Chess Gambit 64

The tournament saw participation from 130 players, which is a testament to the growing popularity of chess in Nepal. FM Rupesh Jaiswal emerged victorious, securing 8 points out of 9 games. Time control: 15 min + 10 sec increment form move 1.  Swiss-System, 9 rounds. Location Sasambhu Chaur, Mahalaxmi Municipality, Luvu, Lalitpur, Fed - Nepal. Date: 15-16.11.2024 Chess results

GM Aleksandra Goryachkina achieved another success. She won the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2024/25 - Second Leg in Shymkent. The player scored 7 points from 9 games and was half a point ahead of the second-placed GM Zhongyi Tan .  30.10-08.11.2024,  90 min / 40 moves + 30 min + 30 sec / move Shymkent, Kazakhstan

  IM from Moldova Ilija Martinovic won the Festival di Trevi Città dell'Olio . It was a small Swiss tournament over 5 rounds.  The winner won all games. Congratulations! Pos N T NAME Rtg PRtg Fed Pts DE BH-C1 BH SB ARO 1 1 IM Martinovici Ilia 2463 2831 MDA 5 0 10.5 12.0 12.00 2031 2 2 CN Bergamaschi Elia 2165 2239 ITA 3.5 0 13.0 15.0 8.50 2090 3 5 CN Donati Michele 1996 2158 ITA 3 0 14.0 16.0 7.50 2086 4 8 1N Mazzi Leonardo 1947 2080 ITA 3 0 11.0 12.5 6.50 2008 5 6 CN Tellarini Lorenzo 1962 2028 ITA 3 0 10.0 11.5 6.50 1956 6 9 CN Simeone Giulio 1933 1959 ITA 2.5 0 9.5 10.5 4.00 1959 7 3 CN Giampieri Stefano 2030 2022 ITA 2 0 14.5 17.0 5.50 2094 8 4 CN Folin Giorgio 2013 2009 ITA 2 0 12.0 13.0 2.50 2081 9 11 1N Ferri Fabio 1906 1886 ITA 2 0 9.5 10.5 3.00 1958 10 7 CN D'Andrea Stefano 1951 1900 ITA 1.5 0 11.5 12.5 1.75 2049 11 12 Wieringa Helmer 1899 1786 NED 1.5 0 9.0 10.0 2.75 1935 12 10 1N Biagini Lorenzo 1921 1700 ITA 1 0 8.0 9.5 1.50 1940

Isabelle Yixuan Ning wins Merv Morrison Memorial 2024. The event is a 6-round Swiss tournament held from October 26 to 28 in Auckland, New Zealand. Time control is set at 90 minutes for the entire game, with an additional 30-second increment from the first move. P T NAME Rtg PRtg Fed Pts DE PS BH SB BH-C1 1 CM Ning, Isabelle Yixuan 1923 2240 NZL 5.5 0 19.0 22.5 20.25 20.0 2 FM Ang, Alphaeus Wei Ern 2345 2155 NZL 5 0 18.5 24.0 19.50 20.5 3 CM Zhang, Kendrick Botong 2032 2141 NZL 4.5 0 18.5 24.5 16.50 22.5 4 Sadeghi, Hassan Roger 2048 2037 SUI 4.5 0 18.5 21.5 14.75 19.5 5 Mao, Daqi 1959 2142 NZL 4.5 0 17.5 24.5 17.00 22.5 6 CM Huang, Alex 1948 1987 NZL 4.5 0 15.5 18.0 12.25 17.0 7 Ashton, Matthew 1858 1907 NZL 4.5 0 15.0 18.5 14.00 16.5 8 Baker, Ilias Angelo (Leo) 1846 2077 NZL 4 0 17.0 23.0 13.50 20.0 9 Huang, Ziyi 1904 1940 CHN 4 0 15.0 21.5 11.00 19.5 10 Jin, Yanbo 1977 1963 NZL 4 0 15.0 20.5 12.25 18.5 11 Liu, William Rui 1846 1921 NZL 4 0 14.5 19.0 10.25 17.5 12 FM McLaren, Leonard

Paulius Pultinevicius achieved a very good result in Berlin. The Lithuanian grandmaster scored 7.5 points from 9 games - without a defeat. Berlin U25 Open A ( SV Königsjäger Süd-West e.V.) 90min + 30s/move 15min + 30s/move Results

  We encourage you to watch a very interesting game Hans Moke Niemann - Abhimanyu Mishra from the US Chess Championship. At one point, Black played the "active" 20. ...b5, after which he won a pawn but at the cost of worsening the pawn structure (including doubled pawns on the a-file). Niemann quickly exploited these weaknesses, recaptured the material and then implemented the pawn advantage in a very nice way. Game: