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Photos: Lars OA Hedlund (Tournament page)
The Rilton Cup is named after its founder, the Swedish doctor and patron Tore Rilton (1904-1983) who initiated the tournament to give Swedish top players the chance to compete against international top players.
A concept that still works. In round one, for instance, US grandmaster Samuel Sevian (Elo 2603) lost an entertaining and complicated game against Swedish IM, chess official and author Ari Ziegler (Elo 2299).
Ari Ziegler
Samuel Sevian
Russian GM Sergey Volkov was crushed by the Indian Prince Bajaj who attacked his renowned opponent with remarkable calm.
Prince Bajaj
Sergey Volkov
In round two the International Master Pablo Cruz Lledo showed against grandmaster Evgeny Postny how effective it can be to put your opponent under pressure.
Number one seed Gata Kamsky started with 2.0/2.
As did Krishnan Sasikiran
| Rg. | Snr | Name | Land | Elo | Pkt. | Wtg1 | Wtg2 | Wtg3 | |
| 1 | 6 | GM | Sokolov Ivan | NED | 2632 | 2,0 | 1,0 | 2,0 | 3,0 |
| 20 | GM | Hillarp Persson Tiger | SWE | 2511 | 2,0 | 1,0 | 2,0 | 3,0 | |
| 22 | IM | Liang Awonder | USA | 2495 | 2,0 | 1,0 | 2,0 | 3,0 | |
| 62 | IM | Ziegler Ari | SWE | 2299 | 2,0 | 1,0 | 2,0 | 3,0 | |
| 5 | 1 | GM | Kamsky Gata | USA | 2661 | 2,0 | 1,0 | 1,5 | 3,0 |
| 2 | GM | Sasikiran Krishnan | IND | 2661 | 2,0 | 1,0 | 1,5 | 3,0 | |
| 12 | GM | Blomqvist Erik | SWE | 2567 | 2,0 | 1,0 | 1,5 | 3,0 | |
| 17 | GM | Tikkanen Hans | SWE | 2531 | 2,0 | 1,0 | 1,5 | 3,0 | |
| 18 | GM | Swapnil S. Dhopade | IND | 2526 | 2,0 | 1,0 | 1,5 | 3,0 | |
| 30 | IM | Hauge Lars Oskar | NOR | 2431 | 2,0 | 1,0 | 1,5 | 3,0 | |
| 45 | FM | von Bahr Oskar | SWE | 2357 | 2,0 | 1,0 | 1,5 | 3,0 | |
| 12 | 13 | GM | Urkedal Frode | NOR | 2557 | 2,0 | 1,0 | 1,0 | 3,0 |
| 34 | IM | Sarkar Justin Joseph | USA | 2415 | 2,0 | 1,0 | 1,0 | 3,0 | |
| 35 | FM | Cruz Lledó Pablo | ESP | 2415 | 2,0 | 1,0 | 1,0 | 3,0 | |
| 15 | 7 | GM | Neiksans Arturs | LAT | 2631 | 1,5 | 1,5 | 2,5 | 2,5 |
| 11 | GM | Antipov Mikhail Al. | RUS | 2580 | 1,5 | 1,5 | 2,5 | 2,5 | |
| 15 | GM | Ivanov Sergey | RUS | 2545 | 1,5 | 1,5 | 2,5 | 2,5 | |
| 21 | GM | Pavlovic Milos | SRB | 2500 | 1,5 | 1,5 | 2,5 | 2,5 | |
| 60 | CM | Bajaj Prince | IND | 2305 | 1,5 | 1,5 | 2,5 | 2,5 | |
| 67 | Ruecker Benjamin | GER | 2275 | 1,5 | 1,5 | 2,5 | 2,5 | ||
| 92 | Hallman Valo | FIN | 2098 | 1,5 | 1,5 | 2,5 | 2,5 | ||
| 22 | 14 | GM | Kulaots Kaido | EST | 2556 | 1,5 | 1,5 | 2,0 | 2,5 |
| 46 | FM | Nielsen Rógvi Egilstoft | FAI | 2351 | 1,5 | 1,5 | 2,0 | 2,5 | |
| 24 | 29 | IM | Bellia Fabrizio | ITA | 2433 | 1,5 | 1,5 | 2,0 | 2,0 |
| 42 | FM | Mihajlov Sebastian | NOR | 2384 | 1,5 | 1,5 | 2,0 | 2,0 | |
| 81 | FM | Risting Eivind Olav | NOR | 2222 | 1,5 | 1,5 | 2,0 | 2,0 | |
| 94 | Gupta Sankalp | IND | 2093 | 1,5 | 1,5 | 2,0 | 2,0 | ||
| 28 | 23 | IM | Zumsande Martin | GER | 2485 | 1,5 | 1,5 | 1,5 | 2,5 |
| 24 | IM | Westerberg Jonathan | SWE | 2483 | 1,5 | 1,5 | 1,5 | 2,5 | |
| 25 | IM | Salomon Johan | NOR | 2470 | 1,5 | 1,5 | 1,5 | 2,5 | |
| 33 | IM | Sagit Rauan | SWE | 2417 | 1,5 | 1,5 | 1,5 | 2,5 | |
| 37 | IM | Houska Jovanka | ENG | 2397 | 1,5 | 1,5 | 1,5 | 2,5 | |
| 41 | IM | Wallace John-Paul | AUS | 2387 | 1,5 | 1,5 | 1,5 | 2,5 | |
| 49 | FM | Sarin Nihal | IND | 2340 | 1,5 | 1,5 | 1,5 | 2,5 | |
| 35 | 16 | GM | Shyam Sundar M. | IND | 2532 | 1,5 | 1,0 | 1,5 | 2,0 |
| 36 | 5 | GM | Goganov Aleksey | RUS | 2637 | 1,5 | 0,5 | 1,0 | 2,0 |
| 32 | GM | Akesson Ralf | SWE | 2417 | 1,5 | 0,5 | 1,0 | 2,0 | |
| 38 | 4 | GM | Bluebaum Matthias | GER | 2640 | 1,0 | 2,0 | 3,0 | 2,0 |
...104 players
Source: chess-results
Tiger Hillarp Persson
Pia Cramling
They want to make life difficult for the established masters and grandmasters:
Awonder Liang (left) and Nihal Sarin
