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While finally the spring (some might even argue summer ) weather has finally kicked in in Copenhagen, I was up for another chess challenge in my journey, this time Copenhagen Chess Challenge 2017 tournament! This was also the first tour...
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It's been a while since Part 1 of my game analysis at Grenke Open, but finally here it comes!
After first 3 rounds I had 2 points out of 3 (see more about how it happened here), with no surprises so far.
Round 4
I was paire...
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As some of you might already know, on Monday ended Grenke Open 2017 held in a nice little city Karlsruhe (at least I think it's little ) & I had the pleasure to take part in this tournament.
You can see my impressions about the t...
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A short update on how the tournament ended for me in terms of the results and games! Round 8 and 9 were hard fought games, with lots of turnarounds
All game analysis coming later this week!
A screenshot of my final ...
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My goal was to bring in regular updates on how things are going at the Grenke Open for me and analyse some interesting games, however, what I have realized is that with double rounds each day and bad internet connection, it is fairly d...
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About to take off at Copenhagen airport to Grenke Open! As some of you already know, parallel with the super-strong and huge open tournament, there is going to be also a super tournament featuring players like Magnus Carlsen and Levon Aro...
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This is the Part 2 of the review covering my first couple of chess tournaments this year and illustrating all my struggles and sweats towards the ultimate goal!
So in part 1 (which you see here) we off that I had scored 4 poin...
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It has been a while since my last blog-post here on chess.com, which doesn't mean I have given up on my chess journey, in fact, quite the opposite. We are almost 2,5 months in the year 2017 and so much have happened!
As some of you a...
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It has been a couple of weeks since my last post, which doesn't mean that the past weeks have been uneventful - in fact, it's quite the opposite and due to crazy amount of things happening in the same time, I have not had a chance t...
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Check out the recap video of the PRO chess league Round 1 match Riga Magicians vs Norway Gnomes match! Follow us on Facebook here to learn more about our team and see some exciting chess content!
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On Wednesday, 11 January PRO Chess League officially kicked off with an exciting first round!
While there were many interesting matches scheduled for the day and several super GMs playing such as Li Chao, MVL, Mamedya...
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I have some exciting news to share with you - I have the honor to be a part of an extremely strong team in the PRO league, which starts on Wednesday this week (11 January) here on chess.com!
Why is this so exciting?! - well, for s...
Hello Dear Chess Friends in the New 2017 Year!
I hope all of you have had a great Holiday season and a nice start of the new year!
In the very end of 2016, I decided to participate in another classical chess tournament (God knows I h...
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In the last minute the opportunity rose to play the Malmo Open in Sweden and I surely jumped straight at it! So in the weekend between 16-18 December I played a 7-round tournament in Malmo with over 300 participants and the...
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It has been 2 weeks since my last post, so it was time to have another chess encounter to keep my journey on the right track. This time the occasion was to help my Malmo chess club in the match against Lund.
For all the games I ca...
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Today I had the privilege to travel to a lovely Swedish town called Helsingborg and help my chess club from Malmo to fight with Helsingborg's team. This was the second round in Swedish league this season, but first game for me...