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With an Elo rating of 2452, Haowen Xue started the Arona Open in Tenerife as the 29th seed, behind 26 grandmasters and 2 international masters. But that didn't stop him from winning the event with 8 points from 10 games and an Elo performance of 2677.
In the penultimate round, he scored an important win against Lithuanian GM Titas Stremavicius.
The 16-year-old Chinese player is still untitled, but has already achieved a number of remarkable results in his career. For example, he won gold with the Chinese team at the 2023 World U16 Team Championship in Eindhoven with 7 points from 9 games (+5, =4) on the top board.
However, his eighth place at the strong Dubai Open 2023 attracted even more attention, not least because Xue won a spectacular game against Hans Niemann.
The 15-year-old Shreyas Royal, who finished second at the Arona Open, also caused a stir. Royal was born on 9 January 2009 and is England's youngest International Master. He made his first GM norm in November 2022 at the Tegernsee Open in Germany, which was also a record, as no English player of that age had ever made a GM norm.
On his way to the Grandmaster title: Shreyas Royal | Photo: Olympics.com
In December 2023 Royal made his second GM norm at the London Chess Classic, but with an Elo performance of 2575, Royal narrowly missed his third norm in Tenerife, though he still has a good chance of becoming the youngest English grandmaster of all time. This record has been held for over 17 years by David Howell, who became grandmaster at the Rilton Cup in Stockholm in 2007 at the age of 16.
| Rk. | Snr | Name | Country | Elo | Pts. | Tb1 | Tb2 | Tb3 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 29 | Xue, Haowen | CHN | 2452 | 8 | 1 | 2691 | 60 | ||
| 2 | 24 | IM | Royal, Shreyas | ENG | 2483 | 7,5 | 1 | 2526 | 54,5 | |
| 3 | 27 | IM | Zhao, Yuanhe | CHN | 2463 | 7,5 | 2 | 2563 | 56 | |
| 4 | 5 | GM | Gorshtein, Ido | ISR | 2563 | 7 | 1 | 2608 | 59 | |
| 5 | 8 | GM | Sankalp, Gupta | IND | 2552 | 7 | 1 | 2594 | 57,5 | |
| 6 | 1 | GM | Pichot, Alan | ESP | 2640 | 7 | 1 | 2593 | 59 | |
| 7 | 4 | GM | Gupta, Abhijeet | IND | 2589 | 7 | 1 | 2552 | 55 | |
| 8 | 10 | GM | Stremavicius, Titas | LTU | 2538 | 7 | 1 | 2538 | 56,5 | |
| 9 | 15 | GM | Kantor, Gergely | HUN | 2528 | 7 | 1 | 2523 | 56 | |
| 10 | 13 | GM | Sosa, Tomas | ARG | 2535 | 7 | 1 | 2499 | 54,5 | |
| 11 | 3 | GM | Kazakouski, Valery | LTU | 2603 | 7 | 1 | 2471 | 55,5 | |
| 12 | 2 | GM | Albornoz Cabrera, Carlos Daniel | CUB | 2614 | 7 | 1 | 2465 | 51,5 | |
| 13 | 78 | Rappazzo, Johannes | SUI | 2169 | 7 | 1 | 2331 | 49,5 | ||
| 14 | 17 | GM | Raja, Rithvik R | IND | 2511 | 7 | 3 | 2455 | 53,5 | |
| 15 | 19 | GM | Lalit, Babu M R | IND | 2509 | 7 | 3 | 2394 | 51 | |
| 16 | 21 | GM | David, Alberto | ITA | 2502 | 6,5 | 1 | 2567 | 60,5 | |
| 17 | 26 | GM | Bilguun, Sumiya | MGL | 2466 | 6,5 | 1 | 2516 | 56,5 | |
| 18 | 6 | GM | Peralta, Fernando | ARG | 2562 | 6,5 | 1 | 2494 | 55,5 | |
| 19 | 7 | GM | Socko, Bartosz | POL | 2556 | 6,5 | 1 | 2483 | 56,5 | |
| 20 | 54 | FM | O`gorman, Tom | IRL | 2337 | 6,5 | 1 | 2413 | 56,5 | |
| 21 | 23 | GM | Pakleza, Zbigniew | POL | 2489 | 6,5 | 1 | 2402 | 52,5 | |
| 22 | 32 | GM | Prraneeth, Vuppala | IND | 2436 | 6,5 | 1 | 2398 | 53,5 | |
| 23 | 16 | GM | Blohberger, Felix | AUT | 2527 | 6,5 | 1 | 2378 | 51,5 | |
| 24 | 22 | GM | Quparadze, Giga | GEO | 2494 | 6,5 | 1 | 2299 | 48 | |
| 25 | 12 | GM | Pantsulaia, Levan | GEO | 2535 | 6,5 | 2 | 2460 | 54 | |
| 26 | 11 | GM | Krysa, Leandro | ARG | 2535 | 6,5 | 2 | 2452 | 55,5 | |
| 27 | 36 | IM | Dhulipalla, Bala Chandra Prasad | IND | 2420 | 6,5 | 2 | 2406 | 54,5 | |
| 28 | 20 | GM | Paichadze, Luka | GEO | 2504 | 6 | 1 | 2519 | 59 |
...157 participants
