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59th Biel International Chess Festival 2026 | Open | Masters (MTO)

13 Jul to 23 Jul 2026 · Biel/Bienne, Switzerland · 10 round swiss · 100min/40moves+30min/end+30sec increment per move Finished

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Top 100 players in this event

IM Savitha Shri B ★: No. 8, 7/10, performance 2396 (+7)
WGM Anna Shukhman ★: No. 10, 6½/10, performance 2378 (-6)
IM Miaoyi Lu ★: No. 12, 6½/10, performance 2388 (+2)
WGM Xeniya Balabayeva ★: No. 20, 6/10, performance 2398 (+27)

Standings

Standings, 59th Biel International Chess Festival 2026 | Open | Masters (MTO)
#	Name	Fed	RtgI	Pts	TB2	TB3
1	IM Gloeckler, Christian	GER	2506	8	10	58
2	IM Cao, Qingfeng	CHN	2365	7.5	10	58.5
3	GM Kozak, Adam	HUN	2531	7.5	10	58
4	IM Aronyak, Ghosh	IND	2549	7	10	58.5
5	GM Alexakis, Dimitris	GRE	2525	7	10	58
6	GM Gopal, G.N.	IND	2529	7	10	57.5
7	IM Savitha, Shri B ★	IND	2368	7	10	56.5
8	GM Ghosh, Diptayan	IND	2554	7	10	56
9	IM Elmi, Saad Abobaker	NOR	2399	7	9	52
10	GM Acs, Peter	HUN	2561	6.5	10	61
11	WGM Shukhman, Anna ★	FID	2443	6.5	10	55.5
12	GM Cherniaev, Alexander	ENG	2275	6.5	10	50
13	FM Ashwath, Kaushik	SGP	2278	6.5	10	46
14	IM Lu, Miaoyi ★	CHN	2392	6.5	9	51
15	Dong, Hongfu	CHN	2353	6	10	56
16	Liu, Bei	CHN	2175	6	10	56
17	IM Baenziger, Fabian	SUI	2435	6	10	55.5
18	WGM Balabayeva, Xeniya ★	KAZ	2302	6	10	55.5
19	GM Ganguly, Surya Shekhar	IND	2578	6	10	54.5
20	WGM Georgescu, Lena	SUI	2253	6	10	53.5
21	CM Pleschke, Julius Jonas	ESP	2280	6	10	52.5
22	WGM Nguyen, Thi Mai Hung	VIE	2260	6	10	52
23	IM Haimovich, Tal	ISR	2310	6	10	51
24	GM Sasikiran, Krishnan	IND	2546	6	10	50.5
25	FM Hasenohr, Benedict	SUI	2247	6	10	47.5
26	FM Dauth, Benjamin	GER	2247	6	9	45.5
27	FM Kukushkin, Ivan	BUL	2257	6	9	44.5
28	CM Vihaan, Dumir	IND	2132	6	8	45.5
29	WFM Yasaswi, Krishna Bommi	IND	2085	5.5	10	55
30	Dai, Wenzhi	CHN	2126	5.5	10	51
31	WFM Stefan, Iulia-Cristiana	ROU	2053	5.5	10	48
32	CM Matsumura, Cocoro	JPN	2225	5.5	10	47
33	Aryan, Mehta	IND	1979	5.5	10	46.5
34	CM Cervelli, Eduard	SUI	2197	5.5	10	46.5
35	Kudryavtsev, Eugene	SUI	2146	5.5	10	44
36	Joly, Julien	FRA	2257	5.5	10	42.5
37	Erne, Raphael	SUI	2166	5.5	10	42
38	CM Ling, Chenxuan	USA	2166	5	10	55.5
39	WIM Ivana Maria, Furtado	IND	2182	5	10	52.5
40	Coban, Ege	TUR	1986	5	10	52
41	Ragavan, Samarth Rajesh	USA	2106	5	10	50.5
42	Kwiatkowski, Jakub	SUI	2107	5	10	48
43	FM Fogo Esquivel, Levi Kalani Alexander	MEX	2125	5	10	46.5
44	Iafelice, Vincenzo	ITA	2086	5	10	46.5
45	Papaux, Jeremie	SUI	2102	5	10	46.5
46	Udelnov, Valentin	GER	2269	5	10	46
47	Aryan, Goyal	IND	2029	5	10	46
48	Malli, Suvirr	SUI	2120	5	10	46
49	Monteverde, Jonathan	SUI	2098	5	10	44
50	Schmidt, Florian Pascal	GER	2095	5	10	43
51	Yang, Sung-Jui	TPE	1935	5	10	42
52	CM Kunz, Andre	GER	2116	5	10	42
53	Arndt, Uwe	GER	2005	5	10	41.5
54	Bucher, Dominic	SUI	2078	5	10	41
55	CM Harish, Neeraj	USA	2201	5	9	45.5
56	Schnell, Simon	SUI	2211	5	8	49.5
57	FM Arsenie, Cristian Marc	SUI	2300	5	8	45
58	Xu, Chang(Cq)	CHN	2125	4.5	10	51
59	Tkhoruk, Roman	SUI	1967	4.5	10	50.5
60	FM Rappazzo, Johannes	SUI	2268	4.5	10	47
61	Gerrits, Augustin	BEL	2072	4.5	10	47
62	Scherler, Julius	SUI	1941	4.5	10	43.5
63	Oestmann, Lukas	SUI	1998	4.5	10	43
64	FM Celis, Joel	MAC	1981	4.5	10	39
65	Carey, Michael	USA	1946	4.5	10	38.5
66	Jelicic, Hugo	SUI	1907	4.5	9	43.5
67	Angst, Oliver	SUI	2121	4	10	46.5
68	Heitmann, Erik	GER	1949	4	10	44.5
69	Von Burg, Carl Alexander	SUI	1947	4	10	43.5
70	WCM Berezovskii, Arina	ISR	1906	4	10	43
71	Tan, Jimmy	SGP	1953	4	10	43
72	Fattori Dittmar, Luca	GER	1840	4	10	42
73	Joly, Fabrice	FRA	1907	4	10	40.5
74	Hajduk, Tomasz	POL	1921	4	10	38
75	CM Al Ibrahim, Abdulrahman	KUW	2016	4	9	44.5
76	Gireada, Daniel	ROU	2255	3.5	10	44
77	Stevens, Christian	FRA	2014	3.5	10	42.5
78	Corbat, Philippe	SUI	1893	3.5	10	42
79	Di Candia, Roberto	ITA	1988	3.5	10	42
80	Ruchat, Blaise	SUI	1912	3.5	10	40
81	Lumsdon, Andrew	SUI	2033	3.5	10	39
82	Wenger, Arejou	SUI	1873	3.5	10	36.5
83	Malli, Shiivesh Sunil	SUI	1994	3.5	10	36.5
84	Hornung, Hans Dr.	GER	1924	3.5	9	37.5
85	Petry, Martin	SUI	1999	3.5	9	36.5
86	Magnussen, Petur Gardar	FAI	1957	3.5	9	34
87	Vedant, Nayudu	SGP	1797	3.5	8	31
88	Morrison, Joseph	ENG	2048	3	10	41.5
89	WCM Damen, Josephine	NED	1971	2.5	10	39.5
90	Alsaleh, Eissa	KUW	1908	2.5	10	36
91	Rosen, Noah	SUI	1921	2	10	38
92	Wiesmann, Dominique	SUI	1978	2	7	37.5
93	St Pierre, Joseph	USA	2067	2	5	33
94	FM Simon, Ralf-Axel	GER	1935	1.5	9	32.5

TB1 Direct Encounter (DE) (Forfeited games count) · TB2 Rounds Elected to Play (REP) · TB3 Buchholz Tie-Break Variable (2026) (Gamepoints, Cut1)

Final Ranking after 10 Rounds. Official ranking from chess-results.com.

Games

Games
Round	Game	Result
3.1	Surya Shekhar Ganguly – Miaoyi Lu	½-½
3.2	Savitha Shri B – Peter Acs	0-1
3.6	Xeniya Balabayeva – Dimitris Alexakis	½-½
3.7	Julius Jonas Pleschke – Anna Shukhman	½-½

Games involving a top-100 player. Click a game to replay it.

Standings and games from Lichess broadcasts. ★ marks a player on the FIDE top 100 lists.