XLV International Open Villa de Benasque 2026 Roll of Honour Official list of prize winners after all ten rounds of the tournament. €51,350Cash prizes 65Prize-winning places 10Rounds played PodiumOverall standingsRating bandsSpecial awardsBenasque and Aragon Overall standings The 2026 Benasque podium The top three players finished on 8 points. The tie-break awarded the title to Mikhail…
American Grandmaster Mikhail Antipov has been crowned champion of the 45th Villa de Benasque International Open on better tiebreaks than the other five players who finished on 8 points. The draw on board one and the defeat of co-leader Di Benedetto against Bryce Tiglon on board two allowed the players on 7 points who won…
Colombian player José Gabriel Cardoso and Italy’s Edoardo Di Benedetto have caught American Mikhail Antipov at the top and will fight for the title of this 45th Villa de Benasque Open tomorrow in the final morning round, which starts at 9:00 a.m. Antipov could not get beyond a draw against Spain’s Renier Castellanos, the same…
A change of American at the top of the standings following the sudden withdrawal of the leader up to round 7. The new leader is the top seed, GM Mikhail Antipov, after defeating Germany’s Benet Hagner with the black pieces. From the outset, Antipov went for the win, entering a line in which he sacrificed…
American GM Brandon Jacobson has once again become the sole leader after defeating Indian Grandmaster Aditya Samant with the black pieces. However, the bombshell came after the round ended, when the leader informed the organisers that, due to unforeseen circumstances, he had to withdraw from the Open. On the boards featuring players on 5 points,…
Indian GM Aditya Samant has joined American GM Brandon Jacobson at the top of the standings after winning his game on board three against Colombian GM José Gabriel Cardoso, while the remaining games involving players on 4.5 points ended in draws. Jacobson and Antipov did not take many risks on board one, with the game…
American Grandmaster Brandon Jacobson defeated FM Markel Vesga on board one in barely two hours in the fifth round, becoming the sole leader after Petkov and Samant drew on board two. In this first half of the tournament, Jacobson has shown himself to be the player in the best form and the most incisive over…
Only four players remain in the lead after the fourth round of this 45th Benasque Open. The top seed, Mikhail Antipov, could only draw against Italy’s Fulvio Zamelgo. On board 2, Brandon Jacobson and Elizbar Ubilava played the game that generated the greatest interest among spectators, with the American eventually prevailing. Momchil Petkov and Aditya…
After the third round, which saw four draws on the top ten boards, only Antipov, Jacobson, Petkov, Samant and Tiglon have a perfect score among the top 10 players in the initial ranking. The surprises began on board six, with Huesca’s José Escartín drawing against GM Santiago Avila and Zaragoza’s Máximo Lorente holding GM Renier…
The second round of the Benasque Open lived up to expectations after what happened in the first round. Board 11 was once again the scene of a favourite’s defeat, this time Chile’s Mauricio Marrujo losing to Valencia’s Pablo Antoneac, in a game between two promising U16 players. Several top-20 players had to concede half a…