Festival Time

AM flying to Prague today for the Prague International Chess Festival, which has about 12 tournaments (the exact number depends on how a tournament is defined) plus side events.

I am playing in the open, where I am seeded 276th out of 402 entrants.

The venue is the Don Giovanni hotel, which apparently has 412 rooms and one of the largest conference areas in the city.

Among the players in the various tournaments are Boris Gelfand, 2722-rated Hao Wang and 2409-rated 13-year-old Václav Finek.

The time limit is a relatively leisurely one of 40 moves in 90 minutes, with 30 minutes to finish, and a 30-seccond increment throughout.