The Icelandic Chess Federation and the organizers of the Reykjavik Open are happy to announce that we will once again be playing in the Harpa Conference Center and Music Hall for the 2025 edition of the Reykjavik Open! The finalization of dates for the tournament is currently being worked out and will be finalized in…
The Reykjavik Open 2024 has finished. Lets get up a final summary and some pictures of the winners and the winners of the various categories! At the end of the day, Romanian tournament #1 seed Bogdan-Daniel Deac lived up to his pre-tournament ranking and emerged as the sole winner with 7.5 points out of the…
The GAMMA Reykjavík Open 2018 will be a very special event. This time the tournament will be dedicated to the CHESS – KING Bobby Fischer. An Icelandic citizen in his last years, Robert James Fischer was born on March 9th 1943. That means he would have turned 75 years old during GAMMA Reykjavik Open 2018.…
The full 2017 side-event calendar is here! As in earlier years, several chess-related events will take place at the same time as the tournament, including the now famous Reykjavík Open Chess Pub Quiz and the Golden Circle sightseeing tour that includes stops at Geysir and Bobby Fischer’s final resting place in the southern part of…
The Reykjavik open 2017 will be held for the 32nd time from April 19th till April 27th, 2017 In Harpa, the 28.000 sq. m. Concert- and conference centre. The 2017 tournament is expected to be very strong. The 2016 tournament included for example Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Dimitry Andreikin and Richard Rapport. Abhijeet Gupta and Tania Sadchev from India however stole the show. Gupta as the tournament winner…
