HIT Chess Open 2024 – All information

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The 28th edition of the HIT Chess Open will be held from 26th January to 2nd February in Nova Gorica, Slovenia. The event features two sections: Open A (for players rated 1500+) and Open B (for players rated U1500).

The main Open A tournament will be played in 9 rounds, swiss system, with the time control of 90 minutes + 30 seconds increment for each move and the prize fund of 5.000 EUR. Already nearly 100 players from 16 countries registered for the event and the top-seeds are: GM Ferenc Berkes (Hungary, 2613), GM Matej Sebenik (Slovenia, 2536), and GM Pier Luigi Basso (Italy, 2482) who started the year with the triumph at the Sevilla Chess Open 2024. Complete starting list of players can be found below.

Playing schedule:

Detailed information can be found on the tournament website.

HIT Chess Open 2024 – Starting list of players:

No.		Name	FED	RtgI
1	GM	Berkes, Ferenc	HUN	2613
2	GM	Sebenik, Matej	SLO	2536
3	GM	Basso, Pier Luigi	ITA	2482
4	IM	Csonka, Balazs	HUN	2479
5	GM	Beliavsky, Alexander G	SLO	2475
6	IM	Doric, Darko	CRO	2456
7	IM	Ceres, Dragos	MDA	2438
8	GM	Cvitan, Ognjen	CRO	2422
9	GM	Fercec, Nenad	CRO	2410
10	IM	Karacsonyi, Gellert	HUN	2398
11	IM	Kulkarni, Bhakti	IND	2364
12	GM	Davies, Nigel R	ENG	2349
13	WIM	Gaal, Zsoka	HUN	2341
14	FM	Goroshkov, Maksym	SLO	2338
15	FM	Ongut, Tamas Gunes	HUN	2310
16	FM	Lavrencic, Matic	SLO	2299
17	FM	Stevanic, David	SLO	2294
18	FM	Furlan, Miha	SLO	2287
19	FM	Ashwath, R.	IND	2284
20	FM	Perossa, Nicolas	ITA	2277
21	GM	Drazic, Sinisa	SRB	2270
22		Plaskan, Jure	SLO	2262
23	FM	Bodrogi, Bendeguz	HUN	2261
24		Herega, Nejc	SLO	2257
25	GM	Djuric, Stefan	SRB	2220
26		Skrbec, Leon	SLO	2218
27		Gregoric, Andraz	SLO	2217
28		Zupancic, Jernej	SLO	2211
29	CM	Marchesich, Giovanni	ITA	2210
30	CM	Garsky, Vladyslav	UKR	2186
31	FM	Ceschia, Ivano	ITA	2183
32		Siraj, Svit	SLO	2182
33		Kozlovic, Jernej	SLO	2174
34		Caruso, Augusto	ITA	2159
35		Szegedy, Matyas	HUN	2129
36	WIM	Hrescak, Ivana	SLO	2117
37		Centrih, Aleks	SLO	2082
38		Mestek, Igor	SLO	2080
39	CM	Debevec, Blaz	SLO	2077
40		Markocic, Tine	SLO	2055
41		Trybus, Daniel	POL	2039
42	CM	Bazilius, Augustinas	LTU	2030
43	WFM	Kejzar, Petra	SLO	2025
44		Zupancic, Urban	SLO	2025
45	WCM	Dorokhina, Elizaveta	FID	1994
46		Pirs, Matjaz	SLO	1965
47		Cziko, Eduard-Carol	ROU	1946
48		Labrovic, Jakov	CRO	1925
49		Privitera, Franco	ITA	1919
50		Orsatti, Marcello	ITA	1918
51		Capaliku, Aleks	ITA	1913
52		Horvath, Andras	HUN	1901
53		Hozjan, Erik	SLO	1897
54		Kukushkin, Ivan	LAT	1890
55		Atakay, Mustafa	USA	1889
56		Kekic, Urban	SLO	1885
57		Veselic, Maks	SLO	1874
58		Budai, Federico	ITA	1861
59		Pagnutti, Lorenzo	ITA	1859
60		Tonel, Giulia	ITA	1851
61		Racnik, Tone	SLO	1849
62		Budai, Leonardo	ITA	1847
63		Pagano, Sergio	ITA	1821
64		Novak, Rok	SLO	1777
65		Gricnik, Tine	SLO	1758
66		Rigatti, Giorgio	ITA	1749
67		Zlatanovic, Marcus	SLO	1745
68		Barbir, Petar	CRO	1738
69		Vicic, Mark	SLO	1729
70		Petrosino, Germano	ITA	1715
71		Ivsek, Cveto	SLO	1711
72		Bajec, Borut	SLO	1703
73		Jalovec, Igor	SLO	1703
74		Guid, Taja	SLO	1698
75		Gratton, Damjan	SLO	1691
76		Papler, Peter	SLO	1691
77		Zlatanovic, Srdjan	SLO	1675
78		Vodnik, Val	SLO	1661
79		Mazzi, Leonardo	ITA	1647
80		Deschi, Leonardo Simone	ITA	1639
81		Gergolet, Jan	ITA	1632
82		Mihelj, Edvard	SLO	1618
83		Cokan, Mirko	SLO	1614
84		Petrovcic, Cvetko	SLO	1611
85		Beber, Anja	SLO	1606
86		Cortese, Lina	ITA	1582
87		Belyaletdinov, Leonard	SLO	1581
88		Mulec, Dejan	SLO	1577
89		Milicevic, Zoran	ITA	1550
90		Trybus, Dominika	POL	1530