Reykjavik Chess Open 2026 LIVE

The 2026 edition of the Reykjavík Open, one of the most established tournaments on the international chess calendar, begins today (25 March) and runs through 31 March at the Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavík, Iceland. Participation remains one of the tournament’s defining characteristics. Organizers capped the field at roughly 400 players, and registration closed early due to high demand, with a waiting list introduced—an indicator of sustained global interest. The 2026 lineup features a strong mix of elite grandmasters and ambitious young talents. The field is led by top players such as Amin Tabatabaei, Bogdan-Daniel Deac, Aryan Tari, and legendary veteran Vasyl Ivanchuk, combining established experience with rising competitive depth. Scroll down for the participants list.

Games will be live on Chessdom.com in cooperation with Lichess

Reykjavik Chess 2026 participants

1	GM	M. Amin Tabatabaei	IRI	2700
2	GM	Bogdan-Daniel Deac	ROU	2655
3	GM	Aryan Tari	NOR	2642
4	GM	Vasyl Ivanchuk	UKR	2624
5	GM	Maxime Lagarde	FRA	2618
6	GM	Marcandria Maurizzi	FRA	2614
7	GM	Jianchao Zhou	USA	2584
8	GM	Mustafa Yilmaz	TUR	2582
9	GM	Elham Amar	NOR	2581
10	GM	Max Warmerdam	NED	2575
11	GM	Leon Livaic	CRO	2571
12	GM	Mads Andersen	DEN	2562
13	GM	Tong(Qd) Xiao	CHN	2555
14	GM	Vahap Sanal	TUR	2551
15	GM	Bryce Tiglon	USA	2550
16	GM	Emre Can	TUR	2541
17	GM	Matthieu Cornette	FRA	2535
18	GM	Sebastien Maze	FRA	2530
19	GM	Alisher Suleymenov	KAZ	2523
20	IM	Nico Chasin	USA	2523
21	GM	Matthew J Wadsworth	ENG	2522
22	GM	Vuppala Prraneeth	IND	2515
23	GM	Vignir Vatnar Stefansson	ISL	2511
24	GM	Abhijeet Gupta	IND	2506
25	GM	David Brodsky	USA	2505
26	IM	Timothe Razafindratsima	FRA	2504
27	GM	Praveen Balakrishnan	USA	2496
28	IM	Carissa Yip	USA	2486
29	IM	Qi B Chen	CHN	2484
30	IM	Filip Magold	ROU	2484
31	IM	Stavroula Tsolakidou	GRE	2479
32	GM	Nino Batsiashvili	GEO	2472
33	IM	Matic Lavrencic	SLO	2472
34	IM	Zhandos Agmanov	KAZ	2463
35	GM	Christophe Sochacki	FRA	2459
36	IM	Leya Garifullina	FID	2454
37	IM	Noe Tutisani	GEO	2454
38	GM	Simon K Williams	ENG	2443
39	GM	Magesh Chandran Panchanathan	IND	2440
40	IM	Robert Baskin	GER	2435
41	IM	Irakli Akhvlediani	GEO	2429
42	IM	Rajat Makkar	FRA	2418
43	GM	Hannes Stefansson	ISL	2417
44	IM	Teodora Injac	SRB	2417
45	GM	Gudmundur Kjartansson	ISL	2416
46	IM	Kyron Griffith	USA	2415
47	FM	Sergey Sklokin	ARM	2414
48	IM	Mai Narva	EST	2413
49	IM	Anto Cristiano F Manish	IND	2384
50	IM	Oliver Kurmann	SUI	2382
51	FM	Sohan Belkaid	FRA	2379
52	GM	Bragi Thorfinnsson	ISL	2377
53	IM	Dagur Ragnarsson	ISL	2376
54	FM	Adrian Soderstrom	SWE	2374
55	IM	Axel Falkevall	SWE	2371
56	WGM	Zoey Tang	USA	2366
57	WGM	Xeniya Balabayeva	KAZ	2365
58	FM	Ethan Guo	USA	2364
59	IM	Aleksandr Domalchuk-Jonasson	ISL	2362
60	IM	Alexandros Papasimakopoulos	GRE	2360
61	FM	Vinzent Spitzl	GER	2356
62	IM	S Ajay Krishna	IND	2354
63	FM	Adam Zielonka	POL	2350
64		Siddharth Singh	USA	2342
65	IM	Bjorn Thorfinnsson	ISL	2335
66		Qibiao Wang	CHN	2332
67	FM	Piotr Brzezina	POL	2328
68	FM	Henning Holinka	GER	2324
69	WGM	Liya Kurmangaliyeva	KAZ	2319
70	IM	Jakub Roubalik	CZE	2316
71	IM	Laura Unuk	SLO	2314
72	FM	Piotr Kejna	POL	2310
73	WGM	Keti Tsatsalashvili	GEO	2305
74	FM	Alexey Kukelko	UKR	2304
75	FM	Marc Llari	FRA	2300
76	WGM	Jennifer Yu	USA	2299
77	IM	Olivier Moor	SUI	2290
78	FM	Stephen Willy	USA	2290
79	FM	Christian-Arrydan Tamas	ROU	2287
80	FM	Miguel Ruiz Buendia	ESP	2279
81	FM	Maarten De Vleeschauwer	BEL	2277
82	WIM	Bodhana Sivanandan	ENG	2268
83		Matthieu Loncke	BEL	2263
84	FM	Arno Sterck	BEL	2252
85	CM	Pawel Brzezina	POL	2248
86		Jure Plaskan	SLO	2237
87	CM	Benedikt Briem	ISL	2233
88	WIM	M Mahalakshmi	IND	2232
89	FM	Leonardo Vincenti	ITA	2226
90	FM	Vladimir Vojtek	SVK	2211
91	CM	Julius Jonas Pleschke	ESP	2208
92		Yngve Fossheim	NOR	2208
93	FM	Bardur Orn Birkisson	ISL	2207
94	IM	Stephen R Mannion	SCO	2202
95	CM	Cocoro Matsumura	JPN	2202
96	CM	Nikash Vemparala	USA	2201
97	CM	Bjorn Holm Birkisson	ISL	2200
98	CM	Maxime Marie	FRA	2193
99	FM	Tim P Wall	ENG	2189
100		Jiabao Zhang	CHN	2184
101	FM	Iren Lyutsinger	FID	2182
102		Harry Li	ENG	2181
103	IM	Oladapo Adu	NGR	2173
104		Brent Burg	NED	2169
105	WIM	Xiao Zhang	CHN	2164
106		Havard Eriksen Bech	NOR	2161
107	CM	Magnus P. Ornolfsson	ISL	2160
108		Jonathan Pagan	USA	2159
109		Gauti Pall Jonsson	ISL	2154
110	CM	Hairan Liang	CAN	2150
111		Adrian Kamp	GER	2136
112	FM	Vinjar Hammari	NOR	2135
113	CM	Jean-Fabien Decosse	FRA	2133
114		Victor Lilliehook	SWE	2128
115	CM	Neeraj Harish	USA	2121
116		Korneliusz Bartczak	IRL	2120
117		Lars Johan Brodtkorb	NOR	2118
118	FM	Andy Baert	BEL	2117
119	FM	Peter Bombek	SVK	2112
120		Per Settergren Sorensen	DEN	2110
121	IM	Askell O Karason	ISL	2109
122		Feliks Rutkowski	POL	2103
123		Arnar Milutin Heidarsson	ISL	2099
124		Ingvar Wu Skarphedinsson	ISL	2099
125		Peter Jakubek	SVK	2098
126		Stefan Erdmann	GER	2097
127		Jain Krishay	IND	2097
128		James J Marsh	USA	2096
129		Yilun Zhu	CHN	2087
130	CM	Kamabathula Sushanth	IND	2077
131		Jeffrey Quirke	USA	2075
132	CM	Jon Trausti Hardarson	ISL	2071
133		Aaron Kamp	GER	2069
134		David Kolka	ISL	2069
135	WGM	Aleksandra Dimitrijevic	ITA	2063
136		Jannis Schulz	GER	2063
137		Zain Patel	ENG	2062
138		Hendrik Brackmann	GER	2060
139		Markus Orri Oskarsson	ISL	2049
140		Magnus Digernes	NOR	2047
141		Josef Omarsson	ISL	2047
142		Adrian Mensing	NED	2044
143	WFM	Hallgerdur Thorsteinsdottir	ISL	2042
144		Markus Krischer	GER	2042
145		Martin Petry	SUI	2042
146		Benjamin Snodgrass	USA	2040
147		Jakov Jagic	IRL	2038
148		Ralph Althoff	GER	2035
149		Christian Stevens	FRA	2034
150		Matthijs Dijkstra	NED	2032
151		Romain Mariller	FRA	2031
152		Andy Hill	ENG	2030
153		Kirill Akhmetov	NED	2028
154		Carlo Janssens	BEL	2028
155		Gudni Petursson	ISL	2027
156		Jos Teeuwen	NED	2024
157		Abhinav Reddy Bathula	IND	2020
158		Emily Maton	ENG	2016
159		Bernhard Schmid	GER	2015
160	WFM	Shanshan Wang	CHN	2011
161	WFM	Lucia Striskova	SVK	2010
162		Benedikt Thorisson	ISL	2003
163		Tim Van De Steeg	NED	2002
164	CM	Deva Estevez Sacristan	ESP	2001
165		Jonatan Akeborg	SWE	2000
166		Henrik Lonnqvist	FIN	2000
167		Hursh Mehta	USA	2000
168	WCM	Arina Berezovskii	ISR	1999
169		Ogmundur Kristinsson	ISL	1996
170	WCM	Gudrun Fanney Briem	ISL	1993
171	FM	Nathan Resika	USA	1990
172		Justin Dalhouse	USA	1989
173		Snorri Vikanes Bjarnason	NOR	1988
174		Kelvin Finke	AUS	1986
175		Sebastian Hanisch Dr.	GER	1984
176		Lennart Oelschlaeger	GER	1984
177		Brian Jiang	CAN	1983
178	FM	Stein Jensen	NOR	1982
179		Stephen J Homer	ENG	1979
180		Sam Van Zeebroeck	BEL	1978
181		Edwin Zuiderweg	NED	1977
182		Lars Heppert	GER	1975
183		Nayudu Vedant	SGP	1975
184		Romualdo Vitale	ITA	1975
185		Haraldur Haraldsson	ISL	1971
186		Johann Ragnarsson	ISL	1967
187		Kurt Magnus Berg	NOR	1966
188		Rob Van Meurs	NED	1964
189		Bei Liu	CHN	1963
190	CM	Adam Omarsson	ISL	1961
191		Michael A Gilbert	USA	1960
192		Richard Braak Dr.	GER	1955
193	WFM	Maud Rodsmoen	NOR	1950
194		Birkir Hallmundarson	ISL	1949
195		Benoit Gayon	FRA	1947
196		Martin Scotti	FRA	1943
197		Maxim Dunn	ENG	1941
198		Robin Gillmeister	GER	1939
199		Wolfgang Hartmann Dr.	GER	1934
200		Oskar Vikingur Davidsson	ISL	1933
201		Michael Ferzli	LBN	1930
202		Michael Carey	USA	1929
203		Josephine Damen	NED	1928
204		Anthony Delpech	FRA	1927
205		Thomas Heyl	GER	1926
206		Mikael Bjarki Heidarsson	ISL	1925
207		Ian Broihier	USA	1922
208		Alberto Pasquale Catapano	ITA	1922
209		Aiden Emerson Bartlett	USA	1919
210		Arjan Schuurmans	NED	1913
211		Danylo Nedin	UKR	1909
212		Jan T`sas	BEL	1906
213		Mitchell Andersson	SWE	1905
214		Sam Jukes	WLS	1905
215		Lovis Neo Karlinder	GER	1903
216		Markus Orri Johannsson	ISL	1900
217		Toma Matsunaga	JPN	1900
218		Paul Tinkler	USA	1897
219		Shardul Paricharak	AHO	1895
220		Haukur Vidis Leosson	ISL	1893
221		Florian Koerner	GER	1891
222		Dereck Laureano	USA	1891
223		Benjamin Spagnoli	FRA	1890
224		Alan Stolyarov	USA	1890
225	WCM	Hannah Sayce	AUS	1889
226		Dhanesh Bajnath	NED	1889
227	AGM	David Knight	NED	1888
228		Bernardo Tino Andresson	DEN	1888
229		Dara Murphy	IRL	1888
230		Sigurbjorn Hermannsson	ISL	1887
231	FM	Lester Van Meter	USA	1882
232		Turbat Todmunkh	MGL	1880
233		Alex Geistlich	SUI	1879
234		Yorik Puffaldt	GER	1877
235		Singh Ekam	IND	1875
236		Henry Pollitt	CAN	1864
237		Juergen Kleinert	GER	1863
238		Ian Avery Singh	USA	1863
239		Soheil Gain	FRA	1862
240		Peter Jorgensen	DEN	1862
241		Runar Isleifsson	ISL	1860
242		Morris Meeuwissen	NED	1857
243		Sigurdur Pall Gudnyjarson	ISL	1856
244	WIM	Lisseth Acevedo Mendez	ISL	1855
245		Kristjan Klasinc	SLO	1853
246		Ruben Blokzijl	NED	1851
247		Gregory Hisnay	USA	1846
248		Eirik Texe	NOR	1846
249		Orvar Holm Brynjarsson	ISL	1845
250		Steve Smith	WLS	1842
251		Robert Nirina Labruyere	BEL	1836
252		Olafur Gisli Jonsson	ISL	1835
253	WCM	Idunn Helgadottir	ISL	1831
254		Hrund Hauksdottir	ISL	1830
255	AFM	Mihovil Niko Cogelja	IRL	1829
256		Karson Lu	CAN	1827
257		Michael Otto	GER	1827
258		Dale Westcott	WLS	1822
259		Alistair Gilbert	ENG	1820
260		Gisli Magnusson	ISL	1816
261		Elin Larsson	SWE	1815
262		George Lekoudis	ENG	1814
263		Elliot Mccallum	CAN	1812
264		Marc Gautier	FRA	1811
265		Samuel Stolpe	USA	1810
266		Arnar Breki Grettisson	ISL	1808
267		Jay Carr	USA	1805
268		Mikael Digernes	NOR	1805
269		Kristjan Geirsson	ISL	1805
270		Luigi Ardu	ITA	1804
271		Milan Jarabek	SVK	1804
272		Rimandas Sakinis	LTU	1804
273		Isaac Vega	USA	1803
274		Magnus Kristinsson	ISL	1801
275		Nakul Paricharak	AHO	1797
276		Michael Schimmer	GER	1797
277	ACM	Felix Mcmillan	USA	1795
278	AFM	Kevin Winter	ENG	1791
279		James I Chilton	ENG	1790
280		Antoine Dillenschneider	FRA	1787
281		Matthew Perchard	JCI	1787
282		Pedro Jose Maria Chidichimo	ESP	1786
283		Conrad Burgert	CAD	1783
284		Damirali Magzumov	KAZ	1782
285		Aayush Daddario	USA	1775
286	WCM	Abigail Zhou	USA	1771
287		Emil Jacobsen Jamil	FAI	1769
288		Maxime Bedard	CAN	1768
289		Josefina Hellstrand	SWE	1766
290		Olafur Orn Olafsson	ISL	1764
291		Eric De Winter	NED	1761
292		Theodor Eiriksson	ISL	1761
293		Gaston Filippo	SUI	1760
294		Kamabathula Hasini	IND	1760
295		Dan Bock	USA	1751
296		Nanno Rijnders	NED	1749
297		Jean-Francois Tivoly	FRA	1743
298		Andreas Muhr	AUT	1740
299		Petur Ulfar Ernisson	ISL	1738
300		Gianluca Montalti	USA	1737
301		Ata Artun Erdogan	USA	1731
302		Janosch Braun	SUI	1728
303		Asmund Gilsson	NOR	1727
304		Fynn Von Kistowski	SUI	1727
305		Joe O Hanlon	IRL	1725
306		Robert Lance Banta	USA	1724
307	AFM	Charles Frederick Frey	USA	1723
308		Philip E Rossiter	NZL	1722
309		Hermann Adalsteinsson	ISL	1719
310		Paul Butterworth	ENG	1719
311		Thormar Jonsson	ISL	1719
312		David Walshaw	ENG	1717
313		Arshia Parsheh	USA	1712
314		Veronika Steinunn Magnusdottir	ISL	1711
315	ACM	Eva Han	SWE	1710
316		Freya Austin	USA	1708
317		Nathan Mintz	USA	1708
318		Andrew Robichaud	USA	1708
319		Adam Ferenc Gulyas	ISL	1705
320		Anh Hai Tran	ISL	1705
321		Max Walo	SUI	1705
322		John Morrish	ENG	1704
323		Jacques Renaud	FRA	1704
324		Olafur Sindri Helgason	ISL	1699
325		George M Jempty	USA	1699
326	AFM	Andreas Urbaniak	GER	1697
327		Kenneth Blomkvist	SWE	1685
328		Ece Gultekin	SWE	1684
329		Sigurdur Freyr Jonatansson	ISL	1684
330		Jason Turner	USA	1684
331		Kevin Chung	USA	1681
332		Benjamin Frederick	USA	1681
333		Sara Gilsdottir	NOR	1681
334		Bill Howard Putnam	USA	1670
335		Nico Beyer	GER	1668
336		Charles B Bernstein	USA	1667
337		Iver Dagsonn Hagestad	NOR	1666
338		Gudmundur Peng Sveinsson	ISL	1664
339	AFM	Sridhar Seshadri	USA	1658
340		Emilia Embla B. Berglindardottir	ISL	1656
341		Cordelia Koppe	GER	1656
342	AFM	Jeffrey Song	USA	1653
343		Hilmar Freyr Birgisson	ISL	1651
344		Aiden Zhu	CAN	1651
345		Milosz Ulfur Olszewski	ISL	1646
346		Fabio Manuel Dos Santos	GER	1644
347		Anders Lervik	NOR	1640
348		Toma Niori	JPN	1639
349		Constantin Lorenz	GER	1637
350		Peter Markus Steiner	GER	1634
351		Samuel Beatty	SUI	1633
352		Sander Tant	BEL	1623
353		Arthur De Hart	NED	1611
354		Jakob Dufour	BEL	1609
355		Karim Aoun	LBN	1607
356		Andrew Blair Perry	USA	1604
357		Tamara Kadovic	MNE	1602
358		Caspar Mahabiersing	NED	1595
359		Halldora Jonsdottir	ISL	1593
360	ACM	Eito Nishida	JPN	1587
361		Dagur Sverrisson	ISL	1585
362		Volkmar-Dirk Hausberg Dr.	GER	1583
363		Andy Proudfoot	ENG	1580
364	ACM	Liam Maddox Schroeder	GER	1577
365	ACM	Siva Sankrithi	USA	1575
366		Stefan Barlage Dr.	GER	1571
367		Nicholas Tsai	USA	1564
368		Sebastian Endo Van Dooijeweert	JPN	1561
369		Aevar Akason	ISL	1557
370		Ruixi Xu	CHN	1550
371		Hildur Berglind Johannsdottir	ISL	1545
372		Sighvatur Karlsson	ISL	1544
373		Ryosuke Horie	JPN	1533
374		Amresh Bajnath	NED	1529
375		Ivar Orn Sigurbjornsson	ISL	1527
376		Roeland Creve	NED	1524
377	AFM	Vivaan Krishna Sankrithi	USA	1503
378		Hazel Austin	USA	1501
379		Parisa Patel	ENG	1498
380	AFM	Sarang Athreya Sankrithi	USA	1491
381		Robert Heidar Skulason	ISL	1474
382		Sigrun Tara Sigurdardottir	ISL	1470
383		Theodor Noel Schram	ISL	1460
384		Gardar Hrafn Einarsson	ISL	1456
385		Katrin Osk Tomasdottir	ISL	1449
386		Omar Jon Holm Kjartansson	ISL	1444
387		Robin Peter Erlendsson Weinert	ISL	1442
388		Emilia Sigurdardottir	ISL	1435
389		Nona Niori	JPN	1421
390		Florian Arnold	GER	0
391		Ingi Brjansson	ISL	0
392		Francisco Javier Castro Bellido	USA	0
393		Brendan Cirillo	USA	0
394		James Cotton	ENG	0
395		Ryan Dondero	USA	0
396		Chandler Forness	USA	0
397		Andre Greiner	GER	0
398		Axel Harsch	GER	0
399		Philip Hisnay	USA	0
400		Nilan Hofer	DEN	0
401		Jakob Johannes Hublitz	SUI	0
402		Eidur Jokulsson	ISL	0
403		Eythor Jovinsson	ISL	0
404		Benno Kolar	GER	0
405		Kevin Chandler Perera	USA	0
406		David Peters	ENG	0
407		Devrim Phaneuf	ENG	0
408		Patrick Quinn	USA	0
409		Thomas Renner	GER	0
410		Chris Louis Richard	USA	0
411		Renato Frederick Roscher Jr.	USA	0
412		Thomas Rosenberg	ENG	0
413		Ricky Kumar Sabhiki	USA	0
414		Levi Habid Sadr	USA	0
415		Brynjar Th Saevarsson	ISL	0
416		Gunnar Thor Thorhallsson	ISL	0
417		Emilia Klara Tomasdottir	ISL	0
418		Camill Trueeb	SUI	0
419		Jesse Vick	USA	0
420		Mateusz Sylwester Zawadzki	ISL	0