Before the large final report we wish to extend our congratulations to the winner of the 31st Reykjavik Open 2016 Abhijeet Gupta! The affable 26 year old was never in real danger of losing in any game and played the most consistent high level chess of the event, a very deserved winner! To check…
The penultimate round of any chess tournament can often include more drama then the actual last round as chessplayers try desperately to give themselves the best chance of winning the tournament or ensuring a healthy placing and prize money. The front runners believes that by winning they can guarantee himself at least a share of…
The last three rounds of any tournament are what’s known as the business end, the time when the top players know they have to win to keep the possibility of winning the event alive and losing usually means that even if they have played well for the majority of the event it can all fall…
Sometimes you have games between good players that fluctuate in the objective assessment virtually from move to move. Like watching an open football game that ends up 4-3 where defense is not the priority. As the tournament gets into the later rounds you have players becoming more tired, some are coming off disappointing losses which…
The 31st edition of the Reykjavik open has entered its second half and the leading grandmasters feel they have to establish some superiority going into the final rounds. At the current time there is a large pack of players on five points all chasing the sole leader from Armenia Sergei Movsesian. Sometimes when the two leaders…
Sometimes you have a round where the play is cagey, sophisticated but not that appealing to the naked eye. Other times you wander around the top boards and you wonder what the players have been having for lunch! In the fifth round of the 31st edition of the Reykjavik open there were interesting and enough…
You might not be able to succeed Carlsen as the World Champion but if you are playing in the Reykjavik Open and you have decent knowledge of chess history, positions and anything to do with chess you might be able to succeed him as Reykjavik Open Pub Quiz Champion! Tonight at 21:30 in Hotel Plaza…
The fourth round of the 31st edition of the Reykjavik Open saw its first grandmaster versus grandmaster clashes and there was plenty of fighting spirit shown as the top seeds wished to put forward their case to be crowned as champion in 2016. On board one Alexander Shabalov may be entering his “twilight” years as a…
A strange set of parings on the top boards would have been the first thing chess fans would have noticed about the third round for the 31st edition of the Reykjavik open. The two top seeds Shakh Mamedyarov and Dmitry Andreikin were not only missing from the top boards but also from the entire list.…
The top seeds continued to escape more or less unscatched from the opening rounds of the Reykjavik Open after the conclusion of the 2nd round. In the morning round of the dreaded double-round day, only Danyyil Dvirnyy became a GM casualty joining Nils Grandelius from the opening round. Local 21 year old Orn Leo Johannsson…
