The Week in Chess

The 30th Sigeman & Co tournament is led by Javokhir Sindarov alone with 3.5/5 after drawing with Richard Rapport. Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus who was tied in the lead lost to Vasyl Ivanchuk who took advantage of a number of inaccuracies to win in 44 moves, Ivanchuk's final move is very nice. Last minute substitute Erwin L'Ami has had a tough tournament but managed to beat Nils Grandelius in 51 moves, although after getting a winning position he did give Grandelius an untaken chance to save himself. Ray Robson and Tan Zhongyi drew in 47 moves. Light notes for the two decisive games below.

The Match of two capitals takes place in Moscow Sat 24th to Mon 26th May 2025. Daniil Dubov representing Moscow, and Maxim Matlakov representing St Petersburg, play a six game, classical (90m + 30spm), match, two games per day. Both day one games were drawn.

Anish Giri leads the Sharjah Masters on tie-break from Nodirbek Abdusattorov after taking a very quick draw against Velimir Ivic with black, both have 6/8. In the final round he plays Mittal Aditya with white whilst Abdusattorov has a harder task on paper playing black against M. Amin Tabatabaei.

German Blitz took place today with Rasmus Svane winning the open with 24/29 and Dinara Wagner the women's event with 25.5/29.

The Catalan Championship was a knockout that finished with Pere Garriga Cazorla beating Pedro Antonio Gines Esteo 3.5-2.5 in the final.

There was also Round 3 of the French Interclubs Top 16.