Constantin Lupulescu went directly into the driver’s seat with his win against Alireza Firouzja in a very exciting and complicated game where the Romanian sacrificed a piece early on. Take a look at this game, potentially the most imporant of this tournament! very impressed with Lupu’s games this tournament. The wolf is back!#ReykjavikOpen https://t.co/FMXoV8RoIb —…
Heading into the 6th round, we had four players tied at the top of the table with 4.5 points out of 5. They played individually in the 5th round with Hovhannisyan playing white against Firouzja and Lupulescu with white against Movsesian Hovhannisyan and Firouzja settled on a draw relatively early after a Najdorf fizzled out…
The battle at the top is shaping up to be an interesting one and looks like nobody wants to be left behind. The 5th round featured a heavy dose of decisive games and with such an even field, getting the wins will prove vital as the tournament crosses the halfway mark and every round matters.…
At the start of the round the Armenians were sitting pretty at the top but Sergei Movsesian and Robert Hovhannysian had to play each other in the 4th round. They made a relatively short draw most likely because of their friendship but perhaps the fact that Man Utd were playing in the Champions League was…
The number of people with a full house dramatically decreased in the 3rd round. Already there were some GM clashes in the 3rd round….clashes that took a lot more rounds to appear before the accelerated pairings were tried this year and last year. Two Armenians, Movsesian and Hovhannisyan lept into the lead with nice wins…
Most of the top seeds escaped the dreaded early Tuesday round relatively unharmed. The top two seeds had to concede draws however as Gawain Jones was held by Dinara Saduakassova and Nils Grandelius was held by Zhen Low. The young and super talented Alireza Firouzja therefore become the highest seed sitting on 2/2 at this early…
The 34th GAMMA Reykajvik Open kicked of today with the first round. The ceremonial first move was made by prime minister of Iceland, Katrin Jakobsdottir. She and FIDE president Arkady Dvorkovich made speeches to open the tournament formally. Once the clocks started running the job for the top seeds proved easier than expected. This year the…
Since the last time we posted on the website we have had some changes to the players list and some notable names added to it. Unfortunately our 2700+ player David Navara had to cancel his participation as he got an invitation to Shamkir which will be at the same time. An invitation that is understandably…
The 34th edition of the GAMMA Reykjavik Open is shaping up to be a very entertaining event and one of the highlights of the chess calendar in Iceland as usual. The open takes place between April 8th and 16th and as usual there will be plenty of special events and another Fischer Random tournament will…
The GAMMA Reykjavik Open 2019 will be held for the 34th time from April 8th until April 16th, 2019 in Harpa, the 28.000 sq. m. concert- and conference centre in downtown Reykjavik. Many world class players have taken part in the GAMMA Reykjavik Open in recent years, including Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Anish Giri, Baadur Jobava, Richard Rapport, Pavel Eljanov,…
