Fagernes Blitz II

Fagernes Blitz II was played Saturday 8th April with 44 participants. 

IM Zhen Yu Cyrus Low of Singapore secured first place with one round to go, and finished with 7½ points in 9 games. 

GM Samvel Ter-Sahakyan of Armenia and FM Aksel Bu Kvaløy of Norway were both half a point behind the winner.

Kvaløy, Ter-Sahakyan and Low
(Photo: Tom Eriksen)

Possible title norms

List of remaining title norm candidates before round 9:

 

IM Tor Fredrik Kaasen (NOR):	Needs a draw as white against GM Bartoscz Socko for a GM-norm.
IM Koustav Chatterjee (IND):	Needs a draw as black against GM Samvel Ter-Sahakyan for a GM-norm.
FM Aksel Bu Kvaløy (NOR):	Has made an IM-norm before the last round!
WGM Vantika Agrawal (IND):	Has made an IM-norm before the last round!
WIM Savitha Shri Baskar (IND):	Has made a WGM-norm before the last round; needs a draw as white against IM Erik Hedman for an IM-norm.
FM Tanmay Chopra (IND):	Needs a draw as black against GM Stellan Brynell for an IM-norm.
FM Benny Aizenberg (ISR):	Needs a draw as black against GM Raja Rithvik Rajavaram for an IM-norm.
Sanket Chakravarty (IND):	Needs a draw as white against FM Sambit Panda for an IM-norm.
WGM Pallathur Nandhidhaa (IND):	Needs a win as black against GM Monika Socko for an IM-norm.
Shazil Shehzad (NOR):	Needs a win as white against GM Tiger Hillarp for an IM-norm.
Additonally
IM Aditya Mittal (IND):	Needs a draw as black against GM Vahap Sanal for a GM-norm, but Mittal anyway has completed all demands and sent his application for the GM title.

Fagernes Slow Blitz

Fagernes Slow Blitz was played Friday 7th April with 52 participants. 

The A-group was won by IM Mohan Kushagra of India with 6 points out of 7. IM Emin Ohanyan (Armenia) and FM Edvin Trost (Sweden) both finished on 5 points.

Top spots in the B-group all went to Norwegian players. Rafe Rehman won all his 7 games and took clear first ahead of Lukas Dominik Gåsland on 5½ and Jiabao Eivind Ji on 5 points.

Top-3 in the A-group:
Trost, Ohanyan and Kushagra
(Photo: Tom Eriksen)

Top-3 in the B-group:
Rehman, Ji and Gåsland
(Photo: Tom Eriksen)

Teamtalkingchess

The teamtalkingchess tournament at Fagernes was played Thursday 6th April with 12 teams and 42 players. You find the the playing rules here.

Winners were the team Chessaholics consisting of FM Edvin Trost, FM Alexander Øye-Strømberg and FM Mathias Unneland.

Uncreative Penguins (FM Bennet Hagner, Johannes von Mettenheim, FM Magnus Ermitsch and Oliver Bach) took second place, while Check Mate (Shelev Oberoi, Juan Alberto Gomez Aguirre and Juan Antonio Gomez ) finished third.

The winners Chessaholics

FIDE Circuit 2023

We are happy to report that Fagernes Chess International will be part of FIDE Circuit 2023.

Only 3 weeks to go!

In 3 weeks we will start this year's edition of Fagernes Chess International. 
We have 137 players on the list of participants, among them 12 GMs, 20 IMs and 3 WGMs.

It's still possible to join, and still some vacant rooms at the hotel. If you're interested, please send an e-mail to organizer Hans Olav Lahlum at hansolahlum@gmail.com.

Welcome to 
Fagernes Chess International!

The tournament is played at the major Norwegian Chess Hotel Scandic Valdres

at Fagernes, 187 km north of Oslo.

Main organizer is Hans Olav Lahlum in cooperation with Sotra Sjakklubb.

Hans Olav Lahlum

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Hans Olav Lahlum (born 1973) is a well known Norwegian chess player, chess organizer and chess TV commentator, having the titles of International Organizer (IO) and International Arbiter (IA) from the World Chess Federation FIDE. 

Lahlum organized numerous international tournaments at Gausdal 1999-2008, Oslo 2011-2014 and Fagernes 2014-2022. 

He has also been chief arbiter in many other large tournaments including the Norwegian championships 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2017, 2018 and 2019.