Oliver Gonzalez Memorial Chess Tournament begins in Madrid with exciting events
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011
Hi everyone,
The chess news from Spain is that the Oliver Gonzalez Memorial has started on Saturday with a record participation of 183 players from 8 countries. There is a nice report on www.chessdom.com with all the details and you can also follow the official website for live broadcast of games.
The participants are divided into two groups with different schedules for the first 6 rounds: some of them are playing double rounds for 3 days (“weekend group”), while others play with a rhythm of one game each day (“normal group”). The two groups will be united for the last 3 rounds to conclude the overall winner.
The top-seed of the tournament, GM Oleg Korneev has decided to play in the weekend group and started with a perfect score, 2 out of 2. Other high-rated players with 2 points are: IM David Larino, IM Orelvis Perez, IM Santiago Roa and IM Jose Candela. The normal group played its first round this afternoon. Here the top-seed GM Renier Vazquez won his game convincingly, and so did IM Alejandro Moreno, IM Pablo Almagro, FM David Anton, IM Daniel Barria and FM Angel Arribas, too.
The socio-cultural events will start tonight with a highly popular activity: singing a karaoke bar, which will be followed with a gastronomy night on Sunday.
Hi everyone,
The chess news from Spain is that the Oliver Gonzalez Memorial has started on Saturday with a record participation of 183 players from 8 countries. There is a nice report on www.chessdom.com with all the details and you can also follow the official website for live broadcast of games.
Top-seed GM Oleg Korneev won both of his games on Saturday
The top-seed of the tournament, GM Oleg Korneev has decided to play in the weekend group and started with a perfect score, 2 out of 2. Other high-rated players with 2 points are: IM David Larino, IM Orelvis Perez, IM Santiago Roa and IM Jose Candela. The normal group played its first round this afternoon. Here the top-seed GM Renier Vazquez won his game convincingly, and so did IM Alejandro Moreno, IM Pablo Almagro, FM David Anton, IM Daniel Barria and FM Angel Arribas, too.
The socio-cultural events will start tonight with a highly popular activity: singing a karaoke bar, which will be followed with a gastronomy night on Sunday.
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3 Comments:
At October 9, 2011 at 12:20 PM ,
Amrit Puri Knights Chess Club New Delhi said...
Very interesting planning for a chess tournament. Interesting idea. Should be food for thought for several organisers.
At October 9, 2011 at 12:22 PM ,
Sainath, Colombo said...
Confusing format. I wonder how they work it all out. But with karaoke and actually a convenient format for a lot of players the idea might catch on. I am going to suggest it at our local club.
At October 10, 2011 at 6:17 AM ,
Anonymous said...
How's it going?
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