New Presidents of national federations elected
Photo: Lars OA Hedlund SWEDEN Last week, Håkan Jalling (pictured above) was elected the new President of the Swedish Chess Federation, the 13th in the history of this organization, founded in 1917. “Sveriges Schackförbund“ has approximately 40,000 registered players, and it has recently moved its offices to Uppsala. In an interview published at the website of the Swedish Chess […]
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Norway Chess R06: Firouzja forges ahead
It was the day of revenge at the Altibox Norway Chess as in Round 6 Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana retaliated after yesterday’s losses to Jan-Krzysztof Duda and Levon Aronian respectively. The only exception was Aryan Tari who suffered another defeat at the hand of Alireza Firouzja. As a result, Firouzja took the lead one point ahead of Carlsen who moved up to the second position. Magnus Carlsen made […]