The Week in Chess 1485

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We will have a new World Chess Champion this time next week.Ian Nepomniachtchi won game 7 to take the lead again andDing Liren had strong chances to win game 8 but that was drawnas were games 9-11. Nepomniachtchi leads by a point with justthree games and a potential tie-break left. Nepomniachtchiis favourite but things could get very tense indeed.

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The World Chess Championship takes place 7th April (opening ceremony) to 1st May 2023. The match is between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren. The current World Champion Magnus Carlsen announced in July last year he would not be defending his title, he seems to have more or less made up his mind two years ago dismantling his team after beating Nepomniachtchi. The match is held in Astana, Kazakhstan over 14 games, two days on, one off with a single game in round 7 to switch the order of the colours. The games start at 10am BST each day, game one Sunday 9th April, Nepomniachtchi has white. The players are closely matched being two and three in the world and Nepomniachtchi narrowly leading +3 -2 =8 head to head.

The II Sunway Formentera Open takes place 18th to 28th April 2023.

The Satty Zhuldyz Rapid and BLitz takes place in Astana 20th to 25th April 2023.

The French Junior Championships take place 23rd to 30th April 2023.

The Portuguese Women's Championship takes place 22nd to 25th April 2023.

The Russian Junior Championships take place 19th to 27th April 2023.I had a really good look but couldn't find any games.

The Caissa Hotel Yasemin Group takes place 22nd to 27th April 2023.

The Polish Chess Championship took place 11th to 21st April 2023. The Open was a knockout and the women's event an all-play-all.Bartosz Socko beat Radoslaw Wojtaszek 2.5-1.5 in the final.Michalina Rudzinska won the women's event with 6/9.

The Kazakhstan vs World Women's Match took place 17th to 19th April 2023.The World won the rapid 34.5-29.5 and blitz 38.5-25.5.

The Mitropa Cup took place 11th to 19th April 2023. France won both open and women's events.

The Vezerkepzo Easter tournaments took place 13th to 21st April 2023.Kaido Kulaots won the GM event on tie-break from Sahaj Grover. There wasa Vezerkepzo Easter IM won by Jakub Pulpan with 6.5/9. There was a secondApril IM event won by Bence Leszko with 7/9.

The Sahibkiran Amir Temur Cup took place 14th to 21st April 2023.Alisher Suleymenov won with 7/9.

The Third Saturday Djenovici IM IV took place 15th to 23rd April 2023.Dusan Rajkovic won with 6.5/9.

The 11th LUCOPEN returned after a long break 15th to 21st April 2023.Momchil Nikolov edged out Vladyslav Larkin and Radoslav Dimitrov on tie-breakafter all scored 7/9. I couldn't find any games.

The 2nd Mikis Theodorakis took place 17th to 23rd April 2023.Johan-Sebastian Christiansen edged out Dimitris Alexakis and Elina Danielian on tie-breakafter all scored 7.5/9. I couldn't find any games.

The ITT Chess Martelli Young Talents took place 13th to 21st April 2023.Joaquin Fiorito won with 7/9.

The SonFlow Cup took place 21st to 23rd April 2023. There were a few 6 player round robins. The strongest two are reported below.

The Caissa Hotel Kadife Group took place 15th to 20th April 2023.

The Pobeskydi Chess Festival took place 6th to 10th April 2023.Petr Gnojek won the IM event with 6.5/9. Jakub Suliborski won the Talents Open with 7.5/9.Some additional talents games now available.

The Dimitrovgrad Spring Vacation IM took place 11th to 16th April 2023. It was a Schiller team event.Just to point out that I had to make a correction late last week. I have a drop down list of venues and their countries,this Dimitrovgrad event was in Serbia, not the one in Bulgaria.

Volodymyr Sakun won the Kyiv Blitz Marathon 22nd to 23rd April 2023.

The Excelsior April Open took place 21st to 23rd Aprkil 2023.Nikolay Noritsyn and Bator Sambuev won with 4.5/5.The live file left a bit to be desired. Will wait and see ifanother emerges.

The 1000GM Bay Area Schev April took place 21st to 23rd April.

The II Menorca Open took place 11th to 16th April 2023. There was a 10 way tie on 7/9 with D Gukesh taking first on tie-break.The round 6 game Solodovnichenko - Niemann was clearly not right so a fix by using the live coverage has been tried. I did changeit early last week but I give this single game again.

Titled Tuesday Blitz now has two sections called early and late.The 18th April events Tuan Minh Le won the early and MVL won the late.

The 10th round of the Belgian Interclubs was last weekend and the games are now available. Final round on the 30th.

Pinggau-Friedberg won the Austrian Mitte League which finished last weekend.Mayrhofen/Zillertal won the West and SG Mistelbach/Altlichtenwarth the East thatfinished this weekend.

The Catalan League finished last weekend. Colon Sabadell beat Barcelona in the final to take the title.The relegation issues are also finished. The file I have has most of the matches but not quite all.

The Tuxera Aquaprofit NSK won the Hungarian League that had its final two rounds this weekend.

The Lithuanian League had its final 4 rounds this weekend.Vilniaus MRU-ROSK Consulting won the title.

The final round of the Dutch League was this weekend. Amevo Apeldoorn 1 won the title.

The Swiss Team Championship takes place 16th April to 15th October 2023. Round 1 games now available.

The IBCA European Teams takes place 20th to 29th April 2023.I'll round up all the games together next week.

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