Jul-17-19 Danzhou GM (2019) 
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| sonia91: What a dumb comment... why do you have to throw politcs in a chess forum on a chess tournament??! |
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Jul-13-19 chessgames.com chessforum
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| sonia91: <Grand Prix Riga
Riga ISL>
*Riga LAT (it's the capital of Latvia!) |
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Jul-09-19 Alan Pichot
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| sonia91: He leads the <American Continental Championship> in Sao Paulo, Brazil after round 5 with 5/5. Top 4 or 5 will qualify for World Cup. |
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Jul-09-19 Mikhail Antipov
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| sonia91: He won the Netanya Open, held alongside the Netanya Masters (2019) : http://chess-results.com/tnr436185.... . Top seed of the open was Anton Korobov (2687). This is Antipov's second big win, after the World Junior Championship (2015) . |
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Jul-09-19 Le Quang Liem
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| sonia91: Liem wins his 3rd consecutive tournament, after the Asian Continental and the St Louis Summer A (2019) (not spring as I wrote in the previous comment), this time the <World Open> in Philadelphia. He beat Jeffery Xiong, who crossed 2700 in this tourney, in an Armageddon ... |
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Jul-09-19 Jergus Pechac
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| sonia91: At the last FIDE presidential board meeting: https://www.fide.com/component/cont... <the silent page of GM Jergus Pechac..> I remember he made the headlines some years ago when thanks to k=40 he jumped from 2100+ to 2500+ in just one list: ... |
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Jul-08-19 Richard Rapport
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| sonia91: Congrats on winning Danzhou GM (2019) ! <Rapport roars in Hainan Danzhou> https://en.chessbase.com/post/haina... |
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Jul-07-19 Parham Maghsoodloo
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| sonia91: He just won the traditional Leon rapid tournament in Spain after beating Vassily Ivanchuk in the final (it's a KO event). Maghsoodloo beat in the semifinal local GM Jaime Santos Latasa . Indian prodigy Nihal Sarin also took part in the tourney, but was defeated by Ivanchuk in the ... |
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Jul-07-19 Alexey Sarana
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| sonia91: He finished =1st in the Russian Higher League (2019) , 2nd on tiebreak, and qualified for the Russian Championship Superfinal for the second year in a row. This year Sarana gained 14.5 rating points in the tournament and broke into the top 100 in the live ratings. |
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Jul-07-19 Russian Championship Higher League (2019)
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| sonia91: Photos of medallists at award cerimony: http://ruchess.ru/en/news/all/russi... |
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