Uppsala Young Champions

Chessbase writes about the tournament and comments on the standings with some rounds to go.

In the fourth round, commentator GM Nils Grandelius wanted to give the prize for the “game of the round” to both players in the fight below. Hampus Sörensen eventually won the game and was also totally superior after the opening. But in between, both players showed a fighting spirit of a rarely seen kind. The comments are computer generated by ChessBase, who also donated the prize.

We are happy to say that time and place for next year’s competition are already set.

8th Uppsala Young Champions 2021 will be played on October 29 – November 3. The venue will be Hotel Scandic Uplandia in Uppsala and we look forward to seeing you then!

Sweden’s strongest player Nils Grandelius participates as a commentator in round 1 , 4 and 9. But he has also contributed with presentations of some of the Swedish hopes in this year’s tournament.

He has made presentations of Milton Pantzar , Isak Storme and Hampus Sörensen (in Swedish), with an analysis of one of their respective games. Very interesting!

The commentators Fiona Steil-Antoni and Pontus Carlsson decided that “game of the round” for round 2 was Viktoria Radeva vs Felix Blohberger. Blohberger has the highest rating in the tournament but Viktoria won fast and beautiful. In this position Viktoria (white) is to move.

She decided the game by playing 21.Bxf7† and black resigned. If 21…Kh8 22.Re8† wins the queen and if black tries 21…Kxf7 he will get mated after 22.Qc4†.

The prize for “game of the round” is donated by ChessBase.

The blitz tournament that is announced to be played 25 October is unfortunately cancelled

Follow the tournament with commentary on our Youtube channel.

Due to circumstances beyond our control, we have had to move Uppsala Young Champions to another location. The competition will this year be played at Hotel Scandic Infra City, which is located in Upplands Väsby just south of Arlanda Airport. It is a state-of-the-art conference hotel that offers us very good gaming conditions. The schedule and everything else will be the same as previously said.

Today, new recommendations were adopted regarding the spread of corona in Uppsala. Please note that this does not concern traveling to Uppsala, but instead how events should be carried out and how we should interact to each other.

We are aware of these new recommendations and be sure that we are determined to carry out the competition in a safe way for everyone involved. We therefore have an ongoing discussion with the relevant authorities to ensure that we take all necessary measures. We will come back with more information about these shortly.

Fiona Steil-Antoni is the head commentator and by her side she will have some of Swedens top players:

Round 1: GM Nils Grandelius

Round 2: GM Pontus Carlsson

Round 3: GM Harry Schüssler

Round 4: GM Nils Grandelius

Round 5: IM Jesper Hall

Round 6: GM Tiger Hillarp

Round 7: GM Tiger Hillarp

Round 8: IM Jesper Hall

Round 9: GM Nils Grandelius