A number of high-profile tournaments took place around Christmastime both domestically and internationally. Between the holidays and coverage of FIDE's rapid and blitz world championships, it's time to catch up on some of the biggest names and news items from the previous month.
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 […]