Rounds 6-7
The University of Salamanca is organizing the seventh edition of the Salamanca Cradle of Modern Chess Festival on May 21-25. The festival commemorates the fact that the modern rules of chess were first formulated in 1497 by Luis Ramírez de Lucena in Repetición de Amores y Arte de Ajedrez con CL Juegos de Partido, the first extant chess book. Lucena was a student at the University of Salamanca.
The Masters Tournament features eight players (four men and four women), who play a single round-robin rapid chess event. Games are played with a time control of 40 minutes and an increment of 5 seconds per move.
Live games
Current standings
In this video course, experts (Pelletier, Marin, Müller and Reeh) examine the games of Judit Polgar. Let them show you which openings Polgar chose to play, where her strength in middlegames were, or how she outplayed her opponents in the endgame.
Full program
Find more information on the festival’s official website
May 21
- 17:30 Simultaneous games
- 19:30 Opening ceremony of the Master Tournament
22 May
- 17:00 Master Tournament: Rounds 1 and 2
23 May
- 17:00 Master Tournament: Rounds 3 and 4
24 May
- 17:00 Master Tournament: Round 5
- 19:00 Open blitz chess tournament
May 25
- 10:00 Children’s Tournament
- 12:00 Conference: “The confrontation of two worlds. Seville-87. In memory of MI Fco. Javier Sanz Alonso” by Mr. Joaquín Espejo, International Referee/International Organizer
- 16:00 Master Tournament: Rounds 6 and 7
- 19:45 Closing of the Festival
Previous editions