Chess Computer Corner

The 30th Sigeman & Co tournament is still being led by Javokhir Sindarov on 4/6 who drew against Nils Grandelius in round 6. He faces Vasyl Ivanchuk in the final round. Ivanchuk suffered his second loss of the tournament on time in his defeat by Richard Rapport. This was a wild London where Ivanchuk equalised, then got into trouble and was lost, was allowed back into the game and then lost on time. Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus drew with Ray Robson in 109 moves. Tan Zhongyi drew with Erwin L'Ami. The Match of Two Capitals takes place in Moscow Sat 24th to Mon 26th May 2025. Daniil Dubov representing Moscow and Maxim Matlakov representing St Petersburg play a six game classical (90m + 30spm) match two games per day. Daniil Dubov won game three and game four was drawn so he leads 2.5-1.5 with one more day to go. Anish Giri won the Sharjah Masters after he beat Mittal Aditya with white in a long grind where the decisive error came in a rook and pawn endgame on move 63. Abdusattorov could only draw playing black against M. Amin Tabatabaei leaving Giri in clear first place. Bibisara Assaubayeva drew with Rinat Jumabayev and made her final GM norm becoming the 43rd woman to gain the title. There was Round 4 of the French Interclubs Top 16. Roman Shogdzhiev has become the youngest player to earn the International Master title at the age of only 10 years, 3 months, and 21 days. He shared first on 7/9 with Imran Md at the Radnickchess May tournament. He beat Faustino Oro's record by 5 months. In the American Continential 14 players have started with 3/3, they are: Pablo Salinas Herrera, Sam Shankland, Robert Hungaski, Lucas Coro, Grigoriy Oparin, Brandon Jacobson, Roberto Garcia Pantoja, Diego Rafael Di Berardino, Darcy Lima, Nathan Felipe Filgueiras, Andrew Hong, Alexandr Fier, Jose Gabriel Cardoso Cardoso and Jorge Luis Baules Rodriguez. Tomorrow the Norway tournament starts with Magnus Carlsen playing World Champion Gukesh in round 1 (and again in Round 6), Wei Yi-Erigaisi and Caruana Nakamura are the other pairings. In the women's event the round 1 pairings are: Muzychuk-Khadem, Koneru-Vaishali, Lei Tingjie-Ju Wenjun. There is also an open and that also starts tomorrow. The 3rd Cambridge international with Michael Adams and Sergei Tiviakov as top seeds starts tomorrow.

Source: https://theweekinchess.com/twic-news-fe ... h-may-2025