/ Town Hall
Friday, 7th October 2022
THE XIX CALVIÀ CHESS FESTIVAL STARTS
The event, which is being held again in the Sala Palmanova, will have around 300 participants from 28 countries
The XIX edition of the Calvià Chess Festival takes place from 7th to 16th October at Sala Palmanova with a high turn-out. Some 300 players from 28 countries will take part in the different tests that make up the calendar.
The star competition of the Festival, the XIX International Amateur Open, will take place from 8th to 16th October. It will be played every day from 8 p.m. in the Sala Palmanova and will distribute more than €6,000 in prizes. The games will be broadcast live on the international platforms Chess24, Chessbase and Chess.com.
Amongst the complementary activities to the main event, the Mar Senses Mallorca Chess Weekend tournament for amateurs and students stands out, which will distribute €1,000 in prizes, and will take place from 7th to 9th October. On the other hand, on Wednesday, 12th October, the speed chess tournament -Blitz- will be held with prizes in specific chess software from the German company Chessbase, the main international reference in the discipline.
On Saturday 15th October at Passeig de la Mar in Palmanova there will be an exhibition of simultaneous games by the players of the Spanish team, Ana Matnadze, current number 1 in Spain, and Mónica Calzetta, 7-time champion of Spain. Both, great masters, will face thirty rivals. The activity is part of the program 'Chess and Women' of the Spanish Chess Federation.
The closing of the tournament and the awards ceremony will take place on Sunday, 16th October, in the Sala Palmanova. One more year, chess will act as a link between people of different nationalities and of all ages gathered in the municipality of Calvià. The participants on this occasion, from twenty-eight different countries, will join the already large group of ambassadors who, over these almost twenty years, have visited and made the municipality of Calvià known.
Calvià Chess Festival is an event organized by the Mallorca Isolani Chess Club and has the support of the Fundación Calvià and the Calvià Town Hall. It is part of the different activities that are organized to diversify and strengthen the local economy and that contribute to lengthening the tourist season.
For more information: www.calviafestival.com
