36. Staufer-Open 2026 – Blitz LIVE
The 36th edition of the Staufer-Open will take place from January 02 to January 06 in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany. This tournament has 3 sections – Blitz, Open A, and Open B. The Blitz section is a 9-round Swiss system tournament with time control of 3 min + 2 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 Bruno Engel (2467), GM Li Min Peng (2432), GM Vitaly Sivuk (2408), WGM Tatjana Melamed (2357), FM Jan Boder (2280), FM Cedric Chassard (2253), FM Rudolf Wilhelm Bräuning (2252), FM Karsten Schulz (2251), FM Zaur Hasanov (2238), WGM Yelyzaveta Hrebenshchykova (2225), Moritz Stoettner (2207), Sebastian Pallas (2206), Joachim Klein (2186), FM Tim Ronge (2179), Christian Boehm (2141). Scroll down for the full participants list.
Categories: Open A / Open B
36. Staufer-Open 2026 – Blitz Participants
| No. | Name | FED | RtgI | sex | |
| 1 | Engel, Bruno | GER | 2467 | M | |
| 2 | GM | Peng, Li Min | SUI | 2432 | M |
| 3 | GM | Sivuk, Vitaly | SWE | 2408 | M |
| 4 | WGM | Melamed, Tatjana | GER | 2357 | W |
| 5 | FM | Boder, Jan | GER | 2280 | M |
| 6 | FM | Chassard, Cedric | GER | 2253 | |
| 7 | FM | Bräuning, Rudolf Wilhelm | GER | 2252 | M |
| 8 | FM | Schulz, Karsten | GER | 2251 | M |
| 9 | FM | Hasanov, Zaur | GER | 2238 | M |
| 10 | WGM | Hrebenshchykova, Yelyzaveta | UKR | 2225 | W |
| 11 | Stoettner, Moritz | GER | 2207 | M | |
| 12 | Pallas, Sebastian | GER | 2206 | ||
| 13 | Klein, Joachim | GER | 2186 | M | |
| 14 | FM | Ronge, Tim | GER | 2179 | M |
| 15 | Boehm, Christian | GER | 2141 | M | |
| 16 | Kutzner, Stephen | GER | 2127 | M | |
| 17 | Lishoy Gengis Paratazham, Dildara | ENG | 2113 | M | |
| 18 | Noennig, Jakob | GER | 2104 | M | |
| 19 | Schreidl, Michael | GER | 2098 | M | |
| 20 | Gaertner, Michael | GER | 2094 | * | |
| 21 | Sreeramulu, Aarush | GER | 2090 | M | |
| 22 | Schuffenhauer, Robert | GER | 2087 | M | |
| 23 | Biedenkopf, Philipp | GER | 2081 | M | |
| 24 | Ratushnyi, Viktor | UKR | 2077 | M | |
| 25 | Haubold, Sebastian | GER | 2070 | * | |
| 26 | Lang, Thomas | GER | 2065 | M | |
| 27 | Weber, Nikita | GER | 2065 | M | |
| 28 | Doerr, Tarik | GER | 2047 | * | |
| 29 | Biegler, Markus | GER | 2036 | M | |
| 30 | Alpaslan, Utku | TUR | 2033 | M | |
| 31 | Klein, Andreas | GER | 2032 | M | |
| 32 | FM | Herrmann, Jakob | GER | 2031 | M |
| 33 | Shevchenko, Igor | GER | 2029 | M | |
| 34 | Reitz, Philipp | GER | 2029 | M | |
| 35 | Chen, Muxi | CHN | 2020 | M | |
| 36 | Sasikumar Anitha, Sarvesh | GER | 2019 | M | |
| 37 | CM | Stoettner, Lukas | GER | 2003 | M |
| 38 | Koppen, Harald | GER | 1974 | M | |
| 39 | Parsch, Christian | GER | 1937 | M | |
| 40 | Notz, Lukas | GER | 1933 | M | |
| 41 | Huang, Luca Hanson | GER | 1916 | M | |
| 42 | Koppe, Connor | GER | 1914 | M | |
| 43 | Martseniuk, Mikhail | UKR | 1914 | M | |
| 44 | Reitz, Theresa | GER | 1908 | W | |
| 45 | WCM | Jordan, Christina | SUI | 1896 | W |
| 46 | Reichert, Matthias | GER | 1896 | M | |
| 47 | Wezel, Sebastian | GER | 1889 | M | |
| 48 | Leser, Stefan | GER | 1887 | M | |
| 49 | Kemper, Yannick | GER | 1887 | M | |
| 50 | Schramm, Luca | GER | 1872 | * | |
| 51 | Pflug, Anton | GER | 1871 | M | |
| 52 | Bernauer, Stephan | GER | 1859 | M | |
| 53 | Herter, Arne | GER | 1853 | M | |
| 54 | Schelle, Michael | GER | 1849 | M | |
| 55 | Niemann, Silvio | GER | 1848 | M | |
| 56 | Trenz, Finn | GER | 1847 | M | |
| 57 | Fischer, Lorenz | GER | 1835 | M | |
| 58 | Knolmayer, Volker | GER | 1827 | M | |
| 59 | Juric, Dario | GER | 1824 | M | |
| 60 | Masuero, Pietro | GER | 1820 | M | |
| 61 | Meyer-Jany, Marcel | GER | 1817 | M | |
| 62 | Klein, Tristan | GER | 1810 | M | |
| 63 | Wiedmann, Thomas | GER | 1808 | M | |
| 64 | Kermer, Jan | GER | 1788 | M | |
| 65 | Jensch, Lyonel | GER | 1734 | * | |
| 66 | Ehrlich, Benjamin Lutz | GER | 1726 | M | |
| 67 | Wessel, Julian | GER | 1724 | M | |
| 68 | Herzog, Mats | GER | 1718 | * | |
| 69 | Koenke, Dominik | GER | 1714 | M | |
| 70 | Cramer Gonzalez, Roland | PAR | 1704 | ||
| 71 | Ropertz, Benjamin | GER | 1702 | M | |
| 72 | Kaiser, Jannik | GER | 1692 | M | |
| 73 | Pillath, Marcus | GER | 1662 | M | |
| 74 | Feshchenko, Diana | UKR | 1660 | W | |
| 75 | Schulze, Jonas | GER | 1551 | * | |
| 76 | Haefner, Celine Milena | GER | 1507 | W | |
| 77 | Biegler, Samuel | GER | 0 | M | |
| 78 | Birinci, Mirac | GER | 0 | ||
| 79 | Brown, Takon Ashu | GER | 0 | M | |
| 80 | IM | Petrovsky, Vadim | GER | 2451 | M |

