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Iranian Maghsoodloo Wins Double Speed Chess Grand Prix

reporter 1222 — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 07:26:19 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian Grandmaster Parham Maghsoodloo emerged victorious at the Double Speed Chess Grand Prix.

The first event featured 875 participants. Some of the top contenders in most Grand Prix events like GMs Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave all failed to qualify.

In the playoffs, Peter Svidler managed to defeat Sam Sevian, who missed a sneaky mate threat.

In the playoff, the story was Parham Maghsoodloo’s wild games. He reached the semi-finals by defeating Tang and then won a convincing opening game against Zierk. However, needing only a draw to reach the finals, Maghsoodloo fell into a lost position and way behind on the clock. Yet, somehow he kept his cool, complicated the game, and his opponent was the one who lost on time, chess.com reported.

In the finals against Alekseenko, Maghsoodloo again started with a win as Black before running into trouble when he only needed to draw as White.

The win brought Maghsoodloo tournament victory for him in Iran.

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Iran Ranks 2nd at Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix

reporter 1222 — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 08:39:00 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The GM Amin Tabatabaei from Iran finished in second place at the sixth Speed Chess Championship Grand Prix.

The Iranian chess player lost to American GM Hikaru Nakamura in the knockout final.

The sixth Speed Chess Grand Prix tournament was held with 879 participants.

It was GM Fabiano Caruana who won the Swiss part with a 9.0/10 score as he edged out Tabatabaei on tiebreak.

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Iranian Chess Player Chose as International Referee

reporter 1222 — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 05:01:47 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian chess player Pedram Oliaei won the title of International Chess Referee from the World Chess Federation, it was announced on July 8.

Head of Iran’s Khorasan Razavi Province Chess Department Reza Pasha-Nejati made the announcement adding that the International Chess Referee is the highest chess refereeing title in the world won by Oliaei, 30, IRNA reported.

According to Pasha-Nejati, three other male and one female chess players from Khorasan Razavi Province have so far succeeded to receive the same title.

Taghi Baradari Azghad, Alireza Tafreshi, Reza Pashanejati, and Maryam Golmakani were the four chess players who had previously won the title of International Chess Referee from the World Chess Federation, he said.

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Six Iranians to Participate at Online Asian Junior Chess C’ship

reporter 1222 — Tue, 26 May 2020 18:02:50 +0000

Six Iranians to Participate at Online Asian Junior Chess C’ship

According To Iran News, Six chess players will represent Iran at online Asian Junior Chess Championship.

The competition will start on May 27 and will last until June 3.

The competition format will begin with seven Zonal championships daily from May 27 to June 2, 2020. Each federation can field up to three players aged under-20 to the multi-federation Zonals.

The top three of each Zone qualify into the Finals. Both stages will be 7-round Swiss System tournaments.

Players will have to turn on their videocam and audio. They may not leave their seats during the game and videocams shall be livestreamed by Chess.com. In addition, players have to join a Zoom room for monitoring by tournament officials.

Mobina Ali Nasab, Anahita Zahedifar and Mitra Asgharzadeh will represent Iran’s female team and Parham Maghsoodloo, Arash Tahbaz and Mohammad Amin Tabatabaei are members of Iran’s male team.

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Asian Chess Federation Events Postponed

reporter 1222 — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 12:04:51 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Asian Chess Federation has postponed all Asian events due to the novel coronavirus.

The federation is carefully monitoring the situation of the COVID-19 epidemic and consulting relevant agencies and national chess federations concerned, it said.

The novel coronavirus has infected over 116,000 cases worldwide with 4,088 deaths to this day.

“Our priority is the safety of players and stakeholders. Therefore, the Asian Chess Federation has decided as a precautionary measure to postpone all events until the end of June,” Asianchess.com wrote.

In line with this decision, the Asian Amateur Chess Championship originally scheduled this April in Muscat, Oman is postponed by force majeure until further notice after the end of June, it added.

The Asian Chess Federation also expresses its solidarity with those countries affected by the coronavirus outbreak and shall endeavor to help all federations, it went on to say.

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FIDE Rating Shows Iran Soaring Up

reporter 1222 — Wed, 25 Dec 2019 13:33:41 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The International Chess Federation, FIDE, has made a rating of the absolute numbers of players and the percentage of active players in different countries.

According to the FIDE December data, integrated by chessratings.top, the number of players with a standard rating has surpassed the 350,000 mark (352,234 people to be exact). The number of active (those who have participated in tournaments over the last 12 months) and inactive players is roughly equal.

Over the month, the number of chess players increased by 2546, whereas within a year the sport has almost 30,000 new players (29 517). If this trend continues, then by 2024 there will be over a half-million chess players with standard FIDE rating.

The number of people having FIDE standard rating has grown in almost all countries.

Currently, there are 172848 active and 179386 inactive players with standard FIDE rating. Last year those figures were 166862 and 155855 respectively. It is worth mentioning that this year inactive players outnumbered active players.

Comparing to the last month, the list of countries with the greatest number of active players remained the same but there have been some changes inside the upper echelon. Spain tops the list with 15461 active players, followed by France (13716) and Germany (11989). The leaders by the overall number of players India (11682) and Russia (11164) round out the top 5. Iran is sixth in a total number of active players with 5611.

Iran sits fifth in the total number of new players over 12 months with 1600 players.

India is top with 2,689, Russia sits second with 2,372 and Spain and France are third (1,831) and fourth (1,703), respectively.

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Iran’s Barad Yeganegi wins gold at World Cadets Rapid & Blitz Championships

reporter 1222 — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 11:30:02 +0000

Yeganegi showed perfect score in the tournament 9/9.

The Iranian chess player followed by Russian Savva Tereschenko with 8/9 and Maxim Tsoy from Kazakhstan with 7.5/9 in the Open U8 division.

The four-day FIDE World Cadets Rapid & Blitz Championships took place in Minsk, Belarus among boys and girls under 8, 10 and 12 years old.

A total of 635 young chess players from 35 federations took part in the Championships.

Two players Aleksandr E. Usov from Russia (Open U-10) and Barad Yeganegi showed perfect score in the tournament 9/9.

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Iran chess players top-ranked in Asian Nations Cup

reporter 1222 — Sat, 28 Jul 2018 09:00:39 +0000

Iranian national men’s team (Green) won the title of Asian Nations Cup for Team Championship in Rapid section, for the first time in its history.

The 2018 Asian Nations Cup is a team event for Asian chess federations taking place in Hamedan province in Iran since July 27.

In Rapid section held on Friday, Iranian team, including Parham Maghsoudlou, Pouya Eidani, Seyed Mohammad Amin Tabatabaee, Alireza Firouzja and Masoud Mossadeghpour, finished first with 12 points.

The 7-round Swiss tournament features teams of 4 players with 1 reserve. The time control is 15 minutes for the entire game, with a 10-second increment from move 1. Teams score 2 match points for a win and 1 for a draw, with game points deciding the winner if match points are tied.

This is the first time that the Iranian national team won the title in Asia. China and India also ranked second and third, respectively.

Meantime, Iranian national women’s team ranked third in the same section with 9 points.

China, India, Iran (Green), Kazakhstan, Vietnam, Iran (Red), Uzbekistan, Iran White, Bangladesh, Syria, Oman and Afghanistan are the teams vying in the men’s division.

China, Kazakhstan, India, Vietnam, Iran (Green), Uzbekistan, Iran (Red) and Syria compete in the women’s division.

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Iran lands 3rd at World Youth Chess Olympiad

reporter 1222 — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 12:45:29 +0000

TEHRAN – National Iranian chess squad overcame Belarus to stand in the third place overall at FIDE World Youth U16 Chess Olympiad 2017 in India.

World Youth Chess Olympiad-2017 was competed at Karnavati Club in India. Thirty teams from twenty-five countries had taken part at the prestigious event of World Chess Calendar for Under-16 players.

The Iranian squad consisted of Seyed Mohamad Amin Tabatabaei, Alireza Firouzja, Arian Gholami, Mahdi Gholami and Anousha Mahdian.

In Round Nine of the tournament, young Persian Chess players pulled out a decisive win (4-0) over Belarusian rivals and received the bronze medal.

Russian stood on top of the podium winning the gold medal while host India collected the bronze medal to finish in the second position.

Iran had won the title in the 2016 edition of the sportive event.

In the nine round Swiss System event, each team needed to field a maximum of 5 players which include one girl player and she had to play at least three 3 rounds. For the records, the event had attracted one Grandmaster, fourteen International Masters and four women international masters and twenty nine Fide Masters.

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Iran chess players win 3 gold medals at Asian Championship for Disabled

reporter 1222 — Sat, 23 Sep 2017 14:30:51 +0000

Iranian visually-challenged and –impaired chess players have demonstrated impressive talents at the first edition of Asian Championship for Disabled, and managed to collect three gold medals at the continental sporting event.

Seddigheh Sargazi participated in the tournament C contests for adults, and lifted the trophy following seven compelling rounds, the Chess Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran website reported.

Amir Rabbi finished champion in the boys’ under-12 section, and received the gold medal.

Omid Karimi, another representative from the Islamic Republic of Iran, claimed the top position in the boys’ under-18 division.

The first edition of Asian Championship for Disabled kicked off in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on September 14, and wrapped up on September 22, 2017.

The tournament brought together more than 100 male and female chess players from 10 Asian countries, namely Afghanistan, Bhutan, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and one oceanic nation Australia.

The Chess Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran had dispatched a six-member delegation, comprised of Seddigheh Sargazi, Amir Rabbi, Omid Karimi, Mohammad Dousti, Mohammad and Erfan Alizadeh, to the competitions.

Sadat Mansouri and Ma’soumeh Fallah Tafti managed the Iranian visually-challenged and –impaired chess players.

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