The Portimao Chess Festival 2024 will be held from 11 to 28 February in Portimao, Portugal. The Festival features classical and rapid tournaments, and the main event will be the Open tournament which already attracted nearly 100 entries. The total prize fund of the festival is 10.500 euros.
The Portimao Chess Open will be played in 9 rounds, swiss system, with a 1.600 EUR prize reserved for the event’s winner. The event’s line-up is very strong with GM Karen Grigoryan (Armenia, 2629), GM Eduardo Patricio Iturrizaga Bonelli (Spain, 2602), IM S. Mitusov (Norway, 2487), GM Alexander Kovchan (Ukraine, 2482) and GM Kevin Barry Spraggett (Canada, 2447) headlining the field. The complete starting list of players can be found below.
Tournament schedule:
Live games can be followed here.
The tournament is described with the slogan “Play Chess – Discover Portugal“, and the organizers offer a wide range of tourist proposals so players and their accompanying persons can get to know the wonders of this Algarve city. A video presentation of the city of Portimao can be seen below.
Starting rank list – Portimao Chess Open 2024 (as of 1.2.2024):
| No. | Name | FED | RtgI | |
| 1 | GM | GRIGORYAN, Karen H. | ARM | 2629 |
| 2 | GM | ITURRIZAGA BONELLI, Eduardo | ESP | 2602 |
| 3 | IM | MITUSOV, S | NOR | 2487 |
| 4 | GM | KOVCHAN, Alexander | UKR | 2482 |
| 5 | GM | SPRAGGETT, Kevin | CAN | 2447 |
| 6 | IM | MARTINEZ RAMIREZ, Lennis | CUB | 2442 |
| 7 | FM | BARRIA SANTOS, Jose Guilherme | POR | 2428 |
| 8 | IM | GOMEZ LEDO, Roberto Carlos | CUB | 2425 |
| 9 | IM | LICZNERSKI, Lukasz | POL | 2413 |
| 10 | FM | AAYUSH, Bhattacherjee | IND | 2410 |
| 11 | IM | NIEDBALA, Bartlomiej | POL | 2382 |
| 12 | WGM | LU, Miaoyi | CHN | 2369 |
| 13 | IM | STIJVE, Theo | SUI | 2348 |
| 14 | FM | MARTINS, Bruno Andre Leite | POR | 2347 |
| 15 | FM | TABUENCA MENDATAURIGOITIA, Daniel | ESP | 2344 |
| 16 | WGM | XU, Yuanyuan | CHN | 2292 |
| 17 | FM | RIBEIRO, Gustavo | POR | 2250 |
| 18 | FM | SILVA, Pedro Gil Ferreira Da | POR | 2222 |
| 19 | GONCALVES, Samuel Jesus P | POR | 2219 | |
| 20 | KREKEN, Eivind Grunt | NOR | 2189 | |
| 21 | CM | POVSHEDNYI, Ivan | UKR | 2169 |
| 22 | IM | RODRIGUEZ LOPEZ, Rafael | ESP | 2160 |
| 23 | NM | DINIS DE SOUSA, Joao | POR | 2096 |
| 24 | PANJER, Sidney | GER | 2059 | |
| 25 | WILKS, Simon | ENG | 2053 | |
| 26 | ZOUNANI, Yacine | FRA | 2043 | |
| 27 | KOSTOV, Kiril | BUL | 2032 | |
| 28 | VIERS, Emmanuel | FRA | 2032 | |
| 29 | STREHSE, Nelson | GER | 1979 | |
| 30 | ESTEVES, Goncalo Maria Franco V. | POR | 1957 | |
| 31 | RYABUKHIN, Roman | POR | 1956 | |
| 32 | FELLOWES, Billy | ENG | 1954 | |
| 33 | PAULINO, Jose | POR | 1944 | |
| 34 | PINHO, Tiago Brandao De | POR | 1923 | |
| 35 | KUMAR, Sanjit S | ENG | 1915 | |
| 36 | DEEPAK AMBATTU, Rithvik | SCO | 1908 | |
| 37 | PATEL, Zain | ENG | 1876 | |
| 38 | AFONSO, Joao Pedro | POR | 1873 | |
| 39 | RIBEIRO, Duarte | POR | 1870 | |
| 40 | LACOMBE, Martin | FRA | 1866 | |
| 41 | DUMONT, Andre | BEL | 1842 | |
| 42 | VALLADOLID MARTIN, Francisco Jose | ESP | 1842 | |
| 43 | MARCOS HERRERO, Francisco | ESP | 1828 | |
| 44 | NM | MORAIS, Vitor | POR | 1811 |
| 45 | DE KRUIF, Kees | NED | 1807 | |
| 46 | VAN GINKEL, Henk | NED | 1806 | |
| 47 | KHOO-THWE, Louis | NOR | 1791 | |
| 48 | PRATA, Jose | POR | 1791 | |
| 49 | SILVA, Jose Lucas Ferreira | POR | 1791 | |
| 50 | SILVA, Lourenco Santa Clara | POR | 1791 | |
| 51 | WCM | PRISHITA, Gupta | IND | 1762 |
| 52 | PENA, Helio Adelino Silva | POR | 1761 | |
| 53 | SILVA, Reinaldo | POR | 1759 | |
| 54 | CAPARROS FERNANDEZ, Xavier | ESP | 1753 | |
| 55 | MOLDOVAN, Lucas Gabriel | POR | 1737 | |
| 56 | KOSTOV, Troyan | BUL | 1715 | |
| 57 | GAMBOA, Quevin Milhano | POR | 1697 | |
| 58 | YIN, Zeming | CAN | 1696 | |
| 59 | RYABUKHINA, Veronika | POR | 1688 | |
| 60 | YE, Philipp | GER | 1684 | |
| 61 | GIERHARDT, Vito | GER | 1680 | |
| 62 | JONES, Chris S | ENG | 1662 | |
| 63 | ASVESTOPOULOU, Evdokia | GRE | 1661 | |
| 64 | DE LUNA BUTZ, Alberto | ESP | 1647 | |
| 65 | MOSTAFA, Hazem Farouk Mahmoud | EGY | 1638 | |
| 66 | LACHEVER, Diogo Freire | POR | 1636 | |
| 67 | CATURRA, Rafael Dias | POR | 1615 | |
| 68 | FERREIRA, Vasco Capitao Mendes | POR | 1615 | |
| 69 | ARYAN, Mehta | IND | 1607 | |
| 70 | RODRIGUES, Miguel Tiago | POR | 1551 | |
| 71 | TEVES, Pedro Lopes | POR | 1544 | |
| 72 | GUTIERREZ BOLADO, Juan Antonio | ESP | 1534 | |
| 73 | SMEMAN, Lambertus | NED | 1526 | |
| 74 | BITTNER, Titus | GER | 1512 | |
| 75 | TSUZUKI, Yan | BRA | 1461 | |
| 76 | TACUCHIAN, Marcelo Oliveira | POR | 1430 | |
| 77 | MEUTER, Alain | BEL | 1399 | |
| 78 | DIAS, Jose Oliveira Gaspar | POR | 1393 | |
| 79 | JULLIAN, Herve | FRA | 1377 | |
| 80 | CORREIA, Margarida | POR | 1351 | |
| 81 | BOTELHO, Adelino | POR | 1320 | |
| 82 | MACHADO, Manuel Domingos J | POR | 1317 | |
| 83 | RIBEIRO, Pedro Miguel Paiva | POR | 1305 | |
| 84 | ALVES, José Pedro Figueiredo | POR | 1289 | |
| 85 | KAETS, Jona | GER | 1289 | |
| 86 | BICHO, Ivan-Pi | POR | 1235 | |
| 87 | RAPOSEIRO, Vasco | POR | 1228 | |
| 88 | KOSTOV, Magnus Konstantin | BUL | 1204 | |
| 89 | MIKHAILOVA, Milana | FID | 1178 | |
| 90 | MIHALI, Viktor | POR | 1157 | |
| 91 | PATEL, Parisa | ENG | 1144 | |
| 92 | RIBEIRO, Margarida | POR | 1125 | |
| 93 | WANG, Luis | POR | 1050 | |
| 94 | BIBBY, Dalton | AUS | 0 | |
| 95 | CARVALHO, Eduardo Boavida Lopes | POR | 0 | |
| 96 | MIHALI, Daniel Jorge | POR | 0 | |
| 97 | MIKHAYLOV, Matvey | FID | 0 | |
| 98 | TSUZUKI, Kin | BRA | 0 | |
| 99 | ZHOU, Daniel Samuel | CHN | 0 |
