Michigan Chess Festival LLC

The Friendship Games (October 28 – November 1, 2015)

Expected Entrants

The list of current entrants is available at http://www.weplaychess.webs.com/ We will update on this page regularly. At present, GMs Fidel Corrales and Roberto Mogranzini (Italy), IM Martha Fierro (Ecuador), and WGM Lisandra Ordaz Valdes (Cuba) have committed to compete in The Friendship Games. Also, several strong junior players from the USA have committed to compete. We expect several more GMs, more Cuban players, and additional titled players from the USA, Canada, Cuba, India, and other countries to compete in The Friendship Games.

In the news...

• Alexandra Kosteniuk’s blog entry about the 2012 tournament, crediting the original FIDE official site source.

• An account of 2011 tournament appeared in Chess Life online.

• Ben Finegold’s report in chess.com on the 3rd Fall Festival: http://www.chess.com/article/view/2013-michigan-fall-chess-festival

• Part One of Bryan Smith’s long article in chess.com about his adventures leading up to, and including, the 3rd Fall Festival. Bryan earned his final GM norm at the Festival, and hence became a GM. Bryan may be the first person ever to have earned his final GM norm at a tourney in Michigan. Here’s the link: http://www.chess.com/article/view/the-michigan-fall-international-part-1

• Part Two of Bryan Smith’s article: http://www.chess.com/article/view/the-michigan-fall-international-part-2

• Here’s a report on the Second Festival on the FIDE website: http://www.fide.com/component/content/article/4-tournaments/6586-michigan-chess-festival.html

• Here’s Canadian WCM Yelizaveta Orlova’s report on the Third Festival, with lots of really nice photos: http://yelizavetaorlova.com/2014/01/27/michigan-chess-festival/

• Here’s "chessdom’s" report on the 3rd Festival: http://usa.chessdom.com/third-annual-fall-festival-in-michigan/

• Here’s a youtube vid of Michigan’s John Brooks playing blitz against Advait Patel at the 3rd Festival: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoBhYqH9DgQ

• USCF online regarding the 3rd Festival: http://www.uschess.org/content/view/12408/141/

• Here’s news of the 3rd Festival on Claudia Munoz’ (fantastic) website: http://claudiamunoz.com/index.php/en/news/4617-third-annual-festival-michigan

• Here’s Akshat Chandra’s report about his adventures at the 3rd Festival: http://www.questtogm.com/chesstourneys/michigan-fall-chess-festival-the-final-october-tournament/

• Here’s a report about Irina Krush’s visit to Dicken Elementary in Ann Arbor after competing in the Fall Festival: http://news.a2schools.org/us-chess-champion-irina-krush-schools-dicken-elementary-in-chess-strategy/