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The European Hybrid Qualification Tournament 2021 for the FIDE World Chess Cup 2021 will take place from 22nd-30th May through Tornelo online platform. The total prize fund for the event is 32 000 eur.
The provisional list of participants for the European Hybrid Qualification Tournament has been published. 264 players (160 GMs) from 35 European federations are registered with the most players coming from Russia (40), Czechia (17), Germany (14), and Armenia (13). Among the top 10 players by rating we find seven Russians – GM Artemiev, GM Tomashevsky, GM Esipenko, GM Alekseenko, GM Predke, GM Matlakov, and GM Fedoseev. The other three players are GM Navara (Czechia), GM Gelfand (Israel), and GM David Anton (Spain).
The Secretary General of the European Chess Union Mr. Theodoros Tsorbatzoglou gave an extensive interview for Chessdom. Among other topics he discussed the current situation regarding chess in Europe, the digitalization of chess, and the Carlsen – Nepomniachtchi 2021 match. Mr. Tsorbatzoglou hailed the European chess heritage and presented the video released by ECU.
We are here with the General Secretary of the highest governing body of chess on the old continent. Mr. Tsorbatzoglou. The ECU has just launched a very nice heritage video. It is one of the many ECU initiatives that we see lately. Can you tell us more about it?
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Dana Reizniece-Ozola, born in the town of Kuldinga in 1981, began to play tournament chess in her early childhood. At age eleven, she participated in the U12 Girls World Championship in Duisburg. At age fifteen, she won the Latvian Women s National Championship for the first time. In 1998 and 1999, she won the U18w European Junior Championship. On two different occasions, she finished second in her age category at the World Junior Championships. In 2001, Dana Reizniece-Ozola became Woman Grandmaster.
After completing her studies, Dana Reizniece-Ozola became the director of a technology hub specialising in space engineering. At the same time, she got involved in politics, joining the conservative Latvian Union of Greens and Farmers and being elected as a Member of Parliament in 2010. From 2010 to 2011, she served as Parliamentary Secretary in the Latvian Ministry of Transportation. From 2014 to 2016, Dana Reizniece-Ozola held the position of Mini