GM Igor Janik wins Cracovia Chess Open 2024

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The 35th edition of the Cracovia International Chess Festival was held from 27 December to 4 Janary in Krakow, Poland. The Festival gathered 735 players who competed in 10 different tournaments: Open A (for players rated 2100+), Open B (for players for players rated 1800-2150), Open C (for players rated 1600-1900), Open D (for players rated U1700), Open F (for players rated U1800), Seniors tournament, Juniors U8, U10 and U12 events, and Blitz championship.

Fighting for the top prize of 10.000 PLN (~2350 euros), GM Igor Janik (Poland, 2515) and GM Szymon Gumularz (Poland, 2585) tied for the top of the main Open A tournament, scoring 7 points each. Igor Janik had better tiebreak criteria to clinch gold, and Szymon Gumularz finished second. Six players scored 6.5 points each to tie for third place, with GM Vuppala Prraneeth (India, 2461) having highest tiebreaks.

WFM Wiktoria Smietanska (Poland, 2157) and WIM Yelyzaveta Hrebenshchykova (Ukraine, 2277) scored 4.5 points each to tie for the prize of the best-ranked female player in the tournament. Having better tiebreaks, Wiktoria Smietanska came first, Yelyzaveta Hrebenshchykova was second, while WFM Kesaria Mgeladze (Georgia, 2157) won third prize with 4 points.

Final rankings – 35th Krakow Chess Open A:

	Surname, Name	Rating	Pts
1	Janik, Igor	2515 +6	7
2	Gumularz, Szymon	2585 +3	7
3	Prraneeth Vuppala	2461 +12	6.5
4	Danielyan, Vahe	2299 +26	6.5
5	Bogdanov, Egor	2493 +1	6.5
6	Teclaf, Paweł	2569 -4	6.5
7	Cvek, Robert	2443	6.5
8	Ben Ari, Yannay	2453 -4	6.5
9	Nguyen, Piotr	2399 -1	6.5
10	Pyrih, Roman	2399 +12	6
11	Polak, Tomas	2472 -7	6
12	Suder, Jakub	2342 -8	6
13	Ernst, Robert	2338 +18	6
14	Vagman, Roy	2244 +35	6
15	Szczurek, Krzysztof	2254 +22	6
16	Anwesh, Upadhyaya	2379 +4	5.5
17	Zalega, Maciej	2159 +110	5.5
18	Balint, Peter	2391 +2	5.5
19	Soffer, Ram	2423 -7	5.5
20	Egresi, Mate	2393 -6	5.5
21	Malek, Daniel	2273 +14	5.5
22	Bashirov, Kemal	2293 +17	5.5
23	Róg, Bartłomiej	2244 +27	5.5
24	Zheng, Harry Z	2248 -12	5.5
25	Firman, Nazar	2464 -20	5.5
26	Karsten, Jan	2326 +1	5.5
27	Madej, Marek	2116 +122	5
28	Hulka, Valentyn	2311 -4	5
29	Goroshkov, Maksym	2363 -16	5
30	Negrean, Andrei	2209 +49	5
31	Sahoo, Utkal Ranjan	2283 +3	5
32	Puczyłowski, Marcin	2101 +19	5
33	Górkiewicz, Mateusz	2231 +15	5
34	Kyć, Jerzy	2263 -8	5
35	Musiał, Igor	2304 -15	5
36	Mrozowski, Patryk	2196 +5	5
37	Ugorek, Kacper	2154 +72	5
38	Musiał, Tomasz	2168 +31	5
39	Novotny, Michal	2219 +4	5
40	Klepek, Witold	2244 +9	5
41	Ribstein, Orel	2261 -31	5
42	Babiarz, Arkadiusz	2193 +39	4.5
43	Brzezina, Piotr	2274 +5	4.5
44	Gbiorczyk, Mikołaj	2176 +80	4.5
45	Katsanis, Vasileios Dim	2217 +36	4.5
46	Santagati, Alessandro	2159 +19	4.5
47	Azoulay, Yehonatan	2210 +32	4.5
48	Dylong, Antoni	2217 -20	4.5
49	Iwańczuk, Krzysztof	2105 +38	4.5
50	Ramirez Garcia, Jorge Alberto	2222 -5	4.5
51	Van der Merwe, Alexander	2105 +31	4.5
52	Mondrzycki, Bartłomiej	2284 -27	4.5
53	Brezis, Ari	2174 +52	4.5
54	Zięba, Hubert	2175 +58	4.5
55	Demski, Michał	2167 +36	4.5
56	Wnęk, Filip	2138 +46	4.5
57	Oliinyk, Serafym	2207 -2	4.5
58	Kaliszuk, Kamil	2128 +22	4.5
59	Śmietańska, Wiktoria	2157 +11	4.5
60	Krawczyk, Flawian	2231 -14	4.5
61	Przybylski, Bartosz	2140 +51	4.5
62	Hrebenshchykova, Yelyzaveta	2287 -29	4.5
63	Georgiadis, Anastasios	2109 +50	4.5
64	Kanarkiewicz, Michał	2106 +25	4.5
65	Zielonka, Adam	2352 -21	4
66	Grygierczyk, Wojciech	2125 +26	4
67	Sernecki, Franciszek	2344 -31	4
68	Sygulski, Piotr	2199 -8	4
69	Goluch, Piotr	2282 -22	4
70	Mgeladze, Kesaria	2157 +30	4
71	Niezhentsev, Kyrylo	2137 +54	4
72	Baranciuc, Alexandr	2273 -27	4
73	Signorelli, Gaetano	2208 +6	3.5
74	Nemitz, Alfred	2265 -23	3.5
75	Kovalskyi, Roman	2213 -32	3.5
76	Brzezina, Paweł	2191 -27	3.5
77	Kubik, Rafał	2114 +9	3.5
78	Hnydiuk, Aleksander	2342 -14	3.5
79	Krawczyk, Wojciech	2134 +9	3.5
80	Meier, Lukas	2180 -17	3.5
81	Zaręba, Piotr	2103 +13	3.5
82	Kusiak, Mateusz	2121 +14	3.5
83	Grochol, Kamil	2141 +9	3.5
84	Podolskyi, Mykhailo	2319 -60	3.5
85	Manko, Mariia	2212 -39	3.5
86	Hury, Tymoteusz	2222 -75	3.5
87	Perets, Dmytro	2257 -95	3.5
88	Mirski, Michał	2111 +2	3.5
89	Mihelic, Vesna	2117 -2	3.5
90	Dziewoński, Dariusz	2211 +14	3
91	Madajczak, Piotr	2115 -8	3
92	Piekielny, Paweł	2286 -20	3
93	Cichoń, Bartłomiej	2125 -1	3
94	Csernyik, Mark	2175 -35	3
95	Nagły, Wojciech	2161 -29	3
96	Żarnowski, Krzysztof	2203 -24	3
97	Rosol, Philip	2104 -6	3
98	Szczotka, Klara	2137 -27	3
99	Meers, Hubert	2188 -30	3
100	Pit-Rada, Mihail-Cosmin	2106 -5	3
101	Pattnayak Nilsu	2161 -22	2.5
102	Traistaru, Teodora	2147 -13	2.5
103	Pasti, Zsombor	2141 -94	2
104	Polok, Kacper	2233 -75	1.5
105	Vojtek, Vladimir	2261 -49	1.5
106	Marjanovic, Alex	2168 -134	1