Dear chess-player,

in this article we bring an interview for you with russian player Igor Kolomytchenko the winner of the OMD Dystro Ope-net 2016. He was interviewed on-line by Ondrej Bastak Duran.

Original article in russian

Snehit Saraf – chess photo of the year 2015

Snehit Saraf is an Indian chess player who signed in to the last years OMD Dystro Ope-net and also played this year. Based on the participation on the last year’s tournament organized by our club, he decided to play chess on competitions. Ope-net gave him courage and this was one of the reasons why he signed in to the second World Chess Championship for Disabled in Dresden. That place gave rise to the “Chess photo of the year”, on which Snehit plays chess in an unusual way. We asked the photographer Kersten Wielan to publish his photos and his article related to the photos.

Interview with Yasser A. M. Alsahbani, vice-president of Future Club, a club for handicapped people in Yemen.

We asked an Ope-net player Yasser A. M. Alsahbani, vice-president of Future Club a club for disabled people in Yemen to give us an interview and to bring us information about the club and life of disabled people in Yemen.

Press release

Detailed final ranking

Dear chess-players,

Ope-net tournament finished today. I believe to take part in this tournament has brought a lot of good and nice experiences for you and that you are going to take part in it in the next annuals too.

I would like to ask you for your commentary to the 7th annual of the tournament here bellow in the open discussion. Please write a few words about how do you like the tournament, its character, what did it mean to play in the tournament for you, etc. and share your experiences with the others.

I wish you all the best,

Ondrej Bastak Duran

the arbiter of the tournament

Raed Hatab, a Syrian chess player with dystrophy, playing chess over the Internet, despite the conflict in his country.
Players from 13 countries, including one player from Syria, have signed up for the international chess tournament OMD Dystro Ope-net 2016.  Given the seriousness of the situation which Syria and its people are facing at the moment, I approached the Syrian player and asked him to answer some questions regarding his current life, chess activities and situation of disabled people in Syria in general. Raed Hatab readily agreed and so in the following post, we bring our readers an interview with a disabled chess players from Aleppo.

Dear chess players,

you can find a game list of the 9. round of the tournament on the web page www.openet2016.bashto.sk.

After the 8. round these players lead the overall table: 1. Igor Kolomycenko, 2. Vladimir Pronin, 3. Raed Hataby.

In individual categories:

Dystro category: 1. Read Hataby, 2. Marek Ardamica, 3. Georges Vasques.

Non Dystro category: 1. Igor Kolomycenko, 2. Vladimir Pronin, 3. Martin Mikulec.

Women category 1. Read Hataby, 2. Marek Ardamica, 3. Georges Vasques.

In Aggregated country ranking:

1. Russian Federation, 2. Slovak republic, 3. Slovenia.

Congratulation to your wins in the 8. round and I wish you good game in the next round.

OBD, tournament´s arbiter

Dear chess players,

you can find a game list of the 8. round of the tournament on the web page www.openet2016.bashto.sk.

After the 7. round these players lead the overall table: 1. Igor Kolomycenko, 2. Vladimir Pronin, 3. Raed Hataby.

In individual categories:

Dystro category: 1. Read Hataby, 2. Georges Vasques, 3. Marek Ardamica.

Non Dystro category: 1. Igor Kolomycenko, 2. Vladimir Pronin, 3. Martin Mikulec.

Women category 1. Mojca Susec, 2. Iva Vejpustkova, 3. Erika Kostova.

In Aggregated country ranking:

1. Russian Federation, 2. Slovak republic, 3. Slovenia.

Congratulation to your wins in the 7. round and I wish you good game in the next round.

OBD, tournament´s arbiter

Dear chess players,

you can find a game list of the 7. round of the tournament on the web page www.openet2016.bashto.sk.

After the 6. round these players lead the overall table: 1. Igor Kolomycenko, 2. Read Hataby, 3. Martin Mikulec.

In individual categories:

Dystro category: 1. Read Hataby, 2. Mojca Susec, 3. Georges Vasques.

Non Dystro category: 1. Igor Kolomycenko, 3. Martin Mikulec, 2. Vladimir Pronin.

Women category 1. Mojca Susec, 2. Iva Vejpustkova, 3. Erika Kostova.

In Aggregated country ranking:

1. Russian Federation, 2. Slovak republic, 3. Slovenia.

Congratulation to your wins in the 6. round and I wish you good game in the next round.

OBD, tournament´s arbiter

Dear chess players,

you can find a game list of the 6. round of the tournament on the web page www.openet2016.bashto.sk.

After the 5. round these players lead the overall table: 1. Igor Kolomycenko, 2. Maxim Marievski, 3. Read Hataby.

In individual categories:

Dystro category: 1. Read Hataby, 2. Georges Vasques, 3. Mojca Susec.

Non Dystro category: 1. Igor Kolomycenko, 3. Maxim Marievski, 2. Martin Mikulec.

Women category 1. Mojca Susec, 2. Iva Vejpustkova, 3. Erika Kostova.

In Aggregated country ranking:

1. Russian Federation, 2. Slovak republic, 3. Slovenia.

Congratulation to your wins in the 5. round and I wish you good game in the next round.

OBD, tournament´s arbiter