€29.90
The Festival kicked off with an international Open Tournament, 2-9 April. Other events would follow: Open Junior Championship, Rapid rated tournament, Three-day qualifying Rated Blitz Tournaments, Weekend rated tournaments, Team Blitz Rated Tournament, 55 Years Chess Informant Blitz Tournament, Simultaneous exhibitions, two GM tournaments (16- 22 April), average rating 2380+ and two IM tournaments (24 -30 April), average rating 2230+. These are 10-player round robin tournaments, very popular because they are especially designed to provide the opportunity for gaining the highly sought after norms.
The Belgrade Spring Festival is a follow-up of the very successful first chess event, The Belgrade Summer Chess Festival organised by the Champions Chess Academy in 2018. The second edition, in 2019, was a seal of approval of the preceding edition bringing in over 200 hundred players from 19 countries. The third edition, scheduled for the summer of 2020, was in full preparation, with a great number of players already signed up, when, in accordance with the regulations imposed for prevention of the Corona pandemic, the organisers, like many others, were obliged to cancel it.