Bivor Adak scores his 1st IM norm and crosses 2400!

Dear Friends,

Everyone who has taken part in Sabino’s camp and is a yearly member will receive the camp files in their account, on Chesstempo, today. Sabino is taking a short break in the academy, as he is playing this week in Trieste. Watch him live here. He will be back next Monday, to show you more model games in his 1.e4 Repertoire.

Renier will have a Game of the Week class today, from 7 PM UK time. On Sunday, he will show Fundamentals in Action, from 4 PM UK time.

A reminder about our next online camp, that will happen in September. Nikos has been working on his new book on the French Defense and will share some of his findings in his 12 hour camp titled French Defense Middlegames. The camp will start on the 25^th of September and will last until the 28^th, with 3 hours of classes per day.

New yearly members and renewals after the 25^th of August will receive this camp for free, as a welcome gift. Everyone else who wants to participate can purchase the camp in our shop. If you are a member, remember to log in to your account to get the camp at a discounted price!

Click here to buy your participation ticket or here to become a yearly member and receive this camp for free!

Grupo de Xadrez Alekhine is organizing a 10 player round robin tournament for IM norms in Lisbon, Portugal, from the 27th of October to the 2nd of November.

They are searching for potential IM norm seekers with +2300 ELO.

The current players list is available here.

If you are interested and want more information, please contact them via email at: [email protected]

We are very happy to hear that Bivor Adak achieved his 1st IM norm and crossed 2400 elo rating in Barcelona. Big congratulations to him!

Karthik scored in the last round of the Fujairah Masters and finished 4^th. Shahil and Aradhya added a few more points to their ratings.

Apaar Saxena gained 53 rating points in the Chess Slovak Open.

Jacob, Tarun, Trisha and Stanislaw will play in the Polish 1^st league. They are all part of the UKS OPP Toruń team and will start as 7^th seed. Top two teams will qualify for the Ekstraliga; good luck to all of them! You can follow them here. Stanislaw has promised to also provide us with the live games link, as soon as it will be available.

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

Coming up in September: 12 hours camp with Nikos Ntirlis – free for new yearly members and renewals (sign-ups after between the 25th of August and 25th of September 2025)