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* Registration is open according to the calendar. From here you can access the registration form *.
* Registration is open according to the calendar. From here you can access the registration form *.
Milestones achieved in the five editions held (2019-2024).
- Best open held in Spain in the 2022 and 2023 editions, as certified by the Consejo Superior de Deportes and FEDA.
- We had more than one thousand participants; 50% international graduates.
- An average of 45 countries are represented in each edition.
- EL LLOBREGAT played: Gukesh, Narayanan, Abdusattorov, Mateusz Bartel, Erijaisi, Muraliu Karthikeyan, Puranik, Alvar Alonso, Maxime Lagarde, Kulkarni Bhakti, Mobina Alinasab, Rakshitta Ravi, Savitha Shri Baskar, Privanka Nutakki, Jaime Santos, Sara Khadem, Sabrina Vega, Lucas Van Foreest, Francisco Vallejo, Yangyi Yu, Ivan Cheparinov, Vladimir Fedoseev, Kiriil Alekseenko, Jaime Santos, Ponomariov, Amin Tabatabaei, Matthias Bluebaum, Vahap Sanal, Antoaneta Stefanova, Hans Niemann, Alain Pichot, Fernando Peralta… and so on up to more than a hundred grandmasters.
- The participants, MI and MF, have achieved that we awarded 47 mastery standards.
- In 2024, female participation was 17% (FIFDE average is 11%; Spanish average is 6%; Catalan average is 7%).
- In 2024 we broadcast from 63 electronic boards and 12 cameras; 40,762 users from 40 countries connected to elllobregat.com/openchess, with a total of 71,515 pages served. On YouTube, the videos generated during the tournament totaled 415,892 views.
From November 28 to December 8, 2025 in Sant Boi de Llobregat (Barcelona, Spain)
The 6th edition of the Llobregat Open Chess Tournament will be held from November 25 to December 8, 2025 (10 rounds of play), at the Can Massallera complex in Sant Boi de Llobregat, 18 minutes from Barcelona. The rounds will be played in the afternoons, starting at 16:00 (except for the last round, which will be played on the 8th at 10:00). Outside these hours, complementary activities are being programmed to complement the tournament, both for the players and the general public. Some of them with surprises of national and international importance, which we will announce in due course.
The Spanish Grandmaster Daniil Yuffa, current absolute champion of Spain, lived an agonizing outcome in the European Individual Chess Championship, held in Eforie Nord (Romania). Yuffa, who reached the last round with options of victory, was defeated by the German Frederik Svane, thus losing the opportunity to be crowned European champion. The loss to Svane left Yuffa with 8 points, while the German scored 8.5. But Svane was not the only one to achieve this score. Israel’s Maxim Rodshtein, after beating Armenia’s Shant Sargsyan, and Germany’s Matthias Bluebaum, who drew with Azerbaijan’s Nijat Abasov, also scored 8.5 points. The
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