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Tuesday, 5 March 2024

Updated Plans

MY chess calendar for the spring is filling out.

Mar 8-16
Bad Wörishofen, Bavaria
I will be playing in the U2000 section. There is also an open, and a seniors for men born before 1965 and women before 1975.

Mar 24-31

Fagernes, Norway

There is a GM swiss, officially for players with a minimum rating of 2000 (males) or 1900 (females). I am also qualified as I finished in the first three in last year's open (no rating limits), but I have elected to play in the open again.

Apr 6-14

Tegernsee, Bavaria

For seniors born before 1975.

May 5-11

Bregenz, Austria

I am playing in the morning seniors, for men born before 1965 and women before 1970, but there is also an afternoon open that starts a day earlier and ends a day later.

May 24-28

Kenilworth, Warwickshire

The English seniors championships, split into 65+ and 50+ sections.

Wednesday, 7 February 2024

Looking Ahead

I AM often asked where I find out about the tournaments I attend.

It helps to be on organisers' mailing lists, but my main sources are Fide's calendar, the CzechTour's news page, Tim Harding's website and the German site chessorg.

The following tournaments are on my radar.

I may not play in all of them, but all are on my shortlist.

Cambridge Feb 19-24

Bad Wörishofen, Bavaria Mar 8-16

Fagernes, Norway Mar 24-31

Tegernsee Senioren Cup, Bavaria Apr 6-14

Brengenz Senioren, Norway May 5-11

Kenilworth English Seniors May 24-28

Bischofsgrün Senioren, Bavaria Jun 21-29

Hull British Championships Jul 27-Aug 4 (details expected soonish)

Olomouc, Czechia Aug 10-17 (details expected soon)

Riviera Congress, Torquay Aug 31-Sep 6 (details to come)

Crete ACO World 50+ Championship Oct 2-9

Colonia de Sant Jordi, Mallorca Oct 19-27

Benidorm Open Oct 27-Nov 3 (details to come)

Benidorm Bali, Spain Nov 30-Dec 10 (to be confirmed)

San Vicente, Spain Dec 26-30 (details to come)

Tuesday, 31 May 2022

Where In The World?

ONE of the questions I am most frequently asked is along the lines of: "How do you find out about the tournaments you go to?"

For English events, the answer is simple - the English Chess Federation calendar at EC.

For events on mainland Europe, and elsewhere for that matter, the answer is not so straightforward.

If you Google "chess calendar" the top result will probably be a site billed as World's Biggest Chess Calendar.

Unfortunately the size of WC is its biggest drawback - events appear multiple times, many of which are restricted to, for example, members of a particular club, and I have been unable to discover an efficient way of filtering.

That is why my first port of call is the calendar of the world chess federation, Fide, at FC.

Apart from tournaments billed as World Events, the Fide calendar is sorted by continent and can be searched by month, making it easy to navigate.

The only problem is many of the links do not work. For example, anyone interested in the the 2nd Festival di Giugno, to be held in Treviso, near Venice, is invited to click on the "Official website," which is listed as www.grandiscacchi.com.

Unfortunately this takes you to https://www.fide.com/www.grandiscacchi.com, which is a blank Fide page.

However, you can get the correct address by deleting the symbols before the second set of "www."

Not everyone lists their tournaments at Fide - presumably there is a fee.

One of the non-listers is the German organisation, chess.org, which runs tournaments, mainly in Germany, but also as far afield as Portugal and Malta.

Much is still up in the air post-lockdowns, but the site can be consulted at GC.

The CzechTour, which runs tournaments across Czechia and also at Sunny Beach on the Black Sea, does list at Fide, but I prefer going directly to the group's site at CT.

Finally, I sometimes check the weekly list of Forthcoming Events at The Week In Chess - TC - but generally this is a much reduced sample of Fide-listed tournaments.