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ITT Fenamac Mexico chess events launch today in Mexico city within 3 groups: A, B and C, as round-robin 10 players tournaments.

The 57th Romanian Correspondence Chess Championship held between May 2019 and March 2021, ended with the victory of the well-known Romanian chess player Partenie Mihai.

Tudor Ristea had the same score but Sonneborn Berger tiebreak decided that Parenie Mihai takes the title of Romanian Correspondence Chess Champion 2021.

European Girls’ and Women’s Chess Weekend will take place on 14-16 May with various contents: tournaments, coaching sessions, simultaneous exhibitions, and panel debates.

The best Dutch Grandmaster and World #6, Anish Giri, lists his chess goals in Twitter! We hope Anish will add more content to his list! :)

#goals pic.twitter.com/G9bW2IdQ2F

— Anish Giri (@anishgiri) May 4, 2021

The Namibian Chess Championship 2021 took place 30 April – 04 May in the Windhoek Country Club Resort. The open section was a ten player single round robin. IM Dante Beukes dominated the event and finished with a perfect 9,0/9

The women section was eight player single round robin and was significantly more contested. WCM Lishen Mentile collected 6,0/8 , half a point ahead of WFM Rauha Shipindo.

Mitropa Cup 2021, the annual team chess tournament for national teams from Central Europe, this year will be played as an Online hybrid event.

10 nations compete in Women and Open sections: Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland.

Ian Nepomniachtchi gave an extensive interview to Eteri Kublashvili from the Russian Chess Federation. Among the many topics Nepomniachtchi talked about the course of the Candidates, his team of seconds, and shares many details about the games and his opponents.

The 73rd edition of the Montenegro Individual Chess Championship has started yesterday in Podgorica, Montenegro.

The battlefield is led by GM Djukic Nikola who defends the title of Montenegro National Chess Champion.

The 78th Polish Individual Open and 73rd Polish Individual Women Chess Championships 2021 are underway in Bydgoszcz, Poland.

Open Championship is played as a knock-out event and two matches are being played for a spot for the finals. Top seed Radoslaw Wojtaszek fights against Bartosz Socko, while Mojranda Wojciech plays against Pawel Teclaf.

Three Russian National Team Chess Championships 2021 are underway in Sochi: 28th Russian Team Championship Premier League, 22nd Russian Women’s Team Championship, and the all-Russian Team Championship Higher League.