Daniel Dardha wins the Belgian Chess Championship, crosses 2600 ELO

Daniel Dardha is one of the most exciting European chess juniors to follow nowadays. He has been consistently around the top 20 of the junior rating list and is adding more ELO points with every tournament. This weekend Daniel Dardha won convincingly the Belgian Chess Championship 2022 with a score of 8,5/9, adding 9,1 ELO points. Now Dardha is rated 2604,3 and is officially member of the 2600 ELO club.

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Daniel Dardha was excited about the title and shared, “Won the Belgian Championship for the 3rd time with 8.5/9, exceeding the 2600 mark and becoming nr° 1 Belgium. On the next goal!”

This is the third title from the national championship for the young talent. Daniel Dardha won his first Belgian Championship when he was only 13 years old in 2019. His second title was last year, when he was 15. Now at the age of 16 he is Belgian Chess Champion 2022.

More young talents to follow:  Alireza Firouzja / Hans Niemann / Vincent Keymer / Nodirbek Abdusattorov / Gukesh D / Andrey Esipenko / Arjun Erigaisi / Shant Sargsyan / Kirill Schevchenko / Nihal Sarin / Praggnanandhaa / Christopher Yoo

The Belgian Chess Championship is a championship organized yearly by the Koninklijke Belgische Schaakbond/Fédération Royale Belge des Echecs (Royal Belgium Chess Federation). The first unofficial tournaments were organised by the Cercle des Echecs de Bruxelles (the Chess Club of Brussels). In 1920 the “Fédération Belge des Echecs” (Belgium Chess Federation) was established under the supervision of the four principal chess clubs in Belgium at that time: Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent and Liège. The first official Belgian championship was played in 1921.

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