The 3rd edition of the El Llobregat Open Chess Tournament 2022 takes place from November 30 to December 8 in Sant Boi de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain gathering 50 grandmasters, 44 international masters and a total of 172 players fighting for the prize fund of 29.500eur!
Hans Niemann is one of the top seeds of the event and held the first place till the seventh round. Suffering a loss against GM Tin Jingyao, Niemann dropped to the sixth rank and scores 5 points. With only two rounds to go, Niemann needs a great finish to get back on the top of the rankings. He will have Black pieces against Dvirnyy Danyyil in the eighth round. See the Rankings after 7 played rounds below
Replay the game: Hans Niemann vs Tin Jingyao 0-1
While Niemann competes in the El Llobregat Open 2022, Magnus Carlsen, chess.com, and Daniel Rensch filed a motion to dismiss Niemann’s complaints from the lawsuit in which the 19-year-old seeks a total of 400 million USD in damages from “Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen aka Magnus Carlsen, Play Magnus as Play Magnus Group, Chess.com LLC, Daniel Rensch aka Danny Rensch, and Hikaru Nakamura”.
Rankings after 7 rounds – El Llobregat Open A 2022:
| Rk. | Name | Typ | sex | FED | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 | |
| 1 | GM | Tin Jingyao | SGP | 2562 | 6 | 27 | 30 | 24.5 | ||
| 2 | IM | Aditya Mittal | IND | 2486 | 6 | 26 | 26 | 20.8 | ||
| 3 | GM | Bluebaum Matthias | GER | 2651 | 5.5 | 28 | 31 | 22.5 | ||
| 4 | GM | Safarli Eltaj | AZE | 2616 | 5.5 | 28 | 30 | 22 | ||
| 5 | GM | Dvirnyy Danyyil | ITA | 2514 | 5.5 | 24 | 27 | 21 | ||
| 6 | GM | Niemann Hans Moke | USA | 2699 | 5 | 32 | 35 | 23.8 | ||
| 7 | GM | Vallejo Pons Francisco | ESP | 2716 | 5 | 32 | 35 | 23.8 | ||
| 8 | GM | Tabatabaei M. Amin | IRI | 2655 | 5 | 30 | 33 | 22.3 | ||
| 9 | GM | Alekseenko Kirill | FID | 2687 | 5 | 30 | 33 | 23 | ||
| 10 | GM | Yu Yangyi | CHN | 2716 | 5 | 29 | 33 | 22.5 | ||
| 11 | GM | Sanal Vahap | TUR | 2590 | 5 | 28 | 32 | 22.3 | ||
| 12 | GM | Donchenko Alexander | GER | 2645 | 5 | 28 | 32 | 21.8 | ||
| 13 | GM | Aryan Chopra | IND | 2629 | 5 | 28 | 31 | 20.8 | ||
| 14 | GM | Yuffa Daniil | ESP | 2587 | 5 | 27 | 29 | 19 | ||
| 15 | GM | Dragnev Valentin | AUT | 2551 | 5 | 26 | 30 | 20.3 | ||
| 16 | GM | Arjun Kalyan | IND | 2526 | 5 | 26 | 29 | 19.3 | ||
| 17 | IM | Kacharava Nikolozi | GEO | 2532 | 5 | 26 | 29 | 19.3 | ||
| 18 | GM | Meshkovs Nikita | LAT | 2563 | 5 | 25 | 29 | 19.8 | ||
| 19 | GM | Krzyzanowski Marcin | POL | 2538 | 5 | 25 | 28 | 19 | ||
| 20 | GM | Movsziszian Karen | S50 | ARM | 2477 | 5 | 25 | 28 | 18 | |
| 21 | GM | Svane Rasmus | GER | 2619 | 5 | 25 | 28 | 19.3 | ||
| 22 | GM | Santos Latasa Jaime | ESP | 2665 | 5 | 25 | 27 | 18.3 | ||
| 23 | GM | Kulaots Kaido | EST | 2511 | 5 | 24 | 26 | 18 | ||
| 24 | GM | Kaidanov Gregory | S50 | USA | 2549 | 5 | 23 | 26 | 18.3 | |
| 25 | GM | Bartel Mateusz | POL | 2627 | 4.5 | 27 | 31 | 18.3 | ||
| 26 | GM | Svane Frederik | GER | 2568 | 4.5 | 27 | 31 | 17.3 | ||
| 27 | IM | Samant Aditya S | IND | 2467 | 4.5 | 27 | 29 | 16.8 | ||
| 28 | GM | Shevchenko Kirill | UKR | 2649 | 4.5 | 26 | 29 | 17 | ||
| 29 | IM | Seo Jung Min | SWE | 2507 | 4.5 | 26 | 29 | 17.3 | ||
| 30 | GM | Velten Paul | FRA | 2471 | 4.5 | 26 | 28 | 16.3 | ||
| 31 | GM | Lagarde Maxime | FRA | 2573 | 4.5 | 26 | 29 | 17.5 | ||
| 32 | GM | Fedoseev Vladimir | FID | 2688 | 4.5 | 26 | 29 | 17 | ||
| 33 | GM | Tari Aryan | NOR | 2660 | 4.5 | 25 | 28 | 17.3 | ||
| 34 | IM | Kaasen Tor Fredrik | NOR | 2444 | 4.5 | 25 | 28 | 16.3 | ||
| 35 | IM | Gokerkan Cem Kaan | TUR | 2470 | 4.5 | 25 | 28 | 15.8 | ||
| 36 | GM | Karthikeyan Murali | IND | 2623 | 4.5 | 25 | 28 | 16.5 | ||
| 37 | IM | Lubbe Nikolas | GER | 2486 | 4.5 | 25 | 28 | 15.3 | ||
| 38 | IM | Gines Esteo Pedro Antonio | ESP | 2492 | 4.5 | 25 | 28 | 15.3 | ||
| 39 | GM | Petkov Momchil | BUL | 2531 | 4.5 | 25 | 27 | 16.3 | ||
| 40 | GM | Sankalp Gupta | IND | 2488 | 4.5 | 25 | 26 | 14.8 | ||
| 41 | GM | Basso Pier Luigi | ITA | 2503 | 4.5 | 24 | 26 | 14.8 | ||
| 42 | GM | Pultinevicius Paulius | LTU | 2561 | 4.5 | 24 | 27 | 16.5 | ||
| 43 | IM | Sosa Tomas | ARG | 2548 | 4.5 | 24 | 25 | 14.3 | ||
| 44 | GM | Vasquez Schroeder Rodrigo | S50 | CHI | 2515 | 4.5 | 23 | 26 | 16.3 | |
| 45 | FM | Hagner Bennet | GER | 2336 | 4.5 | 23 | 26 | 14.8 | ||
| 46 | IM | Wadsworth Matthew J | ENG | 2470 | 4.5 | 23 | 26 | 14 | ||
| 47 | FM | Celik Hasan Huseyin | TUR | 2376 | 4 | 29 | 30 | 15.5 | ||
| 48 | GM | Cheparinov Ivan | BUL | 2694 | 4 | 28 | 31 | 15.5 | ||
| 49 | IM | Sai Agni Jeevitesh J | IND | 2226 | 4 | 26 | 29 | 14.5 | ||
| 50 | GM | Arizmendi Martinez Julen Luis | ESP | 2491 | 4 | 26 | 28 | 14.3 | ||
| 51 | IM | Samunenkov Ihor | UKR | 2488 | 4 | 25 | 28 | 13 | ||
| 52 | GM | Nijboer Friso | S50 | NED | 2452 | 4 | 25 | 28 | 13 | |
| 53 | FM | Domene Mulyukov Alexander | ESP | 2271 | 4 | 25 | 27 | 14.5 | ||
| 54 | FM | Lye Lik Zang | MAS | 2258 | 4 | 25 | 27 | 14 | ||
| 55 | FM | Samadov Read | AZE | 2450 | 4 | 24 | 27 | 14 | ||
| 56 | IM | Woodward Andy | USA | 2447 | 4 | 24 | 27 | 12.8 | ||
| 57 | FM | Grieve Harry | ENG | 2431 | 4 | 24 | 26 | 12.3 | ||
| 58 | WGM | Injac Teodora | w | SRB | 2385 | 4 | 24 | 26 | 11.5 | |
| 59 | GM | Maurizzi Marc`andria | FRA | 2526 | 4 | 24 | 27 | 14.8 | ||
| 60 | IM | Beerdsen Thomas | NED | 2520 | 4 | 24 | 27 | 13.8 | ||
| 61 | IM | Ootes Lars | NED | 2370 | 4 | 24 | 26 | 12.8 | ||
| 62 | IM | Sammed Jaykumar Shete | IND | 2408 | 4 | 24 | 26 | 11 | ||
| 63 | IM | Can Isik | TUR | 2486 | 4 | 24 | 26 | 12.5 | ||
| 64 | GM | Lopez Martinez Josep Manuel | ESP | 2493 | 4 | 23 | 26 | 15 | ||
| 65 | IM | Valenzuela Gomez Fernando | CHI | 2368 | 4 | 23 | 25 | 12 | ||
| 66 | IM | Maltsevskaya Aleksandra | w | POL | 2402 | 4 | 23 | 24 | 10.5 | |
| 67 | GM | Alsina Leal Daniel | ESP | 2527 | 4 | 22 | 25 | 12.3 | ||
| 68 | FM | Giannoulakis Lampros | GRE | 2338 | 4 | 21 | 23 | 11.8 | ||
| 69 | WGM | Doluhanova Evgeniya | w | UKR | 2294 | 4 | 21 | 23 | 11 | |
| 70 | IM | Ceres Dragos | MDA | 2412 | 4 | 20 | 23 | 12.3 | ||
| 71 | GM | Narciso Dublan Marc | ESP | 2448 | 4 | 20 | 23 | 11.8 | ||
| 72 | IM | Garcia Ramos Daniel | ESP | 2439 | 4 | 20 | 22 | 11.5 | ||
| 73 | Jinan Jomon | IND | 2056 | 4 | 20 | 22 | 11.5 | |||
| 74 | FM | Seemann Jakub | POL | 2375 | 3.5 | 27 | 28 | 10.5 | ||
| 75 | FM | Bilych Olexiy | UKR | 2429 | 3.5 | 26 | 28 | 11.8 | ||
| 76 | FM | Yordanov Lachezar | BUL | 2294 | 3.5 | 25 | 29 | 13 | ||
| 77 | FM | Jain Kashish Manoj | IND | 2300 | 3.5 | 25 | 27 | 12 | ||
| 78 | WGM | Divya Deshmukh | w | IND | 2338 | 3.5 | 25 | 27 | 11 | |
| 79 | FM | Royal Shreyas | ENG | 2435 | 3.5 | 24 | 27 | 11.8 | ||
| 80 | IM | Clarke Brandon G I | ENG | 2489 | 3.5 | 24 | 27 | 10.5 | ||
| 81 | FM | Becerra Juan David | COL | 2292 | 3.5 | 24 | 26 | 10.5 | ||
| 82 | Hilverda Alexander | GER | 2275 | 3.5 | 23 | 25 | 10.3 | |||
| 83 | IM | Ladron De Guevara Pinto Paolo | ESP | 2425 | 3.5 | 23 | 25 | 10 | ||
| 84 | WGM | Enkhtuul Altan-Ulzii | w | MGL | 2302 | 3.5 | 23 | 25 | 9.25 | |
| 85 | IM | Valmana Canto Jaime | ESP | 2358 | 3.5 | 23 | 23 | 8.75 | ||
| 86 | Joshua A P | IND | 2246 | 3.5 | 22 | 25 | 11.3 | |||
| 87 | IM | Nyysti Sampsa | FIN | 2338 | 3.5 | 22 | 24 | 9.75 | ||
| 88 | WGM | Klek Hanna Marie | w | GER | 2315 | 3.5 | 22 | 23 | 9 | |
| 89 | GM | Stefanova Antoaneta | w | BUL | 2442 | 3.5 | 22 | 25 | 10.8 | |
| 90 | IM | Suarez Uriel Adrian | ESP | 2384 | 3.5 | 22 | 24 | 11.3 | ||
| 91 | IM | Dudin Gleb | FID | 2489 | 3.5 | 21 | 24 | 11.5 | ||
| 92 | IM | Bournel Antoine | FRA | 2404 | 3.5 | 21 | 23 | 8.5 | ||
| 93 | FM | Durak Can | TUR | 2266 | 3.5 | 21 | 22 | 9 | ||
| 94 | FM | Leisch Lukas | AUT | 2395 | 3.5 | 21 | 22 | 7.5 | ||
| 95 | WGM | Heinemann Josefine | w | GER | 2316 | 3.5 | 20 | 22 | 10.3 | |
| 96 | IM | Fitzsimons David | IRL | 2368 | 3.5 | 20 | 22 | 7.25 | ||
| 97 | FM | Bhambure Shantanu | IND | 2306 | 3.5 | 20 | 21 | 8.75 | ||
| 98 | FM | Tarhan Adar | TUR | 2312 | 3.5 | 20 | 22 | 9 | ||
| 99 | FM | Adarsh Tripathi | IND | 2361 | 3.5 | 20 | 21 | 8.75 | ||
| 100 | FM | Kouskoutis Georgios-Alexandros | GRE | 2279 | 3.5 | 19 | 21 | 8.75 | ||
| 101 | FM | Vitier Vazquez Cristian | CUB | 2419 | 3.5 | 18 | 20 | 9.5 | ||
| 102 | FM | Esplugas Esteve Vicenc | ESP | 2321 | 3 | 25 | 28 | 11 | ||
| 103 | IM | Vassallo Barroche Mauricio | S50 | ESP | 2384 | 3 | 25 | 27 | 9.5 | |
| 104 | FM | Ronka Erik | FIN | 2258 | 3 | 25 | 27 | 9.5 | ||
| 105 | FM | Lim Zhuo Ren | MAS | 2296 | 3 | 25 | 26 | 10 | ||
| 106 | WGM | Pourkashiyan Atousa | w | USA | 2322 | 3 | 24 | 27 | 9.75 | |
| 107 | IM | Zwirs Nico | NED | 2476 | 3 | 24 | 26 | 9.5 | ||
| 108 | FM | Aarav Dengla | IND | 2357 | 3 | 24 | 26 | 8.5 | ||
| 109 | FM | Cesar Maestre Bernardo | ESP | 2344 | 3 | 24 | 26 | 7.5 | ||
| 110 | FM | Kristoferitsch Daniel | AUT | 2303 | 3 | 23 | 25 | 8.25 | ||
| 111 | IM | Minzer Claudio Javier | S50 | ARG | 2423 | 3 | 23 | 25 | 8.75 | |
| 112 | FM | Gombocz Ferenc Jr. | HUN | 2260 | 3 | 23 | 25 | 9.25 | ||
| 113 | IM | Peelen Piet | S50 | NED | 2350 | 3 | 23 | 25 | 7 | |
| 114 | FM | Habans Aguerrea Javier | ESP | 2321 | 3 | 23 | 24 | 8 | ||
| 115 | FM | Dedebas Emre Emin | TUR | 2312 | 3 | 23 | 24 | 7.75 | ||
| 116 | IM | Jerez Perez Alfonso | S50 | ESP | 2343 | 3 | 22 | 24 | 8.25 | |
| 117 | FM | Ochedzan Tymon | POL | 2209 | 3 | 22 | 24 | 7.75 | ||
| 118 | FM | Jirasek Pavel | CZE | 2291 | 3 | 22 | 23 | 6.75 | ||
| 119 | GM | Pogorelov Ruslan | S50 | UKR | 2288 | 3 | 21 | 22 | 6.25 | |
| 120 | CM | Ince Taylan Ruzgar | TUR | 2247 | 3 | 21 | 22 | 6.75 | ||
| 121 | FM | Martin Barcelo Carles | ESP | 2176 | 3 | 20 | 22 | 8.25 | ||
| 122 | WGM | Navrotescu Andreea | w | FRA | 2294 | 3 | 20 | 22 | 7.5 | |
| 123 | Androutsopoulos-Agiotatos Vasil | GRE | 2149 | 3 | 19 | 21 | 8 | |||
| 124 | CM | Vaibhav Jayant Raut | IND | 2247 | 3 | 19 | 21 | 6.75 | ||
| 125 | IM | Martin Gonzalez Angel | S65 | ESP | 2225 | 3 | 19 | 21 | 6.5 | |
| 126 | FM | Jeet Jain | IND | 2139 | 3 | 19 | 21 | 6.5 | ||
| 127 | FM | Dixit Nikhil | IND | 2306 | 3 | 19 | 21 | 7.5 | ||
| 128 | WGM | Arribas Robaina Maritza | w | CUB | 2232 | 3 | 19 | 20 | 7 | |
| 129 | FM | Jimenez Ruano Adrian | ESP | 2223 | 3 | 16 | 17 | 3 | ||
| 130 | IM | Hernandez Cristian Andres | COL | 2384 | 2.5 | 26 | 28 | 8.25 | ||
| 131 | IM | Gungl Theo | GER | 2352 | 2.5 | 25 | 27 | 8.25 | ||
| 132 | Giacomini Hector | S65 | FRA | 2082 | 2.5 | 25 | 28 | 9.5 | ||
| 133 | GM | Sochacki Christophe | FRA | 2459 | 2.5 | 23 | 25 | 7 | ||
| 134 | IM | Ioannidis Evgenios | GRE | 2496 | 2.5 | 22 | 24 | 7.25 | ||
| 135 | CM | Bauer Thomas | AUT | 2118 | 2.5 | 21 | 24 | 8.25 | ||
| 136 | AIM | Gomez Aguirre Juan Alberto | ESP | 2108 | 2.5 | 21 | 22 | 5.25 | ||
| 137 | Perea Fruet Lorenzo | ESP | 2141 | 2.5 | 21 | 22 | 6.75 | |||
| 138 | CM | Wong Zhenyong Jayden | SGP | 2181 | 2.5 | 20 | 20 | 4.25 | ||
| 139 | FM | Webb Laurence E | S50 | ENG | 2201 | 2.5 | 19 | 21 | 4.5 | |
| 140 | Nunez Miranda Adrian | ESP | 2122 | 2.5 | 19 | 20 | 3.5 | |||
| 141 | CM | Lacroix Romain | FRA | 2189 | 2.5 | 19 | 20 | 5.5 | ||
| 142 | Castro Quijano Eduardo | ESP | 2195 | 2.5 | 19 | 20 | 4.25 | |||
| 143 | Perez Ordonez Jose Ramon | ESP | 2164 | 2.5 | 18 | 20 | 4.5 | |||
| 144 | Gasic Merino Franco | CHI | 2190 | 2.5 | 18 | 19 | 4 | |||
| 145 | De Boer Bas | NED | 2183 | 2.5 | 18 | 19 | 4 | |||
| 146 | FM | Weeks Manuel | S50 | AUS | 2160 | 2.5 | 15 | 16 | 3.25 | |
| 147 | GM | De Vreugt Dennis | NED | 2407 | 2 | 21 | 23 | 4 | ||
| 148 | WFM | Cosman Andreea-Marioara | w | ROU | 2199 | 2 | 20 | 22 | 5 | |
| 149 | WFM | Guadamuro Torrente Anabel | w | ESP | 2086 | 2 | 20 | 22 | 4 | |
| 150 | FM | Montero Martinez Cristhian | S65 | CHI | 2007 | 2 | 20 | 22 | 5.5 | |
| 151 | FM | Mahitosh Dey | IND | 2134 | 2 | 20 | 22 | 5.5 | ||
| 152 | CM | Ribera Veganzones Josep Maria | AND | 2167 | 2 | 19 | 21 | 5.5 | ||
| 153 | Fanninger Leon | AUT | 2152 | 2 | 19 | 21 | 5.25 | |||
| 154 | Lever Erwan | FRA | 2250 | 2 | 19 | 21 | 4.25 | |||
| 155 | CM | Dahale Atul | IND | 2222 | 2 | 19 | 21 | 4 | ||
| 156 | FM | Ventura Bolet Maxim | ESP | 2238 | 2 | 18 | 19 | 4.25 | ||
| 157 | De La Puerta Cresis Javier | ESP | 2161 | 2 | 18 | 19 | 4 | |||
| 158 | WGM | Lubbe Melanie | w | GER | 2314 | 2 | 17 | 19 | 4 | |
| 159 | CM | Ribera Veganzones Serni | AND | 2199 | 2 | 17 | 19 | 4 | ||
| 160 | FM | Arvelo Leo Gian Carlo | DOM | 2120 | 2 | 16 | 17 | 3.5 | ||
| 161 | IM | Gonzalez Rodriguez Jorge A. | S65 | COL | 2246 | 1.5 | 21 | 23 | 5 | |
| 162 | FM | Ayza Ballester Jordi | S65 | ESP | 2116 | 1.5 | 19 | 22 | 4.5 | |
| 163 | IM | Moksh Amit Doshi | IND | 2420 | 1.5 | 19 | 21 | 4.25 | ||
| 164 | WFM | Pipiras Filipa Fortuna | w | POR | 2149 | 1.5 | 19 | 20 | 4 | |
| 165 | FM | Alvarez Albiol Victor | ESP | 2240 | 1.5 | 19 | 20 | 2.25 | ||
| 166 | GM | Puranik Abhimanyu | IND | 2620 | 1.5 | 18 | 20 | 3.75 | ||
| 167 | FM | Ruiz Buendia Miguel | ESP | 2260 | 1.5 | 17 | 19 | 3.5 | ||
| 168 | Iglesias Leon Francisco Javier | S50 | ESP | 2109 | 1.5 | 17 | 19 | 2.75 | ||
| 169 | AIM | Villa Tornero Alex | ESP | 2050 | 1.5 | 16 | 16 | 1.25 | ||
| 170 | Safarian Alek | S50 | AUS | 1991 | 1 | 22 | 24 | 3 | ||
| 171 | WIM | Llaneza Vega Patricia | w | ESP | 2174 | 1 | 17 | 18 | 2.5 | |
| 172 | IM | Srinath Rao S.V. | IND | 2296 | 0.5 | 16 | 18 | 1 | ||
| 173 | GM | Yankelevich Lev | GER | 2481 | 0 | 17 | 18 | 0 | ||
| 174 | WGM | Priyanka Nutakki | w | IND | 2320 | 0 | 17 | 18 | 0 | |
| 175 | GM | Bernadskiy Vitaliy | UKR | 2615 | 0 | 17 | 18 | 0 |
