Daily Archives: March 6, 2018

GAMMA Reykjavik Open Round 1 – Favourites prevail

The 1st round of the 2018 GAMMA Reykjavik Open went relatively upset free for the top seeds. As usual the first round of a swiss brings some unevenly matched games but nontheless the pairings were much more evenly matched than in recent years because of the use of accelerated swiss pairings meaning that the top…

GAMMA Reykjavik Open 2018 has started!

The 1st round of the GAMMA Reykjavik Open – Bobby Fischer Memorial 2018 has started. After a quick speech by the president of the Icelandic Chess Federation, Gunnar Bjornsson, and by Zurab Azmaiparashvili the president of ECU it was Líf Magneudóttir of the Reykjavik City Council made the ceremonial first move on board 1. This…