On the Pentecost weekend, the 12th edition of the Netherlands’ biggest weekend tournament, the Limburg Open in Maastricht, took place. Roughly 460 players participated in three separate tournaments, among them Martin Müller, Johannes Bertram and Thomas Jayes. Martin took up a difficult task: with his rating of 2057, he had the choice of registering either for the A-tournament (>2050) or the B-tournament (1800-2100) where he would have been among the Elo favourites. Instead, he...
As every year, the long Ascension weekend held a nice opportunity to play a chess tournament: the FEFB Individual Championship, which was held in Namur this year. Members of Europchess’s first team have been regular participants in the 12-player elite tournament, and this year it was Georgi Tomov who defended our colours.And he did so in fantastic style, winning the tournament with 5.5/7, a full point clear of the runners-up. Georgi set the tone...
