The Cannes International Chess Festival kicked off yesterday in France. The Open A tournament gathers 127 players, and it’s played in 9 rounds, swiss system, with the time control of 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 minutes until the end of the game, and increment of 30 seconds for each move, starting from move one.
After two Played Rounds as many as 18 players scored the maximum 2/2 points, including some of the top seeds: Alexander Motylev, Daniel Dardha, and Diptayan Ghosh.
Cannes Chess Festival 2023 – live games
Rankings after two played rounds:
| 1 | MOTYLEV Alexander | 2624F | 2 | |
| 2 | DARDHA Daniel | 2612F | 2 | |
| 3 | GHOSH Diptayan | 2553F | 2 | |
| 4 | MAURIZZI Marc Andria | 2523F | 2 | |
| 5 | DIMITROV Radoslav | 2501F | 2 | |
| 6 | NIKOLOV Momchil | 2480F | 2 | |
| 7 | DAS Sayantan | 2468F | 2 | |
| 8 | SOUSA Andre Ventura | 2466F | 2 | |
| 9 | BOYER Mahel | 2453F | 2 | |
| 10 | ERDOGMUS Yagiz Kaan | 2452F | 2 | |
| 11 | CAPPELLETTO Joshuaede | 2274F | 2 | |
| 12 | LOISEAU Quentin | 2441F | 2 | |
| 13 | LUCAS Arthur | 2415 F | 2 | |
| 14 | SAMBUEV Bator | 2407F | 2 | |
| 15 | HOLLAN-Martin | 2371F | 2 | |
| 16 | MATERIA Marco | 2410F | 2 | |
| 17 | CLERY Nicolas | 2343F | 2 | |
| 18 | PHILIP William | 2362F | 2 | |
| 19 | LAMARD Guillaume | 2526F | 1½ | |
| 20 | SAYA Ethan | 2150F | 1½ | |
| 21 | DEL GIOVANE Fabio | 2111F | 1½ | |
| 22 | THEON Pierre | 2102F | 1½ | |
| 23 | PASZEWSKI Mateusz | 2254F | 1½ | |
| 24 | EMMENECKER Pierre-Antoine | 2304F | 1½ | |
| 25 | PODETTI Davide | 2291F | 1½ | |
| 26 | KLIMKOWSKI Jan | 2461F | 1½ | |
| 27 | RODRIGUE-LEMIEUX Shawn | 2457F | 1½ | |
| 28 | RODRIGUEZ Adrian | 2287F | 1½ | |
| 29 | KRZYZANOWSKI Marcin | 2539 F | 1½ | |
| 30 | VENKATESH Mr. | 2452F | 1½ | |
| 31 | SEEMANN Jakub | 2425F | 1½ | |
| 32 | DROIN Augustine | 2436F | 1½ | |
| 33 | GODENA Michele | 2462F | 1½ | |
| 34 | Fischer Daniel | 2385F | 1½ | |
| 35 | LAMAZE Simon | 2372F | 1½ | |
| 36 | PIGEAT Alexandre | 2365F | 1½ | |
| 37 | PETROSYAN Armen | 2380F | 1½ | |
| 38 | KRISHNA TEJA N | 2333F | 1½ | |
| 39 | CHAN Kim Yew | 2351 F | 1½ | |
| 40 | CLARKE Brandon GI | 2473F | 1½ | |
| 41 | DESLANDES Pascal | 2302 F | 1½ | |
| 42 | TRAVADON Loic | 2466F | 1½ | |
| 43 | TERMINAL Niels | 2223F | 1 | |
| 44 | LACROIX Roman | 2198 F | 1 | |
| 45 | PRAVEEN KUMAR C | 2194 F | 1 | |
| 46 | JANZELJ Lara | 2173F | 1 | |
| 47 | MAYRHUBER Nikola | 2120F | 1 | |
| 48 | PANDEY SRISHTI | 2142F | 1 | |
| 49 | KOCHARIN Timur | 2156F | 1 | |
| 50 | DALAUD Dorian | 2343F | 1 | |
| 51 | MEKHANE Adam | 2255F | 1 | |
| 52 | DEFROMONT Benjamin | 2343F | 1 | |
| 53 | MAMMADHUSEYN Djeyhun | 2123F | 1 | |
| 54 | MULLON Jean-Baptiste | 2319F | 1 | |
| 55 | SELBES Tarik | 2255F | 1 | |
| 56 | PIPIRAS Filipa Fortuna | 2110F | 1 | |
| 57 | DUDOGNON Thibault | 2311F | 1 | |
| 58 | LEVER Erwan | 2225F | 1 | |
| 59 | IPEK Egehan | 2135F | 1 | |
| 60 | BIFULCO Michel | 2307F | 1 | |
| 61 | CHIKU-RATTE Olivier-Kenta | 2307F | 1 | |
| 62 | OUELLET Maili-Jade | 2222F | 1 | |
| 63 | LORANS Sylvain | 2093 F | 1 | |
| 64 | NURGALIYEV Sauat | 2291F | 1 | |
| 65 | PLAYER Edmund C | 2201F | 1 | |
| 66 | SCHLEGEL Igor | 2289 F | 1 | |
| 67 | ROUX Baptiste | 2199F | 1 | |
| 68 | BAT Bilgun | 2191F | 1 | |
| 69 | URH Zala | 2288F | 1 | |
| 70 | PIMPALKHARE VEDANT | 2282F | 1 | |
| 71 | BY BALMANN Marc | 2168F | 1 | |
| 72 | DEMUTH Adrien | 2473F | 1 | |
| 73 | BARBOT Pierre | 2446F | 1 | |
| 74 | RAZAFINDRATSIMA Timothy | 2455F | 1 | |
| 75 | ROYAL Shreyas | 2452F | 1 | |
| 76 | DAS Arghyadip | 2403F | 1 | |
| 77 | FLEAR Glenn C | 2414F | 1 | |
| 78 | BODER Jan | 2319F | 1 | |
| 79 | LASINSKAS Povilas | 2146F | 1 | |
| 80 | DEVNANI KUSH | 2135F | 1 | |
| 81 | MULLER-MOINGT Bastien | 2001 F | 1 | |
| 82 | Urbani Gabriel | 2166F | ½ | |
| 83 | Deshpande Aniruddha | 2204F | ½ | |
| 84 | DERIGE KANE Yan | 2167F | ½ | |
| 85 | CASSAM-CHENAI Antoine | 2191F | ½ | |
| 86 | CASADIO Niccolo’ | 2152 F | ½ | |
| 87 | OHLER Julius | 2161F | ½ | |
| 88 | AVANESYAN Davit | 2143F | ½ | |
| 89 | MANTOVANI Renzo | 2267F | ½ | |
| 90 | HERCEGOVAC Neven | 2133F | ½ | |
| 91 | GANDHI Anish | 2124F | ½ | |
| 92 | SAHITHI VARSHINI M | 2250F | ½ | |
| 93 | Lim Zhuo Ren | 2253F | ½ | |
| 94 | JEANNE Michael | 2117F | ½ | |
| 95 | NAGARE AKHILESH | 2086 F | ½ | |
| 96 | ZIENKIEWICZ Jan | 2115F | ½ | |
| 97 | CALISTR Tristan | 2229F | ½ | |
| 98 | FRICK Christoph | 2095F | ½ | |
| 99 | MATSUMURA Cocoro | 2073F | ½ | |
| 100 | BOULOS Paul | 2093 F | ½ | |
| 101 | LEFEBVRE Herve | 2180F | ½ | |
| 102 | MOTA Pankit | 2024 F | ½ | |
| 103 | GHAZARIAN Kirk | 2471F | ½ | |
| 104 | VLACHOS Anatole | 2454F | ½ | |
| 105 | PANESAR VEDANT | 2385F | ½ | |
| 106 | KUHN Clement | 2304F | ½ | |
| 107 | PASCAL COUPET | 2223F | ½ | |
| 108 | LAFORTUNE Emerick | 2159F | ½ | |
| 109 | DELORME Laurie | 2106F | ½ | |
| 110 | GRUNDMAN Anatole | 2118F | ½ | |
| 111 | ALLARD Thomas | 2060F | ½ | |
| 112 | BORGO Giulio | 2342F | ½ | |
| 113 | JRADE Willis | 2159F | 0 | |
| 114 | PIERI Pierre-Louis | 2151 F | 0 | |
| 115 | THANKE Bror | 2126F | 0 | |
| 116 | VERNEUIL Pascal | 2118F | 0 | |
| 117 | BENSDORP-DE LABACA Marlies | 2241F | 0 | |
| 118 | MANUKONDA ARUN | 2102F | 0 | |
| 119 | DEODHAR Vrushali Umesh | 2082F | 0 | |
| 120 | UTRERA Ludovic | 2045F | 0 | |
| 121 | EMMENECKER Philippe | 2032 F | 0 | |
| 122 | MORACCHINI Margaux | 2032 F | 0 | |
| 123 | LILONI Francesco Mattia | 2012 F | 0 | |
| 124 | ARANOVITCH Emiliano | 2358F | 0 | |
| 125 | SBARRA Marco | 2207F | 0 | |
| 126 | VIGNESH B | 2382F | 0 | |
| 127 | SALONIKA Saina | 2223F | 0 |
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