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ECU Rapid and Blitz Chess 2024

The European Rapid & Blitz Chess Championships start in Skopje, North Macedonia, and will take place from 6-11 December at ****Hotel Continental. European Rapid Chess Championship 2024 will be the first event on the schedule, taking place on 7-8 December. The Championship will be played according to the Swiss system, in 11 rounds with the time control 15 minutes game + 10 seconds per move starting from the first move. The European Blitz Chess Championship 2024 will be played on 9th of December, with 13 rounds, swiss system, and time control of 3 minutes + 2 seconds increment for each move, starting from the move one.

More than 400 players coming from 39 European federations registered for the event and the top seeds are GM David Navara (CZE, 2683) who defends the title of the European Blitz Champion, GM Jaime Santos Latasa (ESP, 2658), GM Alexey Sarana (SRB, 2654) defending the title of the European Rapid Champion, GM Jorden Van Foreest (NED, 2651), GM Bogdan-Daniel Deac (ROU, 2631), GM Alexander Motylev (ROU, 2627), and GM Baadur Jobava (GEO, 2624). Scroll down for the full list of participants.

Photo from 2023 European Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship by Luka Rifelj

The total prize fund of the Championships is 47.000 EUR plus 3.000 EUR in vouchers of Modern Chess. The prize fund of the European Blitz Chess Championship is 12.000 EUR + 1.000 EUR of vouchers for Modern Chess site. The prizes for European Rapid Chess Championship amount to 20.000 EUR + 1.000 EUR of vouchers for Modern Chess site. 

The European Individual Fisher Random (chess 960) Chess Championship will be held on 10th of December and will be played according to the Swiss system, in 11 rounds with the time control 10 minutes game + 5 seconds per move starting from the move one. The prize fund for the European Fischer Random Championship will be 15.000 EUR + 1.000 EUR Modern Chess vouchers.

European rapid and blitz 2024 participants


No. Name FED Rtg
1 GM Fedoseev, Vladimir SLO 2731
2 GM Navara, David CZE 2683
3 GM Santos Latasa, Jaime ESP 2655
4 GM Sarana, Alexey SRB 2654
5 GM Van Foreest, Jorden NED 2651
6 GM Deac, Bogdan-Daniel ROU 2635
7 GM Motylev, Alexander ROU 2627
8 GM Jobava, Baadur GEO 2624
9 GM Ragger, Markus AUT 2624
10 GM Safarli, Eltaj AZE 2611
11 GM Korobov, Anton UKR 2608
12 GM Pultinevicius, Paulius LTU 2608
13 GM Sargissian, Gabriel ARM 2608
14 GM Mamedov, Rauf AZE 2607
15 GM Chigaev, Maksim ESP 2605
16 GM Fressinet, Laurent FRA 2598
17 GM Lagarde, Maxime FRA 2592
18 GM Pichot, Alan ESP 2591
19 GM Georgiev, Kiril BUL 2590
20 GM Djukic, Nikola MNE 2588
21 GM Kuzubov, Yuriy UKR 2584
22 GM Perunovic, Milos SRB 2573
23 GM Quparadze, Giga GEO 2563
24 GM Dardha, Daniel BEL 2554
25 GM Laurusas, Tomas LTU 2549
26 GM Bernadskiy, Vitaliy UKR 2548
27 GM Mastrovasilis, Dimitrios GRE 2544
28 GM Fridman, Daniel GER 2531
29 GM Smeets, Jan NED 2531
30 GM Grigoriants, Sergey HUN 2529
31 GM Grigorov, Grigor BUL 2529
32 GM Saric, Ante CRO 2526
33 GM Ivanisevic, Ivan SRB 2525
34 GM Pantsulaia, Levan GEO 2519
35 GM Gavrilescu, David ROU 2515
36 GM Kadric, Denis MNE 2513
37 GM Cvitan, Ognjen CRO 2511
38 GM Zajic, Milan SRB 2509
39 GM Kozul, Zdenko CRO 2499
40 IM Boyer, Mahel FRA 2496
41 GM Livaic, Leon CRO 2494
42 GM Kazakouski, Valery LTU 2493
43 GM Alonso Rosell, Alvar ESP 2491
44 GM Guliyev, Namig AZE 2488
45 IM Stojanovski, Dejan MKD 2486
46 GM Bryakin, Mikhail SRB 2483
47 IM Baidetskyi, Valentin AUT 2479
48 GM Dragnev, Valentin AUT 2473
49 GM Beerdsen, Thomas NED 2471
50 GM Janik, Igor POL 2470
51 GM Subelj, Jan SLO 2467
52 GM Muradli, Mahammad AZE 2464
53 IM Larkin, Vladyslav UKR 2462
54 IM Peyrer, Konstantin AUT 2456
55 GM Paichadze, Luka GEO 2452
56 IM Kalezic, Blazo MNE 2448
57 GM Horvath, Dominik AUT 2430
58 IM Stankovic, Milos SRB 2426
59 IM Kilic, Eray TUR 2425
60 GM Samunenkov, Ihor UKR 2423
61 IM Alienkin, Aleksander BEL 2421
62 IM Saraci, Nderim KOS 2419
63 FM Papasimakopoulos, Alexandros GRE 2417
64 IM Savanovic, Aleksandar BIH 2415
65 IM Ghimpu, Samuel-Timotei ROU 2414
66 GM Pacher, Milan SVK 2409
67 IM Aizenberg, Benny ISR 2403
68 GM Stefanova, Antoaneta BUL 2401
69 IM Costachi, Mihnea ROU 2401
70 Vuckovic, Zarko GER 2401
71 IM Koelle, Tobias GER 2399
72 IM Pancevski, Filip MKD 2396
73 GM Arnaudov, G. Petar BUL 2395
74 IM Baskin, Robert GER 2393
75 IM Narva, Mai EST 2384
76 GM Stanojoski, Zvonko MKD 2383
77 IM Tsolakidou, Stavroula GRE 2381
78 GM Diermair, Andreas AUT 2380
79 IM Domingo Nunez, Ruben ESP 2379
80 IM Bulmaga, Irina ROU 2378
81 GM Hamitevici, Vladimir MDA 2374
82 Danov, Lyubomir BUL 2374
83 IM Dobrikov, Marco GER 2369
84 FM Magold, Filip ROU 2369
85 IM Nikolovski, Nikola MKD 2364
86 GM Mohr, Georg SLO 2356
87 IM Brunner, Nicolas FRA 2355
88 IM Popovic, Milos T SRB 2349
89 GM Todorovic, Goran M SRB 2343
90 IM Gatineau, Yovann FRA 2340
91 GM Jacimovic, Dragoljub MKD 2339
92 GM Nevednichy, Vladislav ROU 2327
93 FM Djurovic, Peko MNE 2326
94 FM Zlatkov, Anton MKD 2325
95 IM Fromm, Marius GER 2318
96 FM Jotic, Vladimir SRB 2314
97 FM Vuckovic, Aleksandar GER 2314
98 FM Oliinyk, Serafym SRB 2310
99 IM Reprintsev, Alexander UKR 2304
100 FM Krallis, Christos GRE 2297
101 Upleger, Martin GER 2297
102 IM Gaponenko, Inna UKR 2291
103 IM Garcia Martin, Marta ESP 2291
104 FM Veljanoski, Andrej MKD 2290
105 Kusiak, Matej SVK 2290
106 Trushko, Andrii UKR 2286
107 IM Domalchuk-Jonasson, Aleksandr ISL 2284
108 IM Danchevski, Orce MKD 2279
109 IM Manea, Alexandru ROU 2278
110 FM Denk, Adolf AUT 2272
111 WGM Zawadzka, Jolanta POL 2271
112 IM Maltsevskaya, Aleksandra POL 2269
113 IM Todorovic, Goran N SRB 2269
114 FM Makolli, Perparim KOS 2254
115 IM Maier, Christian GER 2249
116 FM Vyval, Volodymyr UKR 2246
117 FM Guid, Matej SLO 2243
118 Kukk, Sander EST 2236
119 IM Kukov, Velislav BUL 2235
120 FM Bogoevski, Jani MKD 2235
121 FM Ribeiro, Gustavo POR 2232
122 FM Dinev, Dejan MKD 2228
123 FM Tudor, Henry Edward ROU 2228
124 Pezelj, Sinisa CRO 2222
125 IM Podlesnik, Bogdan MNE 2217
126 FM Meyer, Falko GER 2210
127 FM Dragicevic, Drazen SWE 2207
128 FM Druckenthaner, Andreas AUT 2200
129 FM Rodriguez Fontecha, Marcos ESP 2200
130 IM Sadiku, Bedri KOS 2199
131 FM Wyss, Jonas SUI 2197
132 WIM Muetsch, Annmarie BEL 2196
133 CM Aymerich Verdaguer, Eduard ESP 2193
134 FM Ciric, Pavle SRB 2190
135 FM Avramidou, Anastasia GRE 2186
136 WIM Srdanovic, Jovana SRB 2182
137 FM Biljanic, Ljubomir SRB 2181
138 Mihov, Filip MKD 2181
139 CM Triadu Cassa, Jordi ESP 2174
140 FM Promyshlyanskiy, Vitaliy UKR 2172
141 Tweedie, Steven SCO 2172
142 Nakonechnyi, Oleksii UKR 2163
143 Zygouris, Hristos GRE 2155
144 FM Kralevski, Aleksander MKD 2154
145 Trapp, Maximilian GER 2151
146 Kesidis, Odyseas GRE 2150
147 FM Veleski, Robert MKD 2149
148 CM Molina Carretero, Daniel ESP 2148
149 FM Andonovski, Ljubisa MKD 2147
150 Muter, Donny ENG 2147
151 Kiratzopoulos, Efthimios GRE 2145
152 Hristovski, Srdzan MKD 2143
153 Balinski, Damian POL 2141
154 Mikluc, Davorin SRB 2141
155 IM Sivan, Yaacov ISR 2137
156 WGM Radeva, Viktoria BUL 2137
157 FM Sramek, Vojtech CZE 2135
158 Galuszka, Tomasz POL 2134
159 Stoinev, Metodi BUL 2134
160 WCM Goraj, Barbara POL 2133
161 CM Aliyev, Elnur AZE 2130
162 WIM Pavlidou, Ekaterini GRE 2129
163 Nikolaev, Georgi BUL 2126
164 CM Lauda, Alexandr MDA 2122
165 Trajkovski, Mile MKD 2119
166 CM Tisma, Ivan SRB 2114
167 Iskos, Alexandros GRE 2109
168 FM Zivkovic, Marko SRB 2107
169 FM Redzisz, Michal POL 2104
170 WGM Malicka, Maria POL 2103
171 Mcgowan, Daniel SCO 2096
172 WIM Djukic, Sandra SRB 2095
173 WFM Kucharska, Honorata POL 2094
174 Kukov, Tode MKD 2093
175 Spirliadis, Achileas GRE 2093
176 CM Herega, Nejc SLO 2092
177 FM Pipiras, Filipa Fortuna POR 2091
178 WFM Narva, Triin EST 2086
179 Sutbas, Batuhan TUR 2084
180 Stankovic, Miljan SRB 2082
181 FM Mohammad, Fahim FRA 2080
182 Eftovski, Mateo MKD 2080
183 Garcia Perez, Javier ESP 2078
184 FM Sirigos, Nikolaos GRE 2077
185 IM Sekulic, Dusan SRB 2070
186 FM Ochedzan, Tymon POL 2069
187 Hrisomalis, Theodoros GRE 2066
188 Kues, Hendrik GER 2061
189 Yuste Valenzuela, Alejandro ESP 2061
190 CM Mueller, Magnus GER 2056
191 Vardakas, Grigorios GRE 2056
192 Rigopoulos-Tsigkos, Alexandros GRE 2053
193 Sadiki, Nedzmedin MKD 2053
194 Goncalves, Lucas Jordao POR 2047
195 Homatidis, Panagiotis GRE 2046
196 FM Bognar, Csaba Dr. HUN 2044
197 Sejdiu, Bekim KOS 2043
198 Sarabando, Rodrigo Andias POR 2040
199 Skreno, Vladimir SVK 2040
200 FM Martinkus, Rolandas LTU 2038
201 Baliasnyj, Timur LTU 2037
202 WFM Siekanska, Maria POL 2034
203 Djukanovic, Mitar MNE 2033
204 Minas, Ioannis GRE 2031
205 AIM Martins, Diogo Faria Oliveira POR 2030
206 Jovanovski, Teodor MKD 2030
207 Horvath, Tomas CZE 2029
208 CM Zhukovskyi, Myhaylo UKR 2027
209 WIM Velickovski-Nejkovic, Maja SRB 2026
210 Gulin, Zoran J SRB 2025
211 Rakulj, Stanislav SRB 2025
212 Tomasi, Elise FRA 2025
213 CM Quilter, Thomas A ENG 2022
214 Skurniak, Szymon POL 2021
215 Chaerle, Josse BEL 2020
216 Nikolovski, Kiril MKD 2019
217 FM Viskelis, Darius LTU 2018
218 WIM Ciolacu, Alessia-Mihaela ROU 2016
219 WFM Froewis, Annika AUT 2015
220 AIM Chuchukova, Stefani BUL 2012
221 WFM Pirvulescu, Ekaterina ROU 2011
222 Aliu, Besnik KOS 2011
223 Babrauskas, Darius LTU 2006
224 Frutuoso, Tiago POR 2006
225 WFM Karaivanova, Petya BUL 2001
226 Viliamas, Dovydas LTU 1999
227 Kosmidis, Ioannis GRE 1998
228 Sahiti, Jahjush KOS 1998
229 FM Ribeiro, Rodrigo POR 1997
230 WFM Stojkovska, Monika MKD 1995
231 Nadj, Vanja SRB 1994
232 Papadimitriou, Athanasios GRE 1992
233 Vanden Bussche, Steven BEL 1992
234 Aslani, Emrush MKD 1990
235 Olcina Monells, Jordi ESP 1990
236 Zilakauskis, Steponas LTU 1990
237 Nicholas, Koichi B ENG 1985
238 George, Matthew P ENG 1982
239 Grodotzki, Kenneth GER 1981
240 Stojkoski, Acko MKD 1979
241 FM Nahkur, Madis EST 1977
242 Afonso, Joao Pedro POR 1972
243 Zhukovskyi, Oleksandr UKR 1972
244 Shapkaroski, Goce MKD 1970
245 Bogdanovic, Vesna SRB 1969
246 Sramek, Ondrej CZE 1969
247 Zubic, Aleksandar SRB 1966
248 Markovski, Velo MKD 1962
249 Stamenkovic, Lazar SRB 1962
250 Masha, Rexhep ALB 1961
251 Marzakov, Mihail BUL 1960
252 Sumskis, Rimvydas LTU 1959
253 AIM Hlebec, Darko SRB 1956
254 Dilji, Emell KOS 1952
255 Pavleski, Nikola MKD 1952
256 Vuckovic, Robert GER 1952
257 Ostojic, Milos R SRB 1951
258 Lohaj, Bedri KOS 1947
259 Mena, Rilind MKD 1946
260 Nikolovski, David MKD 1944
261 Robis, Dimitrios GRE 1944
262 Toncic, Danilo SRB 1939
263 WFM Stangl, Anita Dr. GER 1938
264 Osmani, Faredin MKD 1937
265 Destic, Elena FRA 1933
266 Petrovski, Ivan MKD 1932
267 Vardaka, Sofia GRE 1929
268 Lachinov, Eldar AZE 1922
269 Almeida, Andre POR 1921
270 Trapp, Robert GER 1917
271 AIM Tomazin, James Marijan SLO 1916
272 Randjelovic, Nenad SRB 1915
273 Kotnik, Simon SLO 1912
274 Siddharth, Gopakumar ENG 1910
275 IM Smolin, Sergey UKR 1907
276 Xheladini, Valton MKD 1897
277 Andreev, Simeon BUL 1896
278 Stankovic, Srdjan MKD 1887
279 AFM Marttinen, Jussi FIN 1885
280 Tutinas, Romualdas LTU 1885
281 Jonuzi, Arlind MKD 1883
282 WCM Valente, Sofia POR 1882
283 Wyss, Peter SUI 1879
284 Zurnaxhiu, Xheladin KOS 1878
285 Svensek, Marjan SLO 1875
286 Zhezhovska, Monika MKD 1874
287 Veldeman, Sieben BEL 1873
288 Hematyar, Fardin NED 1872
289 Manova, Ivana MKD 1871
290 Burns, Michael MKD 1870
291 Voinas, Marios GRE 1868
292 Vidikjevski, Vancho MKD 1865
293 Vardakas, Stefanos GRE 1861
294 Cros Garcia, Marc ESP 1860
295 Nedev, Trajche MKD 1859
296 Perez Garcia, Saul ESP 1859
297 Krize, Ales SLO 1852
298 Krstevski, Pavel MKD 1852
299 Shakirovski, Fazli MKD 1850
300 AFM Giblin, Martin FRA 1846
301 Rama, Adem KOS 1846
302 Shapkaroski, Jane MKD 1846
303 Spasov, Aleksandar MKD 1845
304 Gjorgjevski, Janco MKD 1843
305 Sopjan, Agim FIN 1843
306 Petrovska, Katerina MKD 1841
307 Simonovski, Dimitar MKD 1841
308 Masa, Alexandros GRE 1838
309 WCM Siekanska, Zuzanna POL 1837
310 Radonjanin, Nikola MKD 1837
311 Shumanov, Blagoj MKD 1830
312 Mohr, Pablo SLO 1829
313 Pirvulescu, Adrian ROU 1827
314 Kostic, Zivojin SRB 1824
315 Antoniadou, Paraskevi GRE 1823
316 Osmani, Nimetulla MKD 1818
317 Craciun, Ovidiu ROU 1817
318 Costa, Tomas Pereira POR 1812
319 Psomiadis, Haralampos GRE 1810
320 Stojcheski, Aleksandar MKD 1799
321 Tabakovski, Dino MKD 1799
322 Stefanoski, Daniel MKD 1797
323 Smolikj, Momchilo MKD 1794
324 Sallmani, Ahmet MKD 1793
325 AFM Tasevski, Daniel MKD 1792
326 ACM Zhezhov, Emil MKD 1792
327 Popagjoski, Ljupco MKD 1792
328 Ibrahimi, Besnik MKD 1791
329 Midem, Ismail Eren TUR 1791
330 Besbudak, Ozgur TUR 1787
331 Zumaquero Mairena, David ESP 1785
332 Neuwald, Johannes GER 1782
333 AFM Aleksovski, Aleksandar MKD 1780
334 Golubovic, Tomislav MKD 1775
335 Marques, Ricardo POR 1772
336 Stoilkovski, Jordan MKD 1771
337 Tenreiro, Manuel POR 1766
338 Montenegro, Matias POR 1760
339 Pisarek, Elzbieta POL 1758
340 Besnard, Lois NOR 1756
341 Vojinovic, Anastasija SRB 1749
342 Gierech, Pawel POL 1748
343 Almeida, Marta Dias POR 1745
344 Filiz, Enes Kayra TUR 1744
345 Farkas, Virag HUN 1740
346 Ajradinoska, Indzi MKD 1736
347 Freitas, Ruben Manuel POR 1736
348 Denk, Wolfgang AUT 1732
349 Gjorgjevski, Mosha MKD 1732
350 Velkov, Ilija MKD 1731
351 Zhezhovski, Marjan MKD 1720
352 Kuzmanoski, Oliver MKD 1719
353 Markovski, Misho MKD 1712
354 Samopoulos, Georgios GRE 1690
355 Rama, Merlin KOS 1681
356 Stankovic, Sanja MKD 1679
357 Angelov, Done MKD 1673
358 Vidichek, Filip MKD 1673
359 Silva, Gabriel Joao POR 1668
360 Kaplingat, Anand GER 1661
361 Nasev, Emil MKD 1659
362 Burns, Elisaveta MKD 1654
363 Bubnys, Marius LTU 1638
364 Josevski, Konstantin MKD 1636
365 Loshkov, Konstantin MKD 1636
366 Nastas, Evgheni MDA 1629
367 Atalko, Berat MKD 1624
368 Veleva, Ilijana MKD 1624
369 Ribeiro, Pedro Miguel Paiva POR 1606
370 AFM Novevski, Bojan MKD 1599
371 Pavlovski, Dimitrij MKD 1598
372 Almeida, Tomas Ccm POR 1596
373 Usovic, Goran MKD 1591
374 Jovanovska, Tamara MKD 1590
375 Ozdogan, Deniz TUR 1587
376 Beijoco, Bernardo POR 1586
377 Ribeiro, Margarida POR 1582
378 Kirov, Antonio MKD 1575
379 Charalampidou, Sofia GRE 1565
380 Matos, Maria Rita POR 1542
381 Midem, Ali Canel TUR 1528
382 Ivanovski, Jovan MKD 1524
383 Oliveira, Afonso Vieira Soares POR 1504
384 Sivan, Guy ISR 1499
385 Spaskovski, Kiril MKD 1497
386 Costa, Nuno Pereira POR 1482
387 Samopoulos, Nikolaos GRE 1461
388 Trajkovski, Vasilij MKD 1461
389 Nieland, Henry GER 1460
390 Markovski, Gabriel MKD 1458
391 Burns, Joshua Benjamin MKD 1451
392 Samopoulos, Spyridon GRE 1444
393 Burns, Kayla MKD 1433
394 Petrushevski, Sergej MKD 1416
395 Christou, Aikaterini GRE 0
396 Crisavitchi, Mihail MDA 0
397 Dragevska, Lusija MKD 0
398 Gerov, Emil GER 0
399 Hristodoulou, Danai GRE 0
400 Jovanovski, Jovan MKD 0
401 Kamberi, Belora MKD 0
402 Karipidis, Agisilaos GRE 0
403 Karipidis, Aristeidis GRE 0
404 Milanovski, Mihail MKD 0
405 Mishevska, Magdalena MKD 0
406 Pavlovski, Gligorij MKD 0
407 Sopjan, Arber FIN 0