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Nurgyul Salimova is the only one to represent Bulgaria at the FIDE Candidates Tournament starting today in Toronto, having earned her place there with a brilliant performance at the World Cup last September, when she reached the final, but lost in a dramatic battle against Russian Alexandra Goryachkina.
The tournament starts on April 3 with an official ceremony and the games start on April 4th. Nurgyul Salimova starts the tournament with Elo 2432. In the first round Salimova will face Anna Muzychuk (Ukraine).
Nurgyul Salimova scored her first victory at the Grand Prix chess tournament in the Kazakh city of Shymkent . In an eighth-round match, she defeated Mongolia's Batkhuyag Munguntuul with the black pieces. Salimova took the initiative from the start and..
Arm wrestling is rarely talked about in Bulgaria as a prestigious sport, but we can boast with being a world power in this sport as our athletes have become European and world arm wrestling champions more than once. Thanks to athletes such as Plamen..
The players of the Bulgarian women's national basketball team have welcomed American Khaalia Hillsman, who has recently received Bulgarian citizenship. She will play for the Bulgarian team for the first time next week and joins the..
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