Hello Everyone, Hope you all are staying safe and healthy as the world seems to be in a mad state at the moment. That being said, chess is really seeing an uptick of attention, which is a really nice side-effect to everything else. For me Augu...
Hi All,Hope everyone is safe and healthy, and enjoying the chess boom! A couple of weeks back I had the opportunity to take a little break of business as usual and head to Copenhagen, Denmark for a bit of rest. It was really refreshing to see life...
Hi All,It is already July - time flies indeed! While this is a cliche thing to say, over the last few weeks that is exactly how I have been feeling. Monotonous every day with work, sleep, eat, chess, shower, repeat.. - that's how days, weeks, mont...
Hi All,As I have got a tad more time on my hands this weekend, I decided to go through my 4NCL games so far this season, and share with you some of the impressions/analysis.First of all, as some of you may now, I represent Celtic Tigers at the str...
Hi All,Here comes the final part of blog series where I share my experience at this year's edition of Gibraltar Masters tournament (You can read part 1 here and part 2 here). Off the board.. While I was quite seriously preparing for the gam...
Hi All, Thanks for tuning in for Part 2 of the review of my games at Gibraltar Master 2020 (you can read part 1 here if you haven't done so already). So just to quickly recap, after first 3 rounds of the tournament my result was not great,...
Hi All,It's been a couple of months since my last blog post, as since playing in Corsica (which you can read all about here), I was preparing for the big bang or the central event of 2020 - Gibraltar Masters tournament in January.As you can tell b...
Hi All, A week ago I had the pleasure to take part in a blitz and rapid tournaments held in Corsica, Bastia. Me and my girlfriend decided to take a little trip to South of France and then spend a couple of days on the beautiful island that Co...
Hi All, The last couple of weeks have been a proper autumn here in Edinburgh, Scotland and so today I decided to re-live the happy sunny days I had in end of August in Sicily, Italy. Between 23-24 August I was taking part in 5th Chess Festiva...
Hi All, After a wee bit of a delay here comes the Part 3 (out of 3) of my blog series covering my experiences at this year's Scottish Championship held in Edinburgh, Scotland (If you missed the previous posts you can find them here - Part 1 a...
Hi All, Hope you have had a fantastic weekend and so here comes the continuation of my blog series on Scottish Championships 2019. (You can find Part 1 here) So after the first 3 rounds I was standing at 2.5 points out of 3, which is not...
Hi All, It's been a couple of months of peace and quite on my blog, but this is not because I have given up on chess just yet - I have been busy playing tournaments, working with Riga Magicians PRO chess League team towards qualifiers, and life ...
Hi All, Here comes the final part of the blog-series "Ritvars adventures in 4NCL strongest league with the Celtic Tigers". The final weekend of the league was really important for the Tigers - we needed to score some wins to stay in the highes...
Hi All, This is the 3rd part of blog series were I describe my experience in 4NCL playing for Celtic Tigers. You can see the first two parts here and here. So going into the final weekend of the regular season we still had chance...
Hi All, Finally I have pulled myself together to write another blog-post to share my experience in 4NCL. You can see the first part of this blog-series here. P.s. thank you for your comments and messages regards the first blog-post. Your...
Hi All,It's been a while since my previous blog posts - other things got in the way, hadn't been really playing much nor working on my chess really, hence nothing to write. However, over a year ago I moved to Edinburgh, Scotland and this made...
Dear all, 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...
Hey guys! 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...
Hey guys! 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...
Hey guys, 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 ...
Hi there, 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...
Hi! 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...
Hi there 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...
Hi there, 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...
Hey guys! 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...
