Our Norwegian member Øystein
Brekke who acted as organizer of the new Norwegian festival has
sent us a press
release and some photos which we reproduce below.
The
Fagernes Hotel |
From left organizer Øystein Brekke, Sergey Tiviakov and vice-mayor
Svein Erik Hilmen. |
Tiviakov
winning his decisive game against Swedish veteran GM Lars Karlsson. |
Anders
Thingstad (15) surprised the SOS Opening Surprises editor
IM
Jeroen Bosch by defeating him. |
A
game of generations: Per Ofstad (76) (left) was Norwegian junior
champion of 1951 and Norwegian champion of 1961, here playing the
also
talented Sebastian Mihajlov (12) of Oslo Schakselskap. |
Norwegians
for the future: Aryan Tari (12) was able to draw against
Frode Olav Urkedal (17) who is already an IM, but got the title
award a
bit belated due to a late report. |
You will find further results, games and photos at the following pages:
Festival web site
Complete
results of group A
ChessBase
pictorial report 28/04/2011 (in English)
ChessBase
pictorial report 21/04/2011 (in German)
ChessBase
pictorial report 26/04/2011 (in German)
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