WCF Grand Prix Final starts this week in Rodos Palace

The WCF Grand-Prix Final aka “Rhodes WCF Open 2025” will be held in the 5-star Conference Hotel “Rodos Palace”, on the northern seaside of Rhodes. WCF Grand-Prix Final is going to take place July 10 – July 18 and is the final tournament of the WCF Grand-Prix Series 2024-25. This event is a great opportunity to combine 5-star summer holidays on a famous Greek island together with an open tournament giving the WCF Champion Title and 11,000 euros in prizes for all categories: general standings, women and juniors.

The Prime Minister of China HE Li Qiang is visiting the 5-star hotel Rodos Palace these days, the venue of the upcoming WCF Rodos International Tournament in Greece. WCF organizers said, “We are always honored to co-operate with Rodos Palace, a hotel preferred by famous politicians, celebrities and businesses for many years now.”

Visit the official website of the WCF https://worldchessfestival.com and for more events see the European Chess Calendar

The tournament will be a 9-round Swiss, FIDE rated and open to all players with a FIDE ID number. The time limit for each player is 90 minutes for 40 moves + 15 minutes for the rest of the game + 30 seconds increment for every move played, starting from the 1st move.

Participants

1	IM	Alexakis, Dimitris	GRE	2537
2	GM	Petrov, Martin	BUL	2534
3	GM	Ratkovic, Miloje	SRB	2489
4	IM	Ratkovic, Milovan	SRB	2456
5	FM	Ratkovic, Petar	SRB	2302
6	FM	Makridis, Dimitrios	GRE	2283
7	FM	Stamatiou, Rodolfos	GRE	2269
8		Trushko, Andrii	UKR	2241
9		Magini, Luca	ITA	2076
10	AFM	Stathatos, Alexandros	GRE	2070
11		Vardakas, Grigorios	GRE	2043
12		Privitera, Franco	ITA	1923
13		Komekbayev, Ramazan	KAZ	1882
14		Sioulis, Stergios	GRE	1830
15		Margaritis, Antonis	GRE	1826
16		Spyrou, Antonios	GRE	1812
17		Michelakis, Evaggelos	GRE	1755
18		Badrakova, Kseniya	AUT	1749
19		Panaretos, Nikiforos	GRE	1726
20		Tiakoudis, Zaharias	GRE	1699
21		Boudnani, Brahim	MAR	1678
22		Yarur Elsaca, Daniel	CHI	1655
23		Tsakiris, Nikolaos	GRE	1630
24		Choullis, Agisilaos Georgios	GRE	1626
25		Korinioti, Myrto	GRE	1620
26		Diakidis Kostas, Michail Georgi	GRE	1610
27		Taladianos, Ioannis	GRE	1607
28		Tsompanoudis, Christodoulos	GRE	1587
29		Palazi, Galatia	GRE	1556
30	ACM	Papadopoulos, Antonios P	GRE	1552
31	ACM	Stavrianos, Alexandros	GRE	1541
32		Lamprianou, Marianna	GRE	1504
33		Lamprianou, Despoina	GRE	1495
34		Kaka, Rengina Tsampika	GRE	1483
35		Dimitriadis, Georgios Em	GRE	1437
36		Kechagioglou, Athanasios	GRE	1434
37		Patellis, Panormitis	GRE	1410
38		Dimitras, Alkinoos	GRE	0
39		Dimitras, Maximos	GRE	0
40		Elmanssouri, Omar	MAR	0
41		Fotiadis, Evagelos	GRE	0
42		Fotiadis, Iordanis	GRE	0
43		Gkougkoustamos, Sotirios	GRE	0
44		Kampouropoulos, Savvas	GRE	0
45		Kazas, Antonios Dionysios	GRE	0
46		Lamprianos, Michail Angelos	GRE	0
47		Lemssaadi, Ayoub	MAR	0
48		Papadopoulos, Stavros M	GRE	0
49		Sioutis, Efthymios Georgios	GRE	0
50		Tsimperopoulos, Petros	GRE	0
51		Vasilakis, Stergos	GRE	0