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by Carlos Alberto Colodro
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6/24/2024 – The Superbet Chess Classic, the second event in this year’s Grand Chess Tour, is set to take place from June 26 to July 5 at the Grand Hotel Bucharest in Romania’s capital. All nine GCT regulars will participate, and will be joined by local rising star Bogdan-Daniel Deac. Defending champion Fabiano Caruana is the rating favourite, with Ian Nepomniachtchi (pictured, center) and Nodirbek Abdusattorov the second and third seeds respectively. | Photo: Grand Chess Tour 2023 / Lennart Ootes
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The second event of the 2024 Grand Chess Tour
This year’s edition of the Grand Chess Tour started in Warsaw, with wildcard Magnus Carlsen claiming an astounding victory after scoring ten consecutive wins to overtake Wei Yi in the blitz section of the event. The Tour now moves to Bucharest, where the Superbet Chess Classic is set to take place from June 26 to July 5.
Unlike the tour’s inaugural event, the tournament in Romania will see the contenders playing classical chess. All nine ‘tour regulars’ will be participating, and they will be joined by Romanian rising star Bogdan-Daniel Deac.
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The top seeds in Bucharest will be defending champion Fabiano Caruana, Ian Nepomniachtchi and Nodirbek Abdusattorov. Also in the mix will be World Championship challenger Dommaraju Gukesh, who is set to face Ding Liren in the next match for the crown.
The time control in Bucharest will be 90 minutes for 40 moves, 30 minutes for the rest of the game, plus 30-second increments from move one. A total prize fund of $350,000 will be up for grabs, with $100,000 reserved for the winner. Grand Chess Tour points will also be awarded.
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A city with a chess tradition
By Eduard Frey
The capital of Romania, today best known for its annual Superbet Chess Classic, has a rich chess tradition. Especially the two world elite tournaments of 1953 and 1954 have remained in the collective chess memory.
The legendary Ludek Pachman won the first major international chess tournament in Bucharest in 1949 (in which Karel Opocensky, Jaroslav Sajtar, Oleg Neikirch, Pal Benkö, Janos Balogh, Tibor Florian, Ion Balanel and Octavio Troianescu also played). In 1951, the Bulgarian Zdravko Milev won the second edition of that tournament, which, however, was not as strong as the first.
Master Class Vol.15 - Viktor Korchnoi and My life for chess
In this video course, experts (Pelletier, Marin, Müller and Reeh) examine the games of Viktor Korchnoi. Let them show you which openings Korchnoi chose to play, where his strength in middlegames were, or how he outplayed his opponents in the endgame.
The 1953 București (Romanian for Bucharest) International Invitational can be regarded as the strongest chess event ever held in Romania in the 20th century, and is often cited along with the 1954 tournament.
The next editions, irregularly held, were of major status, mostly including one player from the Soviet Union (i.e. Gipslis, Lutikov, Sveshnikov, and Vasiukov played too, but did not win), albeit far less strong than the world elite tournaments of 1953 and 1954.
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The five Soviet players in Bucharest 1953: Boleslavsky, Smyslov, Petrosian, the winner Tolush and the 16-year-old Spassky, who was Tolush’s pupil at the time
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- Fabiano Caruana outright winner at Superbet Chess Classic in Romania (2023)
- Vachier-Lagrave has a brilliant day, wins Superbet Chess Classic (2022)
- Shakhriyar Mamedyarov wins Superbet Chess Classic (2021)
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Carlos Alberto ColodroCarlos Colodro is a Hispanic Philologist from Bolivia. He works as a freelance translator and writer since 2012. A lot of his work is done in chess-related texts, as the game is one of his biggest interests, along with literature and music.
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