Kirill Alekseenko secured first place at the main event of the Sunway Chess Festival by drawing Hans Niemann with white in Thursday’s final round. Meanwhile, Amin Tabatabaei caught up with Niemann by beating Adhiban Baskaran thus, a playoff match for second place between Niemann and Tabatabaei followed, with the US grandmaster winning in Armageddon after trading victories in two 5-minute games.
In his “Game of the Week” show #547 Merijn van Delft analyses one of Kirill Alekseenko’s victory from the Sitges tournament. Alekseenko combined positional play with good old attacking chess, making chess look easy in the process! | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can <a href="https://account.chessbase.com/en/create-account" target=" blank">register a Premium account here</a>.
Kirill Alekseenko’s winning streak in Sitges came to an end in round 8, as Amin Tabatabaei held the Russian to a draw on Tuesday. Nonetheless, Alekseenko still has a full-point lead over a five-player chasing pack. Top seeds Yu Yangyi and Hans Niemann are among the chasers, after both winning their round-8 encounters. | Photo: Amruta Mokal
A seventh win in a row left Kirill Alekseenko in the sole lead of the massive main tournament at the Sunway Chess Festival in Sitges. The Russian grandmaster defeated Karen Grigoryan with white to widen the gap atop the standings the leader has a full point lead over Amin Tabatabaei, who got the better of Daniel Dardha with black on Monday. | Photo: Eteri Kublashvili
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 […]