Σκακιστικά νέα

Swedish WFM Anna Cramling played her last over-the-board chess event in January 2020, but now she showed us how close she is to continue with Over-the-board chess!

We certainly laughed with Anna’s good humor, but we really do hope to see her over the board soon!

Uganda World Cup Qualifiers Chess Tournament 2021 has started today in Kampala.

The best six Ugandan chess players compete in the event fighting for the World Cup 2021 ticket and the top seed is IM Ssegwanyi Arthur.

Belarus Chess Championships 2021 launched today in Minsk!

23 participants play a 9 rounds Swiss tournament in the Open section event, and the battlefield is led by GM Aleksandrov Aleksej, GM Fedorov Alexei and GM Stupak Kirill.

Season 21 of the Top Chess Engine Championship is starting this May 10th at 17:00 UTC. The event will start with the Qualification League, progress through L4, L3, L2 and L1 stages, and culminate with the Premier Division and the Superfinal.

The 78th Polish Individual Open and 73rd Polish Individual Women Chess Championships 2021 took place from April 24- May 8, 2021 in Bydgoszcz, Poland.

Belarus National Youth Chess event “Belaya Ladya 2021” Finals concluded today in Minsk.

The event gathered 14 teams and 56 young players aged U14. After 7 played rounds according to Swiss system, the Winner Teams are:

Mitropa Chess Cup 2021, the annual team chess tournament for national teams from Central Europe. This year, the Mitropa Cup is played as an Online hybrid event with participation of 10 teams competing in Women’s and Open’s section separately: Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland.

Live games from the Mitropa Chess Cup 2021 will be broadcasted live daily on Chessdom.

Going back into time when reigning World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen was a 13 year old talented boy, while he spoke about impressions from the meeting with Chess Legend Garry Kasparov, Carlsen said: “I hope to become a world champion. It has to happen before 2020.”

Ukrainian Clubs Teams Chess Championship 2021 launched yesterday in Lviv, Ukraine. 128 players compete for their clubs in three events: blitz, rapid and classical.

Ukrainian Team Championship 2021 with classical time control is taking place from 6th-12th of May, while blitz and rapid competitions will be played on 13th and 14th of May in the same venue.

List of participants:

Romanian Youth Chess Championships 2021 for boys and girls in groups U8, U10 and U12 are underway in Bucharest.

More than 170 talented kids participate in the event and Romania will soon have new National Youth Champions in the respective categories! The Winners will qualify for the Youth European and World Championships, having a chance to again compete in a numerous OTB tournament this year!