Nakamura’s Golden Double

The traditional “Titled Tuesday” tournaments on Chess.com for holders of international chess titles continue. The “early” tournament was won by Hikaru Nakamura, who scored 9.5 out of 11. Olexandr Bortnyk and Manuel Petrosyan scored the same number of points. In the “late” Title Tuesday, Nakamura also won with a similar result. He was half a…

Tournament in Poikovsky – First Round

In the first round of the tournament named after Anatoly Karpov in Poikovsky, Suleymanli – Martirosyan, Malakhov – Iljushenok, Tomashevsky – Sjugirov and Yakubboev – Chigaev played in a draw. Najer was resting. Tournament standings: 1-8. Suleymanli, Martirosyan, Malakhov, Iljushenok, Tomashevsky, Sjugirov, Yakubboev, Chigaev – 0.5, 9. Najer – 0.

Russian Championship among veterans

The fourth round was played in the Higher Leagues of the Russian Championship among veterans. In men, Vladimir Ponfilenok leads with 3.5 points. Alexandr Provotorov is half a point behind, nine players are one point behind. In women, Elena Fatalibekova, Tatiana Bogumil, Svetlana Mednikova, Tatiana Ivanova and Galina Strutinskaia are leading with 3 points each….

African Champioships ended

In the Nigerian city of Lagos, the champions of the African continent were determined. Among men, the entire pedestal went to the representatives of Egypt. Bassem Amin won with 8 out of 9. Ahmed Adly had the same score, Abdelrahman Hesham was one point behind. Among women, Shahenda Wafa (Egypt) became the champion – 7…

Women’s Grand Prix FIDE

In the ninth round of the first stage of the FIDE Grand Prix in Astana, Kosteniuk won against Vaishali, Lagno – against Zhu Jiner, Shuvalova – against Tan Zhongyi, Abdumalik – Goryachkina, Paehtz – Kashlinskaya, Wagner – Assaubayeva played in a draw. Tournament standings: 1. Lagno – 7, 2. Goryachkina – 6.5, 3-4. Kosteniuk, Zhu…

FIDE World Cadets Chess Championships has finished

In Batumi, the winners of the world championship among children in the younger age groups were determined. Marc Llari (France) became the champion among boys under 8 with 9.5 points out of 11. Roman Shogdzhiev (FIDE) fell behind in additional indicators, Safarullakhan Safin (India) came in third with 9 points. Among girls under 8 years…

Chess festival continues in Italy

Open A at the Isola del Sole festival in Grado played 4 rounds. Oleg Korneev (Spain), Anto Cristiano Manish (India), Shiyam Tavandiran (Canada) and Justin Sarkar (USA) are leading with 3.5 points. Technical results

Spanish league ended

C.A. Solvay became the champion of Spain among club teams (Harikrishna, Gukesh, Santos Ruiz, A. Muzychuk, Korneev, Ubilava, Fuente Tejedor), who scored 11 points out of 14. DuoBeniajan Costa Calida clubs (Fedoseev, Tabatabaei, Iturrizaga, Yuffa, Mchedlishvili, Jerez Ibarra, Batsiashvili) are 2 points behind and Magic Extremadura (Cheparinov, Latasa Santos, Pichot, Candelario Perez, Stefanova, Outon Garrido,…