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The first event of the 2021 Grand Chess Tour, Superbet Chess Classic 2021, will take place from June 3-15, 2021 in Bucharest, Romania.

The event will be hosted in Stejarii County Club, with 10 participants playing a 9 rounds round-robin tournament. The total prize fund is 325.000$.

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The FIDE World Women’s Team Championship 2021 will take place from September 26 to October 3 in the city of Sitges.

This coastal town in Spain’s Catalonia region hosted 8 editions of an important chess open “Sunway Sitges Chess”. Now, for the first time, Sitges will organize an official FIDE event.

The Azerbaijan Women’s Chess Championship 2021 took place from 21-30 May in Nakhchivan.

IM Gulnar Mammadova scored 9/11 points to convincingly win the Championship. Mammadova earned the title of the Azerbaijani Women’s Chess Champion for the first time in her chess career.

The first event of the 2021 Grand Chess Tour, Superbet Chess Classic 2021, will take place from June 3-15, 2021 in Bucharest, Romania.

The event will be hosted in Stejarii County Club, with 10 participants playing a 9 rounds round robin tournament. The total prize fund is 325.000$. In the 2019 Grand Chess Tour, the Superbet event was played in rapid and blitz format, but this year switches to classical time control.

Zhansaya Abdumalik secured first place in the penultimate round of the Gibraltar leg of the FIDE Women’s Grand Prix at the Caleta Hotel on 1 June after agreeing a very quick draw with Kateryna Lagno of Russia. The quick cessation of hostilities suited both players as Zhansaya wins the tournament while Kateryna will have it in her own hands to secure a place in the Candidates’ tournament.

Magnus Carlsen is the world’s first bitcoin chess champion after overcoming Wesley So in a thrilling FTX Crypto Cup final.

The Norwegian takes home the $60,000 first prize plus a 0.6 bitcoin bonus offered by tournament sponsor FTX.

It is the largest prize pot ever offered in an elite online chess event.

The African Continental Women Champion Jesse Nikki February will be the guest in FM Calvin Klaasen’s show “Reflections” this Thursday at 19:00 CEST. Follow it live here.

European Hybrid Swiss tiebreak took place yesterday as a 9 rounds Swiss tournament, deciding the distribution of 32.000 EUR prize pool.

36 qualifiers for the FIDE World Cup 2021 participated the Finals. After 9 played rounds, two players tied for the top scoring 6.5 points each: Vladislav Artemiev (RUS, 2709) and Aleksandar Indjic (SRB, 2607).

Additional tiebreak criteria decided that European Chess Champion 2019 – Vladislav Artemiev – takes the 1st prize, while Indjic came second.

Wesley So stretched his incredible unbeaten run to 29 games as he set up a blockbuster FTX Crypto Cup finale against Magnus Carlsen.

The two pacesetters in this season’s $1.5 million Meltwater Champions Chess Tour, both eased into the final with smooth semifinal wins.

FTX Chess Cup Final – Wesley so against Magnus Carlsen – LIVE

The final knockout round of the European Hybrid Qualification Chess Tournament took place from 28-29 May.

The games were played on Tornelo Online platform with 72 players fighting for 36 FIDE World Cup spots.

21 players qualified after two games-match classical time control, while 15 matches proceeded to tiebreak games.