With the top board clashes getting tougher and tougher every round it was inevitable to see some draws on the top boards. However we still have fiver players with a full house on 4 points out of 4 games. The tournament favourite, #1 seed and highest rated player of all time at the Reykjavik Open,…
DetailsThe annual blitz tournament will be held tonight at 21:30 in the main playing hall in Harpa. The tournament will played with a 3+2 timecontrol i.e. 3 minutes for the game and a 2 second increment for each move. There will be 9 rounds and is open for everybody 18+. Minors will have to be…
DetailsAfter three rounds we still have sixteen players with a full house on 3 out of 3. Top seed Anish Giri is among them after beating Eugene Perelshteyn with the black pieces. Joining the group are 2nd seed Dmitry Andreikin and 4th seed Zoltan Almasi while 3rd seed Baadur Jobava half a point when his opponent…
DetailsThe 2nd round was surpringly low on upsets. The first upset was all the way on board 21 where the Dutch FM Dimitry van Leent won against the current Swedish champion, GM Eric Blomqvist. The Dutch GM Jorden van Foreest was perhaps closest to disaster of the other GM’s, facing this clear pawn down position…
DetailsThe 2017 GAMMA Reykjavik Open kicked off with it’s 32nd edition today. The Reykjavik Open has been held since 1964 and is one of the leading Opens on the chess calendar. This year we have a very strong field at the open and are close to a record participation with 264 players from 39 countries…
DetailsThings are underway here at the Reykjavik Open. As always with a close to a 300 player open there will be some no shows. Most of them got filtered out but Gata Kamsky was a recipent of a no-show from Nigeria who had already payed the entry fee so naturally he was paired up in…
DetailsMost of the competitors of the Reykjavik Open are arriving today and tomorrow. We already had plenty of players and staff arrive in the last few days. On monday we had a mild storm with rain but today the Reykjavik Open is being welcomed with some nice weather. Today at 13:00 Anish Giri will…
DetailsWe are delighted to introduce the latest entry to the already impressive catalog of participants, playing in the 32nd edition of the Reykjavik Open. The former World Championship candidate, six-time Icelandic Champion and two-time winner of the Reykjavik Open, the legendary GM Johann Hjartarson has joined the roster! This will be his first Reykjavik…
DetailsThe 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…
DetailsOnly a few days ago we introduced a 2700+ player in Dmitry Andreikin. It only took us a few days to announce a brand new #1 seed for the 2017 GAMMA Reykjavik Open in April. It’s none other than Anish Giri making his 2nd visit to the Reykjavik Open. Anish played the tournament in 2013…
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