We have a South African delegation with team manager Divesh Sookdeo at the First Saturday tournament in Hungary. What is the First Saturday Tournament all about?
It is a very important tournament where players can get their norms as International Masters (IM) and Grandmasters (GMs).
Together with my wife Mrs.Nagy Ilona Borbély we ceaselessly organise professionally the First Saturday chess tournaments in Budapest.
Since the beginning we have provided alternatives of achieving GM, IM, WGM, WIM – norms as well as getting or improving FIDE-ratings. Usually we start a GM an IM and two FIDE-master’s groups every month except for January. ~ Lazlo Nagy ( International Chess Organizer of the First Saturday tournament.
Lazlo adds the following:
Peter Leko the highest ranked Hungarian GM (at present) achieved one of his GM-norms here. Amongst others, now world-famous Hungarian GM-s like Ferenc Berkes (present Champion of Hungary) Peter Ács ( U18 World Champion) Csaba Balogh (U18 European Champion) also succeeded in performing GM-norms here. Many of our foreign guests were successful here, like Beim (AUT) Lugovoi,Yemelin and Volzhin (RUS) U12 World Champion Nguyen Ngoc Truongson and Dao Thien Hai(VIE), top GM-s like Gadir Guseinov and Teimour Radjabov and (AZE), Liss and Postny (ISR) Milov (SUI), Stoczek (CZE) etc.
Those who want to follow the games of our players in Hungary, please go to:
These links are for the International Master (IM), A and B groups.
http://www.firstsaturday.hu/1507/CB/fmb/dgt_chesstheatre.htm
http://www.firstsaturday.hu/1507/CB/fmb/dgt_chesstheatre.htm
http://www.firstsaturday.hu/1507/CB/im/dgt_chesstheatre.htm
Credits and references:
Lazlo Nagy
http://firstsaturday.hu/info.htm
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