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.
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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 |