Nguyen and Citra win gold at the Southeast Asian Games

GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son of Vietnam, and WIM Dewi Ardhiani Anastasia Citra of Indonesia won the gold medals (in the open and women’s sections, respectively) at the Southeast Asian Games held from  May 10-15, 2022, in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam. The open event was a 9-round Swiss tournament, while women competed in a 10-player round-robin. Truong Son beat […]

Maxime Vachier-Lagrave wins Superbet Classic Bucharest

After an intense and final day of the Superbet Chess Classic Bucharest, three players tied for first with 5.5/9. However, it was the French Grandmaster Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, the “Dark Knight”, winning his last round game, catching up with the two former leaders Wesley So and Levon Aronian, and in the end taking them both down […]