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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).