The Armenian Grand Master Karen Grigoryan will remember fondly Lisbon and the Chess Portugal Open. The strong player, who plays in Portugal for GD Dias Ferreira won both events, both classic and rapid. After having won the first tournament, which took place 25 January to 1 February, Grigoryan bested the Ler mais…
A sudden turnaround at Portugal Open 2020 happened at the last round, when the Armenian Grandmaster Karen Grigoryan won a decisive encounter against the Serbian GM Aleksandar Indjic, and becoming this way the winner of most important open tournament in the country, which gathered at Casal Vistoso Sport Complex, in Ler mais…
The Serbian Grandmaster Aleksandar Inđić tops alone the Portugal Open 2020, after six of nine rounds of the event, which gathers at Casal Vistoso Sport Complex, in Lisbon, 220 players from 34 different countries. Inđić, who won the 2017 event, and rated 2622 ELO won, at the second board, the Ler mais…
One of the improvements of Portugal Open 2020 is the fight against waste and single-use plastic. In alignment with the “Lisbon European Green Capital 2020”, the Portuguese Chess Federation (FPX) tried to make its largest tournament an example, mainly on the use of plastic water bottles. Single-use plastic was checkmate Ler mais…
Many surprising results at Portugal Open 2020, and, at the beginning of the fourth round, the group of players with only victories is quite small – only 13 players have three points among them two Portuguese players, the IM André Sousa and the NM André Fidalgo. André & André show Ler mais…
The first round of Portugal Open 2020, the largest chess tournament in the country gathering 220 players from 34 different countries has already started at the Casal Vistoso Sports Complex, the top players have already some difficult matches in what will probably be a very competitive Open. On the first Ler mais…
