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The Namibian Chess Championship 2021 took place 30 April – 04 May in the Windhoek Country Club Resort. The open section was a ten player single round robin. IM Dante Beukes dominated the event and finished with a perfect 9,0/9

The women section was eight player single round robin and was significantly more contested. WCM Lishen Mentile collected 6,0/8 , half a point ahead of WFM Rauha Shipindo.

Mitropa Cup 2021, the annual team chess tournament for national teams from Central Europe, this year will be played as an Online hybrid event.

10 nations compete in Women and Open sections: Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland.

Ian Nepomniachtchi gave an extensive interview to Eteri Kublashvili from the Russian Chess Federation. Among the many topics Nepomniachtchi talked about the course of the Candidates, his team of seconds, and shares many details about the games and his opponents.

The 73rd edition of the Montenegro Individual Chess Championship has started yesterday in Podgorica, Montenegro.

The battlefield is led by GM Djukic Nikola who defends the title of Montenegro National Chess Champion.

The 78th Polish Individual Open and 73rd Polish Individual Women Chess Championships 2021 are underway in Bydgoszcz, Poland.

Open Championship is played as a knock-out event and two matches are being played for a spot for the finals. Top seed Radoslaw Wojtaszek fights against Bartosz Socko, while Mojranda Wojciech plays against Pawel Teclaf.

Three Russian National Team Chess Championships 2021 are underway in Sochi: 28th Russian Team Championship Premier League, 22nd Russian Women’s Team Championship, and the all-Russian Team Championship Higher League.

Tani Adewumi is making the American dream come true. A story by Nicholas Kristof back in 2019 published in NY Times, featuring a homeless young chess player winning the New York State K-3 scholastic championship, led to a series of events that spell a bright future for Tanitoluwa “Tani” Adewumi.

At age 10, Tani Adewumi became a National Chess Master! Congratulations, Tani!

Just a day after winning the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour, Magnus Carlsen scores yet another title. Playing with his traditional online username GM DrNykterstein, Carlsen won the Lichess Bullet Arena. The World Chess Champion finished with 114 points (Lichess system) and win rate of 87% ahead of GM Sergei Zhigalko with 96 points and 77% win rate and GM Jonas Bjerre with 73 points and 66% win rate.

Mr. Prasad Ramasubramanian, Assistant Editor with the Times of India (TOI), gave an extensive interview for Chessdom.com. He talked about the booming chess in India, the influence of Vishy Anand on the local chess community, the upcoming young Indian chess players, the current situation of chess journalism in times of covid-19, and the World Chess Championship 2021 match.

Deep Blue – Garry Kasparov was a pair of six-game chess matches between the world chess champion Garry Kasparov and an IBM supercomputer called Deep Blue. The first match was played in Philadelphia in 1996 and won by Kasparov. The second was played in New York City in 1997 and won by Deep Blue. This match marked the end of human attempts to meaningfully challenge “the machine”.