GAMMA Reykjavík Open 2019

One of the Worlds most brilliant young talents, IM Nihal Sarin (2532), the World no. 1 in the under 14 category, will play a invitational Fischer Random simultaneous exhibition at the GAMMA headquarters (our main sponsor).

Reykjavik Fischer Random 2018

European Fischer Random Cup 2018

March 9th, 2018

1. ORGANIZERS

The Icelandic Chess Federation and the European Chess Union.

2. DATE, VENUE, SCHEDULE

The tournament is open for everyone, but the highest ranked European player will be European Champion in Fischer Random chess.

The tournament takes place in Harpa (the playing venue of the GAMMA Reykjavik Open) on March 9th and starts at 13.00.

3. SYSTEM AND RATE OF PLAY

The Fischer Random Cup shall be played according to the Swiss System in 9 rounds.

Time controls are 10 minutes + 3 second increment per every move.

4. RULES

The FIDE Chess960 Rules will be used.

See: http://www.fide.com/fide/handbook.html?id=207&view=article (guidelines 2). See appendix I.

5. PRIZES

1. €2,000

2. €1,000

3. €750

4. €500

5. €300

6. €250

7. €200

8. €150

9. €100

10. €100

The prizes are not shared.

The European Champion (highest ranked European player) gets an extra price of €1,000.

The top women’s player gets €500, sponsored by GM Susan Polgar!

The top junior player (20 years old and under) gets €500, sponsored by GM Susan Polgar!

6. TIE BREAK

FIDE recommended tie-breaks will be used:

• Direct encounter
• The greater number of wins
• The greater number of games with Black (unplayed games shall be counted as played with White)
• Buchholz Cut 1
• Buchholz
• Sonneborn-Berger

7. ENTRY FEE

• Free for GMs/IMs
• €10 for participants in the GAMMA Reykjavik Open
• €25 for others

The entry fee can be paid in cash or by credit card at the playing venue.

8. REGISTRATION

• Registration
• Registered players

You need to confirm your participation before 12.00 at the playing venue and pay the entry fee.

It is recommended that players confirm their participation and pay the entry fee on March 8th. Then it is not necessary to confirm the participation on March 9th.

9. ARBITERS

IA Omar Salama will be chief arbiter.

The decisions of arbiters will be final and cannot be appealed.

10. INFORMATION

The Icelandic Chess Federation

www.reykjavikopen.com

reykjavikopen2018@gmail.com

 

The GAMMA Reykjavík Open – Bobby Fischer Memorial will offer a few Fischer themed Lunch Lectures. These will include a lecture by the President of the Icelandic Chess Federation during the Match of the Century, Mr. Guðmundur G. Þórarinsson. A lecture by GM Helgi Ólafsson who will cover the return of Fischer to Iceland and a few others!

The lectures will take place in Bryggjan Brugghús, a short walk from from Harpa. Bryggjan Brugghús is a bar and a restaurant and has a great rating at TripAdvisor as can be seen here: TripAdvisor

During the lectures, there will be a special offer on food at the restaurant.

 

On Monday the 12th of March and Tuesday the 13th of March, the Organizing Committee has organized special Fischer Memorial events.

12th of March at 09:00

On the 12th of March, the event will be a trip to the Fischer Center in Selfoss and Fischer’s Grave nearby.

Departure will be at 09:00 from Harpa, the tournament’s playing venue. Return to Harpa is estimated between 12:00 – 12:30.

Prize

The cost is 4.900 ISK and included in the prize is the entrance fee to the Fishcer Center and a special pin made for the 1972 Match of the Century.

Booking

• Payment and booking

If you are paying for somebody else, please state clearly in the comment section of the payment form who the player in question is!

Reservation must be made before 15:00 on Thursday the 8th of March. After that we can not guarantee there will be seats left in the bus.

Special offer on both Fischer Memorial tours

Those who would like to book both Fisher Memorial tours, can do so at a reduced price of 6.900 ISK by using the following link.

• Payment and booking of both Fischer Memorial tours

If you are paying for somebody else, please state clearly in the comment section of the payment form who the player in question is!

Reservation must be made before 15:00 on Thursday the 8th of March. After that we can not guarantee there will be seats left in the bus.

On Monday the 12th of March and Tuesday the 13th of March, the Organizing Committee has organized special Fischer Memorial events.

13th of March at 09:00

On the 13th of March, at 09:00 the event will be a visit to Laugardalshöll, the playing venue of the March of the Century and a visit to the National Museum of Iceland to see the board used in the Match of the Century.

At Laugardalshöll, guests will have an opportunity to see the guest book from the Match of the Century, something that few people have seen, and then the Ping Pong room, where the 3rd game of the Match was played. Guests will be guided through the playing venue.

At the National Museum of Iceland, guests will see the famous chess board Fischer and Spassky used during the Match.

Departure will be from Harpa at 09:00 and the bus will drive to to Bryggjan Brugghús at about 11:30 – 12:00, where GM Helgi Ólafsson will deliver a lecture about Fischer, based on his book “Bobby Fischer Comes home: The Final Years in Iceland, a Saga of Friendship and Lost Illusions”

Prize

The cost is 2.900 ISK and includes entrance fees to all locations.

Booking

• Payment and booking

If you are paying for somebody else, please state clearly in the comment section of the payment form who the player in question is!

Reservation must be made before 15:00 on Thursday the 8th of March. After that we can not guarantee there will be seats left in the bus.

 

Special offer on both Fischer Memorial tours

Those who would like to book both Fisher Memorial tours, can do so at a reduced price of 6.900 ISK by using the following link.

• Payment and booking of both Fischer Memorial tours

If you are paying for somebody else, please state clearly in the comment section of the payment form who the player in question is!

Reservation must be made before 15:00 on Thursday the 8th of March. After that we can not guarantee there will be seats left in the bus.

The GAMMA Reykjavík Open – Bobby Fischer Memorial will offer a few Fischer themed Lunch Lectures. These will include a lecture by the President of the Icelandic Chess Federation during the Match of the Century, Mr. Guðmundur G. Þórarinsson. A lecture by GM Helgi Ólafsson who will cover the return of Fischer to Iceland and a few others!

The lectures will take place in Bryggjan Brugghús, a short walk from from Harpa. Bryggjan Brugghús is a bar and a restaurant and has a great rating at TripAdvisor as can be seen here: TripAdvisor

During the lectures, there will be a special offer on food at the restaurant.

 

As in past years, we invite all participants of the 2018 Reykjavík Open to the Opening Party.

The Opening Party of the 2018 GAMMA Reykjavik Open – Bobby Fischer Memorial will take place in Smurstöðin Resturant, which is located within the Tournament’s playing venue, Harpa Concert Hall.

This is a great opportunity to meet the faces behind the tournament organisation and to meet with new people from all over the world!

Special drink offers for participants at the Bar!

Looking forward to seeing you!

The Special Golden Circle tour will be on March 8th.

 

A specially arranged sightseeing tour for our foreign visitors to the South of Iceland. A bus will leave Reykjavik City at 8:30 a.m. and will take you to the breathtaking Gullfoss waterfall and Geysir – the world famous hot spring (where you can buy lunch)

 

As a bonus, the participants of this years edition of Golden Circle and Fischer tour, receive a special pin made for the 1972 Match of the Century.

 

 

• Information on Geysir

• Information on Gullfoss

 

Next, the tour will take you to the final resting place of the legendary Bobby Fischer, just outside the town of Selfoss. There is also a visit to the Bobby Fischer Center, the Center is very close to the grave.

 

 

• Fischer-centre homepage

 

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Cost

 

The tour will take approx. 7 hours.

 

Included in this package is the bus ride and a guidance. Price is only ISK 9.900. Admission to Bobby Fischer Center included.

 

 

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Pickup

 

Guests will be picked up 8:30 at Harpa (playing venue), see map below. The bus will not wait!

 

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Details

 

See details on Golden Circle tour (Plus visiting Fischer´s grave) at: https://www.re.is/day-tours/the-golden-circle/.

 

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Registration

Please fill out the registration form below. After that please use the secure payment form to complete your registration.

• Registration form
• Secure payment form

The World Famous Reykjavík Open Chess Pub-Quiz takes place on March 9th (After the European Fischer Random Cup)

This year the famous Reykjavik Open Pub-Quiz takes place in Björtuloft in Harpa. Björtuloft (Bright Lofts) is located on the top floors of Harpa, at the very summit of the building, offering spectacular views of the city, the sea and Mt. Esja.

Registration on-site!

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The really popular and entertaining chess pub quiz which is becoming a standard feature of the tournament will be here yet again.  As usual there are 30 questions about chess and the history of the game, both recent and past. This will be a pair event.

Last years winner was team GrandEllen, comprising of Nils Grandlius and Ellen Kakulidis. 

• 2017 Pub Quiz

 

The 2015 questions

 

Harpa Blitz 2018 is held on March 10th.

The Blitz will be played at the main venue in Harpan and the scheduled start is 20:30

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Minimum age: 18 years. Tournament is NOT rated!

Registration on-site!

System

A nine round regular blitz tournament. This year the time control will be 3+2 (3 minutes for game with 2 second increment)

Time control

The time control will be 3+2 (3 minutes for game with 2 second increment)

Entry fee

Entry fee ISK 2000 should be paid on location before the start of the tournament. Cash only!

Prize money

Money prizes for the top three seeds. Tie-break points will be used to determine the prize winners.

1. 40% off the entry fee
2. 25%
3. 15%

Registration

Registration on-site!

 

Registration

Please fill out the registration form below. Participants will be picked up at Harpa’s entrance at 21:30 – Please be on time!

• Registration form

 

Of course there will be the traditional football match between Iceland (the chess players and the organizers) and Rest of the World (the international chess players). It is a fun and relaxing activity after a hard fought game of chess.

 

The Rest of the World team has both featured special guests like World Champion Magnus Carlsen and tournament players like GM Vachier Lagrave, GM Evgeny Tomashevskiy, GM Loek van Wely, GM Emre Can, GM Alexander Ipatov, GM Jon Ludvig Hammer, IM Nicolai Getz, GM Danyyil Dvirnyy, FM Marina Brunello, GM Sabino Brunello, GM Robert Hess, GM Vasily Papin, FM Peter Doggers, GM Bartosz Socko, GM Mateusz Bartel, WIM Josefine Heinemann, GM Sebastian Maze, GM Etienne Bacrot, GM Laurent Fressinet, GM Fabian Libiszewski, and GM Matthieu Cornette. If they can play, so can you!

 

On the Icelandic side GM Hjorvar Steinn Gretarsson and IM Ingvar Thor Johannesson have featured prominently. Other Icelandic players have been “secret weapons”. In fact Iceland – with the home court advantages – has usually done well, but with the increased popularity of the tournament among international players, the Rest of the World team is expected to do better.

 

The football match for 2018 will be on Sunday the 11th of March and between 22:00-23:00 in the indoor Football hall Fífan. Everybody will get a chance to play. We may split the group into four teams of roughly seven players each, on either one-half or one-quarter of a pitch. We play on artificial grass and the temperature inside the football-hall is about 15°C.

 

If you play football you should bring your football equipment with you to Reykjavik! This is a fun and a very popular event!

The Icelandic Backgammon Association, will organize a special backgammon event during the GAMMA Reykjavík Open 2018 – Bobby Fischer Memorial. The Backgammon tournament will most likely be held on March 13th, but perhaps the tournament will be moved to March 12th. The final date will be published soon!

The tournament starts around 19.00 hours.

System

We will play „single elimination with second chance“ system. It means if you lose your first match, you will go to second chance tournament, but if you lose two matches all together, you are out. The matches are played to 7 points.

Entry fee and prizes

Entry fee is 40 euros, 75% of the price budget goes to the first two places in main tournament and 25% of the price budget will go to first two places in the second chance tournament. 20% of the entry fee goes to Icelandic Backgammon Federation.

We will also have some kind prices.

Registration

Registration can be handed to Róbert Lagerman, e-mail chesslion@hotmail.com, who is one of the distinguished Reykjavik Open arbiters, or simply at the chess-tournament info-desk.

Location

The tournament take place in Harpa.