With the end of the registration deadline, according to the announcement on 14.10. at 23:59, and the overall situation of registrations at this time, the tournament organizers have decided to open another room for the B-Open and thus completely dissolve the waiting list.

All players who have registered so far can play in the A and B Open. Bank transfers within Germany can still be made – experience has shown that foreign transfers take a little longer and such players on the previous waiting list can pay the entry fee on site without a surcharge when registering.

See you in Berlin!

The capacity of 200 players for the A and B Open has been reached.

Some registrations have not yet been completed as payments have not yet been made or are still on their way. This still offers new registrations the opportunity to participate in the 2nd Berlin U25 Open, but we ask that new registrations do not make any payments at this time. If places become available, participants on the waiting list can pay without a surcharge on the first day of the tournament.

There also seem to be occasional withdrawals, so participation still seems to be possible now. It is still worth registering.

The list of players who can still get a place and the current waiting list can be found at the bottom of the “List of participants” page.

People on the waiting list will be informed when a place becomes available so that you can plan your participation.

See you in Berlin!

As in the first edition last year, GM norms are again possible this year in the A-Open. There are currently 40 title holders registered in the A-Open. With five grandmasters from five different federations, we have once again been able to bring top players from the young European chess scene to Berlin:

GM Paulius Pultinevicius: The Lithuanian grandmaster already took part last year. Like last year, when he unfortunately “only” managed ninth place, he is once again the number 1 seed in our tournament. The player, who was born in 2001, has an Elo rating of 2585, and his aim this year is certainly to improve on last year’s result.

GM Szymon Gumularz: The Polish grandmaster also took part in the first Berlin U25 Open last year. There he achieved a very good second place and only had to admit defeat to Vitaliy Garbuz in the first round (!). Is (even) more possible this year?

GM Luis Engel: The grandmaster and regular player in the 1st Bundesliga from HSK is the German representative in the GM ranks. After a few months’ break, the new season is now starting. What could be better than competing at the highest level against young title holders in Berlin?

GM Martin Petrov: The Bulgarian grandmaster is the third GM to take part in our tournament for the second time. Last year he finished in 6th place with a 4th ranking position. What will be possible this year? Once again he will start on board 4 of the tournament with a 4th place seeding.

GM Gergely Kantor: The second newcomer to the ranks of the grandmasters at the Berlin U25 Open. The Hungarian grandmaster, born in 1999, comes to Berlin from Budapest with fresh experience from the Chess Olympiad in his home country.

In addition to the grandmasters, we currently have eight international masters from various federations registered. The registration period has not yet ended. Last year, IM Ruben Gideon Köllner missed the GM norm by half a point. Will any of the players make it this time?

See you in Berlin in October!

In the meantime, more than 30 people have registered for the blitz tournament as an introduction to the 2nd Berlin U25 Open on Sunday evening, October 20. This guarantees the advertised prize fund.

It should be noted once again that this tournament is open to chess players of all ages. There is no restriction to “U25”! This should be a possibility of a blitz tournament especially for traveling parents and coaches but also for all Berlin chess players.

See you in Berlin in October!

As last year, we can once again confirm that player norms can be achieved in the A-Open of the Berlin U25 Open.

In addition to the players visible on the published lists, we have many other registrations in the background, which will only be published once the entry fee has been transferred. This creates a certain organizational effort, especially for some foreign players.

We are currently expecting the following title holders:

GM Luis Engel (GER)

GM Szymon Gumularz (POL)

IM Ruben Gideon Koellner (GER)

IM Arad Nazari (IRI)

IM Jonasz Baum (POL)

IM Ashot Parvanyan (GER)

WGM Mobina Alinasab (IRI)

In addition, many other title holders (FM and WFM) have announced their participation.

See you in Berlin in October!

Many thanks to the Chess Tigers for sponsoring our C-Open!
Thanks to them we can award 20 prizes with a total value of just under 900 €!
Prizes will be awarded to the top 15 of the C-Open, the best woman, the top 2 U18 players and the top 2 U14 players. Double prizes are excluded, the higher value prize will always be awarded.
The prizes are not assigned to a fixed rank, but may be chosen in the following order:
1. Top 15 (1 to 15)
2. Women’s Prize
3. U18 Top 2 (1 to 2)
4. U14 Top 2 (1 to 2)

Prize	Value
2 hours of individual training with IM Jonathan Carlstedt	160,00 €
1 voucher for a Chess Tigers seminar worth 119 Euro	119,00 €
One hour individual training with IM Jonathan Carlstedt	80,00 €
Tiger Leap 1500 Volumes 1-3	74,70 €
Free participation in one of the following tournaments (Grenke Open, Deizisauer Herbst-Open, Faschings-Open Baden Baden)	70,00 €
50 € voucher for the Chess Tigers Shop	50,00 €
Thinkers Bundle https://shop.chess-tigers.de/products/thinkers-bundle?_pos=3&_psq=Think&_ss=e&_v=1.0	49,90 €
Gambit books: How to play dynamic chess, 101 endgame tips and the GAMBIT tactics book	39,95 €
The Checkmate Pattern Manual	39,95 €
30 € voucher for the Chess Tigers Shop	30,00 €
Silman’s endgame course	29,90 €
100 endgames you must know	22,80 €
Improve your chess – new edition	24,95 €
Chess from A-Z	19,80 €
All Stappen 6 booklets	19,80 €
All Stappen 5 booklets	14,85 €
10 € voucher for the Chess Tigers Shop	10,00 €
10 € voucher for the Chess Tigers Shop	10,00 €
10 € voucher for the Chess Tigers Shop	10,00 €
10 € voucher for the Chess Tigers Shop	10,00 €

Welcome to the Chess Tigers Shop who is supporting us with prizes for the C-Open!
The Chess Tigers Berlin are not only providing prizes to our players but will also join the tournament area with their legendary on-site booth!

There will be prizes for the first 10 of the C-Open, which we will publish in the next few days.

Dear tournament participants,

We are happy to announce that we are partnering with a hotel and a hostel in close proximity to the playing venue.
Please find all information on the dedicated page: https://u25chess.com/partner-accomodations/.

If you have any questions, please reach out to us via u25chess[at]koenigsjaeger[dot]de or via the contact form.

Registration is now open: Registration.

The time has come: now that we have received the confirmation for the premises from the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district office of Berlin, we can announce the 2nd Berlin U25 Open. It will again take place during the Berlin school vacations. Again at the Beethoven-Gymnasium in Berlin, Lankwitz. This time from 21.10. 2024 to 27.10.2024: Announcement.

Most of the key details of the tournament have not changed: there will again be an A, B and C Open. The prize fund is again 32,000 euros this year! Once again, participation in the tournament is only possible for players aged “U25”. This means this year that players born up to 1999 can register. The tournament will therefore once again be a highlight of the young chess scene: we are firmly assuming that in the A-tournament title-norms can be obtained in 2024 as in 2023.

But there are also new features:

The first innovation is a blitz tournament on the eve of the tournament. This is open to all chess players with a FIDE ID, including coaches, parents and other fellow travelers. There is no restriction to the age of U25! We have limited the number of participants for this tournament to 92.

Further adjustments have been made according to the players’ wishes from last year’s premiere:

– Individual rounds no longer start at 10:00 am on the day, but at 4:00 pm. The only exception is the last Sunday, so that the departure from Berlin can still take place on Sunday.

– Adjustment of the Elo values for classification in the A-, B- and C-Open (background is the abolition of the Elo values from 1,000 to 1,400 and the associated increase in the Elo values up to 2,000)

– Farewell to the sports hall (some participants found the volume of the wooden floor too loud). The capacity limit of the tournament could therefore not be raised. On the contrary: we have set a limit of approx. 200 places for the A- and B- Open together.

From our point of view, nothing stands in the way of the tournament. The initial preparations in the background have been completed and the announcement is out. All we need now are the registrations. So go ahead and register!

See you in Berlin in October!