Aivars Gipslis was Latvian champion a total of eight times, from 1955 to 1966 and a regular competitor in the Soviet championship. His long career included training World Women’s Champion Nona Gaprindashvilly and editing the Latvian Chess Magazine since 1963.
I was lucky enough to meet him in Biel, Switzerland in 1996. We played and had dinner twice during the course of the tournament. I treasure the memory.
Grandmaster Suat Atalik from Turkey is participating, as well as several Australian titled players so hopefully the tournament will be a fitting tribute to Aivars Gipslis, a true legend of the game,
Entry details below.
International Chess Tournament Final. Web.(Click on the image to see page 2)
And just two weeks later the Peninsula open is taking place in Rothwell. May looks like a great month for chess
2018-PENINSULA-OPEN
Its time to hit those chess books and start preparing 🙂
Current Player List as of 3rd May 2018
Possibly IM Stephen Solomon is playing and possibly IM Brodie McClymont may not as he said his birthday was on this Saturday…( happy birthday Brodie! ) – ed.
1.|Atalik, Suat||2507|
2.|McClymont, Brodie|QLD|2365|2463
3.|Wohl, Aleksandar H|QLD|2334|2408
4.|Nakauchi, Gene|QLD|2203|2261
5.|Balague-Campos, Mark||2181|
6.|Maguire, Tom|QLD|2096|2153
7.|Ostapenko, Michael|QLD|1922|1887
8.|Lovejoy, David|QLD|1873|1821
9.|Holt, Stuart|QLD|1869|1825
10.|Renjith, Sravan|OS|1860|1880
11.|Wang, Jason|QLD|1770|1627
12.|Weller, Tony|QLD|1757|1653
13.|Hamilton, Don|QLD|1749|1419
14.|Chan, Jacob Joseph|QLD|1734|1546
15.|Stokes, Mark C|QLD|1718|1525
16.|Morris, Byron|QLD|1708|1573
17.|Chan, Jason|QLD|1623|1386
18.|Tennakoon, Nadula|QLD|1553|1302
19.|Ooi, Jayden|QLD|1543|1110
20.|Simic, Filip|QLD|1515|879
21.|Yang, Oliver|QLD|1487|1336
22.|Patel, Khush|QLD|1487|1182
23.|Mercado, Rover-Leigh|QLD|1477|1185
24.|Wang, Eason|QLD|1466|1063
25.|Watkins, Bridgette|QLD|1460|804
26.|Li, Jason|QLD|1458|1044
27.|Atia, Ben|QLD|1417|1001
28.|Chan, Jordan|QLD|1374|973
29.|Qu, Anson|QLD|1364|625
30.|Ming, Kenny|QLD|1344|724
31.|Ly-Liu, Alexavier|QLD|1324|1038
32.|Ng, Sze-Yong|QLD|1276|1304
33.|Chan, Lyanna|QLD|1256|927
34.|Watkins, Sophie|QLD|1162|866
35.|Watkins, Rachel Jane|QLD|1140|515
36.|Ilka, William|QLD|1137|742
37.|Ilka, Alexander|QLD|1098|850
38.|Yang, Melody|QLD|1050|602
39.|Atia, Raphael|QLD|1040|724
40.|Bourke, Ronald|QLD||1512
41.|Brekelmans, Sam|QLD||969
42.|Li, Allan|QLD||953
43.|Patel, Himanshu|QLD||827
44.|Xing, Zerui|QLD||610
45.|Wong, Cern|QLD||576
46.|Relekar, Kanak|QLD||562
47.|Wong, Ern|QLD||512
48.|Patel, Shubh|QLD||497
49.|Dullaway, Michael|QLD||456
50.|Chou, Kevin|QLD||453
51.|Li, Cynthia|QLD||446
52.|Mercado, Eowyn|QLD||377
53.|Dullaway, Erin|QLD||375
54.|Cooper, Joshua|QLD||274
55.|Hsu, Eric|NSW||
56.|Kemish, Brian|||
57.|Lee, Jason (1997)|QLD||
58.|Solomon, Stephen J|QLD||2412
59.|Warta, George|QLD||1412
60.|Yamaguchi, Mayuri|QLD||413
61.|Paevskiy, Igor|QLD||1771