Sunway Sitges International Online Open Finals

April 28, 2020 NHaselton Chess Lectures

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After some hiccups on the first two days, the Sunway Sitges International Online Chess Open is now well underway. It’s a historic event: never before has a Swiss tournament with a classical time control been held online.

You can call him crazy, or you can call him a genius. Oskar Stober Blázquez might be both, but he’s definitely a pioneer.

The organizer of the Sunway Sitges chess festival, held every year in December in his hotel, has been strongly impacted by COVID-19, with his hotel being closed and with Spain having one of the severest lockdowns of all countries.

And yet, he thought about chess players and the fact that they cannot play over-the-board chess anymore. Stober wanted to organize a “real” tournament for them, and he wanted to hold it soon, while people were still being confined to their homes.

That was about two weeks ago. In a short period of time, together with Chess.com, he managed to set up the first-ever classical Swiss held over the internet. Now we bring you the final round!

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