The Biel Chess Festival ATO is taking place from 17–26 July 2023 in Biel, Switzerland. Players receive 90 minutes for the entire game, plus a 30-second increment starting from move one. It is a 9-round Swiss tournament with participation of Athanasios Zafeiridis, Nicola Schmid, Hans-Juergen Weyer, Dmitrii Titov, Daniel Baotic, Lothar Cordes, etc.
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Parallel : Dutch Championship 2023 / 2023 Dutch Women’s Championship / Slovak Championship GM 2023 / U.S. Junior Championship 2023 / US Junior Girls Championship / U.S. Senior Championship 2023 / V. Geza Hetenyi Memorial Super GM / Biel Chess Festival MTO 2023 / Biel GM Triathlon 2023
More : FIDE Women’s World Chess Championship 2023 / Aktobe Open Classic 2023 / Wood Green Invitational 2023
Starting list of players :
| No. | Name | FED | Rtg | |
| 1 | Zafeiridis, Athanasios | SUI | 1878 | |
| 2 | Schmid, Nicola | SUI | 1841 | |
| 3 | Weyer, Hans-Juergen | GER | 1841 | |
| 4 | Titov, Dmitrii | SUI | 1783 | |
| 5 | Baotic, Daniel | SUI | 1767 | |
| 6 | Cordes, Lothar | GER | 1754 | |
| 7 | Gallus, Matthias | SUI | 1729 | |
| 8 | Jorns, Benedikt | SUI | 1722 | |
| 9 | Hofer, Friedrich | SUI | 1713 | |
| 10 | Duong, Charles | SUI | 1700 | |
| 11 | Haas, Anthony | SUI | 1690 | |
| 12 | Pantillon, Patrick André | SUI | 1682 | |
| 13 | Meshach, Felix | SUI | 1680 | |
| 14 | Ehrsam, Andreas | SUI | 1679 | |
| 15 | Gartmann, Luzius | SUI | 1673 | |
| 16 | Trachsel, Peter | SUI | 1658 | |
| 17 | Lesniak, Julien | SUI | 1657 | |
| 18 | Meise, Volker | GER | 1657 | |
| 19 | Loeffler, Helmut | SUI | 1645 | |
| 20 | Suwendo, Poedjo | SUI | 1636 | |
| 21 | Lachausse, Bruno | SUI | 1634 | |
| 22 | Rose, Alexis | SUI | 1633 | |
| 23 | Mani, Thomas | SUI | 1629 | |
| 24 | Franssen, Roland | SUI | 1626 | |
| 25 | Geiser, Marcellus | SUI | 1623 | |
| 26 | Pinelli, Gian | SUI | 1614 | |
| 27 | Svendsen, Hannelore | SUI | 1606 | |
| 28 | Gobet, Xavier | SUI | 1596 | |
| 29 | Schweizer, Ulrich | SUI | 1595 | |
| 30 | Pavlov, Myroslav | UKR | 1590 | |
| 31 | Trubini, Timon | SUI | 1587 | |
| 32 | Grabe, Eckart | GER | 1578 | |
| 33 | WFM | Al Mansouri, Moza | UAE | 1571 |
| 34 | Luedi, Paul | SUI | 1570 | |
| 35 | Lang, Jochen | GER | 1564 | |
| 36 | Liu, Zizheng | ENG | 1554 | |
| 37 | Buffat, Pierre-Andre | SUI | 1551 | |
| 38 | Gafner, Lancelot | SUI | 1541 | |
| 39 | Canonica, Fabio | SUI | 1540 | |
| 40 | Juchler, Celine | SUI | 1538 | |
| 41 | Bangerter, Ena | SUI | 1536 | |
| 42 | Hies, Norbert | SUI | 1529 | |
| 43 | Colak, Furkan | TUR | 1515 | |
| 44 | Marketos, Dennis | RSA | 1509 | |
| 45 | Meier, Herbert | SUI | 1503 | |
| 46 | Muehlemann, Walter | SUI | 1495 | |
| 47 | Marketos, Richard Matthew | RSA | 1491 | |
| 48 | Andrikopoulos, Jean-Daniel | SUI | 1459 | |
| 49 | Joseph, Hans | SUI | 1454 | |
| 50 | Noel, Lucien | SUI | 1449 | |
| 51 | Huber, Ruth | SUI | 1429 | |
| 52 | Wipf, Armin | SUI | 1425 | |
| 53 | Grueter-Schmid, Helen | SUI | 1423 | |
| 54 | Scherler, Josephine | SUI | 1420 | |
| 55 | Markus, David | SLO | 1384 | |
| 56 | Lehmann, Peter | SUI | 1338 | |
| 57 | Gertsch, Heinz | SUI | 1319 | |
| 58 | Egli, Arnold | SUI | 1316 | |
| 59 | Schaer, Bryan | SUI | 1283 | |
| 60 | Materia, Mario | FRA | 1196 | |
| 61 | Begdullayeva, Diana | SUI | 1194 | |
| 62 | Gueldenapfel, Thomas | SUI | 1193 | |
| 63 | Begdullayeva, Karina | SUI | 1034 | |
| 64 | Linder, Ernst | SUI | 1677 | |
| 65 | Margarone, Giuseppe | SUI | 1616 | |
| 66 | Dubert, Alex | SUI | 1445 | |
| 67 | Settegrana, Miro | SUI | 1433 | |
| 68 | Besou, Jad | GER | 0 | |
| 69 | Bruderer, Patrick | SUI | 0 | |
| 70 | Colak, Ridvan | TUR | 0 | |
| 71 | Destraz, Dominique | SUI | 0 | |
| 72 | Geisser, Marc | SUI | 0 | |
| 73 | Harte, Bernd | SUI | 0 | |
| 74 | Lachausse, Vincent | SUI | 0 | |
| 75 | Loevenich, Anna | CAN | 0 | |
| 76 | Nuenlist, Malik | SUI | 0 | |
| 77 | Spurny, Till | GER | 0 | |
