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The African Continental Women Champion Jesse Nikki February will be the guest in FM Calvin Klaasen’s show “Reflections” this Thursday at 19:00 CEST. Follow it live here.

European Hybrid Swiss tiebreak took place yesterday as a 9 rounds Swiss tournament, deciding the distribution of 32.000 EUR prize pool.

36 qualifiers for the FIDE World Cup 2021 participated the Finals. After 9 played rounds, two players tied for the top scoring 6.5 points each: Vladislav Artemiev (RUS, 2709) and Aleksandar Indjic (SRB, 2607).

Additional tiebreak criteria decided that European Chess Champion 2019 – Vladislav Artemiev – takes the 1st prize, while Indjic came second.

Wesley So stretched his incredible unbeaten run to 29 games as he set up a blockbuster FTX Crypto Cup finale against Magnus Carlsen.

The two pacesetters in this season’s $1.5 million Meltwater Champions Chess Tour, both eased into the final with smooth semifinal wins.

FTX Chess Cup Final – Wesley so against Magnus Carlsen – LIVE

The final knockout round of the European Hybrid Qualification Chess Tournament took place from 28-29 May.

The games were played on Tornelo Online platform with 72 players fighting for 36 FIDE World Cup spots.

21 players qualified after two games-match classical time control, while 15 matches proceeded to tiebreak games.

After another exciting day’s play and four decisive results, round seven of the Gibraltar leg of the FIDE Women’s Grand Prix at the Caleta Hotel on 29 May 2021 ended with Zhansay Abdumalik of Kazakhstan in the lead on 5½, Mariya Muzychuk in second place on 5, and Kateryna Lagno of Russia and Gunay Mammadzada of Azerbaijan in third on 4½.

Zhansaya Abdumalik (KAZ) and Mariya Muzychuk (UKR) went into the rest day of the Gibraltar leg of the FIDE Women’s Grand Prix as the co-leaders. Zhansaya and Mariya drew their game to move to 4½ out of 6, and are followed by Kateryna Lagno (RUS) on 4.

FIDE Women’s Grand Prix Gibraltar full information and LIVE games

The African Continental Women Champion Jesse Nikki February will be guest in FM Calvin Klaasen’s show “Reflections” this Tuesday at 19:00 CEST. Follow it live here

The 2nd stage of the European Hybrid Qualification Tournament for the FIDE World Cup 2021 took place on May 26 and 27.

144 players participated in Round 2, and half of them (72) advanced to the next stage – Round 3. They are just one step away from qualifying for the FIDE World Cup. Round 3 will decide who goes to Sochi and the final Swiss stage will determine the prizes. 

An interesting situation arose at the European Hybrid Qualification Tournament in the game between the Israeli chess star GM Boris Gelfand (ISR, 2676) and GM Jergus Pechac (SVK, 2519). After two draws in games with classical time control, the first rapid game ended with the same result. The second rapid game went sharply when Gelfand suffered a mouse-sleep on move 16 and placed the queen on the attacked square, giving it away.

World Champion Magnus Carlsen hit top gear to knock Hikaru Nakamura out of the FTX Crypto Cup. The Norwegian upped his intensity and displayed incredible speed and precision as he won a tense tiebreak against his big rival. The World Champion will meet Radjabov at the semi final of the Champions Tour.