Chess Slovak Open® 2026 Crowns Its Champions: Mittal and Mishra, Rakhmangulova, Sedlák and Rupais

History, NewsBy Milan Roman 30. August 2026

The nine-day Chess Slovak Open® 2026 festival in Skalica is over. The strongest Masters in Slovak history has two champions: unbeaten Aditya Mittal and Abhimanyu Mishra finished with identical points and tie-breaks, with Daniel Dardha third. Anastasiya Rakhmangulova dominated the Queen Masters with 7/9, Nikola Sedlák won Open A with 7.5 points and a place in the 2027 Masters, and the Kvarteto Cup went to Gustavs Rupais.

CHESS Slovak OPEN® 2025 in Skalica: a week of top chess, lively atmosphere and international successes

History, NewsBy aholly 7. September 2025

Skalica has been alive with chess since 23. until 31. August 2025. The CHESS Slovak OPEN festival took place in the Culture House, which brought nine days of intense duels, accompanying tournaments and meetings with chess personalities. In total, approximately 150 players from 19 countries participated in all tournaments. The director of the event…

CHESS Slovak OPEN® 2025 (OPEN 2000+) in Skalica: Baidetskyi won, Pechac second, Assylov third

History, NewsBy aholly 6. September 2025

The main OPEN tournament of the Skalica Chess Festival brought quality nine-round duels with the standard pace of 90 min/40 moves + 30 s, then 30 min + 30 s. In the House of Culture in Skalica was played 23.-31. August 2025, the director was IO Milan Roman, the chief judge was IA Rastislav…

Winner of Chess Slovak Open® 2024 – Martin Jablonický

History, NewsBy aholly 29. August 2024

Chess Slovak Open tournament in Skalica confirmed its reputationé, with the bonus of the triumph of the houseof the host Martin Jablonickéhim The sixth edition of the Chess Slovak Open was the highlight of the weekséit Skalickéof chesséfestival organized byéorganized by the Skalica Chess Club. It confirmed its quickly acquired and growing reputation as a…

Chess Championship in Skalica: Druska and Walterová won the title and a place at the EC

History, NewsBy aholly 26. August 2024

The open championship of Slovakia in blitz chess took place in Skalica. Juraj Druska from Žilina and Ema Walterová from Bratislava won not only domestic titles, but also a ticket to the 2024 European Championships. Druska dominated, Walter surprised Almost 30-year-old Juraj Druska from Liptov left no one in doubt about his qualities. With a…

In the fifth annual CHESS SLOVAK OPEN® in Skalica, the Slovak unit won three times!

History, NewsBy aholly 22. February 2024

The largest international chess tournament in Slovakia, which has already won the recognition of the international chess federation FIDE, is in its fifth year. The International Chess Federation ranked it among the 25 most important tournaments in Europe and among the TOP 50 in the world. In addition to the four chess tournaments, the participants…

The best player from Slovakia will play at the Skalica Chess Festival.

History, NewsBy Ema Romanova 30. May 2022

The current number one of the Slovak ranking GM Jerguš Pecháč will also present himself at almost two hundred players at the Skalický Chess Festival (August 20 – August 28, 2022 at the Svätá Ľudmila Hotel in Skalica). In addition to the main SLOVAK OPEN tournament, which will be under the auspices of FIDE, we…

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