ChessBomb Blog: 2020-06

2020-06-29

Panevezys Open 2020

Panevezys Open 2020 is a 9 round swiss tournament held in Panevezys, Lithuania from 26th June to 3rd July 2020.

Official site

Schedule in UTC:

Round 1 Jun 26, 2020 14:00

Round 2 Jun 27, 2020 07:00

Round 3 Jun 27, 2020 13:00

Round 4 Jun 28, 2020 12:00

Round 5 Jun 29, 2020 12:00

Round 6 Jun 30, 2020 12:00

Round 7 Jul 1, 2020 12:00

Round 8 Jul 2, 2020 12:00

Round 9 Jul 3, 2020 07:00

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2020-06-21

The 42nd edition of the open national individual cup G. TRINGOV MEMORIAL, oranised by the sport club Lokomotiv Plovdiv, Plovdiv Municipality and BCF 1928 is held from 12th to 19th July in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

Time control 90 min. + 30 sec increment

Official website

Schedule in EEST (UTC+3):

Round 1 2020/07/12 15:30

Round 2 2020/07/13 15:00

Round 3 2020/07/14 09:00

Round 4 2020/07/14 15:30

Round 5 2020/07/15 15:00

Round 6 2020/07/16 15:00

Round 7 2020/07/17 15:00

Round 8 2020/07/18 15:00

Round 9 2020/07/19 09:00

ChessBomb is going to broadcast LIVE the games on the first boards in the 42nd Trigonov Memorial with computer analysis.

2020-06-19

Riga Summer Chess Festival 2020

Riga Summer Chess Festival 2020 is held in Riga, Latvia from June 15th to June 21st, 2020. The nine-round tournament is bringing together players from five countries - Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, France, and the Netherlands. The main favorites are IM Vladimirs Svešņikovs (2424), IM Oļegs Krivonosovs (2391), IM Rolands Bērziņš (2375), FM Matīss Mustaps (2370) and FM Iļja Semjonovs (2362), Kirill Chukavin (2348).

The prize fund is 2110 euros.

Official site

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Croatian Chess Championship 2020

The Croatian Chess Championship 2020 is taking place from 19 -29 June.

Official site

Schedule: 11 rounds of classical chess, starting every day at 13:00 UTC.

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Chessable Masters 2020

Chessable Masters 2020 held from June 20th to July 5th, 2020 is part of the Magnus Carlsen tour.

It's a knockout event in which take part famous chess players as Maxime Vachier-Lagrave; Alexander Grischuk; Magnus Carlsen; Fabiano Caruana; Teimur Radjabov; Anish Giri; Hikaru Nakamura; Pentala Harikrishna; Ding Liren; Ian Nepomniachtchi; Vladislav Artemiev; Daniil Dubov.

The players will first be reduced to 8 in a knockout stage split into two groups. They will play a double round-robin with 15+10 time control. The top4 will continue to the final stage.

Official site

Schedule: games start every day at 14:00 UTC.

21th and 24th June are rest days

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2020-06-16

Vitiugov vs Xiong 2020

Vitiugov vs Xiong 2020 is a classical 4-game match, organized by PNWCC, between super GM Nikita Vitiugov (FIDE 2722, world rank #25) and GM Jeffery Xiong (FIDE 2709, world rank #32) on Chess.com, from June 16th - 19th on Chess.com.

The time control is 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, +30 minutes per player after move 40; with a 30 seconds increment from move 1.

Official site

Schedule: The games start at 10:00 a.m. CDT/6:00 p.m. MSK every day.

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2020-06-13

MrDodgy Invitational 2020

MrDodgy Invitational is a knockout tournament between 8 strong GMs held between June 12th and 15th 2020. Each match consists of 12 games with a possible armageddon. The time control is 5+0

Official site

Schedule in UTC:

1/4 Finals - 14:00 12.06

1/2 Finals 14:00 13.06

Final - 14:00 14.06

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2020-06-04

Chess Classics: Lasker-Capablanca

Emanuel Lasker had been world champion for 27 years, a record that still holds. He successfully defended the title, which he took over from Wilhelm Steinitz in 1894, in several matches.

The 1921 match, held from March 15 to April 27 in Havana, Cuba, was a long-awaited affair as Capablanca had challenged the world champion as early as 1911, after he surprisingly won the international tournament in San Sebastian that year.

The winner of the title match would be the first player to reach eight points, draws not counting. The time control was 15 moves per hour. After Capablanca had won game 14, the score was +4 -0 =10 in the Cuban's favor. At that point, Lasker gave up the match, and Capablanca was declared the new world champion.

Official site

Schedule: Games start every day at 12:00 UTC.

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