The Curitiba Chess Open 2026 is now underway, with events running from April 17th to 21st. Sponsored by Itaipu Binacional, this international tournament is organized by the Clube de Xadrez de Curitiba, which is celebrating its 88th anniversary.
The open serves as a key qualifier for both the 92nd Absolute and 65th Women’s Brazilian Championships and is part of the National Circuit.
The welcoming blitz reception took place at the Clube de Xadrez de Curitiba. The main Classical tournament is being held at the Sociedade Thalia (Sede Central). The classical tournament is a 7-round Swiss System, played with a time control of 90 minutes + 30 seconds per move. In addition to the main classical event, the open includes parallel events in both Rapid and Blitz formats.
This year’s Curitiba Chess Open has a total field of 262 players. The competition features a strong international presence and a significant turnout of titled players:
- Players from 10 different countries are participating: Brazil, Cuba, Angola, Argentina, Canada, Chile, Italy, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Zambia
- Grandmasters (GMs): The field includes 3 Grandmasters.
- Other Titled Players: The tournament also features 3 International Masters (IMs), 10 FIDE Masters (FMs), 1 Woman FIDE Master (WFM), and 1 Woman Candidate Master (WCM), for a total of 18 titled players.
Prize Pool: A total minimum prize fund of R$ 12,000.00, with R$ 10,000 allocated to the Classical tournament alone. The winner of the Open section will take home R$ 2,000.00.
Under the leadership of tournament director Murilo Salustiano, the event continues to fulfill its objectives of promoting social and cultural exchange and contributing to the technical level of chess in Brazil.
Participants:
1 GM Jose Cubas PAR 2416
2 IM Cesar Hidemitsu Umetsubo BRA 2348
3 GM Everaldo Matsuura BRA 2342
4 FM Paulo Ricardo Palozi BRA 2305
5 IM Rodrigo Disconzi da Silva BRA 2299
6 GM Alejandro Hoffman ARG 2291
7 FM Adwilhans Luciano Souza BRA 2273
8 FM Diogo Duarte Guimaraes BRA 2272
9 FM Daniel Evelio Saiz Rodriguez CUB 2236
10 NM Diego Sashaki Haraguchi BRA 2235
11 IM Luis Ernesto Rodi URU 2232
12 NM Igor A.C.Lofredo Mourao BRA 2212
13 NM Fernando Cesar Frare BRA 2210
14 FM Alvaro Z. Aranha Filho BRA 2209
15 FM Eduardo da Costa Marra BRA 2208
16 NM Joao Pedro Filimberti Uczai BRA 2194
17 FM Alfeu Junior Varela Bueno BRA 2194
18 NM Gustavo Warmling Kayser BRA 2191
19 Jose Ferreira Azevedo Junior BRA 2182
20 NM Bruno Orlando Starke BRA 2179
21 NM Raphael V. P. Patricio Alonso BRA 2179
22 NM Francisco Ferrari Pironti BRA 2176
23 NM Alvaro Alves de Almeida Junior BRA 2171
24 NM Jair Osipi BRA 2166
25 NM Henrique Nemeth Junior BRA 2158
26 NM Andre Jordi Volkmann BRA 2136
27 NM Acyr Rogerio Calcado BRA 2122
28 NM Vinicius Taishun Lima BRA 2119
29 Rene Simonato Sant’Ana BRA 2117
30 FM Carlos Alberto Sega BRA 2114
31 NM Leandro Fabricio Campelo BRA 2104
32 NM Heitor Carneiro Fraga BRA 2100
33 NM Bergson Fragoso Fernandes Filho BRA 2092
34 FM Vitorio Chemin BRA 2084
35 NM Vinicius Saito BRA 2083
36 NM Daniel Brandao Mariani BRA 2049
37 Lietis Alarcon Vazquez CUB 2049
38 NM Leonardo Espinha Alonso BRA 2047
39 William Carlos Cezar Junior BRA 2047
40 NM Aiman Mohamed El Zwei BRA 2044
41 NM Pedro Henrique Pedruzzi Segato BRA 2044
42 NM Matheus Garcett Souza dos Santos BRA 2043
43 Leonardo Souza A. De Oliveira BRA 2028
44 NM Luca Jurgen Bieging BRA 2021
45 NM Arthur Schena BRA 2013
46 NM Lucas Galvan Calcada BRA 2010
47 Leonardo Schmaedecke Tratz BRA 1998
48 FM Haroldo Cunha Dos Santos Junior BRA 1990
49 NM Lucas Jurk Deretti BRA 1986
50 Lucas Pereira Ramalho BRA 1985
51 NM Joao Antonio Bertolu Mariot Vaz BRA 1982
52 NM Atila Balzer Piekarski BRA 1982
53 NM Tiago Carvalho Mangialardo BRA 1979
54 NM Ellen Larissa Bail BRA 1978
55 NM Jairo Quintiliano De Oliveira BRA 1974
56 NM Miguel Abner Neves Gomes BRA 1954
57 Jesse Emanoel Lorensetti BRA 1953
58 NM Israel Kruger BRA 1951
59 Luciano Dos Santos Fier BRA 1948
60 Leonardo Antonio Batista BRA 1944
61 NM Daniel Pereira Da Silva BRA 1940
62 WCM Mitzi Vedan De Ramos BRA 1939
63 NM Gustavo Horokoski De Souza BRA 1939
64 NM Felipe Garcia Da Luz BRA 1938
65 Cristian Silnei Zanghelini BRA 1935
66 NM Fernando De Carvalho Machado BRA 1931
67 WFM Agatha Hurba Nunes BRA 1922
68 NM Ricardo De Almeida Cezar BRA 1922
69 CNM Joao Francisco Biz De Souza BRA 1915
70 Ivo Lucio Fischer BRA 1913
71 Frayson Nycolas Rodrigues Ruiz BRA 1910
72 Paulo Muraro Ferreira BRA 1909
73 Abel Cardoso Dos Santos BRA 1908
74 NM Eduardo Franzoni Hessmann BRA 1907
75 NM Daniel Costa Santana BRA 1904
76 NM Edson Luciani De Oliveira BRA 1903
77 Murilo Batista Ferreira BRA 1901
78 NM Bernardo Lalane Mascarenha Moura BRA 1898
79 Victor Emanuel Costa De Assuncao BRA 1896
80 NM Lucas Leonardi BRA 1895
81 Nilton Hirota da Silva BRA 1884
82 Arian G Decezare Bittencourt BRA 1877
83 Joao Gabriel Muniz Szuba BRA 1871
84 Maicon Da Silva Prantes BRA 1870
85 Maria Eduarda Papini Gomes BRA 1868
86 Vicente Marquez Rosas CHI 1867
87 Felipe Cruz Macedo BRA 1860
88 Allysson Ribeiro BRA 1856
89 NM Ricardo Fagner Dias De Menezes BRA 1851
90 NM Joaquim de Deus Filho BRA 1850
91 Mauro Cezar Pedro Da Costa Filho BRA 1850
92 Valter Santos Filho BRA 1850
93 Vinicius de Andrade Ricieri BRA 1841
94 Pedro Miguel Zanghelini BRA 1840
95 Vinicius Savaris Rech BRA 1840
96 Alessandro Augusto Tridapalli Wu BRA 1840
97 Leonardo Emerim Santos BRA 1838
98 Cesar Oliveira Orsini BRA 1835
99 Edmundo Aoyama BRA 1835
100 Matteus McCulloch CAN 1832
101 NM Arthur Batuli De Andrade BRA 1831
102 Leandro Novais Ribeiro BRA 1827
103 NM Fabiola Campagnolo BRA 1821
104 Arthur Lelinski BRA 1819
105 Vinicius Moraes Avellaneda Sousa BRA 1816
106 Arthur Garcia BRA 1814
107 Leandro De Castro BRA 1813
108 Joao Ricardo Kirsh Fernandes BRA 1806
109 NM Murilo de Andrade Stocco BRA 1804
110 Rafael Klanfer Nunes BRA 1793
111 Daniyal Ali Afzar BRA 1783
112 Joao Gabriel Breitembach BRA 1781
113 Paulo Gomes De Franca Junior BRA 1777
114 Ygor Gabriel da Costa De Assuncao BRA 1776
115 NM Kim Paul Mariani BRA 1774
116 NM Beny Irwing Pankiewicz Ramos BRA 1770
117 Dioni De Souza Gomes BRA 1769
118 NM Anderson Akira Fujihara BRA 1766
119 Caua De Paiva Leite BRA 1765
120 Pietro Zottis BRA 1765
121 Marcos Antonio Ferreira Bueno BRA 1754
122 Oseias Marcelino Dos Reis BRA 1752
123 Kolomwe Willian ZAM 1751
124 Kalebe Daniel De Almeida BRA 1741
125 Arnoldo Beber Telles BRA 1738
126 NM Sergio Roberto Sampaio Melo BRA 1734
127 Tiago Oliveira Da Silva BRA 1730
128 Paulo Irajara Borba Carneiro BRA 1729
129 Lucas Emanuel Tarum Maravieski BRA 1728
130 Vinicius Bazzaneze BRA 1722
131 NM Armando Scharlau Pereira BRA 1718
132 Gilberto Bordignon Conor BRA 1715
133 Luiz Francisco Santana Jr BRA 1714
134 Eros A. Ferreira Lang BRA 1710
135 Victor Pinheiro Costa Loss BRA 1706
136 Arthur Castro Minuzzi De Souza BRA 1706
137 Otavio Schmidt Spieker BRA 1702
138 Augusto Braun Neto BRA 1695
139 Bruna Campagnolo BRA 1691
140 Miguel Michels Da Silva BRA 1683
141 Bruno Cesar Scripietz BRA 1679
142 Jorge Llivi Ibanez BRA 1676
143 Mauricio Jose Goncalves Filho BRA 1673
144 Maria Eduarda Tischler Lema Garcia BRA 1666
145 Giovanna G Da Costa Ribeiro BRA 1658
146 ACM Richard van den Bylaardt BRA 1652
147 Juliano Sens Reckelberg BRA 1649
148 Miguel Henrique Andreata BRA 1643
149 Rafael Ryba Carneiro Da Fonseca BRA 1637
150 Mauro Sergio Garcia Junior BRA 1632
151 Vinicius Caon Tomaz De Oliveira BRA 1629
152 NM Matheus Bellentani Marmilli BRA 1629
153 Caue Scremin Campanelli BRA 1626
154 Jefferson Luiz Rosa BRA 1623
155 Gabriel Conte Dos Santos BRA 1619
156 Joao Victor Vedan De Ramos BRA 1612
157 Laura Manarim Berteli BRA 1611
158 Willian Souza Torres BRA 1610
159 Hildebrando Apolonio Pereira Fo BRA 1606
160 Maria Vitoria Baratieri BRA 1605
161 Wilton Yokomizo BRA 1602
162 Nicole Nunes BRA 1600
163 Carlos Marcelo Espindola BRA 1595
164 Marcelo Melem Braga BRA 1595
165 Nathalia Kruger BRA 1592
166 Paulo Sunao Shintate Junior BRA 1592
167 Pedro Gabriel Lopes Wenceloski BRA 1586
168 Felipe Pavanato Guimaraes BRA 1583
169 Paulo Jose Palma Dos Santos BRA 1579
170 Luana Ieger Bockor BRA 1577
171 Jefferson Miranda Soares BRA 1576
172 Caio Chiarini BRA 1575
173 Bernardo Zanghelini BRA 1575
174 Gabriel Batista Goncalves BRA 1574
175 Pedro Madeira Bolzan BRA 1570
176 Leandro Tiago Gehr Woytowicz BRA 1567
177 Stergios Pericles Tsiloufas BRA 1566
178 Mariana Safadi BRA 1559
179 Yasmin Zaika De Souza Pinto BRA 1554
180 Sofia Carneiro Fraga BRA 1554
181 Caio Bentivenha Assis BRA 1551
182 Gafforelli Jorge Artur BRA 1549
183 Reinaldo Di Lucia BRA 1535
184 Ernani Zottis BRA 1534
185 Milena Franca Dias BRA 1531
186 Expedito Santana BRA 1530
187 Felipe Auer Abilhoa BRA 1527
188 Marcia de Lima Bispo BRA 1527
189 Felipe Gabriel Dos Santos BRA 1523
190 Luiz Fernando Salles Teixeira BRA 1519
191 Erick Matheus Rassweiler BRA 1517
192 Andre Amancio Bernardes BRA 1517
193 Emanuel Pedroso Vieira BRA 1511
194 Leonardo Scardini BRA 1508
195 Henrique Oltmann Candido BRA 1499
196 Thaisa Bandeira Woytowicz BRA 1494
197 Any Sophia da Silva Pinto BRA 1477
198 Leonardo Antunes Palozi BRA 1476
199 Valentina Sophie Fran Livramento BRA 1463
200 Pietro Weber Naidon BRA 1463
201 Jose Fernando Pedroso Cubas BRA 1454
202 Gustavo Tsuyoshi Hasegaw Shirabe BRA 1453
203 Lavignia Padilha Bitencourt BRA 1450
204 Everson Da Costa Martinho BRA 1446
205 Elena Maria Tsiloufas BRA 1420
206 WNM Sofia Jaffe Zacharias BRA 1413
207 Bruno Torres Sacco BRA 0
208 Arthur Ramos Da Silva BRA 0
209 Jose Alberto Connell Mendez BRA 0
210 Gabriel Ribeiro Neves BRA 0
211 Felipe La Madrid BRA 0
212 Rafael Wambier Dos Santos BRA 0
213 Carlos Giovani Morais BRA 0
214 Ricardo Andre Leite Godoy BRA 0
215 Daniel Da Silva Barros Neto BRA 0
216 Arthur Domareski Batista BRA 0
217 Pedro Da Silva Camargo BRA 0
218 Matheus Paiva Menandro Consalter BRA 0
219 Pablo Jose Ferreira Da Silva BRA 0
220 Bruno Dalmonico BRA 0
221 Edson Tavares De Camargo BRA 0
222 Enzo Beltramin De Castro BRA 0
223 Luiz Roberto Andrade Detrez BRA 0
224 Maria Julia Fernandes Ferreira BRA 0
225 Guilherme Kautzmann BRA 0
226 Raul Lucas T Brisola Maciel BRA 0
227 Augusto De Mello Moreira BRA 0
228 Tiago Haruo Assao Mori BRA 0
229 Joana Oliveira Dos Santos BRA 0
230 Heitor Pacheco P De Souza Paz BRA 0
231 Davi Emanuel Ribeiro BRA 0
232 Alexandre Schneider Salgueiro BRA 0
233 Song Won Coronado Scremin BRA 0
234 Luan Alexander Stori Vasco BRA 0
235 Hugo Hiroshi Yamamura BRA 0
236 Graciano Garcia Marques Neto BRA 0
237 Danilo Ribaski Ribeiro BRA 0
238 Fabio Magliocco Ceroni ITA 0
239 Julie Mei Kitano BRA 0
240 Nathan Hector Dos Santos BRA 0
241 Matheus De Paiva Alves BRA 0
242 Clovis Dallegrave Silva Junior BRA 0
243 Laura Yumi Nakahati BRA 0
244 William Peterson Kszan BRA 0
245 Antonio Batuli De Andrade BRA 0
246 Dara Stori BRA 0
247 Joaquim Oliveira Dos Santos BRA 0
248 Mateus Seefeld Braun BRA 0
249 Eduardo Kazuo Hirakuri BRA 0
250 Bernardo Lelinski BRA 0
251 Rafaela Weber Naidon BRA 0
252 Rosa Emilia Trizotto De Oliveira BRA 0
253 Felipe Toshiyuki Hasegaw Shirabe BRA 0
254 Andrรฉ Neidert de Loyola e Silva BRA 0
255 Armando Obladen Filho BRA 0
256 Danilo Greco Novello BRA 0
257 Erica de Aguida Silva BRA 0
258 kevin Kautzman BRA 0
259 Luiz Takashi Kagiwara BRA 0
260 Mariano Antonio Vogue ANG 0
261 Willian Savi Mondo BRA 0
262 Pericles Silveira BRA 0
