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After 8 played rounds at the Tata Steel Challengers 2023 in Wijk aan Zee, Alexander Donchenko scores 6/8 points to be the sole leader of the event. Velimir Ivic and Mustafa Yilmaz trail by half a point, tying for second place.

After yesterday’s free day, the games will continue today from 14:00 CEST, and the live broadcast will start with 15-min delay due to the anti-cheating measures.

The 85th edition of the Tata Steel Chess Masters is taking place from 13-29 January in Wijk aan Zee. The event features 14 grandmasters competing in a 13-round round-robin tournament.

The SixDays Budapest January IM (B) is taking place from 23–28 January 2023 in Budapest, Hungary. Players receive 90 minutes for the entire game, plus a 30-second increment starting from move one. It is a 10-player round-robin tournament with participation of Levente Papp, Yovann Gatineau, Nhat Minh To, Gabor Farkas, Attila Jakab, Marton Urhegyi, Luitjen Akselsson Apol, Donat Daroczi, Fernando Semprun Martinez, Manfredi La Barbera.

The SixDays Budapest January IM (A) is taking place from 23–28 January 2023 in Budapest, Hungary. Players receive 90 minutes for the entire game, plus a 30-second increment starting from move one. It is a 10-player round-robin tournament with participation of Adam Szeberenyi, Hilmir Freyr Heimisson, Tamas Gunes Ongut, Peter Polyik, Bence Leszko, Miklos Orso, Marek Ihnat, Uri Taragan, Filip Magold and Barnabas Baski.

The SixDays Budapest January GM is taking place from 23–28 January 2023 in Budapest, Hungary. Players receive 90 minutes for the entire game, plus a 30-second increment starting from move one. It is a 10-player round-robin tournament with participation of Qi b Chen, Kirk Ghazarian, Adam Kozak, Gabor Nagy, Jonas Hacker, Filip Boe Olsen, David Berczes, Arthur Lucas, Isik Can and Jakob Leon Pajeken.

The Bulgarian Chess Championship 2023 takes place January 21-28, 2023, in Sofia, Bulgaria. The format is 9-round Swiss System tournament. In this competition will take part Kiril Georgiev, Martin Petrov, Momchil Petkov, Radoslav Dimitrov, Vasil Spasov, Momchil Nikolov, Krasimir Rusev, Tsvetan Stoyanov, Nurgyul Salimova, Nikola Kanov, etc.

You can also see Bulgarian Women Chess Championship 2023 .

The Perez Chess Open 2023 will be held from 26–29 January 2023 in Pérez, Argentina. The event will be played in 7 rounds, swiss system, with a total prize fund of 600.000 Argentine pesos which is about 3.000 eur. The time control will be 90 minutes for the entire game, plus a 30-second increment starting from move one.

GM Leonardo Tristan, GM Diego Flores and GM Federico Ponsa Perez are the top seeds. Starting list of players can be seen below.

The 83rd Armenian Championship Highest League and the 78th Armenian Women’s Championship Highest League took place from 13–21 January 2023 in Yerevan, Armenia. The events were played as 10-player round-robin tournaments, determining the 2023 Armenian national chess champions.

Eight rounds are played at the Tata Steel Masters 2023 in Wijk aan Zee, with only five rounds to go. Nodirbek Abdusattorov remained the sole leader of the event with 6/8 points, being a full point ahead of Anish Giri and Wesley So who tie for second.

After eight played rounds at the Tata Steel Challengers 2023, Alexander Donchenko maintains the sole leadership in the event with a score of 6/8 points, and Velimir Ivic and Mustafa Yilmaz follow with 5.5 points.