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World No. 5 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov finished the 1st leg of the 2021 Grand Chess Tour with 6.0/9 points to win 1st place in the 2021 Superbet Chess Classic, clinching victory after a draw with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the final round. Tying for second place were Levon Aronian, Wesley So, and Alexander Grischuk, who each drew their last-round games to finish with 5.0/9.

The win earns Mamedyarov a first-place prize of $90,000 and a total of 13 Grand Chess Tour points.

The 2021 edition of the Prague Chess Festival takes place from 14-20 June in Hotel Don Giovanni in Prague, Czech Republic.

The Festival features Masters, Futures, Open and Rated tournaments. The main Master event is an 8-player round-robin tournament with participation of:

Five rounds have been played at the first leg of the Grand Chess Tour Romania 2021. After 5 played rounds, the resting day took place yesterday.

World No. 9 GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov won the only decisive game of the day 5 as he defeated GM Constantin Lupulescu with the Black pieces, catching up to the leaders with a score of 3.0/5. With all four other games drawn, Mamedyarov, So, and Grischuk headed the resting day as leaders.

LIVE: Grand Chess Tour Romania 2021 – Live

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

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

LIVE: Grand Chess Tour Romania 2021

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$.

List of participants:

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.