WIM Umida Omonova (Uzbekistan) (PHOTOGRAPH: David Llada)
In the VI El Llobregat Open Chess Tournament, each game is played beyond the board. The looks of the chess players are, in the most absolute silence, the true narrator of the tournament. Emotions beat with intensity and our official photographer, the prestigious David Llada, has captured them… for you to enjoy.
GM Michal Krasenkow (Poland) in the simultaneous offered at the Ateneu Barcelonès (PHOTO: David Llada)
GM Krasenkow’s simultaneous games, immortalized by David Llada (PHOTO: David Llada)
Isona Passola, president of the Ateneu Barcelonès, did not want to miss the simultaneous sessions of GM Krasenkow (PHOTO: David Llada).
Manuel Reyes, mayor of Castelldefels, visited the VI El Llobregat Open Chess Tournament (PHOTO: David Llada).
WGM Mobina Alinasab (Iran) (PHOTOGRAPH: David Llada)
MI Joan Pomés (Spain) (PHOTO: David Llada)
IM Roman Shogdzhiev (FIDE) (PHOTO: David Llada)
IM Roman Shogdzhiev (FIDE) (PHOTO: David Llada)
MI Antonio Torrecillas (Spain) (PHOTO: David Llada)
GM Brewington Hardaway (United States) (PHOTO: David Llada)
MI Gupta Harshavardhan (India) (PHOTOGRAPH: David Llada)
WIM Miruna-Daria Lehaci (Romania) (PHOTOGRAPH: David Llada)
GM Miguel Illescas and our director, Xavier Pérez Llorca (PHOTOGRAPH: David Llada)
In the VI El Llobregat Open Chess Tournament 12 master rules have been achieved. For fans of the history of the sport, we remember the milestones achieved by El Llobregat Open Chess Tournament in the five previous editions:
- Best open held in Spain in the 2022 and 2023 editions, as certified by the Consejo Superior de Deportes and the FEDA (Spanish Chess Federation).
- We had more than one thousand participants; 50% international graduates.
- An average of 45 countries are represented at each edition.
- EL LLOBREGAT played: Gukesh, Narayanan, Abdusattorov, Mateusz Bartel, Erijaisi, Muraliu Karthikeyan, Puranik, Alvar Alonso, Maxime Lagarde, Kulkarni Bhakti, Mobina Alinasab, Rakshitta Ravi, Savitha Shri Baskar, Privanka Nutakki, Jaime Santos, Sara Khadem, Sabrina Vega, Lucas Van Foreest, Francisco Vallejo, Yangyi Yu, Ivan Cheparinov, Vladimir Fedoseev, Kiriil Alekseenko, Jaime Santos, Ponomariov, Amin Tabatabaei, Matthias Bluebaum, Vahap Sanal, Antoaneta Stefanova, Hans Niemann, Alain Pichot, Fernando Peralta… and so on up to more than a hundred grandmasters.
- In 2024, female participation was 17% (FIDE average is 11%; Spanish 6%; Catalan 7%).
- MI and MF participants have been able to obtain 47 higher master’s certificates.
- In 2024 we broadcast from 63 electronic boards and 12 cameras; 40,762 users from 40 countries connected to elllobregat.com/openchess, with a total of 71,515 pages served. On YouTube, the videos generated during the tournament totaled 415,892 views.
We would like to thank our sponsors: El Llobregat (magazine), Ajuntament de Sant Boi, Generalitat de Catalunya, Aigües de Barcelona and Diputació de Barcelona, without whose invaluable help an event of this magnitude would not be possible.
We look forward to seeing you at the VII El Llobregat Open Chess Tournament!
