Brilliant must read by Ian Rogers
A fantastic article by Ian Rogers on Magnus Carlsen and the pub quiz! Do check it out here: http://www.uschess.org/content/view/12985/806/
Colovic blog from round 1
Alexander Colovic is back (he had a very nice GOTD last year against a young Norwegian player). Here are his 1st round impressions 🙂 http://www.alexcolovic.com/2015/03/reykjavik-open-2015-round-1.html
Video from “fire drill”
A participant or somebody accompanying a participant shot this during the fire evacuation:
Even Steven blitz won by Vova
Yesterday the Even Steven blitz tournament was held. This is the 2nd year that we try this format for a blitz tournament and in general people seem to be happy with it. The format is a time handicap so that the stronger player in some cases has to play with 1 minute vs 9 minutes…
Colovic, Canadians & ChessVibes writing
More blogging from our Canadian visitors….please scroll down to see the latest blogging from them: http://annexchessclub.com/2014/03/toronto-players-in-reykjavik/ I also saw that Alex Colovic had a nice blog about his experience and his deja-vu Norweigan matchups: http://www.alexcolovic.com/ Both of these cover the Golden Circle trip which so many of our guests took. Finally I would like to point out…
Canadians blogging about their tournament
Have a look at this nice blog post by Tyler Longo from the Annex Chess Club in Canada who is travelling and playing here with several of his fellow Canadians: http://annexchessclub.com/2014/03/toronto-players-in-reykjavik/
Fire & Ice
After a totally grueling double round day we have 13 players on 3 out of 3. After a rather smooth first round for most of the higher rated players, rounds two and three presented some bigger challenges for the titled players in this tournament. In round 2 most of the top seeds won in clinical…
Players are back, round 3 pushed back half an hour
Due to the unusual delay because of the fire alarm evacuation the 3rd round today will be pushed back half an hour. At this time we don’t know if there was an actual fire but if there was it was a very small one, probably kitchen or something of that sort. In any case, players…
Well that’s a first!!
Right now we actually have about 200 people outside the Harpa playing hall because the building had to be evacuated because of a fire alarm and probably a real small fire in the house. Most likely we will return soon but the house has to follow protocol and evacuate while the situation is being taken…
It starts today
The opening ceremony is in roughly 3 hours away and we will start the tournament and the live broadcast shortly after that. Registration is going well, most of the players showing up and looks like we will have 250+ players from 40+ countries. Let Peter tell you all about it in this news article on…