Mitropa Cup News Today

As expected after the penultimate round, the German teams obtained a double victory at the Mitropa Cup and the Women’s Mitropa Cup. Germany competed with almost all of their best players and had a successful dress rehearsal for the upcoming Chess Olympiad in Budapest in September. | Photos: Frank Hoppe, Katharina Reinecke (German Chess Federation)

With a last-round-win Czech Grandmaster Jiri Stocek won the 26. Open International Bavarian Championships ahead of GM Maxime Lagarde from France. Both players finished with 7.5/9, but Stocek had the better tiebreak. German International Master Roven Vogel won bronze and made his third and final GM-norm. | Photos: Sandra Schmidt

Eleven-year-old Syrian chess prodigy Hussein Besou is on the German team competing in the Mitropa tournament currently taking place at the Aurora Hotel on Losinj Island in Croatia.

LIPPSTADT, Germany—Hussain Besou was just four when he started asking his father to teach him chess, hovering around ...

Hussain Besou's father believes his son's talents would have gone unnoticed if he was in Syria

Hussain Besou was just four when he started asking his father to teach him chess, hovering around the board as he played in the evenings in the Middle East until he said yes.

Hussain Besou was just four when he started asking his father to teach him chess, hovering around the board as he played in the evenings in the Middle East until he said yes.

By Riham Alkousaa and Stephan Schepers LIPPSTADT (Germany) (Reuters) - Hussain Besou was just four when he started asking his father to teach him ches...

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Hussain Besou was just four when he started asking his father to teach him chess, hovering around the board as he played in the evenings in the Middle East until he said yes, Reuters reports. After...