The 1st Jeddah Chess Festival – All information

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The 1st Jeddah International Chess Festival is taking place from 24-30 January in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The event consists of two tournaments: The Jeddah Young Masters and The Arabian Karpov Cup.

The Jeddah Young Masters is an invitational 10-player round-robin event that gathers young chess stars born in 2005 or later. Simultaneously played, the Arabian Karpov Cup is a 9-round swiss tournament, open to all U18 players.

Indian prodigy GM Raunak Sadhwani headlines the field of the Young Masters tournament, which includes GM Volodar Murzin, GM Pranav V, IM Jan Klimkowski, IM Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus, IM Andy Woodward, IM Jakub Seemann, FM Faustino Oro, FM Jaime Rey Martinez and WGM Candela Be Francisco Guecamburu. The starting list of players can be seen below.

Final results, rankings and report can be found here.

Live games can be followed here. Detailed information are available on the official website of the event.

No.		Name	FED	RtgI
4	GM	Sadhwani, Raunak	IND	2654
10	GM	Murzin, Volodar	FID	2635
8	GM	Pranav, V	IND	2611
1	IM	Klimkowski, Jan	POL	2531
5	IM	Erdogmus, Yagiz Kaan	TUR	2524
6	IM	Woodward, Andy	USA	2501
2	IM	Seemann, Jakub	POL	2439
7	FM	Oro, Faustino	ARG	2357
3	FM	Rey Martinez, Jaime	ESP	2342
9	WGM	Francisco Guecamburu, Candela Be	ARG	2295

The Arabian Karpov Chess Cup gathers 70 players and te list of players can be seen below:

SNo		Name	FED	RtgI
1		Garijo Perez, Hugo	ESP	2270
2	AFM	Bravo De La Vega, Alvaro	ESP	2121
3		Robledo Sanchez, Saul	ESP	2000
4	WCM	Rouda Essa, Alserkal	UAE	1882
5	CM	Amrane, Abdellah	ALG	1881
6		Romero Barkouk, Rayan	ESP	1868
7		Fates, Omer Salah	LBA	1867
8		Sureda Gonzalez, Miquel	ESP	1849
9		Sureda Gonzalez, Cristina	ESP	1818
10	WCM	Sawan, Eman	PLE	1807
11		Toquero Gracia, Laura	ESP	1727
12		Rashed Abubaker, Alhemeiri	UAE	1654
13		Aljameel, Sultan Anwar	KSA	1652
14		Hamdan Edrees, Alhamed	UAE	1565
15		Humaidan Mohamed, Alzaabi	UAE	1565
16	CM	Eisa Mohmood, Alkhoori	UAE	1541
17		Chbihi, Abdourahmane	MAR	1533
18		Alsenari, Yousef Mohammed	KSA	1506
19		Al-Qudaimi, Abdullah	YEM	1494
20	AIM	Ahmed Gamal El Deen, Yaseen	EGY	1456
21		Al Jaefi, Moataz	YEM	1289
22		Mera, Abdulaziz Aidarous	UAE	1242
23		Al Khoori, Noora Mahmood Abdulla	UAE	1185
24		Al Maawali, Ammar	OMA	1145
25		Al Riyami, Mohammed	OMA	1137
26	AFM	Shahan, Abu Sayeed	IND	1087
27		Al Riyami, Majd	OMA	1087
28		Turki, Yousef Hattan A	KSA	1001
29	ACM	Alsairafi, Moahmmmed	FID	0
30		Abdulaziz, Abdulrahman	KSA	0
31		Al Ghafri, Fathima	OMA	0
32		Al Ghafri, Noor	OMA	0
33		Al Harthi, Ahmed Ibrahim J	KSA	0
34		Al Maawali, Yousuf	OMA	0
35		Al Otaibi, Abdallah	KSA	0
36		Al Qasem, Osama Yousof M	KSA	0
37		Al Saud, Faisal Bin Talal	KSA	0
38		Al Saud, Khalid bin Talal	KSA	0
39		Albabtain, Mouath Ali Abdulrahman	KSA	0
40		Albalawi, Sultan Qalit	KSA	0
41		Aldiri, Mohammed Nail T	KSA	0
42		Alesawi, Marzoq Ali Khaled	KSA	0
43		Aljuhani, Qasam	KSA	0
44		Almurbati, Maryam Khaled	BRN	0
45		Almutairi, Aws Waleed M	KSA	0
46		Almutairi, Marwan Abdullah Mohammed	KSA	0
47		Almutairi, Mashhour Hassan S	KSA	0
48		Almutairi, Musaad H	KSA	0
49		Almutairi, Nahyan Abdullah	KSA	0
50		Alqarni, Khalid Mohammed M	KSA	0
51		Al-Qudaimi, Raghd	YEM	0
52		Alshuraim, Turki Mohammed S	KSA	0
53		Alzahrani, Yzeed Hatem	KSA	0
54		Daas, Mashel Ali Yahya	KSA	0
55		Gari, Muhammad Abdulbasit I	KSA	0
56		Gazzaz, Abdullwahab Ahmed Hassan	KSA	0
57		Haithm, Rashad Al Sadi	YEM	0
58		Hoor, Fatima	IND	0
59		Ismail, Iyed	TUN	0
60		Khalil, Omar	SYR	0
61		Maki, Abdulla	BRN	0
62		Mohamed Abdel Fattah, Hamza	EGY	0
63		Rahali, Mohamed Hedi	TUN	0
64		Rahali, Yassmine	TUN	0
65		Sameh, Yassin	EGY	0
66		Shaaban Kabakibo,, Osama.	SYR	0
67		Sultan, Zaid.	SYR	0
68		Yehia, Jana	EGY	0
69		ألأحمدي, ماجد حامد	KSA	0
70		الناصر, رائد ناصر محمد بدر محمد	KSA	0