The 18th European Individual Women’s Chess Championship starts today in Riga, Latvia. 146 participants will compete for the title of Miss Europe and even to share a total money prize of €75,000 €uros. The top seeds are Anna & Mariya Muzychuk, Kateryna Aleksandrovna Lagno, Nana Dzagnidze, Antoaneta Stefanova, and so on in Elo-rating order.
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Antoaneta Stefanova will play the 18th European Individual Women’s Chess Championship in Riga under the ECU flag. For further details, see http://chess-news.ru/node/22941.
10th Women’s World Chess Champion Antoaneta Stefanova will play the impending 18th European Individual Women’s Chess Championship in Riga, Latvia (10–23 April 2017) under the ECU flag, as a consequence of the expulsion of the Bulgarian Chess Federation from the European Chess Union, which was deliberated by the ECU General Assembly held in Baku, Azerbaijan on September 10, 2016. The participants list is headed by the Muzychuk sisters, Anna Olehivna and Mariya Olehivna, with Stefanova being seeded fourth. |
Bulgarian GM Kiril Georgiev, who was banned for three years by the Bulgarian Chess Federation on Saturday, gave a live interview on our site last night. In the course of an hour-long discussion and question-and-answer session with our listeners, he spoke about his conflict with the Bulgarian Federation and its President, Silvio Danailov. We present some brief extracts in translation below. The audio file in Russian can be found above, and the full Russian transcript here. [Read more].
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