Hastings Congress FIDE-rated Blitz Tournament

January 3, 2015 Pam 0

The Hastings Congress Blitz Tournament will take place this evening, 3rd January, at the White Rock Hotel. Play will start at 20.30. Tournament details are as follows and we give a link to the player list as at time of writing –http://chess-results.com/tnr157346.aspx?lan=1 Entry Fee: £2.00 […]

Round 5 report

January 3, 2015 Webblie 0

Another deeply satisfying round for the spectators, most of whom no doubt aren’t even in Britain and who may not even have been born yet. Deep Sengupta v Jun Zhao was a game very rich in ideas right from the start between two of the […]

HICC in the news …

January 3, 2015 Webblie 0

The Guardian – http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/02/in-praise-of-hastings-chess-congress The Telegraph – http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/chess/11322043/Glenn-Flear-shows-no-fear-against-top-seed-Maxim-Rodshtein-at-Hastings-Chess-Congress.html … Now read on …

Round 4 report

January 2, 2015 Webblie 0

Possibly under the influence of their New Year’s Celebrations, the games were shorter today, but still hard-fought. On board 1 the game Zhao – Lagarde was highly complex. Black went badly wrong. At one stage he had a complex fantasy variation which Chris Ward explained, […]

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