Almaty Chess Open 2025 – Masters Participants
The Almaty Chess Open 2025 is taking place August 04- August 12 in A;maty, Kazakhstan. The tournament is separated in 3 categories – Masters, Challengers and Open. The Masters section is a 9 round Swiss system tournament with time control 90 mins + 30 secs / move. For more events from Kazakhstan, check out The Asian Chess Calendar, which is part of The Chess Calendar.
The top rated player is GM Bassem Amin (2633), followed by GM Aram Hakobyan (2621) and GM Maxim Matlakov (2608). Top is completed byGM S l Narayanan (2597), GM Sergei Azarov (2590), GM Aleksey Grebnev (2582), GM Jingyao Tin (2579), GM Mittal Aditya (2570), GM Brandon Jacobson (2569), GM S.p. Sethuraman (2554), GM Denis Makhnev (2535), GM Vitaly Sivuk (2526), GM Dmitry Bocharov (2522), GM Mihail Nikitenko (2517), GM Aleksey Goganov (2516), IM Krishna s Rohith (2516), GM Nikita Afanasiev (2511), GM Mahdi Gholami orimi (2511), GM Saparmyrat Atabayev (2505), GM Vitaliy Bernadskiy (2505). Scroll down for the full participants list.
Categories : Challengers / Open
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Almaty Chess Open 2025 – Masters Participants
No. | Name | FED | Rtg | |
1 | GM | Amin, Bassem | EGY | 2633 |
2 | GM | Hakobyan, Aram | ARM | 2621 |
3 | GM | Matlakov, Maxim | FID | 2608 |
4 | GM | Narayanan, S L | IND | 2597 |
5 | GM | Azarov, Sergei | FID | 2590 |
6 | GM | Grebnev, Aleksey | FID | 2582 |
7 | GM | Tin, Jingyao | SGP | 2579 |
8 | GM | Aditya, Mittal | IND | 2570 |
9 | GM | Jacobson, Brandon | USA | 2569 |
10 | GM | Sethuraman, S.P. | IND | 2554 |
11 | GM | Makhnev, Denis | KAZ | 2535 |
12 | GM | Sivuk, Vitaly | SWE | 2526 |
13 | GM | Bocharov, Dmitry | FID | 2522 |
14 | GM | Nikitenko, Mihail | BLR | 2517 |
15 | GM | Goganov, Aleksey | FID | 2516 |
16 | IM | Rohith, Krishna S | IND | 2516 |
17 | GM | Afanasiev, Nikita | FID | 2511 |
18 | GM | Gholami Orimi, Mahdi | IRI | 2511 |
19 | GM | Atabayev, Saparmyrat | TKM | 2505 |
20 | GM | Bernadskiy, Vitaliy | UKR | 2505 |
21 | GM | Suleymenov, Alisher | KAZ | 2497 |
22 | IM | Khubukshanov, Erdem | FID | 2490 |
23 | IM | Urazayev, Arystanbek | KAZ | 2490 |
24 | IM | Agmanov, Zhandos | KAZ | 2483 |
25 | IM | Srihari, L R | IND | 2482 |
26 | IM | Tsaruk, Maksim | FID | 2481 |
27 | IM | Davtyan, Artur | ARM | 2471 |
28 | IM | Kezin, Roman | FID | 2471 |
29 | FM | Yeletsky, Ivan | FID | 2469 |
30 | FM | Panesar, Vedant | IND | 2462 |
31 | Utegaliyev, Azamat | KAZ | 2462 | |
32 | GM | Siddharth, Jagadeesh | SGP | 2459 |
33 | GM | Zhalmakhanov, Ramazan | KAZ | 2456 |
34 | Jiang, Haochen | CHN | 2455 | |
35 | IM | Gan-Erdene, Sugar | MGL | 2454 |
36 | Meng, Yihan | CHN | 2454 | |
37 | IM | Samusenko, Maksim | FID | 2452 |
38 | FM | Borgaonkar, Akshay | IND | 2452 |
39 | IM | Mayank, Chakraborty | IND | 2448 |
40 | IM | Lee, Junhyeok | KOR | 2434 |
41 | IM | Ayush, Sharma | IND | 2433 |
42 | IM | Amartuvshin, Ganzorig | MGL | 2430 |
43 | IM | Vaz, Ethan | IND | 2429 |
44 | FM | Ashraf, Artin | IRI | 2428 |
45 | IM | Narayanan, Samrug | USA | 2418 |
46 | FM | Chinguun, Sumiya | MGL | 2415 |
47 | IM | Sapenov, Daniyal | KAZ | 2414 |
48 | FM | Sahib, Singh | IND | 2413 |
49 | FM | Shogdzhiev, Roman | FID | 2411 |
50 | FM | Yeganegi, Barad | IRI | 2400 |
51 | IM | Aaditya, Dhingra | IND | 2398 |
52 | IM | Abdilkhair, Abilmansur | KAZ | 2397 |
53 | IM | Isanzhulov, Arystan | KAZ | 2394 |
54 | IM | Lu, Maximillian | USA | 2392 |
55 | IM | Amilal, Munkhdalai | MGL | 2385 |
56 | IM | Agibileg, Uurtsaikh | MGL | 2380 |
57 | IM | Gasparyan, Erik R. | ARM | 2372 |
58 | WFM | Nurgaliyeva, Zarina | KAZ | 2336 |
59 | WGM | Balabayeva, Xeniya | KAZ | 2332 |
60 | FM | Suleimen, Ergali | KAZ | 2330 |
61 | IM | Kamalidenova, Meruert | KAZ | 2323 |
62 | FM | Assylov, Miras | KAZ | 2320 |
63 | WGM | Nurman, Alua | KAZ | 2306 |
64 | WGM | Kurmangaliyeva, Liya | KAZ | 2274 |
65 | WIM | Kairbekova, Amina | KAZ | 2273 |
66 | WIM | Serikbay, Assel | KAZ | 2222 |
67 | WIM | Kaldarova, Ayaulym | KAZ | 2138 |
68 | WIM | Sultanbek, Zeinep | KAZ | 2067 |