The leaderboard is considerably more tighter at the top than in recent years. After the 6th round we have a whooping 14 players leading with 5 points out of the 6 rounds. It is clear that to win the tournament, players need to start racking up wins! Anish Giri is among the leaders. He has…
Details31 players and tournament staff took part in the football tournament, that has become such a central feature on the Reykjavík Open calendar. Four teams played a round robin tournament of 20 minute games. The winning team – with a perfect score – was led by GM Helgi Áss Grétarsson, a former national youth team…
DetailsThis year Reykjavik Open will against select game of they day for each day. Thursday with the double round day therefore produced only one winner but all the other rounds will have a winner. So here are our first selections. For the 1st round we selected the huge upset of the tournament when Ármann Pétursson…
DetailsRemarkably the top of the table is getting tighter again six rounds into the tourney after seveal players capitalized on the lack of decisive results on the top boards. All four top boards ended in draws with Gawain drawing Gupta, Kamsky with Almasi and Vidit with Jobava. Giri had the longest game on the top…
DetailsThe 2017 Reykjavik Open Pub Quiz was won by team GrandEllen comprising of Nils Grandlius and Ellen Kakulidis. Well over 20 teams were registered and the atmosphere was casual and fun as it should be. Nils and Ellen managed 25 correct questions in a tight race with the 2nd place teams getting 24 correct and…
DetailsWith draws on the three top boards, the top of the table got tighter again with nine players now on 4,5 out of 5. Vidit Santosh Gujrati repeated moves early with the white pieces against Anish Giri so they drew. Incidentally Vidit is Anish’s second so perhaps there is both mututal respect and knowledge of…
DetailsThe popular Reykjavik Open Pub Quiz will be held tonight in Centerhotel Plaza (info on where it is here). The Quiz will start around 21:30 and everybody is welcome to join. There are teams of two but if you don’t have a team we will pair people up on-site. The Quiz will be hosted by…
DetailsThe Turkish Grandmaster Mustafa Ylimaz proved to be a class above the field at the annual Reykjavik Open Blitz.. All in all a total of 68 players showed up for the 9 rounds 3+2 blitz tournament. After some early computer problems and a slight delay, the tournament ran smoothly after the first two rounds and…
DetailsWith 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…
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