As the game between Najer and Saric ends in a draw, Alireza Firouzja is still the sole leader of #GrandSwiss2021 with 3½ out of 4.
11 players are half a point behind: Yu, Ponkratov, Saric, Hovhannisyan, Nihal Sarin, M. Petrosyan, Vachier-Lagrave, Shirov, Najer, Tari, Sevian.
11 players are half a point behind: Yu, Ponkratov, Saric, Hovhannisyan, Nihal Sarin, M. Petrosyan, Vachier-Lagrave, Shirov, Najer, Tari, Sevian.
Lei Tingjie (🇨🇳 2505) defeated Valentina Gunina and became the sole leader of the Women's Grand Swiss. With 3½/4, so far she only gave half a point to Paehtz.
A group of 10 players is following with 3/4.
https://grandswiss.fide.com/grand-swiss-women/
#GrandSwiss2021
A group of 10 players is following with 3/4.
https://grandswiss.fide.com/grand-swiss-women/
#GrandSwiss2021
With a quick draw, Alireza Firouzja maintained his sole lead at the FIDE #GrandSwiss2021. Evgeniy Najer was close to catching Firouzja but missed a win in the endgame. GM Lei Tingjie grabbed the lead in the women's section. Report:
https://www.chess.com/news/view/2021-fide-chess-com-grand-swiss-round-4
https://www.chess.com/news/view/2021-fide-chess-com-grand-swiss-round-4
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FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss R4: Firouzja Maintains Lead; Lei Sole Leader
With a quick draw, GM Alireza Firouzja maintained his sole lead at the FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss in Riga on Saturday. Russian GM Evgeniy Najer was close to catching Firouzja but missed a win in the endgame against GM Ivan Saric. China's GM Lei Tingjie grabbed…
Firouzja - MVL tomorrow will be a huge game not just for the #GrandSwiss but the French no. 1 spot!
World Chess Champion Mikhail Botvinnik (1911-1995), shovelling snow outside his dacha at Nikolina Gora, Moscow oblast, USSR, February 1963.
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Anatoly Karpov during a simultaneous exhibition in Divnogorsk on June 13, 1976. The young lady is Argentina Nikolaevna Drokina, who drew against the world champion during that event (Divnogorsk Art Museum Archive).
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Vasily Ivanchuk, pictured, according to the archive, in Lviv, USSR, in 1989 (though the actual date may be earlier than that). In the third photo he is seen with the noted trainer, WIM Rimma Bilunova (1940-2015).
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Saduakassova - Maltsevskaya, #GrandSwiss2021
White just played Rd3. Which move did both players miss?
https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/411033
White just played Rd3. Which move did both players miss?
https://chesspuzzle.net/Puzzle/411033
49-year-old Alexei Shirov will take on 18-year-old Alireza Firouzja today on top board of the #GrandSwiss after Shirov & Najer both caught Firouzja in Round 5: