Cyprus Open 2026 LIVE

The Cyprus Open 2026 will take place from January 16 to February 08 in Limassol, Cyprus. It is a 19-round Swiss system tournament with time control of 90 min/40 moves + 30 min + 30 sec/move. For more events from Cyprus, check out The European Chess Calendar, which is part of The Chess Calendar.

The top-seeded players are FM Konstantinos Michaelides (2270), IM Artem Sadovsky (2268), FM Alexandros Isaakidis (2255), CM Rafail Antoniou (2227), Evgeny Sidorovsky (2111), Konstantinos Konstantinidis (2076), Artyom Safonov (1986), Samuel Johannes Constantinou (1957), WFM Marina Cherkasova (1935), CM Panikos Savva (1923), Daniil Daniil (1909), Panagiotis Chiras (1897), Michalis Florentiades (1897), Savvas Konstantinides (1884), Loukas Kefalas (1874), Vasilis Theocharous (1868), Alexander D Grigoriev (1837), AIM Andreas Hadjinicolaou (1821), Nikolaos Tsakas (1817), Kyriakos Skouroupathis (1808). Scroll down for the full participants list.

Cyprus Youth Championships: Under 18 / Under 16 / Under 14 / Under 12 / Under 10 / Under 8 / Under 18

Cyprus Open 2026 Participants

No.		Name	FED	Rtg
1	FM	Michaelides, Konstantinos	CYP	2270
2	IM	Sadovsky, Artem	FID	2268
3	FM	Isaakidis, Alexandros	CYP	2255
4	CM	Antoniou, Rafail	CYP	2227
5		Sidorovsky, Evgeny	FID	2111
6		Konstantinidis, Konstantinos	CYP	2076
7		Safonov, Artyom	FID	1986
8		Constantinou, Samuel Johannes	CYP	1957
9	WFM	Cherkasova, Marina	CYP	1935
10	CM	Savva, Panikos	CYP	1923
11		Daniil, Daniil	CYP	1909
12		Chiras, Panagiotis	CYP	1897
13		Florentiades, Michalis	CYP	1897
14		Konstantinides, Savvas	CYP	1884
15		Kefalas, Loukas	CYP	1874
16		Theocharous, Vasilis	CYP	1868
17		Grigoriev, Alexander D	FID	1837
18	AIM	Hadjinicolaou, Andreas	CYP	1821
19		Tsakas, Nikolaos	GRE	1817
20		Skouroupathis, Kyriakos	CYP	1808
21	AIM	Aristotelous, Vassilis	CYP	1790
22		Abatzidis, Stelios	CYP	1777
23	AFM	Amvrosiadis, Themistoklis	CYP	1771
24		Daniil, Christodoulos	CYP	1770
25	WCM	Mikhailina, Olga	FID	1736
26		Saridis, Pantelis	CYP	1727
27		Lazaris, Stelios	CYP	1723
28	WCM	Sokolova, Larisa	CYP	1722
29		Kourouyiannis, Fivos	CYP	1720
30		Hadjidemetriou, Evangelos	CYP	1719
31	WFM	Markidou, Christianna	CYP	1711
32	WCM	Sokolova, Victoria	CYP	1699
33	WCM	Paunescu, Aida	CYP	1690
34		Hadjiyiannis, Costas	CYP	1688
35		Karaolis, Andreas	CYP	1686
36		Komodromos, Renos	CYP	1643
37		Lomadze, Alexandr	CYP	1630
38		Bouzana, Christina	CYP	1626
39		Bannoura, Daniel	CYP	1619
40	ACM	Odysseos, Ioannis	CYP	1618
41		Kyriakides, Andreas	CYP	1602
42		Markides, Markellos	CYP	1580
43		Murali, Aurik	CYP	1580
44		Mylonas, Fotis	CYP	1577
45		Sarkisian, Aikaterina	CYP	1560
46		Reznikov, Andrey	FID	1559
47		Belyaev, Ivan	ISR	1553
48	ACM	Klesnins, Daniils	LAT	1538
49		Biskas, Georgios	CYP	1533
50		Aaryan, Shah	IND	1516
51		Picolos, Antonios	CYP	1510
52		Zacharopoullos, Christoforos	CYP	1494
53		Klesnins, Artemijs	LAT	1491
54		Staicovici, Marc-Albert	ROU	1479
55		Alichanides, Ioannis	CYP	1478
56		Lomadze, Nikolai	CYP	1477
57		Katsikidis, Ioannis	CYP	1474
58	ACM	Constantinou, Paris	CYP	1471
59		Sorokos, Konstantinos	GRE	1471
60		Staicovici, Alice Amelie	ROU	1464
61		Malysheva, Liudmila	CYP	1462
62		Stefanou, Athina	CYP	1440
63		Korelidou, Maria	CYP	1427
64		Georgiou, Katerina	CYP	1425
65		Konnaris, Ploutarchos	CYP	1424
66		Uljaseva, Arina	EST	1411
67		Kakouris, Giorgos	CYP	1401
68		Agridiotis, Fotios	CYP	0
69		Alexandrou, Emilio	CYP	0
70		Alexandrou, Nicholas	CYP	0
71		Angelidou, Pinelopi	CYP	0
72		Avdeev, Fedor Teodor	FID	0
73		Avyukt, Vilok Sharma	IND	0
74		Bannoura, Husam	CYP	0
75		Boikov, Ivan	FID	0
76		Boikov, Semen	FID	0
77		Criganuta, Alexander	CYP	0
78		Dobrinskiy, Ivan	FID	0
79		Gurfov, Amir	FID	0
80		Kalashnikov, Sebastian	FID	0
81		Kostalias, Aristotelis	CYP	0
82		Markevych, Oleksandr	UKR	0
83		Neofytou, Giorgos	FID	0
84		Netepenko, Maxim	CYP	0
85		Nicolaides, Olivia	CYP	0
86		Nicolaou, Rafaella	CYP	0
87		Pafitis, Christos	CYP	0
88		Pankrashkina, Maria	FID	0
89		Posnagkidis, Loukas	CYP	0
90		Riakhov, Andrei	FID	0
91		Rishik, Lalith Murali	IND	0
92		Saridis, Tzortz	GRE	0
93		Sazonov, Vasilii	FID	0
94		Semeniuk, Nikita	UKR	0
95		Sotiriou, Georgios	CYP	0
96		Stavridis, Andreas	CYP	0
97		Symeou, Symeon	CYP	0
98		Vasileva, Anna	FID	0
99		Wu, Wenrui	CHN	0
100		Yurchenko, Philippe	CAN	0
101		Zournatzis Michail, Michalis	CYP	0