CALISTRI Tristan | 2200 F |
| 81 | AVANESYAN Davit | 2195 F | |
| 82 | LIPECKI Alexander | 2191 F | |
| 83 | COLLINS Adam | 2189 F | |
| 84 | ZHANG Xiao | 2189 F | |
| 85 | ff | MONPEURT Cyrielle | 2187 F |
| 86 | f | KURU Atilla | 2184 F |
| 87 | FLYNN Jacob | 2179 F | |
| 88 | TRABET Nicolas | 2178 F | |
| 89 | ASSYLOV Miras | 2176 F | |
| 90 | GEMELLI Romain | 2173 F | |
| 91 | f | SAHITHI VARSHINI M | 2173 F |
| 92 | f | OZCAN Kaan | 2172 F |
| 93 | ROBERT Mathias | 2169 F | |
| 94 | mf | JANZELJ Lara | 2167 F |
| 95 | DE BALMANN Marc | 2166 F | |
| 96 | VIJAYAKUMAR Rishi | 2166 F | |
| 97 | f | LAZO Andrei | 2165 F |
| 98 | VU DINH Adrien | 2163 F | |
| 99 | MIDY Robin | 2162 F | |
| 100 | BERGER DIT LACROIX Kilian | 2161 F | |
| 101 | MATHEZ Florian | 2160 F | |
| 102 | DENJOY Arnaud | 2155 F | |
| 103 | BOULOS Paul | 2154 F | |
| 104 | KOULITCHENKO Alexandre | 2154 F | |
| 105 | f | IPEK Egehan | 2150 F |
| 106 | f | FRICK Christoph | 2147 F |
| 107 | GUILLEMART Serge | 2145 F | |
| 108 | BOEHMER Christian | 2143 F | |
| 109 | KAVCIYAN Yega | 2140 F | |
| 110 | f | AURIBAULT Louis | 2139 F |
| 111 | LLARI Marc | 2138 F | |
| 112 | CELIK Ali Alper | 2126 F | |
| 113 | ALLARD Thomas | 2123 F | |
| 114 | f | SAYA Ethan | 2123 F |
| 115 | STIJVE Niels | 2123 F | |
| 116 | BOUMRAR Ayrad | 2120 F | |
| 117 | f | ZIENKIEWICZ Jan | 2117 F |
| 118 | GERONIMI Jean-Thomas | 2116 F | |
| 119 | KHARITONOV Sergei | 2115 F | |
| 120 | MAZZINI Mauro | 2111 F | |
| 121 | TSIAPKO Andrii | 2110 F | |
| 122 | SENTISSI Yassine | 2106 F | |
| 123 | BORNE Felix | 2104 F | |
| 124 | BIGONNET Jean-Michel | 2095 F | |
| 125 | HALEGUA Dani | 2094 F | |
| 126 | f | BORNE Niels | 2085 F |
| 127 | VINCENTI Leonardo | 2085 F | |
| 128 | SAAD Gabriel | 2081 F | |
| 129 | TULLIEZ Andre | 2077 F | |
| 130 | MARTEL BRUNIAUX Malko | 2073 F | |
| 131 | WARNIER Yanis | 2070 F | |
| 132 | PANJER Sidney | 2059 F | |
| 133 | ADITYA KUNAL PATIL | 2041 F | |
| 134 | CHARLIER Antoine | 2040 F | |
| 135 | MARTIN Nils | 2032 F | |
| 136 | BUI Christopher | 2014 F |
