ECU President Plays Rapid Chess in Latvia

Время публикации: 07.08.2015 23:02 | Последнее обновление: 08.08.2015 00:29

Currently at Liepaja, the 22nd international festival "Liepājas rokāde" is taking place. For four days, from 6-9 August, there are four tournaments - an open and a team rapid event (13 and 7 round respectively, time control in each case 15+5), a 13-round open blitz event and a round robin rapid event, which the organisers have officially christened a "super-tournament".

The names of four of the players were known in advance: Daniel Fridman, Igor Kovalenko, Zurab Azmaiparashvili and Alexander Khalifman. Four others are added, based on the results of the open: Evgeny Romanov, Vladislav Kovalev, Alexey Aleksandrov and Artur Neiksans.

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