Top-16 playoff: Day 2 recap
The Round of 16 and Quarterfinals were played on the second day of the European Online Blitz Chess Championship. The pairing was determined by the final standings in the qualifying stage. The participants battled it out in four-game matches with the time control 3’+2” followed by an Armageddon if needed. The Round of 16 saw many […]
Royal Belgian Chess Federation – 100th anniversary
Chess tradition in Belgium started long before the creation of the national chess association. Like all the major cities, Brussels already had a chess café in the 19th century, the Café de l’Europe, which housed a chess club in 1815, and the chess enthusiast will have analyzed the games played during the several tournaments of Ostend […]