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...
Hey guys! 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! https://www.youtube.com/wat...
Dear Chess Friends! 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...
Hello there! 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...
Dear Reader, 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...
Hi there, 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...
Hello Dear Reader! 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...
