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The Karel Janecek Chess Open 2024 kicks off today in Prague as part of the Prague Chess Festival 2024. The event takes place from 28 February – 7 March and features a prize pool of 100.000 CZK (~4.000 EUR).
The Winner of the event will pocket a money-prize of 30.000 CZK (~1.200 EUR) and qualify for the Challengers tournament next year. More than 300 players registered for the Open event and the top seeds are: GM Eltaj Safarli (Azerbaijan, 2614), GM Sethuraman SP (India, 2603), GM Vitaliy Bernadskiy (Ukraine, 2572), IM Elham Amar (Norway, 2567), GM Li Di (China, 2563) and others. The field includes famous streamers WFM Alexandra Botez (Canada, 1977) and her sister Andrea Botez (Canada, 1708) (Live stream on Botez channel can be followed here) , as well as WGM Dina Belenkaya (Israel, 2164). The starting list of players can be seen below
Tournament schedule:
Detailed information about the event can be found on the Official website / Chess-results.
Prague Karel Janecek Chess Open 2024 – Starting list of players:
| No. | Name | FED | Rtg | |
| 1 | GM | Safarli, Eltaj | AZE | 2614 |
| 2 | GM | Sethuraman, S.P. | IND | 2603 |
| 3 | GM | Bernadskiy, Vitaliy | UKR | 2572 |
| 4 | IM | Amar, Elham | NOR | 2567 |
| 5 | GM | Li, Di | CHN | 2563 |
| 6 | GM | Kourkoulos-Arditis, Stamatis | GRE | 2556 |
| 7 | GM | Heberla, Bartlomiej | POL | 2552 |
| 8 | GM | Bharath, Subramaniyam H | IND | 2515 |
| 9 | GM | Polak, Tomas | CZE | 2506 |
| 10 | GM | Popovic, Dusan | SRB | 2504 |
| 11 | GM | Sadzikowski, Daniel | POL | 2498 |
| 12 | IM | Kraus, Tomas | CZE | 2497 |
| 13 | IM | Maksimovic, Bojan | BIH | 2497 |
| 14 | GM | Quintiliano, Renato R. | BRA | 2493 |
| 15 | GM | Barbosa, Evandro Amorim | BRA | 2491 |
| 16 | IM | Csonka, Balazs | HUN | 2480 |
| 17 | IM | Stoyanov, Tsvetan | BUL | 2465 |
| 18 | GM | Simacek, Pavel | CZE | 2463 |
| 19 | IM | Siddharth, Jagadeesh | SGP | 2457 |
| 20 | IM | Muthaiah, AL | IND | 2454 |
| 21 | IM | Isik, Alparslan | TUR | 2452 |
| 22 | IM | Zhao, Yuanhe | CHN | 2449 |
| 23 | IM | Harikrishnan.A.Ra, | IND | 2443 |
| 24 | IM | Kilic, Eray | TUR | 2439 |
| 25 | GM | Neverov, Valeriy | UKR | 2438 |
| 26 | GM | Jarmula, Lukasz | POL | 2434 |
| 27 | FM | Kalogeris, Ioannis | GRE | 2429 |
| 28 | IM | Ilamparthi, A R | IND | 2414 |
| 29 | GM | Akash, G | IND | 2411 |
| 30 | IM | Xiang, Zeyu | CHN | 2407 |
| 31 | IM | Song, Yuxin | CHN | 2405 |
| 32 | IM | Nguyen, Piotr | POL | 2404 |
| 33 | IM | Sofronie, Iulian | ROU | 2395 |
| 34 | IM | Harshavardhan, G B | IND | 2392 |
| 35 | GM | Neuman, Petr | CZE | 2390 |
| 36 | FM | Shagbazyan, Taron | UKR | 2388 |
| 37 | FM | Ivanov, Mike | CAN | 2382 |
| 38 | FM | Svanda, Ondrej | CZE | 2369 |
| 39 | FM | Dauner, Benedikt | GER | 2369 |
| 40 | FM | Smolik, Jachym | CZE | 2363 |
| 41 | FM | Abdilkhair, Abilmansur | KAZ | 2357 |
| 42 | FM | Lohia, Sohum | ENG | 2354 |
| 43 | FM | Kusa, Jakub | CZE | 2348 |
| 44 | Mikes, Jan | CZE | 2348 | |
| 45 | FM | Jares, Michal | CZE | 2346 |
| 46 | Roubalik, Jakub | CZE | 2343 | |
| 47 | FM | Hollan, Martin | CZE | 2339 |
| 48 | FM | Stinka, Jakub | CZE | 2333 |
| 49 | IM | Kulhanek, Tomas | CZE | 2325 |
| 50 | FM | Mis, Mieszko | POL | 2325 |
| 51 | FM | Chinguun, Sumiya | MGL | 2319 |
| 52 | CM | Tan, Jun Ying | MAS | 2315 |
| 53 | FM | Babula, Vlastimil | CZE | 2312 |
| 54 | Loos, Roland | GER | 2306 | |
| 55 | FM | Cieslak, Patryk | POL | 2300 |
| 56 | FM | Rudolf, Michal | POL | 2295 |
| 57 | FM | Simek, Petr | CZE | 2290 |
| 58 | WIM | Balabayeva, Xeniya | KAZ | 2282 |
| 59 | FM | Serrano Salvador, Eduardo | CZE | 2280 |
| 60 | FM | Sorm, Daniel | CZE | 2280 |
| 61 | FM | Senthil, Maran K | IND | 2275 |
| 62 | FM | Daakshin, Arun | IND | 2274 |
| 63 | IM | Strebkovs, Andrejs | LAT | 2273 |
| 64 | FM | Kokoszczynski, Jan | POL | 2272 |
| 65 | FM | Miszler, Levente | HUN | 2269 |
| 66 | Walek, Petr | CZE | 2266 | |
| 67 | FM | Novotny, Michal | CZE | 2265 |
| 68 | Klepek, Witold | POL | 2262 | |
| 69 | FM | Vojta, Jakub | CZE | 2251 |
| 70 | CM | Deveci, Huseyin Said | TUR | 2250 |
| 71 | IM | Saravana, Krishnan P. | IND | 2246 |
| 72 | Bednar, Marcel | CZE | 2241 | |
| 73 | CM | Krivenko, Dion | EST | 2239 |
| 74 | FM | Real, Thibault | BEL | 2236 |
| 75 | CM | Mifsud, Timothy | MLT | 2234 |
| 76 | Husek, Martin | CZE | 2232 | |
| 77 | Lever, Erwan | FRA | 2231 | |
| 78 | FM | Karas, Marek | CZE | 2228 |
| 79 | Bravetti, Antonio | ITA | 2227 | |
| 80 | IM | Welling, Gerard | NED | 2221 |
| 81 | Rohit, S | IND | 2215 | |
| 82 | FM | Chkhaidze, Nikoloz | GEO | 2209 |
| 83 | FM | Nemitz, Alfred | GER | 2208 |
| 84 | Garcia Martinez, Marcos | ESP | 2187 | |
| 85 | Koffeman, Timo | NED | 2186 | |
| 86 | Budrewicz, Krzysztof | POL | 2184 | |
| 87 | Sevcik, Matej | SVK | 2184 | |
| 88 | CM | Ocelak, Jakub | CZE | 2183 |
| 89 | Kratochvil, Vit | CZE | 2182 | |
| 90 | Leskiewicz, Ignacy | POL | 2180 | |
| 91 | Zvolensky, David | CZE | 2179 | |
| 92 | CM | Assylov, Miras | KAZ | 2176 |
| 93 | Le, Anh Dung | CZE | 2175 | |
| 94 | WIM | Sahithi, Varshini M | IND | 2173 |
| 95 | WIM | Kanakova, Natalie | CZE | 2169 |
| 96 | Aadit, Bhatia | IND | 2169 | |
| 97 | FM | Sahin, Ozgun | TUR | 2168 |
| 98 | WGM | Belenkaya, Dina | ISR | 2164 |
| 99 | IM | Sedina, Elena | ITA | 2161 |
| 100 | Mohylnyi, Stepan | UKR | 2160 | |
| 101 | WGM | Rodshtein, Tereza | CZE | 2157 |
| 102 | Mueller, Magnus | GER | 2157 | |
| 103 | Rakovsky, Jakub | SVK | 2145 | |
| 104 | Lau, Lut Yin Luke | HKG | 2142 | |
| 105 | Radzimski, Antoni | POL | 2133 | |
| 106 | Krivanek, Vladimir | CZE | 2121 | |
| 107 | Knitl, Anton | GER | 2120 | |
| 108 | IM | Lirindzakis, Timotheos | GRE | 2120 |
| 109 | Trapl, Dalibor | CZE | 2115 | |
| 110 | CM | Sahin, Sarp | TUR | 2115 |
| 111 | WFM | Dwilewicz, Katarzyna | POL | 2113 |
| 112 | CM | Grot, Blazej | POL | 2102 |
| 113 | FM | Vanek, Tomas | CZE | 2100 |
| 114 | Kaczmarek, Arkadiusz | POL | 2099 | |
| 115 | Zaragoza Alanis, Miguel Arnulfo | MEX | 2098 | |
| 116 | Grimault, Nathan | FRA | 2094 | |
| 117 | Ouaki, Mark | BEL | 2092 | |
| 118 | Mametev, Artem | CZE | 2091 | |
| 119 | CM | Vincenti, Leonardo | ITA | 2085 |
| 120 | Van den Bersselaar, Jeroen | NED | 2082 | |
| 121 | FM | Hajiyev, Kanan | AZE | 2081 |
| 122 | FM | Muzik, Martin | CZE | 2077 |
| 123 | FM | Lacrosse, Marc | BEL | 2076 |
| 124 | WFM | Vrbova, Niki | SVK | 2075 |
| 125 | Wecker, Martin | GER | 2075 | |
| 126 | FM | Taborsky, Rostislav | CZE | 2074 |
| 127 | Shamian, Artur | UKR | 2074 | |
| 128 | WIM | Pujari, Rucha | IND | 2071 |
| 129 | Panjer, Sidney | GER | 2059 | |
| 130 | Orzechowski, Jacek | POL | 2058 | |
| 131 | Duke, Michael | SCO | 2054 | |
| 132 | Brzezina, Piotr | POL | 2050 | |
| 133 | Kondys, Piotr | POL | 2047 | |
| 134 | FM | Hrbolka, Ladislav | CZE | 2046 |
| 135 | Tykhonov, Yurii | CZE | 2044 | |
| 136 | Lilliehook, Victor | SWE | 2042 | |
| 137 | WIM | Sultanbek, Zeinep | KAZ | 2040 |
| 138 | Hollstein, Frank, Dr. | GER | 2039 | |
| 139 | WCM | Piddubna, Bozhena | UKR | 2035 |
| 140 | FM | Valenta, Vit Vaclav | CZE | 2021 |
| 141 | Samaridis, Konstantinos | GRE | 2017 | |
| 142 | Slacky, Stanislav | SVK | 2017 | |
| 143 | Dushatov, Timur | KAZ | 2016 | |
| 144 | Filindash, Nikita | CZE | 2014 | |
| 145 | Kaderabek, Jiri | CZE | 2014 | |
| 146 | Bunk, Wolfgang | GER | 2014 | |
| 147 | Rajnys, Vladimir | CZE | 2009 | |
| 148 | Narr, Kevin | GER | 2007 | |
| 149 | Gkogkas, Dimitrios | GRE | 2005 | |
| 150 | WFM | Svobodova, Michaela | CZE | 2003 |
| 151 | WFM | Shivika, Rohilla | IND | 2003 |
| 152 | Nesse, David | NOR | 2002 | |
| 153 | Phatak, Aanjaneya | IND | 1999 | |
| 154 | Kudrytskyi, Stanislav | UKR | 1998 | |
| 155 | Ilandzis, Spyridon | GRE | 1996 | |
| 156 | Tesar, Jakub | CZE | 1995 | |
| 157 | Tolhuizen, Ludo | NED | 1993 | |
| 158 | Taus, Martin | CZE | 1992 | |
| 159 | CM | Joel, Paul Ganta | IND | 1989 |
| 160 | Pousada Garcia, Victor Daniel | ESP | 1989 | |
| 161 | Topencik, Bruno | CZE | 1988 | |
| 162 | Ribreau, Herve | FRA | 1985 | |
| 163 | Hanak, Tomas | CZE | 1983 | |
| 164 | Bezeyko, Olexander | UKR | 1983 | |
| 165 | Sofronie, Vladimir | ROU | 1983 | |
| 166 | Kurek, Pavel | CZE | 1982 | |
| 167 | Toniolo, Samuel | ITA | 1982 | |
| 168 | Hurtak, Otto | CZE | 1977 | |
| 169 | WFM | Botez, Alexandra | CAN | 1977 |
| 170 | FM | Bigabylov, Zhuban | KAZ | 1972 |
| 171 | Kotrba, Matej | CZE | 1966 | |
| 172 | Kaewpitakkun, Pantham | NOR | 1962 | |
| 173 | Sokolovsky, Jakub | SVK | 1961 | |
| 174 | Giertli, Vladimir | SVK | 1950 | |
| 175 | Striskova, Lucia | SVK | 1947 | |
| 176 | Janik, Marek Tobias | SVK | 1946 | |
| 177 | Plesek, Jiri | CZE | 1945 | |
| 178 | Pressler, Tobias | CZE | 1943 | |
| 179 | Rathbone-Jones, Ifan | WLS | 1941 | |
| 180 | CM | Smietanska, Wiktoria | POL | 1937 |
| 181 | Verner, Matej | CZE | 1928 | |
| 182 | Oglaza, Dawid | POL | 1921 | |
| 183 | Hujo, Jozef | SVK | 1916 | |
| 184 | Randziak, Martin | SVK | 1916 | |
| 185 | Dome, Michal | CZE | 1913 | |
| 186 | Vavruska, Antonin | CZE | 1912 | |
| 187 | Kosut, Tomas | CZE | 1912 | |
| 188 | Rutten, Bram | NED | 1911 | |
| 189 | Stefan, Iulia-Cristiana | ROU | 1910 | |
| 190 | Holliman, Bob | USA | 1909 | |
| 191 | Velikov, Nikola | BUL | 1909 | |
| 192 | Green, Per | SWE | 1906 | |
| 193 | Vrchotka, Josef | CZE | 1901 | |
| 194 | Sedlak, Milan | CZE | 1901 | |
| 195 | Novotny, Dominik | CZE | 1899 | |
| 196 | Roch, Florian | FRA | 1896 | |
| 197 | Dovgaliuk, Oleksandr | UKR | 1894 | |
| 198 | Plchot, Miroslav | CZE | 1893 | |
| 199 | Boudey, Simon | FRA | 1892 | |
| 200 | Bertram, Johannes | GER | 1890 | |
| 201 | Srimathi, R | IND | 1882 | |
| 202 | FM | Vokoun, Jan | CZE | 1873 |
| 203 | Reichel, Lukasz | POL | 1871 | |
| 204 | Schraegle, Thorsten | GER | 1864 | |
| 205 | Durana, Jonas | SVK | 1861 | |
| 206 | Benes, Miroslav | CZE | 1858 | |
| 207 | Petranek, Marian | CZE | 1857 | |
| 208 | Siles, Jan | CZE | 1856 | |
| 209 | Al Ibrahim, Abdulrahman | KUW | 1854 | |
| 210 | Rychlik, Michal | POL | 1852 | |
| 211 | Pejrimovska, Viola Ruby | CZE | 1848 | |
| 212 | Haugen, Lars Tormod | NOR | 1847 | |
| 213 | Di Paolo, Marco | ITA | 1842 | |
| 214 | Babula, Matej | CZE | 1840 | |
| 215 | Prieto, Alberto | USA | 1834 | |
| 216 | Mrazek, Adam | CZE | 1829 | |
| 217 | Steiner, Juraj | CZE | 1826 | |
| 218 | WFM | Grapsa, Georgia | GRE | 1825 |
| 219 | Tan, Jimmy | SGP | 1825 | |
| 220 | Mikhno, Artem | CZE | 1820 | |
| 221 | Svoboda, Daniel | CZE | 1819 | |
| 222 | Heyl, Thomas | GER | 1819 | |
| 223 | Mihal, Sergej | CZE | 1815 | |
| 224 | Lien, Sebastian | NOR | 1811 | |
| 225 | Pejrimovsky, Tadeas Rubel | CZE | 1806 | |
| 226 | Benci, Jozef | SVK | 1804 | |
| 227 | Kiryttopoulos, Ioannis | GRE | 1804 | |
| 228 | Svizensky, Lubos | CZE | 1803 | |
| 229 | Yin, Milo | FRA | 1803 | |
| 230 | Bohlin, Jan | SWE | 1798 | |
| 231 | Chernyy, Andrey | CZE | 1797 | |
| 232 | Tripathi, Pratyush | SWE | 1797 | |
| 233 | Shvorin, Artem | CZE | 1795 | |
| 234 | Veny, Jaume | CZE | 1789 | |
| 235 | Zuziak, Petr | CZE | 1788 | |
| 236 | Migalko, Dmitriy | CZE | 1787 | |
| 237 | Stary, Simon | CZE | 1783 | |
| 238 | Berikkyzy, Alanna | KAZ | 1783 | |
| 239 | Stojkovic, Andreja | CRO | 1778 | |
| 240 | WCM | Sipos, Stefania | HUN | 1769 |
| 241 | IM | Chubar, Vladimir | UKR | 1763 |
| 242 | Yagiz, Bora | TUR | 1759 | |
| 243 | De Martino, Daniele | FRA | 1756 | |
| 244 | Alsaqer, Meshal | KUW | 1753 | |
| 245 | Bohatyrov, Mykola | UKR | 1751 | |
| 246 | CM | Popov, Roman | CZE | 1747 |
| 247 | Muzik, Roman | CZE | 1741 | |
| 248 | Dauren, Darmen | KAZ | 1727 | |
| 249 | WCM | Milner, Romi | USA | 1716 |
| 250 | Botez, Andrea | CAN | 1708 | |
| 251 | Kiryttopoulos, Panagiotis Aris | GRE | 1705 | |
| 252 | Kadonas, Kestutis | LTU | 1686 | |
| 253 | Bara, Jan | CZE | 1682 | |
| 254 | Gierhardt, Vito | GER | 1680 | |
| 255 | Dranka, Jowita | POL | 1676 | |
| 256 | De Maria, Isaia | ITA | 1657 | |
| 257 | Konvalinka, Vladislav | CZE | 1656 | |
| 258 | Hu, Zhening | CHN | 1641 | |
| 259 | Mathisen, Pal Strande | NOR | 1639 | |
| 260 | Hosova, Sandra | CZE | 1636 | |
| 261 | Kammova, Katerina | CZE | 1635 | |
| 262 | Kallesen, Jesper | DEN | 1621 | |
| 263 | Lajdamik, Kinga | POL | 1619 | |
| 264 | Kelemen, Csaba Herkules | HUN | 1601 | |
| 265 | Kolar, Edvard | CZE | 1598 | |
| 266 | Bondarenko, Vova | CZE | 1598 | |
| 267 | Pogorelskiy, Boris | CZE | 1578 | |
| 268 | Sboev, Kirill | CZE | 1575 | |
| 269 | Nguyen, Thai Dang Vi | CZE | 1571 | |
| 270 | Feierfeil, Jiri | CZE | 1568 | |
| 271 | Poliakov, Mykhailo | CZE | 1558 | |
| 272 | Zeman, Arnost | CZE | 1546 | |
| 273 | Ulam-Orgikh, Amartuvshin | CZE | 1530 | |
| 274 | Agarwal, Amaya | ENG | 1517 | |
| 275 | Agarwal, Anay | ENG | 1490 | |
| 276 | Gernert, Tomas | CZE | 1489 | |
| 277 | Zawal, Krzysztof | POL | 1487 | |
| 278 | Pasek, Josef | CZE | 1478 | |
| 279 | Richter, Daniel | CZE | 1476 | |
| 280 | Tomasic, Ivan | CRO | 1462 | |
| 281 | Lutskiy, Mikhail | CZE | 1460 | |
| 282 | Rubin, Andrej | CZE | 1458 | |
| 283 | Sander, Antonin | CZE | 1452 | |
| 284 | Bukovskij, Dmitri | CZE | 1442 | |
| 285 | Engel, Ecrin Tuana | TUR | 1438 | |
| 286 | Zabehlicky, Jiri | CZE | 1423 | |
| 287 | Dolas, Aarush | IND | 1400 | |
| 288 | Sener, Aysun | TUR | 1397 | |
| 289 | Unal, Burak Kayra | TUR | 1388 | |
| 290 | Le, Duc Thang | CZE | 1384 | |
| 291 | Temirbek, Amirali | CZE | 1383 | |
| 292 | Maksimovic, Savo | BIH | 1378 | |
| 293 | Dubsky, Lukas | CZE | 1357 | |
| 294 | Schwartz, Michael | RSA | 1350 | |
| 295 | Sahin, Bora | TUR | 1347 | |
| 296 | Orman, Attila | AZE | 1337 | |
| 297 | Eidi, Eisa | KUW | 1306 | |
| 298 | Havlik, David | CZE | 1300 | |
| 299 | Nguyen Nhat, Minh Thu | CZE | 1272 | |
| 300 | Kusova, Nikola | CZE | 1234 | |
| 301 | Dobsinsky, Petr | CZE | 1231 | |
| 302 | Menkov, Ivan | CZE | 1206 | |
| 303 | Baratov, Iman | CAN | 1204 | |
| 304 | Chernookov, Nikita | CZE | 1200 | |
| 305 | Ellender, Asher | RSA | 1097 | |
| 306 | Balzerowski, Patrick | GER | 0 | |
| 307 | Blome, Simon | GER | 0 | |
| 308 | Lacanrus, David | FRA | 0 | |
| 309 | Meneses, Santiago | COL | 0 | |
| 310 | Muenz, Werner | GER | 0 | |
| 311 | Wijnen, Thomas | NED | 0 |
