[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.27"]
[Round "1.1"]
[White "Demchenko, Anton"]
[Black "Vijayakumar, Rishi"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2631"]
[BlackElo "2280"]
[ECO "C50"]
[Opening "Giuoco Pianissimo"]
[WhiteFideId "4160258"]
[BlackFideId "2408953"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 Bc5 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bh4 d6 7. c3 a5 8. Nbd2
Ba7 9. O-O g5 10. Bg3 O-O 11. a4 Kh8 12. Kh1 Nh7 13. d4 h5 14. h4 g4 15. Ne1
exd4 16. Nd3 Qe8 17. Bb5 Bd7 18. Qb3 Qe6 19. Bc4 Qh6 20. Rad1 f6 21. Be6 Bxe6
22. Qxe6 Rfe8 23. Qb3 Rab8 24. Nf4 Ng5 25. f3 gxf3 26. hxg5 fxg5 27. Nd5 h4 28.
Bh2 g4 29. Nxf3 gxf3 30. Rxf3 Rxe4 31. Rdf1 Ne5 32. Rf6 Qg7 33. Qd1 Ng4 34. Qf3
Rbe8 35. Rf7 Qg6 36. Ne7 R4xe7 37. Rxe7 Rg8 38. Bg1 Ne5 39. Qf6+ Qxf6 40. Rxf6
Ng6 41. Rxc7 Bb8 42. Rxb7 d3 43. Bd4 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.27"]
[Round "1.2"]
[White "Wernberg, Hugo"]
[Black "Hammer, Jon Ludvig"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "FM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2278"]
[BlackElo "2606"]
[ECO "A04"]
[Opening "Reti opening"]
[WhiteFideId "1737511"]
[BlackFideId "1503707"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. Nf3 c5 2. b3 d6 3. c4 e5 4. Nc3 g6 5. g3 Bg7 6. Bg2 Ne7 7. O-O Nbc6 8. Bb2
O-O 9. d3 Rb8 10. Ne1 Be6 11. Nc2 d5 12. e4 d4 13. Nd5 f5 14. Ba3 b6 15. b4 fxe4
16. dxe4 b5 17. cxb5 Rxb5 18. Nxe7+ Qxe7 19. bxc5 Bh6 20. Ne1 Ra5 21. Bc1 Bxc1
22. Rxc1 Rxc5 23. Nd3 Rc3 24. f4 Qa3 25. Rxc3 dxc3 26. Qc1 Qxc1 27. Rxc1 Nd4 28.
Kf2 c2 29. Ke3 Bxa2 30. Nxe5 Rd8 31. Bf1 Bb1 32. Bc4+ Kf8 33. Nf7 Nf5+ 34. Ke2
Rd1 35. Rxd1 cxd1=Q+ 36. Kxd1 Ne3+ 37. Kc1 Nxc4 38. Ng5 Bd3 39. Nxh7+ Ke7 40. f5
gxf5 41. exf5 Bxf5 42. Ng5 Kd6 43. h4 a5 44. Nf3 Kc5 45. g4 Bxg4 46. Nd2 Ne5 47.
Nb3+ Kb4 48. Nxa5 Kxa5 49. Kd2 Bh5 50. Ke3 Kb5 51. Ke4 Nf3 52. Kd5 Kb4 53. Ke6
Kc5 54. Kf6 Kd4 55. Kf5 Ke3 56. Ke6 Ke4 57. Kf6 Kf4 58. Ke6 Nxh4 59. Kd5 Nf5 60.
Kc4 Ke4 61. Kc3 Bf7 0-1

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.27"]
[Round "1.3"]
[White "Xu, Xiangyu"]
[Black "Alinasab, Mobina"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "WGM"]
[WhiteElo "2601"]
[BlackElo "2277"]
[ECO "A40"]
[Opening "Queen's pawn"]
[WhiteFideId "8608288"]
[BlackFideId "12528897"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.27"]
[Round "1.4"]
[White "Nayak, Rajesh"]
[Black "Meshkovs, Nikita"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "FM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2277"]
[BlackElo "2561"]
[ECO "B47"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Taimanov (Bastrikov) variation"]
[WhiteFideId "35017152"]
[BlackFideId "11602740"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 e6 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 Qc7 6. Ncb5 Qb8 7. Bd3 Nf6 8.
O-O Be7 9. Qe2 O-O 10. c4 a6 11. Nxc6 dxc6 12. Nd4 Rd8 13. Be3 e5 14. Nb3 b5 15.
Rfd1 Be6 16. Nc5 bxc4 17. Bxc4 Rxd1+ 18. Rxd1 Bxc5 19. Bxc5 Bxc4 20. Qxc4 Qxb2
21. Qxa6 Re8 22. Qxc6 Qc2 23. Re1 h5 24. h3 Qxa2 25. Be3 Rb8 26. Kh2 Re8 27. Kg1
Kh7 28. Bg5 Re6 29. Qc3 Kg8 30. Qf3 Qc2 31. g3 Rb6 32. Kg2 Nh7 33. Rc1 Nxg5 34.
Rxc2 Nxf3 35. Kxf3 Rb3+ 36. Kg2 g5 37. Rc5 f6 38. f4 h4 39. fxe5 Rxg3+ 40. Kh2
Kf7 41. exf6 Kxf6 42. Rf5+ Kg6 43. Ra5 Re3 44. Ra6+ Kh5 45. Re6 Re2+ 46. Kg1 Ra2
47. Kh1 Ra5 48. Kg2 Rc5 49. Kh2 Rc2+ 50. Kg1 Re2 51. Kh1 Re3 52. Kg2 Re2+ 53.
Kh1 Re3 54. Kg2 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.27"]
[Round "1.5"]
[White "Horvath, Dominik"]
[Black "Gallagher, Daniel GH"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2557"]
[BlackElo "2277"]
[ECO "A00"]
[Opening "Benko's opening"]
[Variation "reversed Alekhine"]
[WhiteFideId "1642561"]
[BlackFideId "436550"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. g3 e5 2. Nf3 e4 3. Nh4 d5 4. d3 Nf6 5. Nc3 Bb4 6. a3 Bxc3+ 7. bxc3 O-O 8. f3
exf3 9. Nxf3 Re8 10. Bg2 Qe7 11. O-O Ng4 12. Qd2 Nd7 13. h3 Ne3 14. Qxe3 Qxe3+
15. Bxe3 Rxe3 16. Kf2 Re7 17. Nd2 Nf6 18. c4 c6 19. g4 dxc4 20. Nxc4 h5 21. g5
Nd5 22. h4 Bg4 23. e4 Nf4 24. Bh1 Rf8 25. Kg3 Ne2+ 26. Kh2 f6 27. gxf6 gxf6 28.
Ne3 Nd4 29. Rf2 f5 30. Raf1 Ref7 31. exf5 Nxf5 32. Nxf5 Rxf5 33. Rxf5 Rxf5 34.
Rxf5 Bxf5 35. Kg3 Kg7 36. Kf4 Kf6 37. Bf3 Bg6 38. d4 Bf7 39. c3 a5 40. Be2 b6
41. c4 c5 42. d5 Be8 43. Bd1 Bg6 44. Be2 Be8 45. Bf3 Bg6 46. Be4 Be8 47. Bd3 Bd7
48. Be2 Be8 49. Bf3 Bg6 50. Be4 Be8 51. Bf5 Ba4 52. Bc8 Bb3 53. Ba6 Bd1 54. Bb5
Bg4 55. Be8 Be2 56. Bb5 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.27"]
[Round "1.6"]
[White "Daakshin, Arun"]
[Black "Bauer, Christian"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "FM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2274"]
[BlackElo "2552"]
[ECO "A41"]
[Opening "Queen's Pawn"]
[WhiteFideId "366195016"]
[BlackFideId "603767"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 d6 2. e4 Nf6 3. Bd3 e5 4. c3 d5 5. dxe5 Nxe4 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. O-O Bg4 8. Nbd2
Nc5 9. Be2 Be7 10. b4 Ne6 11. Nb3 a6 12. h3 Bh5 13. Be3 O-O 14. a4 Re8 15. Qd2
f6 16. exf6 Bxf6 17. Rad1 Bf7 18. Rfe1 Ne7 19. Bd3 Ng6 20. Bf5 c6 21. a5 Qc7 22.
Bxe6 Rxe6 23. Nc5 Re7 24. Bd4 Bxd4 25. Qxd4 Rae8 26. Rxe7 Rxe7 27. Re1 Rxe1+ 28.
Nxe1 Nf4 29. Qe3 h6 30. Nf3 Ng6 31. Nd4 Kh8 32. Nf5 Nf4 33. Kh1 Bg6 34. Nd4 Qf7
35. Nf3 Be4 36. Nxe4 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.27"]
[Round "1.7"]
[White "Dai, Changren"]
[Black "Georgescu, Lena"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2551"]
[BlackElo "2273"]
[ECO "C65"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez"]
[Variation "Berlin defence"]
[WhiteFideId "8608156"]
[BlackFideId "1331973"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. d3 Bc5 5. O-O Nd4 6. Nxd4 Bxd4 7. Ba4 O-O 8.
c3 Bb6 9. Bg5 h6 10. Bh4 c6 11. Kh1 g5 12. Bg3 Re8 13. Nd2 d5 14. Qe2 Bc7 15.
Rfe1 b5 16. Bc2 a5 17. Nf1 a4 18. Ne3 d4 19. cxd4 exd4 20. Nf1 Nd5 21. Bxc7 Qxc7
22. g3 a3 23. bxa3 Nc3 24. Qh5 Kg7 25. Nd2 Rxa3 26. f4 Qd8 27. Rf1 g4 28. Bb3
Rf8 29. h3 f5 30. hxg4 fxg4 31. Kg2 Ra7 32. Rh1 Qf6 33. Rh4 Re7 34. Rah1 Rh8 35.
f5 Bxf5 36. Rf1 Bg6 37. Rxg4 Kh7 38. Qxh6+ Kxh6 39. Rxf6 Rg7 40. Nf3 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.27"]
[Round "1.8"]
[White "Vihaan Karthikeya N"]
[Black "Li, Di"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "CM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2273"]
[BlackElo "2549"]
[ECO "D15"]
[Opening "QGD Slav"]
[Variation "Schlechter variation"]
[WhiteFideId "25950673"]
[BlackFideId "8607508"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nf3 g6 5. Bg5 Ne4 6. Bf4 Nxc3 7. bxc3 dxc4 8. e4
b5 9. a4 Bg7 10. Be2 a5 11. Qc2 Nd7 12. O-O O-O 13. Rfd1 Qe8 14. d5 Nc5 15. dxc6
Qxc6 16. axb5 Qxe4 17. Qxe4 Nxe4 18. Bxc4 Nxc3 19. Re1 Bb7 20. Ne5 Bd5 21. b6
Bxc4 22. Nxc4 Nd5 23. Be5 Bxe5 24. Rxe5 e6 25. b7 Ra7 26. Nd6 Rb8 27. Re4 Ra6
28. Nc4 Rxb7 29. Kf1 a4 30. Ke1 Rb4 31. Nd2 a3 32. Rxb4 Nxb4 33. Kd1 a2 34. f3
Rc6 0-1

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.27"]
[Round "1.9"]
[White "Heberla, Bartlomiej"]
[Black "Knudsen, Simon"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2508"]
[BlackElo "2271"]
[ECO "A15"]
[Opening "English opening"]
[WhiteFideId "1115120"]
[BlackFideId "12985546"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 c5 5. d4 cxd4 6. Nxd4 O-O 7. Be2 Nc6 8. Be3
d6 9. O-O a5 10. Ndb5 a4 11. Nxa4 Nxe4 12. Nb6 Ra6 13. Nxc8 Qxc8 14. f3 Nc5 15.
Qd2 Qd8 16. Bh6 Qb6 17. Kh1 Bxh6 18. Qxh6 Ne6 19. f4 Ng7 20. Qh3 Qc5 21. a3 Qf5
22. Qc3 Rc8 23. Rad1 Nd8 24. Nd4 Qf6 25. g4 e5 26. Nb5 Qe7 27. f5 d5 28. Rxd5 f6
29. Qd2 Nf7 30. Rd7 Qe8 31. b4 e4 32. Qd5 gxf5 33. gxf5 Rd8 34. Rxd8 Qxd8 35.
Qxb7 Rb6 36. Qxe4 Rb8 37. c5 Qd2 38. Rd1 Qb2 39. Bc4 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.27"]
[Round "1.10"]
[White "Rasti, Arvin"]
[Black "Seemann, Jakub"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "FM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2270"]
[BlackElo "2507"]
[ECO "A28"]
[Opening "English"]
[Variation "four knights, Nimzovich variation"]
[WhiteFideId "1741160"]
[BlackFideId "21874697"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. e4 Bb4 5. d3 d6 6. a3 Bc5 7. b4 Bb6 8. Na4 Bd4
9. Rb1 Bg4 10. Be2 Bxf3 11. Bxf3 a6 12. Qd2 Ba7 13. O-O Nd4 14. Bd1 b5 15. Nc3
c6 16. Kh1 O-O 17. Qg5 Nd7 18. Qg3 Qe7 19. Ne2 bxc4 20. dxc4 Nf6 21. Bg5 Ne6 22.
Bh4 h6 23. Qd3 g5 24. Bg3 Nf4 25. Bxf4 exf4 26. Bc2 Rfe8 27. Nd4 Qxe4 28. Nf5
Qxd3 29. Bxd3 Re6 30. Nxh6+ Kf8 31. Nf5 Ng4 32. Kg1 Rae8 33. Rbd1 Rf6 34. Bb1 d5
35. c5 a5 36. Rfe1 Rb8 37. Re7 Rxf5 38. Rxa7 Re5 39. h3 Nf6 40. Rxa5 Rbe8 41.
Rf1 g4 42. hxg4 Nxg4 43. b5 f3 44. gxf3 Nf6 45. f4 Rh5 46. b6 Rb8 47. Kg2 Kg7
48. Rh1 Rxh1 49. Kxh1 d4 50. Ra4 Nd7 51. Rc4 Kf6 52. a4 Ra8 53. Be4 Ra5 54. b7 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.27"]
[Round "1.11"]
[White "Ghasi, Ameet K"]
[Black "Wagner, Stephan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2500"]
[BlackElo "2270"]
[ECO "A09"]
[Opening "Reti opening"]
[WhiteFideId "409200"]
[BlackFideId "1613251"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. c4 c6 3. e3 Nf6 4. Nc3 a6 5. b3 Bf5 6. Bb2 h6 7. d4 e6 8. Bd3 Bxd3
9. Qxd3 Bb4 10. O-O O-O 11. a3 Bxc3 12. Qxc3 Ne4 13. Qc2 Nd7 14. a4 f5 15. Ne1
Qh4 16. f3 Nef6 17. Nd3 Nh5 18. Ba3 Rf7 19. Bd6 Re8 20. c5 Qd8 21. b4 g5 22. b5
Qa5 23. b6 e5 24. dxe5 Ng7 25. e4 dxe4 26. fxe4 f4 27. Qc4 Qd2 28. Rf2 Qa5 29.
g3 Ne6 30. Raf1 f3 31. Rc2 g4 32. Nc1 f2+ 33. Kg2 Rf3 34. Nd3 Kg7 35. Rcxf2 Ng5
36. Nf4 Nxe5 37. Qd4 Nf7 38. Rxf3 gxf3+ 39. Rxf3 Kh7 40. Nh5 Kg6 41. Rxf7 Qe1
42. Rf6+ Kxh5 43. Bxe5 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.27"]
[Round "1.12"]
[White "Asllani, Dorian"]
[Black "Blomqvist, Erik"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "FM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2269"]
[BlackElo "2490"]
[ECO "A06"]
[Opening "Reti opening"]
[WhiteFideId "1341332"]
[BlackFideId "1709437"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. e3 c5 3. d4 Nf6 4. c4 cxd4 5. exd4 g6 6. Nc3 Bg7 7. Bg5 Ne4 8. cxd5
Nxg5 9. Bb5+ Bd7 10. Nxg5 Bxb5 11. Nxb5 O-O 12. O-O Qxd5 13. Nc7 Qxg5 14. Nxa8
Nc6 15. d5 Nd4 16. Nc7 Rc8 17. f4 Qf6 18. Rc1 Qb6 19. d6 Ne2+ 20. Kh1 Nxc1 21.
d7 Rd8 22. Nd5 Qd6 23. Qxc1 Qxd5 24. Rd1 Qc6 0-1

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.27"]
[Round "1.13"]
[White "Raczek, Krzysztof"]
[Black "Wuebker, Paul-Luca"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "CM"]
[WhiteElo "2489"]
[BlackElo "2269"]
[ECO "A16"]
[Opening "English opening"]
[WhiteFideId "21005303"]
[BlackFideId "12939528"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. d4 e5 4. d5 Ne7 5. Nf3 Ng6 6. h4 h5 7. a3 d6 8. g3 Be7
9. Bg2 Nf8 10. e4 a5 11. Ng5 c6 12. O-O Ng4 13. c5 f6 14. Nh3 dxc5 15. Qe2 Qc7
16. Rd1 Bd7 17. f3 Nh6 18. Be3 Nf7 19. Rac1 a4 20. Nf2 b5 21. dxc6 Qxc6 22. Nd5
c4 23. Nxe7 Kxe7 24. Qd2 Ne6 25. Qb4+ Ke8 26. Rd2 Qc7 27. Rcd1 Bc6 28. Bh3 Nfd8
29. Qd6 Qxd6 30. Rxd6 Nd4 31. Bxd4 exd4 32. R1xd4 Ke7 33. Nd1 Re8 34. Ne3 Kf8
35. Kf2 Rb8 36. Bf5 Ba8 37. Bg6 Nc6 38. Bxe8 Nxd4 39. Rxd4 Kxe8 40. Rd6 Rc8 41.
Rb6 Bc6 42. Nf5 Kd8 43. Nd6 Rc7 44. Rb8+ Ke7 45. Nf5+ Kf7 46. Nd4 Bd7 47. Ne2 f5
48. exf5 Rc5 49. Rb7 Ke8 50. g4 hxg4 51. fxg4 Rd5 52. Nf4 Rd2+ 53. Ke3 Rxb2 54.
Ng6 Rb3+ 55. Kd4 Kd8 56. Ne5 Be8 57. Rxg7 c3 58. Kd3 c2+ 59. Kxc2 Re3 60. Nd3
Bc6 61. f6 Be4 62. Rg8+ Kd7 63. f7 Bxd3+ 64. Kd2 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.27"]
[Round "1.14"]
[White "Harshit, Ranjan Sahu"]
[Black "Kulaots, Kaido"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "CM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2265"]
[BlackElo "2482"]
[ECO "B13"]
[Opening "Caro-Kann"]
[Variation "exchange variation"]
[WhiteFideId "25638815"]
[BlackFideId "4500261"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. Bd3 Nc6 5. c3 e6 6. Nf3 Bd6 7. O-O Nge7 8. Re1
O-O 9. Nbd2 f6 10. c4 Kh8 11. a3 Nf5 12. Nb3 Nce7 13. Qc2 b6 14. c5 Bc7 15. Bd2
g5 16. h3 Rg8 17. g4 Nh4 18. Nxh4 gxh4 19. Bxh7 Rg7 20. Bd3 bxc5 21. Nxc5 Qd6
22. f4 Nc6 23. Be3 e5 24. Qf2 e4 25. Be2 Ne7 26. Kh1 f5 27. g5 Ng6 28. Rf1 a5
29. b4 axb4 30. axb4 Rb8 31. b5 Bd8 32. Ra2 Rh7 33. Rfa1 Bb6 34. Ra4 Re7 35. Bf1
Kg7 36. Ra8 Re8 37. Qe2 Rd8 38. Qd2 Rf8 39. Be2 Rh8 40. Qc1 Rd8 41. R1a2 Bd7 42.
R8a6 Bc8 43. R6a3 Bd7 44. Rc3 Ne7 45. Rac2 Be8 46. Ra2 Bd7 47. Bd2 Bc8 48. Rcc2
Re8 49. Bb4 Qd8 50. Nb3 Bb7 51. Nc5 Bc8 52. Ra3 Ng6 53. Bh5 Rh8 54. Bxg6 Kxg6
55. Na6 Rb7 56. Rc6+ Kg7 57. Bd6 Re8 58. Nc5 Rf7 59. Ra8 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.27"]
[Round "1.15"]
[White "Sengupta, Deep"]
[Black "Nagarkatte Vedant"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2479"]
[BlackElo "2264"]
[ECO "C77"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez"]
[Variation "Anderssen variation"]
[WhiteFideId "5008352"]
[BlackFideId "25636227"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. d3 d6 6. O-O g6 7. c3 Bg7 8. Nbd2
O-O 9. Re1 h6 10. h3 Re8 11. a3 Bd7 12. Nf1 g5 13. N3h2 b5 14. Bb3 Ne7 15. Ng4
Ng6 16. Ng3 Nf4 17. Ne3 Be6 18. Bc2 d5 19. Nef5 dxe4 20. dxe4 Qxd1 21. Rxd1 Bf8
22. Be3 Red8 23. a4 Rdb8 24. a5 Rd8 25. f3 N6h5 26. Nxh5 Nxh5 27. h4 f6 28. Kf2
Rxd1 29. Rxd1 Nf4 30. b4 Ng6 31. h5 Ne7 32. Bc5 Nxf5 33. exf5 Bf7 34. Be4 Bxc5+
35. bxc5 Rb8 36. Rd7 b4 37. cxb4 Rxb4 38. Rxc7 Kf8 39. c6 Rc4 40. Rxf7+ 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.27"]
[Round "1.16"]
[White "Hedman, Erik"]
[Black "Dotzer, Lukas"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2263"]
[BlackElo "2478"]
[ECO "A00"]
[Opening "Benko's opening"]
[WhiteFideId "1702351"]
[BlackFideId "1666975"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. g3 d5 2. c4 e6 3. cxd5 exd5 4. Bg2 Nf6 5. Nf3 Be7 6. O-O O-O 7. b3 d4 8. Na3
c5 9. Nc4 Nc6 10. e3 Bf5 11. exd4 cxd4 12. Bb2 Nb4 13. Nxd4 Bd3 14. Ne2 Bc2 15.
Qc1 Bd3 16. Qd1 Bc2 17. Qc1 b5 18. Nd4 Be4 19. Bxe4 Nxe4 20. Nxb5 Qd7 21. Nc3
Ng5 22. Qd1 Qb7 23. f3 Nd3 24. h4 Ne6 25. Ne2 Rac8 26. Bc3 Rfd8 27. Kg2 Rc5 28.
Qc2 Qd5 29. Rh1 Qf5 30. Ne3 Qg6 31. Rag1 f5 32. h5 Qe8 33. b4 Rc7 34. Qb3 Qf7
35. f4 Rb7 36. Nc4 Bxb4 37. Rb1 Nec5 38. Qc2 Qxc4 0-1

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.27"]
[Round "1.17"]
[White "Cieslak, Patryk"]
[Black "Lain, Luigi"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2477"]
[BlackElo "2263"]
[ECO "C77"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez"]
[Variation "Anderssen variation"]
[WhiteFideId "21078882"]
[BlackFideId "813001"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. d3 b5 6. Bb3 Bc5 7. c3 d6 8. Bg5 h6
9. Bh4 g5 10. Bg3 Bb7 11. Nbd2 Nh5 12. Bd5 Nf6 13. Bb3 Nh5 14. Nxe5 Nxg3 15.
Bxf7+ Kf8 16. Ng6+ Kxf7 17. Nxh8+ Kg7 18. hxg3 Qf6 19. d4 Nxd4 20. cxd4 Bxd4 21.
O-O Rf8 22. Nf3 Bxb2 23. Qc2 Qc3 24. Rac1 b4 25. Ng6 Rf7 26. Qb1 Bxc1 27. Rxc1
Qf6 28. Nge5 dxe5 29. Qxb4 Qb6 30. Qc3 Kh7 31. Qxe5 g4 32. Qh5 Rg7 33. Qf5+ Qg6
34. Nh4 Bxe4 35. Qe5 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.27"]
[Round "1.18"]
[White "Romanishin, Oleg M"]
[Black "Willow, Jonah B"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2262"]
[BlackElo "2473"]
[ECO "A05"]
[Opening "Reti opening"]
[WhiteFideId "14100088"]
[BlackFideId "438804"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 c5 3. Bg2 Nc6 4. c4 d5 5. cxd5 Nxd5 6. Nc3 Nc7 7. Qa4 Bd7 8.
Qe4 g6 9. Ne5 Bg7 10. Nxd7 Qxd7 11. O-O O-O 12. d3 Nd4 13. Rb1 f5 14. Qh4 Rad8
15. Bh6 Bf6 16. Qh3 Rfe8 17. a4 b6 18. Rfd1 e6 19. Bh1 Nd5 20. Qf1 Qf7 21. h4
Qe7 22. e3 Nc6 23. Nxd5 exd5 24. d4 c4 25. b3 Na5 26. bxc4 dxc4 27. Rb5 Rc8 28.
Rxa5 bxa5 29. Bd5+ Kh8 30. Bxc4 Red8 31. Bf4 Kg7 32. Ba6 Rc3 33. Qb5 Rc5 34. Qb3
Rc6 35. Bb5 Rcc8 36. Ba6 Rc6 37. Bb5 Rcc8 38. Ba6 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.27"]
[Round "1.19"]
[White "Bronstein, Or"]
[Black "Nielsen, Andre"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2470"]
[BlackElo "2261"]
[ECO "E44"]
[Opening "Nimzo-Indian"]
[Variation "Fischer variation, 5.Ne2"]
[WhiteFideId "2815770"]
[BlackFideId "1518240"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 b6 5. Ne2 Ne4 6. Bd2 Nxd2 7. Qxd2 d5 8. cxd5
exd5 9. a3 Be7 10. g3 c6 11. Bg2 Nd7 12. b4 a6 13. O-O O-O 14. Nf4 Bb7 15. Rfd1
b5 16. e4 Nb6 17. Nd3 dxe4 18. Nxe4 Qxd4 19. Rac1 Nc4 20. Qe2 Qb6 21. Ndc5 Bc8
22. a4 Bf5 23. Nd7 Bxd7 24. Rxd7 Rfe8 25. Qh5 h6 26. Re1 Rad8 27. Nf6+ gxf6 28.
Rexe7 Rxe7 29. Rxe7 Ne5 30. h3 Kf8 31. Rxe5 fxe5 32. Qxh6+ Ke7 33. Qg5+ Ke6 34.
axb5 Rd1+ 35. Kh2 Rd4 36. bxc6 Rxb4 37. Qh6+ Ke7 38. Qg5+ Ke6 39. Qg8 Qb8 40.
Qh7 Qb6 41. Qd3 Rd4 42. Qc2 Kd6 43. h4 Qc7 44. h5 Ke7 45. h6 Rd6 46. Qc1 Kf8 47.
Qg5 Rg6 48. Qh4 Kg8 49. Be4 f5 50. Bxf5 Qxc6 51. Qd8+ Kf7 52. Bxg6+ Kxg6 53. Qh8
Qf6 54. Qe8+ Kxh6 55. Kg2 Kg7 56. Qd7+ Kf8 57. Qd5 Ke7 58. Qb7+ Ke8 59. Qc8+ Ke7
60. Qc7+ Ke8 61. Qc8+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.27"]
[Round "1.20"]
[White "Bellon Lopez, Juan Manuel"]
[Black "Trost, Edvin"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2256"]
[BlackElo "2466"]
[ECO "E10"]
[Opening "Queen's pawn game"]
[WhiteFideId "2200031"]
[BlackFideId "1729519"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 e6 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. c4 h6 4. a3 d5 5. Nc3 c6 6. cxd5 exd5 7. Bf4 Bf5 8. e3
Nbd7 9. Bd3 Bxd3 10. Qxd3 Be7 11. O-O O-O 12. Rac1 Re8 13. Rfd1 Nf8 14. Bg3 Ne6
15. Nd2 Qd7 16. Be5 Ng4 17. Bg3 Rad8 18. h3 Nf6 19. Be5 Nh7 20. b4 Nhf8 21. Nb3
Ng6 22. Bg3 Bd6 23. Bxd6 Qxd6 24. Nc5 Re7 25. Ne2 Ng5 26. Ng3 Nh4 27. Nf5 Nxf5
28. Qxf5 b6 29. Nd3 Re4 30. f4 g6 31. Qg4 Ne6 32. Re1 h5 33. Qh4 Ng7 34. g4 f6
35. Nf2 Re7 36. Rc3 Rde8 37. gxh5 Nxh5 38. Ng4 Kg7 39. Rec1 Rc7 40. Qf2 Rec8 41.
Qf3 Kh8 42. Qf2 Kg7 43. Kg2 a6 44. Qf3 Kh8 45. Qf2 Kg7 46. Qf3 Qe6 47. Nf2 Kf8
48. f5 Qxf5 49. Qxf5 gxf5 50. Nd3 Ke7 51. Kf3 Kd6 52. Nf4 Rh8 53. a4 Nxf4 54.
Kxf4 Rxh3 55. Kxf5 Rf3+ 56. Kg6 Rf2 57. R1c2 Rf1 58. Rc1 Rf2 59. R1c2 Rf3 60. a5
b5 61. Rc1 Rc8 62. Rh1 Re8 63. Rhc1 Rg8+ 64. Kf7 Rc8 65. Kg6 Rf2 66. R1c2 Rg8+
67. Kh5 Rxc2 68. Rxc2 Rg3 69. Re2 f5 70. Kh4 Rg4+ 71. Kh5 Re4 72. Rf2 Rxe3 73.
Rxf5 Re4 74. Rf6+ Kd7 75. Rf7+ Ke6 76. Ra7 Kd6 77. Rxa6 Rxd4 78. Ra8 Rxb4 79. a6
Ra4 80. Kg5 Ke5 0-1

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.27"]
[Round "1.21"]
[White "Kavutskiy, Kostya"]
[Black "Bergman, Nils"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2354"]
[BlackElo "2114"]
[ECO "A13"]
[Opening "English"]
[Variation "Neo-Catalan"]
[WhiteFideId "2026384"]
[BlackFideId "1772007"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. g3 d5 4. b3 d4 5. Bg2 Nc6 6. O-O e5 7. e3 Bg4 8. d3 Qd7
9. a3 dxe3 10. Bxe3 O-O-O 11. Nbd2 Qxd3 12. h3 Bh5 13. g4 Bg6 14. b4 e4 15. Nh4
Nd4 16. g5 Ne2+ 17. Kh1 Nc3 18. Qb3 Nh5 19. Rfe1 Ne2 20. Rxe2 Qxe2 21. Bf1 Ng3+
22. fxg3 Qh5 23. Re1 Bd6 24. Kg2 h6 25. Be2 hxg5 26. Bxh5 Rxh5 27. Nxg6 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.28"]
[Round "2.1"]
[White "Falkevall, Axel"]
[Black "Demchenko, Anton"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "FM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2365"]
[BlackElo "2631"]
[ECO "E90"]
[Opening "King's Indian"]
[Variation "5.Nf3"]
[WhiteFideId "1735560"]
[BlackFideId "4160258"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Nf3 O-O 6. h3 e5 7. d5 Na6 8. Bg5 Qe8
9. g4 Kh8 10. Be2 Bd7 11. Rg1 c6 12. Nd2 cxd5 13. cxd5 Nc5 14. a4 Qe7 15. b4 Na6
16. Qb3 h6 17. Bh4 Rfb8 18. Nc4 Qf8 19. Ne3 Nc7 20. f3 b5 21. a5 Nh7 22. Bd3 Ng5
23. Bxg5 hxg5 24. O-O-O Bf6 25. Qb2 Kg7 26. h4 Qe7 27. h5 Rh8 28. Rh1 Rag8 29.
Ne2 Kf8 30. Kb1 Qd8 31. Rc1 Ke7 32. Ng3 Qb8 33. Rh3 Rc8 34. Rch1 Rcg8 35. Rc1
Rc8 36. Rch1 Rhg8 37. hxg6 fxg6 38. Rh7+ Kd8 39. Rf7 Ne8 40. Rhh7 Rc7 41. Qh2
Bg7 42. Qd2 Bc8 43. Rxc7 Kxc7 44. Nd1 Nf6 45. Qc1+ Kd7 46. Rh2 Ke7 47. Qxg5 Kf7
48. Qe3 Rh8 49. Rxh8 Bxh8 50. g5 Nh7 51. Ne2 Bd7 52. Ndc3 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.28"]
[Round "2.2"]
[White "Hammer, Jon Ludvig"]
[Black "Fecker, Noah"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2606"]
[BlackElo "2365"]
[ECO "A57"]
[Opening "Benko gambit"]
[WhiteFideId "1503707"]
[BlackFideId "1334263"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5 4. Nf3 b4 5. a3 g6 6. Be3 bxa3 7. Rxa3 d6 8. Nc3 Bg7
9. Bg5 h6 10. Bd2 O-O 11. e4 e6 12. Be2 Re8 13. O-O exd5 14. exd5 Na6 15. Bd3
Nb4 16. Bb1 Bd7 17. h3 Re7 18. Qc1 Kh7 19. g4 a6 20. Kg2 Qf8 21. Bf4 Ree8 22.
Nd2 Rad8 23. Nde4 Nxe4 24. Nxe4 Bc8 25. g5 Bf5 26. Re3 Bxe4+ 27. Rxe4 Rxe4 28.
Bxe4 Re8 29. Re1 hxg5 30. Bxg5 Bh6 31. h4 f5 32. Bb1 Rxe1 33. Qxe1 Bxg5 34. hxg5
Qd8 35. f4 Qd7 36. Kf2 a5 37. Qc3 Qg7 38. Qxg7+ Kxg7 39. Ke2 Na6 40. Bc2 Nc7 41.
Ba4 Na8 42. Be8 Nb6 43. b3 Kh7 44. Kd3 Kg7 45. Kc3 Kh7 46. Kb2 Kg7 47. Ka3 Kh7
48. Bf7 Kg7 49. Be8 Kh7 50. Bf7 Kg7 51. Be8 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.28"]
[Round "2.3"]
[White "Xu, Xiangyu"]
[Black "Riehle, Marco"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2601"]
[BlackElo "2363"]
[ECO "A34"]
[Opening "English"]
[Variation "symmetrical, Rubinstein system"]
[WhiteFideId "8608288"]
[BlackFideId "12904392"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. c4 c5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. Nc3 Nc7 6. d3 e5 7. Be3 Nc6 8.
Bxc6+ bxc6 9. Qa4 Bd7 10. Nf3 f6 11. Ne4 Ne6 12. Rc1 Qb6 13. Nfd2 Nd4 14. Nb3
Nxb3 15. axb3 Qb4+ 16. Kd1 Rb8 17. Qxb4 cxb4 18. Ra1 Rb7 19. Bxa7 Be6 20. Bc5
Bd5 21. Bxf8 Bxe4 22. Bxg7 Bxh1 23. Bxh8 Kf7 24. f3 h5 25. Rc1 Rc7 26. Ke1 Bg2
27. Rc4 Rc8 28. Bxf6 Kxf6 29. Rh4 Ra8 30. Kf2 Ra2 31. Kxg2 Rxb2 32. Kf2 Rxb3 33.
Rc4 Ke6 34. Rxc6+ Kd5 35. Rc4 Rb2 36. Ke3 Rb1 37. h4 Rb2 38. g4 hxg4 39. fxg4
Rb1 40. h5 b3 41. Rb4 b2 42. h6 Rg1 43. Rxb2 Rxg4 44. Rb8 Rg3+ 45. Kd2 Rh3 46.
Rh8 Kc6 47. h7 Kb7 48. Ke1 Rh2 49. Kf1 Rh6 50. Kg2 Ka7 51. Kf3 Kb7 52. Ke4 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.28"]
[Round "2.4"]
[White "Sarenac, Ivan"]
[Black "Dai, Changren"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2365"]
[BlackElo "2551"]
[ECO "B11"]
[Opening "Caro-Kann"]
[Variation "two knights, 3...Bg4"]
[WhiteFideId "938165"]
[BlackFideId "8608156"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c6 2. Nc3 d5 3. Nf3 Bg4 4. h3 Bxf3 5. Qxf3 e6 6. g3 Nd7 7. Bg2 d4 8. Nb1
h5 9. O-O h4 10. d3 Ne7 11. g4 Ng6 12. Qe2 e5 13. c3 Nc5 14. cxd4 Qxd4 15. Be3
Qxd3 16. Qf3 Ne6 17. Rd1 Qa6 18. Bf1 Qa5 19. Bc4 Ngf4 20. Bxe6 Nxe6 21. Nd2 Qc7
22. a4 g6 23. Nc4 Bg7 24. Nd6+ Kf8 25. Rac1 Nd4 26. Bxd4 exd4 27. Nc4 Re8 28. b4
Kg8 29. b5 c5 30. a5 Kh7 31. b6 axb6 32. axb6 Qd7 33. Qf4 Re6 34. g5 Rhe8 35.
Qxh4+ Kg8 36. Re1 d3 37. Nd2 Qd4 38. Qf4 Be5 39. Qe3 Qd8 40. Kf1 Rxb6 41. Qxc5
Rb2 42. Qe3 Qb8 43. Rcd1 Rd8 44. Nc4 Bd4 45. Nxb2 Bxe3 46. Rxe3 Qe5 47. Rdxd3
Rc8 48. Rb3 Qh2 49. Nd1 Rc2 50. Rg3 Qh1+ 51. Rg1 Qxe4 52. Re3 Qd5 53. Re1 Qb5+
54. Kg2 Qxg5+ 55. Kh1 Qf5 56. Rg3 Rd2 57. Kg1 b5 58. Rge3 b4 59. Kh2 Rxd1 0-1

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.28"]
[Round "2.5"]
[White "Zielonka, Adam"]
[Black "Heberla, Bartlomiej"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "FM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2348"]
[BlackElo "2508"]
[ECO "C02"]
[Opening "French"]
[Variation "advance, Paulsen attack"]
[WhiteFideId "21002096"]
[BlackFideId "1115120"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Nc6 5. Nf3 f6 6. Bb5 Qb6 7. Bxc6+ Qxc6 8. O-O
Bd7 9. dxc5 Bxc5 10. Nbd2 Ne7 11. Nb3 Ng6 12. Nxc5 Qxc5 13. Re1 Qc4 14. Qd4 Qxd4
15. cxd4 Rc8 16. Be3 Rc2 17. b3 Ke7 18. Rec1 Rhc8 19. Ne1 Rxc1 20. Rxc1 Rxc1 21.
Bxc1 fxe5 22. dxe5 Nxe5 23. Bb2 Nc6 24. Bxg7 Kf7 25. Bb2 e5 26. Nd3 d4 27. f4
exf4 28. Nxf4 Kf6 29. Kf2 Bf5 30. Ne2 Ke5 31. Nxd4 Nxd4 32. Ke3 Bb1 33. Bxd4+
Kf5 34. a3 Ba2 35. b4 a6 36. h3 h5 37. Bg7 Bd5 38. g3 Bg2 39. h4 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.28"]
[Round "2.6"]
[White "Schippke, Manon"]
[Black "Ghasi, Ameet K"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "WIM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2337"]
[BlackElo "2500"]
[ECO "E97"]
[Opening "King's Indian"]
[Variation "orthodox, Aronin-Taimanov, bayonet attack"]
[WhiteFideId "45100446"]
[BlackFideId "409200"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Be2 O-O 6. Nf3 e5 7. O-O Nc6 8. d5 Ne7
9. b4 a5 10. bxa5 Rxa5 11. a4 c5 12. Nd2 Nd7 13. Nb3 Ra6 14. Bd2 f5 15. a5 Nf6
16. f3 f4 17. Na4 Nd7 18. Rb1 g5 19. Nc1 h5 20. Nd3 Rf7 21. Rb5 Ng6 22. Qb3 Bf8
23. Rb1 Rg7 24. Nf2 Nh8 25. h3 Ra7 26. Kf1 Be7 27. Bd3 Nf7 28. Ke2 Kh7 29. Rh1
Qf8 30. Kd1 Bd8 31. Kc2 Nh6 32. Be2 Nf7 33. Bd3 Kg8 34. Be2 Qe7 35. Bd3 Kh7 36.
Be2 Rg8 37. Rg1 Nf6 38. Nb6 Bxb6 39. Rxb6 Nh6 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.28"]
[Round "2.7"]
[White "Blomqvist, Erik"]
[Black "Katsanis, Vasileios Dim"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2490"]
[BlackElo "2336"]
[ECO "D02"]
[Opening "Queen's bishop game"]
[WhiteFideId "1709437"]
[BlackFideId "42121159"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. Bf4 c5 4. e3 Nc6 5. Nbd2 cxd4 6. exd4 Bf5 7. Bb5 Qb6 8.
c4 dxc4 9. a4 e6 10. Nxc4 Bb4+ 11. Bd2 Bxd2+ 12. Qxd2 Qc7 13. Nfe5 O-O 14. Bxc6
bxc6 15. b4 Be4 16. O-O Nd7 17. Rfc1 Bd5 18. Ra3 f6 19. Nd3 Bxc4 20. Rxc4 Qd6
21. Qc3 Rac8 22. a5 Qd5 23. Ra1 Rfd8 24. Re1 Nf8 25. Nf4 Qd7 26. h4 Ng6 27. Nxe6
Re8 28. Nc5 Qd5 29. Rxe8+ Rxe8 30. g3 Re2 31. Nd3 Qf3 32. Rxc6 h5 33. Qb3+ Kh7
34. Qd1 Qg4 35. Rc2 Rxc2 36. Qxc2 f5 37. Ne5 Qxd4 38. Nf3 Qg4 39. Ng5+ Kh6 40.
Nf7+ Kh7 41. Qc8 Qd1+ 42. Kh2 f4 43. gxf4 Qd4 44. Ng5+ Kh6 45. Nh3 Nxh4 46. Qh8+
Kg6 47. Qe8+ Kh6 48. Qb5 Nf3+ 49. Kg3 Qc3 50. Qc5 Qxc5 51. bxc5 Nd4 52. Ng5 Kg6
53. Nf3 Ne2+ 54. Kh4 Nxf4 55. c6 Ne6 56. Ng5 Nc7 57. f3 a6 58. Ne4 Kh6 59. f4 g6
60. Nd6 Kg7 61. f5 Kf6 62. fxg6 Kxg6 63. Ne4 Kf5 64. Nc5 Ke5 65. Kxh5 Kd5 66.
Nxa6 Ke5 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.28"]
[Round "2.8"]
[White "Arnold, Rhys"]
[Black "Raczek, Krzysztof"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "FM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2336"]
[BlackElo "2489"]
[ECO "B12"]
[Opening "Caro-Kann"]
[Variation "advance variation"]
[WhiteFideId "1068849"]
[BlackFideId "21005303"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Nf3 e6 5. Be2 Bg6 6. O-O a6 7. Nbd2 c5 8. dxc5
Bxc5 9. Nb3 Bb6 10. c4 Ne7 11. Bg5 Nbc6 12. cxd5 Qxd5 13. Qxd5 Nxd5 14. Bc4 Ndb4
15. Rfd1 h6 16. Bh4 Bh5 17. Bg3 Ne7 18. Be2 Nf5 19. Nbd2 O-O-O 20. Nc4 Bc7 21.
Bf4 g5 22. Bd2 Nc6 23. Bc3 g4 24. Ne1 Nfd4 25. Bf1 g3 26. f3 gxh2+ 27. Kh1 Kb8
28. Nd3 Bg6 29. Nf4 Bh7 30. Rd2 Nb5 31. Nd6 Nxc3 32. bxc3 Nxe5 33. Rad1 Bxd6 34.
Rxd6 Rxd6 35. Rxd6 Rc8 36. Kxh2 Rxc3 37. Rd8+ Ka7 38. Rh8 Bb1 39. Rxh6 Nxf3+ 40.
gxf3 Rxf3 0-1

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.28"]
[Round "2.9"]
[White "Otsuka, Shou"]
[Black "Sengupta, Deep"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "FM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2335"]
[BlackElo "2479"]
[ECO "A15"]
[Opening "English opening"]
[WhiteFideId "7004702"]
[BlackFideId "5008352"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. c4 Nf6 2. Nf3 b6 3. g3 Bb7 4. Bg2 g6 5. O-O Bg7 6. d4 O-O 7. d5 Na6 8. Nc3
Nc5 9. Nd4 a5 10. e4 e5 11. Nc2 d6 12. Rb1 c6 13. dxc6 Bxc6 14. Qe2 Qb8 15. Rd1
h6 16. b3 Rd8 17. Kh1 Qb7 18. f3 Kh8 19. Be3 Ng8 20. b4 axb4 21. Nxb4 Nf6 22.
Rd2 Bf8 23. Rdb2 Rdb8 24. Bh3 Ra3 25. Nxc6 Qxc6 26. Nb5 Ra4 27. Nc3 Ra3 28. Nb5
Ra4 29. Nc3 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.28"]
[Round "2.10"]
[White "Dotzer, Lukas"]
[Black "Kueppers, Timo"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2478"]
[BlackElo "2322"]
[ECO "B23"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "closed, 2...Nc6"]
[WhiteFideId "1666975"]
[BlackFideId "16205820"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Nf3 e5 4. Bc4 d6 5. d3 Be7 6. Nd2 Nf6 7. Nf1 Bg4 8. f3
Be6 9. Ne3 O-O 10. O-O Nd7 11. Ned5 Nb6 12. f4 Nxc4 13. dxc4 exf4 14. Bxf4 Ne5
15. Bxe5 dxe5 16. Qh5 Bg5 17. Rad1 g6 18. Qf3 h6 19. Qg3 Qb8 20. h4 Bf4 21. Qf2
h5 22. Qxc5 Bg3 23. Qe7 Qc8 24. Qg5 Qc5+ 25. Kh1 Bg4 26. Rd3 Qxc4 27. b3 Qa6 28.
Rf6 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.28"]
[Round "2.11"]
[White "Kacprzak, Karol"]
[Black "Cieslak, Patryk"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "FM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2323"]
[BlackElo "2477"]
[ECO "B90"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Najdorf, Byrne (English) attack"]
[WhiteFideId "21819327"]
[BlackFideId "21078882"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be3 e5 7. Nb3 Be7 8. f3
Be6 9. Qd2 h5 10. Be2 Nbd7 11. Nd5 Bxd5 12. exd5 Qc7 13. Rc1 O-O 14. c4 a5 15.
Na1 Qd8 16. Nc2 g6 17. Na3 e4 18. O-O exf3 19. gxf3 Ne8 20. Nb5 Ng7 21. Bd3 Ne5
22. Bb1 Qd7 23. Nd4 Bf6 24. b3 Rfe8 25. Rce1 a4 26. Kh1 axb3 27. axb3 Qd8 28.
Nb5 Ra6 29. Bg1 Bh4 30. Re2 Nd7 31. f4 Rxe2 32. Qxe2 Bf6 33. Bf2 Nf8 34. Qf3 Qd7
35. Bd4 Qe7 36. Bf2 Qd7 37. Bd4 Qe7 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.28"]
[Round "2.12"]
[White "Trost, Edvin"]
[Black "Kuznecova, Marija"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2466"]
[BlackElo "2314"]
[ECO "D12"]
[Opening "QGD Slav"]
[Variation "4.e3 Bf5"]
[WhiteFideId "1729519"]
[BlackFideId "11618736"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 Bf5 5. Nc3 e6 6. Nh4 Bg6 7. Nxg6 hxg6 8. Bd2
Nbd7 9. cxd5 cxd5 10. Qb3 Qb6 11. Qxb6 Nxb6 12. Bd3 Rc8 13. b3 a6 14. Ke2 Bd6
15. h3 g5 16. Rab1 O-O 17. Na4 Nbd7 18. b4 e5 19. Rhc1 e4 20. Bc2 a5 21. bxa5
Ba3 22. Nb2 b6 23. axb6 Nxb6 24. Bb3 Rxc1 25. Bxc1 Rc8 26. Bd2 Nfd7 27. Na4 Nc4
28. Bxc4 Rxc4 29. Nc3 Nf6 30. Rb8+ Kh7 31. Rb3 Bb4 32. a3 Be7 33. Kd1 Kg6 34.
Kc2 Kf5 35. Rb5 Ke6 36. Kb3 Rc7 37. a4 Ra7 38. Rb6+ Kd7 39. Nb5 Ra8 40. Rb7+ Kd8
41. a5 Nd7 42. Bb4 Bxb4 43. Kxb4 Ra6 44. Nc7 Rd6 45. a6 Kc8 46. Ka5 Rf6 47. Rb2
Nb8 48. Rc2 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.28"]
[Round "2.13"]
[White "Priansh, Das"]
[Black "Rozentalis, Eduardas"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "FM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2312"]
[BlackElo "2461"]
[ECO "C01"]
[Opening "French"]
[Variation "exchange variation"]
[WhiteFideId "45029946"]
[BlackFideId "12800023"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 exd5 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. Bd3 Bd6 6. O-O Nge7 7. Re1 O-O 8.
a3 Bf5 9. Nc3 Qd7 10. Nb5 Rae8 11. Nxd6 Qxd6 12. Bg5 Bxd3 13. Qxd3 Ng6 14. Rad1
h6 15. Bd2 Qd7 16. Rxe8 Rxe8 17. Re1 Rxe1+ 18. Nxe1 Qg4 19. Be3 Nf4 20. Qd2 Ne6
21. f3 Qg6 22. b4 a6 23. a4 f6 24. c3 Ne7 25. Qc2 Qxc2 26. Nxc2 Nc8 27. b5 axb5
28. axb5 Nd6 29. Na3 Kf7 30. Kf2 f5 31. g3 g5 32. Bd2 Kf6 33. Ke2 h5 34. Kd3 f4
35. g4 hxg4 36. fxg4 b6 37. Be1 Kg6 38. Ke2 Ng7 39. Kf3 Ne6 40. Bf2 Ne4 41. Be1
Nd6 42. Bf2 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.28"]
[Round "2.14"]
[White "Sardana, Rishi"]
[Black "Hryzlova, Sofiia"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "WIM"]
[WhiteElo "2459"]
[BlackElo "2300"]
[ECO "E28"]
[Opening "Nimzo-Indian"]
[Variation "Saemisch variation"]
[WhiteFideId "25004301"]
[BlackFideId "14174669"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 b6 7. Bd3 Bb7 8. f3
c5 9. Ne2 d6 10. O-O Nc6 11. e4 Qc7 12. Bg5 Nd7 13. Kh1 Na5 14. Qe1 Ba6 15. Qg3
f6 16. Nf4 fxg5 17. Nxe6 Qb8 18. Nxf8 Nxf8 19. Qxg5 Qb7 20. Rfd1 Bxc4 21. dxc5
dxc5 22. Bc2 Ne6 23. Qg3 Rf8 24. Rd6 Nf4 25. Rad1 Be6 26. Qh4 Qf7 27. Rd8 Ng6
28. Rxf8+ Nxf8 29. Rd8 Nc6 30. Rd6 Ne5 31. a4 Neg6 32. Qd8 Nf4 33. a5 Qg6 34.
Rd2 Bc4 35. e5 Qh5 36. Qd6 Qh4 37. g3 Qh3 38. Rf2 Ne2 39. e6 Qxe6 40. Qd2 Qh3
41. Bd3 Bxd3 42. Qxd3 Nxg3+ 43. Kg1 Nh5 44. Qd5+ Ne6 45. Qa8+ Nf8 46. Qd5+ Ne6
47. a6 Nf4 48. Qa8+ Nf8 49. Qe4 Qh4 50. Rd2 Qg5+ 51. Kf1 N4e6 52. Rd6 Qe7 53.
Qd5 h6 54. Rc6 Qh4 55. Rxb6 Qxh2 56. Rb7 Qh1+ 57. Kf2 Qh2+ 58. Kf1 Kh8 59. Qe4
Qh1+ 60. Kf2 Qh2+ 61. Kf1 Qh1+ 62. Kf2 Qh2+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.28"]
[Round "2.15"]
[White "Zhalmakhanov, Ramazan"]
[Black "Kenneskog, Theodor"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2454"]
[BlackElo "2293"]
[ECO "B09"]
[Opening "Pirc"]
[Variation "Austrian attack"]
[WhiteFideId "13706357"]
[BlackFideId "1715011"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 g6 4. f4 Bg7 5. a3 O-O 6. Nf3 c5 7. dxc5 Nbd7 8. cxd6
exd6 9. Be3 Re8 10. Ng5 d5 11. Bb5 h6 12. Nxf7 Kxf7 13. e5 a6 14. Ba4 b5 15. Bb3
Nb6 16. O-O Ng4 17. Bc5 h5 18. Ne4 Bf8 19. Ng5+ Kg8 20. Bd4 Nc4 21. c3 Nge3 22.
Bxe3 Nxe3 23. Qd4 Nxf1 24. Bxd5+ Kg7 25. Rxf1 Bf5 26. Nf7 Qe7 27. Nd6 Rad8 28.
Bc6 Kh7 29. Bxe8 Qc7 30. Rd1 Bg4 31. Rd2 h4 32. h3 Bf5 33. Qf2 Kg7 34. Qxh4 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.28"]
[Round "2.16"]
[White "Sowinski, Pawel"]
[Black "Daakshin, Arun"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2436"]
[BlackElo "2274"]
[ECO "D35"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "exchange, positional line"]
[WhiteFideId "21881979"]
[BlackFideId "366195016"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bg5 Be6 6. e3 Nbd7 7. h3 c6 8. Bd3
Be7 9. Nf3 O-O 10. O-O Ne8 11. Bf4 Nd6 12. Ng5 Bxg5 13. Bxd6 Be7 14. Bh2 Nb6 15.
Qc2 g6 16. Rad1 Bd6 17. Be5 f6 18. Bxd6 Qxd6 19. Nb1 a5 20. f4 f5 21. Nd2 a4 22.
Nf3 Nc4 23. Qf2 Kg7 24. Kh2 Qb4 25. Rb1 Nd6 26. Ne5 Nf7 27. a3 Qb6 28. Rbc1 Nxe5
29. fxe5 Qc7 30. Qg3 b6 31. Rf4 Rf7 32. Rcf1 Raf8 33. Bc2 b5 34. Bd3 c5 35. dxc5
Qxc5 36. Rb4 Rb7 37. Rf2 Bd7 38. Rd4 Be6 39. Qf4 Qe7 40. Rc2 Re8 41. h4 Bf7 42.
Kg1 Qxe5 43. Qxe5+ Rxe5 44. Kf2 Be8 45. Be2 Re4 46. Bf3 Rxd4 47. exd4 Bf7 48.
Rc5 b4 49. Ra5 bxa3 50. bxa3 Rb2+ 51. Kg3 Be8 52. Kf4 Rb3 53. Ra8 Bc6 54. Rc8
Bb7 55. Rc7+ Kf6 56. Rxh7 Bc6 57. Rc7 Be8 58. Rc8 Ke7 59. Rc7+ Kf6 60. Ra7 Rxa3
61. Ra6+ Ke7 62. Ke5 Re3+ 63. Kf4 Rd3 64. Bxd5 Rxd4+ 65. Ke5 Rd1 66. Ra7+ Bd7
67. Bc6 a3 68. Bxd7 Rxd7 69. Rxa3 Rb7 70. Ra4 Rb5+ 71. Kf4 Rb2 72. g3 Rb3 73. h5
gxh5 74. Ra6 h4 75. gxh4 Rb4+ 76. Kg5 Rg4+ 77. Kh5 Kf7 78. Rb6 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.28"]
[Round "2.17"]
[White "Kienboeck, Benjamin"]
[Black "Das, Sayantan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "FM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2306"]
[BlackElo "2434"]
[ECO "B06"]
[Opening "Robatsch (modern) defence"]
[WhiteFideId "1649353"]
[BlackFideId "5034426"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. Nc3 d6 4. Be3 Nf6 5. Qd2 c6 6. O-O-O b5 7. f3 Nbd7 8. Kb1
Nb6 9. Bh6 Bxh6 10. Qxh6 Rb8 11. e5 b4 12. exf6 bxc3 13. fxe7 Qxe7 14. b3 a5 15.
Bd3 a4 16. Ne2 Nd5 17. Be4 axb3 18. axb3 Nb4 19. Nxc3 Kd8 20. Rhe1 Qf6 21. g4 d5
22. Bd3 Be6 23. Qe3 c5 24. Bb5 c4 25. bxc4 h5 26. h3 Bd7 27. Qe5 Qxe5 28. dxe5
Bxb5 29. cxb5 hxg4 30. hxg4 Rh2 31. Nxd5 Nxd5 32. Rxd5+ Ke7 33. Red1 Rf2 34.
R1d3 Rc8 35. Rd7+ Ke8 36. Rd2 Rxf3 37. R7d4 Rfc3 38. Rb4 R3c5 39. Re2 Ke7 40.
Kb2 Ke6 41. b6 Rb8 42. Re3 Rxe5 43. Rxe5+ Kxe5 44. Kc3 f5 45. gxf5 gxf5 46. Kc4
f4 47. Kb5 f3 48. Rb1 f2 49. Rf1 Rf8 50. b7 Kd4 51. Kb6 Kc3 52. Ka7 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.28"]
[Round "2.18"]
[White "Hillarp Persson, Tiger"]
[Black "Rasti, Arvin"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2428"]
[BlackElo "2270"]
[ECO "A13"]
[Opening "English"]
[Variation "Romanishin gambit"]
[WhiteFideId "1700812"]
[BlackFideId "1741160"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. g3 a6 4. Bg2 b5 5. d3 Bb7 6. O-O Be7 7. e4 d6 8. Nc3 bxc4
9. dxc4 O-O 10. Qe2 c5 11. Rd1 Qc7 12. e5 dxe5 13. Qxe5 Qc8 14. Bf4 Nbd7 15. Qe2
Bc6 16. Bd6 Bxd6 17. Rxd6 Qb7 18. Rad1 Rab8 19. b3 Rfe8 20. g4 Nf8 21. Ne1 Bxg2
22. Nxg2 h6 23. h4 Qc7 24. f3 Rbd8 25. Qd2 Rxd6 26. Qxd6 Qb7 27. g5 hxg5 28.
hxg5 N6d7 29. Ne4 a5 30. Qf4 Nb8 31. Nxc5 Qb6 32. Qe3 e5 33. Ne4 Qg6 34. Rd6 Ne6
35. a3 Qh5 36. Kf2 Qh2 37. Kf1 Qh1+ 38. Kf2 Qh2 39. Kf1 Qh1+ 40. Kf2 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.28"]
[Round "2.19"]
[White "Kacprzak, Kacper"]
[Black "Siva, Mahadevan"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "FM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2303"]
[BlackElo "2427"]
[ECO "C88"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez"]
[Variation "closed, anti-Marshall 8.a4"]
[WhiteFideId "21819319"]
[BlackFideId "25043153"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 O-O 8. a4
Bb7 9. d3 d6 10. Bd2 Qd7 11. h3 Nd8 12. axb5 axb5 13. Rxa8 Bxa8 14. Nc3 Ne6 15.
Bxe6 fxe6 16. b4 Kh8 17. Qb1 Nh5 18. Qb3 Bc6 19. d4 exd4 20. Nxd4 Bf6 21. Nxe6
Re8 22. Ng5 h6 23. Nf3 Bxc3 24. Qxc3 Bxe4 25. Nd4 Nf6 26. f3 Bg6 27. Rxe8+ Bxe8
28. Qd3 c5 29. bxc5 dxc5 30. Nb3 Qxd3 31. cxd3 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.28"]
[Round "2.20"]
[White "Xie, Kaifan"]
[Black "Harshit, Ranjan Sahu"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "CM"]
[WhiteElo "2426"]
[BlackElo "2265"]
[ECO "E84"]
[Opening "King's Indian"]
[Variation "Saemisch, Panno main line"]
[WhiteFideId "8619107"]
[BlackFideId "25638815"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. f3 O-O 6. Nge2 Nc6 7. Be3 a6 8. Qd2
Rb8 9. Nc1 e5 10. d5 Nd4 11. Nb3 c5 12. dxc6 bxc6 13. Nxd4 exd4 14. Bxd4 d5 15.
cxd5 cxd5 16. e5 Re8 17. Be2 Nh5 18. O-O Bxe5 19. Bxe5 Rxe5 20. f4 Qb6+ 21. Kh1
Qe3 22. Rad1 Re6 23. Bxh5 gxh5 24. Nxd5 Qxd2 25. Rxd2 Bb7 26. f5 Rh6 27. f6 Kf8
28. Ne7 h4 29. h3 Rh5 30. Rf4 Re8 31. Rg4 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.28"]
[Round "2.21"]
[White "Li, Di"]
[Black "Kavutskiy, Kostya"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2549"]
[BlackElo "2354"]
[ECO "E94"]
[Opening "King's Indian"]
[Variation "orthodox variation"]
[WhiteFideId "8607508"]
[BlackFideId "2026384"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Nf3 O-O 6. Be2 e5 7. O-O Bg4 8. d5 a5
9. h3 Bxf3 10. Bxf3 Nbd7 11. Bg5 h6 12. Be3 h5 13. g3 Nh7 14. Bg2 h4 15. Qg4
hxg3 16. fxg3 b6 17. Rf2 Nhf6 18. Qe2 Nh5 19. Kh2 Bf6 20. Qd2 Be7 21. Raf1 Ng7
22. Bh6 f6 23. h4 Rf7 24. Bh3 Nc5 25. Bg4 Kh7 26. Kg2 Qh8 27. Be3 Kg8 28. Bxc5
bxc5 29. Be6 Nh5 30. Nb5 Bd8 31. Rf3 Kg7 32. Bxf7 Kxf7 33. Ra3 Qh7 34. Qe2 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.29"]
[Round "3.1"]
[White "Waldhausen Gordon, Frederick"]
[Black "Xu, Xiangyu"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "FM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2393"]
[BlackElo "2601"]
[ECO "B03"]
[Opening "Alekhine's defence"]
[Variation "exchange variation"]
[WhiteFideId "2409143"]
[BlackFideId "8608288"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 Nf6 2. e5 Nd5 3. d4 d6 4. c4 Nb6 5. exd6 cxd6 6. Nf3 g6 7. h3 Bg7 8. Be2
O-O 9. O-O Nc6 10. Nc3 Bf5 11. Be3 d5 12. c5 Nc4 13. Qb3 b6 14. cxb6 axb6 15.
Bxc4 Na5 16. Qb5 Nxc4 17. Qxd5 Qc8 18. Ne5 Nxe5 19. dxe5 Rd8 20. Qb3 Bxe5 21.
Rac1 Bxh3 22. gxh3 Qxh3 23. Rfd1 Bh2+ 24. Kh1 Bg3+ 25. Kg1 Bh2+ 26. Kh1 Bf4+ 27.
Kg1 Bxe3 28. fxe3 Qxe3+ 29. Kf1 Qf4+ 30. Ke1 Qh4+ 31. Kf1 Qh1+ 32. Kf2 Qh2+ 33.
Ke1 Qg1+ 34. Ke2 Qg2+ 35. Ke1 Qg1+ 36. Ke2 Qg4+ 37. Ke1 Qg3+ 38. Ke2 Qg2+ 39.
Ke1 Qg3+ 40. Ke2 h5 41. Rxd8+ Rxd8 42. Rd1 Qg2+ 43. Ke1 Qg1+ 44. Ke2 Qg2+ 45.
Ke1 Qh1+ 46. Ke2 Qh2+ 47. Ke1 Qh1+ 48. Ke2 Qh2+ 49. Ke1 Qg3+ 50. Kf1 Qf4+ 51.
Ke1 Qh4+ 52. Ke2 Qg4+ 53. Ke1 Qh4+ 54. Ke2 Rb8 55. Kd2 b5 56. Kc2 e6 57. a4 Qh2+
58. Rd2 bxa4 59. Rxh2 axb3+ 60. Kd3 Kg7 61. Ne4 Kh6 62. Ke3 g5 63. Rd2 h4 64.
Rd3 g4 65. Nf2 Kg5 66. Ne4+ Kg6 67. Nc5 Rb5 68. Nxb3 g3 69. Kf3 Rf5+ 70. Kg2
Rf2+ 71. Kg1 Rxb2 72. Nd2 Kf5 73. Kg2 e5 74. Kh3 e4 75. Rd4 g2 76. Kh2 h3 77.
Nxe4 Rb1 78. Ng3+ Ke5 79. Kxh3 g1=Q 80. Rd3 Re1 81. Rf3 Re3 82. Rf5+ Ke6 83. Rg5
f5 84. Rg6+ Kf7 85. Rg5 Qh1# 0-1

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.29"]
[Round "3.2"]
[White "Dai, Changren"]
[Black "Yang, Zilong"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2551"]
[BlackElo "2386"]
[ECO "E49"]
[Opening "Nimzo-Indian"]
[Variation "4.e3, Botvinnik system"]
[WhiteFideId "8608156"]
[BlackFideId "8641528"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. Bd3 d5 6. a3 Bxc3+ 7. bxc3 c5 8. cxd5
exd5 9. Ne2 b6 10. O-O Ba6 11. Bxa6 Nxa6 12. Qd3 Nc7 13. Bb2 cxd4 14. Nxd4 Rc8
15. c4 dxc4 16. Qxc4 Ne6 17. Qe2 Nxd4 18. Bxd4 Qe7 19. Qb2 Rc6 20. a4 h6 21. a5
bxa5 22. Rxa5 a6 23. Rfa1 Ra8 24. h3 Ne8 25. Be5 Rc5 26. Bd4 Rc6 27. Rb5 Nd6 28.
Rb6 Nc4 29. Rb8+ Rxb8 30. Qxb8+ Kh7 31. Qa8 Qe6 32. Qf8 f6 33. Qb8 Qe4 34. Kh2
Qf5 35. Qb7 Qb5 36. Qxb5 axb5 37. Ra8 Nd2 38. h4 Nb3 39. Rb8 Nxd4 40. exd4 Rd6
41. Rxb5 Rxd4 42. g3 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.29"]
[Round "3.3"]
[White "Sidhant, Mohapatra"]
[Black "Li, Di"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2388"]
[BlackElo "2549"]
[ECO "B53"]
[Opening "Sicilian, Chekhover variation"]
[WhiteFideId "5028698"]
[BlackFideId "8607508"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Qxd4 Nc6 5. Qd3 g6 6. Nc3 Bg7 7. Be2 Bg4 8. Be3
Qa5 9. O-O Bxf3 10. Bxf3 Bxc3 11. bxc3 Ne5 12. Qd1 Nf6 13. Rb1 O-O 14. Rxb7 Rfe8
15. Bd4 Qxa2 16. Be2 Nxe4 17. f4 Nc6 18. Bb5 Rac8 19. Qd3 Nxd4 20. Qxd4 Nxc3 21.
Bd3 Qa5 22. Rxa7 Qc5 23. Qxc5 Rxc5 24. Re1 Kf8 25. g3 e5 26. Rd7 exf4 27. Rxe8+
Kxe8 28. Rxd6 fxg3 29. hxg3 Nd5 30. c4 Ne3 31. Rd4 Nf5 32. Re4+ Kd7 33. Kf2 h5
34. Rf4 Ke6 35. g4 hxg4 36. Rxg4 Kf6 37. Ke2 Ng7 38. Kd2 Ne6 39. Kc3 Rc7 40. Be4
Nc5 41. Bd5 Kg7 42. Rg1 f5 43. Rb1 f4 44. Kd4 Kf6 45. Rb5 Nd7 46. c5 g5 47. c6
Ne5 48. Kc5 g4 49. Kd6 Rxc6+ 50. Bxc6 Nxc6 51. Kd5 Kf5 52. Kxc6+ Ke4 53. Rb4+
Ke5 54. Rb5+ Ke4 55. Rb4+ Ke5 56. Rb5+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.29"]
[Round "3.4"]
[White "Raczek, Krzysztof"]
[Black "Bhagat Kush"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2489"]
[BlackElo "2381"]
[ECO "A11"]
[Opening "English"]
[Variation "Caro-Kann defensive system"]
[WhiteFideId "21005303"]
[BlackFideId "46672940"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. c4 c6 2. Nf3 d5 3. g3 Nf6 4. Bg2 Bf5 5. Qb3 Qb6 6. d3 e6 7. Be3 Qa6 8. Nbd2
Nbd7 9. Nh4 Bg6 10. h3 Bd6 11. O-O O-O 12. Nxg6 hxg6 13. Rac1 Rac8 14. a3 b5 15.
c5 Bc7 16. Nf3 e5 17. Ng5 Bd8 18. Qa2 Qb7 19. Bd2 Be7 20. b4 a5 21. e4 axb4 22.
axb4 Ra8 23. Qb3 d4 24. Ra1 Nh5 25. h4 Ra7 26. Bh3 Bxg5 27. hxg5 Rfa8 28. Qb2
Nf8 29. Kg2 Qe7 30. Rxa7 Qxa7 31. Rb1 Qa2 32. Qxa2 Rxa2 33. Bc1 f6 34. Bc8 Ra7
35. Rb3 Kf7 36. Ra3 Rxa3 37. Bxa3 Ke7 38. gxf6+ gxf6 39. Bg4 Ng7 40. Bc1 g5 41.
Bd1 Nfe6 42. Kh3 Kd7 43. Kg4 Ke7 44. Bb3 Kd7 45. f4 gxf4 46. gxf4 Nxf4 47. Bxf4
exf4 48. Kxf4 Nh5+ 49. Kf5 Ke7 50. e5 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.29"]
[Round "3.5"]
[White "Vestby-Ellingsen, Mads"]
[Black "Dotzer, Lukas"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2385"]
[BlackElo "2478"]
[ECO "A17"]
[Opening "English opening"]
[WhiteFideId "1520857"]
[BlackFideId "1666975"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. e3 dxc4 5. Bxc4 a6 6. O-O b5 7. Be2 Bb7 8. b3
Be7 9. Bb2 O-O 10. Rc1 c5 11. a4 b4 12. Nb1 Nbd7 13. d3 Nd5 14. Re1 Bf6 15. Qc2
Rc8 16. Bf1 Qe7 17. Nfd2 h5 18. g3 Bxb2 19. Qxb2 N5f6 20. Nc4 Rfd8 21. Red1 Bf3
22. Be2 Ba8 23. Bf1 Bf3 24. Be2 Bd5 25. Ncd2 Qd6 26. Qc2 Ng4 27. Ne4 Qb8 28.
Nbd2 f5 29. Ng5 Qe5 30. Ndf3 Qf6 31. h4 Nde5 32. Nxe5 Qxe5 33. d4 Qb8 34. Bxa6
Nxe3 35. Qe2 Nxd1 36. Bxc8 Rxc8 37. Qxh5 Nc3 38. Qf7+ Kh8 39. Qh5+ Kg8 40. Qf7+
Kh8 41. Qh5+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.29"]
[Round "3.6"]
[White "Delgerdalai, Bayarjavkhlan"]
[Black "Trost, Edvin"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "FM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2376"]
[BlackElo "2466"]
[ECO "A13"]
[Opening "English"]
[Variation "Wimpey system"]
[WhiteFideId "23727276"]
[BlackFideId "1729519"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. e3 Nf6 3. c4 e6 4. b3 c5 5. Bb2 Nc6 6. cxd5 exd5 7. Bb5 Bd6 8. O-O
O-O 9. d4 cxd4 10. Nxd4 Bc7 11. Nd2 Qd6 12. N2f3 Ng4 13. Nxc6 bxc6 14. Qd4 f6
15. Bxc6 Qxc6 16. Rfc1 Qb7 17. Rxc7 Qxc7 18. Qxd5+ Kh8 19. Qxa8 Qc2 20. Rc1
Qxf2+ 21. Kh1 Nxe3 22. Ng1 Qf5 23. Qf3 Qg5 24. Nh3 Qh6 25. Qa8 Nc4 26. Rxc4 Qd2
27. Rxc8 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.29"]
[Round "3.7"]
[White "Zhalmakhanov, Ramazan"]
[Black "Kienboeck, Benjamin"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2454"]
[BlackElo "2306"]
[ECO "A22"]
[Opening "English"]
[Variation "Bremen, Smyslov system"]
[WhiteFideId "13706357"]
[BlackFideId "1649353"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e5 3. g3 Bb4 4. e4 Bxc3 5. dxc3 O-O 6. f3 c6 7. Qd6 Re8 8. Bh3
Qe7 9. Qxe7 Rxe7 10. Bg5 Na6 11. O-O-O Nc7 12. Bxf6 gxf6 13. Rd6 Ne8 14. Rd2 d6
15. Bxc8 Rxc8 16. g4 Rd8 17. Ne2 Red7 18. Ng3 Ng7 19. Rhd1 Kf8 20. h4 h6 21. Nf1
Ke7 22. h5 Ne6 23. Ne3 Ng7 24. Kc2 Ke6 25. b4 a6 26. a4 Ra8 27. a5 Rc8 28. Rb1
Rdc7 29. Rd3 Ra8 30. c5 Rd8 31. Nc4 Ne8 32. Rbd1 Rcd7 33. cxd6 Nxd6 34. Nb6 Rc7
35. c4 c5 36. Na4 cxb4 37. c5 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.29"]
[Round "3.8"]
[White "Seiger, Vidar"]
[Black "Xie, Kaifan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "CM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2137"]
[BlackElo "2426"]
[ECO "B12"]
[Opening "Caro-Kann"]
[Variation "advance variation"]
[WhiteFideId "1756079"]
[BlackFideId "8619107"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Nd2 e6 5. Nb3 Nd7 6. Nf3 c5 7. dxc5 Bxc5 8. Nxc5
Qa5+ 9. c3 Qxc5 10. Nd4 Ne7 11. Bb5 Qc7 12. O-O Bg6 13. h4 h6 14. h5 Bf5 15. Re1
O-O 16. Bxd7 Qxd7 17. Qf3 Kh8 18. g4 Bh7 19. Qg3 Rac8 20. g5 Nf5 21. Nxf5 Bxf5
22. gxh6 Rg8 23. h7 Kxh7 24. Be3 Rc4 25. Bd4 g5 26. Kh2 Qe7 27. Qe3 g4 28. Kg3
Rg5 29. Qf4 Rc8 30. Be3 Rcg8 31. Qb4 Qxb4 32. cxb4 Rxh5 33. Rh1 Rh3+ 34. Kf4 Rg6
35. f3 Kg7 36. Rxh3 gxh3 37. Rg1 h2 38. Rh1 Rg2 39. Bxa7 Rxb2 40. Kg3 Rxa2 41.
Bc5 Ra3 42. Rxh2 f6 43. Bd6 fxe5 44. Bxe5+ Kf7 45. Kf4 Ra4 46. Bd6 Ke8 47. Rg2
d4 48. Bc5 d3 49. Ke5 Kd7 50. Kd4 Kc6 51. Kc4 b5+ 52. Kd4 Ra1 53. Rf2 Re1 54.
Be7 e5+ 55. Kc3 Kd5 56. Kd2 Rb1 57. Ke3 Re1+ 58. Kd2 Ra1 59. Ke3 Rb1 60. Bf8 Kc4
61. Bd6 Kd5 62. Bf8 Rb3 63. Be7 Bg6 64. Rd2 Kc4 65. Bd6 Kd5 66. Be7 Kc4 67. Bd6
Rb1 68. Rg2 Bf7 69. Rg4+ e4 70. fxe4 Re1+ 71. Kd2 Re2+ 72. Kc1 Re1+ 73. Kd2 Re2+
74. Kc1 Rc2+ 75. Kb1 Bh5 76. Rg1 Re2 77. Bg3 d2 78. Kc2 d1=Q+ 79. Kxd1 Rg2+ 0-1

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.29"]
[Round "3.9"]
[White "Demchenko, Anton"]
[Black "Goh, Zi Han"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2631"]
[BlackElo "2370"]
[ECO "B06"]
[Opening "Robatsch (modern) defence"]
[WhiteFideId "4160258"]
[BlackFideId "5819156"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 g6 2. d4 d6 3. Bd3 e5 4. dxe5 dxe5 5. Nf3 Bg7 6. O-O Nd7 7. Qe2 Ngf6 8. b3
O-O 9. Rd1 h6 10. a4 Re8 11. Na3 c6 12. Nc4 Qc7 13. a5 Nh5 14. Qe3 Nf4 15. Ba3
b5 16. axb6 axb6 17. Bd6 Rxa1 18. Rxa1 Qd8 19. Ra7 b5 20. Bc7 Qf6 21. Nd6 Rf8
22. Ra8 Ne6 23. Ba5 Qe7 24. Nxc8 Qa3 25. Bf1 Kh7 26. b4 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.29"]
[Round "3.10"]
[White "Avinash, Ramesh"]
[Black "Hammer, Jon Ludvig"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2370"]
[BlackElo "2606"]
[ECO "B15"]
[Opening "Caro-Kann"]
[Variation "Tartakower (Nimzovich) variation"]
[WhiteFideId "45018340"]
[BlackFideId "1503707"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6 5. Nxf6+ exf6 6. c3 Bd6 7. Bd3 O-O 8.
Qc2 g6 9. Ne2 c5 10. Be3 Qc7 11. dxc5 Bxc5 12. Bxc5 Qxc5 13. O-O Nc6 14. Be4 Re8
15. Bxc6 bxc6 16. Rfe1 Bb7 17. Ng3 f5 18. Qd2 Qd5 19. Qxd5 Rxe1+ 20. Rxe1 cxd5
21. Ne2 Re8 22. f3 d4 23. cxd4 Re3 24. Kf2 Rd3 25. Nc3 Rd2+ 26. Re2 Rxd4 27. Ke3
Rd7 28. Re1 g5 29. Rd1 f4+ 30. Kf2 Rxd1 31. Nxd1 Kg7 32. Nc3 Kf6 33. b4 Ke5 34.
a4 Bc6 35. b5 Bb7 36. a5 Kd6 37. Na4 Ba8 38. g3 f5 39. gxf4 gxf4 40. h4 h6 41.
h5 Bd5 42. Nc3 Bf7 43. b6 axb6 44. axb6 Bxh5 45. Nd5 Kc6 46. Ne7+ Kxb6 47. Nxf5
Kc5 48. Nxh6 Kd4 49. Nf5+ Ke5 50. Nh4 Kf6 51. Ng2 Kg5 52. Nxf4 Kxf4 53. Ke1 Kxf3 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.29"]
[Round "3.11"]
[White "Ritviz, Parab"]
[Black "Meshkovs, Nikita"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2369"]
[BlackElo "2561"]
[ECO "B28"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "O'Kelly variation"]
[WhiteFideId "5073367"]
[BlackFideId "11602740"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 a6 3. c3 d5 4. exd5 Qxd5 5. d4 e6 6. Bd3 Nf6 7. O-O cxd4 8. cxd4
Be7 9. Bg5 Nc6 10. Nc3 Qd8 11. Rc1 O-O 12. Bb1 Bd7 13. a3 Nd5 14. Qd3 g6 15. Bh6
Re8 16. Ne4 Qb6 17. b4 Ncxb4 18. axb4 Bb5 19. Qd1 Bxf1 20. Kxf1 Qxb4 21. Bd3 b5
22. Bd2 Qa3 23. Ne5 Rec8 24. Rxc8+ Rxc8 25. Qf3 f5 26. Ke2 Qb2 27. Qg3 fxe4 28.
Nxg6 hxg6 29. Qxg6+ Kf8 0-1

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.29"]
[Round "3.12"]
[White "Heberla, Bartlomiej"]
[Black "Falkevall, Axel"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2508"]
[BlackElo "2365"]
[ECO "A45"]
[Opening "Trompovsky attack (Ruth, Opovcensky opening)"]
[WhiteFideId "1115120"]
[BlackFideId "1735560"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 g6 3. Bxf6 exf6 4. c4 d5 5. cxd5 Qxd5 6. Nc3 Qd8 7. h4 h5 8. g3
Bd6 9. Bh3 f5 10. e3 Nd7 11. Nge2 c6 12. Nf4 Nf6 13. Qb3 Bxf4 14. gxf4 Qe7 15.
Bg2 Be6 16. Qa3 Qxa3 17. bxa3 Rc8 18. Rb1 b6 19. a4 Nd5 20. Bxd5 Bxd5 21. O-O
Bc4 22. Rfd1 O-O 23. f3 Rb8 24. a3 a5 25. Rb2 b5 26. Rdb1 Bd3 27. Rd1 Bc4 28.
Rdb1 Bd3 29. Rd1 Bc4 30. Rdb1 Bd3 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.29"]
[Round "3.13"]
[White "Ghasi, Ameet K"]
[Black "Zielonka, Adam"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2500"]
[BlackElo "2348"]
[ECO "E17"]
[Opening "Queen's Indian"]
[Variation "old main line, 6.O-O"]
[WhiteFideId "409200"]
[BlackFideId "21002096"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 b6 3. g3 Bb7 4. Bg2 e6 5. O-O Be7 6. d4 O-O 7. h4 d6 8. Qc2 c5
9. dxc5 bxc5 10. Nc3 Nc6 11. Rd1 Qb6 12. b3 Rfd8 13. Bb2 h6 14. Rac1 Rac8 15.
Qb1 Nb4 16. Rd2 d5 17. Na4 Qa5 18. a3 Na6 19. Bc3 Qc7 20. Be5 Qa5 21. cxd5 exd5
22. Bh3 Rc6 23. Rdc2 Ne4 24. e3 Bc8 25. Bxc8 Rcxc8 26. Nc3 Nxc3 27. Bxc3 Qb6 28.
b4 cxb4 29. Bd4 Qb7 30. Rxc8 Rxc8 31. Rxc8+ Qxc8 32. axb4 Nxb4 33. Bxa7 Nc6 34.
Bd4 Nxd4 35. Nxd4 Bf6 36. Nf3 g6 37. Kg2 h5 38. Qd3 Qe6 39. Nd2 Bxh4 40. gxh4
Qg4+ 41. Kf1 Qd1+ 42. Kg2 Qg4+ 43. Kf1 Qd1+ 44. Kg2 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.29"]
[Round "3.14"]
[White "Fecker, Noah"]
[Black "Blomqvist, Erik"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "FM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2365"]
[BlackElo "2490"]
[ECO "C02"]
[Opening "French"]
[Variation "advance, Paulsen attack"]
[WhiteFideId "1334263"]
[BlackFideId "1709437"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Nc6 5. Nf3 Nh6 6. Bd3 Nf5 7. dxc5 Nh4 8. Nxh4
Qxh4 9. Qe2 Bxc5 10. Nd2 Bb6 11. Nf3 Qh5 12. g4 Qxg4 13. Rg1 Qh5 14. Rg5 Qh3 15.
Rg3 Qh5 16. Rg5 Qh3 17. Rxg7 h6 18. Bf4 Bd7 19. O-O-O O-O-O 20. Rdg1 Qh5 21.
R1g4 f6 22. exf6 e5 23. Rh4 Qe8 24. Nxe5 Nxe5 25. Bxe5 Qe6 26. Rf4 Rhe8 27. f7
Rf8 28. Rg6 Qh3 29. Rc6+ 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.29"]
[Round "3.15"]
[White "Sengupta, Deep"]
[Black "Schippke, Manon"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "WIM"]
[WhiteElo "2479"]
[BlackElo "2337"]
[ECO "A15"]
[Opening "English opening"]
[WhiteFideId "5008352"]
[BlackFideId "45100446"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. b3 Bg7 4. Bb2 d6 5. g3 O-O 6. Bg2 e5 7. O-O c5 8. Nc3 Nc6
9. Ne1 h5 10. a3 h4 11. Nd5 Nxd5 12. cxd5 Ne7 13. b4 cxb4 14. axb4 Nf5 15. Nc2
Bd7 16. Na3 Rc8 17. e3 h3 18. Bh1 a5 19. bxa5 Qxa5 20. Qe2 b5 21. Rfb1 b4 22.
Nc4 Qd8 23. Na5 Ne7 24. d3 Rb8 25. Rc1 Rb5 26. Nc6 Bxc6 27. dxc6 d5 28. Ra7 Qd6
29. d4 Rbb8 30. Qg4 e4 31. Rd7 Qf6 32. c7 Rbc8 33. Qxh3 Rfe8 34. Bg2 Bf8 35. Bf1
Qb6 36. Qg4 Qb7 37. Qe2 Qb6 38. Qa6 Qxa6 39. Bxa6 Ra8 40. Rxe7 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.29"]
[Round "3.16"]
[White "Cieslak, Patryk"]
[Black "Otsuka, Shou"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2477"]
[BlackElo "2335"]
[ECO "C55"]
[Opening "Two knights defence (Modern bishop's opening)"]
[WhiteFideId "21078882"]
[BlackFideId "7004702"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 Be7 5. Nc3 d6 6. a3 O-O 7. Be3 Be6 8. Ng5
Qd7 9. Nxe6 fxe6 10. Ba2 Kh8 11. Bg5 h6 12. Bd2 Nh7 13. Ne2 Bg5 14. Bc3 Rxf2 15.
Kxf2 Qf7+ 16. Nf4 Qxf4+ 17. Ke1 Bh4+ 18. g3 Bxg3+ 19. hxg3 Qxg3+ 20. Kd2 Qg5+
21. Ke1 Qg3+ 22. Kd2 Qg5+ 23. Ke1 Qg3+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.29"]
[Round "3.17"]
[White "Hari, Madhavan N B"]
[Black "Willow, Jonah B"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2363"]
[BlackElo "2473"]
[ECO "A49"]
[Opening "King's Indian"]
[Variation "fianchetto without c4"]
[WhiteFideId "25054309"]
[BlackFideId "438804"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. g3 Bg7 4. Bg2 d6 5. O-O O-O 6. b3 b5 7. a4 b4 8. Ne1 c6
9. a5 Na6 10. Bxc6 Rb8 11. Bg2 Rb5 12. Bb2 Rxa5 13. Nd2 d5 14. Nd3 Rxa1 15. Qxa1
Qb6 16. e4 dxe4 17. Nxe4 Nxe4 18. Bxe4 Nc7 19. Qa4 Bh3 20. Re1 a5 21. Qc6 Qxc6
22. Bxc6 Ne6 23. d5 Bxb2 24. dxe6 Bc3 25. exf7+ Kxf7 26. Re2 Rd8 27. Be4 Kf6 28.
Bg2 Bg4 29. Re3 Bd1 30. Nc5 Kf7 31. Bf1 Bxc2 32. Bc4+ Ke8 33. Bb5+ Kf7 34. Bc4+
Kf6 35. Rf3+ Ke5 36. Re3+ Kf6 37. Rf3+ Ke5 38. Re3+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.29"]
[Round "3.18"]
[White "Rozentalis, Eduardas"]
[Black "Kacprzak, Karol"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2461"]
[BlackElo "2323"]
[ECO "B22"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Alapin's variation (2.c3)"]
[WhiteFideId "12800023"]
[BlackFideId "21819327"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c5 2. c3 Nf6 3. e5 Nd5 4. Nf3 e6 5. Bc4 d6 6. O-O Nc6 7. d4 cxd4 8. cxd4
Be7 9. exd6 Qxd6 10. Nc3 O-O 11. Re1 Rd8 12. Bb3 Nf6 13. Nb5 Qd7 14. Bf4 a6 15.
Nc7 Ra7 16. d5 exd5 17. Rc1 Bb4 18. Re2 Bd6 19. Bxd6 Qxd6 20. Nxd5 Bg4 21. Ne7+
Kf8 22. Nxc6 bxc6 23. Rd2 Nd5 24. Rd4 Bxf3 25. Qxf3 Rad7 26. g3 Qg6 27. Rcd1 Qf6
28. Qxf6 Nxf6 29. Rxd7 Rxd7 30. Rxd7 Nxd7 31. f4 Ke7 32. Kf2 f5 33. Ke3 Kd6 34.
Bc2 g6 35. b4 c5 36. bxc5+ Kxc5 37. Bb3 Nf6 38. h3 Kd6 39. Kd4 Nh5 40. Bg8 Ke7
41. Bxh7 Kf7 42. g4 fxg4 43. hxg4 Nxf4 44. Ke4 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.29"]
[Round "3.19"]
[White "Katsanis, Vasileios Dim"]
[Black "Sardana, Rishi"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "FM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2336"]
[BlackElo "2459"]
[ECO "D35"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "exchange, positional line"]
[WhiteFideId "42121159"]
[BlackFideId "25004301"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bg5 Be7 6. e3 h6 7. Bh4 O-O 8. Bd3
c6 9. Qc2 Ne8 10. Bxe7 Qxe7 11. Nf3 Nd6 12. O-O Be6 13. Ne5 Nd7 14. f4 Nf6 15.
Rae1 g6 16. Qf2 Kg7 17. Qh4 Rfe8 18. h3 Bf5 19. g4 Bxd3 20. Nxd3 Nfe4 21. Qxe7
Rxe7 22. Nxe4 Nxe4 23. Kg2 Rae8 24. Re2 f6 25. Kf3 h5 26. Nf2 Nd6 27. Rg1 Nb5
28. Rge1 a5 29. a4 hxg4+ 30. hxg4 Nc7 31. f5 gxf5 32. gxf5 Rh8 33. Rh1 Rxh1 34.
Nxh1 Ne8 35. Ng3 Nd6 36. b3 b5 37. Ra2 Rb7 38. Kf4 bxa4 39. Rxa4 Rb5 40. Ra3 Kf7
41. Kf3 Ke7 42. Kg4 c5 43. dxc5 Rxc5 44. Ne2 Nf7 45. Nd4 Ne5+ 46. Kf4 Rc1 47.
Kg3 Rc3 48. Kf4 Rc1 49. Kg3 Rc3 50. Kf4 Rc1 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.29"]
[Round "3.20"]
[White "Priansh, Das"]
[Black "Sowinski, Pawel"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "FM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2312"]
[BlackElo "2436"]
[ECO "B94"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Najdorf, 6.Bg5"]
[WhiteFideId "45029946"]
[BlackFideId "21881979"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bg5 Nbd7 7. Qe2 b5 8. f4
b4 9. Nd5 Nxd5 10. exd5 Qc7 11. O-O-O Bb7 12. g4 Bxd5 13. Nf5 Be6 14. Bg2 Rc8
15. Nd4 Bc4 16. Qe3 f6 17. Bh4 e5 18. g5 Kf7 19. fxe5 dxe5 20. Nc6 e4 21. Qxe4
Be6 22. gxf6 Nxf6 23. Rhf1 Qxc6 24. Qxc6 Rxc6 25. Bxc6 Be7 26. Bd5 Bxd5 27. Rxd5
Rc8 28. Rd7 Kf8 29. Ra7 Rc6 30. Re1 Bc5 31. Rb7 h6 32. Re5 g5 33. Be1 a5 34. Bg3
Kg8 35. Rb5 Bb6 36. Re7 Nh5 37. Be5 Nf4 38. Rd7 Re6 39. Rd6 Be3+ 40. Kd1 Kf7 41.
Rb7+ 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.29"]
[Round "3.21"]
[White "Kavutskiy, Kostya"]
[Black "Senel, Hayri Beyhun"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2354"]
[BlackElo "2213"]
[ECO "A07"]
[Opening "Reti"]
[Variation "King's Indian attack (Barcza system)"]
[WhiteFideId "2026384"]
[BlackFideId "26314690"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 e6 4. c4 Nbd7 5. b3 Be7 6. Bb2 O-O 7. O-O Re8 8. Nc3
b6 9. d4 Bb7 10. Rc1 a6 11. Ne1 Bd6 12. Nd3 Ne4 13. c5 bxc5 14. Nxe4 dxe4 15.
dxc5 Be7 16. c6 Bxc6 17. Rxc6 exd3 18. Qxd3 Bf6 19. Bxf6 Nxf6 20. Qxd8 Rexd8 21.
Rxc7 Nd5 22. Rc5 Rac8 23. Rxc8 Rxc8 24. Bxd5 exd5 25. Rd1 Rd8 26. Rd4 Kf8 27. e4
Ke7 28. exd5 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.30"]
[Round "4.1"]
[White "Xu, Xiangyu"]
[Black "Delgerdalai, Bayarjavkhlan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2601"]
[BlackElo "2376"]
[ECO "D02"]
[Opening "Queen's pawn game"]
[WhiteFideId "8608288"]
[BlackFideId "23727276"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. g3 e6 4. Bg2 b5 5. a4 b4 6. c4 bxc3 7. Nxc3 Be7 8. Bf4
Nh5 9. Bd2 O-O 10. O-O Nf6 11. Ne5 Nfd7 12. Nd3 Nc6 13. e3 Nb4 14. Nxb4 Bxb4 15.
Na2 Bd6 16. b4 Qe7 17. Qb3 Rb8 18. Rfc1 Nb6 19. Be1 Bd7 20. b5 a6 21. bxa6 Nxa4
22. Qc2 Ra8 23. Bf1 c5 24. Nc3 Nxc3 25. dxc5 Bxc5 26. Bxc3 Rfc8 27. Qd1 Ba3 28.
Rc2 Rxc3 29. Rxc3 Bb2 30. Rc7 Qd6 31. Rxd7 Qxd7 32. Rb1 Be5 33. Rb7 Qc6 34. Qh5
Bc7 35. Qh4 Bd6 36. Bb5 Qc5 37. Qa4 Ra7 38. Bf1 Kf8 39. Qd7 Bc7 40. Rb8+ Bxb8
41. Qd8# 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.30"]
[Round "4.2"]
[White "Xie, Kaifan"]
[Black "Zhalmakhanov, Ramazan"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2426"]
[BlackElo "2454"]
[ECO "D38"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "Ragozin variation"]
[WhiteFideId "8619107"]
[BlackFideId "13706357"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Bb4 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bxf6 Qxf6 7. e3 c5 8. cxd5
exd5 9. Be2 O-O 10. O-O Be6 11. dxc5 Bxc3 12. bxc3 Nd7 13. Qd4 Rfc8 14. Rab1 Rc7
15. Qxf6 Nxf6 16. Nd4 Ne4 17. Rfc1 Nxc5 18. c4 dxc4 19. Bxc4 Bxc4 20. Rxc4 b6
21. Rbc1 Rac8 22. Nb5 Rd7 23. Nd4 Rdc7 24. Nb5 Rd7 25. Nd4 Rdc7 26. Nb5 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.30"]
[Round "4.3"]
[White "Jain, Kashish Manoj"]
[Black "Demchenko, Anton"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2396"]
[BlackElo "2631"]
[ECO "C50"]
[Opening "King's pawn game"]
[WhiteFideId "35081098"]
[BlackFideId "4160258"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 d6 4. d4 exd4 5. Nxd4 Nf6 6. O-O Be7 7. Re1 O-O 8.
Nc3 Ne5 9. Bf1 Re8 10. h3 Bf8 11. f4 Ng6 12. f5 Ne5 13. Bg5 c6 14. Kh1 h6 15.
Bf4 Qb6 16. a3 Bd7 17. Nf3 Rad8 18. Be3 Qa5 19. Nxe5 Qxe5 20. Bd4 Qf4 21. Bd3 d5
22. Rf1 Qd6 23. exd5 cxd5 24. Nb5 Qg3 25. Qf3 Qh4 26. Qf4 Qxf4 27. Rxf4 Ne4 28.
Nc7 Ng3+ 29. Kg1 Ne2+ 30. Bxe2 Rxe2 31. Nxd5 Rxc2 32. Nb4 Rc4 33. Raf1 Rxd4 34.
Rxd4 Bc5 35. Rf4 Ba4 0-1

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.30"]
[Round "4.4"]
[White "Meshkovs, Nikita"]
[Black "Sidhant, Mohapatra"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2561"]
[BlackElo "2388"]
[ECO "A11"]
[Opening "English"]
[Variation "Caro-Kann defensive system"]
[WhiteFideId "11602740"]
[BlackFideId "5028698"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. c4 c6 2. Nf3 d5 3. e3 Nf6 4. Nc3 e6 5. b3 Bd6 6. Bb2 O-O 7. Be2 e5 8. cxd5
cxd5 9. Nb5 Nc6 10. Nxd6 Qxd6 11. d4 e4 12. Ne5 Nb4 13. a3 Na6 14. O-O Bf5 15.
b4 Rfc8 16. b5 Nc7 17. a4 Nd7 18. Ba3 Qe6 19. Nxd7 Qxd7 20. Qb3 Bg4 21. Bxg4
Qxg4 22. Rfc1 Qd7 23. Rc5 Rd8 24. Rac1 Ne6 25. R5c3 Rac8 26. h3 Rxc3 27. Rxc3 h6
28. a5 Nc7 29. Rc5 Ne6 30. Rc1 Nc7 31. b6 axb6 32. Qxb6 Ne6 33. Rb1 Qa4 34. Qb4
Qxb4 35. Rxb4 Rd7 36. Rb6 Nd8 37. Kf1 f6 38. Ke2 Kf7 39. Kd2 h5 40. Bc5 Ne6 41.
Bd6 Nd8 42. Bh2 Nc6 43. Rb5 Ke6 44. a6 Kf7 45. Ke2 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.30"]
[Round "4.5"]
[White "Dixit, Nikhil"]
[Black "Dai, Changren"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2392"]
[BlackElo "2551"]
[ECO "B42"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Kan, Polugaievsky variation"]
[WhiteFideId "5059534"]
[BlackFideId "8608156"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. Bd3 Bc5 6. Nb3 Ba7 7. O-O Ne7 8. Qe2
Nbc6 9. Be3 O-O 10. N1d2 d5 11. Bxa7 Rxa7 12. c3 Ng6 13. exd5 Qxd5 14. Bxg6 hxg6
15. Rad1 Qe5 16. Qc4 Qc7 17. Nf3 b5 18. Qh4 f6 19. Nc5 e5 20. b4 Ne7 21. Qe4 Bb7
22. Qc2 Bd5 23. Nh4 Bf7 24. Rd7 Qxc5 25. bxc5 Rxd7 26. Rd1 Rc7 27. c6 g5 28. Nf5
Nxf5 29. Qxf5 Rxc6 30. Qd7 Rxc3 31. h3 Ra3 32. Qb7 Rxa2 33. Rd7 Ra4 34. Kh2 b4
35. f3 a5 36. Rxf7 Rxf7 37. Qc8+ Rf8 38. Qc4+ Kh8 39. Qc5 Rg8 40. Qc4 Ra3 41. h4
Rc3 42. Qg4 Rgc8 43. hxg5 R3c7 44. g6 Kg8 45. Qe6+ Kf8 46. Qd6+ Re7 47. Qa6 Rb8
48. Qd6 Re8 49. Qb6 f5 50. Qxa5 b3 51. Qb4 e4 52. fxe4 fxe4 53. Qxb3 e3 54. Qb4
e2 55. Qf4+ Kg8 56. Qh4 Re5 57. Qh7+ Kf8 58. Qh8+ Ke7 59. Qxg7+ Kd6 60. Qf6+ Kd7
61. Qf7+ R8e7 62. Qf3 e1=Q 63. Qb7+ Ke6 64. Qc6+ Kf5 65. Qf3+ Kg5 0-1

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.30"]
[Round "4.6"]
[White "Li, Di"]
[Black "Vestby-Ellingsen, Mads"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2549"]
[BlackElo "2385"]
[ECO "D52"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[WhiteFideId "8607508"]
[BlackFideId "1520857"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. d4 Nf6 3. c4 e6 4. Nc3 c6 5. Bg5 Nbd7 6. e3 Be7 7. Qc2 O-O 8. a3 b6
9. cxd5 exd5 10. Bd3 Bb7 11. O-O Re8 12. Rfe1 a6 13. Rad1 c5 14. Bf5 c4 15. Ne5
Nf8 16. f4 b5 17. g3 g6 18. Bxf6 Bxf6 19. Bg4 Bg7 20. h4 Qd6 21. h5 Rad8 22.
hxg6 hxg6 23. Rd2 Qb6 24. Rh2 a5 25. b4 axb4 26. axb4 Ra8 27. Bf3 Red8 28. Qg2
Ra3 29. Bxd5 Bxd5 30. Nxd5 Qd6 31. e4 Ne6 32. Kh1 Nxd4 33. Qb2 Nf3 34. Qxa3 Nxe1
35. Re2 Nd3 36. Nxd3 cxd3 37. Qxd3 Qe6 38. Kg2 Kh8 39. Qxb5 f5 40. Qb6 Qxb6 41.
Nxb6 Rd4 42. exf5 gxf5 43. Nc8 Rd5 44. Ne7 Rb5 45. Rd2 Ba1 46. Rd5 Rxd5 47. Nxd5
Kg7 48. b5 Kf7 49. b6 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.30"]
[Round "4.7"]
[White "Yang, Zilong"]
[Black "Raczek, Krzysztof"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "FM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2386"]
[BlackElo "2489"]
[ECO "B15"]
[Opening "Caro-Kann"]
[Variation "Tartakower (Nimzovich) variation"]
[WhiteFideId "8641528"]
[BlackFideId "21005303"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6 5. Nxf6+ exf6 6. c3 Bd6 7. Bd3 O-O 8.
Qc2 Re8+ 9. Ne2 h5 10. Be3 Nd7 11. O-O-O b5 12. d5 c5 13. Bxb5 Rb8 14. c4 a6 15.
Ba4 Re5 16. Nc3 Nb6 17. Bb3 a5 18. a3 Bf5 19. Qd2 Nxd5 20. Nxd5 Rxb3 21. Nc3 Rb6
22. Nb5 Re4 23. b3 Qe8 24. a4 Qe5 25. Qb2 Rxe3 26. Qxe5 Rxe5 27. Rxd6 Rxd6 28.
Nxd6 Bd7 29. Rd1 Bc6 30. f3 g5 31. h3 Kg7 32. Kd2 Re6 33. Nf5+ Kg6 34. Ne3 f5
35. Nd5 f4 36. Nc7 Re7 37. Nd5 Re6 38. Nc7 Re7 39. Nd5 Re6 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.30"]
[Round "4.8"]
[White "Bhagat Kush"]
[Black "Sengupta, Deep"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "FM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2381"]
[BlackElo "2479"]
[ECO "B40"]
[Opening "Sicilian defence"]
[WhiteFideId "46672940"]
[BlackFideId "5008352"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. c3 d5 4. exd5 Qxd5 5. d4 Nf6 6. Na3 Nc6 7. Be3 cxd4 8. Nb5
Qd8 9. Nbxd4 Nxd4 10. Bxd4 Be7 11. Be2 O-O 12. O-O b6 13. a4 Bb7 14. a5 Bc5 15.
a6 Be4 16. Qa4 Bxd4 17. Nxd4 e5 18. Nf3 Qc7 19. Rfe1 Rad8 20. Bd1 Bxf3 21. Bxf3
Rd2 22. Qb5 Re8 23. Rad1 Rxd1 24. Rxd1 e4 25. Be2 g6 26. Qc4 Qe5 27. Qd4 Qf5 28.
h3 h5 29. Qd6 Kg7 30. Qc7 e3 31. fxe3 Qg5 32. Bf3 Qxe3+ 33. Kh1 g5 34. Qxa7 g4
35. Bc6 Re7 36. Qb8 g3 37. Rf1 Qf2 38. Bb5 Re1 39. Qxg3+ Qxg3 40. a7 Ne4 41.
a8=Q Nf2+ 42. Kg1 Nxh3+ 43. Kh1 Nf2+ 44. Kg1 Ng4 0-1

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.30"]
[Round "4.9"]
[White "Dotzer, Lukas"]
[Black "Fecker, Noah"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2478"]
[BlackElo "2365"]
[ECO "B12"]
[Opening "Caro-Kann"]
[Variation "advance variation"]
[WhiteFideId "1666975"]
[BlackFideId "1334263"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. h4 h5 5. c4 e6 6. Nc3 dxc4 7. Bxc4 Nd7 8. Nge2
Be7 9. g3 a5 10. Nf4 Bg4 11. Be2 Bxe2 12. Qxe2 Nh6 13. Nxh5 Nf5 14. Be3 g6 15.
Nf4 g5 16. Nh5 gxh4 17. g4 Nxe3 18. fxe3 Bb4 19. O-O Bxc3 20. bxc3 Qg5 21. Kh1
Rg8 22. Rab1 O-O-O 23. Rxf7 Qxg4 24. Qxg4 Rxg4 25. Nf6 Nxf6 26. exf6 b5 27. Rg1
Rxg1+ 28. Kxg1 Rg8+ 29. Kh2 Rg4 30. Rg7 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.30"]
[Round "4.10"]
[White "Hillarp Persson, Tiger"]
[Black "Priansh, Das"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2428"]
[BlackElo "2312"]
[ECO "A34"]
[Opening "English"]
[Variation "symmetrical, three knights system"]
[WhiteFideId "1700812"]
[BlackFideId "45029946"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e4 Nb4 6. Bc4 Nd3+ 7. Ke2 Nf4+ 8.
Kf1 Ne6 9. b4 g6 10. bxc5 Bg7 11. Bxe6 Qd3+ 12. Qe2 Qxe2+ 13. Kxe2 Bxe6 14. d4
Bc4+ 15. Ke1 Nc6 16. Be3 O-O-O 17. Rd1 Nb4 18. Kd2 e5 19. d5 f5 20. a3 Na6 21.
Kc2 f4 22. Nd2 Be2 23. Nxe2 fxe3 24. Nb3 Bf8 25. f3 Nxc5 26. Nxc5 Bxc5 27. Kd3
Kd7 28. Rb1 Rb8 29. a4 a6 30. Rhc1 Rhc8 31. Nc3 Bd4 32. Nd1 Rxc1 33. Rxc1 b5 34.
Rb1 Rc8 35. axb5 axb5 36. Rb3 e2 37. Kxe2 Rc2+ 38. Kd3 Rxg2 39. Rxb5 Rxh2 40.
Ne3 Rh3 41. Rb7+ Kd8 42. Nc4 Rxf3+ 43. Kd2 Rf2+ 44. Kd3 Rf3+ 45. Kd2 Rf2+ 46.
Kd3 Rf3+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.30"]
[Round "4.11"]
[White "Miezis, Normunds"]
[Black "Gschnitzer, Adrian"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2375"]
[BlackElo "2420"]
[ECO "A35"]
[Opening "English"]
[Variation "symmetrical, four knights system"]
[WhiteFideId "11600136"]
[BlackFideId "1270337"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. c4 c5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. e3 e5 5. d4 e4 6. d5 exf3 7. dxc6 dxc6 8.
Qxd8+ Kxd8 9. gxf3 g6 10. b3 Bg7 11. Bb2 b6 12. Bg2 Bf5 13. f4 Kc7 14. O-O-O
Rad8 15. h3 a5 16. Na4 Nh5 17. Nc3 Nf6 18. Na4 Nh5 19. Nc3 Nf6 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.30"]
[Round "4.12"]
[White "Daakshin, Arun"]
[Black "Sai, Krishna G V"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "FM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2274"]
[BlackElo "2415"]
[ECO "E71"]
[Opening "King's Indian"]
[Variation "Makagonov system (5.h3)"]
[WhiteFideId "366195016"]
[BlackFideId "5028280"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. h3 O-O 6. Be3 Nc6 7. d5 Ne5 8. f4 Ned7
9. Nge2 Nb6 10. Ng3 e6 11. a4 a5 12. Be2 e5 13. f5 Nbd7 14. h4 h6 15. Qc2 Nc5
16. O-O-O Ra6 17. Nf1 h5 18. g4 Nxg4 19. Bxg4 hxg4 20. Ng3 Rb6 21. Qe2 Rb4 22.
Bg5 f6 23. Be3 Nxe4 24. Ngxe4 gxf5 25. Nf2 f4 26. Nxg4 Bxg4 27. Qxg4 f5 28. Qh5
fxe3 29. Rdg1 Rf7 30. Rg5 Rxc4 31. Rhg1 Qf6 32. Kb1 Rb4 33. Ka1 Kf8 34. Rf1 f4
35. Rg6 Qf5 36. Qh7 Qc2 0-1

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.30"]
[Round "4.13"]
[White "Hammer, Jon Ludvig"]
[Black "Hari, Madhavan N B"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2606"]
[BlackElo "2363"]
[ECO "C01"]
[Opening "French"]
[Variation "exchange variation"]
[WhiteFideId "1503707"]
[BlackFideId "25054309"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 exd5 4. Nf3 Bd6 5. c4 Nf6 6. c5 Be7 7. Bd3 O-O 8. O-O
b6 9. Be3 Bg4 10. cxb6 axb6 11. h3 Bxf3 12. Qxf3 c5 13. Nc3 cxd4 14. Bxd4 Nc6
15. Nb5 Nxd4 16. Nxd4 Bc5 17. Nc2 Re8 18. b4 Bd6 19. a3 Be5 20. Rad1 Qc7 21.
Rfe1 g6 22. Re2 Kg7 23. Rde1 Bh2+ 24. Kf1 Rxe2 25. Rxe2 Be5 26. g3 Bb2 27. Kg2
Bxa3 28. Bxg6 hxg6 29. Nxa3 Ne4 30. Qd3 Nc3 31. Qd4+ f6 32. Re6 Qf7 33. Rc6 Rxa3
34. Qxb6 Na4 35. Qb8 Rc3 36. Ra6 Rc7 37. Ra8 g5 38. Qh8+ Kg6 39. g4 Qh7 40. Rg8+
Rg7 41. Rxg7+ Qxg7 42. Qh5# 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.30"]
[Round "4.14"]
[White "Sarenac, Ivan"]
[Black "Heberla, Bartlomiej"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2365"]
[BlackElo "2508"]
[ECO "C15"]
[Opening "French"]
[Variation "Winawer (Nimzovich) variation"]
[WhiteFideId "938165"]
[BlackFideId "1115120"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. exd5 exd5 5. Qf3 Nc6 6. Bb5 Ne7 7. Ne2 O-O 8.
Bd3 Qd7 9. O-O Qg4 10. Nxd5 Qxf3 11. Nxe7+ Bxe7 12. gxf3 Nb4 13. Nf4 Nxd3 14.
Nxd3 Bf5 15. Rd1 Rfd8 16. Be3 Rd6 17. Kf1 Re8 18. c3 Rf6 19. Ne5 Be6 20. Ke2 Rf5
21. b3 Rh5 22. Rh1 Bd6 23. Rag1 f6 24. Nd3 Rxh2 25. Rxh2 Bxh2 26. Rh1 Bd6 27. c4
c6 28. Kd2 Bf5 29. Kc3 g5 30. a4 a5 31. Nc5 Re7 32. Nd3 Kg7 33. c5 Bc7 34. Nb2
Kg6 35. Nc4 h5 36. b4 axb4+ 37. Kxb4 Be6 38. Nd6 Bd5 39. Rh3 h4 40. Nxb7 Re8 41.
Nd6 Rb8+ 42. Kc3 Rb3+ 43. Kc2 Ra3 44. Ne4 Ba5 45. Rh1 Bc4 46. Rg1 Ra2+ 47. Kb1
Re2 48. Bxg5 fxg5 49. Rxg5+ Kf7 50. Kc1 Bb3 51. Rh5 Bb4 0-1

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.30"]
[Round "4.15"]
[White "Zielonka, Adam"]
[Black "Seemann, Jakub"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "FM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2348"]
[BlackElo "2507"]
[ECO "B09"]
[Opening "Pirc"]
[Variation "Austrian attack, 6.Be3"]
[WhiteFideId "21002096"]
[BlackFideId "21874697"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 d6 2. d4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. f4 Nf6 5. Nf3 O-O 6. Be3 Nc6 7. Qd2 a6 8. a4 Nb4
9. Be2 a5 10. h3 b6 11. O-O Nh5 12. Kh2 e5 13. fxe5 dxe5 14. Nxe5 c5 15. Nf3
cxd4 16. Bxd4 Qc7+ 17. e5 Rd8 18. Nb5 Qe7 19. c3 Nc6 20. Qg5 Qxg5 21. Nxg5 Bxe5+
22. Bxe5 Nxe5 23. Nxf7 Rd2 24. Bxh5 Nxf7 25. Bf3 Rb8 26. Rad1 Rxd1 27. Rxd1 Be6
28. Re1 Bb3 29. Bd1 Bxd1 30. Rxd1 Re8 31. b4 Ra8 32. Ra1 Ne5 33. Nc7 Rd8 34. Re1
Nc4 35. Re6 Rd7 36. Na8 axb4 37. cxb4 Kf7 38. Rc6 Ra7 39. Nxb6 Nxb6 40. Rxb6
Rxa4 41. Kg3 Ra2 42. Rb7+ Kf6 43. Rxh7 Kg5 44. Rc7 Ra3+ 45. Kh2 Rb3 46. Rc4 Kf5
47. Rg4 Rb1 48. Kg3 Rf1 49. h4 Rb1 50. Rg5+ Kf6 51. b5 Rb4 52. Kh3 Rb3+ 53. Kh2
Rb4 54. g3 Rb2+ 55. Kg1 Re2 56. Kf1 Re7 57. b6 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.30"]
[Round "4.16"]
[White "Katsanis, Vasileios Dim"]
[Black "Ghasi, Ameet K"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "FM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2336"]
[BlackElo "2500"]
[ECO "E33"]
[Opening "Nimzo-Indian"]
[Variation "classical, Milner-Barry (Zurich) variation"]
[WhiteFideId "42121159"]
[BlackFideId "409200"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 Nc6 5. Nf3 d6 6. Bd2 O-O 7. a3 Bxc3 8. Bxc3
Qe7 9. e4 e5 10. d5 Nb8 11. Be2 a5 12. O-O a4 13. c5 Na6 14. Bxa6 Rxa6 15. Rac1
Bg4 16. cxd6 cxd6 17. Nxe5 dxe5 18. Bb4 Qd8 19. f3 Bd7 20. Bxf8 Kxf8 21. Qc7
Qxc7 22. Rxc7 Rb6 23. f4 Bb5 24. d6 Ke8 25. fxe5 Bxf1 26. exf6 gxf6 27. Kxf1
Rxb2 28. Re7+ Kf8 29. Rc7 Ke8 30. Re7+ Kf8 31. Rc7 Ke8 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.30"]
[Round "4.17"]
[White "Banerjee, Supratit"]
[Black "Cieslak, Patryk"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "FM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2334"]
[BlackElo "2477"]
[ECO "B51"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Canal-Sokolsky (Nimzovich-Rossolimo, Moscow) attack"]
[WhiteFideId "2410079"]
[BlackFideId "21078882"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bb5+ Nc6 4. O-O Bd7 5. Re1 a6 6. Bxc6 Bxc6 7. d4 cxd4 8.
Nxd4 Rc8 9. c4 g6 10. b3 Bg7 11. Bb2 Nf6 12. Nc3 O-O 13. Qd2 Qd7 14. Nd5 Rcd8
15. Nxc6 bxc6 16. Nxf6+ Bxf6 17. Bxf6 exf6 18. Rad1 Rfe8 19. h3 Re5 20. Qd4 Kg7
21. Re3 Qc7 22. Qd2 Qb6 23. Qc3 Qc5 24. Rf3 Qa3 25. Qd4 Qxa2 26. Qb6 Qc2 27. Re1
Qd2 28. Rfe3 Rde8 29. R1e2 Qd1+ 30. Re1 Qd2 31. R1e2 Qc1+ 32. Re1 Qa3 33. Qxc6
R8e6 34. Qb7 a5 35. Qa7 Qb4 36. Qd4 Re8 37. Rd1 R5e6 38. Ra1 Re5 39. Rd1 Rd8 40.
f4 Ree8 41. Kh2 a4 42. bxa4 Qxa4 43. Ra1 Qc6 44. Ra5 Rc8 45. Rd5 Qxc4 46. Rxd6
Qxd4 47. Rxd4 Rc2 48. e5 fxe5 49. fxe5 Re6 50. Rd7 Rf2 51. Kg3 Rf5 52. Rf3 Rexe5
53. Rxf5 Rxf5 54. Ra7 Rb5 55. h4 Rb3+ 56. Kf2 Rc3 57. g3 Kf6 58. Kg2 h6 59. Ra6+
Kg7 60. Kf2 Rb3 61. Kg2 Re3 62. Kf2 Re6 63. Ra5 Rd6 64. Kg2 Kf6 65. h5 g5 66. g4
Rd4 67. Kg3 Rd3+ 68. Kf2 Ke6 69. Kg2 Rd2+ 70. Kf3 Rd3+ 71. Kg2 Rd5 72. Ra6+ Rd6
73. Ra7 f5 74. Rh7 Ke5 75. gxf5 Kf4 76. f6 Rxf6 77. Kh3 Kf3 78. Ra7 Rf4 79. Ra3+
Kf2 80. Ra2+ Ke3 81. Ra3+ Ke2 82. Ra2+ Kd3 83. Ra3+ Kd2 84. Ra2+ Kc3 85. Ra6
Rh4+ 86. Kg3 Rxh5 87. Kg4 Rh1 88. Kf5 Kd4 89. Ra3 Rc1 90. Kg6 Rc6+ 91. Kh5 Rf6
92. Ra4+ Ke3 93. Ra3+ Kf2 94. Ra2+ Kg3 95. Ra1 Rf3 96. Ra4 Kh3 97. Rg4 Rf4 98.
Rg1 g4 99. Rh1+ Kg2 100. Rh4 Kg3 101. Rh1 Rf5+ 102. Kxh6 Kg2 103. Ra1 g3 104.
Kg6 Rb5 105. Ra2+ Kh3 106. Ra3 Kh2 107. Kf6 g2 108. Ra2 Kh1 109. Rb2 Rxb2 0-1

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.30"]
[Round "4.18"]
[White "Willow, Jonah B"]
[Black "Kueppers, Timo"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2473"]
[BlackElo "2322"]
[ECO "B40"]
[Opening "Sicilian defence"]
[WhiteFideId "438804"]
[BlackFideId "16205820"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. c3 Nf6 4. Bd3 d5 5. e5 Nfd7 6. Bc2 d4 7. O-O Nc6 8. Ba4
Qc7 9. Qe2 d3 10. Qe4 Be7 11. Re1 g5 12. Na3 a6 13. Bxc6 Qxc6 14. Qxc6 bxc6 15.
Re4 a5 16. Ne1 Ba6 17. c4 Nb6 18. Nxd3 O-O-O 19. Ne1 Rd4 20. Rxd4 cxd4 21. b3 h5
22. Nd3 g4 23. Nc2 Bb7 24. Ba3 Bg5 25. Rd1 Rd8 26. Bd6 Nd7 27. Nxd4 Nxe5 28.
Bxe5 f6 29. Nxe6 Rxd3 30. Bf4 h4 31. Bxg5 fxg5 32. Nc5 Rd4 33. d3 h3 34. Re1 Kb8
35. Re4 Rd6 36. Rxg4 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.30"]
[Round "4.19"]
[White "Otsuka, Shou"]
[Black "Bronstein, Or"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "FM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2335"]
[BlackElo "2470"]
[ECO "A13"]
[Opening "English opening"]
[WhiteFideId "7004702"]
[BlackFideId "2815770"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. c4 e6 2. g3 d5 3. Bg2 d4 4. Nf3 c5 5. O-O Ne7 6. e3 Nec6 7. exd4 cxd4 8. d3
Be7 9. Re1 Nd7 10. Na3 e5 11. Nc2 a5 12. Rb1 O-O 13. a3 a4 14. Bd2 f6 15. Bb4
Nc5 16. Bxc5 Bxc5 17. b4 axb3 18. Rxb3 Re8 19. Nd2 Bf8 20. Qb1 Ra7 21. Qb2 Qc7
22. Rb1 Kh8 23. Rb5 Nd8 24. Nb4 Bd7 25. Nd5 Qb8 26. Rb3 Ba4 27. Rb6 Qc8 28. Ne4
Bc6 29. Nb4 f5 30. Nxc6 bxc6 31. Ng5 h6 32. Qe2 g6 33. Nf3 Rae7 34. Rb8 Qe6 35.
Ra8 Qf6 36. Rbb8 Re6 37. Qb2 Bc5 38. Nd2 Rf8 39. Rc8 e4 40. dxe4 Be7 41. f4 fxe4
42. Nxe4 Qg7 43. c5 g5 44. f5 Re5 45. g4 d3 46. Kh1 d2 47. Qxd2 Rd5 48. Qe1 Qe5
49. Qg1 Rd4 50. Nd6 Kg8 51. h3 Rd3 52. Ra7 Bxd6 53. cxd6 Qxd6 54. Qf2 Re8 55.
Bf1 Qd5+ 0-1

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.30"]
[Round "4.20"]
[White "Trost, Edvin"]
[Black "Mattenberger, Matthias"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2466"]
[BlackElo "2287"]
[ECO "A05"]
[Opening "Reti"]
[Variation "King's Indian attack"]
[WhiteFideId "1729519"]
[BlackFideId "1339958"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 g6 3. c4 Bg7 4. Bg2 d5 5. cxd5 Nxd5 6. h4 Nc6 7. h5 Bg4 8. h6
Bf6 9. O-O O-O 10. Nc3 Nxc3 11. dxc3 Qc8 12. Qb3 Be6 13. Qa4 Bh3 14. Rd1 Bxg2
15. Kxg2 Ne5 16. Bf4 Nxf3 17. exf3 c6 18. Rd2 Rd8 19. Rad1 Rxd2 20. Rxd2 e5 21.
Be3 Qc7 22. Qd1 Rd8 23. Rxd8+ Bxd8 24. Bxa7 b6 25. Qd3 Kf8 26. Qa6 c5 27. c4 f5
28. a3 g5 29. b4 g4 30. fxg4 Qc6+ 31. Kg1 f4 32. gxf4 exf4 33. Bb8 f3 34. Qa7
Be7 35. Qc7 Qxh6 36. Qc8+ Kf7 37. Qf5+ Ke8 38. Qc8+ Kf7 39. Qf5+ Ke8 40. Qxf3
cxb4 41. axb4 Qc1+ 42. Kg2 Qxc4 43. b5 Qxb5 44. Qe4 Qg5 45. Qc6+ Kf7 46. Qxb6
Qxg4+ 47. Bg3 h5 48. Qb3+ Kf8 49. Qf3+ Qxf3+ 50. Kxf3 Bc5 51. Bd6+ Bxd6 52. Kg2
Bc5 53. Kh1 Bxf2 54. Kg2 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.30"]
[Round "4.21"]
[White "Bauer, Christian"]
[Black "Kavutskiy, Kostya"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2552"]
[BlackElo "2354"]
[ECO "B45"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Taimanov variation"]
[WhiteFideId "603767"]
[BlackFideId "2026384"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nc3 Nf6 6. a3 d6 7. Rg1 e5 8. Nf3
Be7 9. Bg5 Be6 10. Qd2 O-O 11. O-O-O Ne8 12. h4 a6 13. g4 Qd7 14. Nd5 Bxd5 15.
exd5 Bxg5 16. hxg5 Ne7 17. Bd3 g6 18. Be4 Rc8 19. Kb1 Rc4 20. Qe2 b5 21. Nd2 Rc5
22. Rh1 f5 23. gxf6 Nxf6 24. g5 Qg4 25. Qe3 Nfxd5 26. Qd3 Qxg5 27. Nb3 Rfc8 28.
Qh3 Nf6 29. Nxc5 dxc5 30. Qe6+ Kf8 31. Bb7 Rb8 32. Bxa6 b4 33. Bc4 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.31"]
[Round "5.1"]
[White "Demchenko, Anton"]
[Black "Xu, Xiangyu"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2631"]
[BlackElo "2601"]
[ECO "B52"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Canal-Sokolsky attack, 3...Bd7"]
[WhiteFideId "4160258"]
[BlackFideId "8608288"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bb5+ Bd7 4. c4 Nc6 5. d4 cxd4 6. Nxd4 Nf6 7. Nc3 g6 8. h3
Bg7 9. Be3 O-O 10. O-O Nxd4 11. Bxd7 Nf3+ 12. Qxf3 Nxd7 13. Rac1 Qa5 14. Qe2
Rac8 15. Nd5 Rfe8 16. b3 e6 17. Nf4 Nf6 18. Qd3 Qe5 19. Rce1 Nxe4 20. Bxa7 Nc5
21. Qf3 Qf5 22. Rd1 Ra8 23. Bxc5 dxc5 24. a4 Red8 25. g4 Qf6 26. Kg2 b6 27. Ne2
Qe7 28. Ng3 Be5 29. Qe4 Bxg3 30. Kxg3 Qc7+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.31"]
[Round "5.2"]
[White "Zhalmakhanov, Ramazan"]
[Black "Meshkovs, Nikita"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2454"]
[BlackElo "2561"]
[ECO "C95"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez"]
[Variation "closed, Breyer, Borisenko variation"]
[WhiteFideId "13706357"]
[BlackFideId "11602740"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8. c3
O-O 9. h3 Nb8 10. d4 Nbd7 11. c4 Bb7 12. Qc2 h6 13. Nc3 c6 14. a3 Rc8 15. Be3
Re8 16. Rad1 Qc7 17. cxb5 cxb5 18. Qb1 exd4 19. Bxd4 Ne5 20. Nh4 Nfd7 21. Nf5
Bf8 22. Re3 Nc5 23. Nd5 Bxd5 24. Bxd5 Ne6 25. Rc3 Qb8 26. Rg3 Nxd4 27. Nxd4 Kh8
28. b3 Qa7 29. Qb2 g6 30. Nc6 Qd7 31. f4 Rxc6 32. Bxc6 Qxc6 33. fxe5 dxe5 34.
Rc3 Bxa3 35. Rxc6 Bxb2 36. Rd7 Kg7 37. Rxa6 Rc8 38. Ra5 Rc1+ 39. Kh2 Bd4 40. h4
Bg1+ 41. Kh3 Rc3+ 42. g3 Rxb3 43. Ra1 Be3 44. Kg2 Rb2+ 45. Kh3 Rb3 46. Kg2 Rb2+
47. Kh3 Rb3 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.31"]
[Round "5.3"]
[White "Dai, Changren"]
[Black "Dotzer, Lukas"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2551"]
[BlackElo "2478"]
[ECO "E21"]
[Opening "Nimzo-Indian"]
[Variation "three knights variation"]
[WhiteFideId "8608156"]
[BlackFideId "1666975"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Nf3 O-O 5. Bg5 c5 6. Rc1 cxd4 7. Nxd4 e5 8. Nb3
h6 9. Bxf6 Qxf6 10. e3 d6 11. Be2 Nc6 12. O-O Bxc3 13. Rxc3 Rd8 14. Bf3 Be6 15.
Qd2 Rac8 16. Bd5 Bxd5 17. cxd5 Ne7 18. Rfc1 Qf5 19. Na5 Rxc3 20. Qxc3 Rc8 21.
Qd2 Rxc1+ 22. Qxc1 Qd3 23. h3 Qxd5 24. Qc7 Ng6 25. Nxb7 Kh7 26. g3 Qd1+ 27. Kg2
Qd5+ 28. Kg1 e4 29. Kg2 Qf5 30. Nxd6 Qf3+ 31. Kg1 Qd1+ 32. Kg2 Qf3+ 33. Kg1 Qd1+
34. Kg2 Ne5 35. Qc5 Qf3+ 36. Kg1 Qd1+ 37. Kg2 Qf3+ 38. Kg1 Qd1+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.31"]
[Round "5.4"]
[White "Sai, Krishna G V"]
[Black "Li, Di"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2415"]
[BlackElo "2549"]
[ECO "B15"]
[Opening "Caro-Kann"]
[Variation "Tartakower (Nimzovich) variation"]
[WhiteFideId "5028280"]
[BlackFideId "8607508"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6 5. Nxf6+ exf6 6. c3 Bd6 7. Bd3 O-O 8.
Ne2 Re8 9. O-O Nd7 10. Ng3 g6 11. Bh6 Nf8 12. Ne4 Be7 13. Re1 Ne6 14. Qd2 Bd7
15. h4 Qa5 16. Bc4 b5 17. Bxe6 Bxe6 18. Qf4 Qd8 19. g4 Kh8 20. g5 Bf5 21. gxf6
Bxf6 22. Nd6 Rxe1+ 23. Rxe1 Qc7 24. Bg5 Bxg5 25. hxg5 Kg8 26. Qe5 Be6 27. Nxf7
Qxe5 28. Nxe5 Bd5 29. b3 Re8 30. Re3 Kg7 31. c4 Bg8 32. cxb5 cxb5 33. Rc3 Rf8
34. Rc7+ Kh8 35. Ng4 Rf5 36. Rc5 a5 37. Nf6 Be6 38. Rxf5 Bxf5 39. a3 b4 40. axb4
axb4 41. Nd5 Be6 42. Nxb4 Bxb3 43. d5 Kg7 44. d6 Kf7 45. Nd3 Ke6 46. Nc5+ Kxd6
47. Nxb3 Ke5 48. Kg2 Kf4 49. Nd4 Kxg5 50. Kg3 h6 51. f4+ Kf6 52. Kg4 Ke7 53. Kf3
Kd7 54. Ke4 Kd6 55. Nf3 Ke6 56. Ne5 Kf6 57. Ng4+ Kg7 58. Ke5 h5 59. Nh2 h4 60.
Ng4 Kf7 61. Nf2 Kg7 62. Nh3 Kh6 63. Ke4 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.31"]
[Round "5.5"]
[White "Sengupta, Deep"]
[Black "Xie, Kaifan"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2479"]
[BlackElo "2426"]
[ECO "C24"]
[Opening "Bishop's opening"]
[Variation "Berlin defence"]
[WhiteFideId "5008352"]
[BlackFideId "8619107"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nf6 3. d3 c6 4. Nf3 d5 5. exd5 cxd5 6. Bb3 Bb4+ 7. c3 Bd6 8. O-O
O-O 9. Bg5 Be6 10. Nbd2 Nbd7 11. Re1 Qc7 12. c4 d4 13. Bxf6 Nxf6 14. c5 Qxc5 15.
Bxe6 fxe6 16. Qb3 Qd5 17. Nc4 Nd7 18. Ncxe5 Nxe5 19. Qxd5 exd5 20. Nxe5 Bxe5 21.
Rxe5 Rae8 22. Rae1 Rxe5 23. Rxe5 Rc8 24. g4 Rc2 25. b4 Rb2 26. a3 Rb3 27. Rxd5
Rxd3 28. a4 Ra3 29. Rxd4 Rxa4 30. Rd8+ Kf7 31. Rd7+ Kf6 32. Rxb7 a5 33. bxa5
Rxa5 34. Kg2 h5 35. h3 hxg4 36. hxg4 Ra4 37. Kg3 g5 38. Rb6+ Kf7 39. Rb5 Kg6 40.
Re5 Ra3+ 41. f3 Ra2 42. Re6+ Kf7 43. Rh6 Ra1 44. Rh2 Kf6 45. Rd2 Re1 46. Rd6+
Kf7 47. Kf2 Re5 48. Rd2 Kf6 49. Ra2 Kf7 50. Re2 Rd5 51. Ke3 Kf6 52. Ra2 Rd6 53.
Ra3 Re6+ 54. Kd4 Rd6+ 55. Ke4 Re6+ 56. Kd5 Re5+ 57. Kd4 Re6 58. Ra5 Rd6+ 59. Rd5
Re6 60. Rf5+ Kg6 61. Rf8 Re1 62. Rf5 Re6 63. Rc5 Rf6 64. Ke4 Rf4+ 65. Ke3 Rf6
66. Re5 Ra6 67. Rd5 Re6+ 68. Kd3 Rf6 69. Ke4 Rf4+ 70. Ke3 Rf6 71. Rd3 Re6+ 72.
Kd4 Kf6 73. Rc3 Rd6+ 74. Ke4 Re6+ 75. Kd5 Re5+ 76. Kd4 Re6 77. Rc8 Rd6+ 78. Ke4
Re6+ 79. Kd5 Re5+ 80. Kd4 Re6 81. Rd8 Kg6 82. Rf8 Re1 83. Rf5 Re6 84. Kd5 Re3
85. Kd4 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.31"]
[Round "5.6"]
[White "Gschnitzer, Adrian"]
[Black "Hammer, Jon Ludvig"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2420"]
[BlackElo "2606"]
[ECO "C84"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez"]
[Variation "closed defence"]
[WhiteFideId "1270337"]
[BlackFideId "1503707"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. d3 d6 7. c3 O-O 8. h3 Re8
9. Re1 Bf8 10. Nbd2 b5 11. Bc2 Bb7 12. d4 Nb8 13. a4 b4 14. a5 Nbd7 15. d5 c6
16. c4 Nh5 17. Nf1 g6 18. dxc6 Bxc6 19. Ne3 Nc5 20. Nd5 Bxd5 21. cxd5 Rb8 22.
Be3 b3 23. Bd3 Rb4 24. Ra3 Nf4 25. Bxc5 dxc5 26. Rxb3 Nxd3 27. Rxd3 c4 28. Rc3
Qxa5 29. Qe2 Qb5 30. Rc2 Kg7 31. Rec1 Kg8 32. g3 a5 33. Nh2 h5 34. Rd1 Rb8 35.
d6 Rd8 36. Rd5 Qc6 37. Nf3 f6 38. Nd2 Rxd6 39. Rxd6 Qxd6 40. Nxc4 Qe6 41. Kg2 a4
42. Qd3 Rb3 43. Qe2 Rb4 44. Qd3 Rb3 45. Qe2 Rb4 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.31"]
[Round "5.7"]
[White "Kurmann, Oliver"]
[Black "Bauer, Christian"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2409"]
[BlackElo "2552"]
[ECO "A45"]
[Opening "Queen's pawn game"]
[WhiteFideId "1308173"]
[BlackFideId "603767"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Bf4 d6 3. Nc3 Nbd7 4. Nf3 c5 5. d5 Qa5 6. a4 g6 7. Qd3 Bg7 8. Bd2
a6 9. Ra3 O-O 10. h3 Qc7 11. e4 b6 12. Be2 Bb7 13. Bf4 Nh5 14. Bh2 Bh6 15. O-O
Nf4 16. Qd1 e5 17. dxe6 fxe6 18. Bc4 Rae8 19. Bxf4 Rxf4 20. Qd3 Kh8 21. Rd1 Bf8
22. Raa1 Qc8 23. Rd2 Rf6 24. Re1 Be7 25. Re3 Bf8 26. Rd1 Qa8 27. Ree1 Be7 28.
Re3 Qc8 29. Qe2 Ref8 30. Rf1 Nb8 31. Ba2 Rf4 32. g3 R4f7 33. Nb1 Nc6 34. c3 b5
35. Nbd2 Bf6 36. h4 c4 37. axb5 axb5 38. b3 d5 39. bxc4 bxc4 40. exd5 exd5 41.
Ng5 Bxg5 42. hxg5 Qh3 43. f4 Bc8 44. Bb1 Bg4 45. Qg2 Qxg2+ 46. Kxg2 Rb8 47. Rf2
Rb2 48. Re1 Ra7 49. Nf1 Bh3+ 50. Kg1 Rb3 51. Ne3 d4 52. Nxc4 Rxc3 53. Kh2 Bg4
54. Ne5 Nxe5 55. fxe5 d3 56. Rd2 Be2 57. Bxd3 Bxd3 58. e6 Bb5 59. Rd8+ Kg7 60.
e7 Ra2+ 61. Kh3 Raa3 62. e8=Q Rxg3+ 63. Kh4 Rh3+ 64. Kg4 Rag3+ 65. Kf4 Rf3+ 66.
Kg4 Rhg3+ 67. Kh4 Bxe8 68. Rexe8 Rh3+ 69. Kg4 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.31"]
[Round "5.8"]
[White "Heberla, Bartlomiej"]
[Black "Waldhausen Gordon, Frederick"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2508"]
[BlackElo "2393"]
[ECO "D35"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "exchange, positional line"]
[WhiteFideId "1115120"]
[BlackFideId "2409143"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bg5 Be6 6. e3 Nbd7 7. Bd3 c6 8. f3
Be7 9. Nge2 Nh5 10. Bxe7 Qxe7 11. g4 Nhf6 12. Qd2 O-O-O 13. a4 Ne8 14. a5 a6 15.
Na4 h5 16. gxh5 Rxh5 17. Ng3 Rh6 18. O-O-O Nc7 19. Rhf1 Rdh8 20. Rf2 g6 21. Kb1
f5 22. Rc1 Rh4 23. Nf1 Qd6 24. Rg2 Bf7 25. f4 Kb8 26. Qe1 Rh3 27. Rgc2 Ka7 28.
Qc3 Rc8 29. Qb3 Na8 30. Nc5 Nxc5 31. Rxc5 Be6 32. R5c2 Re8 33. Rg2 Bf7 34. Rg3
Rh4 35. Qc3 Nc7 36. Rc2 Ne6 37. Qb3 Qc7 38. Qb4 Ka8 39. Rgg2 Rh3 40. Rg3 Rh4 41.
Rgg2 Rh3 42. Rc3 Qe7 43. Qxe7 Rxe7 44. Rg3 Rh6 45. b4 Ng7 46. Rc2 Ne8 47. Rcg2
Kb8 48. Nd2 Kc7 49. Re2 Kd6 50. Nf3 Ke6 51. Ne5 Nd6 52. Kc1 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.31"]
[Round "5.9"]
[White "Raczek, Krzysztof"]
[Black "Miezis, Normunds"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2489"]
[BlackElo "2375"]
[ECO "B42"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Kan, Swiss cheese variation"]
[WhiteFideId "21005303"]
[BlackFideId "11600136"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. Bd3 g6 6. O-O Bg7 7. Be3 Ne7 8. c4
Nbc6 9. Nxc6 bxc6 10. c5 O-O 11. Qc2 f5 12. f3 Rb8 13. Nc3 f4 14. Bf2 g5 15. e5
Bxe5 16. Rfe1 Bg7 17. Bxh7+ Kh8 18. Rab1 a5 19. Bd3 Nf5 20. Bxf5 Rxf5 21. Ne4
Rd5 22. b3 Kg8 23. Rbd1 a4 24. Nc3 axb3 25. axb3 Rxd1 26. Rxd1 Qf6 27. Bd4 e5
28. Ne4 Qe7 29. Bf2 Qe6 30. Nxg5 Qxb3 31. Qh7+ Kf8 32. Re1 Ba6 33. Qf5+ Kg8 34.
Qxd7 Bb5 35. Qd6 Ra8 36. Ne6 Re8 37. Nxg7 Kxg7 38. Bd4 Kf7 39. Bxe5 Re6 40. Qd7+
Re7 41. Qf5+ Ke8 42. Qxf4 Qc2 43. Qd4 Kf7 44. Qf2 Qf5 45. Bd6 Ra7 46. Qe3 Kg7
47. Qe8 Kh7 48. Be5 Qf7 49. Qh8+ Kg6 50. Re4 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.31"]
[Round "5.10"]
[White "Cieslak, Patryk"]
[Black "Yang, Zilong"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2477"]
[BlackElo "2386"]
[ECO "A33"]
[Opening "English"]
[Variation "symmetrical, Geller variation"]
[WhiteFideId "21078882"]
[BlackFideId "8641528"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. c4 c5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nc3 Nc6 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 e6 6. g3 Qb6 7. Nb3 Ne5 8. e4
Bb4 9. Qe2 d6 10. Bd2 O-O 11. Bg2 Qa6 12. Nb5 Bxd2+ 13. Nxd2 Qb6 14. f4 Nc6 15.
Qf2 Qd8 16. O-O-O a6 17. Nc3 Qc7 18. c5 dxc5 19. Qxc5 b6 20. Qe3 e5 21. Kb1 Na5
22. Rc1 Qd6 23. fxe5 Qxe5 24. Qf4 Qxf4 25. gxf4 Rd8 26. Nd5 Nxd5 27. exd5 Bb7
28. Rhd1 Bxd5 29. Ne4 Kf8 30. Rxd5 Rxd5 31. Ng5 Rad8 32. Bxd5 Rxd5 33. Rc7 h6
34. Nxf7 Rc5 35. Rd7 Nc6 36. Nh8 a5 37. Ng6+ Kg8 38. b3 Rh5 39. Rd6 Nb4 40. a3
Na6 41. Rxb6 Nc7 42. h4 Kh7 43. Nf8+ Kg8 44. Ng6 Kh7 45. Kb2 Nd5 46. Rd6 Nf6 47.
Nf8+ Kg8 48. Ng6 Kh7 49. Nf8+ Kg8 50. Ne6 Rxh4 51. Ra6 Kf7 52. f5 Ne4 53. Ra7+
Kf6 54. Nxg7 Rh2+ 55. Kc1 Nc3 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.31"]
[Round "5.11"]
[White "Delgerdalai, Bayarjavkhlan"]
[Black "Willow, Jonah B"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "FM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2376"]
[BlackElo "2473"]
[ECO "D85"]
[Opening "Gruenfeld"]
[Variation "exchange variation"]
[WhiteFideId "23727276"]
[BlackFideId "438804"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e4 Nxc3 6. bxc3 Bg7 7. Be3 c5 8.
Rc1 O-O 9. d5 Qa5 10. Qd2 f5 11. Nf3 f4 12. Bxf4 Bxc3 13. Rxc3 Rxf4 14. Bd3 Bh3
15. Ng5 Bxg2 16. Rg1 Rg4 17. f4 Nd7 18. Be2 Rxg5 19. fxg5 Bxe4 20. Re3 Qxd2+ 21.
Kxd2 Bxd5 22. Rxe7 Nb6 23. a3 Rd8 24. Kc2 Rd7 25. Rxd7 Nxd7 26. Rd1 Bc6 27. Bc4+
Kg7 28. Rd6 Nb6 29. Bd3 Kf7 30. Rf6+ Kg7 31. h4 c4 32. Be2 Nd5 33. Rf2 Ba4+ 34.
Kc1 b5 35. Bg4 Nc7 36. Rd2 Na6 37. Rd7+ Kf8 38. Rxh7 Nc5 39. Rc7 Nd3+ 40. Kd2
Ne5 41. Bd1 Bxd1 42. Kxd1 Nd3 43. Rxa7 b4 44. a4 b3 45. Kd2 Nc5 46. Kc3 Ne4+ 47.
Kb2 Nc5 48. a5 Na4+ 49. Ka3 b2 50. Rb7 c3 51. a6 c2 52. a7 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.31"]
[Round "5.12"]
[White "Bronstein, Or"]
[Black "Zielonka, Adam"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2470"]
[BlackElo "2348"]
[ECO "E17"]
[Opening "Queen's Indian"]
[Variation "Opovcensky variation"]
[WhiteFideId "2815770"]
[BlackFideId "21002096"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. g3 Bb7 5. Bg2 Be7 6. Nc3 Ne4 7. Bd2 O-O 8. d5
Nxd2 9. Nxd2 d6 10. h4 e5 11. Qc2 f5 12. O-O-O a6 13. Kb1 Qe8 14. a3 Bc8 15. Bh3
Qf7 16. e3 Nd7 17. f4 exf4 18. exf4 h5 19. Rhe1 g6 20. Nf3 Nc5 21. Bg2 Bf6 22.
Re3 Bd7 23. Ng5 Bxg5 24. hxg5 Rae8 25. Rde1 Rxe3 26. Rxe3 Re8 27. Qe2 Rxe3 28.
Qxe3 Qe8 29. Qxe8+ Bxe8 30. Kc2 Kf8 31. b4 Nb7 32. Bf1 a5 33. Kd3 axb4 34. axb4
Ke7 35. Be2 Nd8 36. Bd1 Nb7 37. Kd4 Bd7 38. Ba4 Bxa4 39. Nxa4 Ke8 40. Nc3 Kd7
41. Kd3 Nd8 42. Kc2 Kc8 43. Kb3 Kd7 44. Ka4 Kc8 45. Nb5 Kd7 46. Nd4 c5 47. bxc5
dxc5 48. Nf3 Nf7 49. Kb5 Kc7 50. Ka6 Nd6 51. Ne5 Ne4 52. Nxg6 Nxg3 53. Nh4 Kd7
54. g6 Ke7 55. d6+ 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.31"]
[Round "5.13"]
[White "Avinash, Ramesh"]
[Black "Sardana, Rishi"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2370"]
[BlackElo "2459"]
[ECO "C70"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez"]
[Variation "fianchetto defence deferred"]
[WhiteFideId "45018340"]
[BlackFideId "25004301"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 g6 5. O-O Bg7 6. c3 b5 7. Bc2 d6 8. d4 exd4
9. Nxd4 Bb7 10. a4 Nf6 11. Re1 O-O 12. Bg5 Nxd4 13. cxd4 h6 14. Bh4 Re8 15. d5
c6 16. dxc6 Bxc6 17. Nc3 b4 18. Nd5 Bxd5 19. exd5 Rxe1+ 20. Qxe1 Qb6 21. Bxf6
Bxf6 22. Rb1 b3 23. Bd3 Ra7 24. Qe8+ Kg7 25. Qc6 Qd4 26. Qc4 Qb6 27. Qc6 Qb4 28.
Qc4 Qb8 29. g3 a5 30. Qb5 Qxb5 31. Bxb5 Rc7 32. Bc6 Re7 33. Kf1 Re4 34. Rd1 Rc4
35. Rd3 Rc2 36. Rxb3 Bd4 37. Rf3 Rxb2 38. g4 Kf8 39. h3 Bc5 40. Kg2 Ke7 41. Kf1
Rd2 42. Rf4 Kf8 43. Kg2 Bd4 44. Kf1 Kg7 45. Ke1 Bc3 46. Kf1 Rd3 47. Kg2 Bd4 48.
Rf3 Rd2 49. Be8 f5 50. gxf5 g5 51. f6+ Bxf6 52. Bc6 Be5 53. Kf1 Rb2 54. Re3 Kf6
55. Re2 Rb1+ 56. Kg2 Ke7 57. Re4 h5 58. Re2 Kd8 59. Rc2 Rb3 60. Re2 Kc7 61. Be8
h4 62. Re4 Kb6 63. Rc4 Rd3 64. Bf7 Rd2 65. Kf1 Bd4 66. Ke1 Rxf2 67. Be6 Rf4 68.
Ke2 Rf2+ 69. Ke1 Rf4 70. Ke2 Be5 71. Rxf4 Bxf4 72. Kf3 Kc5 73. Kg4 Kc4 74. Kf3
Kb3 75. Bd7 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.31"]
[Round "5.14"]
[White "Falkevall, Axel"]
[Black "Hillarp Persson, Tiger"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "FM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2365"]
[BlackElo "2428"]
[ECO "D16"]
[Opening "QGD Slav"]
[Variation "Soultanbeieff variation"]
[WhiteFideId "1735560"]
[BlackFideId "1700812"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Nf3 dxc4 5. a4 e6 6. e3 c5 7. Bxc4 Nc6 8. O-O
Be7 9. Qe2 cxd4 10. Rd1 O-O 11. Nxd4 Qc7 12. Nxc6 bxc6 13. b3 a5 14. h3 Qb6 15.
e4 Ba6 16. Bf4 Bxc4 17. bxc4 Bb4 18. Na2 Rfd8 19. Nxb4 axb4 20. Rxd8+ Qxd8 21.
Be5 Qa5 22. Bb2 c5 23. Bxf6 gxf6 24. Qf3 Kg7 25. Qg3+ Kf8 26. Qd6+ Kg7 27. e5 f5
28. Qe7 Qd8 29. Qxc5 Qd2 30. Qd6 Qc3 31. Rd1 Rxa4 32. Rd3 Qc1+ 33. Kh2 Ra3 34.
Rd4 Ra1 35. Qd8 Qg1+ 36. Kg3 Ra3+ 37. Kh4 Qxf2+ 38. Kh5 Qe2+ 39. Rg4+ fxg4 40.
Qg5+ Kf8 41. Qd8+ Kg7 42. Qg5+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.31"]
[Round "5.15"]
[White "Ghasi, Ameet K"]
[Black "Priansh, Das"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2500"]
[BlackElo "2312"]
[ECO "E71"]
[Opening "King's Indian"]
[Variation "Makagonov system (5.h3)"]
[WhiteFideId "409200"]
[BlackFideId "45029946"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 g6 3. e4 d6 4. d4 Bg7 5. h3 O-O 6. Be3 Nc6 7. d5 Ne5 8. f4 Ned7
9. Nge2 e6 10. dxe6 fxe6 11. g4 b5 12. cxb5 Bb7 13. Bg2 e5 14. O-O exf4 15. Nxf4
Bh6 16. Qb3+ Rf7 17. Bd4 Bxf4 18. Rxf4 Qe7 19. Raf1 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.31"]
[Round "5.16"]
[White "Horvath, Dominik"]
[Black "Katsanis, Vasileios Dim"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2557"]
[BlackElo "2336"]
[ECO "E06"]
[Opening "Catalan"]
[Variation "closed, 5.Nf3"]
[WhiteFideId "1642561"]
[BlackFideId "42121159"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. g3 Be7 5. Bg2 O-O 6. O-O dxc4 7. Qc2 a6 8. a4
Bd7 9. Rd1 Bc6 10. Bg5 a5 11. e3 Na6 12. Qxc4 h6 13. Bxf6 Bxf6 14. Nc3 Bxf3 15.
Bxf3 c6 16. Ne2 Nb4 17. Nf4 Qb6 18. Rd2 Rad8 19. Rad1 Bg5 20. Ng2 Nd5 21. h4 Be7
22. e4 Qb4 23. Qc2 Nb6 24. b3 Rd7 25. Nf4 Rfd8 26. d5 cxd5 27. exd5 Qc5 28. Qxc5
Bxc5 29. Nd3 Bb4 30. Nxb4 axb4 31. dxe6 Rxd2 32. Rxd2 Re8 33. exf7+ Kxf7 34.
Bh5+ 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.31"]
[Round "5.17"]
[White "Schippke, Manon"]
[Black "Blomqvist, Erik"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "WIM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2337"]
[BlackElo "2490"]
[ECO "A06"]
[Opening "Reti"]
[Variation "Nimzovich-Larsen attack"]
[WhiteFideId "45100446"]
[BlackFideId "1709437"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. b3 Bf5 3. Bb2 Nf6 4. e3 e6 5. c4 Nbd7 6. Be2 h6 7. O-O c6 8. d4 Bd6
9. Ne5 Qc7 10. f4 Ne4 11. Nd2 Ndf6 12. c5 Be7 13. b4 h5 14. Nb3 g5 15. b5 Ng4
16. Nxg4 hxg4 17. Bxg4 Bxg4 18. Qxg4 Kd7 19. b6 Qb8 20. bxa7 Qg8 21. fxg5 f5 22.
Qf3 Qh7 23. Qh3 Qg6 24. Qf3 Nxg5 25. Qg3 Qh5 26. Nd2 Rxa7 27. Bc1 Bd8 28. Nf3
Ne4 29. Qg7+ Kc8 30. h3 Bf6 31. g4 Qxh3 0-1

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.31"]
[Round "5.18"]
[White "Fecker, Noah"]
[Black "Trost, Edvin"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "FM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2365"]
[BlackElo "2466"]
[ECO "C02"]
[Opening "French"]
[Variation "advance, Paulsen attack"]
[WhiteFideId "1334263"]
[BlackFideId "1729519"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Nc6 5. Nf3 Qc7 6. Be2 f6 7. Bf4 fxe5 8. dxe5
Nh6 9. O-O Nf7 10. c4 d4 11. Nbd2 Be7 12. Ne4 b6 13. Re1 Bb7 14. Nd6+ Nxd6 15.
exd6 Bxd6 16. Bxd6 Qxd6 17. Ng5 e5 18. Bd3 g6 19. Qf3 Qd7 20. Qf6 Rf8 21. Nxh7
Qxh7 22. Bxg6+ Kd7 23. Qxc6+ Bxc6 24. Bxh7 Rfe8 25. f3 a6 26. Rac1 Kd6 27. Bd3
b5 28. Kf2 Rab8 29. Rc2 bxc4 30. Bxc4 Bb5 31. b3 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.31"]
[Round "5.19"]
[White "Rozentalis, Eduardas"]
[Black "Vijayakumar, Rishi"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2461"]
[BlackElo "2280"]
[ECO "C48"]
[Opening "Four knights"]
[Variation "Rubinstein counter-gambit, Henneberger variation"]
[WhiteFideId "12800023"]
[BlackFideId "2408953"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bb5 Nd4 5. O-O c6 6. Bd3 Nxf3+ 7. Qxf3 g6 8.
Qg3 d6 9. Be2 Bg7 10. d3 O-O 11. a4 Ne8 12. a5 Nc7 13. f4 Ne6 14. Be3 exf4 15.
Bxf4 Nxf4 16. Qxf4 b5 17. Qd2 Qh4 18. g3 Bh6 19. gxh4 Bxd2 20. h5 Bh3 21. Rf3
Bg4 22. Rf2 Be6 23. Kg2 Be3 24. Rff1 Bd4 25. Bf3 b4 26. Ne2 Bg7 27. d4 Bc4 28.
Rfd1 c5 29. dxc5 dxc5 30. Rab1 Ba2 31. Ra1 Bc4 32. Rab1 Rad8 33. b3 Bxe2 34.
Bxe2 Rxd1 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.31"]
[Round "5.20"]
[White "Baenziger, Fabian"]
[Black "Kienboeck, Benjamin"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2451"]
[BlackElo "2306"]
[ECO "B13"]
[Opening "Caro-Kann"]
[Variation "exchange variation"]
[WhiteFideId "1330110"]
[BlackFideId "1649353"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. Bd3 Nc6 5. c3 Qc7 6. h3 g6 7. Ne2 Bf5 8. Bf4
Qd7 9. Bb5 Bg7 10. Nd2 a6 11. Bxc6 Qxc6 12. O-O Nh6 13. Ng3 Bd7 14. Re1 e6 15.
Qf3 f6 16. Nh5 O-O 17. Nxg7 Kxg7 18. Bxh6+ Kxh6 19. Nb3 b6 20. Nc1 Qd6 21. Nd3
Rae8 22. Re3 Kg7 23. Rae1 a5 24. h4 Re7 25. Qf4 Qc6 26. Qg3 Rfe8 27. h5 g5 28.
f4 h6 29. Rf1 Rf8 30. fxg5 hxg5 31. Rxf6 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2025.12.31"]
[Round "5.21"]
[White "Kavutskiy, Kostya"]
[Black "Sriansh Das"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2354"]
[BlackElo "2191"]
[ECO "A05"]
[Opening "Reti opening"]
[WhiteFideId "2026384"]
[BlackFideId "45030081"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. b3 d5 3. Bb2 e6 4. g3 Be7 5. Bg2 O-O 6. c4 Nbd7 7. O-O b6 8. Nc3
Bb7 9. d4 c6 10. Qd3 Rc8 11. Nd2 c5 12. cxd5 exd5 13. Rac1 cxd4 14. Qxd4 Nc5 15.
Rfd1 Qd7 16. Nf3 Rfd8 17. e3 h6 18. Ne5 Qe6 19. Ne2 Qf5 20. g4 Qh7 21. Nf4 g5
22. Nfd3 Nfe4 23. Nxc5 Nxc5 24. Nf3 Ne4 25. Nd2 Nc5 26. Nf1 Ne6 27. Qe5 Rxc1 28.
Rxc1 Bf8 29. Qf5 Qxf5 30. gxf5 Nc5 31. Rd1 Bg7 32. f6 Bh8 33. Ng3 Kh7 34. Nf5 d4
35. Rxd4 Bxf6 36. Rxd8 Bxd8 37. Bxb7 Nxb7 38. b4 Bc7 39. b5 Nd6 40. Nd4 Nc4 41.
Bc1 Kg6 42. f4 Bd6 43. Kg2 Bc5 44. fxg5 Bxd4 45. exd4 hxg5 46. Kf3 Kf5 47. h3
Nd6 48. a4 Nc4 49. Ke2 f6 50. Kd3 Nd6 51. d5 Ne4 52. a5 Ke5 53. axb6 axb6 54.
Be3 Kxd5 55. Bxb6 Nd6 56. Bd8 Nxb5 57. Bxf6 Nd6 58. Bxg5 Ke5 59. Ke3 Kf5 60. Be7
Ne4 61. h4 Nf6 62. Bxf6 Kxf6 63. Kf4 Kg6 64. Kg4 Kh7 65. Kg5 Kg7 66. h5 Kh7 67.
h6 Kh8 68. Kg6 Kg8 69. h7+ Kh8 70. Kh6 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.02"]
[Round "6.1"]
[White "Xu, Xiangyu"]
[Black "Sai, Krishna G V"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2601"]
[BlackElo "2415"]
[ECO "A45"]
[Opening "Trompovsky attack (Ruth, Opovcensky opening)"]
[WhiteFideId "8608288"]
[BlackFideId "5028280"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 d5 3. e3 c5 4. Bxf6 gxf6 5. dxc5 e6 6. Nf3 Nd7 7. c4 dxc4 8.
Bxc4 Nxc5 9. Qc2 a6 10. a4 Qa5+ 11. Nbd2 Bd7 12. O-O Rc8 13. Rfc1 Bg7 14. Bf1
O-O 15. Qb1 Qd8 16. a5 f5 17. Ra3 Bb5 18. b4 Ne4 19. Rxc8 Qxc8 20. Bxb5 Nxd2 21.
Nxd2 axb5 22. Rd3 Rd8 23. g4 Bc3 24. Nf3 Rxd3 25. Qxd3 Qc6 26. Qd8+ Kg7 27. Nd4
Bxd4 28. Qxd4+ Kg6 29. g5 Kh5 30. h3 Qf3 31. Qg7 Qxh3 32. Qxf7+ Kg4 33. Qxb7 Qh4
34. Qh1 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.02"]
[Round "6.2"]
[White "Dotzer, Lukas"]
[Black "Demchenko, Anton"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2478"]
[BlackElo "2631"]
[ECO "C41"]
[Opening "Philidor"]
[Variation "Improved Hanham variation"]
[WhiteFideId "1666975"]
[BlackFideId "4160258"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 e5 4. Nf3 Nbd7 5. Bc4 Be7 6. a4 O-O 7. O-O c6 8. Re1
h6 9. h3 Re8 10. a5 Qc7 11. Bf1 Nf8 12. d5 Bd7 13. Nd2 Reb8 14. Nc4 Ng6 15. Be3
Bf8 16. Qd3 cxd5 17. exd5 Re8 18. a6 Nf4 19. Bxf4 exf4 20. Rxe8 Nxe8 21. Na5
bxa6 22. Qxa6 Rb8 23. Nc6 Rxb2 24. Nb5 Qb6 25. Qxa7 Qxa7 26. Rxa7 Nf6 27. Bd3 g5
28. Nbd4 g4 29. Bf5 g3 30. fxg3 fxg3 31. Kf1 Bxf5 32. Nxf5 Rxc2 33. Ra8 Nxd5 34.
Nxh6+ Kh7 35. Ng4 Bg7 36. Nd8 f5 37. Ne6 fxg4 38. Ra7 Ne3+ 39. Ke1 Nxg2+ 40. Kd1
Ne3+ 41. Ke1 g2 0-1

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.02"]
[Round "6.3"]
[White "Meshkovs, Nikita"]
[Black "Bronstein, Or"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2561"]
[BlackElo "2470"]
[ECO "D78"]
[Opening "Neo-Gruenfeld, 6.O-O c6"]
[WhiteFideId "11602740"]
[BlackFideId "2815770"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. g3 g6 3. Bg2 Bg7 4. d4 Nf6 5. O-O O-O 6. c4 c6 7. a4 Be6 8. Na3 Na6
9. Ng5 Bf5 10. cxd5 cxd5 11. Qb3 Qb6 12. Qxb6 axb6 13. Bd2 h6 14. Nf3 Ne4 15.
Be1 Rfc8 16. Rd1 Bd7 17. b3 Nc3 18. Rd2 Nb4 19. Ne5 Bxe5 20. dxe5 b5 21. Nxb5
Nxb5 22. axb5 Bxb5 23. f4 e6 24. Bf3 Ra1 25. Bf2 Rxf1+ 26. Kxf1 Rc3 27. Kg2 Rxb3
28. Bc5 Bc4 29. g4 Nc6 30. Ra2 Ba6 31. h4 Rc3 32. Bf2 Rc4 33. e3 Rc3 34. Rd2 Nb4
35. h5 gxh5 36. gxh5 Rc2 37. Rxc2 Nxc2 38. e4 d4 39. Bd1 d3 40. Bb6 Bb5 41. Kf3
Bc6 42. Bc5 Kg7 43. Bxc2 dxc2 44. Ba3 Kg8 45. Ke3 Bb5 46. Bc1 Bf1 47. Kf2 Bc4
48. Ke3 Kf8 49. Ba3+ Ke8 50. Kd2 Bf1 51. Kxc2 Be2 52. f5 Bxh5 53. fxe6 Bf3 54.
exf7+ Kxf7 55. Kd3 Bg4 56. Ke3 Be6 57. Bb4 Kg6 58. Kd4 b6 59. Be1 Kg5 60. Bd2+
Kg6 61. Be1 Kf7 62. Bf2 h5 63. Kc3 b5 64. Bh4 Ba2 65. Kb4 Bc4 66. Kc5 Ke6 67.
Bf6 Be2 68. Kb4 h4 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.02"]
[Round "6.4"]
[White "Dai, Changren"]
[Black "Zhalmakhanov, Ramazan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2551"]
[BlackElo "2454"]
[ECO "D30"]
[Opening "Queen's gambit declined"]
[WhiteFideId "8608156"]
[BlackFideId "13706357"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 c5 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bg5 Be7 6. Bxe7 Nxe7 7. Nc3 Nbc6 8.
e3 c4 9. g3 O-O 10. Bg2 Bf5 11. O-O Rb8 12. Ne5 Nxe5 13. dxe5 Bd3 14. Re1 b5 15.
Qf3 Qc7 16. Qf4 Rfd8 17. Qd4 Nf5 18. Qf4 Ne7 19. Qd4 Qd7 20. Rad1 b4 21. Ne2 Nc6
22. Qc5 Nxe5 23. Nc1 Rb5 24. Qd4 Nc6 25. Qh4 Bg6 26. Ne2 Ne5 27. Nf4 Nd3 28.
Nxg6 hxg6 29. Re2 b3 30. axb3 Rxb3 31. Qd4 Qb5 32. Rdd2 Qb6 33. Qh4 Qf6 34. Qxf6
gxf6 35. Rc2 f5 36. Red2 a5 37. Kf1 a4 38. Bf3 Kg7 39. Be2 Nxb2 0-1

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.02"]
[Round "6.5"]
[White "Xie, Kaifan"]
[Black "Raczek, Krzysztof"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2426"]
[BlackElo "2489"]
[ECO "E11"]
[Opening "Bogo-Indian defence"]
[WhiteFideId "8619107"]
[BlackFideId "21005303"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Bb4+ 4. Bd2 c5 5. Bxb4 cxb4 6. e3 O-O 7. Bd3 d6 8. O-O
b6 9. Nbd2 Bb7 10. Qc2 Nbd7 11. a3 bxa3 12. Rxa3 a5 13. Ng5 h6 14. Nge4 Qe7 15.
Nxf6+ Nxf6 16. Ne4 Bxe4 17. Bxe4 Rac8 18. Rc3 Nxe4 19. Qxe4 Qd7 20. Rfc1 Qc6 21.
Qd3 Qb7 22. h3 Rc7 23. c5 bxc5 24. dxc5 dxc5 25. Rxc5 Rxc5 26. Rxc5 Qxb2 27.
Rxa5 Qc1+ 28. Qf1 Rc8 29. Qxc1 Rxc1+ 30. Kh2 Rc7 31. Ra8+ Kh7 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.02"]
[Round "6.6"]
[White "Delgerdalai, Bayarjavkhlan"]
[Black "Sengupta, Deep"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "FM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2376"]
[BlackElo "2479"]
[ECO "D31"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "semi-Slav, Abrahams variation"]
[WhiteFideId "23727276"]
[BlackFideId "5008352"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 e6 2. c4 d5 3. Nf3 c6 4. Nc3 dxc4 5. e3 b5 6. a4 Bb4 7. Bd2 a5 8. axb5
Bxc3 9. Bxc3 cxb5 10. b3 Bb7 11. bxc4 b4 12. Bb2 Nf6 13. Bd3 O-O 14. O-O Qc7 15.
Nd2 a4 16. d5 b3 17. Bxf6 gxf6 18. Qh5 f5 19. Qg5+ Kh8 20. Qf6+ Kg8 21. Qg5+ Kh8
22. Qf6+ Kg8 23. Qg5+ Kh8 24. Qf6+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.02"]
[Round "6.7"]
[White "Hammer, Jon Ludvig"]
[Black "Siva, Mahadevan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2606"]
[BlackElo "2427"]
[ECO "B62"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Richter-Rauzer, Margate (Alekhine) variation"]
[WhiteFideId "1503707"]
[BlackFideId "25043153"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Bg5 e6 7. Bb5 Bd7 8. Qd3
h6 9. Bh4 Ne5 10. Qh3 Nc6 11. O-O-O Qb6 12. Qd3 Be7 13. Nxc6 Bxc6 14. Bxc6+ bxc6
15. Bxf6 gxf6 16. f4 h5 17. Kb1 Rb8 18. b3 Qa5 19. Ne2 Kd7 20. Rhf1 Rb6 21. e5
f5 22. c4 Rhb8 23. Qc2 d5 24. Rf3 Qa3 25. cxd5 cxd5 26. Rc3 a5 27. Rc1 a4 28.
Nd4 axb3 29. Rxb3 Ke8 30. Qc3 Kf8 31. Rc2 Qa6 32. g3 Ba3 33. Qf3 Qa4 34. Rxb6
Rxb6+ 35. Nb3 Qd4 36. Rc8+ Kg7 37. Qe2 Rb4 38. Kc2 Qb2+ 39. Kd3 Qb1+ 40. Qc2 Qh1
41. Qf2 Qe4+ 42. Kd2 Rc4 43. Rxc4 dxc4 44. Nc1 Qb1 0-1

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.02"]
[Round "6.8"]
[White "Johansson, Linus"]
[Black "Horvath, Dominik"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2415"]
[BlackElo "2557"]
[ECO "E73"]
[Opening "King's Indian"]
[Variation "Semi-Averbakh system"]
[WhiteFideId "1711113"]
[BlackFideId "1642561"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Be2 O-O 6. Be3 a5 7. Nf3 Ng4 8. Bg5 h6
9. Bh4 Nf6 10. h3 a4 11. O-O c5 12. dxc5 a3 13. bxa3 g5 14. Bg3 Nh5 15. Qc2 Nxg3
16. fxg3 Qa5 17. Nb5 Bxa1 18. Rxa1 dxc5 19. h4 Ra6 20. hxg5 hxg5 21. e5 Rg6 22.
Bd3 Rg7 23. Bf5 Bxf5 24. Qxf5 g4 25. Nh4 Qd2 26. Qf4 Qxf4 27. gxf4 e6 28. g3 Nd7
29. Rd1 Nb6 30. Nd6 f6 31. Rb1 Nd7 32. exf6 Nxf6 33. Re1 Nh5 34. Kf2 Ra8 35. Re5
Rd7 36. Ne4 Rd4 37. Nxc5 Nf6 38. Rxe6 Rxc4 39. Rxf6 Rxc5 40. Rg6+ Kf7 41. Rxg4
Rxa3 42. Kg2 Rxa2+ 43. Kh3 b5 44. Rg6 Ra8 45. Rb6 Ke7 46. Ng6+ Kd7 47. Ne5+ Kc7
48. Rh6 Rd5 49. Kg4 b4 50. Kf3 b3 51. Rc6+ Kb7 52. Rc1 Rb5 53. Nc4 Rc5 54. Rc3
Kc7 55. Ke3 b2 56. Kd4 Rc6 57. Rb3 Rxc4+ 0-1

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.02"]
[Round "6.9"]
[White "Bauer, Christian"]
[Black "Gschnitzer, Adrian"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2552"]
[BlackElo "2420"]
[ECO "B92"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Najdorf, Opovcensky variation"]
[WhiteFideId "603767"]
[BlackFideId "1270337"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be2 e5 7. Nb3 Be7 8. Be3
Be6 9. Qd2 Nbd7 10. f4 Rc8 11. O-O-O b5 12. Kb1 O-O 13. a3 Qc7 14. g4 Bxg4 15.
Bxg4 Nxg4 16. Nd5 Qd8 17. Rhg1 Nxe3 18. Qxe3 Kh8 19. Qh3 g6 20. f5 Nf6 21. Nxf6
Bxf6 22. fxg6 fxg6 23. Rxg6 Rc7 24. Rh6 Qe7 25. Nc1 Rc4 26. Rf1 Qg7 27. Rf5 Rf7
28. Rfh5 Qg8 29. Qe6 Bg5 30. Rg6 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.02"]
[Round "6.10"]
[White "Li, Di"]
[Black "Kurmann, Oliver"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2549"]
[BlackElo "2409"]
[ECO "B45"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Taimanov variation"]
[WhiteFideId "8607508"]
[BlackFideId "1308173"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nc3 Bc5 6. Nb3 Bb4 7. Bd2 Nf6 8. a3
Bxc3 9. Bxc3 Nxe4 10. Qg4 Nxc3 11. Qxg7 Rf8 12. bxc3 Qh4 13. O-O-O h6 14. Qg3
Qg5+ 15. f4 Qxg3 16. hxg3 Rg8 17. Rxh6 Rxg3 18. f5 b6 19. Nd2 d5 20. Bb5 Bb7 21.
fxe6 fxe6 22. Rxe6+ Kd7 23. Rh6 Rag8 24. Ne4 R8g6 25. Rxd5+ Kc7 26. Rh8 Rxg2 27.
Nd6 Nb8 28. Nxb7 Kxb7 29. Rdd8 Na6 30. Rd7+ Nc7 31. Rhh7 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.02"]
[Round "6.11"]
[White "Chan, Kim Yew"]
[Black "Heberla, Bartlomiej"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2400"]
[BlackElo "2508"]
[ECO "E60"]
[Opening "King's Indian, 3.Nf3"]
[WhiteFideId "5717981"]
[BlackFideId "1115120"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. d4 Bg7 4. g3 O-O 5. Bg2 d6 6. Nc3 c6 7. e4 Be6 8. d5 Bg4
9. h3 Bxf3 10. Bxf3 cxd5 11. exd5 Nbd7 12. O-O Ne5 13. b3 Nxf3+ 14. Qxf3 a6 15.
a4 Qc8 16. Kg2 Nd7 17. Bd2 e5 18. Ne4 f5 19. Nxd6 Qc7 20. Bb4 e4 21. Qe3 Bxa1
22. Rxa1 b6 23. a5 bxa5 24. Ba3 Ne5 25. Qc3 Nd3 26. c5 Rad8 27. Qc4 Qg7 28. Rf1
Qe5 29. Rd1 h5 30. h4 Rd7 31. Rd2 Kh7 32. Re2 Qa1 33. c6 Ne5 34. Bb2 Qxb2 35.
Qxa6 Qc1 36. Nxe4 fxe4 37. cxd7 Nf3 0-1

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.02"]
[Round "6.12"]
[White "Makkar, Rajat"]
[Black "Ghasi, Ameet K"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2396"]
[BlackElo "2500"]
[ECO "C02"]
[Opening "French"]
[Variation "advance, Euwe variation"]
[WhiteFideId "36016810"]
[BlackFideId "409200"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Nc6 5. Nf3 Bd7 6. Be2 Rc8 7. O-O h6 8. Na3 cxd4
9. cxd4 Bxa3 10. bxa3 Nge7 11. Rb1 Na5 12. Bd2 Nec6 13. h4 O-O 14. g4 b6 15. g5
h5 16. Nh2 g6 17. Bxh5 Kg7 18. Be2 Rh8 19. h5 gxh5 20. Be3 Ne7 21. Bd3 Ng6 22.
Qf3 Rc3 23. Bxg6 Kxg6 24. Kh1 Ba4 25. Rg1 Nc4 26. Qf6+ Qxf6 27. gxf6+ Kf5 28.
Nf3 h4 29. Ng5 Be8 30. Rbe1 Rh5 31. Nh3 Rxa3 32. Rg8 Bc6 33. Reg1 Nxe5 34. Nf4
Rh6 35. R1g5+ Kxf6 36. Rxe5 Ke7 37. Nh5 Rg6 38. Bg5+ Kd6 39. Rd8+ Bd7 40. Nf6
Rxf6 41. Bxf6 Rf3 42. Bg5 Rxf2 43. Bxh4 Rxa2 44. Re3 Rd2 45. Bf6 Rf2 46. Be5+
Ke7 47. Ra8 f6 48. Bc7 Rd2 49. Bd8+ Kd6 50. Bxf6 a5 51. Ra7 Ba4 52. Rc3 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.02"]
[Round "6.13"]
[White "Blomqvist, Erik"]
[Black "Jain, Kashish Manoj"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2490"]
[BlackElo "2396"]
[ECO "D14"]
[Opening "QGD Slav"]
[Variation "exchange variation, 6.Bf4 Bf5"]
[WhiteFideId "1709437"]
[BlackFideId "35081098"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. cxd5 cxd5 4. Nc3 Nf6 5. Bf4 Nc6 6. Nf3 Bf5 7. e3 e6 8. Ne5
Nd7 9. Nxc6 bxc6 10. a3 Be7 11. Rc1 O-O 12. Be2 c5 13. dxc5 Nxc5 14. b4 Ne4 15.
Nxe4 Bxe4 16. O-O Bd6 17. Qd4 f6 18. Bxd6 Qxd6 19. f3 Bg6 20. Rc5 Rfd8 21. Rfc1
e5 22. Qg4 d4 23. Bc4+ Kh8 24. Bd5 dxe3 25. h4 e2 26. Kf2 Rab8 27. h5 Bd3 28.
Rc7 g6 29. R1c5 Bf5 30. hxg6 Bxg6 31. Qh4 Qf8 32. Kxe2 Rb6 33. Rxa7 Rbd6 34.
Rcc7 h5 35. Qxh5+ 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.02"]
[Round "6.14"]
[White "Waldhausen Gordon, Frederick"]
[Black "Cieslak, Patryk"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "FM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2393"]
[BlackElo "2477"]
[ECO "C50"]
[Opening "Giuoco Pianissimo"]
[WhiteFideId "2409143"]
[BlackFideId "21078882"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. d3 h6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be3 Bxe3 7. fxe3 d6 8. O-O
Be6 9. Bxe6 fxe6 10. Qe1 Nf6 11. Qg3 O-O 12. Rf2 Qd7 13. Raf1 Nh7 14. Qh4 Rf7
15. a3 Raf8 16. Nd2 Rxf2 17. Rxf2 Rxf2 18. Qxf2 Nf6 19. Nf3 Qe8 20. h3 Qg6 21.
Kh2 Qh5 22. Qh4 Qf7 23. Qg3 Nh5 24. Qg4 Nf6 25. Qg3 Nh5 26. Qg4 Nf6 27. Qg3 Nh5
28. Qg4 Nf6 29. Qg3 Nh5 30. Qg4 Nf6 31. Qg3 Nh5 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.02"]
[Round "6.15"]
[White "Sardana, Rishi"]
[Black "Falkevall, Axel"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2459"]
[BlackElo "2365"]
[ECO "C78"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez"]
[Variation "5.O-O"]
[WhiteFideId "25004301"]
[BlackFideId "1735560"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O b5 6. Bb3 Bc5 7. a4 Rb8 8. d3 d6
9. axb5 axb5 10. Be3 Bxe3 11. fxe3 O-O 12. Nbd2 Ne7 13. Nh4 Ng6 14. Nf5 Be6 15.
Qf3 Nd7 16. Qg3 Nc5 17. Bd5 Kh8 18. Rf3 Rb6 19. d4 Nd7 20. Raf1 Bxf5 21. Rxf5
Nf6 22. Bb3 c5 23. c3 c4 24. Bd1 Ra6 25. h4 Ra2 26. h5 Ne7 27. R5f2 Rxb2 28. h6
Ng6 29. hxg7+ Kxg7 30. Qg5 h6 31. Qxf6+ Qxf6 32. Rxf6 Rxd2 33. Bh5 Nf4 34. exf4
Kxf6 35. fxe5+ Ke7 36. exd6+ Kxd6 37. Rf6+ Kc7 38. e5 b4 39. cxb4 c3 40. b5 Rg8
41. Rc6+ Kd7 42. Bf3 c2 43. Kh2 Rb8 44. Rc4 Ke6 45. Be4 Rxd4 46. Rc6+ Kxe5 47.
Bxc2 f6 48. Rc5+ Rd5 49. Rxd5+ Kxd5 50. Bd3 Kd4 51. Be2 Ke3 52. Bc4 f5 53. Kg3
Rb6 54. Kh4 Kf2 55. g4 f4 56. g5 f3 57. gxh6 Rxh6+ 58. Kg5 Rh1 59. Kf5 Ke3 60.
Ke5 f2 61. Kd5 Rd1+ 62. Ke5 Rc1 0-1

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.02"]
[Round "6.16"]
[White "Yang, Zilong"]
[Black "Baenziger, Fabian"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "FM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2386"]
[BlackElo "2451"]
[ECO "B92"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Najdorf, Opovcensky variation"]
[WhiteFideId "8641528"]
[BlackFideId "1330110"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be2 e5 7. Nb3 Be7 8. Be3
Be6 9. Nd5 Nbd7 10. Qd3 Bxd5 11. exd5 Rc8 12. c4 O-O 13. O-O a5 14. Rad1 b6 15.
Kh1 g6 16. f4 a4 17. Nd2 exf4 18. Bxf4 Re8 19. b4 axb3 20. axb3 Bf8 21. Nf3 Nh5
22. Bg5 Be7 23. Bh6 Bf8 24. Bg5 Be7 25. Bh6 Bf8 26. Bg5 Be7 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.02"]
[Round "6.17"]
[White "Goh, Zi Han"]
[Black "Das, Sayantan"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "FM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2370"]
[BlackElo "2434"]
[ECO "E06"]
[Opening "Catalan"]
[Variation "closed, 5.Nf3"]
[WhiteFideId "5819156"]
[BlackFideId "5034426"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. g3 d5 4. Bg2 Be7 5. Nf3 O-O 6. b3 a5 7. O-O a4 8. bxa4
dxc4 9. Ne5 c5 10. dxc5 Qxd1 11. Rxd1 Bxc5 12. Bb2 Nd5 13. Bxd5 exd5 14. Rxd5 b6
15. Bd4 Na6 16. Bxc5 Nxc5 17. Nc3 Nxa4 18. Nxa4 Rxa4 19. Nd7 Bxd7 20. Rxd7 Rc8
21. Rb7 Rb4 22. Rd1 h6 23. Rdd7 c3 24. Rxf7 c2 25. Rxg7+ Kf8 26. Rbf7+ Ke8 27.
Re7+ Kf8 28. Ref7+ Ke8 29. Re7+ Kf8 30. Ref7+ Ke8 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.02"]
[Round "6.18"]
[White "Hillarp Persson, Tiger"]
[Black "Avinash, Ramesh"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2428"]
[BlackElo "2370"]
[ECO "A06"]
[Opening "Reti"]
[Variation "Nimzovich-Larsen attack"]
[WhiteFideId "1700812"]
[BlackFideId "45018340"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. b3 g6 3. Bb2 Nf6 4. c4 Bg7 5. cxd5 O-O 6. e3 Nxd5 7. Bxg7 Kxg7 8.
Qc2 Qd6 9. Nc3 Nxc3 10. Qxc3+ Qf6 11. d4 c6 12. b4 Nd7 13. Be2 Re8 14. O-O e5
15. dxe5 Nxe5 16. Nd4 b6 17. Rac1 Bb7 18. f4 Nd7 19. Bf3 Rac8 20. g4 Kg8 21. g5
Qe7 22. Rfe1 Nb8 23. Qb2 Rcd8 24. h4 h5 25. gxh6 Qf6 26. Qf2 Kh7 27. Qg3 c5 28.
bxc5 bxc5 29. Qg5 Qe7 30. Qxc5 Qxc5 31. Rxc5 Rxd4 32. Bxb7 Rxf4 33. exf4 Rxe1+
34. Kf2 Re7 35. Bf3 Kxh6 36. h5 gxh5 37. Rxh5+ Kg7 38. Rb5 Na6 39. Be2 Nc7 40.
Rb7 Nd5 41. Rxe7 Nxe7 42. Bc4 f5 43. Ke3 Kf6 44. a4 a5 45. Kd4 Ng6 46. Kc5 Nxf4
47. Kb5 Ne6 48. Kxa5 Nc5 49. Kb5 Nxa4 50. Kxa4 Ke5 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.02"]
[Round "6.19"]
[White "Banerjee, Supratit"]
[Black "Seemann, Jakub"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "FM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2334"]
[BlackElo "2507"]
[ECO "C03"]
[Opening "French"]
[Variation "Tarrasch"]
[WhiteFideId "2410079"]
[BlackFideId "21874697"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 Be7 4. Ngf3 Nf6 5. Bd3 c5 6. e5 Nfd7 7. c3 Nc6 8. O-O
a5 9. Re1 cxd4 10. cxd4 Qb6 11. h3 a4 12. Qe2 Nb4 13. Nb1 Nxd3 14. Qxd3 Qa6 15.
Qxa6 bxa6 16. Nc3 Nb6 17. b3 Bd7 18. Rb1 axb3 19. axb3 O-O 20. Ra1 Rfc8 21. Bd2
f6 22. Ra2 Rc6 23. Rea1 Bc8 24. Re1 Kf7 25. g4 Nd7 26. exf6 gxf6 27. Ne2 Rb8 28.
Nc1 Bd6 29. g5 e5 30. dxe5 Nxe5 31. Nd4 Rc7 32. Nce2 fxg5 33. Ng3 Kg6 34. Ra5
Nd3 35. Re8 Nf4 36. Rxc8 Rbxc8 37. Rxa6 Rd7 38. Nb5 Re8 39. Rxd6+ Rxd6 40. Nxd6
Rb8 41. Bxf4 gxf4 42. Ne2 Rxb3 43. Nxf4+ Kf6 44. Nxd5+ Ke5 45. Ne8 Kxd5 46. Nf6+
Ke5 47. Nxh7 Kf4 48. Kg2 Kf5 49. h4 Rb4 50. Ng5 Rxh4 51. Nf3 Rg4+ 52. Kf1 Kf4
53. Ne1 Rg8 54. Nd3+ Ke4 55. Ne1 Ra8 56. Kg2 Ra3 57. Kf1 Ra1 58. Ke2 Ra2+ 59.
Kf1 Rxf2+ 60. Kxf2 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.02"]
[Round "6.20"]
[White "Willow, Jonah B"]
[Black "Kenneskog, Theodor"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2473"]
[BlackElo "2293"]
[ECO "D33"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "Tarrasch, Prague variation"]
[WhiteFideId "438804"]
[BlackFideId "1715011"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. c4 Nf6 2. Nf3 c5 3. Nc3 e6 4. g3 d5 5. cxd5 exd5 6. d4 Nc6 7. Bg2 cxd4 8.
Nxd4 Bc5 9. Nxc6 bxc6 10. O-O O-O 11. Qc2 Bb6 12. Na4 Ba6 13. Nxb6 axb6 14. Qxc6
Bxe2 15. Re1 Bc4 16. Be3 Bxa2 17. Bxb6 Qc8 18. Qd6 Ra6 19. Qb4 Qb8 20. Bc5 Qxb4
21. Bxb4 Rb8 22. Bc3 Ra4 23. Be5 Rb6 24. Rec1 h5 25. h3 Ne4 26. Rc7 f6 27. Bc3
Nxc3 28. bxc3 Rba6 29. Re1 Ra7 30. Rxa7 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.02"]
[Round "6.21"]
[White "Velikic, Adela"]
[Black "Kavutskiy, Kostya"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "WIM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2246"]
[BlackElo "2354"]
[ECO "E71"]
[Opening "King's Indian"]
[Variation "Makagonov system (5.h3)"]
[WhiteFideId "913553"]
[BlackFideId "2026384"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. c4 g6 2. e4 Bg7 3. d4 d6 4. Nc3 Nf6 5. h3 e5 6. d5 a5 7. Be3 Na6 8. Nf3 Bd7
9. a3 b6 10. Nd2 h5 11. Be2 Bh6 12. Bxh6 Rxh6 13. Rb1 c6 14. O-O g5 15. dxc6
Bxc6 16. Nd5 Bxd5 17. cxd5 Nc5 18. Bb5+ Kf8 19. Bc6 Ra7 20. b4 Ncxe4 21. bxa5
bxa5 22. Rb2 Kg7 23. Nc4 g4 24. h4 g3 25. fxg3 Nxg3 26. Ne3 Nfe4 27. Nf5+ Nxf5
28. Rxf5 Qxh4 29. Rf3 Ng3 30. Qe1 Rg6 31. Rb1 e4 32. Rfb3 Re7 33. Qc3+ Re5 34.
Qe1 Rf5 35. Rxg3 Rxg3 36. Qxa5 Rxg2+ 0-1

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.03"]
[Round "7.1"]
[White "Zhalmakhanov, Ramazan"]
[Black "Xu, Xiangyu"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2454"]
[BlackElo "2601"]
[ECO "B52"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Canal-Sokolsky attack, 3...Bd7"]
[WhiteFideId "13706357"]
[BlackFideId "8608288"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bb5+ Bd7 4. c4 e5 5. Bxd7+ Qxd7 6. Nc3 Nc6 7. d3 Be7 8.
O-O f5 9. exf5 Qxf5 10. Nd5 Bd8 11. b4 cxb4 12. a3 Nge7 13. Nxb4 O-O 14. Be3 Bb6
15. Rb1 Bxe3 16. fxe3 e4 17. Nxc6 bxc6 18. dxe4 Qxe4 19. Qd4 Qe6 20. Qd3 Ng6 21.
Nd4 Qd7 22. Qe4 d5 23. cxd5 cxd5 24. Qd3 Ne5 25. Qb5 Rxf1+ 26. Rxf1 Qxb5 27.
Nxb5 Nc4 28. Rd1 Nxe3 29. Rd3 Nc4 30. a4 Nb2 31. Rd4 a5 32. Nc7 Rd8 33. Rxd5
Rxd5 34. Nxd5 Kf7 35. Nc3 Ke6 36. Kf2 Kd6 37. Ke3 Kc5 38. Kd2 Kb4 39. Kc2 Nxa4
40. Nd5+ Kc4 41. Ne3+ Kc5 42. h4 g6 43. Ng4 Kd6 44. h5 gxh5 45. Nf6 Ke5 46. Nxh5
Nb6 47. Kb3 Kf5 48. Ng3+ Kf4 49. Nh5+ Kg5 50. Ng3 h6 51. Kc3 Kf4 52. Nh5+ Kg4
53. Ng7 h5 54. Kd4 h4 55. Kc5 a4 56. Kb4 Nd5+ 57. Kxa4 Nf4 0-1

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.03"]
[Round "7.2"]
[White "Demchenko, Anton"]
[Black "Meshkovs, Nikita"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2631"]
[BlackElo "2561"]
[ECO "B31"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Nimzovich-Rossolimo attack (with ...g6, without ...d6)"]
[WhiteFideId "4160258"]
[BlackFideId "11602740"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 g6 4. Bxc6 dxc6 5. d3 Qc7 6. a4 e5 7. a5 Nf6 8. O-O
h6 9. Na3 Be6 10. Qe1 Nd7 11. Qc3 Rc8 12. Nc4 Bg7 13. b4 cxb4 14. Qxb4 Bxc4 15.
Qxc4 O-O 16. Be3 b5 17. axb6 axb6 18. Ra6 Ra8 19. Rfa1 Qb7 20. Qa2 Rxa6 21. Qxa6
Qc7 22. Qa7 Rc8 23. Qxc7 Rxc7 24. Ra8+ Kh7 25. g4 c5 26. c4 Rb7 27. g5 f6 28. h4
Nb8 29. Kg2 Nc6 30. Re8 Re7 31. Rc8 Re6 32. Rc7 fxg5 33. hxg5 h5 34. Kf1 Kg8 35.
Ke2 Rd6 36. Bd2 Nd8 37. Rc8 Kh7 38. Be3 Nc6 39. Re8 Rd7 40. Re6 Nb4 41. Nh4 Ra7
42. Rxg6 Ra2+ 43. Kf3 Nxd3 44. Rxb6 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.03"]
[Round "7.3"]
[White "Horvath, Dominik"]
[Black "Bronstein, Or"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2557"]
[BlackElo "2470"]
[ECO "D38"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "Ragozin variation"]
[WhiteFideId "1642561"]
[BlackFideId "2815770"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Bb4 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bh4 dxc4 7. a3 Bxc3+ 8.
bxc3 Nbd7 9. e4 g5 10. Bg3 Nxe4 11. Bxc4 b6 12. O-O Bb7 13. Re1 Nxg3 14. hxg3
O-O 15. Ne5 Nxe5 16. Rxe5 Qf6 17. Qe2 c5 18. Rf1 g4 19. dxc5 Kh8 20. Rb1 Rfd8
21. cxb6 axb6 22. Rxb6 Bc8 23. Rb3 Rd6 24. Re4 Ra5 25. Bb5 Qd8 26. Rxg4 Rd1+ 27.
Kh2 Qd5 28. Qe3 Kh7 29. Rh4 Qd2 30. Qf3 Qc1 31. Qxf7+ Kh8 32. Qf8+ Kh7 33. Bd3+
Rf5 34. Qe7+ Kh8 35. Qd8+ Kh7 36. Qc7+ Kg6 37. Bxf5+ Kf6 38. g4 exf5 39. Rb6+
Be6 40. g5+ Qxg5 41. Qf4 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.03"]
[Round "7.4"]
[White "Siva, Mahadevan"]
[Black "Bauer, Christian"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2427"]
[BlackElo "2552"]
[ECO "B32"]
[Opening "Sicilian defence"]
[WhiteFideId "25043153"]
[BlackFideId "603767"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Qb6 5. Nb3 Nf6 6. Nc3 e6 7. a3 Qc7 8. Be3
a6 9. f4 d6 10. g4 h6 11. Qf3 b5 12. O-O-O b4 13. axb4 Nxb4 14. Rd4 d5 15. exd5
Bb7 16. Rc4 Qd7 17. Nc5 Bxc5 18. Bxc5 Nbxd5 19. Bg2 Rb8 20. Rd1 Qc7 21. Qf1 Nb6
22. Bxb7 Rxb7 23. Rdd4 Nxc4 24. Rxc4 Qd7 25. Qe2 Rc7 26. Qe5 Qc6 27. b3 Rg8 28.
Bg1 Qg2 29. Rxc7 Qxg1+ 30. Kb2 Qb6 31. g5 Ng4 32. Nd5 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.03"]
[Round "7.5"]
[White "Falkevall, Axel"]
[Black "Li, Di"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "FM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2365"]
[BlackElo "2549"]
[ECO "E46"]
[Opening "Nimzo-Indian"]
[Variation "4.e3 O-O"]
[WhiteFideId "1735560"]
[BlackFideId "8607508"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. Bd2 d5 6. Nf3 Re8 7. Rc1 Bf8 8. Bd3
Nbd7 9. Qc2 a6 10. cxd5 exd5 11. g4 g6 12. g5 Nh5 13. Kf1 Nc5 14. dxc5 Bh3+ 15.
Ke1 Bg2 16. Rg1 Bxf3 17. Be2 Bxe2 18. Nxe2 Re4 19. Qd3 c6 20. f3 Rh4 21. Rg2 Qc7
22. f4 Re8 23. Kf2 Bg7 24. b3 Rh3 25. Ng3 d4 26. Rc4 dxe3+ 27. Bxe3 f5 28. gxf6
Nxf6 29. f5 Nd5 30. Bd2 Rf8 31. Qe2 Qe5 32. Qg4 Rxg3 33. Rxg3 Rxf5+ 34. Kg1 Nf6
35. Qd1 Ne4 36. Rd3 Rf2 37. Rd8+ Bf8 38. Rxf8+ Rxf8 39. Bh6 Nf2 40. Qd7 Nh3+ 41.
Kg2 Rf2+ 42. Kxh3 Qxh2+ 43. Kg4 Qh5+ 44. Kg3 Qf3+ 0-1

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.03"]
[Round "7.6"]
[White "Heberla, Bartlomiej"]
[Black "Xie, Kaifan"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2508"]
[BlackElo "2426"]
[ECO "C88"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez"]
[Variation "closed, anti-Marshall 8.a4"]
[WhiteFideId "1115120"]
[BlackFideId "8619107"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 O-O 8. a4
b4 9. d4 d6 10. dxe5 Nxe5 11. Bf4 Ng6 12. Bg3 Bb7 13. Nbd2 Nd7 14. Bd5 Bxd5 15.
exd5 Bf6 16. Nc4 Nc5 17. Qd2 Qd7 18. Qxb4 Rfb8 19. Qa3 Ne7 20. Be5 Nxd5 21. Red1
Qe6 22. Nd4 Qd7 23. Nf3 Qe6 24. Nd4 Qd7 25. Bxf6 Nxf6 26. Qf3 d5 27. Ne5 Qe8 28.
Nec6 Rb6 29. b4 Nce4 30. b5 axb5 31. axb5 Rxa1 32. Rxa1 Nd6 33. Qe3 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.03"]
[Round "7.7"]
[White "Sai, Krishna G V"]
[Black "Blomqvist, Erik"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2415"]
[BlackElo "2490"]
[ECO "C60"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez"]
[Variation "fianchetto (Smyslov/Barnes) defence"]
[WhiteFideId "5028280"]
[BlackFideId "1709437"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 g6 4. c3 Bg7 5. d4 exd4 6. cxd4 a6 7. Ba4 b5 8. Bc2
d5 9. exd5 Nce7 10. Nc3 Nf6 11. O-O O-O 12. Bg5 Qd6 13. a4 Bb7 14. axb5 axb5 15.
Nxb5 Qb6 16. Nc3 Qxb2 17. Na4 Qb5 18. Re1 Bxd5 19. Ne5 Rfe8 20. Rb1 Qa5 21. Nc5
Nc6 22. Bd2 Qa3 23. Ba4 Nxe5 24. Bxe8 Nf3+ 25. gxf3 Nxe8 26. Re3 Qa7 27. Bc3 Nd6
28. Ra1 Qb8 29. Rxa8 Qxa8 30. Qa4 Qb8 31. Ne4 Nb5 32. Bb2 c6 33. Nc3 Be6 34.
Nxb5 cxb5 35. Qb4 Bf8 36. Qc3 b4 37. Qc6 Bh3 38. Re8 Qf4 39. Qc5 Qh6 40. Qe5 Qd2
41. d5 Qd1+ 42. Qe1 Qxd5 43. Bf6 Qd7 44. Rd8 Qc7 45. Be7 b3 46. Rxf8+ Kg7 47.
Qa1+ Kh6 48. Rxf7 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.03"]
[Round "7.8"]
[White "Raczek, Krzysztof"]
[Black "Delgerdalai, Bayarjavkhlan"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2489"]
[BlackElo "2376"]
[ECO "C65"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez"]
[Variation "Berlin defence"]
[WhiteFideId "21005303"]
[BlackFideId "23727276"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. d3 Bc5 5. Ba4 O-O 6. O-O d6 7. c3 h6 8. Re1
Bb6 9. h3 Ne7 10. Nbd2 c6 11. Nf1 Ng6 12. Ng3 d5 13. exd5 Nxd5 14. d4 exd4 15.
Nxd4 Re8 16. Bd2 Bd7 17. Rxe8+ Qxe8 18. Qf1 Qf8 19. Rd1 Rd8 20. Bc2 Bc8 21. Bc1
Nf6 22. Ndf5 Be6 23. a3 Ne7 24. Nd4 Bxd4 25. cxd4 Ned5 26. Qd3 Qd6 27. Ne4 Nxe4
28. Qxe4 Nf6 29. Qh4 Bd5 30. Re1 Re8 31. Rxe8+ Nxe8 32. Bf4 Qf6 33. Qg3 Qe6 34.
Be5 Kf8 35. Kh2 a6 36. Qc3 Qe7 37. Qg3 Kg8 38. Bf4 Qf6 39. Bd3 Kf8 40. Bd2 Kg8
41. Qe5 Qd8 42. Bf4 Be6 43. Qe3 Nd6 44. Qe5 Nc4 45. Qe4 Nxb2 46. Qh7+ Kf8 47.
Be5 f6 48. Bg3 Nxd3 49. Qxd3 Kf7 50. Qb1 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.03"]
[Round "7.9"]
[White "Sengupta, Deep"]
[Black "Makkar, Rajat"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2479"]
[BlackElo "2396"]
[ECO "C45"]
[Opening "Scotch"]
[Variation "Mieses variation"]
[WhiteFideId "5008352"]
[BlackFideId "36016810"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nxc6 bxc6 6. e5 Qe7 7. Qe2 Nd5 8.
c4 Ba6 9. Nd2 Nf4 10. Qe4 Ne6 11. b3 g6 12. Bb2 Bg7 13. O-O-O O-O 14. h4 Rad8
15. h5 d5 16. Qg4 Bc8 17. f4 Nd4 18. Qg3 Nf5 19. Qf2 Nh6 20. Be2 f6 21. hxg6
fxe5 22. gxh7+ Kh8 23. Nf3 Rxf4 24. Qg3 Ng4 25. Rh5 d4 26. Nh4 Qf7 27. Rg5 Bh6
28. Ng6+ Kxh7 29. Rh1 Qf6 30. Rxh6+ Nxh6 31. Nxf4 Qxf4+ 32. Qxf4 exf4 33. Bd3+
Kh8 34. Ba3 Nf7 35. Ra5 Re8 36. Bc5 Kg8 37. Rxa7 Ne5 38. Be4 Nxc4 39. Rxc7 Ne5
40. Bh7+ Kh8 41. Bxd4 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.03"]
[Round "7.10"]
[White "Lad, Mandar Pradip"]
[Black "Dai, Changren"]
[Result "0-1"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2392"]
[BlackElo "2551"]
[ECO "B12"]
[Opening "Caro-Kann"]
[Variation "advance variation"]
[WhiteFideId "25747630"]
[BlackFideId "8608156"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Nd2 e6 5. Nb3 Nd7 6. Nf3 Ne7 7. Be2 h6 8. O-O g5
9. a4 Bg7 10. a5 Qc7 11. Bd2 c5 12. Bb5 c4 13. Nc5 Nc6 14. Nxd7 Qxd7 15. Re1 Bf8
16. h4 g4 17. Nh2 h5 18. Bg5 a6 19. Ba4 Be7 20. Bxe7 Qxe7 21. g3 O-O-O 22. Bxc6
bxc6 23. Qd2 Kd7 24. Nf1 Rb8 25. Ne3 Bg6 26. b3 cxb3 27. cxb3 Rxb3 28. Rec1 Qb4
29. Qd1 Rb8 30. Ng2 Rb2 0-1

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.03"]
[Round "7.11"]
[White "Sidhant, Mohapatra"]
[Black "Dotzer, Lukas"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2388"]
[BlackElo "2478"]
[ECO "B90"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Najdorf, Adams attack"]
[WhiteFideId "5028698"]
[BlackFideId "1666975"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. h3 e5 7. Nde2 h5 8. Bg5
Be6 9. Bxf6 Qxf6 10. Nd5 Qd8 11. Qd3 Nd7 12. O-O-O g6 13. Kb1 Nc5 14. Qf3 Bg7
15. Nec3 b5 16. Be2 Rc8 17. g4 hxg4 18. hxg4 Rxh1 19. Qxh1 Kf8 20. Ne3 Rb8 21.
Ncd5 Bd7 22. Rg1 Qg5 23. Nf5 Nxe4 24. Qxe4 Bxf5 25. Qb4 Rd8 26. Rd1 Bc8 27. Nb6
Be6 28. Rxd6 Kg8 29. Qc5 Bf8 30. Rxd8 Qxd8 31. Qe3 Qc7 32. Na8 Qc6 33. Bf3 Bd5
34. Bxd5 Qxd5 35. Nb6 Qh1+ 36. Qc1 Qc6 0-1

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.03"]
[Round "7.12"]
[White "Cieslak, Patryk"]
[Black "Vestby-Ellingsen, Mads"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2477"]
[BlackElo "2385"]
[ECO "C53"]
[Opening "Giuoco Piano"]
[WhiteFideId "21078882"]
[BlackFideId "1520857"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d3 d6 6. Bg5 h6 7. Bh4 a5 8. Nbd2
Ba7 9. Qe2 Qe7 10. Bb5 Bd7 11. Nc4 g5 12. Bg3 Nh5 13. O-O-O Nf4 14. Bxf4 exf4
15. Rde1 O-O 16. Qd2 Ne5 17. Bxd7 Nxf3 18. gxf3 Qxd7 19. h4 f6 20. hxg5 hxg5 21.
Rh2 Kg7 22. Rg1 Rh8 23. Qxf4 Rxh2 24. Qxh2 Rh8 25. Qg2 d5 26. exd5 Rh4 27. d4
Qxd5 28. Ne3 Qd7 29. f4 Rxf4 30. Qh2 Re4 31. Rg3 c5 32. Rh3 Rh4 33. Rxh4 gxh4
34. Qxh4 cxd4 35. cxd4 Kg6 36. Nc2 Qd5 37. Kd2 a4 38. Qg3+ Kf7 39. Qc7+ Kg6 40.
Qg3+ Kf7 41. Qc7+ Kg6 42. Qc3 Bb6 43. Qd3+ f5 44. b3 axb3 45. axb3 Ba5+ 46. Ke2
Bb6 47. Ne3 Qe4 48. Qxe4 fxe4 49. Nc4 Bxd4 50. Nd6 Kf6 51. Nxe4+ Ke5 52. Kd3 Ba7
53. b4 b5 54. f3 Bb6 55. Nc3 Bd8 56. Nxb5 Kf4 57. Nd4 Bb6 58. b5 Ke5 59. Ne2 Ba5
60. Kc4 Bb6 61. Nc3 Ba7 62. Nd5 Bg1 63. Nc3 Ba7 64. Ne2 Bf2 65. Nc1 Bb6 66. Nd3+
Ke6 67. Nc5+ Kf5 68. Nd7 Bc7 69. Kd5 Kf4 70. Kc6 Bd8 71. Nc5 Kxf3 72. Nb7 Bh4
73. b6 Bf2 74. Nc5 Bg3 75. b7 Bb8 76. Kb6 Be5 77. Na6 Bd4+ 78. Kc7 Ke4 79. Kc8
Ba7 80. Nb4 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.03"]
[Round "7.13"]
[White "Avinash, Ramesh"]
[Black "Willow, Jonah B"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2370"]
[BlackElo "2473"]
[ECO "C18"]
[Opening "French"]
[Variation "Winawer, advance variation"]
[WhiteFideId "45018340"]
[BlackFideId "438804"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Nc6 7. Qg4 g6 8. Qf4
h6 9. h4 Bd7 10. dxc5 Qc7 11. Nf3 O-O-O 12. Bd3 f6 13. Bxg6 fxe5 14. Qh2 Nge7
15. h5 Nxg6 16. hxg6 Rdg8 17. Qg3 Be8 18. Nh4 Ne7 19. g7 Rh7 20. Nf3 Nc6 21.
Rxh6 Rhxg7 22. Qh3 Rxg2 23. Qxe6+ Bd7 24. Qxd5 e4 25. Bg5 R8xg5 26. Nxg5 Rg1+
27. Ke2 Bg4+ 28. f3 exf3+ 29. Ke3 Rxa1 30. Rh8+ Nd8 31. Nf7 Re1+ 32. Kf2 Re2+
33. Kf1 Bh3+ 34. Rxh3 Qxf7 35. Qd3 Qd7 36. Rxf3 Qxd3 37. cxd3 Ra2 38. d4 Rxa3
39. Ke2 Ra1 40. Kd3 Rh1 41. Kc4 Kd7 42. Rf2 Kc7 43. Ra2 a6 44. Rg2 Rh7 45. Rf2
Nc6 46. Rf4 Rg7 47. Rf5 Ne7 48. Re5 Rf7 49. Re4 Kd7 50. Rg4 Nf5 51. Kd3 Rg7 52.
Rxg7+ Nxg7 53. d5 Ne8 54. Kd4 Nf6 55. Kc4 Kc7 56. Kd4 a5 57. Kc4 a4 58. Kb4
Nxd5+ 59. Kxa4 Kc6 0-1

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.03"]
[Round "7.14"]
[White "Rozentalis, Eduardas"]
[Black "Waldhausen Gordon, Frederick"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2461"]
[BlackElo "2393"]
[ECO "B10"]
[Opening "Caro-Kann"]
[Variation "two knights variation"]
[WhiteFideId "12800023"]
[BlackFideId "2409143"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c6 2. Nc3 d5 3. Nf3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6 5. d3 Nxe4 6. dxe4 Qxd1+ 7. Kxd1 f6
8. Be3 e5 9. Nd2 Be6 10. Bc4 Kf7 11. Ke2 Nd7 12. Bxe6+ Kxe6 13. Nb3 Bd6 14. Rhd1
Bc7 15. Rd3 Rhd8 16. Rad1 b6 17. f4 Ke7 18. f5 Nf8 19. g4 Rxd3 20. cxd3 h6 21.
h4 Nd7 22. Rc1 Kd6 23. d4 Re8 24. Rd1 Ke7 25. d5 c5 26. a4 Bd6 27. Nd2 a6 28.
Nc4 b5 29. axb5 axb5 30. Nxd6 Kxd6 31. Ra1 Rb8 32. Ra6+ Rb6 33. Ra7 Rb8 34. Kd3
Rb6 35. Kc3 Rb8 36. Kc2 Rc8 37. Ra6+ Ke7 38. Bd2 Rb8 39. Ba5 Rb7 40. Bc7 Kf7 41.
Bd6 Ke8 42. h5 Kf7 43. Kb3 Ke8 44. Ra8+ Kf7 45. Rc8 Ra7 46. Rd8 Rb7 47. Ra8 Rb6
48. Bc7 Rb7 49. d6 b4 50. Kc4 b3 51. Ba5 Rb8 52. Rxb8 Nxb8 53. Kxb3 Nc6 54. Bb6
Ke8 55. Bxc5 Kd7 56. Kc3 Nd8 57. Kc4 Nb7 58. b4 Kc6 59. b5+ Kd7 60. Kd5 Nd8 61.
Bb6 Nb7 62. Bc7 Kc8 63. Kc6 Nd8+ 64. Bxd8 Kxd8 65. b6 Kc8 66. Kc5 g5 67. hxg6 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.03"]
[Round "7.15"]
[White "Baenziger, Fabian"]
[Black "Miezis, Normunds"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2451"]
[BlackElo "2375"]
[ECO "B42"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Kan, 5.Bd3"]
[WhiteFideId "1330110"]
[BlackFideId "11600136"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. Bd3 Ne7 6. O-O Nbc6 7. Be3 Nxd4 8.
Bxd4 Nc6 9. Bc3 b5 10. a3 Bb7 11. Nd2 Qc7 12. f4 b4 13. axb4 Nxb4 14. Kh1 Bc6
15. Qh5 Qb7 16. f5 Nxd3 17. cxd3 Bb5 18. Nf3 e5 19. Nxe5 d6 20. Nc4 O-O-O 21.
Ba5 Re8 22. Rfc1 Kb8 23. Qf3 Rc8 24. Nb6 Rc5 25. Qf4 Rc6 26. Rxc6 Bxc6 27. Nc4
Be7 28. Bc3 f6 29. Na5 Qd7 30. Qg3 Rg8 31. Nxc6+ Qxc6 32. Ra5 Ka8 33. Qf3 Rb8
34. g3 Rb7 35. Kg2 Bd8 36. Ra1 Qb5 37. Qd1 Kb8 38. Ra4 Bb6 39. Rb4 Qc5 40. Qe1
Qc6 41. Qa1 a5 42. Qa4 Qc5 43. d4 Qc7 44. Rb5 g6 45. Rd5 g5 46. Rb5 g4 47. Qb3
h5 48. Qg8+ Ka7 49. Qd5 Rb8 50. Kf1 Ka6 51. Rb3 Rc8 52. Qb5+ Ka7 53. Ke2 h4 54.
Ra3 hxg3 55. hxg3 Rh8 56. Bxa5 Kb7 57. Rc3 Rh2+ 58. Kd3 Qd8 59. Qc6+ 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.03"]
[Round "7.16"]
[White "Das, Sayantan"]
[Black "Yang, Zilong"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2434"]
[BlackElo "2386"]
[ECO "B48"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Taimanov variation"]
[WhiteFideId "5034426"]
[BlackFideId "8641528"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nc3 Qc7 6. Be3 a6 7. Bd3 Nf6 8. Qe2
Be7 9. O-O-O Ne5 10. f4 Nxd3+ 11. Rxd3 d6 12. Rf1 O-O 13. Kb1 Re8 14. Bc1 Nd7
15. f5 Ne5 16. Rh3 g6 17. f6 Bf8 18. Rf4 Qd8 19. Qf2 h5 20. Rfh4 Ng4 21. Rxg4
hxg4 22. Rh4 e5 23. Bh6 g3 24. hxg3 g5 25. Bxg5 exd4 26. Qf3 Bg7 27. Qh5 Bxf6
28. Nd5 Rxe4 29. Qh7+ Kf8 30. Rxe4 Be6 31. Bxf6 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.03"]
[Round "7.17"]
[White "Pranav K P"]
[Black "Hillarp Persson, Tiger"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "FM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2369"]
[BlackElo "2428"]
[ECO "D45"]
[Opening "QGD semi-Slav"]
[Variation "Stoltz variation"]
[WhiteFideId "25685805"]
[BlackFideId "1700812"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 c6 5. e3 Nbd7 6. Qc2 b6 7. cxd5 cxd5 8. Nb5
Bb4+ 9. Bd2 Bxd2+ 10. Nxd2 O-O 11. Bd3 a6 12. Nd6 b5 13. e4 Qb6 14. e5 Qxd4 15.
exf6 Qe5+ 16. N6e4 dxe4 17. Bxe4 Bb7 18. O-O Bxe4 19. Qxe4 Qxf6 20. b4 Qc3 21.
Nb3 Nf6 22. Qd4 Qxd4 23. Nxd4 Nd5 24. a4 bxa4 25. Rxa4 Rfc8 26. Rfa1 Rab8 27.
Rxa6 Nxb4 28. Ra7 h6 29. g3 Rd8 30. Nf3 Nd3 31. Rd1 Rd5 32. Ra3 Rbd8 33. Ne1 Nc5
34. Rda1 g5 35. Ra8 Kg7 36. Rxd8 Rxd8 37. Nf3 Kf6 38. h3 Rd5 39. Ra7 e5 40. Rc7
Ne6 41. Rc4 h5 42. Kf1 Ke7 43. Ra4 Kf6 44. Rb4 Kf5 45. g4+ Kg6 46. Rb6 e4 47.
Ne1 h4 48. Ke2 Kf6 49. Ke3 Ke5 50. Rb4 Nd4 51. f3 f5 52. fxe4 fxe4 53. Rc4 Rb5
54. Nd3+ exd3 55. Rxd4 Rb2 56. Re4+ Kf6 57. Kxd3 Rb3+ 58. Ke2 Rxh3 59. Kf2 Rg3
60. Ra4 Rd3 61. Re4 Rd2+ 62. Kf3 Rd6 63. Re8 Rd4 64. Rf8+ Kg7 65. Rf5 Kg6 66.
Rf8 Rd3+ 67. Ke4 Rd7 68. Ra8 Rf7 69. Rg8+ Kh6 70. Rh8+ Kg7 71. Ra8 Rf4+ 72. Ke5
Rxg4 73. Kf5 Rg2 74. Ra3 Kh6 75. Ra8 Rf2+ 76. Kg4 Rf4+ 77. Kh3 Kg6 78. Rb8 Rf3+
79. Kg2 Ra3 80. Rb4 Re3 81. Kf2 Re5 82. Ra4 Kf5 83. Kf3 Rb5 84. Ra2 g4+ 85. Kg2
Re5 86. Rf2+ Kg5 87. Ra2 Re3 88. Rf2 h3+ 89. Kg1 g3 90. Rf1 Kg4 91. Ra1 Kf3 92.
Rf1+ Ke4 93. Ra1 Rd3 94. Re1+ Kf3 95. Kh1 Kf2 96. Rg1 Ke2 97. Rb1 Rd1+ 98. Rxd1
Kxd1 99. Kg1 Ke2 100. Kh1 g2+ 101. Kg1 Ke1 102. Kh2 Kf1 0-1

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.03"]
[Round "7.18"]
[White "Hammer, Jon Ludvig"]
[Black "Goh, Zi Han"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2606"]
[BlackElo "2370"]
[ECO "D30"]
[Opening "Queen's gambit declined"]
[WhiteFideId "1503707"]
[BlackFideId "5819156"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. g3 Bb4+ 5. Bd2 Be7 6. Bg2 O-O 7. O-O c6 8. Qc2
Nbd7 9. Bf4 b6 10. Rd1 Bb7 11. Ne5 Nh5 12. Bc1 Nhf6 13. Bf4 Nh5 14. Bc1 Nhf6 15.
cxd5 cxd5 16. Nc6 Bxc6 17. Qxc6 a6 18. Qc2 b5 19. Qd3 Nb6 20. b3 Qd7 21. Bd2 Nc8
22. Nc3 Nd6 23. f3 Nf5 24. e3 Rfc8 25. Ne2 Bd8 26. e4 dxe4 27. fxe4 Nxd4 28.
Nxd4 e5 29. Be3 exd4 30. Qxd4 Qxd4 31. Bxd4 Rab8 32. e5 Ne8 33. Bh3 Rc7 34. Rac1
Rbb7 35. Rxc7 Bxc7 36. Bd7 Rb8 37. Rc1 Ba5 38. e6 fxe6 39. Bxe6+ Kh8 40. Rc8 Bc7
41. Rxb8 Bxb8 42. Kf2 h6 43. Ke3 Kh7 44. Ke4 Kg6 45. Bf5+ Kg5 46. h4+ Kh5 47.
Kf3 g5 48. Bg4+ Kg6 49. h5+ Kf7 50. Bc8 a5 51. g4 Nf6 52. Ba6 b4 53. Bb6 Nd7 54.
Bxa5 Ne5+ 55. Ke4 Nxg4 56. Be2 Nf6+ 57. Kf5 Bd6 58. Bd8 Be7 59. Bb6 Nd7 60. Be3
Bc5 61. Bc1 Bd4 62. a4 bxa3 63. Bxa3 Kg7 64. b4 Nb6 65. Ke4 Bf6 66. b5 Na4 67.
Kd3 Nc3 68. b6 Nxe2 69. b7 Be5 70. Bb2 Bxb2 71. b8=Q Nf4+ 72. Ke4 Bf6 73. Kf5
Be7 74. Qe5+ Kf7 75. Qc7 Kf8 76. Qb7 Kf7 77. Qb3+ Kg7 78. Qc3+ Kf7 79. Qh8 Bf8
80. Qh7+ Bg7 81. Kg4 Kf8 82. Qf5+ Kg8 83. Qc8+ Kf7 84. Qc4+ Kf8 85. Kf5 Ke7 86.
Qg8 Bf8 87. Qh7+ Ke8 88. Ke5 Kd8 89. Qf7 Be7 90. Kf5 Kd7 91. Kg4 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.03"]
[Round "7.19"]
[White "Seemann, Jakub"]
[Black "Otsuka, Shou"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2507"]
[BlackElo "2335"]
[ECO "D40"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "Semi-Tarrasch defence"]
[WhiteFideId "21874697"]
[BlackFideId "7004702"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 c5 5. e3 Nc6 6. a3 dxc4 7. Bxc4 a6 8. Bd3 b5
9. dxc5 Bxc5 10. b4 Be7 11. Bb2 Bb7 12. O-O O-O 13. Qb1 h6 14. Ne4 Nd5 15. Nc5
Bxc5 16. bxc5 Qe7 17. Rc1 Rac8 18. Qc2 Rc7 19. Nd2 f5 20. Bf1 Nf6 21. a4 b4 22.
a5 Kh8 23. Nb3 Ne4 24. f3 Nf6 25. Re1 Qf7 26. Rad1 e5 27. Bc4 Qh5 28. Qf2 Re7
29. Rd2 g5 30. e4 g4 31. Rd6 Rg7 32. Be2 Qf7 33. Nd2 g3 34. hxg3 fxe4 35. fxe4
Qe7 36. Qe3 Nd4 37. Bxd4 exd4 38. Qxd4 Rxg3 39. Rf1 Kg7 40. Rfxf6 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.03"]
[Round "7.20"]
[White "Ghasi, Ameet K"]
[Black "Banerjee, Supratit"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2500"]
[BlackElo "2334"]
[ECO "E73"]
[Opening "King's Indian"]
[Variation "5.Be2"]
[WhiteFideId "409200"]
[BlackFideId "2410079"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 g6 3. e4 d6 4. d4 Bg7 5. Be2 O-O 6. h3 c5 7. Nf3 cxd4 8. Nxd4
Nc6 9. Be3 Bd7 10. O-O a6 11. Rc1 Rc8 12. Qd2 Re8 13. Rfd1 Qa5 14. Nb3 Qb4 15.
Qc2 Na5 16. Nd2 Nc6 17. a3 Qa5 18. Nb3 Qd8 19. c5 Na5 20. Nd2 dxc5 21. e5 Bf5
22. Nde4 Nd7 23. g4 Be6 24. Nxc5 Rxc5 25. Bxc5 Nb3 26. Bd4 Nxc1 27. Qxc1 Qb8 28.
f4 g5 29. fxg5 Nxe5 30. Qf4 b5 31. Kf1 Rd8 32. Bc5 Rxd1+ 33. Nxd1 Qb7 34. Nf2
Nc4 35. b3 Be5 36. Qc1 Nd6 37. Qe3 Qd5 38. Bf3 Bf4 39. Qc3 Qxb3 40. Qxb3 Bxb3
41. h4 Bg3 42. h5 Bf4 43. Nd3 Bc4 44. Be2 Bxg5 45. Nb4 Ne4 46. Bxc4 bxc4 47. Bd4
a5 48. Nc2 Nf6 49. a4 Nxg4 50. Na3 e5 51. Bc3 Ne3+ 52. Ke2 Nd5 53. Bxe5 Nb6 54.
Bd4 Nxa4 55. Nxc4 Be7 56. Nxa5 Nc5 57. Nc6 Bd6 58. Bxc5 Bxc5 59. Kf3 Kg7 60. Ne5
Bd4 61. Nxf7 Kxf7 62. h6 Kf6 63. Kg2 Kg5 64. Kh1 Kxh6 65. Kg2 Kg5 66. Kh1 h5 67.
Kg2 Kg4 68. Kh1 h4 69. Kg2 h3+ 70. Kh1 Ba1 71. Kh2 Be5+ 72. Kh1 Bh2 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.03"]
[Round "7.21"]
[White "Kavutskiy, Kostya"]
[Black "Gut, Raphael"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2354"]
[BlackElo "2140"]
[ECO "D72"]
[Opening "Neo-Gruenfeld, 5.cd, main line"]
[WhiteFideId "2026384"]
[BlackFideId "1339974"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. g3 Bg7 4. Bg2 d5 5. cxd5 Nxd5 6. e4 Nb6 7. Ne2 c5 8. d5
O-O 9. O-O e6 10. Nec3 exd5 11. exd5 Na6 12. Nd2 c4 13. Nde4 f5 14. Ng5 Nc5 15.
Nh3 Nd3 16. Nf4 Nxc1 17. Rxc1 Qd6 18. Re1 Bd7 19. Ne6 Rfe8 20. Nxg7 Rxe1+ 21.
Qxe1 Kxg7 22. Qd2 Re8 23. Re1 Rxe1+ 24. Qxe1 Qf6 25. Qe3 Nc8 26. a4 b6 27. f4 a6
28. Qe5 Nd6 29. Kf2 b5 30. axb5 axb5 31. Ke3 b4 32. Na2 c3 33. b3 Nb7 34. Kd3
Nc5+ 35. Kc4 Ne4 36. Bxe4 fxe4 37. Nxb4 Kf7 38. Qxf6+ Kxf6 39. Kxc3 g5 40. Kd4
gxf4 41. gxf4 Kf5 42. Ke3 h5 43. Nc6 h4 44. Ne5 Bb5 45. d6 Ke6 46. d7 Ke7 47.
Kxe4 Be2 48. f5 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.04"]
[Round "8.1"]
[White "Xu, Xiangyu"]
[Black "Horvath, Dominik"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2601"]
[BlackElo "2557"]
[ECO "A16"]
[Opening "English opening"]
[WhiteFideId "8608288"]
[BlackFideId "1642561"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 g6 3. g3 Bg7 4. Bg2 O-O 5. Nf3 d6 6. O-O a5 7. d3 c6 8. Bd2 d5
9. cxd5 cxd5 10. Qb3 Nc6 11. Rac1 h6 12. Na4 e5 13. Nb6 e4 14. Nxa8 exf3 15.
exf3 Bd7 16. Rxc6 Bxc6 17. Nb6 a4 18. Nxa4 Nd7 19. Bb4 Re8 20. f4 Bd4 21. Bc3
Bxc3 22. Nxc3 Nc5 23. Qc2 Ne6 24. Re1 Qa5 25. a3 Rc8 26. Re5 Qd8 27. Qd2 d4 28.
Ne4 Ba4 29. Bh3 Rc2 30. Qb4 Rc1+ 31. Kg2 Nxf4+ 32. gxf4 Bc6 33. Qd2 Qc7 34. Kg3
Rg1+ 35. Bg2 f5 36. Nf6+ Kf7 37. Nd5 Qd8 38. Kh3 g5 39. Rxf5+ Kg6 40. Qe2 Qd7
41. Qg4 Bxd5 42. Rxd5 Qxg4+ 43. Kxg4 Rxg2+ 44. Kf3 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.04"]
[Round "8.2"]
[White "Li, Di"]
[Black "Demchenko, Anton"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2549"]
[BlackElo "2631"]
[ECO "D26"]
[Opening "QGA"]
[Variation "4...e6"]
[WhiteFideId "8607508"]
[BlackFideId "4160258"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. c4 dxc4 4. e3 e6 5. Bxc4 a6 6. O-O Be7 7. Re1 c5 8. e4 b5
9. Bf1 Bb7 10. a4 O-O 11. e5 Nfd7 12. d5 exd5 13. axb5 axb5 14. Rxa8 Bxa8 15.
Bxb5 d4 16. Nbd2 Bd5 17. Qc2 h6 18. Qf5 Re8 19. Ne4 Bf8 20. Bxh6 gxh6 21. Neg5
hxg5 22. Nxg5 Bg7 23. e6 Bxe6 24. Rxe6 fxe6 25. Qf7+ Kh8 26. Qh5+ Kg8 27. Qf7+
Kh8 28. Qh5+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.04"]
[Round "8.3"]
[White "Siva, Mahadevan"]
[Black "Sengupta, Deep"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2427"]
[BlackElo "2479"]
[ECO "C02"]
[Opening "French"]
[Variation "advance, Euwe variation"]
[WhiteFideId "25043153"]
[BlackFideId "5008352"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Nc6 5. Nf3 Bd7 6. Be2 Rc8 7. O-O a6 8. Nbd2
cxd4 9. cxd4 Qb6 10. Nb3 Nb4 11. Bd2 Ba4 12. Rc1 Ra8 13. Bxb4 Bxb4 14. Bd3 Ne7
15. Bc2 Nc6 16. a3 Be7 17. h4 Rc8 18. Re1 O-O 19. Re3 Rc7 20. Ng5 g6 21. Nf3
Rfc8 22. Rc3 Bb5 23. Qd2 a5 24. Qf4 Bc4 25. Bd1 Na7 26. Nfd2 Bf8 27. Nxc4 Rxc4
28. Rf3 R4c7 29. a4 Nc6 30. Rcc3 Nd8 31. h5 Qb4 32. Rce3 Qxa4 33. Kh2 Qb4 34.
hxg6 hxg6 35. Rh3 Bg7 36. Rh4 a4 37. Reh3 axb3 38. Qf6 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.04"]
[Round "8.4"]
[White "Dai, Changren"]
[Black "Sai, Krishna G V"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2551"]
[BlackElo "2415"]
[ECO "E93"]
[Opening "King's Indian"]
[Variation "Petrosian system, main line"]
[WhiteFideId "8608156"]
[BlackFideId "5028280"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Nf3 O-O 6. Be2 e5 7. d5 Nbd7 8. Be3
Ng4 9. Bg5 f6 10. Bh4 h5 11. Nd2 Nh6 12. f3 g5 13. Bf2 f5 14. exf5 Nxf5 15. Nde4
b6 16. Qd2 Bh6 17. g4 Nd4 18. h4 hxg4 19. hxg5 Bg7 20. fxg4 Nc5 21. Be3 Qe7 22.
Nxc5 bxc5 23. Ne4 Rb8 24. O-O-O Rf4 25. Bd3 Nf3 26. Qf2 Bxg4 27. Bxf4 exf4 28.
Nf6+ Bxf6 29. gxf6 Qxf6 30. Rhg1 Nxg1 31. Rxg1 Qg5 32. Qg2 f3+ 33. Qd2 Qg7 34.
Bf5 Bxf5 35. Rxg7+ Kxg7 36. Qc3+ Kg6 37. Qxf3 Re8 38. Qg3+ Kf6 39. Qc3+ Re5 40.
Qa5 Re2 41. Qxc7 Rc2+ 42. Kd1 Rxc4 43. Qxd6+ Kg5 44. b3 Rc2 45. Qe5 Rxa2 46. d6
Kg6 47. Qxc5 Ra6 48. Qd4 Bd7 49. Qd3+ Kf6 50. Qxa6 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.04"]
[Round "8.5"]
[White "Heberla, Bartlomiej"]
[Black "Zhalmakhanov, Ramazan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2508"]
[BlackElo "2454"]
[ECO "E46"]
[Opening "Nimzo-Indian"]
[Variation "4.e3 O-O"]
[WhiteFideId "1115120"]
[BlackFideId "13706357"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. Bd2 d5 6. Nf3 b6 7. cxd5 exd5 8. Rc1
Bb7 9. Bd3 Be7 10. Ne5 c5 11. O-O Nc6 12. Be1 a6 13. f3 b5 14. Bb1 Rc8 15. a3
Re8 16. Kh1 Na5 17. Bf5 Rc7 18. Nxb5 axb5 19. Bxa5 Bd6 20. f4 c4 21. Qf3 Qe7 22.
Bxc7 Qxc7 23. Ng4 Ne4 24. Qh3 h6 25. Ne5 Bc8 26. Bxc8 Rxc8 27. Ng4 Re8 28. Rc2
Qa5 29. Qh5 Qa8 30. Re2 c3 31. bxc3 Nxc3 32. Rc2 Qxa3 33. f5 Bf8 34. Ne5 Re7 35.
f6 gxf6 36. Ng4 Re6 37. Rcf2 Ne4 38. Rf4 b4 39. Qxd5 Qd3 40. Qb7 Bg7 41. Qb8+
Kh7 42. d5 Qxd5 43. Qxb4 Qd3 44. Qd4 Qc2 45. Nf2 f5 46. Qd5 Be5 47. Nxe4 Bxf4
48. Qxf5+ Kh8 49. Qxf7 Rxe4 50. Qf8+ Kh7 51. Qf7+ Kh8 52. Qf6+ Kh7 53. Qf5+ Kh8
54. exf4 Qe2 55. Qc8+ Kh7 56. Qc7+ Kg8 57. Qc1 Rc4 58. Qb1 Rc2 59. Qb8+ Kg7 60.
Qb7+ Kf6 61. Rb1 Qc4 62. Qb6+ Kg7 63. Qe3 Qd5 64. Qg3+ Kf7 65. h3 Qe4 66. Re1
Qd5 67. Kh2 Qd4 68. Qb3+ Rc4 69. Qb7+ Kg6 70. Re6+ 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.04"]
[Round "8.6"]
[White "Baenziger, Fabian"]
[Black "Raczek, Krzysztof"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2451"]
[BlackElo "2489"]
[ECO "D73"]
[Opening "Neo-Gruenfeld, 5.Nf3"]
[WhiteFideId "1330110"]
[BlackFideId "21005303"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nf3 Bg7 4. g3 d5 5. Bg2 dxc4 6. Qa4+ Nc6 7. O-O O-O 8. Rd1
Be6 9. Nc3 Nd5 10. Bf4 Ncb4 11. Rac1 c6 12. Ne4 Bf5 13. Ne1 b5 14. Qa3 Qb6 15.
e3 a5 16. Nd2 Rfd8 17. Be4 Bg4 18. Bf3 Bf5 19. Be4 e6 20. Bxf5 exf5 21. Ndf3 Bf8 0-1

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.04"]
[Round "8.7"]
[White "Dotzer, Lukas"]
[Black "Delgerdalai, Bayarjavkhlan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2478"]
[BlackElo "2376"]
[ECO "C65"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez"]
[Variation "Berlin defence"]
[WhiteFideId "1666975"]
[BlackFideId "23727276"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. d3 Bc5 5. c3 O-O 6. O-O d6 7. Re1 h6 8. d4 Bb6
9. h3 Bd7 10. a4 a6 11. Bxc6 Bxc6 12. Qc2 exd4 13. cxd4 d5 14. e5 Ne4 15. a5 Ba7
16. Nc3 Qe7 17. Be3 Rad8 18. Ne2 f5 19. exf6 Rxf6 20. Ne5 Qf8 21. f3 Nd6 22. Ng3
Nc4 23. Bf2 Bb5 24. Nh5 Rfd6 25. Ng6 Qf7 26. Re7 Qxg6 27. Rxg7+ Qxg7 28. Nxg7
Kxg7 29. b3 Re8 30. bxc4 Bxc4 31. Rd1 Rf6 32. Kh2 Re2 33. Rd2 Rxf2 34. Rxf2 Bxd4
35. f4 Bxf2 36. Qxf2 b5 37. axb6 cxb6 38. f5 a5 39. Qg3+ Kf7 40. Qc7+ Kg8 41. g4
a4 42. Qd8+ Kg7 43. Qd7+ Kg8 44. Qxa4 b5 45. Qa8+ Kg7 46. Qa7+ Kg8 47. Qe7 Rf7
48. Qe8+ Kg7 49. Qe5+ Kg8 50. h4 Bd3 51. Qxd5 Bc2 52. Qc6 Bd1 53. Qxh6 Bxg4 54.
Qg6+ Rg7 55. Qe8+ Kh7 56. f6 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.04"]
[Round "8.8"]
[White "Hillarp Persson, Tiger"]
[Black "Cieslak, Patryk"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2428"]
[BlackElo "2477"]
[ECO "A07"]
[Opening "Reti"]
[Variation "King's Indian attack (Barcza system)"]
[WhiteFideId "1700812"]
[BlackFideId "21078882"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 e6 4. O-O Bd6 5. c4 O-O 6. d4 Nc6 7. a3 dxc4 8. Nbd2
Na5 9. Qa4 b6 10. Nxc4 Nxc4 11. Qxc4 Bb7 12. Bg5 h6 13. Bxf6 Qxf6 14. Nd2 Bxg2
15. Kxg2 c5 16. Ne4 Qe7 17. dxc5 Bxc5 18. b4 Bd6 19. Rad1 Rfd8 20. Rd3 Qb7 21.
f3 b5 22. Qb3 Be7 23. Rfd1 Rxd3 24. Rxd3 Qc6 25. Rc3 Qb6 26. Qc2 Bf8 27. Rc6 Qe3
28. Rc3 Qb6 29. Rc6 Qe3 30. Rc3 Qb6 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.04"]
[Round "8.9"]
[White "Willow, Jonah B"]
[Black "Das, Sayantan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2473"]
[BlackElo "2434"]
[ECO "E73"]
[Opening "King's Indian"]
[Variation "Semi-Averbakh system"]
[WhiteFideId "438804"]
[BlackFideId "5034426"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 g6 3. e4 d6 4. d4 Bg7 5. Be2 O-O 6. Be3 a5 7. Nf3 Bg4 8. O-O
Na6 9. Ne1 Bxe2 10. Qxe2 e5 11. d5 Nd7 12. Nd3 f5 13. f3 f4 14. Bf2 g5 15. a3
Nac5 16. Nxc5 Nxc5 17. Qc2 g4 18. fxg4 Qg5 19. Bxc5 dxc5 20. Qe2 Rf7 21. Rad1
Bf8 22. Rd3 Bd6 23. Nd1 Rg7 24. Nf2 h5 25. h4 Qxh4 26. Rh3 Qf6 27. Rxh5 Rh7 28.
Qf3 Rf8 29. Kh2 Rxh5+ 30. gxh5 Kh8 31. Kg1 Qg5 32. Qh3 Rg8 33. Nd3 b5 34. b3 a4
35. Ne1 axb3 36. Qxb3 bxc4 37. Qxc4 Qg3 38. Qd3 Qg4 39. Rf3 Rb8 40. Rh3 Rb2 41.
Qf3 Qd7 42. Kh2 c4 43. Qc3 Re2 44. h6 Kh7 45. Nf3 Qg4 46. Nh4 Rf2 47. Qe1 Ra2
48. Qb1 Re2 49. Qf1 c3 50. Nf5 c2 51. Rc3 Rd2 52. a4 f3 53. Rxf3 c1=Q 0-1

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.04"]
[Round "8.10"]
[White "Xie, Kaifan"]
[Black "Rozentalis, Eduardas"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2426"]
[BlackElo "2461"]
[ECO "E34"]
[Opening "Nimzo-Indian"]
[Variation "classical, Noa variation"]
[WhiteFideId "8619107"]
[BlackFideId "12800023"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 d5 5. cxd5 Qxd5 6. e3 c5 7. Bd2 Bxc3 8.
bxc3 O-O 9. Nf3 b6 10. c4 Qc6 11. Be2 Bb7 12. O-O Nbd7 13. Rfc1 Rac8 14. Qb2 Qe4
15. Be1 cxd4 16. exd4 Nh5 17. Rc3 Nf4 18. Bf1 Qf5 19. Re3 Rfd8 20. d5 Nc5 21.
Nd4 Qh5 22. Rg3 Ng6 23. dxe6 Nxe6 24. Nxe6 fxe6 25. Bc3 e5 26. Be2 Qh6 27. Bg4
Rc7 28. Be6+ Kh8 29. Re1 Re7 30. Bf5 Nh4 31. Bc2 Rde8 32. f3 Qh5 33. Bb4 Rd7 34.
Ba4 Rdd8 35. Bxe8 Rxe8 36. Bc3 Ng6 37. Qb5 Re7 38. Bb4 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.04"]
[Round "8.11"]
[White "Makkar, Rajat"]
[Black "Hammer, Jon Ludvig"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2396"]
[BlackElo "2606"]
[ECO "B12"]
[Opening "Caro-Kann"]
[Variation "advance variation"]
[WhiteFideId "36016810"]
[BlackFideId "1503707"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Nf3 e6 5. Be2 a5 6. O-O a4 7. c3 Nd7 8. Nbd2 h6
9. Ne1 Ne7 10. h4 c5 11. h5 Nc6 12. g4 Bh7 13. Ndf3 g6 14. hxg6 Bxg6 15. Ng2 Rg8
16. Be3 h5 17. Nfh4 hxg4 18. Nxg6 Rxg6 19. Bxg4 cxd4 20. cxd4 Qb6 21. Bh5 Rg7
22. Rc1 Ne7 23. Bg4 Nc6 24. Bh5 Be7 25. f4 a3 26. b4 Nf8 27. b5 Na5 28. f5 exf5
29. Rxf5 Nc4 30. Qf3 Qe6 31. Rxc4 Ng6 32. Rc7 Nh4 33. Bxf7+ Kd8 34. Bxe6 Nxf3+
35. Rxf3 Kxc7 36. Bxd5 Kb6 37. Rf7 Rxf7 38. Bxf7 Rf8 39. Bb3 Kxb5 40. d5 Bc5 41.
d6 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.04"]
[Round "8.12"]
[White "Meshkovs, Nikita"]
[Black "Ruiz Buendia, Miguel"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2561"]
[BlackElo "2370"]
[ECO "D02"]
[Opening "Queen's pawn game"]
[WhiteFideId "11602740"]
[BlackFideId "24537675"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. c3 e6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. Nbd2 O-O 6. e3 b6 7. Bd3 Bb7 8. Ne5
Nbd7 9. Qa4 h6 10. Bxf6 Nxf6 11. f4 c5 12. O-O Bd6 13. Rae1 Re8 14. Qd1 a5 15.
Qf3 Ba6 16. Bxa6 Rxa6 17. g4 Qe7 18. Re2 b5 19. Rg2 Nh7 20. g5 hxg5 21. fxg5
Nxg5 22. Qh5 Bxe5 23. dxe5 Nh7 24. Rf4 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.04"]
[Round "8.13"]
[White "Bauer, Christian"]
[Black "Falkevall, Axel"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2552"]
[BlackElo "2365"]
[ECO "A48"]
[Opening "King's Indian"]
[Variation "East Indian defence"]
[WhiteFideId "603767"]
[BlackFideId "1735560"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. Nbd2 Bg7 4. e4 O-O 5. Bd3 d6 6. O-O Nc6 7. c3 e5 8. Re1
a5 9. h3 exd4 10. cxd4 Nd7 11. d5 Nce5 12. Bf1 Nxf3+ 13. Nxf3 Re8 14. Bb5 Rf8
15. Bg5 Bf6 16. Bh6 Bg7 17. Bxg7 Kxg7 18. Rc1 f6 19. a3 Ne5 20. Nd4 g5 21. Rc3
Kh8 22. Qc2 c5 23. dxc6 bxc6 24. Nxc6 Qb6 25. a4 Bd7 26. Nxe5 Bxb5 27. Nc4 Bxc4
28. Rxc4 Rab8 29. Re2 Rfe8 30. Rd2 Qb3 31. Qxb3 Rxb3 32. Rxd6 Rxb2 33. Rxf6 Rb4
34. Rc7 Rbxe4 35. Rff7 Rh4 36. Kh2 Kg8 37. Rg7+ Kh8 38. Rxg5 Rxa4 39. Rh5 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.04"]
[Round "8.14"]
[White "Fecker, Noah"]
[Black "Seemann, Jakub"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "FM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2365"]
[BlackElo "2507"]
[ECO "B51"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Canal-Sokolsky (Nimzovich-Rossolimo, Moscow) attack"]
[WhiteFideId "1334263"]
[BlackFideId "21874697"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bb5+ Nd7 4. c4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e6 6. O-O Be7 7. d4 cxd4 8. Nxd4
O-O 9. Ba4 Qc7 10. Qe2 a6 11. f4 Nb6 12. Bb3 e5 13. Nf5 Bxf5 14. exf5 Rfe8 15.
fxe5 dxe5 16. Bg5 Rac8 17. Bxf6 Bxf6 18. Ne4 Nd7 19. Ba4 Red8 20. Bxd7 Rxd7 21.
b3 Rcd8 22. Rad1 Qb6+ 23. Kh1 Rxd1 24. Rxd1 Rxd1+ 25. Qxd1 Qe3 26. Nxf6+ gxf6
27. g4 Qe4+ 28. Kg1 h5 29. h3 h4 30. Qd2 a5 31. Qf2 Qd3 32. Qxh4 Qb1+ 33. Kf2
Qxa2+ 34. Ke1 Qb1+ 35. Kd2 Qb2+ 36. Ke1 Qc3+ 37. Kf2 e4 38. Qg3 Qd2+ 39. Kg1 Kf8
40. Kf1 e3 41. Qf3 Qd3+ 42. Ke1 Qxb3 43. Qd5 Kg7 44. Qd4 a4 45. g5 Qb4+ 46. Kf1
Qd2 47. gxf6+ Kf8 48. Qc5+ Kg8 0-1

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.04"]
[Round "8.15"]
[White "Blomqvist, Erik"]
[Black "Hari, Madhavan N B"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2490"]
[BlackElo "2363"]
[ECO "C10"]
[Opening "French"]
[Variation "Rubinstein variation"]
[WhiteFideId "1709437"]
[BlackFideId "25054309"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nd7 5. Nf3 Ngf6 6. Nxf6+ Nxf6 7. g3 b6 8.
Bb5+ Bd7 9. a4 a6 10. Be2 Bc6 11. O-O Bd6 12. c4 O-O 13. Be3 Be4 14. Nd2 Bg6 15.
a5 e5 16. dxe5 Bxe5 17. Bf3 Rb8 18. axb6 cxb6 19. Rxa6 Bxb2 20. Qb3 Bd4 21. Bxd4
Qxd4 22. Rd1 Qd3 23. Qxd3 Bxd3 24. Re1 h6 25. Re7 Rbc8 26. Rxb6 Bxc4 27. Nxc4
Rxc4 28. Rbb7 Rcc8 29. Kg2 Rce8 30. Rec7 Rc8 31. Re7 Rce8 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.04"]
[Round "8.16"]
[White "Bronstein, Or"]
[Black "Riehle, Marco"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2470"]
[BlackElo "2363"]
[ECO "D35"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "exchange variation"]
[WhiteFideId "2815770"]
[BlackFideId "12904392"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e4 Nxc3 6. bxc3 c5 7. Rb1 Be7 8.
Nf3 O-O 9. h4 b6 10. h5 h6 11. Rh3 Nd7 12. Rg3 Kh8 13. Qd2 Rg8 14. Qf4 Qf8 15.
Bd3 cxd4 16. cxd4 e5 17. dxe5 Nc5 18. Be2 Ne6 19. Qe3 Bc5 20. Qb3 Qe7 21. Bc4
Nd4 22. Nxd4 Bxd4 23. Bd5 Rb8 24. Bb2 Bxe5 25. Rf3 Rf8 26. Ba3 Bd6 27. Bxd6 Qxd6
28. Qa3 Qd8 29. Kf1 Bg4 30. Rg3 Bxh5 31. Qxa7 Qf6 32. Kg1 Kh7 33. Rgb3 Rfc8 34.
Rf1 Bg6 35. Rf3 Qe5 36. Qa4 f6 37. Rg3 Rc7 38. Qb4 Rc5 39. f4 Qd6 40. Qb2 Re8
41. Qd2 Bf7 42. Qd3 Qe7 43. Rb1 Kh8 44. Bxf7 Qxf7 45. Rxb6 Qxa2 46. e5 Rc1+ 47.
Kh2 Qa1 48. Kh3 Rh1+ 49. Kg4 fxe5 50. Re3 Qg1 51. Rxe5 Rf8 52. Rb2 Rh4+ 53. Kxh4
Qh2+ 54. Qh3 Qxf4+ 55. Qg4 Qh2+ 56. Qh3 Qxe5 0-1

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.04"]
[Round "8.17"]
[White "Moksh, Amit Doshi"]
[Black "Gschnitzer, Adrian"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2363"]
[BlackElo "2420"]
[ECO "A33"]
[Opening "English"]
[Variation "symmetrical variation"]
[WhiteFideId "25064967"]
[BlackFideId "1270337"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. c4 c5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nc3 Nc6 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 e6 6. Bf4 d5 7. cxd5 Nxd5 8.
Nxc6 bxc6 9. Bd2 Bb4 10. a3 Nxc3 11. Qc2 Nxe2 12. Bxb4 Nd4 13. Qc3 Qd5 14. Bd3
Bb7 15. Rd1 O-O-O 16. O-O Kb8 17. f3 Qb3 18. Qc1 Qxd3 19. Rxd3 Ne2+ 20. Kf2 Nxc1
21. Rxd8+ Rxd8 22. Rxc1 Rd5 23. Rc2 Kc7 24. Bf8 g6 25. Ke3 e5 26. f4 exf4+ 27.
Kxf4 Bc8 28. Bb4 a5 29. Bc3 a4 30. Rd2 Rf5+ 31. Ke3 Be6 32. Rd4 Bb3 33. Rh4 h5
34. Rf4 Rg5 35. g3 Kb6 36. Re4 Rd5 37. Rd4 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.04"]
[Round "8.18"]
[White "Daakshin, Arun"]
[Black "Kurmann, Oliver"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "FM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2274"]
[BlackElo "2409"]
[ECO "D53"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "4.Bg5 Be7"]
[WhiteFideId "366195016"]
[BlackFideId "1308173"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. Nf3 h6 6. Bxf6 Bxf6 7. e3 O-O 8. Rc1
c6 9. h4 g6 10. h5 g5 11. Bd3 Nd7 12. Bb1 Bg7 13. cxd5 exd5 14. Ne2 Re8 15. Ng3
Nf6 16. Ne5 Ne4 17. O-O Bxe5 18. dxe5 Nxg3 19. fxg3 Rxe5 20. Qd3 Re4 21. Qc3 Bg4
22. Bxe4 dxe4 23. Rf6 Qd3 24. Qe5 Qd5 25. Qe7 Kg7 26. Rg6+ Kh7 27. Rf1 Bxh5 28.
Rxf7+ Kxg6 29. Qf6# 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.04"]
[Round "8.19"]
[White "Harshit, Ranjan Sahu"]
[Black "Jain, Kashish Manoj"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "CM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2265"]
[BlackElo "2396"]
[ECO "B30"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Nimzovich-Rossolimo attack (without ...d6)"]
[WhiteFideId "25638815"]
[BlackFideId "35081098"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. e5 Nd5 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bxc6 dxc6 7. Ne4 Bf5 8.
Nxc5 b6 9. Nb3 c5 10. d3 e6 11. O-O h6 12. Nbd2 Qc7 13. Qe2 O-O-O 14. a4 Nb4 15.
Ne4 g5 16. a5 b5 17. Bd2 Nc6 18. Rfe1 g4 19. Nd6+ Rxd6 20. exd6 gxf3 21. Qxf3
Bxd6 22. c3 Kb8 23. b4 cxb4 24. d4 bxc3 25. Bxc3 Rc8 26. d5 Ne5 27. Bxe5 Bxe5
28. Rad1 Bxh2+ 29. Kh1 Bd6 30. g4 Bc2 31. Rc1 Qb7 32. Re2 Ba4 33. Rxc8+ Kxc8 34.
Qc3+ Kb8 35. Qh8+ Ka7 36. Qd4+ Kb8 37. Kg1 e5 38. Rxe5 Bxe5 39. Qxe5+ Qc7 40. d6
Qd7 41. Qd4 Qd8 42. Qf4 b4 43. Qxb4+ Bb5 44. Qf4 Qxa5 45. d7+ Kb7 46. Qxf7 Qd8
47. Qf3+ Bc6 48. Qb3+ Kc7 49. Qg3+ Kb7 50. Qb3+ Kc7 51. Qg3+ Kxd7 52. Qd3+ Kc7 0-1

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.04"]
[Round "8.20"]
[White "Vincenti, Leonardo"]
[Black "Ghasi, Ameet K"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "FM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2297"]
[BlackElo "2500"]
[ECO "B06"]
[Opening "Robatsch (modern) defence"]
[WhiteFideId "28550820"]
[BlackFideId "409200"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. Nc3 d6 4. Be3 a6 5. Qd2 b5 6. f3 Nf6 7. O-O-O Nbd7 8. Bh6
Bxh6 9. Qxh6 e6 10. h4 Bb7 11. Nh3 Qe7 12. Nf4 O-O-O 13. h5 Ng8 14. Qg7 Qg5 15.
Qxh8 Nh6 16. Qxd8+ Kxd8 17. Ne2 Ke7 18. hxg6 hxg6 19. Kb1 Ng8 20. g3 b4 21. Bg2
a5 22. Nd3 Qb5 23. Rde1 Ngf6 24. g4 a4 25. d5 e5 26. Ndc1 a3 27. b3 Ba6 28. Rh8
Qc5 29. Rhh1 Qf2 30. Rhg1 Bxe2 31. Nxe2 Qe3 32. Rgf1 Qd2 33. Bh3 Nh7 34. g5 Nc5
35. Bg4 Nxg5 36. f4 Ngxe4 37. fxe5 dxe5 38. d6+ cxd6 39. Rd1 Nc3+ 40. Nxc3 Qxc3 0-1

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.04"]
[Round "8.21"]
[White "Sardana, Rishi"]
[Black "Kavutskiy, Kostya"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2459"]
[BlackElo "2354"]
[ECO "B00"]
[Opening "King's pawn opening"]
[WhiteFideId "25004301"]
[BlackFideId "2026384"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Bd3 e5 4. Nf3 Nbd7 5. c3 Be7 6. O-O O-O 7. Re1 c6 8. Nbd2
Re8 9. Nf1 Qc7 10. Ng3 Bf8 11. h3 h6 12. Be3 g6 13. Qd2 Kh7 14. a4 b6 15. b4 a5
16. Qa2 Kg8 17. Qd2 Kh7 18. Bc2 axb4 19. cxb4 c5 20. dxc5 dxc5 21. b5 Bb7 22.
Bb3 Re7 23. Qa2 Nxe4 24. Nxe4 Bxe4 25. Nd2 Nf6 26. Bxc5 Qxc5 27. Nxe4 Nxe4 28.
Rxe4 Kg7 29. Rc4 Qd6 30. Rc6 Qb8 31. Rd1 Raa7 32. Qc2 Red7 33. Rxd7 Rxd7 34.
Bxf7 Rd6 35. Bxg6 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.05"]
[Round "9.1"]
[White "Xu, Xiangyu"]
[Black "Siva, Mahadevan"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2601"]
[BlackElo "2427"]
[ECO "D14"]
[Opening "QGD Slav"]
[Variation "exchange variation, 6.Bf4 Bf5"]
[WhiteFideId "8608288"]
[BlackFideId "25043153"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. c4 c6 4. cxd5 cxd5 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Bf4 Bf5 7. e3 e6 8. Bd3
Bxd3 9. Qxd3 Bd6 10. Bxd6 Qxd6 11. O-O O-O 12. h3 h6 13. Rfc1 Rfc8 14. a3 a6 15.
Nd2 Nd7 16. Rc2 Rc7 17. Rac1 Rac8 18. Ne2 Ne7 19. Rxc7 Rxc7 20. Rxc7 Qxc7 21.
Qc3 Qxc3 22. Nxc3 Nc6 23. Kf1 Kf8 24. Ke2 Ke7 25. Nf3 Nf6 26. Nd2 Nd7 27. Nf3
Nf6 28. Kd3 Kd6 29. Nd2 Nd7 30. Nf3 Nf6 31. Nd2 Nd7 32. Nf3 Nf6 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.05"]
[Round "9.2"]
[White "Demchenko, Anton"]
[Black "Heberla, Bartlomiej"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2631"]
[BlackElo "2508"]
[ECO "C02"]
[Opening "French"]
[Variation "advance, Steinitz variation"]
[WhiteFideId "4160258"]
[BlackFideId "1115120"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. dxc5 e6 5. Bd3 Nc6 6. Nf3 Bxc5 7. O-O f6 8. exf6
Nxf6 9. c4 dxc4 10. Bxc4 Qxd1 11. Rxd1 Ne4 12. Rf1 Nd4 13. Nbd2 Nxf3+ 14. Nxf3
Bd7 15. Bf4 O-O 16. Be3 Bxe3 17. fxe3 Rac8 18. Rac1 b5 19. Be2 a6 20. Ne5 Rxf1+
21. Rxf1 Nf6 22. Bf3 Rc5 23. Nd3 Rc2 24. Rf2 Rc4 25. Rd2 Kf8 26. Ne5 Rc1+ 27.
Kf2 Ke7 28. h4 Rc5 29. Nd3 Rc4 30. e4 Bc6 31. Ne5 Rc5 32. Nd3 Rc4 33. Ne5 Rc5
34. Nd3 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.05"]
[Round "9.3"]
[White "Das, Sayantan"]
[Black "Dai, Changren"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2434"]
[BlackElo "2551"]
[ECO "C79"]
[Opening "Ruy Lopez"]
[Variation "Steinitz defence deferred (Russian defence)"]
[WhiteFideId "5034426"]
[BlackFideId "8608156"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O d6 6. c3 Bd7 7. d4 g6 8. Re1 Bg7
9. h3 O-O 10. Bc2 Re8 11. Nbd2 a5 12. dxe5 Nxe5 13. Nxe5 Rxe5 14. Nf3 Re8 15.
Bg5 h6 16. Bh4 Bc6 17. Nd4 g5 18. Nxc6 bxc6 19. Bg3 Nd7 20. Rb1 Be5 21. Re3 Re6
22. Ba4 Ra6 23. Bxe5 Nxe5 24. b4 Qf6 25. Rg3 Qf4 26. Qe2 Ra8 27. bxa5 Rxa5 28.
Rb8+ Kg7 29. Bb3 Re7 30. Rc8 Qc1+ 31. Kh2 Rc5 32. h4 Ng6 33. hxg5 Rxg5 34. Rxg5
hxg5 35. Qf3 d5 36. exd5 Re1 37. d6 Ne5 38. Qf5 Rh1+ 39. Kg3 Qxc3+ 0-1

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.05"]
[Round "9.4"]
[White "Li, Di"]
[Black "Xie, Kaifan"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2549"]
[BlackElo "2426"]
[ECO "A05"]
[Opening "Reti opening"]
[WhiteFideId "8607508"]
[BlackFideId "8619107"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 d5 3. Bg2 c5 4. O-O g6 5. d4 cxd4 6. Nxd4 Bg7 7. Nb3 Nc6 8. Nc3
e6 9. a4 O-O 10. a5 d4 11. Ne4 Nxe4 12. Bxe4 Qc7 13. Qd3 Bd7 14. Qc4 Rac8 15.
Bd2 Qe5 16. Qd3 Qc7 17. c3 Ne5 18. Qc2 Ng4 19. Rfc1 dxc3 20. bxc3 Bc6 21. Nd4
Bxe4 22. Qxe4 Nf6 23. Qf3 e5 24. Nc2 Rfd8 25. Be1 e4 26. Qe3 Qc5 27. Qxc5 Rxc5
28. Ra4 Nd5 29. Rd1 Rdc8 30. c4 Nc3 31. Bxc3 Bxc3 32. a6 bxa6 33. Rxa6 Ra5 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.05"]
[Round "9.5"]
[White "Raczek, Krzysztof"]
[Black "Dotzer, Lukas"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2489"]
[BlackElo "2478"]
[ECO "E00"]
[Opening "Queen's pawn game"]
[WhiteFideId "21005303"]
[BlackFideId "1666975"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Bf4 Bb4+ 4. Nd2 c5 5. dxc5 O-O 6. Nf3 Bxc5 7. e3 d5 8. Bd3
b6 9. O-O Bb7 10. Qe2 Nbd7 11. Rfd1 Qe7 12. cxd5 Nxd5 13. Bg5 f6 14. Bh4 Rfd8
15. a3 Rac8 16. Ne4 Qe8 17. Rac1 Be7 18. Rxc8 Rxc8 19. Bg3 f5 20. Nd6 Bxd6 21.
Bxd6 Nc5 22. Bb5 Qxb5 23. Qxb5 Ba6 24. Qxc5 bxc5 25. Rc1 c4 26. Be5 Bb7 27. Nd4
Nb6 28. Nxe6 Re8 29. Nc5 Rxe5 30. Nxb7 Rb5 31. h4 Rxb2 32. Nd6 Ra2 33. Nxc4 Nxc4
34. Rxc4 Rxa3 35. Rc5 g6 36. Rc7 h5 37. Kh2 Ra4 38. Kg3 Rg4+ 39. Kh3 Ra4 40. Kg3
Rg4+ 41. Kh3 Ra4 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.05"]
[Round "9.6"]
[White "Sai, Krishna G V"]
[Black "Meshkovs, Nikita"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2415"]
[BlackElo "2561"]
[ECO "B28"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "O'Kelly variation"]
[WhiteFideId "5028280"]
[BlackFideId "11602740"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 a6 3. c4 e6 4. Nc3 Qc7 5. d4 cxd4 6. Nxd4 Nf6 7. Be2 b6 8. f4
Bb4 9. e5 Ne4 10. Qd3 d5 11. exd6 Nxd6 12. a3 Bc5 13. b4 Bxd4 14. Qxd4 Nf5 15.
Qf2 Nc6 16. Bb2 Ncd4 17. Bd3 Bb7 18. O-O-O a5 19. Kb1 axb4 20. axb4 h5 21. Ne2
Nxe2 22. Qxe2 Qxf4 23. Rhf1 Qe3 24. Rde1 Qxe2 25. Rxe2 O-O 26. Bxf5 exf5 27.
Rxf5 Rfe8 28. Rxe8+ Rxe8 29. Rxh5 Bxg2 30. Re5 Rc8 31. Rb5 Be4+ 32. Ka2 Rxc4 33.
Rxb6 Rc2 34. b5 Rxh2 35. Rb8+ Kh7 36. b6 Rh5 37. Bd4 Ra5+ 38. Kb3 Ra8 39. Be5 g5
40. Kc3 Kg6 41. Rh8 Rxh8 42. Bxh8 f5 43. Kd4 Bb7 44. Ke3 f4+ 45. Kf2 g4 46. Bc3
g3+ 47. Kf1 Kf5 48. Bb4 f3 49. Bc5 Ba6+ 50. Ke1 Kg4 51. Kd2 Kh3 0-1

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.05"]
[Round "9.7"]
[White "Horvath, Dominik"]
[Black "Sardana, Rishi"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2557"]
[BlackElo "2459"]
[ECO "E11"]
[Opening "Bogo-Indian defence"]
[WhiteFideId "1642561"]
[BlackFideId "25004301"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Bb4+ 4. Bd2 Bxd2+ 5. Qxd2 d5 6. Nc3 O-O 7. Rd1 Qe7 8.
g4 Rd8 9. g5 Ne4 10. Qe3 Qb4 11. Bg2 Nd6 12. cxd5 Nc4 13. Qf4 Nxb2 14. Qxc7 Nc6
15. Rc1 exd5 16. O-O Be6 17. a3 Qb3 18. Nb1 Nc4 19. Qf4 Qb2 20. Rc3 Ne7 21. Nh4
Qxe2 22. Bf3 Qb2 23. Re1 Ng6 24. Nxg6 hxg6 25. Kg2 Nd6 26. Rc7 Ne4 27. Bxe4 dxe4
28. Nc3 Rxd4 29. Rb1 Qd2 30. Qxd2 Rxd2 31. Re1 Rd3 32. Rxe4 Bh3+ 33. Kg1 Rad8
34. Re1 R8d4 35. Ne2 Re4 36. Rcc1 Rxa3 0-1

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.05"]
[Round "9.8"]
[White "Jain, Kashish Manoj"]
[Black "Bauer, Christian"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2396"]
[BlackElo "2552"]
[ECO "B08"]
[Opening "Pirc"]
[Variation "classical system, 5.Be2"]
[WhiteFideId "35081098"]
[BlackFideId "603767"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. Nf3 d6 4. Be2 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. O-O O-O 7. Re1 e6 8. a4 Nc6
9. Bf1 e5 10. dxe5 dxe5 11. Nd5 h6 12. Bc4 Ne8 13. b3 Bg4 14. Ba3 Nd4 15. c3
Nxf3+ 16. gxf3 Bh5 17. Be7 Qc8 18. Be2 Qh3 19. Qd3 c6 20. Nb6 Nc7 21. Nxa8 Rxa8
22. Bf1 Qe6 23. Qd6 Re8 24. Qxe6 Nxe6 25. Ba3 Ng5 26. Bg2 Nxf3+ 27. Bxf3 Bxf3
28. Re3 Bg4 29. Rd3 Bf6 30. Bc5 Kg7 31. a5 Bd8 32. Kg2 Be6 33. c4 g5 34. f3 Kg6
35. Bb6 Bxb6 36. axb6 Kf6 37. c5 h5 38. b4 Rc8 39. Kf2 h4 40. Rg1 Rg8 41. Ke3
Ke7 42. Kd2 f6 43. Kc3 Rc8 44. Rd6 Rh8 45. Rgd1 Ra8 46. Ra1 Rc8 47. Kb2 Ra8 48.
Rad1 Rc8 49. Ka3 Ra8 50. Ka4 Rc8 51. Ka5 Bh3 52. R1d2 Be6 53. R2d3 Rg8 54. Rxc6
bxc6 55. Rd6 f5 56. exf5 Bxf5 57. b7 e4 58. fxe4 Bxe4 59. Rh6 Kf7 60. Kxa6 Kg7
61. Re6 Bd5 62. Re5 Bc4+ 63. Ka7 Kf6 64. Re4 Bd5 65. Re3 g4 66. b8=Q Rxb8 67.
Kxb8 g3 68. hxg3 h3 69. g4 h2 70. Rh3 h1=R 71. Rxh1 Bxh1 72. Kc7 Kg5 73. Kb6
Kxg4 74. b5 cxb5 75. Kxb5 Kf5 76. c6 Bxc6+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.05"]
[Round "9.9"]
[White "Seemann, Jakub"]
[Black "Hillarp Persson, Tiger"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2507"]
[BlackElo "2428"]
[ECO "E28"]
[Opening "Nimzo-Indian"]
[Variation "Saemisch variation"]
[WhiteFideId "21874697"]
[BlackFideId "1700812"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Nc6 7. Bd3 e5 8. Ne2
e4 9. Bb1 Na5 10. f3 d6 11. Ng3 Be6 12. d5 Bd7 13. Nxe4 Nxe4 14. Bxe4 f5 15. Bd3
Qh4+ 16. g3 Qh3 17. Ra2 Rae8 18. Re2 b6 19. Rf1 Rf7 20. c5 dxc5 21. c4 Nb7 22.
Qc2 Nd6 23. Qc3 c6 24. Bb2 cxd5 25. cxd5 Qh6 26. Kd2 Bb5 27. Bxb5 Nxb5 28. Qc4
Nd6 29. Qf4 g5 30. Qa4 g4 31. fxg4 Re4 32. Qc6 Rxg4 33. Kd1 Qg6 34. Rf4 Re7 35.
Qa8+ Qe8 36. Rxg4+ fxg4 37. Qc6 Qxc6 38. dxc6 Nc4 39. Bc1 Rc7 40. Rf2 Rxc6 41.
Rf4 b5 42. Rxg4+ Kf7 43. Kc2 Rh6 44. h4 Rf6 45. Rg5 Rf2+ 46. Kd3 Rf1 47. Kc2
Rf2+ 48. Kd3 Rf1 49. Kc2 Rf2+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.05"]
[Round "9.10"]
[White "Sengupta, Deep"]
[Black "Daakshin, Arun"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2479"]
[BlackElo "2274"]
[ECO "A13"]
[Opening "English opening"]
[Variation "Agincourt variation"]
[WhiteFideId "5008352"]
[BlackFideId "366195016"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. c4 e6 2. Nf3 d5 3. e3 Nf6 4. b3 Bd6 5. Bb2 O-O 6. Nc3 c5 7. cxd5 exd5 8. d4
Nc6 9. Bb5 Bg4 10. dxc5 Bxc5 11. O-O Bd6 12. Be2 a6 13. h3 Be6 14. Bd3 Rc8 15.
Ne2 Ne4 16. Rc1 Qd7 17. Nf4 Bxf4 18. exf4 Qc7 19. Ne5 Qa5 20. Nxc6 Rxc6 21. Rxc6
bxc6 22. Qh5 f5 23. Qe2 Qxa2 24. f3 Nc5 25. Bb1 Qxb3 26. Bd4 Qb4 27. Qe3 Re8 28.
Bxc5 Qa5 29. Bd3 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.05"]
[Round "9.11"]
[White "Cieslak, Patryk"]
[Black "Makkar, Rajat"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2477"]
[BlackElo "2396"]
[ECO "C55"]
[Opening "Two knights defence (Modern bishop's opening)"]
[WhiteFideId "21078882"]
[BlackFideId "36016810"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 h6 5. c3 Bc5 6. b4 Be7 7. Qb3 O-O 8. a4 d6
9. O-O Nb8 10. Qa2 c6 11. Re1 a5 12. b5 Nbd7 13. bxc6 bxc6 14. Ba3 Nb6 15. Bb3
Ba6 16. d4 Qc7 17. Nbd2 c5 18. dxc5 dxc5 19. Nh4 Bd6 20. Nf5 Rfd8 21. Rab1 c4
22. Bxd6 cxb3 23. Qxb3 Rxd6 24. Nxd6 Qxd6 25. Qxb6 Qxd2 26. Qxa5 Ng4 27. Qb6
Qxc3 28. h3 Nf6 29. Rbc1 Qd4 30. Qc6 Ra7 31. Rcd1 Qb4 32. Rb1 Qa5 33. Rec1 Kh7
34. Rc5 Qd2 35. Rxe5 Bd3 36. Qc1 Qxc1+ 37. Rxc1 Rxa4 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.05"]
[Round "9.12"]
[White "Riehle, Marco"]
[Black "Blomqvist, Erik"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "FM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2363"]
[BlackElo "2490"]
[ECO "C01"]
[Opening "French"]
[Variation "exchange variation"]
[WhiteFideId "12904392"]
[BlackFideId "1709437"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 exd5 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. Bd3 Nb4 6. O-O Nxd3 7. Qxd3 Bd6 8.
Bg5 Ne7 9. Re1 O-O 10. Nbd2 f6 11. Bh4 Nf5 12. Bg3 Nxg3 13. hxg3 c6 14. c4 Bc7
15. c5 a5 16. Re3 Re8 17. Rae1 Rxe3 18. Rxe3 a4 19. Nh4 b6 20. Nf5 bxc5 21. Ne7+
Kh8 22. dxc5 Bd7 23. Nf3 Qb8 24. Qc2 Qb4 25. a3 Qg4 26. Qd2 Qc4 27. Qd4 Rb8 28.
Qxc4 dxc4 29. Nd4 Rxb2 30. Nexc6 Bxc6 31. Nxc6 h5 32. Nb4 h4 33. Kf1 hxg3 34.
fxg3 Rb3 35. Ke2 Bxg3 36. c6 Bf4 37. Nd5 Bd6 38. Rxb3 axb3 39. Kd2 Be5 40. c7
c3+ 41. Kd3 Bxc7 42. Nxc7 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.05"]
[Round "9.13"]
[White "Ghasi, Ameet K"]
[Black "Yang, Zilong"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2500"]
[BlackElo "2386"]
[ECO "A62"]
[Opening "Benoni"]
[Variation "fianchetto variation"]
[WhiteFideId "409200"]
[BlackFideId "8641528"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. g3 c5 4. d5 exd5 5. cxd5 d6 6. Nc3 g6 7. Nf3 Bg7 8. Bg2
O-O 9. O-O Re8 10. Re1 Na6 11. Bf4 Nc7 12. e4 Bg4 13. h3 Bxf3 14. Bxf3 Bf8 15.
a4 Nd7 16. Qc2 Ne5 17. Be2 Bg7 18. Be3 Nd7 19. Rad1 a6 20. f4 Rb8 21. e5 dxe5
22. f5 Rf8 23. d6 Ne8 24. Rf1 Nef6 25. g4 g5 26. h4 h6 27. hxg5 hxg5 28. Bxg5
Qb6 29. Bxf6 c4+ 30. Kg2 Bxf6 31. Ne4 Rfc8 32. Rf3 Bd8 33. f6 Qc6 34. Rh1 Nxf6
35. Nxf6+ Bxf6 36. Qf5 Qxd6 37. g5 e4 38. Qh7+ Kf8 39. Rxf6 Qd5 40. Rf5 Qe6 41.
Rhf1 Rc7 42. Qh8+ 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.05"]
[Round "9.14"]
[White "Ritviz, Parab"]
[Black "Willow, Jonah B"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2369"]
[BlackElo "2473"]
[ECO "B27"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Hungarian variation"]
[WhiteFideId "5073367"]
[BlackFideId "438804"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 g6 3. c3 d5 4. e5 a6 5. d4 Nc6 6. h3 Bf5 7. dxc5 Bg7 8. Bf4 f6
9. Nd4 Qd7 10. Nxf5 Qxf5 11. exf6 Nxf6 12. Be3 e5 13. Bd3 Qe6 14. Qb3 O-O 15.
Nd2 Kh8 16. O-O-O Qe7 17. Rhe1 Rad8 18. Kb1 Nh5 19. h4 Nf4 20. Bf1 Ne6 21. Nf3
Nxc5 22. Qa3 b6 23. Bg5 Qf7 24. Bxd8 Rxd8 25. Rd2 Bf8 26. b4 Ne4 27. Rxe4 dxe4
28. Ng5 Qf5 29. Rxd8 Nxd8 30. Qxa6 Qxf2 31. Qe2 Qxh4 32. Nxe4 Ne6 33. Kb2 Bh6
34. g3 Qd8 35. Qd3 Qf8 36. Bg2 Ng5 37. Qd6 Nxe4 38. Qxf8+ Bxf8 39. Bxe4 Bh6 40.
Kb3 Kg7 41. Ka4 Kf6 42. Kb5 Be3 43. a4 Ke7 44. Kc6 Kd8 45. c4 Kc8 46. c5 bxc5
47. b5 Bd2 48. Kxc5 h5 49. b6 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.05"]
[Round "9.15"]
[White "Avinash, Ramesh"]
[Black "Trost, Edvin"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2370"]
[BlackElo "2466"]
[ECO "B32"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Nimzovich variation"]
[WhiteFideId "45018340"]
[BlackFideId "1729519"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 d5 5. Nxc6 bxc6 6. exd5 Qxd5 7. Qxd5 cxd5
8. Nc3 Nf6 9. Nb5 Kd7 10. c4 e6 11. cxd5 Bb4+ 12. Bd2 Bxd2+ 13. Kxd2 Nxd5 14.
Nc3 Nxc3 15. Kxc3 Bb7 16. f3 Rac8+ 17. Kd2 g5 18. Bd3 f5 19. Rac1 h5 20. Rxc8
Rxc8 21. h4 g4 22. Ke3 Ke7 23. Rd1 Kf6 24. b3 Bd5 25. fxg4 hxg4 26. g3 Ke5 27.
Rf1 a5 28. Kd2 Bf3 29. Bc4 Kf6 30. Ke3 e5 31. Rc1 Kg7 32. Rc2 Rd8 33. Be2 Bxe2
34. Kxe2 f4 35. gxf4 exf4 36. Rc5 f3+ 37. Ke1 Re8+ 38. Kf1 Kh6 39. Rg5 Re4 40.
Kf2 Re2+ 41. Kf1 Re4 42. Kf2 Rf4 43. Kf1 Rd4 44. Kf2 Rd2+ 45. Kf1 Rd1+ 46. Kf2
Rd2+ 47. Kf1 Rxa2 48. Rxg4 Rb2 49. Rg5 Rxb3 50. Rxa5 Rb4 51. h5 Rh4 52. Kf2 Rh3
53. Rf5 Rxh5 54. Rxh5+ Kxh5 55. Kxf3 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.05"]
[Round "9.16"]
[White "Rozentalis, Eduardas"]
[Black "Miezis, Normunds"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "GM"]
[WhiteElo "2461"]
[BlackElo "2375"]
[ECO "B22"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Alapin's variation (2.c3)"]
[WhiteFideId "12800023"]
[BlackFideId "11600136"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c5 2. c3 d5 3. exd5 Qxd5 4. d4 e6 5. Nf3 Nf6 6. Be3 cxd4 7. Qxd4 Qxd4 8.
Nxd4 a6 9. f3 e5 10. Nb3 Nc6 11. N1d2 Be7 12. Bc5 Rb8 13. Bd3 Be6 14. Bxe7 Kxe7
15. Ne4 Nxe4 16. Bxe4 Rhd8 17. Rd1 Rxd1+ 18. Kxd1 Rd8+ 19. Kc2 Bd5 20. Bxd5 Rxd5
21. Rd1 Rxd1 22. Kxd1 Kd6 23. Kd2 Kd5 24. Kd3 b5 25. Nd2 f5 26. b3 Kd6 27. Nf1
g6 28. Ne3 Ke6 29. a3 h5 30. h4 Kd6 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.05"]
[Round "9.17"]
[White "Zhalmakhanov, Ramazan"]
[Black "Moksh, Amit Doshi"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "GM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2454"]
[BlackElo "2363"]
[ECO "A22"]
[Opening "English opening"]
[WhiteFideId "13706357"]
[BlackFideId "25064967"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e5 3. e3 Bb4 4. Nge2 O-O 5. a3 Be7 6. d4 exd4 7. Qxd4 Na6 8.
Rb1 Nc5 9. b4 Ne6 10. Qd2 b6 11. Ng3 Bb7 12. Nd5 Re8 13. Be2 b5 14. Nf5 Bf8 15.
Bb2 Ne4 16. Qd3 Nd6 17. cxb5 Qg5 18. Nxd6 Bxd6 19. Bf3 Rab8 20. h4 Qh6 21. Kd2
Nf8 22. Rbc1 Bxd5 23. Bxd5 Ng6 24. Qf5 Ne5 25. Ke2 g6 26. Qf6 Rxb5 27. Bxe5 Qh5+
28. Kf1 Qxe5 29. Bxf7+ Kf8 30. Qf3 Re7 31. Bc4+ Kg7 32. Bxb5 Qxb5+ 33. Qe2 Qa4
34. Qd3 a5 35. bxa5 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.05"]
[Round "9.18"]
[White "Delgerdalai, Bayarjavkhlan"]
[Black "Baenziger, Fabian"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "FM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2376"]
[BlackElo "2451"]
[ECO "B87"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "Sozin with ...a6 and ...b5"]
[WhiteFideId "23727276"]
[BlackFideId "1330110"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bc4 e6 7. Bb3 b5 8. Be3
Be7 9. a3 O-O 10. Qe2 Bb7 11. f3 Nc6 12. Nxc6 Bxc6 13. O-O Qc7 14. Rfd1 Rfd8 15.
Qf2 Qb7 16. Qg3 a5 17. Bh6 g6 18. Ne2 a4 19. Ba2 b4 20. Nd4 Bd7 21. Bg5 bxa3 22.
bxa3 Nh5 23. Qh4 Bxg5 24. Qxg5 Qc7 25. Qe3 Qc5 26. c4 Rab8 27. Rab1 Rxb1 28.
Rxb1 Nf4 29. Kf2 e5 30. Nc2 Be6 31. g3 Nd3+ 32. Ke2 Qxe3+ 33. Nxe3 Nc5 34. Rb4
Kf8 35. Bb1 Ke7 36. Bc2 Ra8 37. Nd5+ Bxd5 38. cxd5 Kd7 39. Kd2 Kc7 40. Kc3 Rf8
41. Kd2 h5 42. Ke3 Rh8 43. h4 Rf8 44. f4 f6 45. Bd1 Rg8 46. Be2 Rg7 47. Bd1 1/2-1/2

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.05"]
[Round "9.19"]
[White "Hari, Madhavan N B"]
[Black "Dixit, Nikhil"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2363"]
[BlackElo "2392"]
[ECO "E81"]
[Opening "King's Indian"]
[Variation "Saemisch, 5...O-O"]
[WhiteFideId "25054309"]
[BlackFideId "5059534"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. f3 Bg7 4. e4 O-O 5. Nc3 d6 6. Nge2 a6 7. Be3 Nbd7 8. Qd2
b5 9. Bh6 e5 10. h4 b4 11. Nd5 Bxh6 12. Qxh6 c6 13. Nxb4 Qa5 14. Qd2 c5 15. Nd3
Qxd2+ 16. Kxd2 exd4 17. Nef4 a5 18. g4 Ne5 19. Nxe5 dxe5 20. Nd3 Nd7 21. Bh3 f6
22. g5 Nb6 23. b3 fxg5 24. Nxe5 gxh4 25. Bxc8 Raxc8 26. Rxh4 Rce8 27. f4 Re7 28.
Rah1 Nd7 29. Nd3 a4 30. e5 axb3 31. axb3 Ra8 32. Kc2 Ra2+ 33. Kb1 Rd2 34. R4h3
Rg2 35. R1h2 Rg1+ 36. Kc2 g5 37. Rh6 g4 38. e6 Nf8 39. f5 g3 40. Rh1 Rg2+ 41.
Kb1 Rd2 42. Nf4 Rb7 43. R6h4 d3 44. Rg4+ Ng6 45. Kc1 Rc2+ 46. Kd1 Rxb3 47. Nxd3
Rh2 48. Rxh2 gxh2 49. Nf2 Rb1+ 50. Ke2 Rb2+ 51. Ke3 Rxf2 52. fxg6 h1=Q 53. gxh7+
Kxh7 54. Kxf2 Qc6 55. e7 Qf6+ 0-1

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.05"]
[Round "9.20"]
[White "Johansson, Linus"]
[Black "Zielonka, Adam"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "FM"]
[WhiteElo "2415"]
[BlackElo "2348"]
[ECO "E40"]
[Opening "Nimzo-Indian"]
[Variation "4.e3"]
[WhiteFideId "1711113"]
[BlackFideId "21002096"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 d5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 c6 7. a4 O-O 8. Bd3
b6 9. cxd5 cxd5 10. Ne2 Ba6 11. f3 Bxd3 12. Qxd3 Qc8 13. e4 Qa6 14. Qe3 Nc6 15.
e5 Nd7 16. h4 f6 17. f4 fxe5 18. fxe5 Rf5 19. Ng3 Rf7 20. Qe2 Qxe2+ 21. Nxe2 Na5
22. h5 Nb3 23. Rb1 Nxc1 24. Rxc1 Rc8 25. Rf1 Rxf1+ 26. Kxf1 g5 27. Ke1 Rc4 28.
Ra1 Kg7 29. Kd2 Kh6 30. Ng3 Rc8 31. Rc1 Rc4 32. Rf1 Kg7 33. Ra1 Rc8 34. Nf1 Kh6
35. g4 Kg7 36. Ne3 Nb8 37. a5 b5 38. a6 Rc6 39. Rb1 Rb6 40. c4 dxc4 41. Nxc4
Rxa6 42. Rxb5 Nc6 43. Rb7+ Kg8 44. h6 Nxd4 45. Rg7+ Kh8 46. Re7 Kg8 47. Nd6 Nf3+
48. Ke2 1-0

[Event "53rd Rilton Cup 2025-26"]
[Site "Stockholm SWE"]
[Date "2026.01.05"]
[Round "9.21"]
[White "Kavutskiy, Kostya"]
[Black "Matsumura, Cocoro"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "CM"]
[WhiteElo "2354"]
[BlackElo "2124"]
[ECO "A07"]
[Opening "Reti"]
[Variation "King's Indian attack (Barcza system)"]
[WhiteFideId "2026384"]
[BlackFideId "36087114"]
[EventDate "2025.12.27"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. g3 Nf6 3. Bg2 c5 4. O-O Nc6 5. d4 cxd4 6. Nxd4 e5 7. Nxc6 bxc6 8.
c4 Be6 9. Qa4 Qd7 10. Nc3 Rc8 11. cxd5 cxd5 12. Qxd7+ Kxd7 13. Bg5 d4 14. Rad1
Ke8 15. Bxf6 gxf6 16. Nd5 Bxd5 17. Bxd5 Bh6 18. f4 Ke7 19. fxe5 Be3+ 20. Kg2
fxe5 21. Rxf7+ Kd6 22. Be4 Rhf8 23. Rdf1 Rxf7 24. Rxf7 h6 25. Rxa7 Rf8 26. Ra6+
Kc5 27. Rc6+ Kb4 28. Rc2 Rf2+ 29. Kh3 h5 30. Bd3 h4 31. Rc4+ Ka5 32. Rc5+ Kb4
33. Rxe5 hxg3 34. hxg3 Rf1 35. a3+ Kb3 36. Rb5+ Ka2 37. a4 Rh1+ 38. Kg4 Rh8 39.
a5 Bf2 40. a6 Be1 41. Be4 Rg8+ 42. Rg5 1-0

