Island of Corfu to host International Open Chess Festival at Easter

Corfu will welcome the best chess players in the world at Easter for the 1st International Chess Festival “Easter in Corfu 2019” that will be held from 29 April to 5 May at the Congress Hall of a Corfu town hotel, ANA reports.

The festival includes an international open chess tournament divided in two groups along with many parallel events. The top chess matches will be transmitted live on the platform chess24.com.

The first chess club of Greece in Corfu had hosted the first major summer open in Greece in 1989 and now, thirty years later, will welcome grandmasters, world champions but also amateurs from Greece and abroad.

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