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IM Aczel wins 1st Saturday, earns 2nd GM norm
Another tournament victory of Aczel Gergely (HUN) The popular tournament series of First Saturday Budapest continued with four international groups of different levels in the Hotel Berlin. The average of the GM section was 2421 with a 7 points GM...
4-way tie for 1st at BSSZ Aranytiz GM Tournament
Final crosstable Rk. Name Rtg FED 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3 1 GM Berczes David 2484 HUN * ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ ½ 6,0 25,50 0,0...
Norms earned at First Saturday
Nguyen Thai Dai Van (CZE) wins the First Saturday August 2017 tournament and his second GM norm! In a hot summer, in Budapest, from 5th to 15th of August 2017 was held the First Saturday Chess tournament for August...
Chess Connects Us – Global Chess Festival
Press Release Chess Connects Us 2017 The 3rd edition of the annual Global Chess Festival (GCF) will be held on Saturday October 14th, 2017. This year the festival in Budapest will take place in the beautiful new location Graphisoft...
FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar in Budapest, Hungary
A FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar is going to be organized from 29 September to 1 October 2017 in Budapest, Hungary, by the Hungarian Chess Federation and under the auspices of FIDE. The Lecturer will be IA Werner Stubenvoll (AUT), FIDE...
Boris Savchenko wins Budapest by a full point
Final ranking after 9 rounds http://chess-results.com/tnr252949.aspx Rk. SNo Name sex FED RtgI Pts. TB1 TB2 Rp n w we w-we K rtg+/- 1 4 GM Savchenko Boris RUS 2613 8,0 53,0 42,0 2861 9 8 5,69 2,31 10 23,1...