A Very Strong Tournament By Bo Bredenhof We are closing in on the fifth anniversary of CC Chronicles. It has been fun all the way. I hope you think the same. All previous columns can be found in the ChessCafe.com Archives. This month I will look at one of the strongest ever CC tournaments: the Witold Bielecki Memorial, which finished recently after over three years play. Thirteen players with ten GM's and three SIM's with ratings between 2561 and 2729. The crosstable can be found at the ICCF website via their "Tables and results" page. There were many interesting aspects to this tournament: one was that two players shared first place with identical results and SB points. Both Dr. … [Read more...]