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Dr. Yi Ling, founding partner of Linkchina Consulting, performing the traditional bell ringing that starts the games of the Llobregat Open Chess Tournament, accompanied by Jorge I. Aguadero Casado, editor-in-chief of Peón de Rey. We could say that round 9 of the V El Llobregat Open Chess Tournament is the round of dreams, of those

The traditional ringing of the bell to start the round of play was performed by the blind international master Piotr Dukaczewski. “If you want to travel fast, travel alone; if you want to go far, travel together”. A chess festival, like everything that aspires to have life, is part of a broad ecosystem of alliances.

All the people involved in a chess festival are a fundamental part of many things, although their visibility is not the same. Let’s talk, for example, about those who are at the access door to the playing room because, although part of their function is to go unnoticed, their work is key for the good

In this round there was a match between the oldest player, 79 year old FM Joaquín Norja Silvestre, against the youngest player of the tournament, 8 year old Elliot Maccalum from Canada, U-8 world champion. The game was won by the oldest player, FM Joaquín Norja. Yesterday, in our daily chronicle of the V El

The world of chess has many sides: from the grandmaster who shines under the spotlight on the international scene to the non-federated player who practices the game-science alone, solving the problem of his favorite column in the newspaper. This amalgam of colors, composed of shades of an infinite spectrum, gives shape to the motto of

Last Sunday, December 1, the program of the V edition of EL LLOBREGAT OPEN CHESS added, to the evening celebration of the third round of the tournament, a school championship convened in Can Massallera (Sant Boi) at 10 am.

The 5th edition of El Llobregat Open Chess Tnmt. continues to show a high level competition, consolidating its reputation as the strongest open chess event in Spain. After four intense rounds, Israeli GM Ido Gorshtein and Georgian GM Mikheil Kekelidze lead the standings with a perfect score of 4/4. Close behind them, six players are

Are we revealing any secret when we say that psychology has a great weight in competitive chess? The idea is intuitive, because it is the most mental game and the emotions of the players are analogous to those of a student facing an exam.