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Alexandra Kosteniuk, Sara Khadem and Bela Khotenashvili all finished the European Women’s Blitz Championship with 10/13 points. Kosteniuk, who entered the final round with a 1-point advantage and lost to Khadem with white, had the best tiebreak score, and thus grabbed the gold medal. The 11-round rapid championship will take place on Saturday and Sunday. | Photos: European Chses Union

In round 6 of the Women's Grand Prix in Nicosia Dinara Wagner from Germany won against Oliwia Kiolbasa from Poland and now shares the lead with Kateryna Lagno, Harika Dronavalli and Tan Zhongyi. Alexandra Kosteniuk scored the second win of the day and her first win in the tournament. She defeated Nana Dzagnidze. | Fotos: Mark Livshitz

ChessBase Magazine Extra #208 offers, among other things, almost an hour of video training: Ivan Sokolov presents 6.g3 as a surprise weapon against the Sicilian Four Knights. And Nico Zwirs examines the move 5...b5 in the Vienna Variation of the Queen's Gambit - an absolutely fashionable variation that leads to very dynamic play! "The brilliancy" is contributed by David Navara, who highlights his Black win with the Berlin Defense against Alexei Shirov. In addition, the "Lucky ...

Day 4 of the Superbet Chess Classic Romania was projected to be another eventful day and it did not fail to disappoint.

Round six saw a shake-up of the standings after two crucial games ended decisively, with GM Levon Aronian swiftly beating GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in just 25 moves, and GM Leinier Dominguez winning a hair-raising and heart-breaking battle against the local hero GM Bogdan-Daniel Deac. The remaining games...

Losing today certainly hurts, but I am nevertheless happy with my progress in the tournament, and also getting great practice for later this year. This is, in fact, the second time Carlsen plays in the World Cup since he became world champion (in 2017, he was knocked out by Bu Xiangzhi in the third round). Talking to Michael Rahal after his win over Vladimir Fedoseev, Carlsen noted that game 2 of the playoffs against Duda was the first time he was in real trouble at the lengthy tournament, and ...

€99.90 Aronian wins the preliminaries The preliminary stage of the Goldmoney Asian Rapid tournament came to an end on Monday. Eight out of the sixteen participants moved on to the quarterfinals, with top grandmasters Alireza Firouzja, Peter Svidler and Daniil Dubov missing the cut. On the other hand, the big surprise was 17-year-old Indian grandmaster Arjun Erigaisi making it into the knockout. The top scorers were Levon Aronian, Vladislav Artemiev and Ding Liren. Tour leade...