Stavanger You Haven't Seen - Photo Report #2

Many of Stavanger supertournament followers ask "where is Nakamura?", we can now reply with not just "he is in Prague" but also by naming specific places he visits - I will guide you to those during Navara - Nakamura match. 

The opening ceremony of the European Individual Chess Championship was held at the State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre of Yerevan. The official website offers photos from the ceremony. 

Our correspondent Marie Boyard visited Zug and concluded that the venue of third stage of the FIDE Grand Prix is almost ideal.

Shamkir ready to hold two competitions dedicated to Vugar Gashimov's memory. The participants of the A group are Carlsen, Caruana, Nakamura, Karjakin, Mamedyarov and Radjabov. 

Participants of B group are Wang Hao, Woijtaszek, Bacrot, Motylev, Eljanov, Mamedov, Safarli, Guseinov, Durarbeyli and Abbasov. 

Today the players visited the graves of Vugar Gashimov and Heydar Aliyev (the national leader of Azerbaijan). 

(Translated from Russian by Andrey Deviatkin)

My impressions of the first playing day in Sochi can be summed up in one sentence: great fuss about a single game of chess. It seems to me that's not the way it should be, ideally.