Sofia Spring Chess Tournament 2025

The 1st Sofia Spring Chess Tournament will be held 23-29 May in Sofia, Bulgaria. With a prize fund of 12600 eur, the tournament features 41 titled players, among them GM Denis Kadric (MNE, 2536), GM Vitaliy Bernadskiy (UKR, 2523), GM Boris Chatalbashev (DEN, 2502), GM Grigor Grigorov (BUL, 2497), GM Radoslav Dimitrov (BUL, 2474), IM Nico Zwirs (NED, 2454), IM C R G Krishna (IND, 2453), IM Juraj Druska (SVK, 2446), GM Momchil Nikolov (BUL, 2436), FM Roman Dehtiarov (UKR, 2405), GM Petar Arnaudov (BUL, 2403), FM Onno Elgersma (NED, 2397), IM Tim Janzelj (SLO, 2396), FM Christos Krallis (GRE, 2371), FM Aayush Bhattacherjee (IND, 2360), WGM Beloslava Krasteva (BUL, 2332), WGM Maili-Jade Ouellet (CAN, 2305), WGM Viktoria Radeva (BUL, 2281), FM Baver Yilmaz (TUR, 2233), WIM Gergana Peycheva (BUL, 2208), etc.

The time control for the chess tournament is 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, followed by 15 minutes for the rest of the game, with a 30-second increment per move starting from move 1. The tournament is valid for GM and WGM norms.

Here is the full list of participants as of May 10

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1	GM	Kadric, Denis	MNE	2536
2	GM	Bernadskiy, Vitaliy	UKR	2523
3	GM	Chatalbashev, Boris	DEN	2502
4	GM	Grigorov, Grigor	BUL	2497
5	GM	Dimitrov, Radoslav	BUL	2474
6	IM	Zwirs, Nico	NED	2454
7	IM	Krishna, C R G	IND	2453
8	IM	Druska, Juraj	SVK	2446
9	GM	Nikolov, Momchil	BUL	2436
10	FM	Dehtiarov, Roman	UKR	2405
11	GM	Arnaudov, Petar	BUL	2403
12	FM	Elgersma, Onno	NED	2397
13	IM	Janzelj, Tim	SLO	2396
14	FM	Krallis, Christos	GRE	2371
15	FM	Aayush, Bhattacherjee	IND	2360
16	IM	Risteski, Emil	MKD	2359
17	IM	Sidhant, Mohapatra	IND	2357
18	GM	Spasov, Vasil	BUL	2356
19	IM	Filip, Lucian-Ioan	ROU	2345
20	FM	Filip, Andrej	ROU	2335
21	GM	Drenchev, Petar	BUL	2334
22	WGM	Krasteva, Beloslava	BUL	2332
23	GM	Ninov, Nikolai	BUL	2325
24	IM	Kukov, Velislav	BUL	2315
25	FM	Mitev, Valentin	BUL	2308
26	WGM	Ouellet, Maili-Jade	CAN	2305
27	IM	Sai Agni, Jeevitesh. J	IND	2300
28	WGM	Radeva, Viktoria	BUL	2281
29	IM	Claverie, Raul	ARG	2278
30	IM	Ribstein, Nati	ISR	2267
31	FM	Krishnan, Ritvik	IND	2266
32		Katsanis, Vasileios Dim	GRE	2266
33	IM	Nikolov, Sasho	BUL	2257
34		Mladenov, Ilian	BUL	2237
35		Shilon Rahav, Eliran	ISR	2235
36	FM	Yilmaz, Baver	TUR	2233
37		Georgiev, Biser	BUL	2218
38		Boev, Viktor	BUL	2213
39	FM	Patil, Priyanshu	IND	2212
40	WIM	Peycheva, Gergana	BUL	2208
41	FM	Vasilev, Nikolay	BUL	2203
42	WIM	Raeva, Elitsa	BUL	2203
43	CM	Jabadov, Habil	AZE	2201
44		Doraszelski, Aleksander	GER	2185
45	FM	Chkhaidze, Nikoloz	GEO	2173
46		Safarik, Jakub	CZE	2172
47	CM	Todev, Simeon	BUL	2171
48		Iskos, Alexandros	GRE	2165
49		Kishore, Kumar Jaganathan	IND	2157
50		Krastev, Goran	BUL	2143
51		Sedivy, Martin	CZE	2123
52		Mantazis, Georgios Rafail	GRE	2120
53		Ribstein, Orel	ISR	2118
54		Sertbay, Huseyin	TUR	2112
55		Nenova, Andzhelika	BUL	2088
56		La Barbera, Manfredi	ITA	2084
57	CM	Gokturk, Murat Kutay	TUR	2072
58	WIM	February, Jesse Nikki	RSA	2052
59		Banov, Boil	BUL	2029
60		Popov, Ilian	BUL	2021
61		Sucharda, Tomas	CZE	2014
62		Trendafilov, Simeon	BUL	2005
63		Tsolov, Aleksandar	BUL	2002
64		Oner, Cinar	TUR	1991
65		Omota, Vlad	NED	1989
66		Kyparissopoulos, Spyridon	GRE	1981
67		Karaalioglu, Zeynel Mansur	TUR	1971
68		Metiner, Yekta Efe	TUR	1962
69		Roneet, Das	IND	1912
70		Celebi, Mehmet Alper	TUR	1908
71		Aynaoglu, Efe	TUR	1894
72		Uzun, Korzey	TUR	1891
73		Doychev, Ivan	BUL	1889
74		Velikov, Nikola	BUL	1872
75		Dal, Emir Saygin	TUR	1869