El joven cubano Héctor Manuel Figueroa del Rosario, oriundo de Camajuaní, Villa Clara, sorprendió al mundo del ajedrez al ganar la categoría Sub-12 del XVIII Open Internacional de Ajedrez Memorial …
GM Volodar Murzin won Freestyle Friday on May 29 with a wire-to-wire win in which he lost no games, taking the tournament outright on a 10/11 score for his first victory ever in the event. All of the top four spots were won without tiebreaks, in f…
No one has ever won all three 3 0 Thursday blitz tournaments on the same day, but GM Arjun Erigaisi nearly changed that on May 14, finishing just short on tiebreaks from a perfect hat-trick of victories. Arjun dominated the first tournament, winni…