The Week in Chess

First of all the Superbet Romania Chess Classic finished on Friday 16th. Praggnanandhaa won a blitz tie-break against MVL and Alireza Firouzja to take first place.

There is a very strong German Championship in Munich. Players in the Masters: Vincent Keymer, Frederik Svane, Matthias Bluebaum, Rasmus Svane, Dennis Wagner, Alexander Donchenko, Niclas Huschenbeth, Martin Kraemer, Leonardo Costa, and Marco Dobrikov. Leading players in the women's section: Dinara Wagner, Kateryna Dolzhykova etc.

The 58th Capablanca Memorial continues this weekend, finishing on Monday. Murzin Volodar and Jonas Buhl Bjerre share the lead going into the weekend on 3.5/6.

The African Individual Championships take place in Egypt and Bassem Amin is the top seed in the open.

On Saturday the 8th Sharjah Masters start it takes place 17th to 25th May. Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Anish Giri, Parham Maghsoodloo, Samuel Sevian are the leading players.

The traditional Mitropa Cup takes place in Trencin, Slovakia with teams from Slovakia, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Italy, France, Hungary, Switzerland and Slovenia. Jergus Pechac and Francesco Sonis are the highest rated players.

Other events include SixDays Budapest, Catalan Championship and the 15th WLC Weekender.