Azerbaijani U12 chess player Ahmad Khagan has scored 6.5 points after seven rounds moving to top of the European Youth Chess Championship 2022 held in Antalya, Turkiye. Another Azerbaijani chess player Jahandar Azadaliyev ranks 2nd with 5.5 points in the U16 men`s event
04/06/2021 18:29
Chess grandmaster and multiple-time world champion Garry Kasparov and Chair of the Romanian Senate Anca Dragu opened on Friday the Superbet Chess Classic Romania 2021 tournament, part of the Grand Chess Tour.
Kasparov and Dragu made the first symbolic move of the competition in Bucharest, where 10 of the best chess players of the moment will compete alongside Romanians Constantin Lupulescu and Bogdan Deac.
Kasparov told a news conference that the Chess Classic Romania tournament will be held annually and will thus put Bucharest on the map of the world chess.
He said he is extremely happy to be in Bucharest adding that this is a good way to start the new chess. I never played in Romania when I was a professional player, he said, adding that looking around he would have liked to.