Beloslava Krasteva defeated the European Champion Ulviyya Fataliyeva from Azerbaijan with the white pieces in the sixth round of the European Women's Individual Classical Chess Championship on the Greek island of Rhodes. So far she is 24th in the..
Andzhelika Nenova, the youngest Bulgarian player participating in the European Women's Individual Chess Championship in Greece, achieved a victory in the fourth round. The 15-year-old chess player of CSKA won against Aleksandra..
The second round of the European Women's Chess Championship on the island of Rhodes proved to be extremely successful for the Bulgarian competitors. Viktoria Radeva won against Slovakian Andrea Bochnickova with the white..
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..
The Bulgarian female chess players finished in 10th place in the final ranking of the 4th Chess Olympiad, which was held in Budapest, Hungary. On the last day of the competition, Bulgaria beat Italy 3.5 to 0.5. Antoineta Stefanova, Nurgyul Salimova..
The Bulgarian women's national chess team and 2023 European chess champions won their first round games against Zimbabwe at the Chess Olympiad in Budapest, Hungary. All four Bulgarian representatives - Nurgul Salimova, Victoria Radeva, Beloslava..
Bulgaria’s chess player Nadya Toncheva has qualified for the 2025 Chess World Cup. In 2023, she also participated in the single elimination Women’s Chess World Cup and lost in the first round to Grandmaster Deimante Cornette (Lithuania). In order..
Nurglyul Salimova has ended in a draw with Russia's Kateryna Lagno in the penultimate round of the World Chess Candidates Tournament in Toronto. In her 13th game the Bulgarian chess maser with the white pieces managed to get out of a very difficult..
In a game that lasted five and a half hours, Nurgyul Salimova drew with the white pieces against Anna Muzychuk (Ukraine) at the Women's Candidates Tournament 2024 in Toronto, Canada. The Bulgarian led throughout the game but failed to capitalize on..
Nurgyul Salimova lost to Alexandra Goryachkina in the sixth round of the FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament 2024 in Toronto, Canada. This was the first classical game between the two since the World Cup Final in August 2023, which the third-ranked..
