Riga Technical University Open

Riga Technical University Open (also RTU Open) is international "open" chess festival, annually held in Riga, Latvia in August. It is the largest classical chess tournament in the Baltic states.

History[]

The first three international chess festivals (2011–2013) was held in the main building of the Riga Technical University. The first and second festival included two classical chess tournaments (A for masters and B for amateurs) and a last day blitz tournament. The third festival included three classical chess tournaments (A for masters and B-C for amateurs). The fourth international chess festival in 2014 moved the International Exhibition Centre Ķīpsala where was applied to a larger number of participants. The fourth international chess festival included five classical chess tournaments (A for masters and B–E for amateurs) and a first day blitz tournament. The fifth and sixth festival was held in Ķīpsala and included four classical chess tournaments (A for masters and B–D for amateurs) and a last day blitz tournament. Overall more than 1200 participants took part in the festivals from the years 2014 to 2016.^[1] The seventh festival in 2017 was held in Ķīpsala and included five classical chess tournaments (A for masters and B–E for amateurs) and a last day blitz tournament. The eighth festival in 2018 was held in Ķīpsala and included five classical chess tournaments (A for masters and B–E for amateurs) and two blitz tournaments. The ninth festival in 2019 was held in Ķīpsala and included six classical chess tournaments (A for masters, Y for young chess players and B–E for amateurs), rapid chess tournament and two blitz tournaments. In 2020, the tournament did not take place due to a COVID-19 pandemic. The tenth festival in 2021 was held in Ķīpsala and included four classical chess tournaments (A for masters, B&Y for young chess players and amateurs, and C&D–E for amateurs), rapid chess tournament (G) and two blitz tournaments (F and H).

List of A tournament winners[]

Year	Winner	2nd place	3rd place	Best woman
2011	Alberto David	Jaan Ehlvest	Vladimir Sveshnikov	Katarzyna Toma
2012	Ján Markoš	Alexandr Fier	Daniel Fridman	Judith Fuchs
2013	Bartosz Soćko	Robin van Kampen	Mikhail Antipov	Zuzana Štočková
2014	Hrant Melkumyan	Richárd Rapport	Eduardo Iturrizaga	Maria Manakova
2015	Alexei Shirov	Robert Hovhannisyan	Rinat Jumabayev	Monika Soćko
2016	Martyn Kravtsiv	Hrant Melkumyan	Arturs Neikšāns	Soumya Swaminathan
2017	Vladimir Onischuk	Sergey Pavlov	Tamir Nabaty	Lei Tingjie
2018	Robert Hovhannisyan	Manuel Petrosyan	Alexandr Predke	Nutakki Priyanka
2019	Igor Kovalenko	Šarūnas Šulskis	Arman Mikaelyan	Irina Bulmaga
2021	Alexander Donchenko	S. L. Narayanan	Tomas Laurusas	Margareth Olde

References[]

External links[]

• RTU OPEN Riga Technical University Open home page
• Riga Technical University Open 2011 Tournament A Riga Technical University Open 2011
• Riga Technical University Open 2012. Tournament A Riga Technical University Open 2012
• Riga Technical University Open 2013 - Tournament A Riga Technical University Open 2013
• RTU OPEN 2014 Riga Technical University Open 2014
• RTU OPEN 2015 Riga Technical University Open 2015
• RTU OPEN 2016 Riga Technical University Open 2016
• Riga Technical University Open 2017 - Tournament A Riga Technical University Open 2017
• Riga Technical University Open 2018 - Tournament A Riga Technical University Open 2018
• Riga Technical University Open 2019 - Tournament A Riga Technical University Open 2019
• Riga Technical University Open 2021 - Tournament A Riga Technical University Open 2021

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