Tournament

Grenke Chess Festival 2026

Grenke Chess Festival 2026 · Freestyle Open A

WinnerGMVincent KeymerFinished first on 7½/9, on tiebreak
Dates
2–6 Apr 2026
Location
Congress Center Karlsruhe, Germany
Format
9-round Swiss
Time control
90+30
About this event

Once again this year, the grenke Chess Festival brings together two competitions under one roof:

The Grenke Chess Open (Standard chess)

The Grenke Freestyle Chess Open (Chess960)

Both tournaments are open events and are played in the same playing hall. In each case, the field is divided into the A, B, and C sections. What makes the festival special is the combination of international top-level players, clear sporting relevance, and the sheer size of the participant field.

The winner of the Grenke Freestyle Chess Open (A) qualifies for the FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship 2027.

235 players · average classical Elo 2316

#PlayerElo
1GMMagnus Carlsen2888
2GMIan Nepomniachtchi2771
3GMLevon Aronian2765
4GMHans Moke Niemann2760
5GMVincent Keymer2754
6GMJan-Krzysztof Duda2739
7GMLeinier Dominguez Perez2731
8GMNihal Sarin2723
9GMNodirbek Abdusattorov2716
10GMVladimir Fedoseev2716
11GMChithambaram VR. Aravindh2707
12GMAlexey Sarana2702
13GMMaxime Vachier-Lagrave2700
14GMNodirbek Yakubboev2689
15GMParham Maghsoodloo2687
16GMAwonder Liang2680
17GMLeon Luke Mendonca2676
18GMRauf Mamedov2673
19GMNikita Vitiugov2667
20GMM. Amin Tabatabaei2661
21GMV Pranav2657
22GMVolodar Murzin2655
23GMIvan Saric2654
24GMMurali Karthikeyan2653
25GMMaksim Chigaev2647
26GMShamsiddin Vokhidov2641
27GMAryan Chopra2629
28GMGata Kamsky2627
29GMBaadur Jobava2625
30GMMaxime Lagarde2621
31GMLoek van Wely2621
32GMGeorg Meier2612
33GMOlexandr Bortnyk2604
34GMSergei Movsesian2579
35GMDaniel Fridman2578
36GMDennis Wagner2570
37GMNiclas Huschenbeth2567
38GMBenjamin Bok2560
39GMErik van den Doel2557
40GMArtur Jussupow2554
41GMKrishnan Sasikiran2552
42GMDenis Kadric2543
43GMCasper Schoppen2540
44GMChristopher Noe2523
45GMHugo ten Hertog2520
46GMCem Kaan Gokerkan2512
47GMLance Henderson de La Fuente2510
48GMMaciej Klekowski2497
49IMTobias Koelle2494
50IMHarry Grieve2493
51GMGregory Kaidanov2491
52IMMarius Deuer2490
53GMArthur Pijpers2486
54GMLeon Mons2478
55GMAlexandra Kosteniuk2474
56GMAnte Saric2474
57IMFlorian Kaczur2472
58GMHarika Dronavalli2470
59IMBennet Hagner2468
60GMMariya Muzychuk2463
61IMLev Zverev2461
62IMArthur de Winter2459
63IMEdvin Trost2459
64IMSiva Mahadevan2457
65IMAljoscha Feuerstack2453
66IMDinara Wagner2453
67IMStavroula Tsolakidou2452
68GMAnthony Wirig2449
69IMJonasz Baum2447
70FMMykola Korchynskyi2447
71WGMAlua Nurman2443
72GMDaniel Hausrath2440
73WGMAnna Shukhman2440
74IMMarius Fromm2437
75IMAdrian Gschnitzer2434
76IMLela Javakhishvili2431
77IMKhoi Pham2431
78WGMAfruza Khamdamova2423
79IMJonas Rosner2422
80GMBella Khotenashvili2412
81IMMai Narva2411
82IMMeri Arabidze2409
83GMAntoaneta Stefanova2403
84IMMikhail V. Zaitsev2400
85IMAdrien Rodriguez2391
86IMMeruert Kamalidenova2389
87IMLukas Leisch2388
88David Faerber2388
89IMMax Hess2382
90FMHans Moehn2379
91FMNoah Fecker2371
92IMEkaterina Atalik2365
93WGMXeniya Balabayeva2365
94IMAlina Bivol2361
95FMAmir Rezasade2358
96FMSergey Sklokin-Bagiyan2356
97FMBenedikt Dauner2353
98IMGuenther Beikert2348
99FMMykyta Volkov2346
100IMStefan Loeffler2333
101FMMatthias Becker2330
102IMInna Gaponenko2329
103FMVadim Lavrinenkov2329
104FMJacob Dreelinck2328
105FMLara Schulze2326
106Moritz Stoettner2324
107IMJakub Roubalik2312
108Emil Powierski2307
109IMSantiago Beltran Rueda2304
110IMMilos T Popovic2303
111CMLukas Stoettner2303
112FMMilo Molitor2298
113FMTaron Khachatryan2296
114IMAlexander Reprintsev2283
115Quang Bach Duong2282
116IMAnna Zatonskih2281
117FMRoman Ryabukhin2281
118WGMKateryna Dolzhykova2280
#PlayerElo
119IMPieter Claesen2278
120IMChristian Scholz2276
121FMSimon Degenhard2276
122CMMark Meyers2263
123Bruno Engel2263
124FMSamuel Weber2262
125FMJonas Wyss2256
126Markus Hinterreiter2251
127WIMInna Agrest2249
128Roland Loos2246
129FMFabian Fichter2239
130FMDanny Yi2231
131Kevin Zolfagharian2229
132CMRobert Prieb2227
133FMJoel Adler2224
134CMCarlos Hauser2222
135Simon Schnell2221
136FMMaximilian Ruff2219
137Detlev Wolter2219
138FMAndreas Ciolek2216
139CMMaxime Marie2208
140Christopher Kearns2208
141WGMNarmin Khalafova2207
142FMMikko Kivisto2207
143WGMJulia Movsesian2202
144CMDavid Mandalinic2202
145CMAleksander Kumala2201
146FMGunnar Schnepp2200
147WIMSonja Maria Bluhm2198
148CMSebastian Laemmel2197
149Lukas Schimnatkowski2194
150WGMVera Nebolsina2193
151CMEmanuel Hoegl2190
152Simon Schweizer2190
153Stanislav Temirbek2190
154FMDietmar Hiermann2189
155CMAnton Weigand2189
156Julian Maisch2186
157FMMatthias Bach2183
158FMWilli Skibbe2183
159Federico Casagrande2181
160Shi Kecheng2177
161Sebastian Brandt2175
162FMSreyas Payyappat2174
163Thomas Ahner2171
164FMThomas Oberst2168
165Simon Fidlin2168
166WIMRobin Duson2167
167Patrik Dieterle2166
168Jonas Schwibbert2165
169CMEloi Escudero Ribo2162
170Tobias Becker2160
171Christian Jeitz2155
172Ferran Rocamora Martorell2153
173Jan Meier2152
174CMPhilipp Germer2151
175CMThomas A Quilter2148
176WFMMarharyta Khrapko2142
177Jelle Bulthuis2142
178Kolja Kuehn2140
179FMIgor Spiric2139
180Florian Simon2135
181FMReiner Heimrath2133
182Yasha Farmani Anosheh2132
183Giulio Beretta2129
184Sebastian Dietze2127
185Luka Wu2124
186CMMathias Philipp2117
187Andre Nicolas Heidel2117
188Daniel E Rich2111
189Karl-Heinz Steinhart2110
190Bas Kommer2109
191Michael Wimmer2109
192FMEric Bremond2105
193Max Peter Bartelt2104
194Hans Hollander2103
195FMMartin Ahn2102
196Eloi Castillo Martinez2100
197Patrick Voelbel2095
198WGMMyroslava Hrabinska2094
199Lorenz Hofmann2093
200Martin Kuehn2093
201Andreas Schulze2093
202Frank Baur2089
203Marc Schallner2089
204Terry van der Veen2087
205Erik Eberhart2085
206Alexander Mrotzek2084
207Marcel Germer2082
208Adrian Mueller2076
209Nicolas Perreard2076
210Jeffrey Quirke2075
211Christian Klaus2073
212Michael Kremser2071
213Florent Truccano2071
214Michel Tischler2067
215Leon Wu2067
216Florian Schrepp2065
217Mircea Bratu2060
218Tim Nicolai2060
219Markus Hess2059
220Niko Rosenboom2049
221Michael Kalisch2045
222Max Guthier2043
223Wolfgang Just2031
224Zdenek Kalousek2019
225Marlon Bock2011
226Jeremias Dorfner2007
227Kevin Demiddele2003
228Arthur Hoppe2000
229Christoph Stock1997
230Paul Westenthanner1976
231David-Andrei Valean1972
232Joachim Standhartinger1948
233Fayzullo Khalimjonov1945
234Alexander Arns1936
235Dakxwin Sutharjan1844