FILIPINO grandmaster Eugene Torre returns to action this April in the 32nd Reykjavic Open Chess Championships 2017.
The 28,000 sqm. Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre will be the site of the 10-round tournament to be held in the capital city of Iceland from April 19 to 27.
Torre said he was invited to the €15,000, nine-day, 10-round Swiss system chessfest last year after he earned a bronze medal-finish in the 42nd Chess Olympiad 2016 last September in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Torre first joined the event in Reykjavik in 1980.
“The organizers (Icelandic Chess Federation) invited me by virtue of my winning a bronze medal in the last Baku Olympiad,” said Torre, who added that he will also pay respects to his friend, the late former world champion American Robert James ‘Bobby’ Fischer.
Torre is among the 189 entries this time.
He is also set to join the Vietnam Chess Federation’s $45,000 7th HDBank Cup International Open Chess Tournament 2017 at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam from March 11 to 18.
The National Chess Federation of the Philippines-organized $5,000 Asian Zonal 3.3 in Tagaytay City, Cavite from Feb. 24 to Mar. 6 is also in his schedule.