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The 9th edition of the Sunway Sitges International Chess Festival will take place from 11th – 22nd December in Sitges, Barcelona. The Festival features two Open tournaments (A and B), blitz side events, and masterclasses. The prize fund amounts to 27.155โฌ.
The main tournament is Open A which is going to be played in 10 rounds according to the swiss system, with a time control of 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, 30 minutes for the rest of the game, and increment of 30 seconds from the move one.
The Festival gathers more than 400 entries, with 326 players in the Open A and 94 participants in the Open B tournament. The field is headlined by GM Yu Yangyi, GM Hans Niemann, GM Jorden van Foreest, GM Ivan Cheparinov, and GM Jules Moussard. The Winner of the event will pocket the money prize of 5.000โฌ.
Prize list:
Starting list of players – Group A:
| 1 | GM | Yu Yangyi | CHN | 2728 |
| 2 | GM | Niemann Hans Moke | USA | 2698 |
| 3 | GM | Van Foreest Jorden | NED | 2690 |
| 4 | GM | Cheparinov Ivan | BUL | 2688 |
| 5 | GM | Moussard Jules | FRA | 2684 |
| 6 | GM | Esipenko Andrey | FID | 2678 |
| 7 | GM | Ivanchuk Vasyl | UKR | 2673 |
| 8 | GM | Alekseenko Kirill | FID | 2672 |
| 9 | GM | Korobov Anton | UKR | 2662 |
| 10 | GM | Tabatabaei Mohammad Amin | IRI | 2660 |
| 11 | GM | Demchenko Anton | FID | 2632 |
| 12 | GM | Jones Gawain C B | ENG | 2630 |
| 13 | GM | Petrosyan Manuel | ARM | 2621 |
| 14 | GM | Karthikeyan Murali | IND | 2620 |
| 15 | GM | Grigoryan Karen H. | ARM | 2619 |
| 16 | GM | Aryan Chopra | IND | 2618 |
| 17 | GM | Bernadskiy Vitaliy | UKR | 2617 |
| 18 | GM | Puranik Abhimanyu | IND | 2616 |
| 19 | GM | Safarli Eltaj | AZE | 2616 |
| 20 | GM | Durarbayli Vasif | AZE | 2612 |
| 21 | GM | Adhiban B. | IND | 2611 |
| 22 | GM | Kollars Dmitrij | GER | 2610 |
| 23 | GM | Aravindh Chithambaram Vr. | IND | 2607 |
| 24 | GM | Dardha Daniel | BEL | 2606 |
| 25 | GM | Sanal Vahap | TUR | 2597 |
| 26 | GM | Cheng Bobby | AUS | 2583 |
| 27 | GM | Kraemer Martin | GER | 2583 |
| 28 | GM | Svane Frederik | GER | 2568 |
| 29 | GM | Tin Jingyao | SGP | 2562 |
| 30 | GM | Alsina Leal Daniel | ESP | 2527 |
| 31 | GM | Sumets Andrey | UKR | 2506 |
| 32 | GM | Arjun Kalyan | IND | 2505 |
| 33 | GM | Nevednichy Vladislav | ROU | 2502 |
| 34 | GM | Gines Esteo Pedro Antonio | ESP | 2500 |
| 35 | GM | Sankalp Gupta | IND | 2485 |
| 36 | IM | Clarke Brandon G I | ENG | 2484 |
| 37 | IM | Aditya Mittal | IND | 2479 |
| 38 | IM | Pranesh M | IND | 2475 |
| 39 | IM | Gokerkan Cem Kaan | TUR | 2470 |
| 40 | IM | Samant Aditya S | IND | 2470 |
| 41 | IM | Wadsworth Matthew J | ENG | 2470 |
| 42 | IM | Sousa Andre Ventura | POR | 2466 |
| 43 | GM | Velten Paul | FRA | 2465 |
| 44 | IM | Ayats Llobera Gerard | ESP | 2464 |
| 45 | GM | Sochacki Christophe | FRA | 2463 |
| 46 | IM | Fernandez Guillen Ernesto J. | CUB | 2462 |
| 47 | GM | Firat Burak | TUR | 2460 |
| 48 | IM | Sardana Rishi | AUS | 2460 |
| 49 | IM | Woodward Andy | USA | 2457 |
| 50 | GM | Raja Rithvik R | IND | 2453 |
| 51 | IM | Erdogmus Yagiz Kaan | TUR | 2453 |
| 52 | GM | Goh Wei Ming Kevin | SGP | 2452 |
| 53 | IM | Kaasen Tor Fredrik | NOR | 2452 |
| 54 | GM | Narciso Dublan Marc | ESP | 2448 |
| 55 | IM | Abdisalimov Abdimalik | UZB | 2447 |
| 56 | IM | Garcia Ramos Daniel | ESP | 2439 |
| 57 | IM | Nigmatov Ortik | UZB | 2439 |
| 58 | IM | Boyer Mahel | FRA | 2434 |
| 59 | IM | Bulmaga Irina | ROU | 2432 |
| 60 | IM | Ajay Karthikeyan | IND | 2430 |
| 61 | IM | Sammed Jaykumar Shete | IND | 2430 |
| 62 | IM | Fataliyeva Ulviyya | AZE | 2428 |
| 63 | IM | Prraneeth Vuppala | IND | 2427 |
| 64 | IM | Baenziger Fabian | SUI | 2426 |
| 65 | FM | Vitier Vazquez Cristian | CUB | 2424 |
| 66 | FM | Saydaliev Saidakbar | UZB | 2419 |
| 67 | IM | Roberson Peter T | ENG | 2418 |
| 68 | IM | Krastev Alexander | GER | 2416 |
| 69 | IM | Gholami Orimi Mahdi | IRI | 2415 |
| 70 | IM | Moksh Amit Doshi | IND | 2414 |
| 71 | FM | Bai Adelard | TPE | 2411 |
| 72 | IM | Willow Jonah B | ENG | 2409 |
| 73 | FM | Leisch Lukas | AUT | 2405 |
| 74 | FM | Bilych Olexiy | UKR | 2401 |
| 75 | IM | Tahay Alexis | FRA | 2400 |
| 76 | IM | Abdurakhmonov Mukhammadali | UZB | 2397 |
| 77 | IM | Bournel Antoine | FRA | 2392 |
| 78 | IM | Dionisi Thomas | FRA | 2390 |
| 79 | IM | Salimova Nurgyul | BUL | 2390 |
| 80 | IM | Sattarov Bobir | UZB | 2389 |
| 81 | FM | Carbonell Sancho Marc | ESP | 2384 |
| 82 | IM | Rendle Thomas E | ENG | 2381 |
| 83 | FM | Kanov Nikola | BUL | 2377 |
| 84 | FM | Jubin Jimmy | IND | 2376 |
| 85 | FM | Wagh Suyog | IND | 2376 |
| 86 | IM | Song Julien | FRA | 2369 |
| 87 | FM | Mathieu Phileas | FRA | 2367 |
| 88 | WGM | Injac Teodora | SRB | 2365 |
| 89 | IM | Valenzuela Gomez Fernando | CHI | 2361 |
| 90 | WGM | Nandhidhaa P V | IND | 2358 |
| 91 | FM | Garcia Molina Jose | ESP | 2357 |
| 92 | IM | Fitzsimons David | IRL | 2352 |
| 93 | FM | Akbas Umut Ata | TUR | 2351 |
| 94 | FM | Nawin Jayaprakash Jayavalli | IND | 2351 |
| 95 | FM | Krasteva Beloslava | BUL | 2350 |
| 96 | IM | Meister Peter | GER | 2347 |
| 97 | WGM | Divya Deshmukh | IND | 2347 |
| 98 | FM | Van Dael Siem | NED | 2345 |
| 99 | IM | Sarkar Justin | USA | 2343 |
| 100 | FM | Alexiadis Hristos | GRE | 2342 |
| 101 | FM | Dalaud Dorian | FRA | 2342 |
| 102 | GM | Vogt Lothar | GER | 2339 |
| 103 | FM | Pablo Mari Alejandro | ESP | 2338 |
| 104 | IM | Sidhant Mohapatra | IND | 2337 |
| 105 | Ilamparthi A R | IND | 2336 | |
| 106 | IM | Papadiamandis Elliot | FRA | 2334 |
| 107 | IM | Borocz Istvan | HUN | 2334 |
| 108 | FM | Jain Kashish Manoj | IND | 2334 |
| 109 | WGM | Heinemann Josefine | GER | 2332 |
| 110 | IM | Reprintsev Alexander | UKR | 2330 |
| 111 | IM | Karavade Eesha | IND | 2325 |
| 112 | WGM | Pourkashiyan Atousa | USA | 2321 |
| 113 | WGM | Priyanka Nutakki | IND | 2316 |
| 114 | FM | Bhambure Shantanu | IND | 2306 |
| 115 | FM | Dixit Nikhil | IND | 2306 |
| 116 | FM | Lim Zhuo Ren | MAS | 2305 |
| 117 | WGM | Gong Qianyun | SGP | 2299 |
| 118 | WIM | Rakhmangulova Anastasiya | UKR | 2296 |
| 119 | CM | Blasco Coll Andreu | ESP | 2294 |
| 120 | FM | Yordanov Lachezar | BUL | 2294 |
| 121 | Ortega Serra Marc | ESP | 2291 | |
| 122 | FM | Milat Marcel | CAN | 2290 |
| 123 | CM | Shaik Sumer Arsh | IND | 2290 |
| 124 | GM | Pogorelov Ruslan | UKR | 2288 |
| 125 | FM | Kristoferitsch Daniel | AUT | 2286 |
| 126 | FM | Shailesh Dravid | IND | 2286 |
| 127 | WGM | Enkhtuul Altan-Ulzii | MGL | 2285 |
| 128 | FM | Schulze Lara | GER | 2284 |
| 129 | FM | Mamedov Edgar | KAZ | 2283 |
| 130 | CM | Md Imran | IND | 2279 |
| 131 | FM | Castellanos Gomez Alejandro | ESP | 2277 |
| 132 | FM | Torngren Gustav | SWE | 2275 |
| 133 | FM | Ram Aravind L N | IND | 2272 |
| 134 | FM | Schneider Jana | GER | 2272 |
| 135 | FM | Domene Mulyukov Alexander | ESP | 2271 |
| 136 | CM | Vardanyan Aras | LTU | 2271 |
| 137 | Jinan Jomon | IND | 2271 | |
| 138 | WIM | Benmesbah Natacha | FRA | 2268 |
| 139 | WIM | Newrkla Katharina | AUT | 2265 |
| 140 | CM | Kostov Deyan Samuil | BUL | 2260 |
| 141 | Romero Calduch Sergio | ESP | 2258 | |
| 142 | FM | Ruiz Buendia Miguel | ESP | 2257 |
| 143 | FM | Atanasov Anthony | CAN | 2251 |
| 144 | FM | Ryan Joseph | IRL | 2249 |
| 145 | Aditya Varun Gampa | IND | 2249 | |
| 146 | FM | Oswaldo Valentin Requejo Cotrin | PER | 2248 |
| 147 | CM | Vaibhav Jayant Raut | IND | 2247 |
| 148 | WIM | Sieber Fiona | GER | 2245 |
| 149 | Frederic Clement | FRA | 2245 | |
| 150 | WIM | Rakshitta Ravi | IND | 2242 |
| 151 | Lever Erwan | FRA | 2241 | |
| 152 | FM | Lye Lik Zang | MAS | 2241 |
| 153 | Arjun Chitrakudam Krishnamachari | IND | 2241 | |
| 154 | CM | Rajarishi Karthi | IND | 2239 |
| 155 | IM | Mannion Stephen R | SCO | 2229 |
| 156 | CM | Gulatz Maurice | GER | 2227 |
| 157 | IM | Sai Agni Jeevitesh J | IND | 2226 |
| 158 | FM | Ventura Bolet Maxim | ESP | 2223 |
| 159 | CM | Dahale Atul | IND | 2222 |
| 160 | FM | Bach Matthias | GER | 2208 |
| 161 | FM | Harshad S | IND | 2202 |
| 162 | FM | Webb Laurence E | ENG | 2201 |
| 163 | WIM | Gaboyan Susanna | ARM | 2200 |
| 164 | CM | Ribera Veganzones Serni | AND | 2199 |
| 165 | Ojas Kulkarni | IND | 2196 | |
| 166 | Gasic Merino Franco | CHI | 2195 | |
| 167 | Cherniack Alex | USA | 2188 | |
| 168 | WFM | Nilssen Ellen Fredericia | DEN | 2187 |
| 169 | Joel Paul Ganta | IND | 2183 | |
| 170 | CM | Wong Zhenyong Jayden | SGP | 2181 |
| 171 | Levi Netanel | ISR | 2179 | |
| 172 | Sherman Reem | ISR | 2179 | |
| 173 | Stanetzek Carsten | GER | 2172 | |
| 174 | Perkampus Laurin | GER | 2168 | |
| 175 | FM | De Santis Alessio | ITA | 2159 |
| 176 | WIM | Hryzlova Sofiia | UKR | 2157 |
| 177 | FM | Baert Andy | BEL | 2156 |
| 178 | FM | Voiteanu Gabriel | ROU | 2152 |
| 179 | CM | Nurgaliyev Sauat | KAZ | 2150 |
| 180 | Wecker Martin | GER | 2150 | |
| 181 | FM | Kholopov Alexander A. | FID | 2146 |
| 182 | WIM | Priyanka K | IND | 2146 |
| 183 | Van Kessel Wessel | BEL | 2145 | |
| 184 | Leftheriotis Alexandros | GRE | 2143 | |
| 185 | FM | Jeet Jain | IND | 2141 |
| 186 | Noria Silvestre Joaquin | ESP | 2138 | |
| 187 | FM | Saya Ethan | FRA | 2138 |
| 188 | FM | Lorscheid Gerhard | GER | 2137 |
| 189 | Fanninger Leon | AUT | 2136 | |
| 190 | Villar Reymundo Juan Antonio | PER | 2135 | |
| 191 | Ezquerro Luque Albert | ESP | 2134 | |
| 192 | FM | Mahitosh Dey | IND | 2134 |
| 193 | Devnani Kush | IND | 2134 | |
| 194 | Gugan Govindan | IND | 2126 | |
| 195 | Koehler Ronald | GER | 2118 | |
| 196 | Kocak Ediz | GER | 2115 | |
| 197 | Arhan Chethan Anand | IND | 2112 | |
| 198 | Ismail Tamer | BEL | 2112 | |
| 199 | Itzhaky Shmuel | ISR | 2109 | |
| 200 | FM | Hristodorescu Daniel | ROU | 2108 |
| 201 | Panjer Sidney | GER | 2100 | |
| 202 | WFM | Yash Jyoti Bir | IND | 2099 |
| 203 | Coles Ruben | FRA | 2098 | |
| 204 | Chulis Alexander | AUT | 2097 | |
| 205 | Halegua Dani | FRA | 2095 | |
| 206 | Nikolov Yavor | BUL | 2092 | |
| 207 | Bub Volker | GER | 2091 | |
| 208 | Stewart Ashley | ENG | 2090 | |
| 209 | Salinas Tomas Daniel | ESP | 2089 | |
| 210 | WFM | Galvan Cipriani Viviana | ESP | 2088 |
| 211 | Verbin Valentina | MDA | 2088 | |
| 212 | Rodriguez Diaz Javier | ESP | 2084 | |
| 213 | CM | Korkmaz Necmettin | TUR | 2077 |
| 214 | WFM | Hapala Elisabeth | AUT | 2075 |
| 215 | Duke Michael | SCO | 2067 | |
| 216 | WFM | Pipiras Filipa Fortuna | POR | 2065 |
| 217 | Raghav Srivathsav V | IND | 2059 | |
| 218 | WFM | Rodriguez Redondo Adhara | ESP | 2057 |
| 219 | Serrano Aspa Xavier | ESP | 2054 | |
| 220 | Coles Robin | FRA | 2051 | |
| 221 | Maloberti David | FRA | 2050 | |
| 222 | Sperat Czar Nicolas | FRA | 2047 | |
| 223 | Moracchini Margaux | FRA | 2046 | |
| 224 | Assylov Miras | KAZ | 2044 | |
| 225 | CM | Butolo Alexandru-Mircea | ROU | 2043 |
| 226 | WFM | Jimenez Fernandez Rebeca | ESP | 2040 |
| 227 | Sarveshwaran Vignesh | IND | 2040 | |
| 228 | Schmuck Corentin | FRA | 2040 | |
| 229 | Boixader Arbo Xavier | ESP | 2039 | |
| 230 | Le Pen Steven | FRA | 2038 | |
| 231 | Comellas Blanchart Jordi | ESP | 2034 | |
| 232 | Vignesh Bhuvaneswari | IND | 2032 | |
| 233 | Karadzhov Ivan | BUL | 2024 | |
| 234 | Khandhar Kaushal | MAS | 2020 | |
| 235 | Alfonso Pellisa Aaron | ESP | 2018 | |
| 236 | Dietrich Peter | AUT | 2015 | |
| 237 | Perez Garcia Jimena | ESP | 2014 | |
| 238 | Ramos Aguilar Jose Manuel | ESP | 2008 | |
| 239 | Perez Aleman Pedro Tomas | ESP | 1996 | |
| 240 | Cordova-Lopez Diego Anton | ENG | 1985 | |
| 241 | WCM | Ankitha Goud Palle | IND | 1980 |
| 242 | Renganayaki Venkatesh | IND | 1978 | |
| 243 | Bland David I | ENG | 1974 | |
| 244 | Saveljevs Aleksandrs | LAT | 1974 | |
| 245 | Chia Yu Zhe Ashton | SGP | 1970 | |
| 246 | Place Nicholas | USA | 1967 | |
| 247 | Hiren K G | IND | 1965 | |
| 248 | Kumar Sanjit S | ENG | 1965 | |
| 249 | Fernandez Climent Albert | ESP | 1963 | |
| 250 | CM | Zhang Kendrick Botong | NZL | 1963 |
| 251 | Verbruggen Samuel | BEL | 1963 | |
| 252 | Pousada Garcia Daniel | ESP | 1960 | |
| 253 | Mompel Ferruz Xavier | ESP | 1953 | |
| 254 | Altisen Palmada Roberto | ESP | 1948 | |
| 255 | Kotmans Rob | NED | 1948 | |
| 256 | Tudor Henry Edward | ROU | 1942 | |
| 257 | Gayon Benoit | FRA | 1941 | |
| 258 | Follana Albelda Lucia | ESP | 1938 | |
| 259 | Uber Gracia Hugo | ESP | 1931 | |
| 260 | Patil Harshal | IND | 1928 | |
| 261 | Villa Tornero Alex | ESP | 1925 | |
| 262 | Bonoo Iwan | NED | 1925 | |
| 263 | Jove Albaiges Guillem | ESP | 1922 | |
| 264 | Pina Tiago | POR | 1916 | |
| 265 | Cafolla Peter | IRL | 1915 | |
| 266 | Mashchenko Tamila | UKR | 1913 | |
| 267 | Gregersen Hedin | FAI | 1912 | |
| 268 | Herman Gamazo Isaac | ESP | 1906 | |
| 269 | Borrellas Comellas Josep | ESP | 1905 | |
| 270 | CM | Harish Neeraj | USA | 1902 |
| 271 | WCM | Bibilashvili Lali | GEO | 1900 |
| 272 | Schopf Martin | GER | 1900 | |
| 273 | Liu Tianyi (Jack) | ENG | 1892 | |
| 274 | Labrovic Jakov | CRO | 1891 | |
| 275 | Benseny Martinez Guerau | ESP | 1890 | |
| 276 | Levy Benyamin | ISR | 1888 | |
| 277 | Levesque Guillaume | FRA | 1887 | |
| 278 | WFM | Samaganova Aleksandra | KGZ | 1884 |
| 279 | Paricharak Shardul | AHO | 1881 | |
| 280 | Vallbona Domingo Joan | ESP | 1871 | |
| 281 | Larkin Benjamin | ENG | 1866 | |
| 282 | Alzamil Abdulaziz | KSA | 1862 | |
| 283 | Oliver Amengual Adria | ESP | 1856 | |
| 284 | Shreyas Seshadri Nallore | IND | 1849 | |
| 285 | Leimeister Winfried | GER | 1845 | |
| 286 | Morais Miguel Almeida | POR | 1844 | |
| 287 | Izagirre Alsua Aritz | ESP | 1835 | |
| 288 | Arvind Ramnath Iyer | IND | 1834 | |
| 289 | Ramadugu Akshay | IND | 1812 | |
| 290 | Tadmor Maya | ISR | 1810 | |
| 291 | Rios Torondell Jaume | ESP | 1809 | |
| 292 | Nesse David | NOR | 1809 | |
| 293 | Egli Urs | SUI | 1806 | |
| 294 | Fabregas Oliver | GER | 1804 | |
| 295 | Kushal O | IND | 1801 | |
| 296 | Krassel Timofei | RUS | 1787 | |
| 297 | Saravanan Durga | SGP | 1784 | |
| 298 | Villa Izquierdo Roberto | ESP | 1780 | |
| 299 | Patel Zain | ENG | 1761 | |
| 300 | Sierra Magrazo Lidia | ESP | 1755 | |
| 301 | Shaffer Alexander | PUR | 1750 | |
| 302 | Prudhvi Kumar V | IND | 1733 | |
| 303 | Senso Moreno Francesc Xavier | ESP | 1731 | |
| 304 | Golsta Ramona | LAT | 1719 | |
| 305 | Aadith Rajesh | IND | 1714 | |
| 306 | Bergara Ede Josu | ESP | 1713 | |
| 307 | Gamal Alaa | ENG | 1713 | |
| 308 | Schulze Tim | GER | 1710 | |
| 309 | Amulya Guruprasad | IND | 1699 | |
| 310 | Paricharak Nakul | AHO | 1695 | |
| 311 | Pichugov Andrey | ENG | 1681 | |
| 312 | Chitre Arush | IND | 1646 | |
| 313 | Escudero Ribo Eloi | ESP | 1626 | |
| 314 | Steiners Emils | LAT | 1626 | |
| 315 | Shamir Shahar | ISR | 1604 | |
| 316 | Al Mutlaq Ibrahim A | KSA | 1595 | |
| 317 | Alem Ali Hussain | KSA | 1593 | |
| 318 | Barkasheva Sofia | EST | 1588 | |
| 319 | Apaar Saxena | IND | 1578 | |
| 320 | Sachdeva Ronit | ENG | 1571 | |
| 321 | Kratz Jonathan | FRA | 1514 | |
| 322 | Bryant Harry | ENG | 1510 | |
| 323 | Yedid Lior | ENG | 1490 | |
| 324 | Harandi Teymour | ENG | 1459 | |
| 325 | Voronaya Eva | FID | 1379 | |
| 326 | Suneth Shyam Keshaav | MAS | 1325 |
