The Prague Open kicks off today in…well.. Prague…. Jan Sodoma is trying to make enough FIDE points to get his IM title. Irish players Peter Cafolla and Anthony Fox are also competing. You can see how they get on at the tournament website.
By the way just came across this website for a club in Belfast that I thought I would share. Some entertaining stuff on there.
As a further aside I just realised today that Joona Kiiski who currently plays for Limerick in the Munster League is one of the programmers of the excellent (opensource!) chess engine Stockfish. According to Wikipedia the 64 bit version has a rating of 3241 which makes it one of the strongest freely available chess programmes. The only stronger ones I see in the list on wikipedia are Critter and Houdini and even then there is very little beween them. Incidentally if you are into computer chess and/or programming there is a big debate taking place about the decision by the Intenational Comuter Games Association to ban Rybka programmer Vasik Rajilch for life from ICGA events and strip Rybka of its world computer chess champion titles. The row is well doumented over at Chessbase.
