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The 1st Munich International Chess Festival is taking place from May 31 – June 6 in Munich, Germany, within the framework of the International Sunway Chess Festival Sitges. The event is played in 9 rounds, swiss system, in two rating categories: A and B, with the total prize fund of 30.000 euros.
The field of the A tournament is headlined by three European Champions: European Individual Chess Champion 2023 GM Alexey Sarana (Serbia, 2685), European Individual Chess Champion 2021 GM Anton Demchenko (FIDE, 2623) and European Individual Chess Champion 2014 GM Alexander Motylev (FIDE, 2604). The Winner of the A tournament will win the money-prize of 5.000 EUR.
1st Munich International Chess Festival 2023 – Participants list:
| No. | Name | FED | RtgI | |
| 1 | GM | Sarana, Alexey | SRB | 2685 |
| 2 | GM | Demchenko, Anton | FID | 2623 |
| 3 | GM | Motylev, Alexander | FID | 2604 |
| 4 | GM | Jobava, Baadur | GEO | 2578 |
| 5 | GM | Basso, Pier Luigi | ITA | 2520 |
| 6 | GM | Bharath, Subramaniyam H | IND | 2517 |
| 7 | GM | Chatalbashev, Boris | DEN | 2506 |
| 8 | IM | Parkhov, Yair | ISR | 2505 |
| 9 | GM | Shyam, Sundar M. | IND | 2502 |
| 10 | GM | Dimitrov, Radoslav | BUL | 2488 |
| 11 | IM | Kramer, Julian | GER | 2487 |
| 12 | IM | Berchtenbreiter, Maximilian | GER | 2483 |
| 13 | IM | Feuerstack, Aljoscha | GER | 2462 |
| 14 | GM | Korneev, Oleg | ESP | 2457 |
| 15 | IM | Vogel, Roven | GER | 2453 |
| 16 | IM | Sorensen, Hampus | SWE | 2449 |
| 17 | IM | Gedajlovic, Max | CAN | 2436 |
| 18 | GM | Deepan, Chakkravarthy J. | IND | 2435 |
| 19 | IM | Hacker, Jonas | GER | 2435 |
| 20 | Jinan, Jomon | IND | 2432 | |
| 21 | IM | Parvanyan, Ashot | GER | 2431 |
| 22 | IM | Koellner, Ruben Gideon | GER | 2426 |
| 23 | WIM | Savitha, Shri B | IND | 2418 |
| 24 | IM | Harshavardhan, G B | IND | 2408 |
| 25 | FM | Peyrer, Konstantin | AUT | 2405 |
| 26 | GM | Kjartansson, Gudmundur | ISL | 2402 |
| 27 | IM | Souhardo, Basak | IND | 2400 |
| 28 | FM | Dauner, Benedikt | GER | 2400 |
| 29 | FM | Trost, Edvin | SWE | 2399 |
| 30 | FM | Krause, Jonah | GER | 2395 |
| 31 | FM | Schmider, Niklas | GER | 2395 |
| 32 | IM | Zysk, Robert | GER | 2391 |
| 33 | IM | Nitin, S. | IND | 2389 |
| 34 | IM | Fedorovsky, Michael | GER | 2387 |
| 35 | Zajogin, Alexander | FID | 2386 | |
| 36 | IM | Langheinrich, Ferenc | GER | 2371 |
| 37 | FM | Costa, Leonardo | GER | 2343 |
| 38 | FM | Domalchuk-Jonasson, Aleksandr | ISL | 2338 |
| 39 | WIM | Hrebenshchykova, Yelyzaveta | UKR | 2335 |
| 40 | FM | Miller, Eduard | GER | 2333 |
| 41 | FM | Citak, Selim | TUR | 2332 |
| 42 | FM | Ivanov, Mike | CAN | 2321 |
| 43 | FM | Tarhan, Adar | TUR | 2317 |
| 44 | FM | Mai, Philipp Dr. | GER | 2315 |
| 45 | IM | Kulon, Klaudia | POL | 2314 |
| 46 | IM | Bracker, Frank | GER | 2311 |
| 47 | IM | Koepke, Christian | GER | 2308 |
| 48 | FM | Ipek, Egehan | TUR | 2308 |
| 49 | Lohvinov, Petro | UKR | 2302 | |
| 50 | FM | Grimm, Julius | GER | 2299 |
| 51 | FM | Harsh, Suresh | IND | 2298 |
| 52 | FM | Dalaud, Dorian | FRA | 2292 |
| 53 | Lever, Erwan | FRA | 2289 | |
| 54 | FM | Wahedi, Ahmad Siar | GER | 2274 |
| 55 | WIM | Imnadze, Nato | GEO | 2266 |
| 56 | Reimann, Sebastian | GER | 2265 | |
| 57 | FM | Degenhard, Simon | GER | 2247 |
| 58 | CM | Tulchynskyi, Feliks | UKR | 2246 |
| 59 | Leeb, Simon | GER | 2242 | |
| 60 | CM | Matthes, Aaron | GER | 2241 |
| 61 | Herbrig, Alexander | GER | 2235 | |
| 62 | FM | Meier, Volker | GER | 2234 |
| 63 | FM | Jarocka, Liwia | POL | 2225 |
| 64 | Gramb, Marius | GER | 2225 | |
| 65 | FM | Kononenko, Alexander | UKR | 2220 |
| 66 | FM | Peycheva, Gergana | BUL | 2218 |
| 67 | WFM | Li, Zhuoling | CHN | 2216 |
| 68 | FM | Demaria, Juan Pablo | ARG | 2215 |
| 69 | FM | Goldbeck, Lars | GER | 2207 |
| 70 | CM | Khandelwal, Ankush | ENG | 2205 |
| 71 | Player, Edmund C | ENG | 2204 | |
| 72 | Reis, Thomas | GER | 2196 | |
| 73 | Hinterreiter, Markus | GER | 2194 | |
| 74 | Kocharin, Timur | GER | 2189 | |
| 75 | Mueller, Richard | GER | 2189 | |
| 76 | FM | Saya, Ethan | FRA | 2181 |
| 77 | Shatil, Shir | ISR | 2180 | |
| 78 | Ruecker, Benjamin | GER | 2179 | |
| 79 | FM | Loew, Gerald | GER | 2173 |
| 80 | FM | Kazarian, Anna-Maja | NED | 2170 |
| 81 | Perkampus, Laurin | GER | 2165 | |
| 82 | Schleicher, Guido | GER | 2164 | |
| 83 | Friedel, Marcus | GER | 2162 | |
| 84 | Stockmann, Rainer | GER | 2162 | |
| 85 | Hoffmann, Sebastian | GER | 2151 | |
| 86 | CM | Koellner, Aaron Noah | GER | 2143 |
| 87 | Parvanyan, Alfred | GER | 2140 | |
| 88 | Monninger, Moritz | GER | 2138 | |
| 89 | FM | Senthil, Maran K | IND | 2135 |
| 90 | WFM | Butenandt, Svenja | GER | 2135 |
| 91 | Knoblauch, Leonhard | GER | 2134 | |
| 92 | FM | Salvermoser, Bernd | AUT | 2133 |
| 93 | Stoettner, Moritz | GER | 2126 | |
| 94 | WGM | Varshini, V | IND | 2122 |
| 95 | Herb, Stefan | GER | 2121 | |
| 96 | Riewe, Gerhard | GER | 2120 | |
| 97 | CM | Derraugh, Geordie | CAN | 2116 |
| 98 | FM | Lorscheid, Gerhard | GER | 2114 |
| 99 | Kunal, M. | IND | 2106 | |
| 100 | Engesser, Jonas | GER | 2103 | |
| 101 | Braun, Michael | GER | 2102 | |
| 102 | CM | Ernst, Michael | AUT | 2101 |
| 103 | Stoettner, Lukas | GER | 2096 | |
| 104 | WFM | Mayrhuber, Nikola | AUT | 2094 |
| 105 | Mota, Pankit | IND | 2094 | |
| 106 | Kessler, Jan | GER | 2091 | |
| 107 | Werner, Denis | GER | 2076 | |
| 108 | Kartsev, Nikolay | GER | 2074 | |
| 109 | Hassemeier, Mika | GER | 2070 | |
| 110 | Boeddeker, Henry | GER | 2068 | |
| 111 | Brychcy, Felix | GER | 2064 | |
| 112 | Schnabel, Bennett | GER | 2063 | |
| 113 | Wichmann, Adrian | GER | 2062 | |
| 114 | Fuchs, Florian | GER | 2058 | |
| 115 | Niharika, Challa | IND | 2058 | |
| 116 | Seisenberger, Georg | GER | 2057 | |
| 117 | Ritzka, Simon | GER | 2052 | |
| 118 | Forster, Lukas | GER | 2049 | |
| 119 | Czap, Bernard | GER | 2048 | |
| 120 | Kudrytskyi, Stanislav | UKR | 2048 | |
| 121 | Heer, Stephan | SUI | 2047 | |
| 122 | Klenk, Robert | GER | 2046 | |
| 123 | Weiss, Thomas | GER | 2040 | |
| 124 | Brem, Stephan | GER | 2039 | |
| 125 | Petersen, Marcel | GER | 2037 | |
| 126 | Pfitzer, Norbert Prof. Dr. | GER | 2036 | |
| 127 | Tsakona, Maria | GRE | 2033 | |
| 128 | Tunka, Philipp | GER | 2032 | |
| 129 | Debertshaeuser, Joern | GER | 2029 | |
| 130 | Ghita, Vlad-Bogdan | ROU | 2021 | |
| 131 | Sakkal, Cherin | GER | 2018 | |
| 132 | Jacob, Tobias | GER | 2015 | |
| 133 | Kampert, Andreas | GER | 2014 | |
| 134 | Apaar, Saxena | IND | 2012 | |
| 135 | Dushatov, Timur | KAZ | 2009 | |
| 136 | Teichert, Felix | GER | 2008 | |
| 137 | Koukas, Anastasios | GRE | 2003 | |
| 138 | Hoppstaedter, Daniel | GER | 2000 | |
| 139 | Manucharyan, Andriy | GER | 2000 | |
| 140 | Basener, Winfried | GER | 1998 | |
| 141 | Vincenti, Leonardo | ITA | 1996 | |
| 142 | CM | Krawczyk, Flawian | POL | 1995 |
| 143 | Lochte, Thomas | GER | 1994 | |
| 144 | Jakob, Matthias | GER | 1994 | |
| 145 | WFM | Grapsa, Georgia | GRE | 1994 |
| 146 | AIM | Bhavik, Ahuja | IND | 1992 |
| 147 | Fuchs, Michael | GER | 1988 | |
| 148 | Oest, Thorsten | GER | 1983 | |
| 149 | Stierhof, Michael | GER | 1974 | |
| 150 | Steinhauer, Artur | GER | 1965 | |
| 151 | Acarbay, Algi | TUR | 1962 | |
| 152 | Demir, Bilal | TUR | 1958 | |
| 153 | WCM | Shatil, Or | ISR | 1951 |
| 154 | Lerchl, Clemens | GER | 1950 | |
| 155 | Kaiser, Dominik | GER | 1942 | |
| 156 | Biedenkopf, Philipp | GER | 1939 | |
| 157 | Parsch, Christian | GER | 1918 | |
| 158 | Eldho, Skaria | IND | 1912 | |
| 159 | Guggenberger, Guido | GER | 1910 | |
| 160 | CM | Jaivardhan, Raj | IND | 1901 |
| 161 | Khamenya, Vitalia | GER | 1896 | |
| 162 | Heppert, Lars | GER | 1891 | |
| 163 | Huber, Benedikt | GER | 1879 | |
| 164 | Beckert, Alessandro | GER | 1877 | |
| 165 | Mashchenko, Tamila | UKR | 1863 | |
| 166 | Gradwohl, Manfred | GER | 1857 | |
| 167 | Rindhiya, V | IND | 1837 | |
| 168 | Bratu, Mircea | GER | 1836 | |
| 169 | Humbert, Arthur | GER | 1835 | |
| 170 | Eichler, Alexander | GER | 1834 | |
| 171 | Wehrle, Maximilian | GER | 1806 | |
| 172 | Schwan, Aaron | GER | 1800 | |
| 173 | Aumueller, Naum | GER | 1799 | |
| 174 | Mazatis, Benjamin | GER | 1738 | |
| 175 | Beck, Felix | GER | 0 | |
| 176 | Wehr, Stephan | GER | 0 | |
| 177 | Vollnhals, Michael | GER | 0 |
