Dear Friends,
This is the last week of summer homework. We hope that you’ve enjoyed this month of intensive training and that you are now ready to play and win some tournaments.
On Saturday, 2nd of August, from 10 AM UK time, GM Boris Gelfand returns with a Tortoise Method class.
You will notice a change in GM Akopian’s class timing. For August, as he will temporarily be in Dubai, his class will start at 5 PM UK time.
At the end of August, GM Sabino Brunello will do a camp on Closed Positions. It will be between the 25th and 29th of August and will include 12.5 hours of classes. You can find more details about the camp here.
The camp will be free for all members who purchased a new yearly membership or renewed their old one after our last online camp in February. Everyone else who wants to attend Sabino’s camp will have to purchase it in our shop. Click here to buy your participation ticket or here to become a yearly member and receive this camp for free!
If you already bought a yearly membership or renewed after our last camp in February, you should’ve already received the camp as a gift. Check your Inbox and your Spam folders for the notification about the camp. If you haven’t received it and you are entitled to get the camp for free, please send us an email at [email protected]!
Congratulations are in order for our trainer GM Vladimir Akopian, who finished 2nd in the US Seniors Championship. You can find his games and full results here.
Michael Adams is English Champion! He beat Nikita Vitiugov in a tiebreak to win the title.
Dimitris Alexakis finished 2nd, tied for 1st, in WCF Rhodes International Chess Tournament 2025. This tournament was part of the Grand Prix circuit, which he won with a total of 900 points. Congratulations, Dimitris!
Evgenios Ioannidis played the Serbia Open between the 14th and 23rd of July. He finished 3rd tied for 1st with 7 points out of 9.
Stanislaw is playing in Pardubice Open.
A few members were playing the Dole Open in France. Aradhya finished with 6/9 and a 2524 performance. Yahli also finished with 6/9. Apaar had a fantastic start, holding GM Max Warmerdam to a draw in round 4. You can watch him here.
Andrey Terekhov is going to play in the French championship, in the “Accession Roger Ferry” group. This is one level below the top GMs battling for the “real title”. 3 winners of Accession tournament qualify for the next year’s Top 16.
Luc Zimmermann will play the Sparkassen Open starting the 2nd of August.
Renier, Raluca, Miguel and Stany will be in Granada, where the Granada Open starts tomorrow.
Have you been playing any tournaments? We want to know! Let us know on the forum or on social media.
Your friends from Killer Chess Training
