Due to the ongoing pandemic the Asian Individual Hybrid Chess Championship 2021 was played online. From 21 to 29 May 82 players from 15 countries battled in a hybrid tournament for the title, a place in the FIDE World Cup 2021, and the pitfalls of online play. After nine rounds the 19-year old Grandmaster Shamsiddin Vokhidov from Uzbekistan and IM Tin Jingyao from Singapore shared first with 7.0/9 each, but Vokhidov won the tournament on tiebreak. Top seed Parham Maghsoodloo from Iran finished tenth and suffered from power failures.
2021-06-02 14:35:30 GMT2021-06-02 22:35:30(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
TEHRAN, June 2 (Xinhua) I might have problems with my current education because of the power cut, said Mahdi, a graduate student at the University of Tehran in Iran.
Blackouts have been brought under the spotlight since the last days of May in different parts of Iran. Students ranging from primary schools to universities, who have already been forced to take online classes because of the COVID-19 pandemic, are all affected. We haven t been able to take classes regularly after the outbreak of the pandemic and we don t have electricity now, Mahdi said, who declined to reveal his full name.
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The U.S. State Department will honor 14 “extraordinary” women from Belarus, Iran, and other countries who have demonstrated leadership, courage, resourcefulness, and a willingness to sacrifice for others.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken will host the annual International Women of Courage (IWOC) awards in a virtual ceremony on March 8 International Women s Day to honor jailed Belarusian opposition figure Maryya Kalesnikava, as well as Shohreh Bayat, an Iranian chess arbiter who went into exile after violating her country’s strict Islamic dress code, the State Department said in a
statement on March 4.
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