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Larry's Visit
Larry B. came to Budapest and kindly bought me dinner(thanks!) and we chatted about chess over the last few years. This is the interesting teaching site I mentioned.
http://www.khanacademy.org/
Budapest Chess News
I have expanded my chessbase format newsletter to include other tournaments in Hungary as well as Hungarian players travelling abroad. This file is now available for download thanks to GM Spraggett's blog site-as 'Budapest Chess News', see logo on left menu.
http://kevinspraggett.blogspot.com/
A big thanks to Kevin for this service and his nice blog entry too.
The October issue is almost ready(waiting for pics and some final results). Included will be annotated games of GM Horvath,J(=2 Bratto Festival), European Jr Ch, GMs Erdos and Banusz from Trieste, GMs Gonda and Berczes from Rome, GM Farago from the Graz Open. NIC Yearbook 100 articles by Hungarians also covered and a special article on IM Lengyel,B pet Closed Spanish variation(C98).
Other Matters
For First Saturday(FS) FM RRs, foreign players resident in Budapest are starting to be offered the local player rates but what happens to visiting tourists is still up in the air. For this reason I do not recommend FS for non-norm tournaments. The FS practice is not to advertise the Hungarian prices at all on the HUngarian Federation site, going with the English prices to tourists. Local players contact the organizer directly and get quoted what the local rate happens to be for that month depending on circumstances. Even prices for local players vary considerably from free entry up to the asking rate (12,000HUF). I have not met any Hungarian who paid more than 10,000HUF so now I don't trust any price I'm quoted.
Note that FS tournaments have NO PRIZES and charge double what other Budapest organizers charge for similar tournaments WITH PRIZES. I just cannot understand why foreign players keep showing up.
Just recently I was offered free entry to one FS tournament and the going local rate for other tournaments but as I have been gouged for a year, this was not really as satisfactory arrangement for me(I paid about four times the local rate). The organizer and I continue to be on non-speaking terms and I refuse play in FS events on principle now.
Hopefully I will return to playing action in October as my seriously revamped team starts play in the Team Championship.
Michael Yip
Larry B. came to Budapest and kindly bought me dinner(thanks!) and we chatted about chess over the last few years. This is the interesting teaching site I mentioned.
http://www.khanacademy.org/
Budapest Chess News
I have expanded my chessbase format newsletter to include other tournaments in Hungary as well as Hungarian players travelling abroad. This file is now available for download thanks to GM Spraggett's blog site-as 'Budapest Chess News', see logo on left menu.
http://kevinspraggett.blogspot.com/
A big thanks to Kevin for this service and his nice blog entry too.
The October issue is almost ready(waiting for pics and some final results). Included will be annotated games of GM Horvath,J(=2 Bratto Festival), European Jr Ch, GMs Erdos and Banusz from Trieste, GMs Gonda and Berczes from Rome, GM Farago from the Graz Open. NIC Yearbook 100 articles by Hungarians also covered and a special article on IM Lengyel,B pet Closed Spanish variation(C98).
Other Matters
For First Saturday(FS) FM RRs, foreign players resident in Budapest are starting to be offered the local player rates but what happens to visiting tourists is still up in the air. For this reason I do not recommend FS for non-norm tournaments. The FS practice is not to advertise the Hungarian prices at all on the HUngarian Federation site, going with the English prices to tourists. Local players contact the organizer directly and get quoted what the local rate happens to be for that month depending on circumstances. Even prices for local players vary considerably from free entry up to the asking rate (12,000HUF). I have not met any Hungarian who paid more than 10,000HUF so now I don't trust any price I'm quoted.
Note that FS tournaments have NO PRIZES and charge double what other Budapest organizers charge for similar tournaments WITH PRIZES. I just cannot understand why foreign players keep showing up.
Just recently I was offered free entry to one FS tournament and the going local rate for other tournaments but as I have been gouged for a year, this was not really as satisfactory arrangement for me(I paid about four times the local rate). The organizer and I continue to be on non-speaking terms and I refuse play in FS events on principle now.
Hopefully I will return to playing action in October as my seriously revamped team starts play in the Team Championship.
Michael Yip
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