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Yuryivna, please vote for 19 chuprina lyudmila mykolayivna, please vote for 20 shleshko maria yakovych, please vote for 20 and the final candidate yatskov mykhailo volodymyrovych please vote for 44 final with added to this candidate so we have four winners of this competition now we move on to the final vote with a list that we four have no seats we register at the beginning of the session, we register, we have already gone through everything once, lets not repeat it, yes dear colleagues, we have three candidates who received 51, 44 and 43 votes, respectively, and three candidates who received...

More than 200 Russian athletes have turned their backs on their homeland and left the country following Russia's attack on Ukraine. 150 of them are chess players. The Russian Chess Federation now wants to retain its talent through long-term financial support. In the summer, it signed a ten-year contract with Andrey Esipenko (pictured). | Photo: Niki Riga

The head coach of the U-19 Ukrainian national football team, Oleh Kuznetsov, will be without players from Shakhtar Donetsk for an upcoming international friendly tournament in Seoul, according to Ukrainian sports news website sport.ua on Oct. 8.

Apart from Kirill Alexeenko (to Austria) and Nikita Vitiugov (to England), the FIDE transfer list shows several other prominent Russian grandmasters who have left their federation after Russia invaded Ukraine. Evgeny Alekseev now plays for Israel and Sanan Sjugirov is the new number one in Hungary.

A few major upsets left rating favourites out of the World Cup in the first round of the multitudinous competition. In the open category, Gianmarco Leiva (Peru) and Pablo Salinas (Chile) gave the biggest surprises. In the women’s section, Qianyun Gong (Singapore), Turmunkh Munkhzul (Mongolia) and Maili-Jade Ouellet (Canada) pulled off the biggest stunners. | Pictured: Nurgyul Salimova | Photo: chess.com / Maria Emelianova