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The Spanish Grandmaster Daniil Yuffa, current absolute champion of Spain, lived an agonizing outcome in the European Individual Chess Championship, held in Eforie Nord (Romania). Yuffa, who reached the last round with options of victory, was defeated by the German Frederik Svane, thus losing the opportunity to be crowned European champion.

Imagine, this past March 3, a space where the technological future ceases to be a vague promise and becomes something understandable for those of us who barely understand it. This is the premise with which I propose you to enter Talent Arena, a three-day event framed in the Mobile World Congress, where professionals from the

The Russian/Spanish GM, Daniil Yuffa, twenty-eight years old, with an ELO of 2,640, managed to win the eighty-ninth edition of the Spanish Chess Championship held in Marbella from December 11 to 19, 2024; he scored 7.5 points out of a possible 9. He had already finished second in the 2021 edition. Daniil is qualified to

On the left of the picture, Pepo Viñas, president of the Catalan Chess Federation; on the right, Javier Ochoa, president of the Spanish Chess Federation; in the center, the protagonist of the news, the Indian GM Gukesh, during his participation in the first edition of the Llobregat Open Chess Tournament. Yesterday, December 12, 2024, in

GM Michal Krasenkow has a long chess life: recognized as an author of reference publications, he has contributed to the study of openings (especially the King’s Indian Defense); in recent times he has stood out as a successful trainer with Olympic teams; as a player he was among the top ten players in the world,

The Indian Gukesh Dommaraju has been crowned world chess champion. He has achieved it with only 18 years old, entering with his own right among the legends of the science game. Singapore, December 12 of this year. The defending champion, the Chinese Ding Liren, and the challenger, the Indian Gukesh Dommaraju, went into the last

From left to right, the Deputy of the Sports and Physical Activity Area of the Diputació de Barcelona, Jesús Naharro; the mayoress of Sant Boi de Llobregat and president of the Diputació de Barcelona, Lluïsa Moret; the second classified of the tournament, GM Savva Vetokhin; the winner of the tournament, GM Yahli Sokolovsky; the winner

Dr. Yi Ling, founding partner of Linkchina Consulting, performing the traditional bell ringing that starts the games of the Llobregat Open Chess Tournament, accompanied by Jorge I. Aguadero Casado, editor-in-chief of Peón de Rey. We could say that round 9 of the V El Llobregat Open Chess Tournament is the round of dreams, of those

The traditional ringing of the bell to start the round of play was performed by the blind international master Piotr Dukaczewski. “If you want to travel fast, travel alone; if you want to go far, travel together”. A chess festival, like everything that aspires to have life, is part of a broad ecosystem of alliances.

All the people involved in a chess festival are a fundamental part of many things, although their visibility is not the same. Let’s talk, for example, about those who are at the access door to the playing room because, although part of their function is to go unnoticed, their work is key for the good