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This year's Rilton Cup started in Stockholm on 27 December. The tournament celebrates an anniversary, as it is being held for the 50th time. The first tournament took place in 1971/72 and was won by Jan Timman. The Dutch top player also won the tournament in 1972/1973. Since then, various top grandmasters have entered the list of winners.
View from the terrace of the playing venue
The event at the Scandic Continental in Stockholm's city centre includes three open tournaments with classical time control - the Rilton Cup, an Elo tournament and a tournament for players under 1800 Elo - and a match between Nils Grandelius and Bassem Amin, who play two games a day with a time control of 45+10.
Anna Cramling plays in the B-Open
The A-Open is part of FIDE's new qualification system for the Candidates. FIDE has abandoned the Grand Prix series and instead wants to consider results from top international tournaments. A player can qualify for the Candidates Tournament in this way.
In the main tournament almost 140 players take part, including a good 20 grandmasters and twice as many international masters, plus about 40 FIDE masters. Top seed is Krishnan Sasikiran. The Indian grandmaster came with 25 of his compatriots and thus the Indian contingent even exceeds the number of Swedish participants in the A-Open.
After five rounds the Indian Grandmaster Raja Rithvik leads with 4.5/5. In 2021 the now 18-year-old was the 70th Indian to become a grandmaster.
Raja Rithvik
Half a point behind Raja Rithvik follow eight players with 4.0/5 each. The best Swedish is currently Kucuksari Kaan with 3.5/5.
With two wins and three draws each the two Elo favourites Krishnan Sasikiran and Ilia Smirin also have 3.5/5.
Bassem Amin won the blitz tournament, which was held on New Year's Day, the rest day of the Open.
| Rk. | Snr | Name | Country | Elo | EloI | Bdld | Pts. | Tb1 | Tb2 | Tb3 | Rp | n | w | we | w-we | K | rtg+/- | ||
| 1 | 30 |
|
GM | Raja Rithvik R | IND | 2453 | 2453 | 4,5 | 12 | 14 | 13 | 2786 | 5 | 4,5 | 2,74 | 1,76 | 10 | 17,6 | |
| 2 | 24 |
|
IM | Wadsworth Matthew J | ENG | 2470 | 2470 | 4 | 13,5 | 16 | 13 | 2593 | 5 | 4 | 3,24 | 0,76 | 10 | 7,6 | |
| 3 | 37 |
|
IM | Prraneeth Vuppala | IND | 2427 | 2427 | 4 | 13 | 14,5 | 13,5 | 2636 | 5 | 4 | 2,69 | 1,31 | 10 | 13,1 | |
| 4 | 16 |
|
IM | Horvath Dominik | AUT | 2502 | 2502 | 4 | 13 | 14,5 | 13 | 2617 | 5 | 4 | 3,33 | 0,67 | 10 | 6,7 | |
| 5 | 11 |
|
IM | Abdrlauf Elham | NOR | 2518 | 2518 | 4 | 12,5 | 15 | 11 | 2601 | 5 | 4 | 3,51 | 0,49 | 10 | 4,9 | |
| 6 | 3 |
|
GM | Livaic Leon | CRO | 2572 | 2572 | 4 | 12,5 | 14,5 | 12,5 | 2660 | 5 | 4 | 3,50 | 0,50 | 10 | 5 | |
| 7 | 23 |
|
IM | Parkhov Yair | ISR | 2470 | 2470 | 4 | 12 | 14 | 12,5 | 2628 | 5 | 4 | 3,04 | 0,96 | 10 | 9,6 | |
| 8 | 8 |
|
GM | Urkedal Frode Olav Olsen | NOR | 2536 | 2536 | 4 | 11,5 | 13,5 | 13 | 2664 | 5 | 4 | 3,25 | 0,75 | 10 | 7,5 | |
| 9 | 22 |
|
IM | Pranesh M | IND | 2475 | 2475 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 2588 | 5 | 4 | 3,35 | 0,65 | 10 | 6,5 | |
| 10 | 18 |
|
IM | Kucuksari Kaan | SWE | 2492 | 2492 | 3,5 | 14,5 | 16,5 | 13 | 2539 | 5 | 3,5 | 3,18 | 0,32 | 10 | 3,2 | |
| 11 | 9 |
|
GM | Galperin Platon | UKR | 2530 | 2530 | 3,5 | 13,5 | 16 | 12 | 2528 | 5 | 3,5 | 3,48 | 0,02 | 10 | 0,2 | |
| 12 | 31 |
|
IM | Sorensen Hampus | SWE | 2442 | 2442 | 3,5 | 13,5 | 15,5 | 12,5 | 2581 | 5 | 3,5 | 2,56 | 0,94 | 10 | 9,4 | |
| 13 | 85 |
|
FM | Olsson William | SWE | 2290 | 2290 | 3,5 | 13,5 | 15,5 | 10 | 2626 | 5 | 3,5 | 1,30 | 2,20 | 20 | 44 | |
| 14 | 2 |
|
GM | Smirin Ilia | ISR | 2596 | 2596 | 3,5 | 13 | 15,5 | 11 | 2552 | 5 | 3,5 | 3,74 | -0,24 | 10 | -2,4 | |
| 15 | 1 |
|
GM | Sasikiran Krishnan | IND | 2635 | 2635 | 3,5 | 13 | 15 | 11,5 | 2548 | 5 | 3,5 | 3,95 | -0,45 | 10 | -4,5 | |
| 16 | 17 |
|
IM | Seo Jung Min | SWE | 2502 | 2502 | 3,5 | 13 | 15 | 11 | 2519 | 5 | 3,5 | 3,37 | 0,13 | 10 | 1,3 | |
| 17 | 12 |
|
GM | Thybo Jesper Sondergaard | DEN | 2515 | 2515 | 3,5 | 12,5 | 15 | 12 | 2547 | 5 | 3,5 | 3,29 | 0,21 | 10 | 2,1 | |
| 18 | 13 |
|
GM | Kulaots Kaido | EST | 2513 | 2513 | 3,5 | 12,5 | 15 | 10,5 | 2502 | 5 | 3,5 | 3,55 | -0,05 | 10 | -0,5 | |
| 19 | 42 |
|
IM | Sokolovsky Yahli | ISR | 2415 | 2415 | 3,5 | 12,5 | 14,5 | 11 | 2574 | 5 | 3,5 | 2,42 | 1,08 | 10 | 10,8 | |
| 20 | 5 |
|
GM | Jacobson Brandon | USA | 2551 | 2551 | 3,5 | 12,5 | 14,5 | 10,5 | 2531 | 5 | 3,5 | 3,59 | -0,09 | 10 | -0,9 |
...136 players
