17-year-old chess player Gabriela Antova has reached her second grandmaster title for women and her first International Master title for men. This has happened at the 21st Sants Open chess tournament in Spain, in competition with 346 players from..
Former World Chess Champion Antoaneta Stefanova won the title at the prestigious International Women's Chess Open in the Chinese city of Shaoxing. The competition took place under the Swiss system in nine rounds. There were 34 contestants from 9..
Bulgarian chess player Nurgyul Salimova has climbed to the top of the World Female U-16 Rank of FIDE. The ELO rating of the chess player born in 2003 is 2406 points. Salimova is a FIDE master and needs another 100 points for the title of grandmaster...
The Bulgarian Chess Federation 1928, which received a license in 2017, has become a member of FIDE, Bulgaria’s Minister of Youth and Sports Krasen Kralev announced in the social media, Dnevnik daily informs. The former Bulgarian Chess Federation was..
These days in Bulgaria’s Pazardzhik an international association for applied chess was established. Experts from the United States, Germany, Spain, Poland and the UK joined the initiators from Bulgaria. The association will operate in three main..
Bulgarian grandmaster Veselin Topalov scored one draw and two losses on the third day of the Grand Chess Tour in Paris. All quick chess matches have been played, Topalov scoring 5 out of 18 points. Magnus Carlsen is head of the rank list..
‘How do you see chess – as peace or as a war?’ asks Dr. Emil Markov. ‘As a war,’ I answer without any hesitation. ‘Why, can’t it be peace? Both parties helping each other, working on situations that improve their skills… So, chess can be peace..
Bulgarian Veselin Topalov has reached a draw in the eighth round of the Sinquefield Cup chess tournament in Saint Louis (USA) with a prize fund worth 300 thousand dollars and part of The Grand Chess Tour 2016 chain. Topalov reached a draw at his 43..
Bulgaria’s chess master Veselin Topalov defeated Chinese chess player Liren Ding and headed the current ranking at the chess tournament in Sinquefield Cup in Saint Louis (USA) with a total score of 3.5 points. The tournament is a phase of the elite..
Veselin Topalov won versus Peter Svidler, Russia with the white pieces in the first round of the Sinquefield Cup Grand Chess Tournament in Saint Louis, USA. In the second round the Bulgarian grandmaster will be playing with the black pieces..
