Kvika Reykjavik Open 2022 - 6-12 April 2022

[Kevin Thurlow]

https://www.reykjavikopen.com/schedule/

https://chess-results.com/anmeldung.asp ... tnr=599063

251 players so far - they claim that the venue is the best for a chess tournament and they may well be right. It is big and spacious, tournament is very well-organised. The only drawback really is that Iceland is somewhat expensive, ok, very expensive. The venue does special reduced prices for refreshments during the playing sessions though.

[Roger de Coverly]

251 players so far - they claim that the venue is the best for a chess tournament and they may well be right.

A respectable list of English players as well, no Russians.

1 Williams Simon K ENG GM 2464 0
2 Clarke Brandon ENG IM 2430 0
3 Grieve Harry ENG FM 2384 0
4 Derakhshani Borna ENG FM 2371 0
5 Willow Jonah ENG FM 2365 0
6 Large Peter ENG IM 2335 0
7 Dishman stephen ENG - 2332 0
8 Royal Shreyas ENG FM 2272 0
9 Lohia Sohum ENG CM 2251 0
10 Povah Nigel ENG IM 2245 0
11 Chapman Terry P D ENG FM 2240 0
12 Sowray Peter ENG - 2226 0
13 Roe Simon ENG - 2211 0
14 Villiers Thomas ENG CM 2202 0
15 White Nigel ENG - 1997 0
16 RICE Chris ENG AIM 1989 0
17 Lewis Stephen ENG - 1901 0
18 Kumar Sanjit ENG - 1794 0
19 Larkin Benjamin ENG - 1784 0
20 Cooper Malcolm ENG - 1783 0
21 Zheng Harry ENG - 1718 0
22 Grose Kameron ENG - 1681 0
23 Eedle Eric ENG - 1526 0
24 Patel Zain ENG - 1503 0
25 Smith Chris P ENG - 1454 0
26 Bryant Harry ENG - 1413 0
27 Yedid Lior ENG - 1337 0
28 Hanache Kai ENG - 0 0
29 Player Edmund ENG - 0 0
30 Robinson Beth ENG - 0 0
31 Vernon Guy ENG - 0 0

[Kevin Thurlow]

"A respectable list of English players as well, no Russians."

I played in 2018, and there were 16 English, but only 3 Russians, maybe it's too cold for them.

[Chris Rice]

264 players now and the Round 1 draw should be up before 2pm BST
(Iceland an hour behind so 1pm there) according to the organisers.

[NickFaulks]

8 Royal Shreyas ENG FM 2272 0

...who is playing in Slovenia today!

[Kevin Thurlow]

They did allow half-point byes when I was there. They also used an accelerated pairing system for several rounds.

It's good to see a representative of our own dear Channel Islands also.

[Wadih Khoury]

They did allow half-point byes when I was there. They also used an accelerated pairing system for several rounds.

I was about to ask about this, pairings didn't make sense until I thought of acceleration.

A bit a shame that they don't clearly advertise the acceleration, many hoped to play a titled player on round 1.

[Leonard Barden]

Six of the top 10 seeds meet ENG opponents in Round 1, with Terry Chapman on top board, so should be an interesting watch this afternoon. Kick off 4pm BST.

[Leonard Barden]

A bit a shame that they don't clearly advertise the acceleration, many hoped to play a titled player on round 1.

If Theo beats his weakie opponent(s) in round(s) 1-2, he should be paired with a big fish who has dropped points in rounds 2-3, that's how acceleration works.

[Wadih Khoury]

Thanks Leonard

[LawrenceCooper]

They did allow half-point byes when I was there. They also used an accelerated pairing system for several rounds.

It's good to see a representative of our own dear Channel Islands also.

Playing her first over the board tournament! https://www.twitch.tv/lularobs

[Leonard Barden]

A bit a shame that they don't clearly advertise the acceleration, many hoped to play a titled player on round 1.

If Theo beats his weakie opponent(s) in round(s) 1-2, he should be paired with a big fish who has dropped points in rounds 2-3, that's how acceleration works.

Good luck to Theo this afternoon against GM Throstur Thorhallsson 2422...

[LawrenceCooper]

A bit a shame that they don't clearly advertise the acceleration, many hoped to play a titled player on round 1.

If Theo beats his weakie opponent(s) in round(s) 1-2, he should be paired with a big fish who has dropped points in rounds 2-3, that's how acceleration works.

Good luck to Theo this afternoon against GM Throstur Thorhallsson 2422...

"Round 2 starts at 9 am tomorrow morning (Thursday)!!!"

[Mick Norris]

Theo's underway

[Wadih Khoury]

The middle game was entertaining with very sharp positions and both players making calculation mistakes. However the endgame wasn't great with a couple of positional mistakes then a basic trapped rook mistake.

In terms of UK or UK based juniors there, you can also follow (when they are on liveboards) :

• Sohum Lohia (had a very good draw against a GM yesterday): https://lichess.org/broadcast/reykjavik ... T/ugRXpfY5
• Harry Zheng https://lichess.org/broadcast/reykjavik ... T/rHFGfQhz
• Sanjit Kumar
• Zain Patel
• Kameron Grose
• Harry Bryant
• Emils Steiners (LAT)

Apologies if I forgot some.