Croatia GCT 2: Saric shocks Nepo chess24.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from chess24.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
When Garry retired, Yury switched to coaching a pair of sisters, Nadezhda and Tatiana Kosintseva, who would go on to become the driving force behind the success of the Russian women’s chess team. They were also from the periphery the far north city of Arkhangelsk and paid tribute to their coach after his untimely death.
We began working with Yuri in 2005, when he arrived for a training session with us in snow-covered Arkhangelsk in winter, not fearing the -30 degrees cold. From that moment on, our perception of chess began to change drastically. Yuri opened up a whole new fascinating world for us, one whose existence we didn’t even suspect.
Aronian on brink of first Meltwater Champions Chess Tour title fide.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from fide.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Goldmoney Asian Rapid: Aronian, Ding Lead
After the second day of the preliminaries in the Goldmoney Asian Rapid, GMs Levon Aronian and Ding Liren are tied for first place with 7/10, closely followed by GM Wesley So and Vladislav Artemiev. GM Alireza Firouzja and Daniil Dubov need a good third day to qualify for the knockout phase; GM Hou Yifan cannot make it anymore.
How to watch?
The Goldmoney Asian Rapid preliminaries games can be found here as part of our live events platform. IM Levy Rozman and IM Anna Rudolf are providing daily commentary on GM Hikaru Nakamura s Twitch channel starting at 4:00 a.m. Pacific / 13:00 Central Europe.
Record number of Armenian players to take part in the Chess World Cup 2021 panorama.am - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from panorama.am Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.