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CZECH TOUR 2021

Following festivals are being prepared:
Czech Open Pardubice, July 15 - August 1 2021
Summer Prague Open, August 7-14 2021
Sunny Beach Open (Bulgaria), September 3-12 2021
Regulations will be published in the first half of April.

Marienband Open & Prague Open
We regret inform you that the Marienbad Open and Prague Open festivals were cancelled due to current epidemic development and government restrictions.

The rival Prague Chess Festival (14 - 22 June) is still on at the moment, with an announcement due by the end of this month.

Hopefully, it will go ahead this year with numbers reduced sufficiently that the bottom boards in the Open don't have to play in the underground car park.

http://www.czechopen.net/en/

etc. - they're hoping to run events

I got an e-mail from them this morning. It still says the Prague Chess Festival is going ahead, even though the announcement due by the end of March hasn't been made and there's been no updates to the website since the end of January.

On Kevin's link it states on the photo that the "chess part" is complete and by that it looks like they mean the entry form and calendar of events which are listed here. As you can see they have a lot of events lined up including a RainDropChess Open. However, the "game part" will only be updated in May by which I assume they mean the playing regulations and Covid restrictions, if any.

Main standard tournaments for the Czech Tour:
Czech Open Pardubice 5th July — 1st August 2021
International Chess and Games Festival.
Grandmaster open with GM and IM norms, 2 FIDE opens, 4-member team tournament and other side tournaments.

VIII. SUMMER PRAGUE OPEN
6th — 13th August 2021
Master open with IM norm, FIDE open with, rapid and blitz tournaments. http://czechtour.net/summer-prague-open/

XIX. SUNNY BEACH OPEN, BULGARIA http://czechtour.net/sunny-beach-open/
3rd — 12th September 2021
FIDE open with IM norm possibility, FIDE open, blitz tournament.

III. PRAGUE INTERNATIONAL CHESS FESTIVAL DON GIOVANNI https://praguechessfestival.com/
14th — 20th June 2021
Super-GM round-robin tournament Masters, round-robin youth tournament Futures, grandmaster open with GM and IM norms, round-robin amateur tournaments, rapid and blitz tournaments.

Chris Rice wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 30, 2021 3:43 pm

On Kevin's link it states on the photo that the "chess part" is complete and by that it looks like they mean the entry form and calendar of events which are listed here. As you can see they have a lot of events lined up including a RainDropChess Open. However, the "game part" will only be updated in May by which I assume they mean the playing regulations and Covid restrictions, if any.

I assume the "game part" means the games other than chess that they mention - "Tournaments in bridge, go, draughts, backgammon, gomoku and other games will take place within the frame of the festival."

Good to see so many events taking place over there.
I believe there are some OTB events taking place in Israel over the next few months.