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One of the most popular open tournaments in the world is held each spring in Iceland, and Canadian players who attend often come away with a unique chess experience.

David Filipovich of Toronto is an instructor at the Chess Institute of Canada and the Annex Chess Club. He says he has played in more than 300 tournaments over his career, but last years Reykjavik Open was a highlight.

Its a chess-loving country, steeped in chess history, he says. The tournament and related events take on a festival atmosphere, with the mayor presiding at the opening ceremonies and champagne at city hall to celebrate the closing.

Playing under one roof with people from 39 countries is an incredible experience, says Filipovich, who won a prize at the event. My only thought was: Why havent I done this sooner?

Iceland is noteworthy in chess history for hosting the Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky world championship match in 1972, and also for being the country that granted Fischer asylum late in life.

This years tournament, scheduled for March 29 to April 4 at the iconic Harpa concert hall, is the 37th since former world champion Mikhail Tal won the first. More than two dozen grandmasters are registered, and organizers are hoping for 300 players.

Black played 20. O-O-O and after 21.Rxa7 Kb8 and Whites Rook will run out of escape squares, for instance, 22.Ra4 Ndb6. Black won the exchange and the game.

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A total of 16 players will take part in the Women's Grand Prix Series 2022-23, each playing three of four WGP tournaments.

Each WGP tournament is a single round-robin with 12 participants. Each player will be awarded WGP points according to her performance in each tournament; the winner of the WGP series will be the player who has scored the most points in all three WGP tournaments in which she has participated.

The total prize money for each of the four tournaments is 80,000, with a further 80,000 distributed among the top 8 overall Grand Prix Series finishers.

After the tournaments in Astana and Munich, the FIDE Grand Prix in New Delhi is the third in the series. Anna and Mariya Muzychuk were present at the Grand Prix in Munich, but they did not play in Astana. By not taking part in New Delhi, the two Ukrainian grandmasters, who fled their homeland after the Russian invasion of Ukraine and now live in Spain, will therefore play at most two (and not three like the other 16 participants in the Womens Grand Prix) of the four Grand Prix tournaments.

To replace Anna and Mariya Muzychuk, Nino Batsiashvili and Vaishali Rameshbabu have been nominated for the New Delhi tournament.

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PINAKI MAJUMDAR

Jamshedpur, March 20: The Jharkhand State Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament 2023 concluded here today.

The meet was organised by the East Singhbhum District Chess Association (ESDCA) affiliated to All Jharkhand Chess Association (AJCA). The event was oganised in collaboration with Tata Steel at JRD Tata Sports Complex.

In this eight round tournament Sikandar Anis from Bokaro district clinched the top honour and became the champion of Jharkhand State Open FIDE Rating Chess Tournament 2023.

He was awarded cashprize of Rs. 21,000 along with the champions trophy.

He scored 7.0 points out of possible 8 points. In the final round he drew with Rohan Vijay Shandilya of East Singhbhum. Shandilya secured second place and awarded cash prize of Rs 15,000.

The event was inaugurated on March 15 by Vijay Shankar, IPS, City SP of Jamshedpur at the JRD Tata Sports Complex in presence of Mukul Vinayak Choudhari, Chief Sport, Tata Steel, CEO Jamshedpur Football Club and Vice President East Singhbhum District Chess Association (ESDCA), Vijay Kumar Singh, Vice President of All Jharkhand Chess Association, and N.K. Tiwary, General Secretary (ESDCA).

This tournament was recognized byAJCA, AICF and FIDE. This was an International Rating Tournament under the Event Code. No. 319149/JHAR/2023.

The tournament witnessed participation from 183players from 10 districtsof Jharkhand. While 50 players were rated, 133 were unrated. The districts included East Singhbhum, Ranchi, Seraikela-Kharsawan, West Singhbhum, Bokaro, Hazaribagh, Dhanbad, Deoghar, Dumka, Lohardaga. Thirty women participants took part in the event.

The 69-year old Vijay Kumar Singh from Hazaribagh was the senior most participant and the youngest was just over five year old Atharv Adesara of East Singhbhum.

Jayant Kumar Bhuyan was the chief srbiter of the tournament. The event added another feather in the cap of Jamshedpur as one of the fast developing chess centre in India.

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Stephanie Prange

March 22, 2023

The German drama Chess Story will be released on DVD and digital April 11 from Film Movement.

Set in Vienna in 1938 as Austria is occupied by the Nazis, the drama follows Dr. Josef Bartok (Oliver Masucci), who is preparing to flee to America when he is arrested by the Gestapo. As a former notary to the deposed Austrian aristocracy, he is instructed to hand over access to their private bank accounts. Refusing to cooperate, Bartok is locked in solitary confinement by the local secret police operative Bhm (Albrecht Schuch). Just as his mind is beginning to crack, he happens upon a book of famous chess matches. To withstand the torture of isolation, Bartok disappears into the world of chess, maintaining his fragile sanity only by memorizing every move.

Adapted with opulent attention to period detail by filmmaker and opera director Philipp Stlzl, Chess Story brings Stefan Zweigs final novella to life with an ensemble cast featuring Masucci (When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, Never Look Away, Look Whos Back), Schuch (Berlin Alexanderplatz, System Crasher, Bad Banks), Birgit Minichmayr (3 Days in Quiberon, The Goldfish, Everyone Else) and Rolf Lassgrd (A Man Called Ove).

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Special features include an introductory essay by writer and curator Larry List and a bonus German short film, Der Tunnel (directed by Christoph Daniel and Marc Schmidheiny), which follows a student on a train who finds himself in an existential dilemma when the tunnel he is traveling through never seems to end.

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Magnus Carlsen likely to have played his last rated Classical match as World Chess Champion  The Indian Express

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