In addition to the 4 exceptional simuls, this 17th edition of our international open – necessarily special as it is played entirely on the Internet – offers you the 2 swiss tournaments as well. Here are the details:
Saturday, December 19th from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m .: Tournament of 9 rapid games, time control is 10min+3sec/move
Sunday, December 20th from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m .: Tournament of 13 blitz games, time control is 3min+2sec/move
These 2 tournaments are open to all players, of every club (or without club) and level of play.
Registration is completely free, we will only ask for your FIDE ID or a license of the French chess federation.
To make the tournament interesting many grandmasters are invited to participate : KAMSKY, BAUER, DONCHENKO, SOLODOVNICHENKO, FLOM, DOURERASSOU, IKONNIKOV, RIFF, VELTEN…
No money prizes, but in each tournament 10 entry fees for our next international open (its “face-to-face” version scheduled for the December 2021) are to win by the first 10 non-IM/GM players.
Registration:
Join the “Open de Vandoeuvre 2020” team now via this link: https://lichess.org/team/open-de-vandoeuvre-2020 (if you don’t have an account on Lichess, you have to create one first for free and log in with it).
ATTENTION: Do not forget to write in the “message” field your real Name and Surname, as well as your FFE license code, or FIDE ID number. French players without the FFE license can contact us by email to openvandoeuvre@gmail.com
Later on you can enter the tournament or the simul of your choice when the appropriate links are created.
See you soon
