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The 3rd edition of the Menorca Chess Open kicks off today and will be played from 2-7 April, 2024 on the small Balearic island of Menorca, Spain. Almost 300 players from 48 countries compete in the tournament, and an impressive field includes 44 Grandmasters!
The top seeds are GM Arjun Erigaisi (India, 2756), GM Nihal Sarin (India, 2698), GM Vladimir Fedoseev (Slovenia, 2690), GM Hans Niemann (USA, 2676), GM Jorden Van Foreest (Netherlands, 2668) and other world-known grandmasters. The starting list of players can be found below. The Winner of the previous two editions, Gukesh D, will not participate this year in the Menorca Chess Open, as he will be competing for the World Championship Match spot at the Candidates Tournament 2024.
Live games from the Menorca Chess Open 2024 can be followed here.
The event will is played in 9 rounds, swiss system, with the time control of 90 minutes + 30 seconds increment. The prize fund exceeds 20.000 euros, with 5.000 EUR reserved for the Winner of the event, and 1.500 EUR reserved for the best-ranked women players. The tournament venue this year is a luxury 4-star MarSenses Paradise Club hotel.
Starting list of players – Menorca Chess Open 2024:
| No. | Name | FED | Rtg | |
| 1 | GM | Erigaisi, Arjun | IND | 2756 |
| 2 | GM | Nihal, Sarin | IND | 2698 |
| 3 | GM | Fedoseev, Vladimir | SLO | 2690 |
| 4 | GM | Niemann, Hans Moke | USA | 2676 |
| 5 | GM | Van Foreest, Jorden | NED | 2668 |
| 6 | GM | Aravindh, Chithambaram Vr. | IND | 2662 |
| 7 | GM | Alekseenko, Kirill | AUT | 2655 |
| 8 | GM | Pichot, Alan | ESP | 2644 |
| 9 | GM | Lagarde, Maxime | FRA | 2640 |
| 10 | GM | Warmerdam, Max | NED | 2633 |
| 11 | GM | Murzin, Volodar | FID | 2632 |
| 12 | GM | Aryan, Chopra | IND | 2630 |
| 13 | GM | Dardha, Daniel | BEL | 2630 |
| 14 | GM | Chigaev, Maksim | ESP | 2621 |
| 15 | GM | Karthik, Venkataraman | IND | 2609 |
| 16 | GM | Yuffa, Daniil | ESP | 2607 |
| 17 | GM | Albornoz Cabrera, Carlos Daniel | CUB | 2604 |
| 18 | GM | Pranav, V | IND | 2604 |
| 19 | GM | Idani, Pouya | IRI | 2602 |
| 20 | GM | Jumabayev, Rinat | KAZ | 2598 |
| 21 | GM | Kourkoulos-Arditis, Stamatis | GRE | 2572 |
| 22 | GM | Sanal, Vahap | TUR | 2565 |
| 23 | GM | Alonso Rosell, Alvar | ESP | 2562 |
| 24 | GM | Sosa, Tomas | ARG | 2562 |
| 25 | GM | Muradli, Mahammad | AZE | 2555 |
| 26 | GM | Nasuta, Grzegorz | POL | 2552 |
| 27 | GM | Adhiban, B. | IND | 2541 |
| 28 | GM | Gorshtein, Ido | ISR | 2540 |
| 29 | GM | Stremavicius, Titas | LTU | 2540 |
| 30 | IM | Erdogmus, Yagiz Kaan | TUR | 2540 |
| 31 | GM | Raja, Rithvik R | IND | 2532 |
| 32 | GM | Fernandez, Daniel Howard | ENG | 2528 |
| 33 | IM | Vogel, Roven | GER | 2528 |
| 34 | GM | Arizmendi Martinez, Julen Luis | ESP | 2521 |
| 35 | GM | Pranav, Anand | IND | 2519 |
| 36 | GM | Lubbe, Nikolas | GER | 2518 |
| 37 | IM | Iermito, Sebastian | ITA | 2511 |
| 38 | GM | Krzyzanowski, Marcin | POL | 2510 |
| 39 | IM | Klimkowski, Jan | POL | 2505 |
| 40 | GM | Beerdsen, Thomas | NED | 2504 |
| 41 | GM | Petkov, Momchil | BUL | 2502 |
| 42 | GM | Avila Pavas, Santiago | COL | 2500 |
| 43 | GM | Balakrishnan, Praveen | USA | 2500 |
| 44 | GM | Cuenca Jimenez, Jose Fernando | ESP | 2500 |
| 45 | GM | Prraneeth, Vuppala | IND | 2499 |
| 46 | IM | Lamard, Guillaume | FRA | 2495 |
| 47 | IM | Szpar, Milosz | POL | 2495 |
| 48 | IM | Siddharth, Jagadeesh | SGP | 2491 |
| 49 | IM | Bora, Safal | USA | 2490 |
| 50 | IM | Sokolovsky, Yahli | ISR | 2490 |
| 51 | IM | Nogerbek, Kazybek | KAZ | 2489 |
| 52 | Xiao, Tong(Qd) | CHN | 2484 | |
| 53 | GM | Klekowski, Maciej | POL | 2483 |
| 54 | IM | Kosakowski, Jakub | POL | 2482 |
| 55 | IM | Girel, Joseph | FRA | 2479 |
| 56 | FM | Macias Pino, Diego | ESP | 2478 |
| 57 | IM | Fernandez Guillen, Ernesto J. | CUB | 2474 |
| 58 | IM | Admiraal, Miguoel | NED | 2472 |
| 59 | IM | Roshka, Yevgeniy | UKR | 2471 |
| 60 | IM | Castellanos Rodriguez, Renier | ESP | 2467 |
| 61 | IM | Koelle, Tobias | GER | 2467 |
| 62 | IM | Baskin, Robert | GER | 2466 |
| 63 | IM | Seemann, Jakub | POL | 2465 |
| 64 | GM | Zhu, Jiner | CHN | 2463 |
| 65 | IM | Agmanov, Zhandos | KAZ | 2458 |
| 66 | IM | Ghazarian, Kirk | USA | 2454 |
| 67 | FM | Makkar, Rajat | FRA | 2452 |
| 68 | IM | Bilych, Olexiy | UKR | 2451 |
| 69 | IM | Levin, Guy | ISR | 2451 |
| 70 | IM | Willow, Jonah B | ENG | 2450 |
| 71 | IM | Tarhan, Adar | TUR | 2446 |
| 72 | IM | Alexakis, Dimitris | GRE | 2443 |
| 73 | Malek, Jan | POL | 2441 | |
| 74 | IM | Deuer, Marius | GER | 2439 |
| 75 | IM | Shuvalova, Polina | FID | 2439 |
| 76 | IM | Akbas, Umut Ata | TUR | 2436 |
| 77 | IM | Heimann, Mark | USA | 2435 |
| 78 | IM | Jacobson, Aaron | USA | 2431 |
| 79 | IM | Vidyarthi, Vyom | USA | 2428 |
| 80 | IM | Divya, Deshmukh | IND | 2427 |
| 81 | FM | Kalogeris, Ioannis | GRE | 2427 |
| 82 | IM | Sousa, Andre Ventura | POR | 2426 |
| 83 | IM | Injac, Teodora | SRB | 2422 |
| 84 | IM | De Winter, Arthur | NED | 2413 |
| 85 | IM | Sanchez Alvarez, Roberto Carlos | PAN | 2407 |
| 86 | Jin, Yueheng | CHN | 2407 | |
| 87 | IM | Tutisani, Noe | GEO | 2405 |
| 88 | IM | Vantika, Agrawal | IND | 2398 |
| 89 | FM | Shohat, Yotam | ISR | 2398 |
| 90 | FM | Moehn, Hans | GER | 2396 |
| 91 | FM | Montoliu Cervero, Francisco | ESP | 2393 |
| 92 | IM | Wegener, Olaf | GER | 2391 |
| 93 | IM | Niedbala, Bartlomiej | POL | 2389 |
| 94 | IM | Audi, Ameya | IND | 2387 |
| 95 | IM | Sidhant, Mohapatra | IND | 2384 |
| 96 | IM | Vega Gutierrez, Sabrina | ESP | 2383 |
| 97 | FM | Ermitsch, Magnus | GER | 2380 |
| 98 | IM | Song, Yuxin | CHN | 2379 |
| 99 | IM | Panda, Sambit | IND | 2378 |
| 100 | FM | Tanmay, Chopra | IND | 2375 |
| 101 | IM | Badelka, Olga | FID | 2374 |
| 102 | IM | Wafa, Hamed | EGY | 2374 |
| 103 | IM | Balajayeva, Khanim | AZE | 2371 |
| 104 | FM | Porras Mateo, Felipe | AND | 2358 |
| 105 | FM | Akhvlediani, Irakli | GEO | 2356 |
| 106 | IM | Mammadova, Gulnar | AZE | 2352 |
| 107 | FM | Ruiz Buendia, Miguel | ESP | 2342 |
| 108 | WGM | Alinasab, Mobina | IRI | 2340 |
| 109 | IM | Unuk, Laura | SLO | 2338 |
| 110 | FM | Van Foreest, Machteld | NED | 2332 |
| 111 | IM | Dushyant, Sharma | IND | 2331 |
| 112 | FM | Oro, Faustino | ARG | 2330 |
| 113 | IM | Pilaj, Herwig | AUT | 2328 |
| 114 | FM | Raczek, Krzysztof | POL | 2325 |
| 115 | Liu, Zexu | CHN | 2325 | |
| 116 | FM | Ahmad, Khagan | AZE | 2321 |
| 117 | FM | Mamedov, Edgar | KAZ | 2317 |
| 118 | FM | Adarsh, Tripathi | IND | 2304 |
| 119 | FM | Blom, Vincent | NED | 2295 |
| 120 | IM | Manish, Anto Cristiano F | IND | 2293 |
| 121 | WIM | Nurman, Alua | KAZ | 2289 |
| 122 | FM | Mendes, Aaron Reeve | CAN | 2288 |
| 123 | FM | Zwahr, Paul | GER | 2286 |
| 124 | GM | Vogt, Lothar | GER | 2284 |
| 125 | FM | Falkevall, Axel | SWE | 2284 |
| 126 | FM | Farokhi, Keyvan | GER | 2284 |
| 127 | FM | Kuru, Atilla | TUR | 2284 |
| 128 | Zhu, Hengyi | CHN | 2282 | |
| 129 | FM | Laurent, Julien G. | FRA | 2277 |
| 130 | WGM | Nandhidhaa, P V | IND | 2276 |
| 131 | WGM | Priyanka, Nutakki | IND | 2272 |
| 132 | FM | Schenderowitsch, Michael | GER | 2266 |
| 133 | FM | Nurgaliyev, Sauat | KAZ | 2262 |
| 134 | FM | Mohamed, Anees M | IND | 2253 |
| 135 | FM | Humburg, Philipp | GER | 2248 |
| 136 | WGM | Lubbe, Melanie | GER | 2242 |
| 137 | FM | Kurmangaliyeva, Liya | KAZ | 2230 |
| 138 | WIM | Sgircea, Silvia-Raluca | ROU | 2230 |
| 139 | De Groote, Ewoud | NED | 2226 | |
| 140 | WGM | Cervantes Landeiro, Thalia | USA | 2219 |
| 141 | CM | Balague Camps, Marc | ESP | 2219 |
| 142 | FM | Rebers, Eugene | NED | 2217 |
| 143 | Alfonso Durban, Xavier | ESP | 2211 | |
| 144 | FM | Bolat, Inayat | KAZ | 2208 |
| 145 | IM | Abu Sufian, Shakil | BAN | 2206 |
| 146 | IM | Bradbury, Neil H | ENG | 2206 |
| 147 | CM | Marin Ferragut, Pau | ESP | 2203 |
| 148 | CM | Hebbar, Eshaan | USA | 2201 |
| 149 | CM | Badacsonyi, Stanley | ENG | 2197 |
| 150 | CM | Aymerich Verdaguer, Eduard | ESP | 2190 |
| 151 | Valdepenas Octavio, Javier | ESP | 2187 | |
| 152 | FM | Meessen, Rudolf | BEL | 2184 |
| 153 | Toolin, Christopher | USA | 2184 | |
| 154 | Aniruddh, Chatterjee | IND | 2182 | |
| 155 | Adam, Rafael | CAN | 2180 | |
| 156 | Ermachenko, Manuel | ESP | 2179 | |
| 157 | Paikens, Reinis | LAT | 2179 | |
| 158 | IM | Rodriguez Lopez, Rafael | ESP | 2177 |
| 159 | CM | Molina Carretero, Daniel | ESP | 2174 |
| 160 | CM | Perez Perez, Gabriel | ESP | 2174 |
| 161 | CM | Akshit, Kumar J | IND | 2172 |
| 162 | Chen, Yuan | CHN | 2169 | |
| 163 | Hentrich, Johannes | GER | 2164 | |
| 164 | Borne, Felix | FRA | 2163 | |
| 165 | IM | Mannion, Stephen R | SCO | 2159 |
| 166 | Amengual Perello, Jordi | ESP | 2154 | |
| 167 | CM | Boucquet, Emile | BEL | 2152 |
| 168 | WFM | Rodriguez Redondo, Adhara | ESP | 2152 |
| 169 | WIM | Nurgali, Nazerke | KAZ | 2148 |
| 170 | CM | Aguado Doncel, Pablo Luis | ESP | 2147 |
| 171 | WIM | Olde, Margareth | EST | 2146 |
| 172 | WGM | Wafa, Shrook | EGY | 2144 |
| 173 | FM | Brull Mayol, Cosme | ESP | 2141 |
| 174 | WFM | Garcia-Castany Musellas, Gal.La | ESP | 2138 |
| 175 | Suvradeepta, Das | IND | 2138 | |
| 176 | WFM | Kucharska, Honorata | POL | 2137 |
| 177 | FM | Ahn, Martin | BEL | 2134 |
| 178 | WFM | Zhao, Shengxin | CHN | 2123 |
| 179 | Verneuil, Pascal | FRA | 2122 | |
| 180 | WIM | Vidyarthi, Omya | USA | 2113 |
| 181 | WCM | Sachi, Jain | IND | 2110 |
| 182 | WIM | Serikbay, Assel | KAZ | 2109 |
| 183 | CM | Martinez Piqueras, Carlos | ESP | 2104 |
| 184 | Solnicki, Michal | POL | 2103 | |
| 185 | Vanduyfhuys, Igor | BEL | 2101 | |
| 186 | Montesinos Diaz, Luis | ESP | 2093 | |
| 187 | AIM | Hurtado, Felipe | COL | 2087 |
| 188 | WFM | Vanduyfhuys, Daria | BEL | 2086 |
| 189 | Zysko, Jan | POL | 2086 | |
| 190 | Fiol Abrines, Antonio | ESP | 2081 | |
| 191 | WFM | Cramling Bellon, Anna | SWE | 2079 |
| 192 | Aguilo Benejam, Alfredo | ESP | 2076 | |
| 193 | Manmay, Chopra | IND | 2065 | |
| 194 | Setien Solar, Enrique | ESP | 2055 | |
| 195 | Sklokin, Sergey | FID | 2054 | |
| 196 | Moskalets, Sofiia | UKR | 2050 | |
| 197 | Vardakas, Grigorios | GRE | 2043 | |
| 198 | Lizzul Coppe, Mirko | ITA | 2041 | |
| 199 | WCM | Anishka, Vikram | IND | 2036 |
| 200 | Ribeiro, Bruno | POR | 2034 | |
| 201 | Saine, Zachary | CAN | 2032 | |
| 202 | Escudero Ribo, Eloi | ESP | 2029 | |
| 203 | Pousada Garcia, Victor Daniel | ESP | 2029 | |
| 204 | FM | Cubas Pons, Juan Miguel | ESP | 2025 |
| 205 | Garcia Elio, Juan | ESP | 2025 | |
| 206 | Krauchi Romero, Martin | ESP | 2025 | |
| 207 | Moll Gener, Joan | ESP | 2025 | |
| 208 | Queirolo Perez, Manuel | ESP | 2025 | |
| 209 | Bergero, Simone | ITA | 2023 | |
| 210 | Perez Aleman, Pedro Tomas | ESP | 2023 | |
| 211 | Clotet Mas, Dan | ESP | 2020 | |
| 212 | Eche, Sylvain | FRA | 2019 | |
| 213 | FM | Ayza Ballester, Jordi | ESP | 2017 |
| 214 | Gallo, Ivan | ITA | 2015 | |
| 215 | CM | Levitan, Judah Nathan | RSA | 2010 |
| 216 | Ponseti Lluch, Joan | ESP | 2004 | |
| 217 | WCM | Avila Fraire, Ameyalli | MEX | 1999 |
| 218 | WFM | Meghna, C H | IND | 1995 |
| 219 | WCM | Vetokhina, Sofia | FID | 1992 |
| 220 | Dasgupta, Avyukt | ENG | 1981 | |
| 221 | Redondo Flores, David | ESP | 1981 | |
| 222 | Chen, Zhi | CHN | 1980 | |
| 223 | Sureda Gonzalez, Cristina | ESP | 1976 | |
| 224 | Sprenger De La Iglesia, Yevgeni | ESP | 1973 | |
| 225 | CM | Joel, Paul Ganta | IND | 1969 |
| 226 | Sales Montealegre, Raquel | ESP | 1968 | |
| 227 | FM | Huguet, Sergio | HON | 1963 |
| 228 | Murawski, Jan | ENG | 1963 | |
| 229 | CM | Garmendia Vega, Gabriel | CHI | 1961 |
| 230 | Fraga Pons, Albert Borja | ESP | 1958 | |
| 231 | Granath, Jonas | SWE | 1949 | |
| 232 | Arroyo Arellano, Antonio | ESP | 1947 | |
| 233 | Machin Arbelo, Pedro Alexis | ESP | 1943 | |
| 234 | Garcia Martinez, Josep | ESP | 1942 | |
| 235 | Fellowes, Billy | ENG | 1941 | |
| 236 | WFM | Bidhar, Rutumbara | IND | 1940 |
| 237 | Verweij, Kees | NED | 1935 | |
| 238 | Andriessen, Bart Jan | NED | 1934 | |
| 239 | Nguyen, Khoi | BEL | 1932 | |
| 240 | Salord Guillen, Joan | ESP | 1926 | |
| 241 | WCM | Maria, Lia-Alexandra | ROU | 1924 |
| 242 | Camps Abadia, Arnau | ESP | 1923 | |
| 243 | Suez-Panama, Gilles | FRA | 1922 | |
| 244 | Mccusker, Andrew | SCO | 1921 | |
| 245 | Pichugov, Andrey | ENG | 1920 | |
| 246 | Huseynova, Lala | AZE | 1916 | |
| 247 | Garbezza, Davide | ITA | 1903 | |
| 248 | Allentin, Eric | FRA | 1902 | |
| 249 | Patel, Zain | ENG | 1902 | |
| 250 | Yedid, Lior | ENG | 1902 | |
| 251 | Huyghues-Beaufond, Mathis | FRA | 1900 | |
| 252 | Amoros Moran, Jose Joaquin | ESP | 1899 | |
| 253 | Vinent Juanico, Marc | ESP | 1895 | |
| 254 | Moll Pons, Jana | ESP | 1892 | |
| 255 | Yang, Sung-Jui | TPE | 1891 | |
| 256 | Catona, Dan | FID | 1888 | |
| 257 | Patel, Keatan | ENG | 1882 | |
| 258 | Pang, Ethan | ENG | 1878 | |
| 259 | Liu, Meng | CHN | 1877 | |
| 260 | De Kleijn, Erwin | NED | 1874 | |
| 261 | Ahn, Maximilian | BEL | 1872 | |
| 262 | Sureda Gonzalez, Miquel | ESP | 1871 | |
| 263 | Bagur Moll, Guillem Uriel | ESP | 1869 | |
| 264 | Ha, Yihan | CHN | 1865 | |
| 265 | Alcindor, Samuel | FRA | 1859 | |
| 266 | Soriano Pallas, Rafael | ESP | 1857 | |
| 267 | Meneses Arenas, Mikel | ESP | 1851 | |
| 268 | Mercadal Benejam, Josep | ESP | 1845 | |
| 269 | Kucharska, Helena | POL | 1843 | |
| 270 | Krishnan, Saatvik | USA | 1842 | |
| 271 | Avetisyan, Ani | ARM | 1840 | |
| 272 | WCM | Prado, Alexandra | BOL | 1839 |
| 273 | Manske, Alexander | GER | 1836 | |
| 274 | Burgui Bueno, Juan | ESP | 1827 | |
| 275 | Ribon Calabia, Mariano | ESP | 1823 | |
| 276 | Aryan, Mehta | IND | 1809 | |
| 277 | Fleischmann, Theo | GER | 1798 | |
| 278 | Ahn, Anastasia | BEL | 1788 | |
| 279 | Wang, Yi(Bj) | CHN | 1782 | |
| 280 | Berger, Lars | GER | 1772 | |
| 281 | Medhansh, Rathi | IND | 1765 | |
| 282 | Da Silva, Jose Carlos Peixoto M. | BRA | 1732 | |
| 283 | Nieto Foresti, Julian | ESP | 1723 | |
| 284 | Voronaya, Eva | FID | 1673 |
