The 2023 edition of the Reykjavik Open will be held from March 29th till April 4th in Harpa Conference Hall. The event will be played in 9 rounds, swiss system, with time control: 90 min for 40 moves + 30 minutes after move 40. Increment of 30 sec. for every move starting from move one.
Schedule of play:
| Wednesday | March 29th | 15:00 | Round 1 |
| Thursday | March 30th | 09:00 | Round 2 |
| Thursday | March 30th | 16:00 | Round 3 |
| Friday | March 31st | 15:00 | Round 4 |
| Saturday | April 1st | 09:00 | Round 5 |
| Saturday | April 1st | 16:00 | Round 6 |
| Sunday | April 2nd | 15:00 | Round 7 |
| Monday | April 3rd | 15:00 | Round 8 |
| Tuesday | April 4th | 11:00 | Round 9 |
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More than 350 players registered for the event which will feature a prize fund of 16.250 euros. The top seeds are GM Vasyl Ivanchuk, GM Nils Grandelius and GM Tamas Banusz. Scroll down for the complete starting list of players
Starting list of players:
| No. | Name | FED | Rtg | |
| 1 | GM | Vasyl Ivanchuk | UKR | 2664 |
| 2 | GM | Nils Grandelius | SWE | 2660 |
| 3 | GM | Tamas Banusz | HUN | 2611 |
| 4 | GM | Mustafa Yilmaz | TUR | 2609 |
| 5 | GM | ARYAN CHOPRA | IND | 2607 |
| 6 | GM | Alexandr Fier | BRA | 2602 |
| 7 | GM | Abhijeet Gupta | IND | 2601 |
| 8 | GM | Emre Can | TUR | 2600 |
| 9 | GM | Harsha Bharathakoti | IND | 2599 |
| 10 | GM | Grzegorz Gajewski | POL | 2594 |
| 11 | GM | Viktor Erdos | HUN | 2588 |
| 12 | GM | Maxime Lagarde | FRA | 2583 |
| 13 | GM | Leon Livaic | CRO | 2570 |
| 14 | GM | Matthieu Cornette | FRA | 2565 |
| 15 | GM | Marcin Dziuba | POL | 2554 |
| 16 | GM | Danyyil Dvirnyy | ITA | 2548 |
| 17 | GM | V Pranav | IND | 2545 |
| 18 | GM | Rohit Lalit Babu Musunuri | IND | 2544 |
| 19 | GM | Visakh NR | IND | 2544 |
| 20 | GM | Gabor Papp | HUN | 2541 |
| 21 | GM | Sebastien Maze | FRA | 2538 |
| 22 | IM | ADITYA MITTAL | IND | 2519 |
| 23 | GM | Leon Mons | GER | 2517 |
| 24 | IM | Jung Min Seo | SWE | 2516 |
| 25 | GM | Fabien Libiszewski | FRA | 2509 |
| 26 | GM | Karthik Venkataraman | IND | 2503 |
| 27 | IM | Bardiya Daneshvar | IRI | 2500 |
| 28 | IM | Vignesh N.R | IND | 2493 |
| 29 | IM | Shyaamnikhil P | IND | 2490 |
| 30 | GM | Adrien Demuth | FRA | 2482 |
| 31 | IM | Matthew Wadsworth | ENG | 2477 |
| 32 | IM | Evgenios Ioannidis | GRE | 2476 |
| 33 | GM | Michael Richter | GER | 2472 |
| 34 | GM | Lev Yankelevich | GER | 2472 |
| 35 | GM | Simon K Williams | ENG | 2467 |
| 36 | IM | Rathanvel VS | IND | 2463 |
| 37 | GM | Magesh Panchanathan | IND | 2460 |
| 38 | IM | Vignir Vatnar Stefansson | ISL | 2458 |
| 39 | FM | Jubin Jimmy | IND | 2455 |
| 40 | GM | Rainer Knaak | GER | 2455 |
| 41 | IM | Fy Antenaina Rakotomaharo | MAD | 2454 |
| 42 | IM | Seyedkian Pourmousavi kani | IRI | 2442 |
| 43 | IM | Bala Chandra Prasad Dhulipalla | IND | 2441 |
| 44 | IM | Quentin Loiseau | FRA | 2439 |
| 45 | IM | Jonah Willow | ENG | 2437 |
| 46 | FM | SHUBH JAYESH LADDHA | USA | 2422 |
| 47 | JINAN JOMON | IND | 2421 | |
| 48 | IM | Vuppala Prraneeth | IND | 2418 |
| 49 | WIM | Savitha Shri B | IND | 2411 |
| 50 | IM | Gellert Karacsonyi | HUN | 2401 |
| 51 | IM | Irine Kharisma Sukandar | INA | 2395 |
| 52 | IM | Sachdev Tania | IND | 2389 |
| 53 | IM | Ajay Krishna S | IND | 2383 |
| 54 | FM | Áron Pásti | HUN | 2381 |
| 55 | IM | Nitin Senthilvel | IND | 2372 |
| 56 | ILAMPARTHI A R | IND | 2366 | |
| 57 | IM | Kyron Griffith | USA | 2363 |
| 58 | FM | Jakub Kůsa | CZE | 2359 |
| 59 | FM | Vitali Braun | GER | 2356 |
| 60 | IM | Eric Rosen | USA | 2356 |
| 61 | IM | Malte Colpe | GER | 2355 |
| 62 | IM | Thomas Willemze | NED | 2355 |
| 63 | Vantika Agrawal | IND | 2352 | |
| 64 | FM | Aleksandr Domalchuk-Jonasson | ISL | 2352 |
| 65 | IM | SIDHANT MOHAPATRA | IND | 2352 |
| 66 | IM | Ludvig Carlsson | SWE | 2349 |
| 67 | FM | Ongut Tamas Gunes | HUN | 2340 |
| 68 | IM | David Fitzsimons | IRL | 2339 |
| 69 | FM | Guillaume Camus | FRA | 2325 |
| 70 | WGM | mobina alinasab | IRI | 2321 |
| 71 | IM | Hilmir Freyr Heimisson | ISL | 2321 |
| 72 | FM | Mikkel Manosri Jacobsen | DEN | 2318 |
| 73 | GM | Lothar Vogt | GER | 2315 |
| 74 | WGM | Atousa Pourkashiyan | USA | 2313 |
| 75 | WGM | Evgeniya Doluhanova | UKR | 2312 |
| 76 | FM | Sigurbjörn Björnsson | ISL | 2310 |
| 77 | FM | Ferdinand Unzicker | GER | 2310 |
| 78 | FM | steve Dishman | ENG | 2305 |
| 79 | FM | Hamish Olson | SCO | 2303 |
| 80 | WGM | Keti Tsatsalashvili | GEO | 2303 |
| 81 | FM | Karthik Rajaa | IND | 2302 |
| 82 | WGM | Sarah Papp | GER | 2295 |
| 83 | WIM | Zsoka Gaal | HUN | 2294 |
| 84 | IM | Dietmar Kolbus | IOM | 2292 |
| 85 | FM | Louis Salles | FRA | 2287 |
| 86 | FM | olivier HEURTEBIZE | FRA | 2278 |
| 87 | WIM | Anastasiya Rakhmangulova | UKR | 2275 |
| 88 | FM | Carl Cederstam | SWE | 2271 |
| 89 | FM | Aradhya Garg | IND | 2268 |
| 90 | IM | Peter Large | ENG | 2268 |
| 91 | Aditya Varun Gampa | IND | 2267 | |
| 92 | FM | Fredrik Lindh | SWE | 2253 |
| 93 | WIM | Varshini M Sahithi | IND | 2250 |
| 94 | Jeremy Hommer | GER | 2245 | |
| 95 | FM | DIEU Bruno | FRA | 2237 |
| 96 | CM | Aayush Bhattacherjee | IND | 2236 |
| 97 | FM | Eugene Rebers | NED | 2226 |
| 98 | IM | Stephen R Mannion | SCO | 2224 |
| 99 | FM | Benjamin Dauth | GER | 2219 |
| 100 | CM | Nikash Vemparala | USA | 2214 |
| 101 | FM | Andre Nielsen | NOR | 2212 |
| 102 | WIM | Isha Sharma | IND | 2212 |
| 103 | NM | Jeevan Karamsetty | USA | 2206 |
| 104 | FM | Stephan Bruchmann | GER | 2202 |
| 105 | CM | Adrian Söderström | SWE | 2202 |
| 106 | CM | Lukas Melzner | GER | 2199 |
| 107 | CM | Adithya A Chullikkad | IND | 2196 |
| 108 | Timo Leonard | GER | 2196 | |
| 109 | FM | Andrew Mack | ENG | 2183 |
| 110 | FM | Laurence Webb | ENG | 2176 |
| 111 | FM | Ashvin Sivakumar | SGP | 2173 |
| 112 | Birkir Jóhannsson | ISL | 2171 | |
| 113 | Paul Townsend | ENG | 2161 | |
| 114 | John Cornelisse | NED | 2157 | |
| 115 | Sebastian Hoffmann | GER | 2153 | |
| 116 | Raphael Kracht | GER | 2153 | |
| 117 | Martin Wecker | GER | 2153 | |
| 118 | FM | Miguel Ruiz Buendia | ESP | 2144 |
| 119 | IM | Raymond Kaufman | CAN | 2143 |
| 120 | Dion Krivenko | EST | 2141 | |
| 121 | Andre Kunz | GER | 2140 | |
| 122 | Yannick Kather | GER | 2139 | |
| 123 | Vitaly Garbuz | GER | 2138 | |
| 124 | Wessel Van Kessel | BEL | 2134 | |
| 125 | Franz Barretto | PHI | 2130 | |
| 126 | Stephan Briem | ISL | 2128 | |
| 127 | Marcel Juegel | GER | 2126 | |
| 128 | Hugh Murphy | ENG | 2124 | |
| 129 | Alexander Oliver Mai | ISL | 2119 | |
| 130 | Augustinas Bazilius | LTU | 2118 | |
| 131 | Ives Girardin | ESP | 2118 | |
| 132 | Nils Heldenbergh | BEL | 2117 | |
| 133 | Matthieu Loncke | BEL | 2115 | |
| 134 | FM | Tim Jaksland | DEN | 2112 |
| 135 | German Maldonado Mena | ESP | 2104 | |
| 136 | WGM | Lenka Ptácníková | ISL | 2104 |
| 137 | Arun manukonda | IND | 2102 | |
| 138 | Benedikt Briem | ISL | 2100 | |
| 139 | CM | Sohum Lohia | ENG | 2096 |
| 140 | Alexander Deatrick | USA | 2095 | |
| 141 | NM | Jukka Johansson | FIN | 2095 |
| 142 | Patryk Cieslak | POL | 2094 | |
| 143 | hari charan sai kalluri | IND | 2086 | |
| 144 | Tobias Becker | GER | 2085 | |
| 145 | Alexander Doraszelski | GER | 2083 | |
| 146 | Axel Moser | GER | 2083 | |
| 147 | Peter Hayes | IRL | 2075 | |
| 148 | Nikolay Kartsev | GER | 2074 | |
| 149 | Yash Jayesh Laddha | USA | 2067 | |
| 150 | Barath Kalyan M | IND | 2061 | |
| 151 | FM | Gregory Markzon | USA | 2059 |
| 152 | Nicolas Maleki | FRA | 2048 | |
| 153 | Filip Björkman | SWE | 2040 | |
| 154 | DIAZ FRANCK | FRA | 2035 | |
| 155 | WFM | Ellen Kakulidis | DEN | 2033 |
| 156 | Adrian Mensing | NED | 2033 | |
| 157 | AIM | Arnar Milutin Heidarsson | ISL | 2032 |
| 158 | AGM | saketh Pedagandham | IND | 2030 |
| 159 | Max Bartelt | GER | 2026 | |
| 160 | Aasef Alashtar | FRA | 2021 | |
| 161 | Bernd Schäfer | GER | 2018 | |
| 162 | André Kienitz | GER | 2016 | |
| 163 | Gavin Koh | SGP | 2012 | |
| 164 | CM | Adam Kelly | AUS | 2006 |
| 165 | David Mehlhorn | GER | 2004 | |
| 166 | Farid HUMBATZADA | AZE | 2000 | |
| 167 | Kees Verweij | NED | 2000 | |
| 168 | AGM | Divyeshkumar Lagdhir | IND | 1998 |
| 169 | Christian Kalla | GER | 1994 | |
| 170 | WFM | Dämering Katrin | GER | 1994 |
| 171 | Lepu Coco Zhou | GER | 1990 | |
| 172 | José Raúl Alfaro Guillen | CRC | 1983 | |
| 173 | Wolfgang Poetschke | GER | 1983 | |
| 174 | WFM | Hallgerður Helga Þorsteinsdóttir | ISL | 1983 |
| 175 | Neeraj Harish | USA | 1981 | |
| 176 | NM | Tony Kukavica | USA | 1981 |
| 177 | MK | Artyom Bogdanov | KAZ | 1979 |
| 178 | AGM | Augustine Apemiye | NGR | 1978 |
| 179 | Chris Rice | ENG | 1978 | |
| 180 | Elmar Fuchs | GER | 1973 | |
| 181 | Bart-Jan Andriessen | NED | 1972 | |
| 182 | FM | David Wahba | EGY | 1970 |
| 183 | Jared Möller | GER | 1969 | |
| 184 | Gunnar Erik Guðmundsson | ISL | 1968 | |
| 185 | Szymon Pozimski | POL | 1968 | |
| 186 | Martin Knudsen | DEN | 1965 | |
| 187 | Nürnberger Thomas | GER | 1965 | |
| 188 | AGM | Carwyn Yeo | SGP | 1963 |
| 189 | Christian Koschetzki | GER | 1960 | |
| 190 | Uwe Arndt | GER | 1957 | |
| 191 | Ogmundur Kristinsson | ISL | 1954 | |
| 192 | Dmitriy Grigoriev | FID | 1948 | |
| 193 | Zsombor Pásti | HUN | 1948 | |
| 194 | Teemu Miettinen | FIN | 1947 | |
| 195 | Stefan Dr. Geyler | GER | 1933 | |
| 196 | Jonas Rempe | GER | 1932 | |
| 197 | Wolfgang Hartmann | GER | 1925 | |
| 198 | Lucia Striskova | SVK | 1923 | |
| 199 | Steve Kee | ENG | 1919 | |
| 200 | Kay Schäfer | GER | 1919 | |
| 201 | Haraldur Haraldsson | ISL | 1918 | |
| 202 | Andy Hill | ENG | 1912 | |
| 203 | Jesper Billeskov Jansen | DEN | 1911 | |
| 204 | Jakov Labrovic | CRO | 1907 | |
| 205 | Philipp Biedenkopf | GER | 1903 | |
| 206 | Davíð Kolka | ISL | 1901 | |
| 207 | Jóhann H Ragnarsson | ISL | 1900 | |
| 208 | Cameron Jinghan Goh | SGP | 1899 | |
| 209 | Matthew Dishman | LUX | 1896 | |
| 210 | NM | Michael Carey | USA | 1891 |
| 211 | FM | Lester Van Meter | USA | 1872 |
| 212 | Ingvar Wu Skarphedinsson | ISL | 1867 | |
| 213 | Annelies Cuvelier | BEL | 1866 | |
| 214 | Sigurjon Haraldsson | ISL | 1864 | |
| 215 | Maximilian Kreutner | GER | 1860 | |
| 216 | Avyukt Dasgupta | ENG | 1859 | |
| 217 | Mildo Van Staden | NED | 1856 | |
| 218 | Juergen Kleinert | GER | 1855 | |
| 219 | Wilfred Wheatley | ENG | 1854 | |
| 220 | NM | Islambek Baisynov | KGZ | 1845 |
| 221 | Arthur Krumm | GER | 1843 | |
| 222 | Dagur Kjartansson | ISL | 1839 | |
| 223 | Julia Ostensson | SWE | 1821 | |
| 224 | Robert Fischer | USA | 1818 | |
| 225 | Ólafur Gísli Jónsson | ISL | 1817 | |
| 226 | WIM | Lisseth Acevedo | ISL | 1816 |
| 227 | paul Fouassier | FRA | 1813 | |
| 228 | Smari Sigurdsson | ISL | 1809 | |
| 229 | Zain Patel | ENG | 1806 | |
| 230 | Boris Fresow | GER | 1804 | |
| 231 | Benoit Poisseroux | FRA | 1799 | |
| 232 | Malcolm Cooper | ENG | 1789 | |
| 233 | Sigurdur Eirksson | ISL | 1785 | |
| 234 | Niklas Frost | SWE | 1785 | |
| 235 | Andrew Yu Qiu | CAN | 1784 | |
| 236 | Kameron Grose | ENG | 1781 | |
| 237 | Gerd Densing | GER | 1780 | |
| 238 | AFM | Andreas, Dr. Hipler | GER | 1780 |
| 239 | Alexander Boschmann | GER | 1779 | |
| 240 | Hossam Ebrahem | EGY | 1778 | |
| 241 | AIM | Srivatsan karthikeyan | IND | 1777 |
| 242 | Robert Kane | ENG | 1773 | |
| 243 | Raffaele Scoccianti | ITA | 1771 | |
| 244 | Tuomas Kujala | FIN | 1770 | |
| 245 | Hafsteinn Ágústsson | ISL | 1758 | |
| 246 | Fabian Junghannß | GER | 1758 | |
| 247 | Beuger Ronald | GER | 1754 | |
| 248 | Stefans Kasims | GER | 1753 | |
| 249 | Erwin De Kleijn | NED | 1752 | |
| 250 | Lee Cranberg | USA | 1750 | |
| 251 | Martin Scotti | FRA | 1746 | |
| 252 | Benedikt Thorisson | ISL | 1746 | |
| 253 | Þorsteinn Þorsteinsson | ISL | 1742 | |
| 254 | Mohammadreza ghasemi | IRI | 1741 | |
| 255 | Alaa Gamal | ENG | 1739 | |
| 256 | Benjamin Spagnoli | FRA | 1739 | |
| 257 | Dustin Opasiak | POL | 1734 | |
| 258 | Iðunn Helgadóttir | ISL | 1727 | |
| 259 | Henry Adams | ENG | 1723 | |
| 260 | James Chilton | ENG | 1722 | |
| 261 | Jimmy Tan | SGP | 1715 | |
| 262 | SARKAUOT QASIM | IRQ | 1713 | |
| 263 | AFM | Kevin Winter | ENG | 1708 |
| 264 | René Albersmann | GER | 1707 | |
| 265 | Firuz İsmayilov | AZE | 1707 | |
| 266 | Simon Morris | ENG | 1697 | |
| 267 | Jay Carr | USA | 1694 | |
| 268 | Adam Omarsson | ISL | 1693 | |
| 269 | Roman Attinger | NED | 1690 | |
| 270 | Eric de Winter | NED | 1687 | |
| 271 | Christer Andersson | SWE | 1677 | |
| 272 | Morten Hald | DEN | 1675 | |
| 273 | Sissel Kærgaard | DEN | 1672 | |
| 274 | Even Huneide Hetland | NOR | 1666 | |
| 275 | Snorri Bjarnason | NOR | 1660 | |
| 276 | YANFENG GUO | USA | 1660 | |
| 277 | Miranda Vander Zwalmen | BEL | 1660 | |
| 278 | Andres Fjeldsted | ISL | 1658 | |
| 279 | Vigyan Ratnoo | ENG | 1652 | |
| 280 | Abdelrahman Ahmed | EGY | 1645 | |
| 281 | Adalsteinn Thorarensen | ISL | 1645 | |
| 282 | Brian Stuart | ENG | 1642 | |
| 283 | Harry Bryant | ENG | 1620 | |
| 284 | Carlos Lopez | ESP | 1614 | |
| 285 | Sewar Bilal | SYR | 1611 | |
| 286 | Sebastian Lien | NOR | 1606 | |
| 287 | Josef Omarsson | ISL | 1603 | |
| 288 | Sture Westerlind | SWE | 1603 | |
| 289 | Navid Bajoghli | USA | 1582 | |
| 290 | Mike Lacey | ENG | 1572 | |
| 291 | Samuel Beatty | SUI | 1571 | |
| 292 | Karl Saliba | MLT | 1570 | |
| 293 | Vipin Zamvar | SCO | 1569 | |
| 294 | Sanjoy Banerjee | ENG | 1566 | |
| 295 | Gerhard Grubauer | AUT | 1564 | |
| 296 | Fynn von Kistowski | SUI | 1554 | |
| 297 | Daniel Vieira | USA | 1536 | |
| 298 | Lior Yedid | ENG | 1521 | |
| 299 | Sigurdur Pall Gudnyjarson | ISL | 1517 | |
| 300 | Odd Christoffersen | NOR | 1514 | |
| 301 | Eva Shadrina | EST | 1507 | |
| 302 | MK | Aryan Bhardwaj | IND | 1500 |
| 303 | Arcie Pragale | USA | 1491 | |
| 304 | AFM | SRIDHAR SESHADRI | USA | 1482 |
| 305 | Birkir Hallmundarson | ISL | 1462 | |
| 306 | George Adams | ENG | 1459 | |
| 307 | Stefan Heller | GER | 1451 | |
| 308 | Akshobhya Damodar Katti | IND | 1450 | |
| 309 | Ariv DebMisra | USA | 1444 | |
| 310 | Pratyush Tripathi | SWE | 1444 | |
| 311 | Guðrún Fanney Briem | ISL | 1441 | |
| 312 | Niyathi Girish | USA | 1425 | |
| 313 | Jón Úlfur Hafthórsson | ISL | 1421 | |
| 314 | Kristján Ingi Smárason | ISL | 1419 | |
| 315 | Christopher Surace | AUS | 1413 | |
| 316 | Paul Haberecht | AUS | 1412 | |
| 317 | Masza Shirov-Michna | GER | 1349 | |
| 318 | Victor Samuel | CAN | 1313 | |
| 319 | Anurag Dubey | IND | 1305 | |
| 320 | LEONE BARTOCCIONI MENCONI | ENG | 1300 | |
| 321 | Oli Palsson | ISL | 1297 | |
| 322 | YASHRAJ VISHWAKARMA | IND | 1268 | |
| 323 | Orvar Brynjarsson | ISL | 1252 | |
| 324 | Snergh Vlaatimaki | USA | 1200 | |
| 325 | Lennik Rempe | GER | 1175 | |
| 326 | Lokeswara Rao M | IND | 1157 | |
| 327 | Ruvin Jayasuriya | SRI | 1139 | |
| 328 | Nokkvi Brynjarsson | ISL | 1022 | |
| 329 | Akiva Notkin | USA | 184 | |
| 330 | Nitish Brunth Sundar – | IND | 0 | |
| 331 | Robert Banta | USA | 0 | |
| 332 | pierre BOKOBZA | FRA | 0 | |
| 333 | Eugenio Buzzoni | GER | 0 | |
| 334 | Ryan Dee | USA | 0 | |
| 335 | Ross Du Berry | IRL | 0 | |
| 336 | Njord Eggen | GER | 0 | |
| 337 | Shahram ghasemi | IRI | 0 | |
| 338 | Marcus Gosling | ENG | 0 | |
| 339 | Gylfi Gunnlaugsson | ISL | 0 | |
| 340 | SHIVARAJ KATNUR | IND | 0 | |
| 341 | LIONEL LANSIART | FRA | 0 | |
| 342 | Daniel Lück | GER | 0 | |
| 343 | Devin McCleary | USA | 0 | |
| 344 | Alec Newport | USA | 0 | |
| 345 | Richard Nwankpa | NGR | 0 | |
| 346 | Jonathan Pagan | USA | 0 | |
| 347 | Khanh Pham Hoang | CHN | 0 | |
| 348 | Sebastian Schrodt | GER | 0 | |
| 349 | Manuel Schubert | GER | 0 | |
| 350 | Robert Scott | AUS | 0 | |
| 351 | geofrey tourbez | FRA | 0 | |
| 352 | Max Walo | SUI | 0 |
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