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 |