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Anna Ushenina (Ukraine) wins the finals match against Antoaneta Stefanova (Bulgaria) to become the 2012 women's world champion. Stefanova is the 2004 women's champion, and Ushenina won the finals match 3½ to 2½ by winning the second rapid tie-break game after the four-game match ended 2–2 and the first rapid tie-break was drawn.
2012 – Greensboro, NC, August 30 - September 3. Under the efforts and patronage of the Carolinas Chess Initiative, High Point University, and organizers Dr. Walter High and Gary Newsom, the event moved to the Embassy Suites Airport Hotel in Greensboro, NC over Labor Day Weekend, alongside the North Carolina Open. It was a 9-round, 5-day event ...
The 1963 Open at Chicago had 266 entries, making it the largest chess tournament held in the United States to that time. The tourney was slightly smaller at Boston in 1964, with a field of 229. The 1983 Open at Pasadena was the largest ever, at 836 official entries; it also featured the participation of Viktor Korchnoi , who had played in the ...
2012 in chess; 0–9. 40th Chess Olympiad; 2012 World Mind Sports Games; B. Brooklyn Castle; F. FIDE Grand Prix 2012–13; FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2011–12; Four ...
In 2013, Friedel tied for first at the Chicago Open, also with 7/9. [3] On August 4, 2013, at the age of 26, Friedel tied for first in the 114th United States Open Chess Championship and eventually winning a tiebreak playoff against (then) IM Mackenzie Molner. [2] In March 2016, Friedel won the Manchester Invitational in New Hampshire with a ...
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Vladimir Belous (born July 29, 1993, in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Russia) [1] is a chess Grandmaster from Moscow, Russia. He got International Master (IM) [2] title in 2011 and Grandmaster (GM) title in 2013. He was the winner of 25th Annual Chicago Open in 2016 [3] and U.S. Masters Chess Championship in 2017.
The FIDE Grand Prix 2012–13 was a series of six chess tournaments that formed part of the qualification cycle for the World Chess Championship 2014. Veselin Topalov finished first, and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov second in the overall standings. Both therefore qualified for the 2014 Candidates Tournament.