General May 22, 2021 | 1:33 PMby Colin McGourty
Gibraltar hosts final Women’s FIDE Grand Prix
The FIDE Women’s Grand Prix was supposed to end in Sardinia in May 2020, but then the pandemic intervened. It was rescheduled for Gibraltar, then postponed from January, but it finally begins Saturday May 22nd, with the players competing for two places in this year’s Women’s Candidates Tournament. Aleksandra Goryachkina is uncatchable in first place, but already has a spot in the Candidates. The leaders in the race are Humpy Koneru and Alexandra Kosteniuk, but neither plays, so that most of the field in Gibraltar is in with a chance.
Jaime Santos, con más motivación para su quinto Magistral en busca de final
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The youngest in the field
The new tour organized by the Play Magnus Group counts with the support of two legends of the royal game, former world champion Vladimir Kramnik and the strongest woman player in history Judit Polgar. Both stars had been working on projects related to chess after retiring from professional competition. Polgar organized the Judit Polgar’s Global Chess Festival while Kramnik worked with Boris Gelfand in training camps for young Indian talents.
In their latest enterprise, they are the leaders of two teams of youngsters at the Julius Baer Challengers Chess Tour. The first tournament of the tour, the Polgar Challenge, kicked off on Thursday, with the first 5 rounds of a 20-player single round robin event.
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