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Just like Mohammed ElShorbagy, Ali Farag, Terek Momen, Marwan Elshorbagy, and Abel Karim Gawad dominate the squash scene, the Egyptian chess players have dominated the  African Individual Chess Championship 2021. At the recently concluded event in Lilongwe all medalists hail from the land of the pharaohs.

The Welsh Chess Championships 2021 will be an online event taking place May 28 – June 1. The main event will be the Welsh Online Championships, which is 8 players closed event and a qualifier event for the British Online Championships.

The other two events of the program are Welsh Online Major Open Championships Welsh Online Minor Open Championships.

Live games will be played on Lichess.org and coverage will be available daily on Chessdom.com

The African Individual Chess Championship 2021 taking place 17-28 May in Lilongwe, Malawi. The event has reached its final round, that will be played today. A total of four players will qualify directly to the World Chess Cup 2021.

The Charlotte Invitational Chess 2021 is going to take place 27-31 May. It consists of two round robins valid for FIDE norms.

Charlotte Invitational GM A is a closed ten player event with GM Peter Prohaszka as to seed. 6,5/9 is the needed score for a GM norm and a total of seven players will try to take it. The IM B tournament is also a ten player event. IM Alexander Matros is top seed and the IM norm stands at 7,0/9.

Three players share the lead after round four of the Gibraltar leg of the FIDE Women’s Grand Prix, played at the Caleta Hotel on 25 May 2021. Zhansaya Abdumalik (Kazakhstan), Mariya Muzychuk (Ukraine) and Kateryna Lagno (Russia) have three points from a possible four, and they are also the only players in the field who remain unbeaten, such has been the uncompromising nature of the play. In fourth place is Elisabeth Paehtz (Germany) on 2½.

European Hybrid Qualification Chess Tournament for the FIDE World Chess Cup launched on Monday, May 24, through Tornelo Online platform.

Shortly before the start of the first round, ECU Secretary General Mr. Theodoros Tzorbatsoglou joined the ECU live studio and addressed all the players.

The African Continental Championship is going full steam ahead. The event takes place 17-28 May in Lilongwe, Malawi and only two rounds left to be played.

Fawole John Oyeyemi from BruvsChess Media is bringing daily reports on the event. Here are some key excerpts, make sure to visit BruvsChess Media for the full coverage.

African Individual Chess Championship 2021 details:

Chess streamers are experiencing a huge boom in traffic and audience. It is wonderful to see chess thriving in video platforms, with instructive classes and/or interactive chess fun. Chess streams and videos break boundaries and travel limitations and reach every corner of the world.

FM Peter Giannatos, Founder and Director of the Charlotte Chess Center & Scholastic Academy, has an informative bi-weekly stream on Twitch. FM Peter Giannatos is FIDE Master since February of 2017. Peter is also a United States Chess Federation National Master (NM)/Life Master (LM), Senior Tournament Director, and FIDE International Arbiter (IA).

WIM Rucha Pujari is a professional chess player from India. Among many other achievements Rucha Pujari is a holder of eight medals from Asian Chess Championships in different categories, four medals from Commonwealth Chess Championships, fifteen (!) medals from National Chess Championships including six gold medals, and more.

Rucha Pujari is also a Trainer and Twitch Partner Streamer. She stream about playing high level chess, as well as educational chess content.