Le club d’échecs Gambit est prêt à accueillir ses membres et sympathisants le vendredi 15 septembre 2023 à 20h00 pour le début de la nouvelle saison.
Nous rappelons aux membres que le barbecue du club aura lieu le samedi 23 septembre.
Le club d’échecs Gambit est prêt à accueillir ses membres et sympathisants le vendredi 15 septembre 2023 à 20h00 pour le début de la nouvelle saison.
Nous rappelons aux membres que le barbecue du club aura lieu le samedi 23 septembre.
Congratulations to Gambit’s GM Vitaly Kunin for winning the Individual German Chess Championship held in Ostfildern (Stuttgart) from 14 to 20 August 2023!
Vitaly ended clear first by emerging victorious from a long and fiercely fought battle in the last round, which proved decisive for winning the title after a number of second places in the recent past.
Photo ©DSB/Paul Meyer-Dunker
Gambit Bonnevoie confirmed that blitz is their 2023 flavour. Just before joining Echternach for continuing his chess evolution, Konstantinos Basinas won the national individual blitz championship 2023 which was held in Diekirch on 8 July 2023. Oleksii Aliferenko from Differdange won the Federation title.
Echternacher open 2023
During the last weekend Gambit Bonnevoie members participated to the Echternacher Open Memorial Remy Rippinger, the biggest tournament in Luxembourg which saw the participation of 350+ players. FM Steve Dishman on place 25 was our best representative. Congrats to Geoff Stern, who beat a few strong titled players along the way.
Les inscriptions aux cours d’échecs pour la saison 2023/2024 sont ouvertes. Enrolment to chess courses 2023/2024 is open.
Vous trouverez toutes les infos à propos des cours d’échecs organisés par Gambit Bonnevoie pour la nouvelle saison à la page Cours d’échecs.
You will find detailed information on chess courses organised by Gambit Bonnevoie on our website at the following page: Cours d’échecs.
Gambit successfully defended their team title at the national blitz championship in Schifflange on 21 May 2023, finishing clear first ahead of Differdange and Dudelange. GMF Narmin Khalafova finished with a perfect score of 14/14, while other Gambit I members (national individual champion S. Maltezeanu, S. Filipović, Z. Stanić, J. Bednarich) performed around the 90% mark. Gambit II (G. Stern, D. Vijups, S. Mendeleev, S. Brassey) supported the first team by offering fierce opposition to the other favourites.
Detailed results: Blitz Eq 2023 (lecavalier.lu)
The teams national championship season just ended with Gambit I not performing as expected. :-/ Better luck in 2023/2024.
Congratulations to Chess club De Sprénger Echternach for their second national title in a row!
On the positive side, all our teams avoided relegation and our young players have shown significant progress.
CE Gambit Bonnevoie participated in the European Club Cup 2022 held in October 2022 in Mayrhofen, Austria. This top event, which saw the participation of Carlsen, Anand and Rapport among others, was won by Novy Bor from the Czech Republic. Gambit could count only on GM Michael Hoffmann for strengthening their ranks at the highest level, and ended the tournament on place 45 out of 70 participants.
Gambit facing Bayern Munich in round 1 (photo: courtesy of Carmen Nova Hoffmann)
Who is the best player in Luxembourg when it comes to short time controls? The blitz and rapid national championships, played on 2 and 3 July in Diekirch, gave an unanimous verdict: Stefan Maltezeanu, of course.
The Blitz championship saw Stefan prevail ahead of Patrick Meurin and Tom Weidig, while in the Rapid championship Stefan scored 6.5/7 to finish clear first ahead of GM Sébastien Feller. Bonnevoie’s presence on the podium was completed by Zoran Stanic, bronze medal ex-æquo, highlighting that the best blitz in town in 2022 is to be found at Gambit’s.
After a 2-year long Covid-19 break the Blitz team national championship, as usual excellently organized by TSM Schëffleng, is back. Gambit1 (S. Dishman, Maltezeanu, Bjarnason, Bednarich) is national champion, ahead of Differdange1 and Schifflange1. Gambit2 (Basinas, M. Dishman, Vijups, Reiff) narrowly missed the podium, while our youth team (Sterlin, E. Östling, Fohr, C. Östling) gained valuable experience.
Best player prizes on their respective boards were awarded to Steve Dishman (11.5/12), Óskar Bjarnason (11/12) and Pit Reiff (11/12).