Baltic Chess Open 2025 – Group A LIVE
The Baltic Chess Open 2025 will take place from October 30 to November 02 in Kiel, Germany. This tournament has 3 sections – Group A, Group B, and Group C. The Group A section is a 7-round Swiss system tournament with a time control of 90 min/ 40 moves + 30 min + 30 sec/move. For more events from Germany, check out The European Chess Calendar, which is part of The Chess Calendar.
The top-seeded players are IM Aljoscha Feuerstack (2452), FM Magnus Arndt (2374), FM Keyvan Farokhi (2362), FM Malek Koniahli (2343), CM Vladislav Lymar (2261), Mats Beeck (2226), FM Jakob Herrmann (2218), CM Bjarne Vollbehr (2192), FM Karsten Schulz (2173), Duc Cuong Tran (2134), Bülent Saglam (2109), Julian Rieper (2087), Yunong Elias Lu (2079), Anastasia Voigt (2076), Jachym Hrbek (2071). Scroll down for the full participants list.
Categories: Group B / Group C
Baltic Chess Open 2025 – Group A Participants
| No. | Title | Name | FED | Rtg |
| 1 | IM | Feuerstack, Aljoscha | GER | 2452 |
| 2 | FM | Arndt, Magnus | GER | 2374 |
| 3 | FM | Farokhi, Keyvan | GER | 2362 |
| 4 | FM | Koniahli, Malek | SYR | 2343 |
| 5 | CM | Lymar, Vladislav | UKR | 2261 |
| 6 | Beeck, Mats | GER | 2226 | |
| 7 | FM | Herrmann, Jakob | GER | 2218 |
| 8 | CM | Vollbehr, Bjarne | GER | 2192 |
| 9 | FM | Schulz, Karsten | GER | 2173 |
| 10 | Tran, Duc Cuong | GER | 2134 | |
| 11 | Saglam, Bülent | GER | 2109 | |
| 12 | Rieper, Julian | GER | 2087 | |
| 13 | Lu, Yunong Elias | GER | 2079 | |
| 14 | Voigt, Anastasia | GER | 2076 | |
| 15 | Hrbek, Jachym | CZE | 2071 | |
| 16 | CM | Jiang, Brandon | USA | 2046 |
| 17 | Poulsen, Iver | DEN | 2038 | |
| 18 | Haffner, Alexander | GER | 2025 | |
| 19 | Redder, Jan-Philipp | GER | 2025 | |
| 20 | Porth, Hartmut | GER | 1996 | |
| 21 | Gehrmann, Ulrich | GER | 1988 | |
| 22 | Boerma, Daniel | GER | 1987 | |
| 23 | Basey, Matthew | GER | 1976 | |
| 24 | Tobianski, Fabian | GER | 1969 | |
| 25 | Svoboda, Daniel | CZE | 1953 | |
| 26 | Manz, Lukas | GER | 1943 | |
| 27 | Berezovskii, Arina | ISR | 1937 | |
| 28 | Kawena, Jason | GER | 1921 | |
| 29 | Farokhi, Darian | GER | 1905 | |
| 30 | Fransson, Max | GER | 1902 | |
| 31 | Scharf, Christian | GER | 1902 | |
| 32 | Aguike, Toshiya | GER | 1897 | |
| 33 | Barskij, Aleksandr | GER | 1895 | |
| 34 | Olde, Henning | GER | 1892 | |
| 35 | Fransson, Till | GER | 1889 | |
| 36 | Siol, Mats Lennart | GER | 1881 | |
| 37 | Magin, Jesse | NED | 1876 | |
| 38 | Frahm, Ben Jonas | GER | 1870 | |
| 39 | Zeißig, Richard | GER | 1861 | |
| 40 | Aguike, Chidera | GER | 1854 | |
| 41 | Strebel, Michael | GER | 1853 | |
| 42 | Schulz-Vernholz, Daniel | GER | 1845 | |
| 43 | Gerigk, Daniel | GER | 1821 | |
| 44 | Toumi, Faruk | GER | 1802 | |
| 45 | Anagnostoudis, Angelos | GER | 1785 |

