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grenke Open and Freestyle Open 2025

Mark Crowther - Saturday 19th April 2025

The grenke Open and Freestyle Open took place 17th to 21st April 2025. The open had top seeds Awonder Liang, Nikita Vitiugov and Ivan Saric but the Freestyle Chess960 open had the stronger field with Magnus Carlsen, Arjun Erigaisi, Fabiano Caruana, Ian Nepomniachtchi etc. I can't display Freestyle games. Carlsen impressively clonked his way through the field in the Freestyle and scored 9/9. Parham Maghsoodloo finished in second place on tie-break after claims a place in Las Vegas, it's my understanding that the remaining 6 players will play off for another place in that Freestyle-Chess Grand Slam event sometime soon.

S Aswath and Brandon Jacobson finished on 8/9 in the regular chess open, finishing in that tie-break order. Finally I was interested to see that grenke had a rebrand about 10 months ago and went from the all caps GRENKE to all small letters grenke (with a modern font). No doubt someone was paid big bucks for this genius move.

grenke Chess Open 2025 (Karlsruhe GER)
Thu 17th Apr 2025 - Mon 21st Apr 2025 - Official Site

grenke Chess Open 2025 (9 Rds Swiss Indiv TC:90m:30m+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Games

grenke Freestyle Open (9 Rds Swiss Indiv TC:90m:30m+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Games

grenke Chess Open 2025 (9 Rds Swiss Indiv TC: 90m:30m+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Games

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grenke Chess Open 2025 Karlsruhe GER Thu 17th Apr 2025 - Mon 21st Apr 2025 Leading Final Round 9 Standings:
Rk	SNo	Name	Ti	FED	Rtg	Pts	TB1
1	38	Aswath, S	IM	IND	2466	8	57
2	13	Jacobson, Brandon	GM	USA	2570	8	54
3	3	Saric, Ivan	GM	CRO	2659	7.5	55
	5	Yuffa, Daniil	GM	ESP	2649	7.5	55
5	14	Kazakouski, Valery	GM	LTU	2563	7.5	54
6	7	Ivic, Velimir	GM	SRB	2623	7.5	53
7	10	Bartel, Mateusz	GM	POL	2595	7.5	51.5
8	11	Meier, Georg	GM	URU	2595	7.5	51
9	12	Muradli, Mahammad	GM	AZE	2588	7	58
10	20	Subelj, Jan	GM	SLO	2528	7	56
11	17	Amar, Elham	GM	NOR	2546	7	55
12	8	Donchenko, Alexander	GM	GER	2617	7	54
	37	Pfreundt, Jakob	IM	GER	2467	7	54
14	19	Woodward, Andy	GM	USA	2536	7	53.5
15	18	Engel, Luis	GM	GER	2544	7	53
16	27	Noe, Christopher	IM	GER	2508	7	52
17	16	Sanal, Vahap	GM	TUR	2550	7	51.5
	33	Trost, Edvin	IM	SWE	2481	7	51.5
19	6	Indjic, Aleksandar	GM	SRB	2644	7	50.5
	49	Harshavardhan G B,	IM	IND	2431	7	50.5
	69	Schneider, Ilja	IM	GER	2408	7	50.5
22	24	Maksimovic, Bojan	IM	BIH	2512	7	49.5
23	110	Bettalli, Francesco	FM	ITA	2355	7	48.5
24	54	Lu, Miaoyi	IM	CHN	2429	7	48
25	219	Csontos, Aron		HUN	2262	7	46
26	25	Costa, Leonardo	IM	GER	2510	6.5	54.5
	28	Rozen, Eytan	IM	ISR	2508	6.5	54.5
28	21	Ten Hertog, Hugo	GM	NED	2528	6.5	52.5
29	57	Nothnagel, Marian Can	FM	GER	2424	6.5	51.5
	66	Czopor, Maciej	IM	POL	2412	6.5	51.5
	72	Schmider, Niklas	IM	GER	2406	6.5	51.5
32	29	Bellahcene, Bilel	GM	ALG	2506	6.5	51
	31	Roshka, Yevgeniy	IM	UKR	2488	6.5	51
	41	Panjwani, Raja	IM	CAN	2443	6.5	51
	46	Schmidek, Emil	IM	GER	2435	6.5	51
36	142	Vardanyan, Aras	FM	LTU	2317	6.5	50.5
	174	Hrebenshchykova, Yelyzaveta	WIM	UKR	2296	6.5	50.5
38	106	Mohamed Anees M,	FM	IND	2359	6.5	50
39	75	Karsay, Pascal	FM	GER	2401	6.5	49.5
	80	Degraeve, Remy	IM	FRA	2393	6.5	49.5
	92	Lad Mandar Pradip,		IND	2375	6.5	49.5
42	135	Roubalik, Jakub	FM	CZE	2323	6.5	49
43	59	Colbow, Collin	IM	GER	2422	6.5	48.5
	97	Barria, Jose	FM	POR	2368	6.5	48.5
45	47	Shagbazyan, Taron	FM	UKR	2434	6.5	48
	102	Decuigniere, Tom	IM	FRA	2359	6.5	48
47	87	Merario Alarcon, Andres	IM	ESP	2378	6.5	47.5
	89	Garner, Isaac		GER	2377	6.5	47.5
49	77	Fedorovsky, Michael	IM	GER	2397	6.5	47
	119	Reimann, Sebastian		GER	2346	6.5	47
875 players

grenke Freestyle Open (9 Rds Swiss Indiv TC: 90m:30m+30spm(1)) - Games in PGN: Games

grenke Freestyle Open Karlsruhe GER Thu 17th Apr 2025 - Mon 21st Apr 2025 Leading Final Round 9 Standings:
Rk	SNo	Name	Ti	FED	Rtg	Pts	TB1
1	1	Carlsen, Magnus	GM	NOR	2837	9	52.5
2	20	Maghsoodloo, Parham	GM	IRI	2684	7	52.5
3	17	Esipenko, Andrey	GM	FID	2696	7	52
	24	Svane, Frederik	GM	GER	2668	7	52
5	9	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	GM	USA	2738	7	50.5
	23	Sarana, Alexey	GM	SRB	2672	7	50.5
7	2	Erigaisi Arjun,	GM	IND	2782	7	50
	3	Caruana, Fabiano	GM	USA	2776	7	50
9	29	Mamedov, Rauf	GM	AZE	2657	6.5	56
10	32	Mendonca, Leon Luke	GM	IND	2643	6.5	54
11	50	Pranesh M,	GM	IND	2572	6.5	53
12	16	Sindarov, Javokhir	GM	UZB	2706	6.5	52.5
13	14	Keymer, Vincent	GM	GER	2718	6.5	52
14	7	So, Wesley	GM	USA	2748	6.5	50.5
	12	Rapport, Richard	GM	HUN	2722	6.5	50.5
16	15	Yu, Yangyi	GM	CHN	2714	6.5	50
	34	Anton Guijarro, David	GM	ESP	2639	6.5	50
18	36	Svane, Rasmus	GM	GER	2625	6.5	49.5
19	13	Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime	GM	FRA	2722	6.5	49
	19	Robson, Ray	GM	USA	2692	6.5	49
	21	Grischuk, Alexander	GM	RUS	2682	6.5	49
22	33	Grandelius, Nils	GM	SWE	2640	6.5	48.5
23	28	Oparin, Grigoriy	GM	USA	2660	6.5	48
24	30	Karthikeyan, Murali	GM	IND	2651	6.5	47.5
25	52	Pultinevicius, Paulius	GM	LTU	2558	6	55.5
26	4	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	GM	RUS	2757	6	54
27	26	Bluebaum, Matthias	GM	GER	2662	6	53.5
	43	Jobava, Baadur	GM	GEO	2600	6	53.5
29	102	Heinemann, Josefine	WGM	GER	2342	6	52.5
30	25	Navara, David	GM	CZE	2665	6	51.5
	38	Aryan Chopra,	GM	IND	2620	6	51.5
32	35	Bacrot, Etienne	GM	FRA	2633	6	51
33	8	Aronian, Levon	GM	USA	2747	6	50.5
	10	Niemann, Hans Moke	GM	USA	2736	6	50.5
	64	Gokerkan, Cem Kaan	GM	TUR	2489	6	50.5
36	22	Van Foreest, Jorden	GM	NED	2681	6	50
	27	Tabatabaei, M. Amin	GM	IRI	2661	6	50
	60	Mikhalevski, Victor	GM	ISR	2513	6	50
39	39	Erdogmus, Yagiz Kaan	GM	TUR	2618	6	49.5
	41	Kamsky, Gata	GM	USA	2603	6	49.5
	74	Druska, Juraj	IM	SVK	2442	6	49.5
42	48	Piorun, Kacper	GM	POL	2577	6	49
	95	Hacker, Jonas	IM	GER	2370	6	49
44	11	Le, Quang Liem	GM	VIE	2729	6	48.5
45	68	Koelle, Tobias	IM	GER	2459	6	48
46	31	Dardha, Daniel	GM	BEL	2650	6	47.5
	37	Kollars, Dmitrij	GM	GER	2623	6	47.5
	49	Sonis, Francesco	GM	ITA	2576	6	47.5
	58	Schoppen, Casper	GM	NED	2529	6	47.5
	63	Assaubayeva, Bibisara	IM	KAZ	2494	6	47.5
297 players

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