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Chess and the "Blue Wonder"

Dresden, 28/08/2008
This time, the Roadshow of the Chess Olympiad 2008 – „Road to Dresden“ – stopped over at the Schiller Galerie Dresden, situated right across from the famous “Blue Wonder” bridge in the East of Dresden. From 21 to 23 August visitors in droves got involved in grim matches for the many sought-after prices again.

Thursday, for instance, Henry Bisch-Chandroff of the 63rd primary school managed to achieve a victory at the children’s tournament, close behind him Jakob Escher (59th school) and Alexander Rekun. Friday as well as Saturday all enthusiastic shoppers in the Schiller Galery had the chance to compete agains Stefan Glasewald and Marten Viereck of SV Dresden-Striesen 1990 in a simoultaneous chess tournament. In 14 simoultaneously played matches Stefan Glasewald only had to give in on one and got out with one draw, thus winning twelve, while Marten crowed over 10 wins and 2 draws. At the same time, Marten settled for the youth tournament, leaving Mark Bryan (Cyprus) and Gregor Rekun behind him on rankst wo and three.

The highlight of the days was the open Blitz tournament on Saturday, free for participation to everyone who wanted.
Even FIDE master Cliff Wichmann of ESV Nickelhütte Aue would not miss the chance of playing the tournament and, in the end, to win it superiorly. Accompanied and supported by the Lunatics Cheerleader group Orland Krug and Stefan Glasewald also made it up the award podium.

Those who still had enough power afterwards were invited to join the condition chess tornament, playing out two matches at the same time with a certain distance between the boards.