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From here you can access live games or games from previous editions.
* Provisional rules here, until April 1, when the final rules will be published and registrations will be opened *.
* Provisional rules here, until April 1, when the final rules will be published and registrations will be opened *.
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.
Imagine, this past March 3, a space where the technological future ceases to be a vague promise and becomes something understandable for those of us who barely understand it. This is the premise with which I propose you to enter Talent Arena, a three-day event framed in the Mobile World Congress, where professionals from the digital sector and the world’s leading technology companies and training institutions have gathered. The Llobregat has been an exceptional witness to the presentations of chess icons Garri Kasparov and Miguel Illescas, pioneers in the field of artificial intelligence. Many people are wary of major
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