Now we have more than 200 registered players in the Uppsala Chess Festival’s various tournaments, we are very proud of the interest. Here you can see the registered players in some of the tournaments:
Two Swedish champions play GM-tournament during Uppsala Chess Festival
Two weeks ago, this year’s Swedish Championships were decided in Helsingborg. Two Swedish champions were crowned – Jung Min Seo surprisingly won the “big” Swedish Championship title and in the junior Swedish Championship Ludvig Carlsson won. And both of these newly crowned champions come to Uppsala Chess Festival to play in the grandmaster tournament.
The two silver medalists – experienced Tiger Hillarp and Milton Pantzar – will also play, and young star Platon Galperin from Ukraine and the Romanian Grandmaster Mihail Marin will make interesting starts.
Here is the entire starting field :
- GM Tiger Hillarp, Sweden, 51 (2542)
- GM Mihail Marin, Romania, 56 (2502)
- IM Valerij Kazakovskij, Belarus, 21 (2499)
- IM Plato Galperin, Ukraine, 18 (2490)
- IM Jung Min Seo, Sweden, 19 (2453)
- GM Emil Mirzoev , Ukraine, 25 (2437)
- IM Milton Pantzar, Sweden, 20 (2421)
- FM Isak Storme, Sweden, 20 (2397)
- FM Kaan Küçüksarı, Sweden, 18 (2365)
- CM Ludvig Carlsson, Sweden, 18 (2258)
Arbiter Seminar 6-8 August
The weekend before Uppsala Chess Festival – 6-8 August – we offer a FIDE Arbiter Seminar for FA/IA-norms.
Welcome to 1st Uppsala Chess Festival
Check the invitation and register!
Open Swedish Bughouse championship
A guaranteed popular side event during the Uppsala Chess Festival will be the Open Swedish Bughouse championship.
We will play it on Saturday, August 14 at 16.00, pair up with a friend and sign up .
Tournament leader is of course the legendary André Nilsson (world famous in the bughouse world as “Gnejs” – read more about him here ).