Tag Archives: Bulgaria

European Individual Championship (9)

European Individual Championship (9)

Posted on 29th March 2012

Some careful play at the very top here in Bulgaria, but also some hardworking draws. Gawain Jones drawing in over eighty moves, for example. V Akopian (6.5) draw V Malakhov (6.5), Ruy Lopez, Berlin; N …

European Individual

European Individual

Posted on 22nd March 2012

The European Individual is underway at Plovdiv in Bulgaria, 19th-1st April. 350 players, including thirteen 2700+, are competing for twenty-three qualification places. Expect cries (“I was robbed!”), lies (‘I was winning easily’), spies (‘journalists get …