34th Kavala OPEN 2025
ClassicWelcome to Fantasy Chess: 34th Kavala OPEN 2025! While the real tournament takes place in the vibrant city of Kavala, Greece, you can join the excitement online. Compete in our Fantasy Chess contest with Pro and Amateur leagues, guaranteed prizes, and follow every move of this major summer chess event.
Start Date
July 28, 2025
End Date
August 06, 2025
Registration Deadline
July 28, 2025 14:30
Rating Type
Classic
Players
| Rank | Player | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Zachary Saine
|
- |
| 2 |
zhu linxi
|
- |
| 3 |
McConnell Sullivan
|
- |
| 4 |
Tamas Petenyi
|
- |
| 5 |
Naveen Prabhu
|
- |
| 6 |
Qi Pang
|
- |
| 7 |
Tyson Brady
|
- |
| 8 |
Aditeya Das
|
- |
| 9 |
Sudarshan Sriniaiyer
|
- |
| 10 |
Lucius Melillo
|
- |
| 11 |
Li Rachael
|
- |
| 12 |
VISHNUVARDHAN ARJUN
|
- |
| 13 |
Nelson Castaneda
|
- |
| 14 |
Daniel Girsh
|
- |
| 15 |
Jordan Groff
|
- |
| 16 |
Hersh Singh
|
- |
| 17 |
Tang Dylan
|
- |
| 18 |
Su Jasmine
|
- |
| 19 |
Andrew Wu
|
- |
| 20 |
Matthew Diao
|
- |
| 21 |
Joshua Altman
|
- |
| 22 |
Nitesh Cherukuri
|
- |
| 23 |
Vaibhav Kalpaka
|
- |
| 24 |
Kamran Rawshani
|
- |
| 25 |
Anastasia Paramzina
|
- |
| 26 |
Kiren Nasta
|
- |
| 27 |
Eshaan Hebbar
|
- |
| 28 |
Theodore Slade
|
- |
| 29 |
Vedic Panda
|
- |
| 30 |
Uz Kagan
|
- |
| 31 |
Evan Sammons
|
- |
| 32 |
Max Mottola
|
- |
| 33 |
Chloe Gaw
|
- |
| 34 |
Kyle Zhuang
|
- |
| 35 |
kevin zhao
|
- |
| 36 |
Thomas McConnell Griffin
|
- |
| 37 |
Caleb Klenoff
|
- |
| 38 |
Kevin Wang
|
- |
| 39 |
Oladapo Adu
|
- |
| 40 |
Broderick Bauml
|
- |
| 41 |
Chenxuan Ling
|
- |
| 42 |
John Abraham
|
- |
| 43 |
Ernest Colding
|
- |
| 44 |
Rishabh Chinni
|
- |
| 45 |
Daniel Yang
|
- |
| 46 |
Yu-Cheng Liang
|
- |
| 47 |
Isaac Spence
|
- |
| 48 |
Brian Tay
|
- |
| 49 |
Matthew Shih
|
- |
| 50 |
Neil Bhaduri
|
- |
| 51 |
Will Moorhouse
|
- |
| 52 |
Bobby Qian
|
- |
| 53 |
Ethan Kozower
|
- |
| 54 |
Abinav Dinesh
|
- |
| 55 |
ZHIHAN SAMUEL XU
|
- |
| 56 |
Pan Zachary
|
- |
| 57 |
Aimee Yang
|
- |
| 58 |
Nehanraj ARamesh
|
- |
| 59 |
Jaden Shaw
|
- |
| 60 |
Kurup ASiddharth
|
- |
| 61 |
Rohan Lee
|
- |
| 62 |
Steven Liu
|
- |
| 63 |
Sandeep Thimmasamudram
|
- |
| 64 |
Yongfei Pan
|
- |
| 65 |
Abhimanyu Mishra
GM
|
- |
| 66 |
Mikhail Antipov
GM
|
- |
| 67 |
Jianchao Zhou
|
- |
| 68 |
Viktor Gazik
|
- |
| 69 |
Viktor Matviishen
|
- |
| 70 |
Andrew Tang
GM
|
- |
| 71 |
David Brodsky
|
- |
| 72 |
Budisavljevic Luka
|
- |
| 73 |
Eugene Perelshteyn
|
- |
| 74 |
Sergey Erenburg
|
- |
| 75 |
Brian Escalante
|
- |
| 76 |
Oleksii Bilych
|
- |
| 77 |
Rahul Peddi
|
- |
| 78 |
Samy Shoker
|
- |
| 79 |
Hedinn Steingrimsson
|
- |
| 80 |
Ehsan Ghaem Maghami
|
- |
| 81 |
Evan Park
|
- |
| 82 |
Popilski
|
- |
| 83 |
Putnam Liam
|
- |
| 84 |
Craig Hilby
|
- |
| 85 |
Josiah Stearman
|
- |
| 86 |
Ilamparthi A R
IM
|
- |
| 87 |
Alexander Fishbein
|
- |
| 88 |
anthony atanasov
|
- |
| 89 |
Tanitoluwa Adewumi
FM
|
- |
| 90 |
Alice Lee
IM
|
- |
| 91 |
Baron Tal
|
- |
| 92 |
Jesse Kraai
|
- |
| 93 |
Gabriel Bick
|
- |
| 94 |
Kevin Wang
|
- |
| 95 |
Eric Liu
|
- |
| 96 |
Sahil Sinha
|
- |
| 97 |
Roman Pyrig
FM
|
- |
| 98 |
vishnu vanapalli
|
- |
| 99 |
Sebastian Lukas Kostolansky
|
- |
| 100 |
Bryan Lin
|
- |
| 101 |
Ryan Amburgy
|
- |
| 102 |
Jason Morefield
|
- |
| 103 |
Luis Carlos Torres Rosas
|
- |
| 104 |
Seth Homa
|
- |
| 105 |
Chirilov
|
- |
| 106 |
Stamatis Kourkoulos-Arditis
GM
|
2580 |
| 107 |
Brandon Jacobson
|
2569 |
| 108 |
Chongsheng Zeng
|
2553 |
| 109 |
Dimitrios Mastrovasilis
|
2540 |
| 110 |
Abhijeet Gupta
|
2535 |
| 111 |
Nikolozi Kacharava
GM
|
2519 |
| 112 |
Bojan Maksimovic
|
2514 |
| 113 |
Mark Heimann
|
2513 |
| 114 |
Yunguo Wan
GM
|
2501 |
| 115 |
Emin Ohanyan
GM
|
2491 |
| 116 |
Vojtech Plat
|
2487 |
| 117 |
Jonasz Baum
|
2476 |
| 118 |
Nderim Saraci
|
2457 |
| 119 |
Kacper Drozdowski
|
2450 |
| 120 |
Sanjin Culum
|
2450 |
| 121 |
VARSHNEY AARYAN
|
2436 |
| 122 |
Mohamed Anees M
FM
|
2431 |
| 123 |
Stavroula Tsolakidou
IM
|
2428 |
| 124 |
Antonios Kalogridis
|
2426 |
| 125 |
Nimrod Veinberg
|
2425 |
| 126 |
Ataberk Eren
|
2422 |
| 127 |
Sebastian Poltorak
|
2421 |
| 128 |
Can Durak
|
2420 |
| 129 |
SHRIVATRI ANUJ
|
2416 |
| 130 |
Vid Dobrovoljc
|
2402 |
| 131 |
Georgios Kanakaris
|
2396 |
| 132 |
Qingfeng Cao
|
2394 |
| 133 |
Andrei-Nestor Cioara
|
2393 |
| 134 |
AGRAWAL VANTIKA
|
2377 |
| 135 |
Wenxiang Li
|
2376 |
| 136 |
Martin Jablonicky
|
2375 |
| 137 |
Kush Bhagat
|
2369 |
| 138 |
Deyan Samuil KOSTOV
|
2367 |
| 139 |
Gaur Garv
|
2363 |
| 140 |
Aaron Jacobson
|
2354 |
| 141 |
Nikolaos Koutlas
|
2347 |
| 142 |
DAS SRIANSH
|
2340 |
| 143 |
Namitbir Singh Walia
FM
|
2335 |
| 144 |
Jolanta Zawadzka
|
2330 |
| 145 |
Senthil Maran K
|
2328 |
| 146 |
Themistoklis Kalogridis
|
2328 |
| 147 |
Manvel Arakelyan
|
2326 |
| 148 |
Lampros Giannoulakis
|
2318 |
| 149 |
Georgios-Alexandros Kouskoutis
|
2305 |
| 150 |
Hongfu Dong
|
2298 |
| 151 |
Vahe Danielyan
|
2296 |
| 152 |
Maksym Dubnevych
FM
|
2296 |
| 153 |
Dimitrios Makridis
|
2283 |
| 154 |
Baver Yılmaz
FM
|
2269 |
| 155 |
Rodolfos Stamatiou
|
2269 |
| 156 |
Christos Tsarsitalidis
|
2252 |
| 157 |
RAY ANKIT
|
2248 |
| 158 |
Tyhran Ambartsumian
CM
|
2244 |
| 159 |
Kostantinos Georgiou
|
2234 |
| 160 |
Alexander Heimann
|
2224 |
| 161 |
Lizaveta Liashkevich
|
2204 |
| 162 |
Alper Tezcan
|
2170 |
| 163 |
Gediz Avsar
|
2157 |
| 164 |
Shuxiao Yu
|
2100 |
| 165 |
Bartosz Dzwierzynski
|
2083 |
| 166 |
Yunqing Zhao
|
2081 |
| 167 |
Konstantinos Samaridis
|
2078 |
| 168 |
Dehankar Mrudul
|
2078 |
Tournament Rules
Fantasy Chess: 34th Kavala OPEN 2025 Rules
🏆 Two Leagues Available
1️⃣ Pro League
- Open to all.
- Entry Fee: $10 per entry.
- Total Prize Pool: Grows with every new participant (minimum guaranteed $100).
- Prize Distribution:
- 🥇 1st Place: Starts at $70, increases after the 10th entry.
- 🥈 2nd Place: Starts at $30, increases after the 10th entry.
- 🥉 3rd+ Places: Unlocked once we reach 22+ participants (top ~10% paid).
2️⃣ Amateur League
- Free to enter.
- Open for everyone.
- Prize: Top 2 finishers receive tickets (free entries) into the next Pro League contest.
- No cash prizes.
📅 Event Details
- Event: 34th Kavala OPEN 2025
- Dates: July 28 – August 4, 2025
- Rounds: 9
- Start Time: 16:30 CET
🧩 Team Selection
-Build your lineup of 6 main players (within a budget of $14,500) Add 3 substitutes (subs have no budget limit). Subs can only replace a main player if: • The sub is rated lower than the main player • The main player withdraws before Round 5 .
🏅 Scoring System
- Win: 1 point
- Draw: 0.5 point
- Loss: 0 points
- Your total score = sum of points by your 6 active players
🔒 Lineup Rules
- Edit your lineup any time before the tournament starts.
- Lineups lock at tournament start.
- Substitutions are based on the rules above.
⏰ Deadline
- All lineups must be finalized before 16:30 CET on July 28, 2025.
⚖️ Tiebreakers
If teams are tied:
- Lower total cost of the 6 main players.
- Lower total points earned by substitutes.
- Lower combined tournament standings (i.e., better real-life finishes).
❗ Important
- All entries are final — no refunds after entry.
- Contest will be canceled and refunded if the official 34th Kavala OPEN 2025 is canceled.
- This fantasy contest is independently based on the 34th Kavala OPEN 2025
- For questions: [email protected]