With a resounding victory in the final round, Luis Engel won the third edition of the Amsterdam Chess Open. The 23-year-old grandmaster from Hamburg took home the €2,000 first prize. Winner Luis Engel (second right) between the winners of 2023 (Rick Lahaye) and 2024 (Tim Grutter) and Paul Hummel, one of the players who finished shared fourth, on the left. Engel, the 2019 European Under-18 Champion, was the only player with 4/4. He remained the sole leader after round five, which saw draws on...

The second day of the tournament began at ten o'clock in the morning with rain and wind again outside, making it perfect chess weather indoors. A full fourteen players were still at one hundred percent, and by the end of the day, only one remained. GM Luis Engel is on 4/4 and will have to prove himself tomorrow against his first opponent of the same strength: GM Alexander Bagrationi , who has 3.5 points. Due to the Swiss format, we saw few games between title holders and few unusual results...

We're underway! With nearly 650 participants, the third edition of the Amsterdam Chess Open kicked off on Friday morning. The day proved to be longer than anyone expected, as one game in Group A lasted a whopping 116 moves and nearly five and a half hours. At 8:35 PM, the last arbiters were finally able to start preparing the pairings for the next round. Unfortunately, only two of the four registered grandmasters showed up (Luis Engel and Alexander Bagrationi), although we still hope a third...