After three rounds, the number of players who have won all their games has been reduced to four. Three of these players are from India, which has by far the largest contingent in the Masters with 40 participants. Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun and chess legend Vasyl Ivanchuk both started with 2.0/3. | Photos: ChessBase India
The Chessable Sunway Sitges International Chess Festival is underway in Sitges and seven rounds were already played. GM Kirill Alekseenko remains perfect and leads the Open A tournament with 7/7 points, while GM Chithambaram Aravindh and GM Amin Tabatabaei tie for second with 6 points each. It is interesting that GM Amin Tabatabaei won all […]
Published July 14, 2021, 1:06 PM
Janelle May Frayna
Woman Grandmaster Janelle May Frayna pulled the rug from under Hoang Tranh Trang of Hungary to stay alive in the FIDE Women’s World Cup 2021 in Sochi, Russia Tuesday night.
Frayna, 24, smashed Hoang after 41 moves of a Dutch Defense to tie their opening-round matchup at 1-1 and force a two-game playoff tiebreaker Wednesday night.
The victory boosted Frayna after suffering a 33-move defeat in a Queen’s Pawn game against Hoang Monday.
“I am glad that I was able to level the score against her (Hoang) by winning the second game,” Frayna said in a Facebook post early Wednesday.