Former world champion Sergey Karjakin took fifth place in rapid, scoring 5 points at the “Chess Stars” tournament in Moscow. “I am upset, rather, not by the fact that I scored few points, but by the quality of the game. My games turned out to be, one might say, ragged. For example, in the last…
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Vladislav Artemiev became the winner of the rapid tournament in Moscow, scoring 6.5 points out of 9. Teimour Radjabov, Raunak Sadhwani and Vladimir Kramnik were one point behind. On October 4-5, the tournament will continue with a blitz of 2 round-robin. “Thank you for congratulations on the victory,”- Artemiev said. – But I would like…
Vladislav Artemiev became the winner of the rapid part of the “Chess Stars” tournament in Moscow, scoring 6.5 points out of 9. Vladimir Kramnik shared the 2nd-4th place, scoring 5.5 points. A blitz tournament will be held on October 4-5, after which the winner and prize-winners of the total tournament will be determined. “Plus two”…
In a conversation with a TASS correspondent, Teimour Radjabov spoke about his expectations from the match for the world chess crown. Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren will have a match of equal opponents, they have long been in the top ten of the world ranking. Ian is one of the top three in the world, he…
The Azerbaijani grandmaster, in an interview with a TASS correspondent, shared his impressions of the Chess Stars 2022 tournament. From the tournament, I expect interesting games with everyone, the composition here is, of course, very stellar. The best chess players in the world play here, it will be very interesting. I haven’t played with Vladimir…
After winning the Grand Prix among women in Astana, Kateryna Lagno went to Moscow to participate in the international tournament “Chess Stars – 2022”, where she spoke with a RIA News correspondent. We just arrived from Astana this morning on the same flight as Sasha Goryachkina. Of course we are very tired. But I decided…
Before the start of the Chess Stars 2022 tournament, Vladimir Kramnik gave an interview to Izvestia, where he shared his expectations from the tournament and discussed the problem of cheating. I don’t play at a professional level, so I rarely see many guys. Many have not seen each other for two or three years. Besides,…
Vladimir Kramnik said that Switzerland made a mistake by not giving former world chess champion Anatoly Karpov permission to enter the country. “I believe that every country has the right to decide what it wants. My approach to this has always been very simple: if you don’t want to, and you don’t have to, I…
Vice-President of the Moscow Chess Federation Sergey Smagin noted that the tournament ended with a confident victory of the Russian chess player Ekaterina Lagno. Recall that Lagno scored 8 points out of 11, another representative of Russia, Alexandra Goryachkina, was half a point behind. A little short of the bronze medal was the former world…
The President of the Russian Chess Federation noted the excellent performance of Ekaterina Lagno at the first stage of the FIDE Women’s Grand Prix, which ended in Astana. The grandmaster scored 8 points out of 11 possible and became the winner of the tournament. “Congratulations to Ekaterina Lagno with a confident victory in such a…