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NEW <---- team blitz tournament for 3 players with total rating up to 6150 "Friends on 64 squares - Monday, 22 August ----> NEW For the second time Belogradchik will host the biggest amateur event on the Balkans! Players with international rating up to 2250 will fight for the prize fund of 7500euro. Belogradchik is famous for its rocks and fortress. Millions of years ago it used to be the bottom of a sea and due to certain sediment processes now over a surface of 30 sq.km you can see rocks in amazing forms and shapes, that people gave different names: the Schoolgirl, the Monk, the Bear, etc. The four star venue spa hotel “Skalite” offers perfect conditions for play and stay - top quality at reasonable prices. It is placed right in the center of the town with magnificent view towards the Belogradchik rocks. The top Bulgarian Grandmaster Alexandar Delchev will give free evening during the festival and will be available to train and prepare participants during the whole tournament for a small fee. Along with the main tournament you can try your chess power at two blitz tournaments: blitz for teams with total rating up to 4100 and individual blitz for players up to 2250 elo points. Friday night will be the queen of the festival night at the disco of the venue hotel. You can also sign up for one of the 5 daily excursions around Belogradchik. The Magura cave, the Baba Vida fortress, ATV walk around the cliffs, rolling down in a big “zorbing” ball – pure adrenalin. It’s chess, fun and tourism – all in one. See more at: www.belchess.com or sign up for
the festival at chess_vidin@abv.bg
Last year's tournament: 2010 Games of the
tournament
Festival video in BNT Chess master class
The world BEST
low-cost amateur
festival
with total costs starting from From the 21 to 28 August 2011 chess players with fide rating below 2250 will compete for a prize fund of 7.500 euro discovering breathtaking stone formations, amazing caves and astonising views. Amateurs from the Balkans and the world are welcome
to join and never forget the first
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The
winner of the festival with total 7,5 points is Naiden Dobrev
from Dobrich, Bulgaria, followed by Yanko Panayotov and Momchil
Todorov. Dimitar Krastanov ranked fourth and first among the players
without fide rating. Best rating performance was delivered by
Velizar Sofranov, who managed to make 7 points thanks to excellent
play and the training of the masters team. The winners received
a total of 15 000lv /about 7500euro/ of total 18 prizes. The mayor
of Belogradchik, Mr. Emil Tsankov personally awarded the winners
of the festival with the medal of honour of Municipality Belogradchik
and invited them again next year in mid august 2011 for its second
edition.
She
is Simoneta Ivanova. She is only 13 from Pleven and already chess
queen of the first Balkan amateur chess festival. The festival
queen was elected by the participants in the tournament. Two more
chess ladies received gifts from Municipality
Belogradchik and Chess Club Naiden Voinov. These are Tsveta Galunova
from Veliko Tarnovo and Silvia-Raluca Sgircea from Dobreta Turnu
Severin, Romania. At the ceremony saturday evening
at a glass of wine the manager of hotel Skalite presented the
festival queen with a bodypeeling spa therapy with chocolate and
honey. 
Friday
night 54 players entered a blitz battle in 9 rounds. After a tense
fight Bogidar Ivanov won the tournament with 7 wins and 2 draws.
Dejan Dimitrov finished second and the leader in the main tournament
Naiden Dobrev ended third. See the 
The
winners of the team blitz tournament are Plamen Vasilev and Dimitar
Pashev from Bulgaria. Second finished the Macedonians Vladimirov
and Semshiu and enjoyed a professional massage in spa hotel Skalite
for both of them and Hristo Velchev and Tsvetelin Stoev finished
third and rolled downhill in a big zorbing ball. See the 
Great
trainers join the 
