Visit to the FIDE tournament in Styria-Diepresse.com

There are not many sports that are accompanied by the twittering of birds. At the Fide Women’s Grand Prix in the G’Schlössl Murtal, top chess is not only offered with a special background noise, but also in a spectacular atmosphere: The ten top players will measure themselves until Thursday at the final of the highest tournament category in the glass house of the former seat of the former rule seat of Baron Gustav Hanstein in the Styrian Großloibming, which was opened in 2012 as a five-star hotel. The World Association is full of praise for the scene that a new standard was set, reports Michael Stöttinger, President of the Austrian Schachbund (ÖSB).

Now, of course, Schach has the advantage of the calm of the game, through which the singing from the park really comes into its own. In any case, the players should have liked it, they always step outside when they leave the board, of course always within the glance of the controller of the World Association. In the hall itself, the silence is actually only regularly broken by the alternating pressing of the watch by the opponents, occasionally it crackles when unpacking a candy or a tea bag of the ready-to-use snack table, a strong sneezing is almost a real fright.