Lucia Ševčíková

At the end of the holidays, I played my last summer tournament in Portugal, the Maia Chess Open. From the 25th of August to the 2nd of September, a small town named Maia gave home to the event. The tournament format was a nine-round Swiss system with a standard time Read more…

After the tournament in Budapest, I stayed in Hungary for another event. Just two hours from Budapest, in the city of Ajka, there was the Hungarian Rapid Chess Championship. The tournament was held from the 21st to the 23rd of July. The system was a 13-round Swiss and the time control Read more…

From the 14th to the 19th of July, I played an Open Hungarian Amateur Chess Championship in Budapest, Hungary. The nine-round Swiss system had 60 minutes plus 30 seconds per each move time control. As it was an amateur championship, only players under the 2300 rating were allowed to play. However, it Read more…

At the beginning of the summer holidays, I played another tournament, this time in Linz, Austria. The tournaments were held from the 30th of June to the 1st of July in the PlusCity shopping mall in Linz. Blitz On the first day, we played the blitz tournament. The players were Read more…

After the Vigevano chess tournament, I stayed in Italy a little longer (who could resist) and played another tournament there, the Chess Open Dolomites. This tournament took place from the 10th to the 17th of June in the lovely town of Forni di Sopra. The town was located right in the middle Read more…

Last week I traveled to Italy to attend the Vigevano Chess Tournament, a U20 tournament, which was played from the 2nd to the 4th of June in the city of Vigevano. The playing hall was located inside the Castle of Vigevano, which gave it a majestic atmosphere and it was one Read more…

From the 28th of April to the 1st of May, I took part in a Pieniny Chess Tournament. The tournament was played in a beautiful National Park in Pieniny in Slovakia. Mountains and nature surrounded us while playing our games. Another plus was the variety of free-time activities organized by Read more…

As the entire world is tensely watching the World Championship Match between Nepo and Ding, there was another very interesting and strong tournament played in Astana in Kazakhstan. From the 17th to the 20th of April, there was a women’s match between the Kazakhstan selection and the World selection. Each team had Read more…

The Chess Mitropa Cup is an idea of the Austrian International Arbiter Gertrude Wagner. She wanted to create a tournament for teams in the center of Europe. This tournament has a lot of history, as the first Mitropa Cup was in 1953 in Vienna with only six teams. A different Read more…