December 14th 2022

The 2022 Chessable Sunway Sitges Chess Festival kicked off in Sitges, Barcelona and takes place from 11-22 December. The Festival features two tournaments: Open A and Open B, with the total prize fund of 27.155eur. After two played rounds and several upsets, as many as 54 players emerged with the perfect 2/2 score.

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The third round will feature interesting encounters and the rating gap between the competitors gets smaller. See the Round 3 pairings below:

Bo.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg
1	GM	Yu Yangyi	2728	2		2	IM	Fernandez Guillen Ernesto J.	2462
2	GM	Firat Burak	2460	2		2	GM	Niemann Hans Moke	2698
3	GM	Van Foreest Jorden	2690	2		2	IM	Sardana Rishi	2460
4	IM	Erdogmus Yagiz Kaan	2453	2		2	GM	Alekseenko Kirill	2672
5	GM	Demchenko Anton	2632	2		2	GM	Raja Rithvik R	2453
6	IM	Abdisalimov Abdimalik	2447	2		2	GM	Karthikeyan Murali	2620
7	GM	Grigoryan Karen H.	2619	2		2	GM	Goh Wei Ming Kevin	2452
8	IM	Nigmatov Ortik	2439	2		2	GM	Aryan Chopra	2618
9	GM	Bernadskiy Vitaliy	2617	2		2	IM	Garcia Ramos Daniel	2439
10	FM	Vitier Vazquez Cristian	2424	2		2	GM	Puranik Abhimanyu	2616
11	IM	Roberson Peter T	2418	2		2	GM	Durarbayli Vasif	2612
12	GM	Adhiban B.	2611	2		2	IM	Ajay Karthikeyan	2430
13	IM	Gholami Orimi Mahdi	2415	2		2	GM	Kollars Dmitrij	2610
14	GM	Aravindh Chithambaram Vr.	2607	2		2	IM	Fataliyeva Ulviyya	2428
15	FM	Bai Adelard	2411	2		2	GM	Dardha Daniel	2606
16	GM	Sanal Vahap	2597	2		2	IM	Krastev Alexander	2416
17	IM	Tahay Alexis	2400	2		2	GM	Cheng Bobby	2583
18	GM	Kraemer Martin	2583	2		2	FM	Bilych Olexiy	2401
19	IM	Bournel Antoine	2392	2		2	GM	Svane Frederik	2568
20	IM	Salimova Nurgyul	2390	2		2	GM	Alsina Leal Daniel	2527
21	FM	Carbonell Sancho Marc	2384	2		2	GM	Sumets Andrey	2506
22	GM	Gines Esteo Pedro Antonio	2500	2		2	IM	Abdurakhmonov Mukhammadali	2397
23	CM	Vaibhav Jayant Raut	2247	2		2	IM	Samant Aditya S	2470
24	IM	Wadsworth Matthew J	2470	2		2	IM	Dionisi Thomas	2390
25	GM	Velten Paul	2465	2		2	IM	Sattarov Bobir	2389
26		Kushal O	1801	2		2	IM	Ayats Llobera Gerard	2464
27	GM	Sochacki Christophe	2463	2		2	CM	Shaik Sumer Arsh	2290
28	FM	Jubin Jimmy	2376	1½		1½	GM	Cheparinov Ivan	2688
29	GM	Moussard Jules	2684	1½		1½	WGM	Injac Teodora	2365
30	FM	Akbas Umut Ata	2351	1½		1½	GM	Esipenko Andrey	2678
31	GM	Ivanchuk Vasyl	2673	1½		1½	IM	Fitzsimons David	2352
32	GM	Korobov Anton	2662	1½		1½	IM	Meister Peter	2347
33	FM	Mathieu Phileas	2367	1½		1½	GM	Jones Gawain C B	2630
34	GM	Petrosyan Manuel	2621	1½		1½	FM	Dalaud Dorian	2342
35	GM	Safarli Eltaj	2616	1½		1½	FM	Bhambure Shantanu	2306
36	GM	Tin Jingyao	2562	1½		1½	IM	Sidhant Mohapatra	2337
37	GM	Arjun Kalyan	2505	1½		1½	FM	Lim Zhuo Ren	2305
38	GM	Pogorelov Ruslan	2288	1½		1½	GM	Sankalp Gupta	2485
39	IM	Clarke Brandon G I	2484	1½		1½	FM	Torngren Gustav	2275
40	CM	Blasco Coll Andreu	2294	1½		1½	IM	Aditya Mittal	2479
41	FM	Castellanos Gomez Alejandro	2277	1½		1½	IM	Sousa Andre Ventura	2466
42	IM	Woodward Andy	2457	1½		1½	FM	Yordanov Lachezar	2294
43	IM	Kaasen Tor Fredrik	2452	1½		1½	WIM	Benmesbah Natacha	2268
44		Romero Calduch Sergio	2258	1½		1½	GM	Narciso Dublan Marc	2448
45	IM	Bulmaga Irina	2432	1½		1½	FM	Ruiz Buendia Miguel	2257
46	IM	Sammed Jaykumar Shete	2430	1½		1½	WIM	Rakshitta Ravi	2242
47	IM	Prraneeth Vuppala	2427	1½		1½	FM	Lye Lik Zang	2241
48		Arjun Chitrakudam Krishnamachari	2241	1½		1½	IM	Baenziger Fabian	2426
49	IM	Sai Agni Jeevitesh J	2226	1½		1½	FM	Saydaliev Saidakbar	2419
50		Uber Gracia Hugo	1931	1½		1½	IM	Willow Jonah B	2409
51	GM	Nevednichy Vladislav	2502	1		1½		Assylov Miras	2044
52	GM	Tabatabaei Mohammad Amin	2660	1		1	CM	Ribera Veganzones Serni	2199
53	IM	Gokerkan Cem Kaan	2470	1		1	WFM	Nilssen Ellen Fredericia	2187
54		Ojas Kulkarni	2196	1		1	IM	Boyer Mahel	2434
55		Joel Paul Ganta	2183	1		1	IM	Moksh Amit Doshi	2414
56	IM	Rendle Thomas E	2381	1		1		Levi Netanel	2179
57		Sherman Reem	2179	1		1	FM	Kanov Nikola	2377
58	FM	Wagh Suyog	2376	1		1	WIM	Hryzlova Sofiia	2157
59	FM	Baert Andy	2156	1		1	IM	Song Julien	2369
60	IM	Valenzuela Gomez Fernando	2361	1		1	FM	Voiteanu Gabriel	2152
61	CM	Nurgaliyev Sauat	2150	1		1	WGM	Nandhidhaa P V	2358
62		Wecker Martin	2150	1		1	FM	Garcia Molina Jose	2357
63	FM	Kholopov Alexander A.	2146	1		1	FM	Nawin Jayaprakash Jayavalli	2351
64	FM	Krasteva Beloslava	2350	1		1		Noria Silvestre Joaquin	2138
65	WGM	Divya Deshmukh	2347	1		1	FM	Lorscheid Gerhard	2137
66	IM	Sarkar Justin	2343	1		1		Villar Reymundo Juan Antonio	2135
67		Van Kessel Wessel	2145	1		1	FM	Alexiadis Hristos	2342
68	FM	Pablo Mari Alejandro	2338	1		1		Kocak Ediz	2115
69		Ilamparthi A R	2336	1		1		Panjer Sidney	2100
70	FM	Jeet Jain	2141	1		1	IM	Papadiamandis Elliot	2334
71	IM	Borocz Istvan	2334	1		1		Halegua Dani	2095
72		Fanninger Leon	2136	1		1	FM	Jain Kashish Manoj	2334
73	WGM	Heinemann Josefine	2332	1		1		Bub Volker	2091
74		Ezquerro Luque Albert	2134	1		1	IM	Reprintsev Alexander	2330
75	IM	Karavade Eesha	2325	1		1		Salinas Tomas Daniel	2089
76		Chulis Alexander	2097	1		1	WGM	Pourkashiyan Atousa	2321
77	WGM	Priyanka Nutakki	2316	1		1		Verbin Valentina	2088
78	FM	Dixit Nikhil	2306	1		1	CM	Korkmaz Necmettin	2077
79	WGM	Gong Qianyun	2299	1		1		Duke Michael	2067
80		Nikolov Yavor	2092	1		1	WIM	Rakhmangulova Anastasiya	2296
81		Ortega Serra Marc	2291	1		1		Raghav Srivathsav V	2059
82		Rodriguez Diaz Javier	2084	1		1	FM	Kristoferitsch Daniel	2286
83	FM	Shailesh Dravid	2286	1		1		Sperat Czar Nicolas	2047
84	WFM	Pipiras Filipa Fortuna	2065	1		1	WGM	Enkhtuul Altan-Ulzii	2285
85	FM	Schulze Lara	2284	1		1	WFM	Jimenez Fernandez Rebeca	2040
86		Moracchini Margaux	2046	1		1	FM	Mamedov Edgar	2283
87		Schmuck Corentin	2040	1		1	CM	Md Imran	2279
88	FM	Ram Aravind L N	2272	1		1		Le Pen Steven	2038
89		Boixader Arbo Xavier	2039	1		1	FM	Schneider Jana	2272
90	FM	Domene Mulyukov Alexander	2271	1		1		Karadzhov Ivan	2024
91		Jinan Jomon	2271	1		1		Tudor Henry Edward	1942
92	WIM	Newrkla Katharina	2265	1		1		Patil Harshal	1928
93		Comellas Blanchart Jordi	2034	1		1	CM	Kostov Deyan Samuil	2260
94	FM	Atanasov Anthony	2251	1		1		Bonoo Iwan	1925
95		Vignesh Bhuvaneswari	2032	1		1	FM	Ryan Joseph	2249
96		Aditya Varun Gampa	2249	1		1		Morais Miguel Almeida	1844
97	FM	Oswaldo Valentin Requejo Cotrin	2248	1		1		Arvind Ramnath Iyer	1834
98		Khandhar Kaushal	2020	1		1	WIM	Sieber Fiona	2245
99		Frederic Clement	2245	1		1		Krassel Timofei	1787
100		Lever Erwan	2241	1		1		Saravanan Durga	1784
101	CM	Zhang Kendrick Botong	1963	1		1	CM	Rajarishi Karthi	2239
102	IM	Mannion Stephen R	2229	1		1		Aadith Rajesh	1714
103		Mompel Ferruz Xavier	1953	1		1	CM	Gulatz Maurice	2227
104	CM	Dahale Atul	2222	1		1		Schulze Tim	1710
105	WCM	Bibilashvili Lali	1900	1		1	FM	Bach Matthias	2208
106	FM	Harshad S	2202	1		1		Chitre Arush	1646
107	FM	Webb Laurence E	2201	1		1		Escudero Ribo Eloi	1626
108	FM	Leisch Lukas	2405	½		1		Barkasheva Sofia	1588
109	CM	Butolo Alexandru-Mircea	2043	½		½	FM	Van Dael Siem	2345
110	GM	Vogt Lothar	2339	½		½		Saveljevs Aleksandrs	1974
111	FM	Milat Marcel	2290	½		½		Renganayaki Venkatesh	1978
112		Hiren K G	1965	½		½	FM	Ventura Bolet Maxim	2223
113	WIM	Gaboyan Susanna	2200	½		½		Villa Tornero Alex	1925
114		Verbruggen Samuel	1963	½		½		Gasic Merino Franco	2195
115		Jove Albaiges Guillem	1922	½		½	CM	Wong Zhenyong Jayden	2181
116		Gregersen Hedin	1912	½		½		Perkampus Laurin	2168
117		Levy Benyamin	1888	½		½	WIM	Priyanka K	2146
118	FM	Saya Ethan	2138	½		½		Altisen Palmada Roberto	1948
119		Vallbona Domingo Joan	1871	½		½	FM	Mahitosh Dey	2134
120		Devnani Kush	2134	½		½		Benseny Martinez Guerau	1890
121		Shreyas Seshadri Nallore	1849	½		½		Gugan Govindan	2126
122		Koehler Ronald	2118	½		½		Oliver Amengual Adria	1856
123		Arhan Chethan Anand	2112	½		½		Larkin Benjamin	1866
124		Izagirre Alsua Aritz	1835	½		½		Itzhaky Shmuel	2109
125	FM	Hristodorescu Daniel	2108	½		½		Nesse David	1809
126		Patel Zain	1761	½		½		Coles Ruben	2098
127		Stewart Ashley	2090	½		½		Prudhvi Kumar V	1733
128	WFM	Hapala Elisabeth	2075	½		½		Steiners Emils	1626
129		Maloberti David	2050	½		½		Sierra Magrazo Lidia	1755
130		Kratz Jonathan	1514	½		0	IM	Pranesh M	2475
131		Liu Tianyi (Jack)	1892	0		0	CM	Vardanyan Aras	2271
132		Cherniack Alex	2188	0		0	CM	Harish Neeraj	1902
133		Stanetzek Carsten	2172	0		0		Schopf Martin	1900
134	FM	De Santis Alessio	2159	0		0		Labrovic Jakov	1891
135	WFM	Samaganova Aleksandra	1884	0		0		Leftheriotis Alexandros	2143
136		Alzamil Abdulaziz	1862	0		0		Ismail Tamer	2112
137	WFM	Yash Jyoti Bir	2099	0		0		Levesque Guillaume	1887
138	WFM	Galvan Cipriani Viviana	2088	0		0		Paricharak Shardul	1881
139		Leimeister Winfried	1845	0		0	WFM	Rodriguez Redondo Adhara	2057
140		Ramadugu Akshay	1812	0		0		Coles Robin	2051
141		Sarveshwaran Vignesh	2040	0		0		Tadmor Maya	1810
142		Dietrich Peter	2015	0		0		Rios Torondell Jaume	1809
143		Perez Garcia Jimena	2014	0		0		Egli Urs	1806
144		Ramos Aguilar Jose Manuel	2008	0		0		Fabregas Oliver	1804
145		Villa Izquierdo Roberto	1780	0		0		Perez Aleman Pedro Tomas	1996
146		Shaffer Alexander	1750	0		0		Cordova-Lopez Diego Anton	1985
147	WCM	Ankitha Goud Palle	1980	0		0		Senso Moreno Francesc Xavier	1731
148		Bland David I	1974	0		0		Gamal Alaa	1713
149		Chia Yu Zhe Ashton	1970	0		0		Amulya Guruprasad	1699
150		Golsta Ramona	1719	0		0		Place Nicholas	1967