The 3rd edition of the El Llobregat Open Chess Tournament 2022 kicked off yesterday in Saint Boi de Llobregat, Barcelona. A very strong field of 179 players includes 50 grandmasters and 44 international masters, and the first round was marked with a number of upsets. After the first round, 70 players score 1/1 and tie for the top, followed by a big group of 36 players who score 0.5/1 points.
3rd El Llobregat Open – LIVE games / Round 1 results
| Bo. | No. | Name | Rtg | Pts. | Result | Pts. | Name | Rtg | No. | ||
| 1 | 52 | IM | Lubbe Nikolas | 2486 | 1 | 1 | GM | Vallejo Pons Francisco | 2716 | 1 | |
| 2 | 54 | GM | Movsziszian Karen | 2477 | 1 | 1 | GM | Niemann Hans Moke | 2699 | 3 | |
| 3 | 4 | GM | Cheparinov Ivan | 2694 | 1 | 1 | GM | Velten Paul | 2471 | 56 | |
| 4 | 6 | GM | Alekseenko Kirill | 2687 | 1 | 1 | IM | Wadsworth Matthew J | 2470 | 58 | |
| 5 | 55 | IM | Zwirs Nico | 2476 | 1 | 1 | GM | Santos Latasa Jaime | 2665 | 7 | |
| 6 | 59 | IM | Samant Aditya S | 2467 | 1 | 1 | GM | Tabatabaei M. Amin | 2655 | 9 | |
| 7 | 10 | GM | Bluebaum Matthias | 2651 | 1 | 1 | GM | Sochacki Christophe | 2459 | 60 | |
| 8 | 12 | GM | Donchenko Alexander | 2645 | 1 | 1 | FM | Samadov Read | 2450 | 62 | |
| 9 | 13 | GM | Aryan Chopra | 2629 | 1 | 1 | IM | Woodward Andy | 2447 | 64 | |
| 10 | 15 | GM | Karthikeyan Murali | 2623 | 1 | 1 | GM | Stefanova Antoaneta | 2442 | 66 | |
| 11 | 61 | GM | Nijboer Friso | 2452 | 1 | 1 | GM | Safarli Eltaj | 2616 | 18 | |
| 12 | 21 | GM | Yuffa Daniil | 2587 | 1 | 1 | FM | Grieve Harry | 2431 | 69 | |
| 13 | 65 | IM | Kaasen Tor Fredrik | 2444 | 1 | 1 | GM | Lagarde Maxime | 2573 | 22 | |
| 14 | 23 | GM | Svane Frederik | 2568 | 1 | 1 | IM | Ceres Dragos | 2412 | 75 | |
| 15 | 68 | FM | Royal Shreyas | 2435 | 1 | 1 | GM | Meshkovs Nikita | 2563 | 24 | |
| 16 | 25 | GM | Tin Jingyao | 2562 | 1 | 1 | IM | Sammed Jaykumar Shete | 2408 | 76 | |
| 17 | 70 | FM | Bilych Olexiy | 2429 | 1 | 1 | GM | Pultinevicius Paulius | 2561 | 26 | |
| 18 | 27 | GM | Dragnev Valentin | 2551 | 1 | 1 | IM | Bournel Antoine | 2404 | 78 | |
| 19 | 29 | IM | Sosa Tomas | 2548 | 1 | 1 | FM | Leisch Lukas | 2395 | 80 | |
| 20 | 31 | IM | Kacharava Nikolozi | 2532 | 1 | 1 | WGM | Injac Teodora | 2385 | 81 | |
| 21 | 72 | IM | Minzer Claudio Javier | 2423 | 1 | 1 | GM | Petkov Momchil | 2531 | 32 | |
| 22 | 77 | GM | De Vreugt Dennis | 2407 | 1 | 1 | GM | Arjun Kalyan | 2526 | 34 | |
| 23 | 35 | GM | Maurizzi Marc`andria | 2526 | 1 | 1 | IM | Vassallo Barroche Mauricio | 2384 | 83 | |
| 24 | 79 | IM | Maltsevskaya Aleksandra | 2402 | 1 | 1 | IM | Beerdsen Thomas | 2520 | 36 | |
| 25 | 84 | IM | Hernandez Cristian Andres | 2384 | 1 | 1 | GM | Dvirnyy Danyyil | 2514 | 38 | |
| 26 | 98 | WGM | Divya Deshmukh | 2338 | 1 | 1 | IM | Seo Jung Min | 2507 | 40 | |
| 27 | 41 | GM | Basso Pier Luigi | 2503 | 1 | 1 | FM | Celik Hasan Huseyin | 2376 | 85 | |
| 28 | 102 | FM | Habans Aguerrea Javier | 2321 | 1 | 1 | IM | Gines Esteo Pedro Antonio | 2492 | 44 | |
| 29 | 45 | GM | Arizmendi Martinez Julen Luis | 2491 | 1 | 1 | FM | Domene Mulyukov Alexander | 2271 | 125 | |
| 30 | 105 | WGM | Heinemann Josefine | 2316 | 1 | 1 | IM | Clarke Brandon G I | 2489 | 46 | |
| 31 | 47 | IM | Dudin Gleb | 2489 | 1 | 1 | IM | Sai Agni Jeevitesh J | 2226 | 139 | |
| 32 | 169 | AIM | Gomez Aguirre Juan Alberto | 2108 | 1 | 1 | GM | Sankalp Gupta | 2488 | 48 | |
| 33 | 49 | IM | Samunenkov Ihor | 2488 | 1 | 1 | Perea Fruet Lorenzo | 2141 | 161 | ||
| 34 | 175 | Safarian Alek | 1991 | 1 | 1 | IM | Aditya Mittal | 2486 | 50 | ||
| 35 | 51 | IM | Can Isik | 2486 | 1 | 1 | Giacomini Hector | 2082 | 171 | ||
| 36 | 2 | GM | Yu Yangyi | 2716 | ½ | ½ | IM | Gungl Theo | 2352 | 93 | |
| 37 | 96 | IM | Jerez Perez Alfonso | 2343 | ½ | ½ | GM | Fedoseev Vladimir | 2688 | 5 | |
| 38 | 8 | GM | Tari Aryan | 2660 | ½ | ½ | IM | Ootes Lars | 2370 | 87 | |
| 39 | 90 | FM | Adarsh Tripathi | 2361 | ½ | ½ | GM | Shevchenko Kirill | 2649 | 11 | |
| 40 | 106 | WGM | Klek Hanna Marie | 2315 | ½ | ½ | GM | Bartel Mateusz | 2627 | 14 | |
| 41 | 17 | GM | Svane Rasmus | 2619 | ½ | ½ | FM | Yordanov Lachezar | 2294 | 119 | |
| 42 | 100 | FM | Hagner Bennet | 2336 | ½ | ½ | GM | Sanal Vahap | 2590 | 20 | |
| 43 | 116 | FM | Lim Zhuo Ren | 2296 | ½ | ½ | GM | Kaidanov Gregory | 2549 | 28 | |
| 44 | 114 | FM | Jain Kashish Manoj | 2300 | ½ | ½ | GM | Krzyzanowski Marcin | 2538 | 30 | |
| 45 | 33 | GM | Alsina Leal Daniel | 2527 | ½ | ½ | FM | Esplugas Esteve Vicenc | 2321 | 103 | |
| 46 | 37 | GM | Vasquez Schroeder Rodrigo | 2515 | ½ | ½ | FM | Lye Lik Zang | 2258 | 129 | |
| 47 | 154 | CM | Ribera Veganzones Josep Maria | 2167 | ½ | ½ | IM | Ioannidis Evgenios | 2496 | 42 | |
| 48 | 43 | GM | Lopez Martinez Josep Manuel | 2493 | ½ | ½ | FM | Kouskoutis Georgios-Alexandros | 2279 | 123 | |
| 49 | 57 | IM | Gokerkan Cem Kaan | 2470 | ½ | ½ | CM | Lacroix Romain | 2189 | 149 | |
| 50 | 63 | GM | Narciso Dublan Marc | 2448 | ½ | ½ | FM | Ochedzan Tymon | 2209 | 143 | |
| 51 | 128 | FM | Gombocz Ferenc Jr. | 2260 | ½ | ½ | IM | Garcia Ramos Daniel | 2439 | 67 | |
| 52 | 160 | Androutsopoulos-Agiotatos Vasil | 2149 | ½ | ½ | IM | Ladron De Guevara Pinto Paolo | 2425 | 71 | ||
| 53 | 158 | Fanninger Leon | 2152 | ½ | ½ | IM | Moksh Amit Doshi | 2420 | 73 | ||
| 54 | 132 | CM | Ince Taylan Ruzgar | 2247 | 0 | 0 | GM | Puranik Abhimanyu | 2620 | 16 | |
| 55 | 39 | GM | Kulaots Kaido | 2511 | 0 | 0 | CM | Vaibhav Jayant Raut | 2247 | 133 | |
| 56 | 74 | FM | Vitier Vazquez Cristian | 2419 | 0 | 0 | IM | Gonzalez Rodriguez Jorge A. | 2246 | 134 | |
| 57 | 82 | IM | Suarez Uriel Adrian | 2384 | 0 | 0 | Joshua A P | 2246 | 135 | ||
| 58 | 86 | FM | Seemann Jakub | 2375 | 0 | 0 | FM | Alvarez Albiol Victor | 2240 | 136 | |
| 59 | 88 | IM | Fitzsimons David | 2368 | 0 | 0 | FM | Ventura Bolet Maxim | 2238 | 137 | |
| 60 | 138 | WGM | Arribas Robaina Maritza | 2232 | 0 | 0 | IM | Valenzuela Gomez Fernando | 2368 | 89 | |
| 61 | 140 | IM | Martin Gonzalez Angel | 2225 | 0 | 0 | IM | Valmana Canto Jaime | 2358 | 91 | |
| 62 | 92 | FM | Aarav Dengla | 2357 | 0 | 0 | FM | Jimenez Ruano Adrian | 2223 | 141 | |
| 63 | 94 | IM | Peelen Piet | 2350 | 0 | 0 | CM | Ribera Veganzones Serni | 2199 | 145 | |
| 64 | 142 | CM | Dahale Atul | 2222 | 0 | 0 | FM | Cesar Maestre Bernardo | 2344 | 95 | |
| 65 | 144 | FM | Webb Laurence E | 2201 | 0 | 0 | IM | Nyysti Sampsa | 2338 | 97 | |
| 66 | 146 | WFM | Cosman Andreea-Marioara | 2199 | 0 | 0 | FM | Giannoulakis Lampros | 2338 | 99 | |
| 67 | 148 | Gasic Merino Franco | 2190 | 0 | 0 | WGM | Pourkashiyan Atousa | 2322 | 101 | ||
| 68 | 104 | WGM | Priyanka Nutakki | 2320 | 0 | 0 | Castro Quijano Eduardo | 2195 | 147 | ||
| 69 | 150 | De Boer Bas | 2183 | 0 | 0 | WGM | Lubbe Melanie | 2314 | 107 | ||
| 70 | 108 | FM | Dedebas Emre Emin | 2312 | 0 | 0 | CM | Wong Zhenyong Jayden | 2181 | 151 | |
| 71 | 152 | FM | Martin Barcelo Carles | 2176 | 0 | 0 | FM | Tarhan Adar | 2312 | 109 | |
| 72 | 110 | FM | Bhambure Shantanu | 2306 | 0 | 0 | WIM | Llaneza Vega Patricia | 2174 | 153 | |
| 73 | 156 | De La Puerta Cresis Javier | 2161 | 0 | 0 | FM | Dixit Nikhil | 2306 | 111 | ||
| 74 | 112 | FM | Kristoferitsch Daniel | 2303 | 0 | 0 | Perez Ordonez Jose Ramon | 2164 | 155 | ||
| 75 | 162 | FM | Jeet Jain | 2139 | 0 | 0 | WGM | Enkhtuul Altan-Ulzii | 2302 | 113 | |
| 76 | 164 | Nunez Miranda Adrian | 2122 | 0 | 0 | IM | Srinath Rao S.V. | 2296 | 115 | ||
| 77 | 166 | CM | Bauer Thomas | 2118 | 0 | 0 | WGM | Navrotescu Andreea | 2294 | 117 | |
| 78 | 118 | WGM | Doluhanova Evgeniya | 2294 | 0 | 0 | FM | Weeks Manuel | 2160 | 157 | |
| 79 | 120 | FM | Becerra Juan David | 2292 | 0 | 0 | WFM | Pipiras Filipa Fortuna | 2149 | 159 | |
| 80 | 168 | Iglesias Leon Francisco Javier | 2109 | 0 | 0 | FM | Jirasek Pavel | 2291 | 121 | ||
| 81 | 122 | GM | Pogorelov Ruslan | 2288 | 0 | 0 | FM | Mahitosh Dey | 2134 | 163 | |
| 82 | 124 | Hilverda Alexander | 2275 | 0 | 0 | FM | Arvelo Leo Gian Carlo | 2120 | 165 | ||
| 83 | 126 | FM | Durak Can | 2266 | 0 | 0 | FM | Ayza Ballester Jordi | 2116 | 167 | |
| 84 | 170 | WFM | Guadamuro Torrente Anabel | 2086 | 0 | 0 | FM | Ruiz Buendia Miguel | 2260 | 127 | |
| 85 | 130 | FM | Ronka Erik | 2258 | 0 | 0 | AIM | Villa Tornero Alex | 2050 | 173 | |
| 86 | 172 | Jinan Jomon | 2056 | 0 | 0 | Lever Erwan | 2250 | 131 | |||
| 87 | 174 | FM | Montero Martinez Cristhian | 2007 | 0 | 1 | bye | ||||
| 88 | 19 | GM | Bernadskiy Vitaliy | 2615 | 0 | 0 | not paired | ||||
| 89 | 53 | GM | Yankelevich Lev | 2481 | 0 | 0 | not paired |
